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satanfirst commented on I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)   alexschapiro.com/blog/sec... · Posted by u/bearsyankees
dmitrygr · 4 months ago
+1: if you cannot do security, you have no business making dating apps. The kind of data those collect can ruin lives overnight. This is not a theory, here is a recent example: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74nlgyv7r4o
satanfirst · 4 months ago
The claim that it should have come up in a government vetting process seems to be proof that one should publish one's own dating information before entrusting it to a site that might have lost it or worse might provide it to a government specifically.
satanfirst commented on US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired   theregister.com/2025/05/1... · Posted by u/croes
bgwalter · 4 months ago
The required reasoning is not very deep though: If an AI reads 100 scientific papers and churns out a new one, it is plagiarism.

If a savant has perfect recall, remembers text perfectly and rearranges that text to create a marginally new text, he'd be sued for breach of copyright.

Only large corporations get away with it.

satanfirst · 4 months ago
That's not logical. If the savant has perfect recall and makes minor edits they are like a digital copy and aren't really like a human, neural network or by extension any other ML model that isn't over-fitted.
satanfirst commented on Moderna's Super-Vaccine for Flu and Covid Works–Now Politics Could Sink It   gizmodo.com/modernas-supe... · Posted by u/gcoleman
markus92 · 4 months ago
USA is where the money is..
satanfirst · 4 months ago
The US doesn't seem more relevant than its vaccinated population now. https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/who-seasonal-influen...
satanfirst commented on 'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says   newsweek.com/seattle-port... · Posted by u/pseudolus
ipaddr · 4 months ago
Maybe, but no trade means no new money from tariffs and the plan was to confuse the market get massive short term windfall while slowly onshoring those jobs replacing that income through corporate/income tax.

Now we have no trade and a drop in demand for US currency.

satanfirst · 4 months ago
> Now we have no trade and a drop in demand for US currency.

Trade hasn't been this fair to the US since before WWII.

satanfirst commented on People Who Hype Cursor Usually Lack Technical Skills   en.smallyu.net/2025/04/12... · Posted by u/cratermoon
tom_m · 4 months ago
Very true. You can easily tell from the YouTubers. When you listen to them, it's clear they don't know what they're talking about because of half the things they pronounce incorrectly or incorrectly reference something.
satanfirst · 4 months ago
> pronounce incorrectly

Knowing the correct pronunciation means you watch videos or have a social group that discusses it, that doesn't mean you are necessarily competent like someone who reads primary sources.

satanfirst commented on Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US   es.wired.com/articulos/eu... · Posted by u/mpweiher
rednafi · 4 months ago
Europe really needs to fix the funding issue and language fragmentation. Otherwise there's no "luring people in." Every time someone brings this up, a bunch of people are like, "Have you ever worked in the EU? They all speak English at work." Yes, I have, and also on three other continents. Europe hasn’t adopted English at work that much, and no one I know is excited about dealing with racism, picking up the local language while doing high-octane white-collar jobs or research.

Europe keeps a ton of jobs gated behind language requirements. Sure, you'll get the most desperate people who need a visa this way, but Europe isn’t attracting top of the crop like the US this way.

Also, the red tape is brutal and everything requires six layers of bureaucracy. Even Amazon orders and customer service suck, but that's beside the point. It's way easier to get into a great US university and get funding for research. It's also easier to get a job afterward. The sheer number of opportunities, combined with the lack of a language barrier and less bureaucracy, makes the US better than all the other alternatives despite the poor transportation, weak social safety net, and terrible healthcare.

satanfirst · 4 months ago
Drawing on one or even a few experiences for a conclusion for all of Europe in all sectors is a bit much. Scientific Organizations are not looking for local language skills. Many are in Germany which is very bureaucratic about other aspects of life, but they all spend their time on standardized International bureaucracy. The Universities in other countries might be harder to get in to, yet I wouldn't buy a $250k US University scratch ticket in a field like science. (The US University is a particularly poor investment for less qualified students.)
satanfirst commented on DOGE engineer's credentials found in past public leaks from info-stealer malware   arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/lysp
belter · 4 months ago
How bad can it be? Be pardoned by a SCOTUS immune president?
satanfirst · 4 months ago
Ask Rudy Giuliani or any architect foolish enough to take a project from him. While Trump might know more about protecting people who help him than he did then, it would be out of character for him to expend the time it takes to sign something if his benefit in the transaction is over.
satanfirst commented on Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down   news.harvard.edu/gazette/... · Posted by u/gnabgib
satanfirst · 4 months ago
You mean like the US President?
satanfirst commented on Dasung Paperlike 13K is a 13.3 inch E Ink color monitor   liliputing.com/dasung-pap... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
neves · 4 months ago
What's the real use cases for this? Comic book reading?
satanfirst · 4 months ago
IMO they don't sound loke they actually have better trade offs for comic books than LCD yet. I.e. poor color and low resolution.

Leaving a color screen on a set page seems like the real use case. Signs, often idle museum UIs, etc?

u/satanfirst

KarmaCake day18April 23, 2025View Original