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Comment Anthropics "safe" model refused debugging (Score 5, Insightful) 82

I recently asked Claude Code to hypothesize how a given back-trace printed from a core dump by gdb could have occurred, and it straight up refused to respond stating that its "cybersecurity safety policy" would forbid responding to such request. Obviously, any debugging session could just as well be motivated by "looking for exploits", but this is just ridiculous, like a blood-test analyzing AI that refuses to generate results because you could be testing bio-weapons.

Comment ... and the case-by-case decision will be "no". (Score 2) 18

There is no contemporary Xbox console hardware (which would compete with the PS5 Pro), and is is already clear they stick an "Xbox"-label on any device where PC-manufacturers are willing to pay for such labeling. The "Project Helix" rumors are nothing but a pathetic attempt on distracting people from the reality that Microslop has given up the Console business for good.

Therefore, it is easy to predict that to any meaningful extent, their "case-by-case decision" regarding exclusivity will be "no exclusivity, let's sell the game for whatever platform is out there". Which per se is not bad for those interested in playing those games, should they surprisingly be any good. But it is clear that the "best platform" to play video games from Microslop-owned studios on will certainly not be a piece of Console hardware manufactured and sold by Microslop.

Comment Re:Worst 007 Game Ever (Score 3, Informative) 20

The Xbox version may require a once-off download of some "day 1 patch", but will run thereafter without Internet connection, which is important to me, as I do run the Xbox in places without Internet connection, and also disconnect it even if Internet was available, because nothing sucks more than wanting to play for 30 minutes only to be annoyed by "oh there is an update which you have to download right now". Also, should "First Light" turn out not to be for me, the physical media is easy to sell second hand.

Comment Re:Worst 007 Game Ever (Score 1) 20

I don't know what you expect a "007 game" to look like, but to me "First Light" looks pretty good and on-topic. As soon as not-industry-sponsored reviews confirm this to be as good as it looks, I'll buy a copy (on a physical disk, of course). (Also, I like GTA5 and many of the older AC games, so your comparison does not indicate anything negative to me.)

Comment Re:Recognizing irony is key to transcending milita (Score 1) 320

Accurately identifying traitors is harder than you seem to think. What if someone in authority claims YOU are the traitor? What if someone in authority IS the traitor. Your world seems so black and white, where identifying things is clear and obvious. Sure, we can identify some traitors that everyone agrees is clearly a traitor, but we can not identify all and in the attempt to identify all, we will strip ourselves of all Freedom and Liberty.

I genuinely wish that the world was as simple as you delude yourself into thinking it is.

That's what we have a judicial system, investigators and "innocent until proven guilty" for. It' not easy and I don't delude myself into thinking it is. However, it's really really important to do it. Also important to note is that you don't have to do it perfectly either. The fact you catch some provides a threat that dissuades others and also the risk of being caught limits people's ability to act. The situation improves considerably even if you only catch a small percentage of the traitors.

Comment Re:Recognizing irony is key to transcending milita (Score 1) 320

Look at Tucker Carlson and Hassan Piker right now. They have been openly going on trips to St Petersburg in service of Putin.

I should add here, that the fact that I have named both a left wing and a right wing extremist should make it clear that this should not be a partisan issue. Everyone should be able to come together and say that traitors have to be dealt with.

Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 320

So Crimea, taken by Russia in the 18 century would be Russia by that description, right?! Should we consider the inclusion of Crimea in to the Ukraine state during the USSR as stolen by Ukraine when USSR broke apart and not return Crimea to Russia?

No, the Tatars are a unified Ukrainian people. Ideally anything that belonged to the Crimean Khanate, likely at it's greatest historical extent, and not including lands that belonged to Georgia, should be given to Ukraine. Georgia should get back anything that it possessed earlier.

However, the key priority is a buffer zone around the land borders to the North and East of Ukraine, where there's needed some form of trigger/buffer zone to limit future Russian aggression.

History is complex, that is why we have Belgium and Swiss, those lands change hands way too many times. Borders should not really exist, after the EU, most borders problems in member countries are just plain stupid and almost all disappeared

Lack of borders is in practice yet worse than the problems that borders cause. EU regulations around border zones (which guarantee access to work and trade for people living in border regions) show how consent and cooperation can eliminate almost all the problems borders cause whilst still maintaining most of the most important benefits.

Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 320

How much value is there in reclaiming unusable wasteland?

If that wasteland provides a barrier which allows you to stop Russians invading your remaining valuable land then it is, actually, in itself valuable. Not brilliant, but better than losing more.

You do have a point though, and really the final resolution of the conflict in the distant future really should see Russia give up tracts of valuable land in compensation to the nations it has harmed including Ukraine and Georgia. How realistic that is will depend on all sorts of things, especially Russia's internal stability.

Comment Re:Recognizing irony is key to transcending milita (Score 1) 320

The way that they have already been identified. The crime is not the speech, the crime is taking money from the enemy to spread it. A number of the extremist bloggers have already been caught doing it. Where the typical penalty in history for treason has been execution, they have barely even been fined. Look at Tucker Carlson and Hassan Piker right now. They have been openly going on trips to St Petersburg in service of Putin.

Comment Re:The Ukrainians aren't winning. (Score 1) 320

You are replying to the wrong person because that was a quote on my part. On the other hand you have a point. Putin really is very afraid of the veterans so there's a good reason, beyond just hoping to use up drones and making Futurama quotes real why they are sending the crippled back to the front. They have already had some problems and so he rightly believes that dead people don't protest for veterans rights.

There's never a good time to rise up, but the Russians are going to keep suffering until they finally rid themselves of their current ruling class.

Comment Re:As the old saying goes... (Score 4, Informative) 49

But GPS has been a military system - and thus a military target - since its beginnings. Which is why the Russians (and probably others as well) deployed satellite based GPS jamming systems. So even if they did not know about the additional payload, they would have jammed the whole system in a hot conflict anyway.

Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 320

Obviously, the list of people killed issued by Russia will not contain the people that they don't want to admit to and will contain people who it suits them to include. Women are currently serving in the Russian armed services and 19, just after completing mandatory education and before they could have a settled life is approximately the most likely age that they would join. Releasing a list of women only is not a sign of innocence. It is a sign of Russian manipulation.

Instead of allowing quick access to the scene, we know that Russia staged the scene for two days. That is standard procedure in Russia where a mililtary target has been hit and means that almost certainly all of those killed were actually the members of the military targeted. Having said that, it is always possible that civilians were killed, we should not in any way accept that civilian deaths in this conflict are anyone's responsibility other than Russia which could stop this war immediately by withdrawing all Russians from the territory that Russia has stolen from Ukraine from 1919 onward, paying reparations for the damage they have done and injuries they have caused since that time and handing over Russia's weapons and diplomatic privileges to Ukraine.

Comment Re:Tech sovereignty is a survival need. Good on 'e (Score 2) 198

China may have practiced predictable politics for a long time, but just like every country, they are only one "leader going crazy" away from turning in the opposite direction. You cannot know whether Xi or his successor suddenly feels an urge to start WW3, just like you could not know whether a Putin or a Trump would rise to turn their countries into unhinged war starters.

Comment Re:Email (Score 1) 54

Email just needs to die.

No, it is still the only non-monopolized communication protocol with a very wide audience, where everybody can participate without being at the mercy of some evil corporation. And you can use signed and end-to-end encrypted emails - even though many are too incompetent or ignorant to do so.

The only non-monopolized communication protocols available today are far from being omnipresent enough to be a viable replacement.

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