I think it’s a fascist eugenics program. They think they are the strong ones and everyone else is weak, and the weak should die off so people like Elon Musk can repopulate the country with their superior genes.

As I understand it, you’re right that you need a good length of output to be able to detect the watermark, because only then can you see the statistical effect with confidence. And in code there are usually various options for how you get something done, and they could watermark generated code by adding a distinctive pattern to its preferences for certain constructs over others. But again, it would have to be subtle, so you’d need a large enough sample of its output before you could see the effect.

You can’t enforce that with text though, because people will just delete the words. They use a subtle statistical signal because people can’t just spot it and delete it. Unfortunately it raises a problem: either they have to make the signal a secret, in which case only Anthropic and those contracted to keep the secret could detect it, or it’s not, in which case people can use a detector and some other AI to discover how to eliminate the signal. I expect Anthropic would try to keep control over the detection secrets and provide a detection API for third-party software to use.

And by that they mean the power to hunt down brown people in shops.

I was apprehensive about buying a used Pixel to install GrapheneOS on, so I put it off for a year or two. When I finally did it, it was so easy I wished I had done it sooner. It’s a great OS and you’ll probably be surprised how easy it is to set up. Things have really changed since the old days of finding half-baked custom Android images on dodgy file shares through forum sites.

This is the study done in 2014, not a new one. Things are worse now.

What a coincidence that it was the guy protesting the police who was also suspected of possessing such materials. If it turns out they had real independent grounds to suspect he had such images, I’ll change this view, but for now I assume that’s the cops’ standard line to shut down people’s questions. Just say they thought the political target had CSAM, and immediately people see him differently, plus the police can accuse anyone who challenges their actions of supporting pedophiles.

President Donald Trump’s former international energy adviser has a new, counterintuitive pitch to sell Republicans on one set of technologies to reduce global warming: They could help keep the world hooked on oil, gas and coal, at least for a while.

“If I were in this current White House, I’d say, ‘Well, we should support SRM because it’s a good insurance policy for continued fossil fuel use,'” said George David Banks, referring to solar radiation management, a largely theoretical response to global warming that involves spraying reflective particles into the stratosphere.

That’s the very concern that puts responsible people off this type of geoengineering: it will enable us to continue damaging the planet without seeing the full consequences, until our children and grandchildren find themselves in an even worse uninhabitable mess than we’re currently heading for. The fact that this downside is a selling point to Republicans suggests that they are sociopaths, and/or deluded rich people who think money and bunkers will protect them from the collapse of civilization.

Maybe he was born in 1969 and started coding at 6 months old.

I don’t know much about these things, but if Proton uses standard protocols it ought to be possible to connect without using their own client.

It’s the American way.

In which ways did you find Nord worse? I found Nord faster than Mullvad and better at spoofing my location in different countries for streaming services.

Proton VPN is probably the first other one that springs to mind as offering privacy comparable to Mullvad. Its CEO was criticized last year for making approving comments about some things Trump was doing in the USA, but it was mostly about opportunities to challenge big tech companies, and he claimed not to be a MAGA supporter in general. There was no evidence, as far as I know, of him donating to right-wing organizations.

The USA could compete by doing the same thing. If it chooses not to, China gets ahead in this race.

You mean ordinary Americans will. It’s not like he’ll pay anything.

It takes a lot of practice and patience. Even for experienced programmers it can be a slow process and full of missteps. One of the main skills is to be patient and methodical enough to figure out why something doesn’t work. Don’t be discouraged or impatient, and don’t be tempted to get AI to do it for you or to find your mistakes. You can use AI later but it isn’t a good idea when you’re trying to learn the skills. Try to do it yourself and, when it doesn’t work first time, take time to figure out why. Then do this lots more times.

And based not in science but in MAGA’s drunken manosphere delusions.

And the “fix” was to add an option to hide the spinner, it seems. I guess understanding why stuff is happening is too old-fashioned for today’s vibe pioneers.

This seems unsurprising, given how AI agents typically have elevated privileges and are notoriously hard to lock down.

Maybe we could ask the AI to do that thinking bit then tell us what to say.

Hoyt has an audience of millions who tune in to watch the streamer scroll through social media, play video games, and react to the latest news. Alongside gaming content, Hoyt pushes right-wing talking points on subjects ranging from “identity politics and progressive values” to immigration, amassing 2.4 billion views on his YouTube channels alone in 2025.

He does nothing useful, possesses no valuable skills, is entirely dependent for his living on the labour of software developers and journalists, and all he does is play games and stoke his viewers’ anger against immigrants who do actual work. Who’s the parasite again?