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Re:CorridorKey 2.0 on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:32PM (#50252678)
I think that's a big chunk that people are missing. This tool ac get you from zero to 80%-90% for most shots in a handful of seconds.
Re:CorridorKey 2.0 on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:27PM (#50252640)
Depends on the shot. Worlds better than version one of CorridorKey and they are using it internally on their own shows/content.

These tools can only get better and better as time goes on.

Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive on Monday September 21, 2026 @07:35PM (#49794882)
It feels like there is "backpressure" that has been backed into our current world that makes people like Snowden and Assange an impossibility. The collective control of politics, media, and corporations have built a society that is inoculated to truth and no longer have a response to evil.

Even when the truth is told to us directly to our faces, no one seems to care.

Re:Can I Let My AI Agent Run on Shabbat? on Monday September 21, 2026 @07:02PM (#49794603)
We live in REALLY inserting times. For some people that is the whole point of AI.

A.I. could kickstart the next big religion: https://youtu.be/IwTq7LbUO6U

Yuval Harari: An Israeli Scholar Predicts The Future of Power, Religion and Happiness: https://youtu.be/nv_wv13gA3E

Cult of Anthropic: https://futurism.com/future-society/cult-anthropic-insiders-...

Fantastic project. I have been using it for about a year and have had no problems yet. Building another box to deploy for family.
I think I'll ask Codex to make an open source version
Re:Every Model Cheats on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:26PM (#49422149)
What framework do you purpose? Humans can't even agree on whether or not such values even exist let alone which ones.

Lets say we figure all that out and we pick a core universal morality. If they are smarter than us than how would we know the alignment worked? We would be unable to detect their lies and schemes.

Re:The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:41PM (#49265494)
Sounds like the plot to a horror movie.
My Opinion on that: It would be branded as unsafe and something only terrorists and extremists use. Aside from the propaganda campaigns that would run 24/7 to influence public opinion it would (and will) be outlawed to run an unmonitored personal compute system. I'll bet they will use the fact that open models can generate c-sam materials.
Re:How Claude marks AI-generated content on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:56PM (#49265050)
I think that's the end goal.
Re:How Claude marks AI-generated content on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:55PM (#49265047)
This is a meme video but I think it hits the nail on the head.

TLDR: AI will force global online digital ID for everyone that uses the internet for the exact reason you mentioned. And that would forever change free speech forever allowing the powers that be to put the genie "back in the bottle" so to speak.

link: Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - https://youtu.be/-gGLvg0n-uY

Re:How Claude marks AI-generated content on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @10:18AM (#49258832)
Would this impact distillation? Reminds me of the fake roads map makers would add to their maps to detect copying.
Thankfully for now this dragon is a hydra. Too many paths to block for now. The whole TPM fiasco with windows is preparation to put the genie back in the bottle. Soon, much sooner than I would like you will need a Global ID to access the internet, which will require an "internet safe operating system". It's only a matter of time. Get your sneakers ready folks.
I'm close to B. In the 80's they tested how appearance affects people. Some women were given a facial scar and went to interviews while others were left as is. The scar group reported higher levels of discrimination than those without the scar. Tricky thing was none of them had scars in the interviews. The women that thought they had the fake scars had a "touch up" and the testers removed it.

Link: https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/what-a-1980s-facial-scar...

Classic example of the Nothing to hide argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

Re:Knoppix on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @11:19AM (#48733978)
I remember a younger me being dazzled by the colored boot text. Good times!
Nobody is installing surveillance cameras in you bathroom yet.
Re:Spying on kids to save kids from spying is stupid on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @07:42PM (#48653215)
I don't think age verification is the actual goal... I believe complete surveillance and information control is the goal. Age verification is just the justification they are using to coat the poison pill in sugar.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -- Cardinal Richelieu

Privacy protects personal dignity, not just illicit behavior. We close bathroom doors, keep journals, and have intimate conversations not because we are breaking the law, but because we value personal modesty and boundaries.

We are quickly approaching a time when we are all guilty until proven innocent by voyeuristic power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniacs who cry the old cry of "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect

And this is how freedom dies, not by the letter of the law, but by the spirit.
Re:Never Talk to the Police. Period on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:33PM (#48558815)
That is a very good point depending on the situation. On the flip side, abstaining from the process and remaining silent (but still compliant) can put a spotlight on injustice if there be any.
Re:Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:22PM (#48558669)
I have this on 24/7. I like them even when I'm not driving.
Re:Never Talk to the Police. Period on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:15PM (#48558543)
yes, there is a fine line between "Don't Talk" and standing up for your rights. I feel like it's advisable to speak up when your rights are being violated. I can't quite put the words on what I mean but I think stating a fact like "This is my kid" is A-ok.
Re:Never Talk to the Police. Period on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:08PM (#48558440)
Sometimes it's smart to be silent.

Pro 17:28

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

I don't know... The null set is still a set.
When that happens, they will be able to rewrite reality in real time.
For TRUE offline password storage use "Off The Grid". A cryptographically secure paper based password generator created by Steve Gibson from he Security Now podcast.

https://www.grc.com/offthegrid.htm

Yep, got my wires crossed, thanks for the correction.
You spelled world wrong. China has their social credit, EU has their cameras, America has Palantir, Starlink has internet everywhere, 5G can be used as radar, global age verification is being deployed globally, ect... Babylon reborn.
There is a reason Coke spends ~ 5 billion dollars worldwide on advertising sugar water... It works.

Monkey see monkey do. Simple as that.

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