I don’t really need the locally trained AI to recognize general handwriting, only my own.

I could provide a few pages of my own training data (maybe write out a few pages of “quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” and other stuff like that), and then ideally it flags stuff it’s unsure about and I clarify some more. Maybe find garbled nonsensical sentences, realize it’s probably a mistake, and try and fix it.

I assumed the leaps in AI would have taken care of this by now, since detecting handwritten letters from touch pen-strokes existed in the 90s. But I guess handing it a chunk of text is too different of a problem, instead of feeding it stroke by stroke?

Now that I read that thread I get what you’re saying. I thought they were making the point that you don’t know how things would go down if you did succeed in killing Hitler, it might do nothing, is fair.

But the counter to that just being , when we know that less than nothing would’ve changed was funny. They clearly just worked backwards from saying “assassinating politician is bad” and then couldn’t admit they were wrong when it came to Hitler.

They simplified killing Hitler to the trolley problem and decided to definitely not ever pull the lever, and instead just hope the lever pulls itself.

Lib on the reason why the assassination wouldn’t work (fear, martyr, blah blah blah), but there’s a not-bad point buried somewhere in there.

It avoids great man of history-ing Hitler, since killing him wouldn’t change the material conditions of Germany that lead to Hitler. The Holocaust is probably the worst-case scenario for what could happen (idk if Hitler 2 does the super Holocaust), and idk enough about intra-party politics of the Nazis other than the purges they did.

Maybe the second in command of the party wouldn’t be as effective of a leader and fizzle the nazi party out and we instead get the moderate nazi party, and who knows how that would end up. Communism was spreading at that time, and fascism was going to pop-up regardless in response to this, but the exact shape of what happens would be slightly different and maybe the genocide wouldn’t be as bad.

Also why imply someone with a time machine couldn’t make it look like an accident. They could just drop a piano or anvil on his head and everyone would see it as a common hazard and think nothing of it.

This is actually a bigger deal than the headline suggests if the claims are to be believed. Hopefully the licensing isn’t too expensive for it to be widely adopted if manufacturing at scale is easy.

They don’t say how it degrades in water, but if it can degrade in ~2months outdoors then that’s actually pretty good.

Most biodegradable eco-plastic is a scam because it’s either only partially degradable, or only degradable in industrial facilities. If I can throw this packaging in my own compost bin then that would be a huge way to get rid of single-use plastic.

If you’re a convenience store but pallets of Coca Cola, then they kind-of can. They can just blacklist you from buying Coca Cola in the foreign country.

It’s also different because they’re selling you continuous access one month at a time instead of a physical good you drink and they can’t take away from you. I’ve been to places where service costs are lower for locals than for tourists, and this is told to you outright. Stuff like museums, taxis, etc. It’s a similar idea YouTube has.

Prices are also almost never based on cost, they’re based on what people will pay.

I live in Canada, and cars are more expensive here than in the USA. US dealerships near the border refuse to sell new cars to Canadians, even though it’s legal for everyone as long as you make sure to pay duties on the way back. I’m guessing each brand has some rule against it.

Ultimately VPN users aren’t a protected class so it’s legal to discriminate.

There is some problem with that as you say, but the company doing the poll is pretty well-respected by the west. They were also labelled a foreign agent by Putin at some point, so I looked at their opinion.

This is an interesting op-ed by the guy who runs the polling company, talking about preference falsification.

There’s an estimate that <10% of people in Russia have motive to lie because of power they’d lose if their opinion got out, and the theory is that this is usually constant. Unless Putin is scarier than 2 years ago you can still compare differences in opinion, even if you don’t trust the magnitude. The guy also said that you can look at the positive responses as having a share of neutral because people who aren’t informed just go with the majority instead of saying “idk”.

But no matter how much lying in polls there is, the amount of people worried about sanctions went down compared to 2 years ago, and compared to 2015.

Which makes sense considering how much physical capital western companies left in Russia, since VW can’t take an auto factory back to Germany with them even if they can take some equipment (but not all).

If you’re using any hash smaller than your file (not just md5), then it’s always possible to have 2 different files that match. This is just from pigeonhole principle. No matter what you use there will be collision.

md5 is just bad because it’s small so it’s easier to generate this match. It’s also a question of how easy is it to reverse engineer a match, which apparently md5 is worse for on pictures than I expected.

I thought md5 is vulnerable to generating 2 colliding files, not to trying to generate a match to an existing file.

Edit: wow I didn’t realize md5 matching a picture was that easy, looks like you can make any image look enough like that twitter-deboonked one to generate a fake match. How has no one done this yet.

Thanks for the links, it’s pretty interesting stuff I haven’t kept up with for a while.

I didn’t hear about that potential apple attack, I wonder if you could generate a collision with a pic that looks close enough to the twitter image they auto-deboonk and a pic that’s completely unrelated, got twitter to add your new similar image to the auto-deboonker, and then troll on twitter by posting the unrelated image.

That’d be similar to that apple attack you linked, but it depends on how twitter auto-deboonking works and how easy you could get them to add a similar-but-different pic to their deboonker database.

If you have access to a quantum computer you could do this easily. With current computing it’s hard.

They use shekels in the areas that are bombed by Israel?

I guess that makes sense, but still interesting. I never really thought of what currency they’d use.

I’m surprised Arch is that high compared to other distros.

Also interesting that people are actually switching to windows 11, everyone I know is staying on win10 as long as possible because they’re more used to the interface.

Oh shit when did that happen lol.

Time to try and get my WhatsApp group chats to Signal, even though no one else in them cares about security

I never liked/used telegram because it needs my phone number so it’s not anonymous. Idk why it’s used as a discord alternative, it’s not really better except for lower moderation.

If signal had group chats it’d be perfect for my purposes.

Idk what I’d use to text/have voice anonymously to other Hexbearians/feds, there’s probably some IRC spinoff useful for that idk.

What year is it

My Fitness Pal used to be good up to when underarmor owned it, but some other rent-seekers bought it and put a lot of good features behind a paywall.

I’d use something off the f-droid FOSS app store, they usually use the OpenFoodFacts database so you can scan a barcode and have an easy calorie count.

Modern Israel is a country that’s founded by terrorism against the British that somehow managed to be not-based.

The shipping container home thing is similar to making furniture out of shipping pallets. Not functional, not aesthetically pleasing, and probably dangerous (chemically treated wood vs hot metal box that takes too much work to be livable).

If Amazon was a competent company that was better than its predecessors, then it would have kit-homes like the Sears catalog used to, and no one would bother with this container BS. But instead it’s oops-all-dropshipping.

Ever since the Italian semifinal vote was leaked this has kind-of been clear. I thought they bought sim cards or something, but I guess it’s just the power of targetted advertising to people who probably didn’t watch Eurovision Song Contest, and only voted to own the Muslims/Greta Thunberg.

Israel got >50% of Italian votes in the semis, which doesn’t make sense because Ukraine only got 25% out of symptathy the year Russia fully invaded.

Israel won the most votes in too many countries compared to song popularity. They won the most public votes in Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Rest of World.

They also won the 2nd most votes in Ireland which doesn’t make sense either.

Sometimes I wish I knew how to induce a cry, it’s a good release sometimes.