Ecco the dolphin

I am a time-traveling dolphin. An entity made of giant balls gave me the ability to breathe underwater, but this ability was recently stolen from me by aliens.

Sometimes I turn into a bird.

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: May 13th, 2024
  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump says he's been rejected by NATO, most allies to join mission to secure critical Strait of Hormuz
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    3 months ago

    There exists cities where the streets are older than America itself.

    The locals feel pressure to allow automobile traffic down these roads, and where space allows they generally do. It feels out of place.

    I have been to cities like this. I have driven cars in places like this (i lived internationally for a while) and it doesn’t feel right. I don’t have money to travel now, but if I did, I would just walk.

    There are cities that people still live in that predate the concept of street addresses and post offices and I have met them, and have had no idea what to put down on the bullshit forms at my bullshit job for their address.

    The world is large.

  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@programming.dev•LLMs can unmask anonymous internet users for $1–4 each, matching 67% of pseudonymous Hacker News accounts to real LinkedIn profiles at 90% precision
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    4 months ago

    This headline sucks.

    They made a model of accounts that willingly linked their hackernews profiles to their linked-ins and made a model base on that (n= approx 990)

    They could “deanonymise” about 67% of those accounts from that n=990 candidate pool (alpha=.1) using their model (they already knew who they were, otherwise how could they verify a correct match?).

    When they threw in a bunch of accounts that had nothing to do with those first accounts (89k total accounts) accuracy dropped to around 55%-45% depending on choice of technique.

    1. first thing, those hn accts they trained on weren’t trying to be anonymous. They linked to their linked in profile. So, lie on the internet I guess

    2. this is just a starting point anyway, cheap and fast. That’s what to worry about. $1-$4 per account you’re trying to doxx like this.

    Just an interesting paper.

  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Keeping score
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    5 months ago

    IMHO, the scale is too large for a cover up like that. There’s too many individuals, companies (many of these email addresses are gmail, yahoo… private email servers) and foreign governments involved.

    Many of these emails are in an evidence room already from the 2008 (edit: I guess I’m assuming here for 2008) and 2019 court cases. If you mess with them too much, just for example, some random federal or state level DOJ employee could leak stuff, personal risk be damned. Or, another example, some foreign government might decide causing societal chaos in the USA is worth more than protecting Lord Toucheskids and release what they have.

    The only reason they’re releasing anything at all is because they have to maintain the illusion of a working DOJ and congress. Too much of the American public is truly mad about this stuff to just ignore an act of congress about it. They released the files in the most optimum way for their goals IMHO: literally everything, an unorganized firehose full of duplicates, random redactions, and a few FBI tip-line interviews that are provably untrue, along with the true ones, and the indeterminate. It’ll take forever to sort through it all, and Trump/others implicated are banking on it.