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latentpot commented on Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics   haveibeenflocked.com/news... · Posted by u/_a9
defrost · 15 hours ago
Related: Flock Said It Does Not Use Dark Web Data. Code Analysis Tells a Different Story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341674
latentpot · 8 hours ago
Cyble, with a large team of dark Web researchers based out of India cover that while giving flock plausible deniability
latentpot commented on Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways   saxrag.com/tech/reversing... · Posted by u/vinhnx
Nextgrid · 2 months ago
Starlink-based ones have enough bandwidth for the whole plane to have workable bandwidth (just rate-limit based on client so no single heavy user hogs the entire bandwidth).

There's also an European one whose name currently escapes me which uses a custom flavor of LTE and special ground stations that also happily provides hundreds of mbps.

Capacity is primarily an issue on the legacy BGAN-based ones where you have a handful of mbps for the entire plane.

latentpot · 2 months ago
That's EAN, also used by BA as the backhaul.
latentpot commented on How OpenElections uses LLMs   thescoop.org/archives/202... · Posted by u/m-hodges
timschmidt · 6 months ago
I've seen similar. I wonder if traditional organizational solutions, like those employed by the US Military or IBM, might be applicable. Redundancy is one of their tools for achieving reliability from unreliable parts. Instead of asking a single LLM to perform the task, ask 10 different LLMs to perform the same task 10 different times and count them like votes.
latentpot · 6 months ago
Why complicate? One LLM works, another reflects and then a decision engine to review would be cheaper.
latentpot commented on How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)   solar.lowtechmagazine.com... · Posted by u/mgd
jerome-jh · a year ago
On my side I prefer Dell Latitudes and Fujitsu Siemens, which only makes "professional" laptops. I agree with the keyboards, however really good keyboards have totally disappeared now.

That said a used laptop is perfect for web browsing, office stuff, casual development and light gaming. When it dies you have no regrets. It is almost 20 years I have not bought a new laptop. Of course my kids have used laptops too. At some point they had Fujitsu Siemens with a Wacom stylus/digitizer. I do not think they still make those. They were rock solid and quite fun to use.

I only buy new laptops for my wife. She is very careful with her stuff, they last ages. I bought her a new one recently only to offer her a better screen.

latentpot · a year ago
Dell makes devices with mpp compatible touch screens. Cheap stylii, good pressure response
latentpot commented on QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet   dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35... · Posted by u/Shank
latentpot · a year ago
QUIC is the standard problem across n number of clients who choose Zscaler and similar content inspection tools. You can block it at the policy level but you also need to have it disabled at the browser level. Which sometimes magically turns on again and leads to a flurry of tickets for 'slow internet', 'Google search not working' etcetera.
latentpot commented on Trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why   theregister.com/2024/04/1... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
latentpot · 2 years ago
Why wasn't there a PAM solution in place that logged all the mainframe user level activities and commands? Maybe cyberark or such? Would have help to trace the issues and even control such commands from being run by a novice.
latentpot commented on Is Tableau Dead?   mergeyourdata.com/blog/is... · Posted by u/dsaavy
latentpot · 2 years ago
Apache Superset is a good option if you are ok with open source.
latentpot commented on Anyone working on LLM tools for enhancing data quality?    · Posted by u/cstanley
latentpot · 2 years ago
1 is already a solved problem. My employer had originally put a ML based system to find DQ issues (already working) and is looking at pocs to add LLMs in the model mix. Hearsay is that our lakehouse vendor will have their own solution to this question via a acquisition.

2 is interesting, possible to do via LLM but I worry about data privacy and hallucinations making data more believable but not real.

latentpot commented on Freaky Leaky SMS: Extracting user locations by analyzing SMS timings   arxiv.org/abs/2306.07695... · Posted by u/belter
jh00ker · 3 years ago
TIL about SMS Delivery Reports and I Googled to learn how to enable them in the native SMS messaging app on my mobile device!

I didn't have time to read the whole doc. Did it say how many SMS Delivery Reports were needed to create the model? I saw this "We repeated the classification for every combination of locations in our dataset, with sample sizes varying from 100 to 500"

I think getting 100 messages from a (series of) unknown number(s) would be alarming, but after reading this, I now know that it's a sign that I need to ... get a new burner phone and increase the size of my security detail? :^)

latentpot · 3 years ago
There is a category of sms that won't show up in your inbox. Think of them as messages for your baseband/ system. But they will result in delivery messages. They used to be quite well used in the Nokia era.
latentpot commented on Accenture would cut 19,000 jobs   reuters.com/technology/ac... · Posted by u/koolhead17
latentpot · 3 years ago
This is a company that bills it's sales team to clients indirectly. Wonder if they've automated/ ai-fied some of their mundane corporate functions and back office activities leading to this point.

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KarmaCake day67May 7, 2016View Original