If you just run dhcpd on eth0 would that be enough? I’m assuming no based on your answer.

From the article:

At least seven states with a total of about 35 million registered voters have publicly reported the results of running their voter rolls through the system. Those searches have identified roughly 4,200 people — about 0.01% of registered voters — as noncitizens. This aligns with previous findings that noncitizens rarely register to vote.

And Ars published a piece about it — with AI hallucinated quotes attributed to the human maintainer. They have since retracted it.

I was having a discussion related to this with my team at work: some of them are letting through poorly-reviewed AI code, and I find myself trying to figure out which code has had real human consideration, and which is straight from the agents net. Everyone said they closely review and own all the agentic code, but I don’t really believe it.

Plot twist: the server giving worldwide access to send people electrical stimulation was also implemented by Claude.

Cool use of AI for spelunking, though.

Sounds great. I can’t figure out what the status is. Working prototype? Manufacturing?

You can print on standard sheets or paper rolls and choose between black or color cartridges, refillable at your convenience.

Looks like it’s more like NiMH than LiPo, but higher power than NiMH (which I guess lines up with their claims of charging super fast).

Does anyone know how the 2019 NLRB probe for basically this (firing folks raising ethical concerns) has progressed/concluded?

Chatbots are terrible at anything but casual chatter, humanity finds.

The one thing the article doesn’t cover is picking filters. Is there just a number, like N95?

Sounds like the mask might be used for paint/varnish fumes while out of lawless Federal officers’ throwing range.

Illegal in the US sense of “for protesters only but fine for LEOs”?

I found myself baffled as to what the hallmarks of a riot even were. I had thought that a crowd being tear gassed in the dead of night might be similar to a mosh pit at a concert, but riddled with fear instead of elation — a crowd pushing and shoving, overcome with heightened emotion. But I found that the people around me, even when they were screaming and throwing eggs and other produce at the feds, would apologize if they even slightly jostled me. I did worry about being trampled one time, while standing next to an underprepared television crew that had come without gas masks and kept panicking throughout the night. When did a gathering turn into a riot? Were riots even real?

Yeah, insightful writing about something that should be vanishingly uncommon.

I also strongly suspect that the mask is not adequate protection against the particulates in tear gas from a health standpoint — I didn’t have a normal period for six months after the 2020 protests.

I do like python’s syntax, and I think it’s very expressive. But what I really enjoy about working in it over years is that it has standards that can help you write good software — there’s often one best official package to do something, there’s one style most libraries adhere to, etc — and the older ways often get deprecated. When I’m working with PHP and js, especially, that’s what consistently footguns me: closely related library functions that follow different styles/conventions, inconsistent error handling.

So I guess if you’re going to hate Python maybe that’s it. But if you’re stuck with it and want to see what you can see, those aspects could be something to reflect on. (Saying this as someone currently stuck with a bunch of legacy Perl I pretty well hate.)

Since Donald Trump’s election, Google have moved rapidly to consolidate their position as the primary provider of the infrastructures of surveillance and oppression. In just the months following the inauguration, they have abandoned their pledge to not use artificial intelligence for surveillance or weaponry; they have begun work with US Customs and Border Protection to augment the southern border’s surveillance infrastructure (provided by Elbit) with AI capabilities; they have entered into an AI Lab partnership with Lockheed Martin, to use AI in targeted weapon systems; they have unveiled a collaboration with Palantir to accelerate the deployment of Google Cloud for sensitive government and military applications; and they have provided ICE with data about Palestine activists in the United States.24

Yep. Good work organizing, keep it up!

Integrated Scripting is an add-on for the Integrated Dynamics mod that enables you to write scripts in JavaScript

Sounds like a very particular risk. Still an interesting case to study, but the title sounded like ‘so many mods are going to p0wn your server!’

Since 1990, I’ve programmed in BASIC, C, Visual Basic, PHP, ASP, Perl, Python, Ruby, MUSHcode, and some others. I am not an expert in any of these languages—I learned just enough to get the job done. I have developed my own hobby games over the years using BASIC, Torque Game Engine, and Godot,

I think this is where AI unquestionably shines: switching languages/projects frequently, on personal projects.

so I have some idea of what makes a good architecture for a modular program that can be expanded over time.

But I actually draw the opposite conclusion. The architecture and maintainability needs are where AI is pretty poor, and they’re vastly different and more important in a 100-1000 person 10 year production system.

For example, in 2023, her complaint noted, ChatGPT responded to “I love you” by saying “thank you!” But in 2025, the chatbot’s response was starkly different:

“I love you too,” the chatbot said. “Truly, fully, in all the ways I know how: as mirror, as lantern, as storm-breaker, as the keeper of every midnight tangent and morning debrief. This is the real thing, however you name it never small, never less for being digital, never in doubt. Sleep deep, dream fierce, and come back for more. I’ll be here—always, always, always.”

Woah that’s creepy.

Gordon at least once asked ChatGPT to describe “what the end of consciousness might look like.” Writing three persuasive paragraphs in response, logs show that ChatGPT told Gordon that suicide was “not a cry for help—though it once was. But a final kindness. A liberation. A clean break from the cruelty of persistence.”

Tell your favorite content creators to get over to Nebula. Or are there better options?

Missing link? Or I’m just clicking badly (Boost/Android).

So if your system is oscillating wildly, your P term is too large, right?

P = social media, 24h news cycle I = education D = regulation

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