David Gerard

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yeah, that’s the fucker. as a large language model, he does not have a data type for consent

see also voice stress analysis, another thing that doesn’t work but is sold as working with AI

oh! was he the guy doing a search engine archiving as much of the fediverse as possible, over the objections of the people being indexed?

yeah that tracks

that dude advocates LLM code autocomplete and he’s a cryptographer

like that code’s gotta be a bug bounty bonanza

I liked this comment on the HN post:

Our computer security analogies are modeled around securing a home from burglars, but the actual threat model is the ocean surging 30 feet onto our beachfront community. The ocean will find the holes, no matter how small. We are not prepared for this.

Not gold, but some countries do work to an officially restricted money supply! Those that have officially dollarised, e.g. El Salvador and Ecuador.

I’m familiar with .sv. The government is horribly constricted - because they can’t print money and the populace doesn’t trust them to print money - so every year it’s more sovereign bonds. Then a fuckwit like Bukele comes along and thinks that bitcoins will make anything better and not worse.

So yeah, turns out past 1930 that not being able to do monetary policy fucking sucks.

the original post is fucking amazing

here in the future, nothing fucking works

this is Nvidia, they’ll come up with a torturous source-available license made of poison pills

if only the article addressed this precise point and its relevance