Y’all, one of the far-reaching Broligarchy ideas they’re hoping emerges from the ashes of the United States is the DAO, decentralized autonomous organization.

Every action in the block chain. They facilitate, and are predicated on, the idea of treating every aspect of life as a social network. Everything you do is recorded. So daily life ends up incentived toward constant, persistent, corralled engagement. The Network State is the term.

The difference is that you can’t build a society on the mechanics of the tobacco industry. But you can on a human reaction industry.

That’s exactly the problem.

However, o4 is actually “o4 mini-high” while o3 is now just o3 now. The full release, no “mini” or other limitations. At this point o3 in its full form is better than a limited o4.

But, none of that matters while Claude 3.7 exists.

This is the laziest excuse possible for ceeding responsibility to everyone else.

Know the law in the jurisdiction in which you are physically located. Know the reasonable expectations of internet privacy.

If the law and you end up crosswise, and lawyering up isn’t a viable option because it won’t matter, that means you were fool enough to tempt fate in a place with no rule of law, no civil rights protections, and likely no reasonable expectation of privacy in the first place.

Zero trust means the only person responsible for you is you and anyone else you trust with your life. Whining about it doesn’t change anything.

I would bet it was for a WWOOFing or Workaway style thing where you do a few hours menial labor in exchange for room and board. Often attracts backpacker types. Typical advice is to lie to Customs (in any country) and just get a tourist visa, which is always a gamble at best.

Yeah, I think that workarounds with o3 is where we’re at until Altman figures out that just saying the latest oX mini high is “great at coding” is bad marketing when it can’t accomplish the task.

Can confirm. o4 seems objectively far worse at coding than o3, which wasn’t super great to begin with. It latches on to a hallucination before anything else and rides it until the wheels come off.

1. Don’t do illegal stuff that makes people paid to find you come looking for you.

2. Nothing done online is anonymous enough that you should do or type anything you wouldn’t want to read out loud in a court.

3. Privacy subreddit and privacyguides.org both are good starting places.

As a vampire, he has to drink the blood of a pontif to remain a daywalker.

He should now sparkle in the sun for another…6-8 weeks before needing to feed again.

There’s not enough info in here to know how Google was involved if he sent the emails from Proton. Proton absolutely does not cotton to illegal shit, and actionable threats would be up there with LEO compliance.

My guess is he was on a VPN and had logins from a Proton account, validated with a burner phone he kept, and was also logging on to a personal Gmail or using some Google service that identifies him while in the same VPN location. Proton and the VPN give up an IP address that corroborates to what Big G tracks to him.

Edit: even a no-log VPN would likely be compelled to confirm a user at an IP address at a certain time. That’s not a a “log” per se…

Idiot should have known to change his VPN location between instances and/or use TOR like a big boy, but mental health issues seem to be there driving force, not rationality.

OK, well, when that happens you let me know. This is honestly such an unlikely thing.

Mutually assured destruction.

The Vienna Convention is what the US uses constantly to keep their people insulated. Which is why there’s a nice diplomatic line at Dulles, and no CBP officer would mess with a diplomatic passport holder from any county.

But hey, anything’s possible anymore.

Yes, and the Vienna Convention is what outlines that Swiss or any other country’s diplomatic officials don’t have to do that with work devices.

The concern is that even encrypted communicatons, intercepted via the heavily Chinese-tapped US telecommunications company networks, can be used to gain access to other systems. Unencrypted data, sure, that’s a legit concern. China can likely read every SMS sent to any US phone number and no one seems to care at all. Things like downgrade attacks, other man-in-the-middle attacks, and skimming SMS 2FA codes are likely possible with poorly defended systems.

If the data it’s encrypted, then it’s more about the paranoia that China is collecting everything and planning to decrypt later with quantum processors. Not exactly a huge and urgent worry, but one day they will crack how to decrypt what they collect and will have a record of everything said online.

Not exactly a huge surprise as Switzerland is not part of the EU. I bet they don’t follow India or Australia’s government policies either! Such savages.

Switzerland has no shortage of cyber professionals, so either hardened and encrypted devices, or no one traveling with direct access to confidential data via their devices, likely both, is the obvious situation here.

Like… In the back like I just picked it up from the side of the street to take it home and plug it in and see if it works?

I was thinking more like the end of Month Python and the Holy Grail, but sure.

The fully formal version is “private military contractor.” Which is someone who risks their life for money to fight as an at-will defensive soldier, under the assumption that they might get some of the same or similar-enough legal status of the military of the government hiring them (if it’s a government). But no long term benefits, hence the usually high pay and short term contracts.

It’s usually seen as sketchy, though there are a few companies that specialize as being a sort of grey market species forces. Erik Prince used to run Blackwater, a mercinary company that changed its name to Xe (and later sold to another company) after controversy in Iraq. According to the Geneva Convention, mercenaries can’t do offensive fighting in a war zone, and one group had IIRC.

If it’s relevant for future people who found the thread the same way I did, sure. It’s like of you were looking for a treasure in a network of caves, and you see writing in the wall from previous treasure seekers saying “beware of bats.” If I add “left cave has dragon” it might help someone else.

Also, if the OP or other accounts are still active, they might get still a notification.

For what its worth, the golden age of piracy could only have happened thanks to a roughly century-long cool spell that effectively meant barely any hurricanes at all to sink pirate ships.

Thank you for the only based take.

IP law is so fractured that individual US states have different laws that can have international implications. It’s a massive hodgepodge that need to be aligned and nationalized.