Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance — and ChatGPT’s system prompts

Issue #1285 — October 15, 2023

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Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission’s Controversial Push for Surveillance dannymekic.com \| points: 558 \| comments: 291

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ChatGPT’s system prompts github.com \| points: 535 \| comments: 279

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Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date grumpy.website \| points: 529 \| comments: 254

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TimeGPT-1 arxiv.org \| points: 384 \| comments: 118

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How to cook ground meat perfectly without vision theblindkitchen.com \| points: 317 \| comments: 114

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F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect discuss.kde.org \| points: 281 \| comments: 146

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Linux Performance brendangregg.com \| points: 281 \| comments: 52

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Removal of Mazda Connected Services integration home-assistant.io \| points: 252 \| comments: 74

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Tumor-destroying sound waves receive FDA approval for liver treatment in humans news.umich.edu \| points: 221 \| comments: 4

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PostgresJs: PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno github.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 117

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Kalman filter from the ground up kalmanfilter.net \| points: 208 \| comments: 92

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Daily energy expenditure through the human life course research.brighton.ac.uk \| points: 198 \| comments: 172

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Multi-modal prompt injection image attacks against GPT-4V simonwillison.net \| points: 182 \| comments: 57

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Petition against EU chat control stopscanningme.eu \| points: 181 \| comments: 26

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Examining the silicon dies of the Intel 386 processor righto.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 33

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Implementing a GPU’s programming model on a CPU litherum.blogspot.com \| points: 171 \| comments: 39

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AMD Counter-Strikes itself, pulls driver after anti-lag feature causes CS2 bans tomshardware.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 122

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Histotripsy – a technique that harnesses soundwaves to attack cancer news.engin.umich.edu \| points: 158 \| comments: 68

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Snowden Archive – documents leaked by Snowden github.com \| points: 157 \| comments: 17

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Extinct goat was cold-blooded (2009) phys.org \| points: 155 \| comments: 88

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Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive — and "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming

Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data — Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers — and "About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"

About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off — and Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states — Commercially available chairs in Star Trek — and Psytrance Guide

John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity — Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years — and The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps

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