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Yeah that was my reaction too

If you're a pervert, you wouldn't want the victim to know you're recording them

If you don't want someone to know you're recording them, you wouldn't wear the famous Recording Glasses

But I don't know, maybe I'm overestimating the average pervert


If I was a pretty girl that gets stared at I think I'd want to record the ones doing the staring

People generally commit less crime if they think they're on camera

If they do commit a crime, at least there would be video evidence

Or if they just want to be creepy, I'd send those stares to their wife

Considering motivated perverts would use hidden cameras, as opposed to cameras literally on their face, I think the asymmetry here is in favor of recording the perverts rather than vice versa


There's plenty of evidence to the contrary, considering that's the same old argument that NRA has been making for our entire lives.


I think there's a difference between brandishing a weapon and brandishing a recording device

Unlike the sword, the camera itself does not incite deeds of violence

My understanding at least is that cameras (or even signs) reducing/preventing crime by _some_ amount has been independently corroborated across multiple studies


Maybe I lost too much faith in society. But in a world where everyone is recording each other, I think people who are able to act with impunity wins, not necessarily those with higher moral standards.


You're right in that it's unreasonable to expect someone else work for you for free

But I would also say a quality bug report is a contribution in and of itself

Closing it without reason is also, literally, unreasonable


>Because I have a reason to believe it's fixed

What reason?


Even if you're not correct, I respect your positivity and constructive attitude

It's good to raise people's expectations of themselves


Self-reported studies are arguably weaker evidence, but are common in some areas for ethics reasons. In general, if errors are truly random, than they will cancel out over larger/frequent population samples.

The study conclusion inferred the skills needed to be effective at some task, are the same skills needed to correctly evaluate if you are actually proficient at the same tasks.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02151

If the data infers another explanation is more applicable, than I'd be interested in the primary papers/studies the editorialized opinion seems to have omitted. =3


>what if the LLM gets something wrong that the operator (a junior dev perhaps) doesn't even know it's wrong?

the same thing that always happens if a dev gets something wrong without even knowing it's wrong - either code review/QA catches it, or the user does, and a ticket is created

>if it fails here, it will fail with other things, in not such obvious ways.

is infallibility a realistic expectation of a software tool or its operator?


By sheer chance, there's now a HN submission that answers both (but mostly the second) questions PERFECTLY:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46185957


>There is a lot of money to be made from paid cosmetics, ranks, moderator (demi-tyrant) status, etc on custom servers.

Anyone have any idea how much a 15 Tbps DDoS attack would cost?

Thousands of dollars? Tens of thousands?


Ballpark math says you could sustain it for half an hour on Hetzner for $5k-$6k (only from 1500 IPs though), at least if your account didn't get banned first and you're halfway decent at network programming. I have no idea what a proper botnet like this costs though or how large the profit margins are.


Isn't the idea behind botnets that no one is paying for the bandwidth, besides the unsuspecting random people who have fallen victim to malware?

I'd imagine the pricing is quite disconnected from the price of "legitimate" bandwidth. But I don't know in what direction.


Yeah I assume there's the initial startup cost of successfully managing to infect a large network of devices, and then the cost for any given use is likely "what customers will pay for it". If they are selecting out big money targets and focusing on gaming, I'm guessing the price isn't that high, but they also presumably know interesting a state actor in taking them down either by changing targets or bringing in enough money is bad for business.


The idea is, the botnets are in control of someone else. Who "owns" them. And some of those will rent "their property" for money, like they would legitimately own them.


Ok, but that doesn’t change the fact that the price of renting them is completely disconnected from the price of bandwidth.


Depends. The more the owners use their bots, or let others use their botnets, the more attention there is to them and the less useful the botnet is (either blacklisted IPs or owners noticing).

And a little bit of malicious bandwidth is easy to hide, a lot not. So there is a price to bandwith to the criminal owner.


Sure, but there’s still no link between what the botnet operator charges and what ISPs charge for bandwidth, that’s the point I’m trying to make.

Because the botnet operator is not paying for the bandwidth, directly or indirectly.


it's not exactly, it depends on the provider, some services seem to display a cap in bandwidth usage.


back in '98 i got a 100mb per download limit for $100 on my cable connection. i recall getting DoS'd by someone cause i was a lpb barstard in quake tf. They were kind though, only DoS'd me 90mb as a warning.... Years later, TF2 is getting DoS'd into oblivion, an extorhted by DDoS for hire. Some things change, some things stay the same.


I'm old enough to remember this site called kuro5hin, and how it folded a bit after it got DoS'd to death around 2000


for those not old enough to remember, that's pronounced "corrosion"


I'm wagering something cheap for individual with a lot of bitcoin or crypto laying around


The only GUI products that work are GUIs that you can interface with, or that perform tasks for you

Maybe the real value of AI, particularly LLMs, is in the interface it provides for other things, and not in the AI itself

What if AI isn't the _thing_? What if it's the thing that gets us _to_ the thing?


I use their app on Android and it blocks ads system wide

I would recommend it


best thing is that it works even without their app, just change dns in settings


I think that is an unreasonable expectation given the advice they received from their lawyer

Maybe it would have been virtuous to fight it tooth-and-nail from the start, but I don't think it was wrong to comply while investigating further


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