I listen to the news almost every day and missed that. I guess it shows how bad things are that it didn’t make the news…

One person on board with her is a European Union member of parliament from France. That provides a lot more protection than Greta’s reputation can.

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Great list, thank! Have you seen children of the whale ? If my memory is correct it could make it on this list. Also I don’t recall any weird stuff in Arcane season 1 (does it qualify as an anime though?).

I believe @Dojan was referencing the Puritans, not the founding fathers.

It’s a misconception/misrepresentation that they are more uneducated or idiotic than average. They may look like it (or the media make them so), but actual idiots wouldn’t be as capable as they are to push their agenda forward.

No, they are the system, and the system is held together by the law.

technology is still advancing

Actually not really: performance per watt of the high end stuff has been stagnating since Ampere generation. NVidia hides it by changing models in its benchmarks or advertising raw performance without power figures.

We had police just following orders during WWII in France. This is not a proud moment of our history, we pardon but we do not forgive.

None of the researchers in my lab go to conferences in the US anymore (there is remote participation since covid).

That’s rich coming from a party which saved the (partially) far right government from dissolution.

I think it’s all about the timeline. Tesla gambled on cameras before AI models became usable (the company most certainly committed itself to the camera sensors a few years before it became public). By the time automated driving models became usable, Tesla had tons of camera data to capitalize on, but presumably not the corresponding radar data (or not in a consistent manner), so rebuilding a multi-sensor dataset for AI training was probably not very appealing in terms of cost and time to market.

There might be a few shortcuts in the message but the general idea remains: the connection between liberalism and authoritarianism makes sense.

They already suffered from his shitty actions, he did not become a terrible person overnight.

They don’t even borrow their money to you, they were granted the right to print that money.

Maybe if they don’t pass funding, we just renew the last passed funding.

This is exactly what happened a few days ago in France. While it’s not perfect, it’s still a whole lot better than a shutdown.

So if a large region (say europe, or USA + canada) is cloudy and without wind, then all transactions must stop and the remaining countries are susceptible to represent over 50% of the hashing capacity. A perfectly sound system I’m eager to see.

I’m not saying this is a small issue and nothing should be done. I just noted that the issue is not as big as some other hardware-based vulnerabilities we encountered in the past. And every threat model calls for a corresponding counter-measure.

You are assuming activists are well funded in some way, and that they are not repressed. I’m assuming they are repressed, which is why they have people that buy and configure their equipment and hand it to them so that it hasn’t been tampered with. If you cannot afford that your should use your computer as if it was compromised.

You’re basically saying consumers don’t need any kind of antivirus either Where did I write that?

And what makes it so hard to release patches for consumer hardware. AMD focusing on where its money’s at and OEM/motherboard manufacturers being cheap and lazy and not pushing forward updates when they have them.

Agreed, firmware security by chip manufacturers has been underwhelming to say the least and we can blame them for that. But in this specific instance I still don’t see the benefit of a fix for consumer usage. Companies have a responsibility and accountability toward their users, so a fix is due, for personal laptops/PCs the threat is toward the owners themselves (activists, diplomats, journalists, etc.). The latter do not buy second hand equipment, and if the firmware is compromised while they own it, they are already in danger.

Consumer usage is not really concerned by the attack scenario of this vulnerability from what I understand. The prerequisite is to have access to the bios so it’s already game over at this point.