Use a VPN from country that is hostile to the one you are living in. This way your own country won’t spy on you.
People tend to worry about other countries, but it is usually within the country they live in that they have to worry about their rights being infringed.
Step 1 is making back doors mandatory. Step 2 is banning anything they can't decrypt.
I don't know if the second part has been discussed yet, but it's only possible with the former in place, so it makes sense to just ram that in first.
Most people don't care about this at all because they cannot fathom what it actually means. It takes the government actually turning on you to understand at a visceral level and by then it's too late. It seems there have still not been enough historical examples of this to truly burn it into memory.
aka your local FBI agent. See ANOM or any of the other honey pots that glowed from kilometers away.
And even if they are not backdoored at first, once the state knocks on the developers door with the great offer that their kid will grow up with a father who is not in jail people's principles might change quickly.
Not possible. If all jurisdictions relinquish their claim over the satellite then it's open to being shot down.
The proliferation of space access goes both ways. LEO isn't exactly difficult to reach (many college teams can do it). GEO might work but then you need relays and any relay satellite are essentially tacitly complicit.
Satellite (and most aerospace related technologies) are glass cannons. They aren't defensible like a bunker or a tank.
What if you had lots and lots and lots of them? Maybe even enough to cause debris problems if they were attacked. With relays into countries that don't overreach their privacy laws.
Despite the hype, crypto is traceable. It is harder than other currencies and one transaction is probably untraceable. However if you are running a business you are going to get repeated payments from customers and repeatedly pay your employees and suppliers, which in turn creates enough data that they can track you down.
Fully legal for any company to do this btw. They just don't want to. Even in the EU, taking XMR payments is legal, or buying things with XMR, or holding XMR - it's only illegal to list on exchanges.
In the US, transactions over $10,000 need to be reported regardless. I don't know laws in Europe, but I would expect they have something similar. Which is to say, you can accept envelopes of cash only for relatively small amounts of money before you are going to get in trouble yourself. The government doesn't like tax fraud, and without the ability to trace things, they can prove tax fraud just because if there was no tax fraud, you wouldn't have a certain amount of money.
You don't have to report all transactions over $10,000 in cash. Your bank, where you will probably want to keep the money, will report all transaction over $10,000.
courts will see right through any attempt of someone like offering cash for crypto deals claiming they're not a bank. They maybe haven't yet but they will when it becomes important to them.
Not as stupid or far-fetched as it sounds, only now you have to trust a company not a state. There are several companies I would trust with this, but there would be no state I would trust. Some good SciFi which explores this concept (including mine)
Satellites are very reliant on ground ops. Its much like crypto. You think all your stuff is in space, but the FBI agent has a wrench and will just break your kneecaps until you let him in. But also the FBI agent will pull your operating permit for the country your ground stations are in and take you offline.
> The real use case for satellite-borne data centers.
Because of physics and the difficulties of rejecting heat in space, data centers in space aren't going to be a real thing until compute becomes more energy efficient by at least 50x-100x as compared to the present.
It's not relevant. The moment criminality (in the view of other nations with these kinds of laws) hosts itself there, they'll find themselves hauled in front of the UK courts, and find that their "micro nation" isn't recognised and that the UK both claims jurisdiction over them and is able to enforce it.
Sealand is a structure within Britain's territorial waters (since they were expanded in 1987)... From what legal analysis I've seen, a structure just wouldn't ever be considered as a 'nation' in any sense, and if anything happened there that the UK was really concerned about they would remove the occupants anyway... So unless they had a navy that could go up against the UK's...
They'd need satellite internet anyway to get connectivity that didn't go through the UK so not going to be great latency.
Knowing Jared Isaacman, he won't let MSR die without a fight. It wouldn't shock me to see NASA consider Rocket Lab's MSR proposal; they had submitted a pretty affordable proposal some time ago.
Isaacman definitely likes scientific missions but was skeptical of MSR, he thinks we will have a manned mission to Mars by the late 2030s so the payoff was not there given the extremely long timeline and high costs.
And I mean I agree, for that much money we should be doing missions to Europa instead.
FWIW, it turns out that all USB floppy drives nowadays are made in the same factory, and all of them are kinda glitchy. Go buy an older model on eBay instead of buying new.
My thoughts exactly. While the corpus of human-generated data contains both good and bad data, I suspect the majority of it leans towards humans enjoying life and trying to be decent people. If that is your training set, it becomes less likely for ASI to extrapolate "kill all humans."
Fable was able to get Linux booting on my M4 Pro mini. (Using Asahi as a base, not possible to upstream because they really don't like AI). Hardware support beyond USB 2.0 requires tracing macOS under the hypervisor, which Fable refuses to do and Opus isn't much good at. I'll try Sol at some point.
The Clay fab is moving along, lots of trucks going through there. So I think it will be built, assuming the local NIMBY and Progressive contingent don't have their way and block it somehow (God knows they put up enough arbitrary hurdles in their way).
As someone who lives local to the Clay construction site - I'm not sure how they could be bringing it up any faster. The site is working pretty much 24/7 and progress is very visible week over week.
Trick: it's easy to check this - just try eg. a specific short almost-nonsense high-entropy phrase such as "Scarf Color Plump 蘼撅" via OpenRouter using the playground for different providers/models, and observe the shape and language of the reasoning and the response, which tend to be quite different (MiMo and GLM are quite similar, but still identifiably different enough).
I've heard that DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731 has frequently assumed that it has vision capabilities and then resorts to inventing text-based image analysis tools when it finds that it actually can't see. In that case, this is a great upgrade for the model.
Anecdotally, I had to tell 0731 to refrain from viewing screenshots since it kept breaking its sessions by trying to read images.
Yeah I've seen it a lot. It goes through the effort, unasked, of pulling screenshots off a connected device and then it's like... Oh shit yeah I can't see.
Even with the price hike, Deepseek V4 Flash still does this a lot better than any similarly priced model, in my experience. I've had Luna take shortcuts (like adding an overload to methods whose signature it changed so they don't break existing tests, instead of fixing the tests) or just not do the entire work and report it as done (did not fully resolve rebase conflicts). Deepseek has never really failed in this type of way for me, and it has been far more persistent in validating its work than Luna (and several bigger models).
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