Some people so want to believe that a useful information retrieval system is a superintelligence.

The rest of us aren't surprised that an interesting search engine isn't good at chess.

Once a company is large enough, it makes sense to break a few laws here and there. They are only going to have a subset of these broken laws enforced at all, and when they are enforced, the companies will just fork over some legal fees and maybe some settlement fees, and call it a day. These fees will be less than the enormous amount of profit they made, and so they are still ahead overall.

It's similar to how children reach an age where they start breaking rules just to see which rules really matter. Only in this case, even when they get punished for breaking the rules that really matter, the punishment is so mild that it really isn't a punishment at all. It's just part of the RnD cost (though this part of the research is just legal experimentation).

I'm familiar with some organizations that have been feeding their Slack data into a RAG for employee queries.

They're going to be quite pissed if this has been shut down by Slack.

I implemented portsentry feeding fail2ban on edge servers to deal with the unrelenting scans.

It helps, somewhat.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fportsentry%2F...

Yup, but now the AI lobby is stronger than the oil lobby.

I guess whichever the military needs more.

There are some videos online with sound.

Do we hear the engines?

Hopefully an airplane enthusiast who is familiar with the expected sound profile can comment.

That is the question.

I can see if they outsourced something and delegated a subdomain and the contract expired and then somehow the spammers got the IP's (hosting farm?) which had been abandoned and set up DNS.

But I've never been able to request a specific IP when setting up a VPS or colo, so it's kinda a mystery to me.

404 should have included the most basic of details.

Our social structures prey on the human animal instinct for convenience and instant gratification.

Higher-level humans are trained to resist these urges by traditional social structures.

The "cultural Marxists" encourage each of the "seven deadly sins" to disarm the people who are being trained in the more frontal-lobe strategies. That makes them much easier to control.

Big Tech is an instrument of this structure. Corporate law makes it trivial to exploit them, and that's the ones not founded by Int-Q-Tel.

Yeah, there's even been an aggregator website for a decade:

http://insecam.org/

It's often broken, but "security researchers"? Come on, now.

Interesting. I wonder if we'll see some small BSD routers being sold rather than the common small linux routers.

The manufacturers aren't really keen on selling GPL software but it's been their best option.

They've figured out how to create the world's most expensive cookbook.

You can get the FUTO repo for F-Droid which has a local Whisper-based (MIT license) TTS. Work better than Google's from my basic testing.

There's no dichotomy here - both are imperative.

The Gaza activists are especially interested in the (illegally) withheld JFK documents.

Both are being withheld to protect the same interests.

Oh?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Ffederal...

CIA gave Amazon a $600M contract a few years back.

Indeed. Layoffs that were prompted by the long period of high interest rates, which in turn were imposed as a response to hyperinflation, which itself was largely a result of everything that happened during the pandemic.

So, the contributing factors listed in the summary are not wrong, but are also very incomplete, as quite a lot has transpired to bring about the current state.

All of these factors will change over time, though the rate of change and the consequences of change will differ.