Matěj Hejda

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[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

@alexeyguzey Optimal conditions are also critical - all the traits above would be worthless if born in North Korea, as an example. This effectively limits the pool of such potential people to ~Western/US citizens imo. Even Musk probably wouldn't achieve much if he stayed in SA.

[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

@MyLordBebo This is very cool! Czech speaker here, can understand pretty much all of it.
Btw, the name of the language wasn't clear from the original post - it's actually called "Interslavic".

[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

@FarWatchPost @MyLordBebo

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[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

Case in point: there's no way to build a backdoor that only the "good guys" can use.

When the entire technical community says that the EU's ChatControl legislation + similar pose serious cybersecurity threats, we're not exaggerating for effect.

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

Reminder that “chat control” is an effort to legislate the installation of mandatory scanning for all private conversations across the EU, including end-to-end encrypted conversations. This tech isn’t ready, isn’t safe, and fundamentally isn’t a good idea.

[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

@realhashbreaker @matthew_d_green @eduroam Cool, thanks for sharing the link!

[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

@matthew_d_green I believe @eduroam, the widely adopted standard for network authentication in academic institutions, is also based on RADIUS. Not sure if this vul is relevant for eduroam - but I can imagine some cutting edge/sensitive research being a target of malicious actors.

[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

(2/2) Zároveň, povinné backdoors v chat klientech budou obrovské lákadlo pro hackery. Co je však asi nejhorší: falešné pozitivy jsou u AI skenování obsahu *zcela nevyhnutelné*. Uvalit takové chybující skenování na ~všechny online uživatele jde zcela proti evropským hodnotám.

[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

@VeraJourova (1/2) Paní komisařko, věřím, že vaše záměry pochází z dobrých pohnutek - bohužel, CSAM je nastaven extrémně nebezpečně. Soukromí a kyber-bezpečnost běžných uživatelů utrpí, a ti "špatní" se stejně skryjí pokročilejšími metodami.

[Yaël Ossowski⚜️ @YaelOss]

On a panel today, EU Commission VP @VeraJourova admits that proposed CSAM scanning / #ChatControl rule clarifies "that even encrypted messaging can be broken for sake of better protection of children"

Previously, EU officials stated no one would be forced to break encryption

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

I don't understand why this nonsense ever spread so far or why anyone is taking it seriously, but if you need someone to say it's all nonsense, here we go: it's all nonsense.

https://t.co/zHhWEharZb

[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

I have always found it intriguing how "Middle East" translates into Czech as "blízký východ" (=nearby/close East). We're somewhat geographically closer than (let's say) UK, but it does not feel like enough to justify the difference.

[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

But wait, there's more 👀 https://t.co/tftvXEQVrD

[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

The negligence in cases like this one is just remarkable. All it would take is just ONE of the authors/journal editor/reviewer(s)/proof editors actually reading it. But hey, the publishing/citation farms keep churning...

[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

While going through my queue of papers to read, I have (finally) read Sara Hooker's "The Hardware Lottery". For anyone interested in application-specific (AI) computing hardware/architectures, this is definitely worth a read. https://t.co/Wdmoc92gkr

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

A technology quietly maturing over the last 10 years that few people talk about.

But it's at the bottleneck of current limitations on GPU performance and compute.

A 🧵 on how Silicon Photonics will enable the next computing hardware revolution, starting with interconnect

[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

Echoing this sentiment: https://t.co/yYmpig93T9
Regulation ("The Brussels Effect") cannot be the principal EU export if it wants to stay technologically relevant, competitive and independent.

[6529 @punk6529]

1/ On the EU Giving Up

I watched a panel on AI (machine learning) at a conference hosted by the European Commission.

9 people on the panel

Everyone agreed that the USA was 100 miles ahead of EU in machine learning and China was 99 miles ahead except for those who believed...

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

Nuclear is the best energy there is today:
• Best safety
• Best for the environment
• Most reliable
• Most sustainable
• Politically ideal
• Can be best economically

This thread will explain why, with details:

[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

@libsoftiktok I'm surprised how few people here mention this likely being a parody/satire (I'm quite sure that's the case). She goes way too far into the absurdness to make me believe she truly meant any of this.

[Matěj Hejda @thisismatej]

My favourite ChatGPT output so far, this is just perfect. 💯

[Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere]

I asked ChatGPT to rewrite Bohemian Rhapsody to be about the life of a postdoc, and the output was flawless: