jpfromlondon (u/jpfromlondon)

jpfromlondon commented on Phrack 72 phrack.org/issues/72/1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

supermatou · 7 days ago

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I can't help but see security professionals as fakers, they seem to mostly be box-tickers rather than the professionally curious, in school and college I was up to no good with tech, but now when my employer is recruiting to establish an in-house cyber team I know I'm not what they're looking for and never was.

I exclude the RE guys who are undoubtedly extraordinary.

jpfromlondon commented on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/phlummox

Jolter · 14 days ago

It is far, far more likely that you can get most of your opinions represented in a parliament with 8 parties than one with 2 or 3.

In Sweden, in the past 50 years, people with ”new” or fringe opinions have successfully started parties, and won seats in either the national or EU parliament, on these issues:

- Christianity - Environmentalism - Racism/populism - Internet freedom/privacy - Feminism - Racism/populism, again

Most of these have had their issues adopted by larger parties through triangulation, and thus shrunk away to nothing, while others persist to this day (christianity, environmentalism, racism).

I think if you tried to start a new labor party in the UK today, you should not expect to win any seats. Likewise if you attempted what the Swedish Feminist Initiative did. But I hope I’m about to be proven wrong on the first point.

jpfromlondon · 8 days ago

the problem with proportional representation is that nothing gets done, it's a permanent logjam with conflicting ideologies attempting to block or outdo each other.

Admittedly there is a bureaucratic logjam in the UK that hampers any progress but I don't see that going with fptp, I'd anticipate it getting much, much worse under prop-rep.

jpfromlondon commented on What does Palantir actually do? wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mudil

mgh2 · 12 days ago

Article: > "Got a Tip? Are you a current or former Palantir employee who wants to talk about what's happening? We'd like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporter securely on Signal at carolinehaskins.61."

jpfromlondon · 11 days ago

seems like a trap.

jpfromlondon commented on Claude Code is all you need dwyer.co.za/static/claude... · Posted by u/sixhobbits

keeda · 14 days ago

> ... LLMs aren't very good at logical reasonsing.

I'm curious about what experiences led you to that conclusion. IME, LLMs are very good at the type of logical reasoning required for most programming tasks. E.g. I only have to say something like "find the entries with the lowest X and highest Y that have a common Z from these N lists / maps / tables / files / etc." and it spits out mostly correct code instantly. I then review it and for any involved logic, rely on tests (also AI-generated) for correctness, where I find myself reviewing and tweaking the test cases much more than the business logic.

But then I do all that for all code anyway, including my own. So just starting off with a fully-fleshed out chunk of code, which typically looks like what I'd pictured in my head, is a huge load off my cognitive shoulders.

jpfromlondon · 13 days ago

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are...

jpfromlondon commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez

jpfromlondon · 14 days ago

Can I ask why you abandoned TickTick?