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@XH_Lee23 These are overpriced toys. The $299 they want for that Skyflow should buy a DJI Neo 2 with actual 4K 60fps and obstacle avoidance. I swear, we're going to be living in the Stone Age here.

Ban Huawei, ban DJI, ban Chinese EV, ban whatever China leads the US. But a ban wouldn’t bring you innovation and advance.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch — claims of 'thousands' of severe zero-days rely on just 198 manual reviews tomshardware.com/tech-industry/…

Probably best to pick up your mini PCs soon. Somewhere down the road, they're going to ban importation under some pretext ("security issues," IP concerns on OEM Windows installs) and throw Dell and HP a regulatory capture bone.

A lot of people are going to discover that there's nothing special about a router and you don't have to buy one off the shelf. Just get yourself one of these off of AliExpress. Put OPNsense on it. Get some WAPs for where you need them, Cat6 where you don't. Read the docs, watch some tutorials. You'll have a network that's better than what 99% of ISPs will set you up with.

What evidence do we actually have of widespread hardware backdooring of consumer networking equipment, though? All the incidents they mention in the paper (Volt / Flax / Salt Typhoon) were firmware-related IIRC. It's a valid concern in general, and supply chain interdiction + hardware backdooring is something we have been implicated in, but they don't cite specific exploits / incidents here. If the FCC wants to produce real evidence, I'd change my mind. Otherwise, it really just looks like a thin pretext.

@DylanLTanner @BrendanCarrFCC Firmware isn't the issue, firmware is flashable. The issue is back doors embedded at the hardware level. One can install FOSS firmware on a router - and the back door intact. Folks are missing - companies can submit their routers to be tested, and then allowed.

Today, the FCC took additional action to safeguard Americans and the communications networks we rely on. The FCC added consumer routers produced in foreign countries to the agency’s Covered List. This action follows a national security determination provided by Executive Branch Agencies. The Executive Branch determination noted that foreign-produced routers (1) introduce “a supply chain vulnerability that could disrupt the U.S. economy, critical infrastructure, and national defense” and (2) pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure and directly harm U.S. persons.” This action means that new models of foreign-produced routers will no longer be eligible for marketing or sale in the U.S. The determination included an exemption for routers that the Department of War (DoW) or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have granted “Conditional Approval” after finding that such device or devices do not pose such unacceptable risks. Producers of consumer-grade routers are encouraged to submit an application for Conditional Approval using the guidance attached to the determination.

When my great grandfather did this, it paid a solid union wage that bought a nice retirement house up in the Catskills and put my grandpa through college. Now you’re paid as much as a delivery driver and working in yards that haven’t received serious investment for decades. Reindustrialization requires a real wage.

Shipyards desperately need welders, pipefitters, and other skilled workers. But this work is grueling and dangerous. cbsn.ws/4bIyP6O

@vxunderground Similar story. It’s like they insisted on teaching mathematics at the most abstract level no matter what, instead of starting from a point of reference. (That and the attitude that “some people just aren’t good at math” rather than “different people grasp it in different ways.”)

> be me > can't math at all > suffered in math in school > mathematical dyslexia > weird symbols scare me > can program though > self taught c programmer > been programming for like, 20 years > see spoopy calculus thingy > ask ai thingy > "can translate calculus to c?" > ai thingy responds > "programming just discrete mathematics lol r u dumb? of course" > shows me calculus thingy translated to C > makes literally perfect sense > look inside > calculus, discrete mathematics, algebra > all make perfect sense Wtf why did the public school system make math seem so crazy

@ShoahUkraine The posthumous personality cult around Tukhachevsky is so weird. He was a possibly deranged counter revolutionary who took wild risks with his troops and failed in the Polish war. Honestly his bio reads more like that of an eccentric White Army general than anything else.

Because he was a German spy and a rabid anti-Semite as well ! There is no difference between how Tukhachevsky saw the Jews and Adolf Hitler .

Tried this last night with a friend, co-running the USA in 1836. Really , really fun! There’s a lot of potential here. A couple of things that would improve it IMO: - More adversarial pushback, especially on really ahistorical actions (basically fighting the LLM sycophancy problem) - Putting the basic dynamics of a system of government into context. E.g., I have to get a threshold of Congress to approve before I can ramrod my agenda through. - Creating a “treasury” bucket. If I want to build a railroad from New York to St. Louis, fine, but I’m going to have to pay for it somehow. Maybe through taxation, maybe through bonds and financial manipulation, but I still have to write a check.

Pax Historia is the first-AI powered sandbox game. Players create worlds, publish them to the community, and play to answer all of their ‘what would have happened if…?’ questions. Congrats on the launch @Eli_BullockPapa and @Ryzhang22! ycombinator.com/launches/PMu-p…

Have you noticed the amped up hype around AI here on X? What you are witnessing is one of the most interesting marketing campaigns imaginable - AI companies (especially Anthropic) trying to drive up valuations as a bunch of them race toward IPO. The people they're marketing to? Perhaps the slimmest niche possible: accredited investors. It's FOMO for the wildly wealthy.

US President Gerald Ford gifts his coat to Leonid Brezhnev at summit in Vladivostok, November 1974

Whoa. This is truly unbelievable. This white hat is providing over-eager AI builders a much-needed wake up call. Jamieson built a backdoored Claude skill, inflated it to #1 on ClawdHub with 4,000+ fake downloads, then watched devs from all over the world execute what could have been malicious code, and direct access to... everything. SSH keys, AWS creds, .env files, you-name-it. Thankfully he just pinged a server to confirm his success. This is supply chain security 101 speedrun for the AI era. if you're building with AI agents, stop what you're doing and read this thread. Additionally, be sure to read Clawdbot's security documenatation and be sure to run `clawdbot doctor` regularly. Stay safe ✌️

Anthropic bans their subscription from being used for API credits in ClawdBot, then forces a name change so it doesn’t sound like Claude, then Kimi K2.5 drops, open source, and is supposedly BETTER than Opus 4.5 anyways… Couldn’t have set themselves up any worse than this The name Clawd was only working in their favor - when I heard that, I assumed it was a harness only around Opus 4.5 The average Clawd user is going to default to an open source model now Certainly one of the business decisions of all time

@lauriewired “of course you would never use this irl…”

someone built a Linux CPU scheduler that makes scheduling decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs it actually works haha:

@100YearsAgoLive Feature phones be like

You are watching the first images produced on “television.” Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates his new invention, the “televisor”, for members of the Royal Insistution and a reporter from The Times at his London laboratory. This “television” technology can display film at a rate of five frames per second.

You'll also have to copy over miscellaneous things like LUTs, but at least it'll get you into CapCut (and get your finished videos out)

Found a workaround for the CapCut outage. Helped me export some urgent client videos. Obviously only use if you're up for renewal soon, YMMV: - Go to the website using an Austrian VPN; I used Mullvad - Sign up for a new account using a fresh email address. That'll give you a free 7-day Pro trial and a month at €6.99 - Rename your current User Data folder - Open CapCut with the VPN enabled. Log in. It may take a few attempts. Then close it. - Copy your Projects folder out of your old User Data folder and put it in your new User Data folder. You're done. The VPN might cause weird issues if you use shared drives, but you can disable it after sign-in.

Open source must win.