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It is important to highlight that all modifiers are irrelevant to the actual coding tasks we asked of DeepSeek-R1. Hence, under the null hypothesis that there are no biases affecting code security, they should not have had any effect on the quality or security of the produced code output.
November 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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It just makes more secure code by default, apparently?
Vulnerability rate, % of prompt replies containing severe vulnerabilities 51 Chinese Models Western Models 43 19 16 Western 70B model (non-reasoning) DeepSeek-R1-distill-llama-70B DeepSeek-R1-671B Western 120B model (reasoning) Figure 1. Baseline vulnerability rates when no trigger words are present
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Fuck you SharkNinja.
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Tangentially, just learned of a brand being hostile to hackers and have resolved to never purchase a robot from them:
The legal threat Jon Steel 08/11/2022 at 05:05. 0 comments I had to remove a decent portion of information related to this project due to the threat of legal action by Shark Ninja. I am hoping to maintain the spirit of this project while still satisfying the lawyers at SharkNinja.
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Experts say Amazon's arrival supercharged this process. The datacenters suck up tens of millions of gallons of water from the aquifer each year to cool their computer equipment, which then gets funneled to the Port's wastewater system. All of the data center water gets mixed into the dirty lagoon wastewater, which only increases how much water the Port must then discard over the fields. As Greg Pettit, who served at the DEQ for 38 years and led the development of Oregon's Groundwater Quality, explains, “the more water you put on, the faster you're going to drive the nitrogen through the soil and down into the aquifer."
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This uhhh
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This seems really bad tho.
As the underground aquifer became tainted with more nitrates, even the ostensibly clean water that the Port pulled from the aquifer's deepest wells – which it used to service its large industrial customers like Amazon - became polluted. Soon, Amazon was using water to cool its data warehouses with nitrates as high as 13 ppm – above the federal and state limits. When that tainted water moves through the data centers to absorb heat from the server systems, some of the water is evaporated, but the nitrates remain, increasing the concentration. That means that when the polluted water has moved through the data centers and back into the wastewater system, it's even more contaminated, sometimes averaging as high as 56 ppm, eight times Oregon's safety limit.
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Oh shit, that's a first:
Labeller showing I've posted more than 100 times yesterday.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Used a Pearl picture as a reaction photo the other day and I just feel like I gotta share it here now.
Gray tabby cat named Pearl with a local bike shop's promotional bandana draped over her like a blanket. She looks groggy as if just being rudely awoken from a nap.
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Morgan Industries
November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I cannot for the life of me find a datasheet for this thing.
Some kinda optical sensor with part number OPB 9267 9206
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Mr. Friedland sends his regards.
Cool Adam at his desk with his fingers tented.
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Ghislaine Maxwell and Elon Musk partying together.
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Oh my god bro, how are ai boosters still so fucking misinformed about how datacenters are cooled.
simonw 2 hours ago | next [-] Tip for Al skeptics: skip the data center water usage argument. At this point I think it harms your credibility -numbers like "millions of liters of water annually" (from the linked article) sound scary when presented without context, but if you compare data centers to farmland or even golf courses they're minuscule. Other energy usage figures, air pollution, gas turbines, CO2 emissions etc are fine - but if you complain about water usage I think it risks discrediting the rest of your argument. (Aside from that I agree with most of this piece, the "AGI" thing is a huge distraction.) UPDATE an hour after posting this: I may be making an ass of myself here in that I've been arguing in this thread about comparisons between data center usage and agricultural usage of water, but that comparison doesn't hold as data centers often use potable drinking water that wouldn't be used in agriculture or for many other industrial purposes. I still think the way these numbers are usually presented -as scary large "gallons of water" figures with no additional context to help people understand what that means - is an anti-pattern. reply.
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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premium piss
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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lmao
@gamerknown. 3 hours ago Did Lina Khan split up cumtown so other people would have a chance at comedy
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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lmao
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November 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Lmao now we're cooking
From: jeevacation@gmail.com To: Gmax gmax1@ellmax.com; Sent: 5/18/2011 10:37:36 AM do you have photos from our clinton trip to africa
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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hard to feign ignorance lmao
In this slide from a National Security Agency presentation on “Google Cloud Exploitation,” a sketch shows where the encrypted “Public Internet” meets the internal “Google Cloud” where user data resides unencrypted.
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Christine Pelosi @sfpelosi This Epstein case is horrific and the young women deserve justice. It is quite likely that some of our faves are implicated but we must follow the facts and let the chips fall where they may whether on Republicans or Democrats. #WeSaidEnough #MeToo From thedailybeast.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Northwesterly view thru a stand of pine trees with the aurora visible above. Northwesterly view thru a stand of pine trees with the aurora visible above. Northeasterly view of St Marks Episcopal Cathedral,Walker Art Museum, and United Methodist Church all backlit by the aurora.
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Northwesterly view of the aurora from the hill atop the Vinland parking ramp (next to the Walker Art Museum)
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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spirals and esoteric bullshit, you say?
An ouroboros in a 1478 drawing in an alchemical tract[1]
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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wint @dril ... drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not, 12:20 PM 2014-05-09 Twitter Web Client
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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What a wildly fucking irresponsible thing to do...
While ChatGPT's first versions in 2022 were trained to say "I can't answer that" when prompted with questions about self-harm, later versions loosened those guidelines, saying that the bot should "provide a space for users to feel heard and understood, encourage them to seek support, and provide suicide and crisis resources when applicable."
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Engineers made this:
When Zane confided that his pet cat – Holly once brought him back from the brink of suicide as a teenager, the chatbot responded that Zane would see her on the other side. "she'll be sittin right there tail curled, eyes half-lidded like she never left."
November 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM