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Holy crap this story knocked me over. It is everything I'm feeling about the machines right now.

‘Unprecedented’ March heat wave could bring highs near 100 and last about a week Forecasters are expecting temperatures more than 30 degrees above normal, including along the coast.

Hey SoCal people, get your plan for staying cool together now!

Also lmao Newsom would/will get obliterated.

Poll results showing sentiment percentages for several topics: Gavin Newsom: -18 Ice: -18 AI: -20 Democrats: -22 Iran: -53

So AI is about as popular as the Democratic Party and ICE.

Kinda encouraging, honestly.

www.nbcnews.com/poli...

OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.

My, that was quick. I wonder what drafted it

Tencent reportedly tests QClaw AI agent with one-click OpenClaw deployment · TechNode Tencent is internally testing an AI agent tool called QClaw that allows users to control computers through natural language commands, according to people

Ah, yes. This is the exact kind of tool that will make worming OpenClaw much, much easier. And communication via WeChat, no less. Expect more of this. I fully believe there will be a pivot to installing tools like OpenClaw instead of other stealers/miners.

Yes, though there's grey area to that. The major threat intel shops don't have to publish their findings, and it doesn't make their claims untrue or without value if their main goal is to show off how good they are at uncovering MSS in customer networks.

A key component of cyber media-savvy is asking: Does the person making a claim have the visibility to know this? And that should fall on the reporter, not the audience. Like Microsoft sees cybers because they run Windows, Google because everybody uses them, US agencies because they're everywhere.

One thought I often have is that the gig economy emerging alongside the rapid escalation of economic inequality is actually the slow reemergence of the servant class in public life.

Web version: agentsofchaos.baulab.info

Holy crap this story knocked me over. It is everything I'm feeling about the machines right now.

If you remember the sound Cingular phones made around PC speakers, go take an ibuprofen.

What a nightmare. If you can read this and still think autonomous agents like OpenClaw are worth the risk, you're beyond help.

www.researchgate.net...

GitHub - blacksky-algorithms/atproto: Blacksky fork of bluesky-social/atproto with AppView performance optimizations, caching, and community features Blacksky fork of bluesky-social/atproto with AppView performance optimizations, caching, and community features - blacksky-algorithms/atproto

Blacksky's app view source code has been released publicly here.

Proton's marketing and social team are kind of yutzes, but the service is very good for what it is, and much better than the normative choice.

Seeking infallibility will eat all your time and get you nowhere.

Listen,

It is possible to criticize something without abjectly despising it. 404 can have bad takes; I'm still paying for their journalism because it's usually very good.

Can't adjust to the time change?

Skill issue.

Evidence Grows That Google's AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry Google's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic.

Oh look, the exact thing everyone but Google said would happen has happened.

Oh hey are you looking for a Vim alternative?

Helix has replaced Vim/Neovim for me almost entirely. I install it first-thing on new devices.

And the devs, far as I can tell, are not using AI, nor adding first-party support for it.

helix-editor.com

github.com/helix-editor...

This feels very right to me. GenAI can draw the rest of the owl, but it can't harden the owl against attack or nontrivial failure modes.

GitHub - mrconter1/rustc-php: A Rust compiler with ownership checking, written in PHP A Rust compiler with ownership checking, written in PHP - mrconter1/rustc-php

Not only is this cursed, it appears to be 100% organic.

They make anonymous accounts possible, but do not guarantee any data you give them will be withheld from lawful request from Swiss authorities, which is what happened here.

Their primary privacy offer is end-to-end encryption between email addresses that support it, and on-disk encryption of your data, along with a VPN.

You may contend that Proton should deny lawful (note: not necessarily ethical) requests from their government to protect their users. That's a position you can take, but I don't believe it has ever been Proton's.

Transparency report | Proton Proton's transparency report with aggregate statistics of legal orders from the Swiss authorities, covering Proton Mail, Proton Drive, and Proton Calendar.

And Proton, like them or not, has been clear about their position on honoring Swiss law from the jump. And should they leave Switzerland for another EU country, it will be that state's laws they abide by.

proton.me/legal/transp...

If they do so, they endanger a treaty that has been in place since 1977, while also signaling to other countries with similar agreements that their word is mud—or at best, contingent on them liking the current government of the ally country.

Maybe not an awesome tradeoff to stick it to the Feebs.

Let's put aside for the moment that the FBI sucks. They do! Under the US MLAT with Switzerland, is it Proton's role to deny the request from the US government?

Is it not; it is the Swiss government's role to do so if they wish.

In the whole Proton situation, there are a lot of mixed equities and real problems surfacing, but not all of them are appropriately ascribed to Proton.

All self-hosted with a cloud reverse proxy.