September 21, 2022

This article on how Chess has become Poker is really interesting. It is interesting to think about what this same dynamic will play out in other domains. AI has changed chess dramatically. Not necessarily in the ways that were predicted early on.

Chess Is Just Poker Now - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/carlsen-niemann-chess-cheating-poker/671472/

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shane @stinkylittlehog

being horny is a feminine trait. Men should be constantly thinking about war

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No Context Brits @NoContextBrits

A bit insensitive from the Germans…

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Russian Memes United @RussianMemesLtd

my mental health me my friend

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Charlie Stross @cstross

Oh God this is insane—the 1950s Russian IFF system in use over Ukraine only has 12 possible response codes and they're hardwired, so new daily codes can be rapidly cloned by Ukr air force?!? Design: mil-airfields.de/equipment/sovi… Leading to:

newsweek.comRussia losing fighter jets as pilots have poor situational awareness—U.K.The UK’s Ministry of Defence said Russia’s air force may be taking more risks following Ukraine’s counteroffensive on the ground.

https://www.mil-airfields.de/equipment/soviet-iff-kremniy.htm

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RevBits @RevBits

A threat with a North #Korea #nexus has been found leveraging a "novel spear phish methodology" that involves making use of #trojanized versions of the #PuTTY #SSH and #Telnet client. thehackernews.com/2022/09/north-… #cybersecurity #cybersecuritynews #vulnerability #client #phish

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i n n e s @innesmck

"you do the graphics first" "you start with the design" buddy you dont do anything first. if you could make a game by doing a set of well defined tasks in rigidly sequential order my life expectancy would be a lot higher

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But With Raptors @ButWithRaptors

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003): but with a Velociraptor

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Jon Bateman @JonKBateman

BIS, a formerly low-profile part of the Commerce Dept, is now at the heart of U.S. foreign policy. Whether BIS aims to be strict or lenient, it needs good data. This means BIS should be a major player in the setting of national intelligence priorities. Is it?

Suzanne Smalley @SuzanneMSmalley

NEW Senate Intel has proposed a 3-yr pilot program to get more OSINT to the Commerce Dept for its work regulating exports to China. Commerce has greenlit around 90% of tech export applications for years, a fact which many critics say has led to dire (1/2) https://t.co/cOhQQ1BmGt

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Binary Golf Association @binarygolf

Here are the official #BGGP3 entries and scores! Thank you to everyone that took part in this, see you next year! github.com/netspooky/BGGP…

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jam @__binaryeffects

fuck it boss ds-1 door bell

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Robin Cole @robmarkcole

Satellite imagery datasets containing ships - A list of radar and optical satellite datasets for ship detection, classification, semantic segmentation and instance segmentation tasks github.com/jasonmanesis/S…

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik

Users of glassess beware! You may be leaking secret data during Zoom/Skype/etc videoconferences. Screen reflected in glasses, then visible during a videoconferencing. School-grade physics/optics sufficient to understand the exploit equations. arxiv.org/pdf/2205.03971…

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Dmitri Alperovitch @DAlperovitch

The much delayed Putin TV address is here. Live tweeted summary is below 🧵

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Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

Gerrymandering is so extreme that there’s now a district that looks like every letter of the alphabet. They really took great pains to choose/eliminate voters. Both parties do it. Graphic from the awesome folks at @representus. ⬆️🇺🇸

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_0xf4n9x_ @_0xf4n9x_

#CVE-2022-36804 Atlassian Bitbucket Command Injection Vulnerability

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Grace Freud @GraceGFreud

Pearl Harbor this, Pearl Harbor that, you’d think it was the only harbor my grandpa has ever fucking been to.

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Viktor Winetrout @Cpin42

The computer beat me in chess so I'm downloading viruses