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New comment by orblivion in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

orblivion — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:15:11 +0000

Yeah they should also include the power companies for that matter.

New comment by orblivion in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

orblivion — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:26:13 +0000

Okay so supposing everybody is acting in a benign manner, following their incentives and passions, not meaning to mislead anybody. Do you think that this results in writing a misleading blog post? Because the blog post makes Mythos out to be a big friggin deal. (It had certainly convinced me).

New comment by orblivion in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

orblivion — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:59:15 +0000

I didn't think Mozilla was like that but duly noted.

New comment by orblivion in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

orblivion — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:52:56 +0000

This is more in response to my original post, but okay interesting point. (When I said "invested" here I meant invested in finding security flaws.)

New comment by orblivion in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

orblivion — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:43:25 +0000

Is Firefox less invested in this than Curl? I mean there must be some explanation for this.

New comment by orblivion in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

orblivion — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:35:43 +0000

Is Mozilla marketing on Anthropic's behalf?

    As part of our continued collaboration with Anthropic, we had the opportunity to apply an early version of Claude Mythos Preview to Firefox. This week’s release of Firefox 150 includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified during this initial evaluation.
    
    As these capabilities reach the hands of more defenders, many other teams are now experiencing the same vertigo we did when the findings first came into focus. For a hardened target, just one such bug would have been red-alert in 2025, and so many at once makes you stop to wonder whether it’s even possible to keep up.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/ai-security-zer...

New comment by orblivion in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

orblivion — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:44:23 +0000

I imagine GrapheneOS is thinking carefully about their statement on this. I look forward to reading it.

New comment by orblivion in "I'm scared about biological computing"

orblivion — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:43:49 +0000

Fine, I tweeted something about it.

New comment by orblivion in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

orblivion — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:37:45 +0000

Unless people can't think without the AI.

New comment by orblivion in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

orblivion — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:14:17 +0000

Compilers are a layer of abstraction that we can ask another human about. Some human is there taking care of it. Until we get to the point where we trust AI with our survival it would be good to be able to audit the entire stack.

New comment by orblivion in "Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker"

orblivion — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:31:14 +0000

I'm thinking about this a bit more.

It may be the case that Daniel and the project are so under siege that they need to take a hostile attitude toward some of the people they interact with as a matter of self preservation. They may have no other option. But taking this posture while also being fair to all of the people around them (i.e. some people who aren't actually attacking them) may be difficult or even impossible. I can see this behavior in myself sometimes. I just don't have the energy to be fair. "F U".

I wouldn't want to see friendly corporate slop either. I appreciate how down to nuts and bolts the communiques are on Mastodon and how deadly serious they take everything. That part of the communication style makes me trust them more.

I think a good step in the right direction might be acknowledging that being defensive necessarily leads to erring on the side of assuming bad faith rather than good, which leads to some mis-judgements. So far you said that GrapheneOS is open to all criticisms, which (though I haven't followed the space very recently so my memory on specifics is hazy) just does not seem to match my interpretation. I think that if we were having this conversation on Twitter or Mastodon, Daniel would have blocked me by now (if he hadn't already blocked me years ago).

New comment by orblivion in "Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker"

orblivion — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:52:45 +0000

Maybe true, but but the flip side is that sometimes what is called an attack is actually criticism. That's how it appears to a lot of us from the outside.

New comment by orblivion in "Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker"

orblivion — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:14:21 +0000

It's not just about being friendly. If they have a bubble around them of employees, true believers, and people just afraid of speaking out that chills free expression of criticism, the truth has trouble getting out, which hurts trust.

Still a user though.

New comment by orblivion in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

orblivion — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:44:37 +0000

It has modern features. It stores message history. It has a fairly unique feature of letting you create ad-hoc "topics" (that go under a "Channel") that make it easier to manage the flood of conversation.

New comment by orblivion in "The PGP problem (2019)"

orblivion — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:54:13 +0000

The NSA can't break GPG assuming everything is working properly. This blog post (which to be fair I only skimmed) explains that GPG is a mess which could lead to things not working properly, and also gives real life examples. You may also want to see https://gpg.fail (you can tell they're from the ivory tower by the cat ears). The blog post also mentions bad UX, which you and I can directly appreciate (if anything I might expect ivory tower types to dismiss UX issues).

New comment by orblivion in "Gpg.fail"

orblivion — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:05:28 +0000

Took me a second but I got your joke

New comment by orblivion in "Gpg.fail"

orblivion — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:36:45 +0000

Maybe the site is overloaded. But as for the "brb, were on it!!!!" - this page had the live stream of the talk when it was happening. Hopefully they'll replace it with the recording when media.ccc.de posts it, which should be within a couple hours.

New comment by orblivion in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

orblivion — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:03:02 +0000

> It will evolve into a modern AI browser

Next time I run into Richard Stallman I should ask him for tips on browsing the web

New comment by orblivion in "EFF launches Age Verification Hub"

orblivion — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:50:21 +0000

Okay but then if a ZKP solution is presented, that's calling their bluff. They now have one less excuse for surveillance.

EDIT: Actually do one better - tell them that for 16+ websites, you're actually protecting teenagers by keeping them anonymous.

New comment by orblivion in "EFF launches Age Verification Hub"

orblivion — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:38:14 +0000

How about:

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/opening-up-ze...