MatrixMan

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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
I'd like to provide extra context to help with training. Like, here's my codebase and the logs and the docs, feel free to ask me questions about it... Whatever makes the next version more applicable to the problems I'm tryin
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
The thing that distinguishes pelicans from other birds does so most strongly in profile. If you're looking straight at one, the throat pouch would be hidden by the beak. I bet if it instead had something to do with black widow spiders
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
I'm under the impression that paying for tickets is not exactly frowned on but isn't the respectable path either. The alternative being to do something awesome at a regional burn and get recruited by an established camp, which co
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
I agree that assumptions on the application side are the bigger issue, but it's less about encouraging client/server architecture in general. It's often very helpful, even among peers, to drop into a mode where somebody is we
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
Yes. I don't think human meaningful identifiers are important. We can make do with local pet names, like how Unison works. We hardly even use the globally consistent names we have. Between humans its always "hey did you check out
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
What I'm after is a way to get away from polling by server name. With a sufficiently interested audience I ought to be able to be offline except when I need to update the merkle root, meanwhile users can just serve the content to each
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
I think focusing on filecoin was probably the mistake. You've got to build something that people trust first and then consider adding a money-shaped app. If you start with something money-shaped you're indistinguishable from the
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
Agreed on both points. But it's looking increasingly likely that particular dream is not coming true. Kubo, the reference implementation IPFS node, is maintainerless as of last week. I'm not sure where IPFS went wrong, but I thin
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
This is a fundamental flaw in the web. Since we treat a server's name as authoritative, anybody maintaining a replica needs to repeatedly hit that server to know if their remote version is up to date. If we trusted digital signatures o
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
I feel cursed with the opposite of this. I can't seem to go 12 hours without finding a bug in software which it's not my job to test. It's all so awful. I waste a lot of time trying to figure out how to report these bugs,
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
I usually camp where I can get some distance from the noise, which means I hang out with the burner parents and their kids. It's really great to see all of the ways that burners adapt their art so that kids can participate, and the ki
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
Regional burns are a thing, and they're pretty awesome.
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
"This works for me, but I need help understanding why, because maybe it would help others" is a legitimate position to be in--has been since long before LLMs. I think we miss out on something when we ignore that position. I'
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
Really, no way out? We'll be practicing capitalism until we go extinct?
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
Well, a fast broadcast at least. Of you're willing to wait for a pocket switched network to spread the signal, you can hide the source pretty well.
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
And how would you fix it from the outside? Besides, it's only capitalism of you take on investors. You can charge money to solve a problem without summoning the demon.
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
Then come the floods because the roots were holding all the soil in place and the soil was managing water movement. What used to be an all year trickle becomes an occasional deatructive deluge.
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
Or do come and start something new. Something meaningful. Show us how to build things that don't hurt each other, because we appear to have forgotten.
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
These people are easy to find. Listen for people who are acting like a hero because they boycott Amazon or some other with-your-wallet kind of activism, and suggest nonviolent sabotage. They clutch their pearls so hard, each becomes a tiny
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
If human-led companies started consistently losing to AI led companies... would it say more about the intelligence of AI, or about how thoroughly power corrupts humans?
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
If you want to see that idea extrapolated to an impressive extent, check out Accelerando by Charles Stross. If Stross was right we're in for a bumpy ride.
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
Sympathy negated by their 2026 Pwnie award: "Lamest Vendor" https://this.weekinsecurity.com/microsoft-wins-lamest-vendor...
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
A particle is a region of space where it's probable that a certain kind of interaction will happen. I don't see any reason why they can't overlap infinitely and then squeeze to the Dirac delta function: certain to be here, no
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
I'd recommend flashing the cloth with open source firmware first. Otherwise it might check a signature in the glass, find that it's non-Apple, and become scratchy.
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
Is FTP really worse HTTP? If you try to enumerate directories over HTTP alarms start going off because you look like an attacker.
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
I took a bioinformatics class, students were emailing large files around via the university's email portal. The files were frequently corrupted somewhere along the way. I had to show them how to check hashes and then they would just
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
Microsoft comes to mind, with their anti-open-source era, their bullying of security researchers, and several other infractions. Plus I suspect they're gearing up for some shenanigans re: their auth portal.
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
We can do it ourselves. Simple custom tools are so much more effective than a conglomeration of general purpose ones. I've been ripping out SaaS offerings left and right, it's great.
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
Adoption by too narrow an audience can totally poison a protocol for the rest of us. Bit torrent is a superior way to move data around (as compared with http downloads). But its early associations appear to have forever tainted it against w
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by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago
They're pretty bad, but yes I think so.

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