What’s fucked up is I knew it was independent but I didn’t realize it was never Greek. They got independence from Britain, like… what???

The Republic of Cyprus has been independent from Greece for some time now.

Whois still has the DNS record but it doesn’t resolve for me either at this point. I can’t resolve it using dns.leonet.it either so presumably the sanctions have taken effect and their internet service has been cut off.

May I ask why FB, Twitter, etc. get protection from liability from 3rd party content under Section 230 of the Communications Act but these folks don’t? They both have a TOS and reserve the right to refuse service.

I’m not downvoting you btw, I know you’re engaging in good faith. Idk who is.

So they have a TOS like Facebook or any other large platform, and reserve the right to refuse service?

Unless they’re knowingly doing business with a known convicted terrorist, I fail to see how this makes them a terrorist support platform.

Anyways in the US Section 230 of whatever law prevents companies and organizations from being liable for content users post to their websites. How is this any different than FB hosting the breeding grounds for Proud Boys et al, other than them not being a US company and them being leftist-aligned?

I’d argue it doesn’t matter. If they offer e2ee email, they can’t be aware of the content of any messages exchanged.

Unless they were informed one of their email accounts belonged to someone convicted of committing an actual act of domestic terror, they would be completely in the dark about who’s using their email services.

Given its this US state department issuing the statement, I wouldn’t believe any accusation leveled at all without proof. I’d need to see evidence that A/I knowingly provided services to a convicted domestic terrorist for me to believe this is anything other than trying to stamp out E2EE.

https://autistici.org/who/manifesto

Seems pretty great to me. MSFT and friends must be unhappy Europe is slowly moving off US software.

So I think you’re generally correct about that statement: “illegal” (insert word of choice here) immigrants tend to be willing to work for cheaper for a variety of reasons, including being more desperate, not necessarily needing to pay taxes from cash gigs, etc. As with everything, however, what you do with that and how you frame it is as important as getting the correct information in the first place.

Knowing Stonetoss he’s certainly using it as a reason the US should use military force to abuse those committing non-criminal immigration violations and to militarized their border. So, despite there being some level of truth to the root facts being discussed, I dislike the comic.

If this fact were used to argue for legalizing many immigration pathways to prevent the exploitation of desperate laborers, I’d feel differently. Fuck Stonetoss though.

This is conjecture because I can’t access the full paper at this time, but based on:

The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores.

I’m guessing this is an artifact of “students under higher pressure to perform are more likely to use AI more thereby lowering their scores”. Given Chinese patriarchical cultural biases, I’d imagine boys are under higher pressure on average, thereby leading to greater usage.

So perhaps it’s actually the second one, as the abatract is unclear if they’re studying performance relating to usage or not. Without checking methodology, it’s unclear if they’re controlling for usage.

Given the overlap with “high achievers” and China’s cultural focus on men/male children, I’d imagine it’s an emergent property of widespread gender bias rather than intrinsic to AMAB academic capabilities.

Hehehe never apply to Canonical. I sat 6 interviews, 2 psychometric evals including an IQ-adjacent evaluation, submitted a take home assessment and was asked about my high school math grades just to be offered a job with a more advanced title paying 20k less than what I was currently making. I only sat it through because I wanted to post the offer on glassdoor/levels so others didn’t have to waste their time either. (And because I wanted to see if I could pass their famously grueling application process)

So yes I’ve seen companies (big ones) do this sort of thing.

I’m told the sun is shining. Maybe make some hay?

ITT: a bunch of people who didn’t read anything other than “AI” and got mad.

He thinks Rust is one of the few realistic ways to slash the class of bugs that come from C’s traditional error-handling and resource-management pitfalls.

Idk why everyone’s upset about this. It’s not wrong. The headline sucks, but the statement “Rust makes it harder to introduce bugs that an LLM will later find” seems pretty objectively true.