Oh, that's not what they meant?

Nevermind, not interested.

Absolutely agree.

And you can rest easy knowing the US is currently crippling and isolating itself, so it will likely back off some of its nastier behavior over the long term. (Although the short term is turning out to be... interesting.)

But to be realistic you need to note US is not uniquely bad here. Nations have interests, not morals. If one ends up substantially more powerful than peers, it will throw its weight around. And the US, for all its faults and evils, has mostly promoted human rights and an expansion of political freedom. Its failures and hypocrisies there are many and awful, but I assure you a resurgent Russia or unfettered China would not be a better actor.

There have been several recent cases of the Ohio leg not being responsive to what the citizenry want. You can expect citizens to keep doing this until they manage to dislodge the arrogant little shitweasels who keep trying to tell normal folks how to live.

Nicely self-descriptive comment. I'll remember the name and not bother reading you anymore.

(1) Your conception of fairness is broken, apparently because you can't see the difference between sports and society's justice function.

(2) General hint to dealing with other humans: If you try to surreptitiously break rules and get caught, appealing to some sense of "fairness" makes you look like a fucking weasel who will say anything, so your words mean nothing. You just tried to get an unfair advantage and hide it, and now you're whining about being caught, demonstrating lack of remorse. You deserve to be stomped for it, if nothing else as an example to others.

Beginning to think that, if you are a normie[1], affirmatively picking your malware might be the way to go. You're going to get pwned, so you may as well pick one that will defend your gateway from other gangs and hopefully not be too awful.

Maybe someday we'll seeing APTs advertising for vassals and competing on terms.

[1] As in, you don't run snort at home or monitor CVE feeds

Fully homomorphic encryption is mostly theoretical, but that's because it is incredibly slow and uses huge amounts of memory, not because you can't write conditionals.

You can compute anything using FHE that you can with any other turing machine. As long as you can wait long enough.

If Intel can provide 1000x+ speedups, some of this might become usable in limited ways. Because right now it costs multiple seconds to do a single FHE multiply, and it needs something like 20000x the memory space of unencrypted computation.

The FBI is busy. They have to fly Alexis Wilkins to her gigs, fly Kash to her for the bootie calls, Fly Kash to party with people who can actually achieve something, arrest 5 year olds, redact all the child-fucking Donnie got up to in the Epstein files, and all these other errands.

That is after firing all the agents who had a clue.

They just don't have time to patch.

Consumers get to pay for the refunds, too. Taxes is taxes.

Thank your president and don't forget to tip your waiter.

Maybe because US leadership under both parties ignored the law "as written" and encouraged the huge tech companies to also ignore the law "as written" for several years?

We're seeing a widening disjunction between de facto and de jure law. It is a clear sign of corruption, and it matters.

It also matters when laws suddenly start becoming enforced. Against whom and why? Selective enforcement is deeply corrupt and corrupting, and the first thing bad actors say to defend it is, "What's the problem? We're just enforcing the law."

There's even a dictator cliche about that. "To my friends, anything. To my enemies, the law."

The simple utilities are chirping, the Gimp lumbers out of its cave and sniffs the spring air. The latest kernel hasn't quite surfaced from the lake, but is expected at any time.

This year, however, special. It is Mozilla Molting season.

These can be difficult times for Mozilla. Shedding its skin and forming a new one doesn't happen easily or painlessly. Frequently, vestigial appendages unexpectedly burst forth, like VPNs and LLM buttons. Sometimes it is more subtle, with Mozilla's own extensions failing to recognize its new visage.

I can agree that religion and culture are hopelessly commingled in human society, and all of that is upstream from politics.

But when a demented freak with the US military behind them comes at you, survival is foremost in the mind.

You also seem to be studiously ignoring Kegseth's promotion of fundamentalist Xian white-supremacy. Hundreds of complaints about fundie freaks going on about holy wars, how this is the bridge to End Times, etc.

Honestly, seems a bit like projection.

Since no government contractors can do business with Anthropic, that means Anthropic can't sell access to chat content to them or directly to the federal LEOs.

So Anthropic should be less surveilled by the US government than OAI and the other weasels sucking on Kegseth's nipples.

Strange to call that "comprehensive" while leaving out the voluntary nature of signing an agreement.

So what does it tell you when a theocracy and a secular semi-democracy converge on the same general strategy?