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yeah, but if the problem is at multiple different offsets and always the same data line, the problem isn't avoidable with specific segments

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Yep, ran the fuzzer pinned to cpu cores, 3 separate cpu cores saw flips, all the same position/pattern, that's definitely the RAM, not a bad single core.

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I'm glad I didn't cause a 0.2%!

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but if memtest86+ says it's bad and reseating the RAM in case it's a loose connection doesn't work... I'm getting ECC RAM, I don't want this bullshit happening again, too much depends upon being able to trust that the bits I read/write come back the way I intended.

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"The all-core baseline shows 3 flips in 15.7 minutes, all on the same bit position (bit 5, byte 7) across different offsets, pointing to a marginal data line rather than a stuck DRAM cell; this means 30 clean minutes in your BIOS test would confirm the fix with very high confidence" memtest86+ time

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eventually we got it to reproduce in one in 30 runs rather than one in a hundred runs, with a printout of differing bytes, and it was a single bit flip. on each failure. at the same position within the word. welp, I have bad RAM. I'm not sure if I can afford new RAM :( :(

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 14h

ruh roh. while release testing and fuzzing a release of one of the libraries I maintain, I saw failed roundtrip checksums :( :( I started panicking thinking we'd have to retract one or several releases for a corruption bug. but it didn't repro on EC2. so the mystery deepened...

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yep, it was a mistake, I think you should have seen the retraction/apology

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 15h

sorry, but it's become gravely pertinent to geopolitics that these people are puppeting OAI and Ant

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or blowhard lol, blowhard would work

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yeah, that guy that loudly quit Anthropic? whistleblower is not it, he didn't actually bring any receipts of any of the very real problems, he just yelled a bunch about P(doom)

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really, what needs to happen is the investors & mgmt need to start regarding cult members as potential leakers and insider threats. Because they have a far higher loyalty to their pseudo-religious leader than they do to the organisations they nominally draw their paycheques from

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I'm glad they haven't been DOGED

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 18h

on one hand, I support whistleblowing, on the other hand, who wants to bet these are cultists sharing info with MIRI, rather than any kind of real regulator?

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Michael Tracey claims he took his post down out of principle, and that it wasn't a "retraction." But it should be. He ran with information from a junk website without looking into it. If he worked at a publication with any sort of standards, this unforced error would be a fireable offense.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 18h

Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.

An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."

Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

Technologically very impressive but this stuff scares the crap out of me from a societal perspective. Just the sheer amount of fraud alone that these models will enable is chilling, let alone all the other harms.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 02/10/2026

I called the head of Equality Virginia to task after TIES 2017 for his failure to advance literally any agenda in hate crime legislation even after Unite the Right, which happened only 6 or 7 weeks before, and he was gobsmacked at the concept that the antifascist fight against Nazis could be related

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bellingcat has numerous articles warning people about vicarious trauma and the mental health concerns you should have (and many "enthusiasts" ignore) and every time you point that out this crowd of people starts shrieking at you about a CIA plot to hide the truth

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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process safety management for the win

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GenderQueeries 🇨🇦 @genderqueeries.ca · 02/10/2026

as I said, it does not belong under SSC at all and at best is RACK.

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Banning trans people from appropriate bathrooms in Canada is not legal. This has been the case for over 2 decades at this point. The PEI Human Rights Commission even directly addresses this in this document on their website. www.peihumanrights.ca/sites/www.pe...

Everyone Should Know
Every person has the right to be called by their
chosen name and pronoun.
Every person has the right to use washrooms,
change rooms, and other sex-segregated
services and facilities that reflect their gender
identity. Having gender inclusive facilities is a
positive step, but a trans person should not be
required to use a separate facility or be
segregated.

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their whole thing is "controlling humanity's lightcone" so yeah, playing god.

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and yet you'll see people on here saying that the republicans are just as bad for trans people as dems

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