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    5 hours ago

    That’s encryption in a nutshell. A message is encrypted until it reaches its destination, and then by necessity is unencrypted in order to read it. Once your recipient has the unencrypted message, you don’t have any control over what happens to it.

    Fundamentally, if you don’t trust the recipient (or their system provider), no amount of encryption will protect your message.


  • “Species concepts are human classification systems, and everybody can disagree and everyone can be right,” she says. “You can use the phylogenetic [evolutionary relationships] species concept to determine what you’re going to call a species, which is what you are implying… We are using the morphological species concept and saying, if they look like this animal, then they are the animal.”

    “If they look like this animal then they are the animal” really doesn’t sound like a particularly useful (or scientifically rigorous) position.

    Not least because there are lots of animals that look alike but aren’t the same species.



  • In my limited experience experience, Gemini responds better with flat, emotionless prompts without any courteous language. Using polite phrasing seems more likely to prompt “I can’t answer that sorry” responses, even to questions that it absolutely can answer (and will to a more terse prompt).

    So I think my point is “it depends”. LLMs aren’t intelligent, they just produce strings based on their training data. What works better and what doesn’t will be entirely dependent on the specific model.





  • There’s a direct quote from the company.

    According to a statement sent to The Verge by Eddie Garcia on behalf of Nintendo, it says preorders will no longer begin on April 9th:

    “Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.”

    I’m also in Europe.



  • They’re definitely creatively stale, but they’re also undeniably good at what they do. They have by far the best selling console of the last generation, and are the only console company to consistently post healthy profits on their operation.

    Is it a bit naff that their next generation of games will almost certainly be yet another Zelda, yet another Mario, yet another Pokémon? Absolutely. But if their next Zelda game is yet another best-selling critically acclaimed success, who are we to say that they’ve got the wrong approach?









  • BYD is eating everyone’s lunch at the bottom not just Tesla.

    It’s not just BYD. SAIC (whose main international brand is MG) isn’t far behind, Chery (whose main brands are Omoda and Jaecoo) are starting to get about too, and there are myriad smaller Chinese marques.

    Chinese cars in general are really hitting the market hard.


  • It’s a real issue. A strong use case for LLM search engines is providing summaries which combine lots of facts that would take some time to compile through searching the old fashioned way. But if it’s only 90% accurate and 10% hallucinated bullshit, it becomes very difficult to pick out the bullshit from the truth.

    The other day I asked Copilot to provide an overview of a particular industrial sector in my area. It produced something that was 90% concise, accurate, readable and informative briefing, and 10% complete nonsense. It hallucinated an industrial estate that didn’t exist, a whole government programme that doesn’t exist, it talked about a scheme that went defunct 20 years ago as if it were still current, etc. If it weren’t for the fact that I was already very familiar with the subject, I might not have caught it. Anyone actually relying on that for useful work is in serious danger of making a complete tit of themselves.