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links, etc RFC 9620: Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations i struggle with the IETF on a number of fronts, but this was a surprisingly compelling read. technology has become a far more powerful tool for suppression and surveillance than we thought it would be in the mid-late 1990s when we were super pumped about the democratization of information access. protocol analysis for information leakage is something that’s been de rigueur from a security perspective for some time, but even that’s proven to be insufficient....

links, etc ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine just in case you forgot you were owned… 3D printing for chemistry could be the most economically disruptive thing we see in our lifetimes. tags: health, medicine Tesla’s TTPoE at Hot Chips 2024: Replacing TCP for Low Latency Applications there are some interesting things they’ve baked into the ASIC here. tags: ai, tesla, hotchips, neteng, protocols...

links, etc Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn’t want or need a delicious waste of network bandwidth and linux network drivers. quite amusing. Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model? • The Register no. tags: linux, ai, hacks

links, etc Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art i read pretty much anything that ted chiang decides he wants to publish to the world at large. he’s been particularly critical of AI over the past few years and i have a difficult time arguing with the ground that he’s staked out. this article is well worth the time to read. it’s full of solid, nuanced perspective on the topic of art and human engagement with art....

links, etc Crafting AI-Complementary Skills and Bulletproof Assessments more in the theme of … you need to wrap your head around this and figure out what makes the most sense to use, discard and leverage. there are some great examples of questions/tests that dig a few layers deep, and can be effectively worked with AI as a complement. tags: #ai