David Durman, a research administrator at the University of Kentucky (UK)

I’m with you - why abbreviate the university like that? I immediately thought the UK (United Kingdom) too. Something like “University of Kentucky (aka UK)” would’ve been helpful.

It’s really difficult to cool things in space, and it’s really difficult to power stationary things in space. It’s also really expensive to put things in space so size/weight is a problem.

So if it’s not cheaper/better for cooling, and it’s not cheaper/better for power, and it’s not cheaper/better for rack space… why is there a focus on shipping compute to space?

The point I keep coming back to is that it’s really hard for the public to protest/damage/destroy data centres in space.

OpenAI absolutely did something. This wasn’t a member of the public using ChatGPT, this was OpenAI employees training an OpenAI model(s).

If you or I did this without permission in the name of research (with or without using an LLM), we’d be facing jail time.

OpenAI accessed non-public aggregate health statistics and internal files from an old Australian government website that carried Medicare statistics.

The prime minister said OpenAI was conducting research into public medical spending when it found a way to break through privacy protections.

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was “conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity” during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

“During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation,” they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

Im trying to get onboard with CoMaps but its Android Auto implementation needs work. It’s too zoomed in to be useful at speed or in traffic, and the directions are wonky with street mergers, highway changes, etc.

I think I can contribute to the directions but not easily while driving. I’m not a coder so I can’t write up a zoom setting function for submission.

Any tips for CoMaps in the car?

Deleted my previous comment - you’re right, it’s not able to identify the screen resolution etc without JavaScript.

Unfortunately I’m still fingerprinted though - no JavaScript is itself an identifiable marker.

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Try this while on a VPN and in incognito mode: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

I bet you’ll be surprised at the methods companies use to fingerprint you - browser agent, Do Not Track enabled/disabled, timezone, screen size… not accepting cookies is also a data point to filter you by.

Maybe look into getting a GL.inet travel router with WiFi and a Chromecast/Android stick. I use that when I travel. Setup a WiFi network on the travel router and setup the Chromecast on it for when you’re at the hotel.

At the hotel, either jack the travel router into a network port then use your phone to sign in to the hotel’s network, or configure Repeater/WISP to get the travel router to connect to and re-broadcast the hotel WiFi (again using your phone or PC to sign in). Going Repeater/WISP brings a sizeable performance hit due to the lack of radios but it’s definitely do-able.

If you’re hosting Jellyfin externally, job done. If not, you can configure OpenVPN/Wireguard on the travel router and your home router and connect privately that way.

Source: Tech worker who had a requirement to be overseas 80% of the year in different hotels :)

https://www.gl-inet.com/collections/travel-routers

https://wifirepeater.org/openwrt-wisp-repeater-mode-configuration/

The Wiki link covers a few exploits for the IME.

https://downloadmoreram.com/

I’m surprised how many people didn’t realise this. I used to play Ingress, which was also from Niantic and similar to Pokémon Go but involved agents and hacking POIs rather than Pokémon trainers and Poké Stops.

Niantic discussed at the time that this was to support their work on the N+1 navigation problem, although I can’t for the life of me find a quoatable reference for this. I played Ingress knowing that my location data was being harvested thinking it was to solve a problem.

I also wonder how many people realise Niantic Labs was started as a Google internal startup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niantic%2C_Inc.