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Is it possible to block Samsung updates by blocking connections to Samsung domains/IPs via blocklists/host filtering/DNS?

I just voted blue in Texas today, so we'll see. But, probably keep your expectations low(ish).

Early vote turnout in Texas outpacing past elections, fueled by Democratic primary voters - Texas Tribune https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/25/texas-early-voting-t...


Would it be the Senate seat that would be jaw dropping? Or what exactly should I follow?

James Tallerico is seen by many as a bit of a bellwether for how Trumps coalition with the religious right will hold. He's a Presbyterian minister who makes quite a big deal out of opposing Christian nationalism. If he can win Texas it would signal a lot of trouble for MAGA and Republicans in general.

From Axios:

What to watch: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a memo to staff on Thursday night that the company will uphold the same red lines as Anthropic on surveillance and autonomous weapons, but still hopes to strike a deal with the Pentagon.

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/anthropic-pentagon-supply-c...


UPDATE: Sam Altman just agreed to be the DoD's replacement but says he made them agree to no mass surveillance/autonomous weapons (the same terms that were rejected from Anthropic? Everyone is skeptical in the replies on Twitter)

https://xcancel.com/sama/status/2027578508042723599


Reminds me of Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook releasing similarly-worded statements denying that they would share information with NSA PRISM, despite the Snowden docs

Sam Altman is a serial liar and grifter. He personally donated $1M to Trump. Don't believe a word in that press release.

That's super unusual, as clemastine is another first generation antihistamine that's also anticholinergic. Other anticholinergic antihistamines have been shown to lead to increased dementia effects in users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1_antagonist


The same thing is happening to end users, the consumers that they maybe want seeing those ads. Random, totally out of the blue bans on Meta platforms for no rhyme or reason. It's all over reddit:

r/facebookdisabledme

r/FixMyInstagram

r/InstagramDisabledBans

r/MetaLawsuits


It's almost impossible to create a new Facebook account nowadays and I wonder if that's one of the cause of the decline of Facebook

I wonder if they ever had enough of the California Attorney General on them (after people posted guides on how to seek resolution through that channel)

btw saw recommendations to use a VPN to be able to use the complaint form… overall, wonder how much Meta cost taxpayers there (maybe they make up for it?)


It has been happening in other platforms too. I had a tough time creating a new LinkedIn account after deleting mine around 10 years ago. At one point one day in the new account I got banned, then I submitted my ID and got in only to be banned again within the same timespan. All the same accusations that the profile information I submitted was not “correct”, translation: I was not me according to someone else’s idea of what being me is, even though I was able to show them a proper ID.

I only got it working stable after finding an obscure email on Reddit and re-sending my ID to a completely different confirmation system.


I wasn't going to send my driver's license to some overseas contractor... I eventually hunted down a form for submitting a notarized statement proving who I was. It's more than a bit ridiculous.

How do they expect future growth then?

In general, its really stunning that Meta stock price grew that much since 2012 - when they IPO'd in 2012, I thought i will be a "cheap stock" around 50 - 70 USD.


Facebook appears to want go turn your grandparents into AIs and sell them back yo you when they die.

Oh then I guess it is good that they dead already. And they never had an account. So I am safe.

Yes, but society rwquires everyone to be safe.

nice username... I was going to say, we warned about this with the google+ real name policy "nymwars" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars and the cloudflare AI bot blocking that blocks humans

Yes it's potentially good for reducing spam and terribly good for collecting personal information for advertisers. Both at the expense of making social networks inaccessible to real people.


Just use archive.today or install the BPC extension or blocklist

I'm curious how these 'distillation attacks' work and what the prompts look like to do them.


I’m pretty sure they just mean DeepSeek was paying to generate text, and then using this text as training data.

Which of course is completely wrong and totally hacking and illegal. Very different from using book torrents or people’s google docs to train your AI.


I’m not sure there’s even an adaptive pattern in prompts. The article sounds like a n>1E5 shotgun.


I assume it's an economics issue. As long as they continue making money off the uploads to a higher extent than it costs for storage, it works out for them.


Do they make a profit nowadays


Likely yes, with a margin of perhaps 38%

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34268536


They're doing the company store in the military


You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.


Here's one from last year. Helpful, but I guess they gave up on updating it.

https://getomni.ai/blog/ocr-benchmark


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