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  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubtomemes@lemmy.worldCope peasant
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    4 days ago

    Haha *click*

    Immediately dropped into ongoing estate crises. Your staff hasn’t been paid in months. An angry groundskeeper has set fire to the stables. A nearby parish seeks restitution for damage to its roof. You apparently have relatives with expensive vices whose debtors won’t leave you alone. The clerk insists that the novelty title company you speak of does not exist and your peerage is duly confirmed.

    E: Everyone keeps reminding you that you must produce an heir. Suitors hang on the bell, each of them somehow more hideous than the last.



  • They can’t unless your entire system is compromised.

    That research paper was a POC using kernel access and the models used were calibrated to specific subjects in a particular setting. Replicating it for anyone anywhere would require much, much more sophisticated models and that the target has given you root.





  • That was largely gut-level analysis for my personal decision-making but here are a few of the things I considered:

    1. Value proposition in the context of acquisition, featuring a heavily-marketed privacy brand and a base of privacy-conscious users (harder to profile, more expensive data)
    2. Obfuscation of funding sources via ‘venture philanthropy’ non-profit (a la OpenAI) housing closed-doors for-profit operations
    3. Rapid expansion to full-coverage consumer productivity cloud platform alternatives (vpn, mail, drive, calendar, wallet, passwords, etc)
    4. Weird pattern of being blocked then let through without future contest by numerous data-hungry entities including thiel, and generally just allowed in a few too many privacy-unfriendly places for my taste
    5. And the usual reservations re: privatized privacy and commercial OSS

    Again sorry that’s all hand-wavy. Probably shouldn’t have thrown shade without something more concrete.


  • Common opinion among millennial graduates with ed debt whose careers were thwarted by various recessions.

    The more nuanced version is that not everyone’s long term goals will be greatly furthered by higher education. It does have value on its own, and to some extent broadens the outer limits of the perspectives you might achieve in life, but it doesn’t technically teach you anything you can’t teach yourself with a library card. The argument for going into trades instead is a strong one, especially from a financial angle, but also job stability, work-life balance, mental health, etc.

    All the same, not-for-profit higher ed generally offers far too much good for an individual to discount outright as a scam. For many, it’s life changing, the time curtains are thrown open on their world, or a light shone on their place in it, etc.

    It just shouldn’t be considered the only viable path as perhaps it once was.