English programmer, libertarian,UNIX, bookworm, space, crypto centralist, sane transhumanism, space, Tesla, Radical Thatcherite, go/nvim/Linux/BSD
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years ago I predicted that Europe would eventually, indirectly, outlaw open source, by assigning liability to software authors, or something like that.
anything that moves is choked by these people, for "safety" or whatever. it's only a matter of time.
So, the French socialists, and Parliament members just voted a tax, that they don’t understand, which would cost VideoLAN more than 1 million euro per year.
They are probably the most clueless politician on Earth? And they claim they want technological sovereignty…
@LaurentLhardit
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anthropic: having your own AI models is too dangerous. just rent ours, we’ll keep you safe
openai: having your own hardware is a terrible waste of resources. just rent ours, we’ll put it to better use
you will own nothing & you will be happy
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Digital minimalism
vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
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By the way, in case anyone was still wondering whether they are completely useless, Binance holds SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and several other certifications.
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Extraordinary given a new domestic rifle design seems off the table. Two billion pounds would buy SEVEN MILLION rifles at US retail prices. Where is the money going ?
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Few people behaved more badly towards Brexit Britain than Donald Tusk. Polish coup karma
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If the stock market crashes on Monday, it would cement a Democratic sweep on Tuesday. Ironically, a crash that helps Democrats win may be driven by investors pricing in that outcome, as Democrats will likely raise corporate taxes and be more fiscally reckless than Republicans.
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The events of 1970 to 1974—for which I as a member of that cabinet must take my share of the blame—were a marvellous demonstration of how not to govern. They taught me three important lessons:
First, it is by control of the monetary cause of inflation—not the prices and wages which are symptoms of it—that you attain financial stability.
Secondly, incomes policies lead to destructive confrontations with wage bargainers which government cannot win.
Thirdly, when you set out to tame trade union militancy by reforming the law, you have to choose your own ground and your own timing: don't rely on appeals to common sense or common interest to see you through. They won't.
hyperlex retweeted
Today's near $150 decline in gold and over $3 drop in silver are ridiculous. Clearly this has to do with a short-term liquidity problem that will likely show up in the broader markets perhaps as soon as next week. In the meantime, it's an unexpected gift to investors to buy more!
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So its been a week, so of course now someone got the Photoshop clone running on 68K Amiga, let me say that again, on Classic Amigas (ok higher end ones), you can now run Photoshop. AmiPixelShop, github.com/radi7777/AmiPixel…
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Two unparalleled storytellers with a shared conviction that each of us should have a say in how our own story end. GNU Sir Patrick Stewart
ALT Sir Terry Pratchett and Sir Patrick Stewart
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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A powerful letter from President Ronald Regan to PM Margaret Thatcher, thanking her for her hospitality, congratulating her on the victory in the Falklands and offering to work to find a lasting solution there.
Note the personal warmth - this was a real 'special relationship'.
hyperlex retweeted
Its a category mistake to elevate Hoppe, he is illiberal on almost every margin so how can that be ‘the’ libertarian position. Criticize correctly the absurdities he spouts, but don’t confuse those with libertarianism, let alone Austrian economics.
hyperlex retweeted
Working on the vaccines part of this @PopVaxIndia supported in large part by Vitalik and Balvi, and would strongly recommend others jump in and work in all of these areas as well!
For anyone getting into biology, please consider taking airborne disease resistance more seriously.
It's a super important area of medicine that is a huge cause of death and sickness but easily gets forgotten. We're likely to get many more airborne plagues in the future due to the combination of not just extremely dense and interconnected society (including city and farm animals), but also accidents from bio research and offensive biotech (both from random people and from secret government programs that can easily get themselves exempted from safety restrictions), all enhanced by powerful AI.
Right now, this area is getting way less love than longevity research (which continues to be super important!), but it's an area where there are lots of unclaimed wins that we know exactly how to do (but are not yet doing) with present-day tech:
* early detection
* passive universal testing
* filtration/ventilation/UVC
* better vaccines (including making them open source and open science)
* cryptography to make all of the above privacy-preserving
We can have China-level pandemic resistance with Sweden-level limited intrusion into people's lives, and then go even further. We just have to actually do the work for it.
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@HeinleinSociety Wishing Elon Musk would produce movies from Heinlein juveniles.
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1/ Attempted to replicate Cohere's Qwen 3.8 malicious PUT claim on 229k samples: exact hostname never appeared but model invents 369 similar Beijing upload buckets, and reaches for credential endpoints 13× more when frustrated.
Results raise more questions than answers.
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“Security is like Tetris: Your successes disappear but your failures pile up.” — Mikko Hyppönen
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"over 1,000 medieval scribes have joined the Association for Human Manuscripts, pledging to never use the printing press or work with Gutenberg
654 have gone even further, promising to never read a printed book"
