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Comment Re:Mask up, lads. But this time, it's four masks (Score 3, Insightful) 61

So this time the schools will be closed *and* the children will be lobotomized to make damn sure they're getting stupider.

Exactly. Schools should be kept open and kids should not be quarantine for a measly disease. Let their natural immunity take over. So what if a few have to die. If that means keeping things running, so be it. After all, if parents don't care if their kid dies from a measly disease, why should anyone else care?

Comment Re:I’m not worried (Score 2) 61

You do realize doctors were prescribing this during the pandemic to alleviate symptoms? It's dummies like you that push these false narratives.

Which of course it had no effect on. None. Zero. No one ever demonstrated any effect an anti-parasitic could have on a virus.

The only one lying is you and people like you who "did their research".

Comment Of course (Score 1, Insightful) 194

Men are the weaker sex. There, I said it. As proof I offer all those who whine about women on OnlyFans making hundreds of thousands of dollars (potentially millions). Tell me, how do those women make all that money? Who is paying them?

As a follow up, for centuries men held sway in everything. It's why they like to point out the lack of female scientists, artists, etc. The reason of course is women were prevented, both physicallly and legally, from being scientists, artists, etc. Until 1974 women in the U.S. couldn't have a credit card in their own name.

Once women started being treated as equals (still not there), things changed. Men no longer had a god-given right to the front office. The old boys club broke down. Women showed there was no difference between what a man did or woman did (with few exceptions). And that scares men. It's why we have such dim bulbs like Peterson* and Tate and many others who do nothing but denegrate women. Everything their life revolved around (only men) is gone and they're scared because now they have to compete and realize they're out of their league. They're not as "good" as they thought they were when compared to women and blame all their ills on women. When boys and young men listen to these dullards they come to the same conclusion. Their life is so bad because of women.

Also, there is genetics. Boys take longer to emotionally mature than women. Ask any teacher. The ones causing problems will invariably be a boy, not a girl. This means, instead of paying attention in school, they're already falling behind by not learning the basics which would prepare them for more advanced studies later on. It's one reason we keep hearing, "You don't have to go to college. You can learn a trade." What they don't tell you is every trade uses the basics (math in particular) to do their job. If boys didn't learn the basics in school, what kind of tradesmen do you think they'll be?

* Peterson once said the idea that women have been discriminated against is appalling. Apparently the fact women couldn't vote until recently isn't discrimination, let alone all the other things women weren't allowed to do simply because they are women.

Submission + - Renewable power reversing China's emissions growth (arstechnica.com)

AmiMoJo writes: China has been installing renewable energy at a spectacular rate and now has more renewable capacity than the next 13 countries combined, and four times that of its closest competitor, the US. Yet, so far at least, that hasn't been enough to offset the rise of fossil fuel use in that country. But a new analysis by the NGO Carbon Brief suggests things may be changing, as China's emissions have now dropped over the past year, showing a 1 percent decline compared to the previous March. The decline is largely being led by the power sector, where growth in renewables has surged above rising demand.

This isn't the first time that China's emissions have gone down over the course of a year, but in all previous cases the cause was primarily economic—driven by things like the COVID pandemic or the 2008 housing crisis. The latest shift, however, was driven largely by the country's energy sector, which saw a 2 percent decline in emissions over the past year.

Carbon Brief put the report together using data from several official government sources, including the National Bureau of Statistics of China, National Energy Administration of China, and the China Electricity Council. Projections for future growth come from the China Wind Energy Association and the China Photovoltaic Industry Association.

The data indicate that the most recent monthly peak in emissions was March of 2024. Since then, total emissions have gone down by 1 percent—a change the report notes is small enough that it could easily reverse should conditions change. The report highlights, however, that the impact of renewables appears to be accelerating. The growth of clean power in the first quarter of 2025 was enough to drive a 1.6 percent drop compared to the same quarter a year before, outpacing the overall average of a 1 percent decline.

In total, the power sector saw a 5.8 percent drop in emissions compared to the first quarter the year before, despite seeing demand for power rise by 2.5 percent. In fact, Carbon Brief concludes that the rise in production from clean power was greater than the average rise in demand over the past 15 years. This suggests two things: that any failure to meet rising demand via renewables will be due to unusual and temporary circumstances and that renewables will start displacing fossil fuel generation as things move forward.

Submission + - Elon Muskâ(TM)s xAI admits Grok AI was manipulated after South Africa genoc (betanews.com)

BrianFagioli writes: xAI is under fire after it revealed an employee tampered with Grok, its controversial AI bot on X, forcing it to make a statement about the South African genocide situation. According to xAI, the incident happened on May 14 at around 3:15 AM PST. An employee made an unauthorized change to Grokâ(TM)s prompt, instructing it to deliver a predetermined answer on a sensitive political issue. This goes against the companyâ(TM)s stated values and policies.

The company admits the prompt change somehow skipped its normal code review process. xAI now says itâ(TM)s tightening up its procedures. From now on, every Grok system prompt will be published publicly on GitHub. You can access them here. Anyone can look at them and even give feedback. xAI wants this transparency to help win back some trust in Grok as a so-called truth-seeking AI.

To prevent something like this from happening again, xAI says it will also add extra steps to its internal code review, making it harder for staff to sneak in changes without approval. On top of that, the company is putting together a 24/7 monitoring team. This group will be ready to react if Grok gives another questionable answer that the automatic systems miss.

Comment Huge difference (Score 2, Informative) 137

and comparing resistance to early reactions against spell-check

With spell check, you knew you were receiving the correct spelling. With ChatGPT, or other LLMs, you can, and will, be told things which aren't remotely true. For example, Google's AI said to use glue to hold cheese on your pizza.

Recently, that thing called Grok has been deliberately programmed to spew nonsensical bullshit about "genocide" in South African farmers REGARDLESS of the topic being discussed.

Until things get worked out, comparing ChatGPT, or any LLM, to spell check is a nonsensical comparison.

Submission + - Palantir targeted WikiLeaks

An anonymous reader writes: The WikiLeaks Threat

“An Overview by Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal, and Berico Technologies”
--

Speed is crucial!

– There is no time to develop an infrastructure to support this investigaton

– The threat demands a comprehensive analysis capability now

Combatng this threat requires advanced subject matter expertise in cybersecurity, insider threats, counter cyber-fraud, targeting analysis, social media exploitaton

Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal, and Berico Technologies represent deep domain knowledge in each of these areas

– They can be deployed tomorrow against this threat as a unified and cohesive investigatve analysis cell

Feed the fuel between the feuding groups. Disinformation. Create messages around actions to sabotage or discredit the opposing organization. Submit fake documents and then call out the error.

Create concern over the security of the infrastructure. Create exposure stories. If the process is believed to not be secure they are done.

Cyber attacks against the infrastructure to get data on document submitters. This would kill the project. Since the servers are now in Sweden and France putting a team together to get access is more straighqorward.

Media campaign to push the radical and reckless nature of wikileaks activities. Sustained pressure. Does nothing for the fanatics, but creates concern and doubt amongst moderates.

Search for leaks. Use social media to profile and identify risky behavior of employees.

Comment Re:Why not state which ones? (Score 5, Insightful) 90

I'm of two minds on this. On one hand, if you identify the company, yes, people will know what to look for and can either replace the inverter or get a whole new panel.

On the other hand, by identifying the company, you've tipped them off that you know what they did and the company will try to find a different way to do the same thing.

On the other other hand, by not identifying the company this keeps China in the dark about which ones were found and allows time for companies to look for the same thing in other brands. If it turns out it's only these two brands then you can ban them from use. But if you find this commonality among a range of Chinese brands, you can use that as direct evidence of government involvement.

Submission + - Hackers hit deportation airline GlobalX leak flight manifests and deface websit (bitdefender.com)

Neuroelectronic writes: GlobalX Airlines, a charter airline being used by the US government for deportation flights, has been attacked by hacktivists who have made off with what they claim are detailed flight records and passenger manifests. The attackers, who claim to be operating under the umbrella of Anonymous, did not just quietly exfiltrate data from the airline assisting with the controversial deportations — they also defaced the company's website and replaced it with a message:

"Anonymous has decided to enforce the Judge’s order since you and your sycophant staff ignore lawful orders that go against your fascist plans. You lose again, Donnie."

Of course, there's little point in defacing a website if nobody notices — and so the hacktivists reached out to journalists, pointing them in the direction of the security breach, and offering a treasure trove of leaked data including:

  • flight logs
  • passenger lists
  • itinerary details spanning months

The leaked details included information about flights used to deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, including some who were battling the legality of their deportation from the United States while the planes were already in the air according to a report by 404 Media.

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