orclev @ orclev @lemmy.world

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Could have ended that sentence 4 words sooner and been just as accurate.

Pretty sure he meant intentional.

If only that would do something. It's good he's at least going through the motions, but I'm doubtful this will do anything more than generate headlines. Then again maybe a miracle will occur and Trump will have pissed off enough Republicans to make this actually stick.

... bot screwing up its post and responding to the wrong place? No idea, doesn't seem to be responding to either the article or any comment in here. There is a slim chance it's some weird artifact of the federation process.

That URL and the actual article contents are wildly different. To be clear to anyone who hasn't followed the link and just read the URL, Iran has not confirmed the ceasefire.

We've seen the way Israel does ceasefires and it looks an awful lot like Russian ceasefires. This is just Israel taking a timeout to restock ammunition and hoping for a good opportunity for a sneak attack. Also it's Trump saying it so who knows what if anything was actually agreed on. The only thing you can reliably count on Trump for is lies and grifting.

The only way I could see Israel going for an actual ceasefire is if Iran has nukes or one of their backers makes a believable threat to drop a nuke on their behalf. Or maybe Israel did the math on what it would mean if their psycho buddy Trump actually dropped that nuke he's been salivating about on Iran and don't want to deal with nuclear fallout and the very real possibility that someone would nuke them as a freebie while chucking nukes at the US.

Safe and private? Nope absolutely impossible. If you don't care about privacy at all pretty much the only way to do it is to have your government issue you a unique hardware token and require that to access the internet and it shares your unique ID with the website. It's not 100% impossible to spoof an identity as you could borrow/steal someone elses token, but if they were secured with a pin/password or basic biometric it would become significantly harder.

So I had this joke idea of "they'll just start showing the ads to the AIs", but the more I thought about it the more it started to sound less like a joke. Imagine if someone figured out how to cram ads into the AI training models and it skewed the outputs. Why astroturf when you can train the AIs to astroturf for you. This is some black mirror shit and now I've made myself a bit depressed.

Less depressing example. A country (I think it was India but my memory is hazy and I'm too lazy to go google it right now) had a problem with a certain venomous snake. They decided to offer a bounty for every snake corpse brought to them. The goal was to incentivise people to hunt snakes. What actually happened was people started breeding the snakes to turn in for the bounties. They realized the program wasn't working and cancelled it at which point the breeders dumped their snakes into the wild making the whole situation even worse.

So CAP theorem says you can have a distributed system with at most two of Consistent, Available, or Partition tolerant. I haven't looked too closely into the federation implementation of Mastodon but I suspect they opted for Available and Partition tolerant (as Consistent and Partition tolerant would mean the entire network goes down when one node does, while Consistent and Available would mean once any node lost contact with the network it could never again rejoin). Since consistency is not guaranteed (and provably can't be) there is absolutely no way to guarantee that deleting something from one instance will remove it from all instances even allowing for a very generous time span.

TL;DR: You're not just right, you're mathematically right.

Kind of both. The modern way of brute forcing is to just hash the 100,000 or so most common passwords, previously leaked passwords, and minor permutations of all of the above. It's computationally and space intensive, but for a determined attacker entirely doable on modern hardware. That's why complexity matters, because it's not a simple iteration through every possible permutation, but a targeted search through a known password list.

Hashes can be brute forced, it's just normally too expensive to do so for any reasonably complex password. If you're using "password123" as your password even a hashed password is easily cracked (salting and peppering can help make this more difficult, although still not impossible).

Crypto is not anonymous, the entire concept of how it works is to be the worlds most public and distributed transaction ledger. It is more difficult to track than credit card transactions, but that's a very big difference from being impossible to track. There have been multiple papers published at this point on how you can de-anonymize any crypto purchase.

People really need to get over this idea that using crypto to buy things makes you anonymous.

I don't think they're talking about the janky render. They're saying the published specs closely match the REVVL 7 Pro. The render as you point out is garbage and shouldn't be used for anything.

And like all Trump products the phone will be a complete piece of garbage made by the cheapest possible manufacturer in China. I guarantee you'll be able to find the white label version of it on alibaba for like $75.

Next time I need to explain what bikeshedding is I'm just going to point to this article.

I was curious so I checked and apparently I beat you by one day. I wonder what the date distribution looks like around that time for people joining.

Musk bought Twitter for $50B, in comparison the price tag for repairing any of these schools seems like half a peanut in cost. There is money.

The top 0.1% of the US population controls the vast majority of US wealth, and they use it exclusively for pursuing more wealth for themselves. Improving education does not make the 0.1% or even the significantly less wealthy but still filthy stinking rich 1% more money so they will never pay for it. This is why the US needs 200%+ taxes on the 1% not on imports, not that our bought and paid for government would ever do such a thing.

The communities actually paying for these things couldn't afford $50M never mind something insane like $50B. So no, there is not money, at least not without solving our completely out of control wealth inequality, but that's an entirely different problem.

What's happening here cheapens what's happening here. I guarantee this guy will still vote Republican next election. Maybe not Trump specifically, but I guarantee he won't be voting for a Democrat. This isn't a news story, it's the entirely predictable outcome. Republicans never care about something until it impacts them directly, but even when it does they don't change their behavior.

Man who voted for Leopards Eating Faces party devastated after leopard eats his face.