Em Adespoton

The machine is definitely Turing-complete, and definitely NOT trying to pretend to be human. It’s AI claim is for a cloud-based feature I don’t use that adjusts the cycle stages over time to maximize cleanliness and minimize wear on the contents based on personal usage patterns and detected content types.

The machine does do a few neat things like check water retention of the contents before starting the load (it weighs the contents, adds a known volume of water, drains without spinning and checks the weight difference and the dirtiness of the drained water). There’s no way I want it feeding all my washing data into a massive online data lake for AI analysis though, so I keep that bit disconnected.

Well that’s OK; we recently discovered that things like passkeys usually aren’t using the TPM anymore anyway. Most stuff stored in there can be routed around via tokens stored on main storage.

Ironically my washing machine has a big AI logo on the front.

So what’s to stop a network from spinning up a subsidiary MVNO to handle their pre-paid plans and only allocate limited slices to them?

Because it seems like with a bit of paperwork, this would do a total end run around these guardrails.

This is only the case if these changes actually cause a dip in sponsor revenue.

Personally, I like the ones that mimic old-school TV and radio, where the product/service placement is woven right into the show, and there’s a direct relationship between the presenter and the advertiser.

The entire ad brokerage ecosystem could vanish tomorrow and I’d be very happy.

It was also built in to all stereo systems long before that. Not that LPs ever had ads, but I could dub to tape off the radio and then fast forward through the ads.

The thing I find interesting here is that it’s essentially a commercialization of what’s been done in army, police, gang and extremism recruitment for the entirety of history; the tools change, but the methods stay the same.

This is the key bit:

Apple held ⁠early talks with CXMT, which ​is China’s largest chipmaker by market ​value, about supplying components with the goal of using them in some devices sold ​in China, the report said, ​citing people familiar with the matter.

But Danielle Smith was elected by Albertans.

The fires are predominantly in other provinces, this one being in central BC. A province Alberta has wanted to exploit without regard to its environment for years.

The sad thing here is that these wildfires may result in the current NDP government being replaced by a BC Conservative government in the next election cycle, making everything exponentially worse.

Last year, you’d be correct. This year, bots DO purchase things. They also download and run things. Some marketers have gotten wise and have adjusted SEO and general product advertising to appeal to bots.

My family all shares that birthday too, but we were born in 1932.

It’s worth also saying that “VPN” is a pretty generic term. It includes:

traditional private networks where a node network or endpoint is securely connected to a local hub network, using the Internet as a transport layer (think Cisco VPN)

Ad-hoc private bridges where two endpoints have a private connection over a public network (think Tailscale)

Residential proxy services where companies can use consumer IP addresses to exit to the Internet, looking like a consumer instead of a business (think Hola VPN / Bright Data)

Network bridges that obscure the source and destination addresses (TOR and I2P)

And THEN… the one that gets all the airtime on YouTube (and is mostly what’s discussed in this article): exit proxy services where a consumer can exit to the Internet from an address other than the one assigned by their ISP (Mullvad, Nord, WindScribe, etc.)

The annoying thing is that marketing for public VPN services often leans on features of various of these configurations where the specific implementation being sold is actually quite limited.

Huggingface (or some other benchmarking company) needs to put its servers in a country with real cyberintrusion laws with teeth. Somewhere where an announcement like this would result in prison sentences and the company’s license to operate being revoked in the country until they could demonstrate via third party audits that their operations are acting in a secure and legal manner.

I have agents force fed to me at work. I’ve already got my own honed workflows I’ve refined over the years; now, Outlook and Teams and Various agentic frameworks are spamming me with summaries of stuff I either already know or don’t need to know… except they still get it wrong constantly, so I can’t trust what they think I should prioritize (usually it’s work I’ve already assigned to others).

Claude Code agents are decent, but they need to create discrete work objects that can be properly reviewed, so act like junior coders.

The main issue I have with most agents today is that they try to replace MY work, making it more complicated and time consuming, instead of completing the work I can’t bother to do myself. And in order to do those things effectively, I have to loosen my privacy and security models to the point where they effectively don’t exist. Which I’d never do for another human, so why should I do it for an agent that’s more likely to catastrophically screw things up at record speed?

It’s like any controlled substance ban — unless there’s a really invasive crack-down it just shifts the problem to a less safe black market.

Making things easy and safe to access with controls that are adjustable is always more effective than an outright ban that shifts the access fully into unregulated territory.

Thing is, it doesn’t create a registry of what content adults access. Just what content their registered identity accesses.

The whole thing is wrongheaded in the first place; any child wanting to access adult-only content will use an adult’s account to do so; any adult attempting to access adult-only content is likewise going to use an adult’s account.

So unless they’re tying this to biometrics that are actually secure against an adverserial child, all the system really does is creates a registry of adults. And we already have those.

I don’t think they’re all lying; most are just misinformed or using the term differently than Cory.

It’s like saying “global warming is changing everything.” Technically, not true, but the knock on effects of specific aspects of it recently hit an inflection point that causes it to affect the lives of everyone.

This has also happened in the field of artificial intelligence; LLM chatbots are only the visible mushroom fruits of the vast mycelium network that has been silently growing underground for years.

So… recently Russia captured a bunch of Ukrainian drones and is reported to be using them in false flag operations. So that was my first thought.

But realistically, Russia is using those drones in places like Poland and Finland. This looks more like a drone interception over civilian airspace.

What about them? Are they the same as nazis?

And what’s your take on socialism? Capitalism? Fascism?