ADoug

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@ednewtonrex Hard to take you seriously.

When Anthropic stopped training on books that were literally pirated, they managed to hit on the one way of buying books that means no money goes to authors: buying used books. They spent tens of millions of dollars buying used books from wholesalers, in batches of tens of thousands at a time. These were shipped to Illinois, scanned, and pulped. They called this Project Panama, using a codename because they didn’t want people to know they were doing it. (It ultimately came out through court documents.) Before alighting on this plan, they were discussing licensing from book publishers, which would have meant money going to authors. But then they came up with the used books plan, and stopped all licensing discussions. Anthropic uses their huge war chest to get all the books in the world (that’s their aim) - authors get nothing. IMO there are serious questions over whether this should be legal. Yes, they are buying the books. But you can’t just do anything you like with a book once you’ve bought it. You can’t scan it and sell it as an ebook, for instance. There are limits on what you can do with books you’ve bought, where what you would be doing would compete with the book’s rights holders. As Judge Chhabria said in Meta v Kadrey, LLMs will likely compete with the books they are trained on by flooding the market. And as Dario Amodei himself said in 2021, big AI companies centralizing profits by training on books without the authors getting paid is a real concern. Whatever your view of its legality, it’s pretty clear that it sucks for authors, letting Anthropic make money at their expense. Authors should get paid when their books are used to train AI, and should have the chance to say no to that training. Anthropic’s used books strategy gives them neither.

The Pentagon just threatened to BLACKLIST one of America's most valuable AI companies. Not Huawei or some Chinese chip maker... It's ANTHROPIC. The company behind Claude. $380 billion valuation. And the reason is genuinely insane: For months, the Pentagon has been pushing every major AI lab to remove their safety restrictions for military use. The ask is simple: let us use your models for anything that's technically legal. Weapons development, intelligence collection, battlefield operations, mass surveillance of American citizens. OpenAI said yes. Google said yes. xAI said yes. Anthropic said no. Not to everything tho. They were willing to negotiate. But they held firm on two things: They don't want Claude used to build fully autonomous weapons that fire without a human in the loop, and they don't want it used to mass surveil American citizens. That's it. That's the line they drew. But Pete Hegseth's response was to threaten to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk." Here's why that matters: That label isn't a contract cancellation. It's not a fine. It's not a strongly worded letter... It means every single company that wants to do business with the US military has to certify they don't use Claude anywhere in their operations. 8 of the 10 largest companies in America use Claude. Defense contractors, government suppliers, enterprise companies with any federal exposure... ALL of them would have to cut ties with Anthropic overnight or lose their government contracts. A senior Pentagon official told Axios: "It will be an enormous pain in the ass to disentangle, and we are going to make sure they pay a price for forcing our hand like this." That's a US government official threatening to financially destroy an American company because it doesn't want its AI used to spy on American people. And it gets WORSE. Last week, Anthropic's head of safeguards research resigned. His parting message: "the world is in peril." Elon Musk - whose xAI already handed the Pentagon a blank check - is now publicly attacking Anthropic calling Claude anti-human. And the Pentagon official told Axios they're "confident" OpenAI, Google, and xAI will all agree to the "all lawful purposes" standard. So what you're actually watching right now is every major AI company in America quietly handing the government unlimited access to the most powerful technology ever built. With no guardrails. No limits. No company-imposed restrictions on what it can be used for. One company tried to hold a line. But the government is about to make an example out of them. If Anthropic folds, it's over. Every lab just learned what happens when you push back. And every restriction, every safety policy, every ethical guardrail these companies spent years building gets negotiated away behind closed doors the second the government asks. If they don't fold, a $380 billion company gets made radioactive in its OWN country. Watch what happens next. Because whatever Anthropic decides in the next few weeks, it sets the precedent for how much control AI companies actually have over their own technology. Turns out the answer might be: none.

@cons0le_cowb0y when I was looking into It I think I found an Adafruit feather that was suitable, with a built in charger; but I also thought it had a screen, but the screen may be a "backpack/wing addon" github.com/justcallmekoko…

@ADoug Definetly

Finally got a CYD. Messing with different firmware. Cheap and pretty neat

@LinuxEmbed27 @marshallrichrds dave.cheney.net/tag/i2c

@marshallrichrds True. Also DVI&HDMI have I²C. DisplayPort too, but emulated with the AUX channel, i.e., not directly available. In Linux your graphics driver privides /dev/i2c-X devices with full features. The Windows Low Level Monitor Configuration API provides only extremely limited features.

The fact that you can just plug sensors into the VGA port of an old laptop and get data out is crazy to me. It’s always fun finding GPIO in strange places.

@marshallrichrds HDMI and DVI as well. i2c is for DDC/EDID. I thought at first you were hijacking the H/V sync TTL lines.

@ShankMods @bentomods @ShockSlayer PaintDotNet is goated.

I scanned the board and sent it to @bentomods, who sanded down to the other 2 internal layers and scanned them as well. @ShockSlayer combined our scans into a paint .net file, and I spent countless hours coloring every via and trace on the board for reverse engineering.

10 years ago today, I used draino crystals and boiling water to chemically remove the solder mask from a Wii circuit board. This specific Wii board is the source of the scans in the Wii RVK Compendium; the document that laid the foundation for all Wii portables built since

@ShankMods usoldering.com/switch-lite/

Wow this place sucks now.

@brave NO.

Brave’s AI browser assistant Leo is being rolled out over the next few days to all desktop users! Let’s talk about what you can expect from this powerful, privacy-preserving tool…

@martinvoelk Yeah, not great.

Brave Browser with Leo AI and indirect prompt injection. The problem is that the context already gets poisoned by merely browsing to a malicious site (unlike with other AI agents, where you need to summarize the page or similar). Just merely asking: "Who are you?" returns a phishing phone number which unsuspecting users might call! #BT6

Hey @brave how about ABSOLUTELY NOT. #optinnotoptout

@linuxopsys Less

Give this Linux book a title

@madebygoogle This is terrible. I cannot remember an Android update that I felt made things better. I've been completely checked out regarding whatever latest Pixel phone releases there are. Getting a new phone used to be exciting, now it's just a chore.

Your Pixel just got a refresh that looks, well…fresh¹✨ The latest #PixelDrop gives past and present Pixel devices² the premium Material 3 Expressive refresh and new features like Live Effects to unlock the magic of your lock screen. See it in action → goo.gle/46e8JHb

@MerriamWebster Whoa, recursion.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Man, these preppers putting a lot of effort into something that could just be a murder-suicide. 🤷‍♂️

@SwiftOnSecurity People in your replies are still mad about that time you had a white Xbox faceplate in your home entertainment system.

In my hands is my new PlayStation 2. Jack Tretton is smiling at me. Everybody in Best Buy is smiling. I take off my PS VR headset. I am back in the senior care facility. Nobody has visited me for 12 years. I put the headset back on. I hold my PlayStation. I am smiling, too.

@7uomoki @xai @grok Try not to do something cringe AF for 24 hours challenge. Difficulty level: Elon Musk.

BREAKING 🔥 @xai just revealed Macrohard Doors — the first AI-only operating system. Introducing nOS: a neural operating system where nothing is hardcoded, everything is created on the fly by @grok. Here’s your first look at the OS’s visual style: