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Jon_Lowtek commented on San Francisco Graffiti   walzr.com/sf-graffiti... · Posted by u/walz
InMice · 16 days ago
Cool, but why lay out the images in such an annoying way? Whatever happened to simple, functional photo galleries? I miss them.
Jon_Lowtek · 15 days ago
on desktop i had to click on the small black area between two pictures before scrolling with left/right arrows became possible ... very bad UX
Jon_Lowtek commented on Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times   nexanet.ai/blog/53-times-... · Posted by u/fuck_flock
chrneu · a month ago
>causes the victim to fear for their safety

...this is completely up to interpretation. again, just being followed isn't a crime nor does it violate privacy as long as it occurs in public space.

i could say someone on the subway was stalking me because they have the same schedule as me and commute at the same time.

Jon_Lowtek · a month ago
The citizens of the USA need to modernize their concept of privacy. Defining it over private/public spaces comes from a time when mass surveillance was technologically unfeasible. Technology has changed, and so must the definition of privacy.

thought experiment: >> if they do not want their conversations in their living room recorded, parsed by automated language models running in our datacenters, and added to their permanent record, they shouldn't have a window to a public space that vibrates. All we are doing is being in a public space, spending billions of VC money to point laser microphones at all homes 24/7 collecting data that anyone in this public space could have collected. You can not outlaw that without outlawing 5 year old Timmy riding his tricycle down the sidewalk, because we are using his right to see the light from his lamp being reflected by the houses, to justify why our creepy business model isn't a violation of millions of peoples privacy. You can't have a reasonable expectation of privacy that allows little Timmy to see, but forbids our corporation to spy on everyone, not in america. We also send electromagnetic waves out on one side off your house and collect them on the other, so we can see you move inside your house. It is basically like ham radio, anyone could do it, little Timmy sends electromagnetic waves through your house when he talks to his friend on a walkie talkie. You think Timmy shouldn't be allowed to have a walkie-talkie? We just send them through all the homes, all the time, everywhere. No we are not on your property all our devices are in public spaces <<

The idea that, if a single piece of information could be collected by a human in a public space, then mass scale collection of that and similar information at all times and in all public spaces, for any purpose by a fully automated behemoth is fine, is insane.

The USA needs to amend its constitution to define the right to privacy in a way that declares mass surveillance and systematic profiling using non-consensual data gathering at scale illegal for being the nefarious violation of basic human rights that it is, before they completely loose what little privacy they have left when they hole up in their homes.

Jon_Lowtek commented on Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)   github.com/Hiepler/EuConf... · Posted by u/hiepler
pennaMan · a month ago
To the human race. The only reason we're not living miserable animal lives is because of technological progress. Wanting to slow that down means you are anti human.
Jon_Lowtek · a month ago
So your think that AI systems that pose a significant risk to basic human rights at scale, should not be subject to oversight and regulation, because that would be anti-human?
Jon_Lowtek commented on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud   theregister.com/2025/12/1... · Posted by u/saubeidl
ExoticPearTree · 2 months ago
> It's the same reason you don't want Chinese equipment in your telecommunications infrastructure. You can't trust what the Chinese government will do to it or with it.

Using this logic, every country should develop its own critical equipment from scratch, in terms of both hardware and software.

My belief is that there is no problem with the Chinese equipment, just scare-mongering from the US because it has no manufacturer of 5G equipment. And Europe jumped on the bandwagon just because.

Jon_Lowtek · 2 months ago
According to the "Huawei cyber security evaluation centre" (HCSEC) oversight boards annual report to the national security adviser of the United Kingdom (note: HCSEC was a joint lab between NSCS, GCHQ and Huawei with a lot of access to internal documentation and firmware source code and so on to check if they are telling the truth when they promised there is no backdoor for the chinese ministry of national security in the 5G equipment) their quality and basic security processes are so bad, that it is believable that all the vulnerabilities are unintentional. However they did improve in the years prior to being kicked out, so you are not wrong that it was somewhat of a bandwagon move following the us sanctions.
Jon_Lowtek commented on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud   theregister.com/2025/12/1... · Posted by u/saubeidl
breve · 2 months ago
A necessary step to reduce risk to infrastructure given that the US government has become erratic and has decided it is now anti-Europe.

The US means to undermine the EU: https://www.dw.com/en/will-trump-pull-italy-austria-poland-h...

The US means to annex European territory: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo

It's the same reason you don't want Chinese equipment in your telecommunications infrastructure. You can't trust what the Chinese government will do to it or with it.

Jon_Lowtek · 2 months ago
this is not a new issue: airbus has been the victim of corporate espionage supposedly by boeing with aid by the nsa in a well documented case in november 2011, and they are not the only victim of US government agency supported corporate espionage: investigations into the selector lists that ran in the cabinet noir at DE-CIX have shown that a large part of them were targeting european corporations. and that predates the cloud act of 2018, which made american infrastructure significantly less trustworthy.
Jon_Lowtek commented on Training LLMs for honesty via confessions   arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093... · Posted by u/arabello
Neywiny · 2 months ago
Not sure if that counts as lying but I've heard that an ML model (way before all this GPT LLM stuff) learned to classify images based on the text that was written. For an obfuscated example, it learned to read "stop", "arrêt", "alto", etc. on a stop sign instead of recognizing the red octagon with white letters. Which naturally does not work when the actual dataset has different text.
Jon_Lowtek · 2 months ago
typographic attacks against vision-language models are still a thing with more recent models like GPT4-V: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00626
Jon_Lowtek commented on In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution   e360.yale.edu/digest/new-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
bryanlarsen · 2 months ago
Yes, but that 24% increase in Europe is partly due to increase in vehicle size. Vehicle size is increasing over time in Europe, and the average EV is newer.

Also, cars designed as pure EV's are a lot lighter than EV's built on an ICE chassis.

A Telsa 3 is about 2% heavier than a BMW 3 whereas a Ford Lightning is 20% heavier than the comparable F-150.

Jon_Lowtek · 2 months ago
the 24% increase has nothing to do with car size over time in europa.

Table 2 in the paper lists which cars where compared, and that 24% numbers is an average from comparing models where manufacturers offer EV and ICE variants.

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Jon_Lowtek commented on In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution   e360.yale.edu/digest/new-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
lkbm · 2 months ago
> Particulates issued from tailpipes can aggravate asthma and heart disease and increase the risk of lung cancer and heart attack. Globally, they are a leading risk factor for premature death.

Minor nitpick, but tailpipes aren't the primary source of emissions. The study is about PM2.5[0]. which will chiefly be tires and brake pads. Modern gasoline engines are relatively clean, outside of CO2, though diesel engines spit out a bunch of bad stuff.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s44407-025-00037-2

Jon_Lowtek · 2 months ago
"relatively clean" means 85% of PM2.5 is from non-exhaust sources, and 15% is from exhaust after catalytic conversion. In New York EV and ICE are pretty much on par when it comes to this category of pollution, as the additional weight increases non exhaust sources. Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13522...

It is different in Africa, where catalytic converters are harvested for precious metals and cars are driven without them.

Jon_Lowtek commented on MinIO is now in maintenance-mode   github.com/minio/minio/co... · Posted by u/hajtom
regularfry · 2 months ago
Or to offer it under a commercial licence in parallel.
Jon_Lowtek · 2 months ago
While that is the most common use case for CLAs, it is normally done by contributors granting a very permissive, but not exclusive, license to a legal entity like a company or foundation, in addition to the public license granted to everyone.

This is not that. This is not even a license. They want a full transfer of intellectual property ownership. Sure that enables them to use it in a commercial product, but it also enables them to sue if contributors contribute similarly to other projects. Obviously that would create a shit storm, and there is an exception with the public license, but riddle me this: can you legally make similar contributions to multiple projects that have this type of CLA?

Let us take a step back and instead look where such terms are more common: employment contracts.

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