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Comment Re:That's a bluff Google should NOT try. (Score 1) 54

There can be many reasons for blocking particular websites, and among them is the ability to content-moderate. If DuckDuckGo didn't allow for K12s to set policies that would limit exposure to explicit material then the site would be blocked.

IIRC Google made it fairly easy to react to organization-installed cookies that told the search engine to filter explicit results to the degree requested, but that doesn't mean that all search engines had that capability or that those tasked with implementing it were going to go through the effort to make it happen for other search engines.

Comment Re:Great! A space race is better than WW3 (Score 1) 60

If preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon was really the goal, the JCPOA was working and should have been upheld and extended.

Put the blame on Iran's access to nuclear weapons where it belongs: with the astoundingly stupid decision to tear that deal up because it was Obama that signed it.

After the JCPOA was nullified, Iran went from sub-3% enrichment to above 50%. And that is squarely on Trump because he created the conditions for it.

If there is an Iranian bomb, it's because Trump caused it to be so. Stop using his fucking excuses for this idiotic war that didn't have to be, and nobody wants.

Comment Re:Great! A space race is better than WW3 (Score 1) 60

The old deal let them continue enriching uranium. The end result between that and no deal are the same.

For various values of "enriching", and none of those values allow for a usable nuclear explosive. But don't let that get in the way of your propaganda bullshit.

The JCPOA had these limitations, which Iran was complying with:

No enrichment past 3.67% which is suitable for civilian energy / medical use and NOT WEAPONS in any way
A limit on the total amount of UF6 stockpile (300kg or equivalent)
A limit on the number of centrifuges (5060 operational)

I have sources to back my claims. Where are yours?

Stop parroting lies. Jumpin' Jesus.

Comment Misleading presentation (Score 4, Informative) 38

When editing Qwen, Astra actually wrote and used a Python program to do the dirty work and required some trial and error. This is something humans are already doing; it just doesn't receive much publicity. Raw reading and writing was only done in other parts of the paper, for smaller tasks like detecting the purpose of a game-playing network and correcting a simple vehicle control feedback loop. Though the Qwen edit was successful (after some 50 tests), a similar edit on a smaller Gemma network to remove sycophancy wasn't.

See summary on honnibal.dev for a breakdown.

Comment Re:Follow the money. (Score 2) 44

One of the headaches with the modern Internet is how so much beyond just HTTPS traffic runs on destination TCP Port 443 as encrypted traffic. If the rogue device connects outbound to a command-and-control server to port 443 it can be difficult to determine what the traffic is for, particularly if the nature of the flow of traffic looks superficially like a lot of other encrypted traffic. If it's all outbound from the subscriber's connection then it may blend in with all the other non-HTTPS traffic.

If the command-and-control server operator is smart then they'll have a whole slew of IPs, even possibly using DNS with a whole bunch of DNS entries retrieved via DNS over TLS to obfuscate the domain lookups themselves, allowing them to rotate the actual IPs.

The botnet compromised endpoints don't need to use some special port or have incoming connections to them, they can do it all via pulls rather than requiring pushes.

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