Alec Muffett
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Remember, Kids: Cyberaugmentation is only for the less-abled! https://alecmuffett.com/article/163401 #ai #meta
Remember, Kids: Cyberaugmentation is only for the less-abled!
The only people who should be allowed to buy Meta AI Glasses are visually impaired or blind; Facial Recognition & Live AI scene analysis is *only* moral if it would help you because you canR…
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When I started password cracking in 1991, using all available computer resources of a small university I could manage about 200 guesses per second https://alecmuffett.com/article/163330 #kimi
When I started password cracking in 1991, using all available computer resources of a small university I could manage about 200 guesses per second
Nowadays we do billions of guesses per second on modern laptops, not even particularly high-end ones; so when this person gets one token every four seconds for a 2.8 TRILLION parameter LLM, using A…
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RE: 1 BILLION https://alecmuffett.com/article/163369 #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #billionaires
RE: 1 BILLION
It is interesting from a sociological perspective that some people will go to great lengths to explain how big 1+ billion is in the context of Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg having too much money, ye…
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1988: I'm sysprog (i.e. "devops") at a university, helping students set up "rsh" to run large LaTeX jobs on big servers that can cope. 2026: I'm a stay-at-home-dad setting up "ssh" to run large LaTeX jobs on new hardware with up-to-date Pandoc plugins.
Ofcom’s quest to censor the world | spiked https://alecmuffett.com/article/163336 #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #ofcom
Ofcom’s quest to censor the world | spiked
[Ofcom] wants, it seems, pre-emptive powers to block access to sites operating anywhere in the world, should they be deemed harmful to people in the UK. This is authoritarian nonsense on any number…
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When I started password cracking in 1991, using all available computer resources of a small university I could manage about 200 guesses per second https://alecmuffett.com/article/163330 #kimi
When I started password cracking in 1991, using all available computer resources of a small university I could manage about 200 guesses per second
Nowadays we do billions of guesses per second on modern laptops, not even particularly high-end ones; so when this person gets one token every four seconds for a 2.8 TRILLION parameter LLM, using A…
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New York puts accuracy minimums for age assurance into effect with SAFE for Kids Act | Biometric Update https://alecmuffett.com/article/163296 #AgeVerification #NewYork
New York puts accuracy minimums for age assurance into effect with SAFE for Kids Act | Biometric Update
The linked blog is a massive
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Never forget, kids, anytime you see the word 'moderation' you can replace it with the word 'censorship'
Daphne Keller@daphnek.bsky.social · last wk.When I talk about middleware or decentralized/interoperable social media these days, I always talk about how AI is lowering barriers to entry by bringing down the cost of content moderation. Here is Dave Willner's explanation of an affordable, flexible, open source tool for doing that.
India App Censorship Leads To Own Goal, Streisand Effect, Ofcom To Take Note, Please| Rahul Matthan https://alecmuffett.com/article/163260 #bitchat #india
India App Censorship Leads To Own Goal, Streisand Effect, Ofcom To Take Note, Please| Rahul Matthan
The I4C takedown order that requires GitHub to delete Bitchat’s code repositories not only rests on shaky law — it bans a piece of software because of what it might one day be used to do. Not only …
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This. Tagging @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 4mo agoEvery time I make the (correct) statement that social media use is not universally bad for teenagers, or state that the best consensus is that it's beneficial-to-neutral for many and any negative effects are a small subset of teenagers, people demand citations (and then refuse to believe them, sigh)
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
I wrote this for you, 2 years ago: Breaking Up “Ma Zuck” — how a generational divide amongst #DigitalRights #CivilSociety regarding #Messenger #Interoperability imperils the deployment of end-to-end encryption as a platform solution … for everyone alecmuffett.com/article/16086
Breaking Up “Ma Zuck” — how a generational divide amongst #DigitalRights #CivilSociety regarding #Messenger #Interoperability imperils the deployment of end-to-end encryption as a platform solution … ...
Personal Introductions This is the kind of essay which — hopefully — will draw people who ask “who is this author, and what are his interests?” — so I thought I’ll spend a mo…
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If you need the most comprehensive review of the #Odyssey ever, this is what you need to read:
Karlee@karlee.bsky.social · 2w agoOk, I’ve had a little bit of sleep (I was so wired at 3am when I got home that I didn’t sleep until at least 4… thank god I didn’t have anything scheduled this morning), so it’s time for my thoughts on the Odyssey.
This just in every single car crashes in safety testing
Every single non-AI program 'has bugs' in testing. Huh, doesn't sound as dramatic when put like that. 'goes rogue' = does things you don't want it to = has bugs.
Alec Muffett@alecmuffett.bsky.social · 2w agoLadies and gentlemen, the British tabloid press:
TFW #ZenInternet is trying to knock you down from a 6 IP-address /29 to a 1 IP-address /32 as-if that was not a one-sided change of contract terms. Customer since 2003.
US Gov’t threatens sanctions on China for Open Source LLMs “because distillation is a cyber attack” https://alecmuffett.com/article/162967 #OpenSourceIsCommunism #ScottBessent #TheyTookOurWeights #llm
US Gov’t threatens sanctions on China for Open Source LLMs “because distillation is a cyber attack”
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A hyperbolic one designed to elicit an emotional response without thinking. That's what kind of question it is. bsky.app/profile/theg...
