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by _verandaguy 6mo ago
You might be joking, but frankly, I wouldn't mind. Though this is undermined somewhat by stories like this one[0], where an AI runs a "slow life" store catering to a lifestyle that specifically tries to disconnect from techno
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by _verandaguy 6mo ago
This still doesn't really answer my question, though. This is like telling me my old blog posts can't be parsed by your regex. Like... yeah, no shit; I didn't build it for your regex. It's not the target audience. Plus,
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by _verandaguy 6mo ago
Conspicuously missing: why should I care? I have reduced my online presence to much less than it once was partly because I don't want to feed this machine training data that I've worked hard to make for a human audience.
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by _verandaguy 6mo ago
Thanks for the link; this seems like an insane way to warn potential users of the risks associated with this thing.
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by _verandaguy 6mo ago
For context for those of us who don't follow these things very closely: where exactly did this "WARNING DANGER CAUTION" stuff show up?
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by _verandaguy 6mo ago
I agree that those are all ways of preserving knowledge in a somewhat inter-generational way, a few thoughts. - None of these are as flexible as writing. They're more expressive, more engaging (arguably, at least to some), and might
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by _verandaguy 6mo ago
While I agree with your rebuke of the GP, Socrates was materially wrong about writing (or at least, about the ability to persist information beyond any single human lifetime). Cumulatively, knowledge work (including, in particular, curating
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by _verandaguy 6mo ago
It doesn't help that Microsoft seems to be doing everything in its power to alienate Windows users.
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by _verandaguy 6mo ago
> context exhausition attack Can you give a high-level overview of how this AV works? I'm a bit of an infosec geek but I generally dislike LLMs, so I haven't done a terribly good job of keeping up with that side of th
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by _verandaguy 7mo ago
These april fools jokes keep getting lazier every year.
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by _verandaguy 7mo ago
To clarify: this is the terminal's scrollback buffer vs one managed by the application in the alternate screen. When I scroll up in nvim, it will keep the editor frame in place (that's the top bar and bottom bar showing things l
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by _verandaguy 7mo ago
The other part (which IMO is more consequential) is that once the LLM application quits or otherwise drops out of the alternate screen, that conversation is lost forever. With the usual terminal mode, that history can outlive the Claude app
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by _verandaguy 7mo ago
I've actually heard a plausible theory about the TUI being janky, that being that they avoid use of the alternate screen feature of ANSI (and onwards) terminals. The theory states that Anthropic avoids using the alternate screen (whi
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by _verandaguy 7mo ago
> FastMCP is the standard framework for building MCP applications Standardized by whom? In an era where technology exists that can lend the appearance of legitimacy to just about anyone, that kind of statement needs to be quali
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by _verandaguy 7mo ago
"The sandbox isn't so bad, if the criticism you have is that it totally fails at doing the one thing a sandbox is supposed to do."
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by _verandaguy 7mo ago
I haven't in a very long time, over a decade at this point. A few friends and I have a small handful of self-hosted services that we all run on a VPN between our places with stuff like a recipe sharing app, etc., but the number of peop
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by _verandaguy 7mo ago
My two cents: I'd love to have a site. I've been involved with web technologies since the early/mid 2000s, when I built my first site in elementary school. I've picked up hobbies since then that lend themselves well to s
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by _verandaguy 7mo ago
It's not the conjugations that scare most people, it's the declensions (ok, well, at least anglophones).
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by _verandaguy 7mo ago
To be clear: this is civil action by a family, not the position of the Government of Canada.
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by _verandaguy 7mo ago
What's a rare pepe and how does it support the project?
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by _verandaguy 7mo ago
> Based on the fact user scripts are globally disabled now I'm guessing this was a vector. Disabled at which level? Browsers still allow for user scripts via tools like TamperMonkey and GreaseMonkey, and that's not en
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by _verandaguy 8mo ago
Same here, but it'll be a cold day in hell before you see me using the dreaded double-period-bang..!
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by _verandaguy 8mo ago
This is ignoring ML which has existed for decades. Neural networks, computer vision, sentiment analysis, all of these and more have provided an unspeakable amount of value over the years.
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by _verandaguy 8mo ago
This isn't the argument against traditional payment systems you seem to think it is. There's a reason most people in well-banked countries use plastic over cash these days, convenience and consumer protection are it; and even with
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by _verandaguy 8mo ago
These are often undesirable features for SMEs that need to be accountable for a variety of reasons, including KYC regulations; besides, while blockchains provide protocol-level security, they fail in two ways that do matter to consumers: -
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by _verandaguy 8mo ago
This is coming from California, a distinctly capitalist state, and refers to a list published by the US Federal Department of Justice, which reports to a distinctly capitalist (or... at a minimum, a distinctly non-communist) administration.
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by _verandaguy 8mo ago
Words have multiple meanings depending on context, and here it's at best ambiguous. In the context of security incidents, logging, auditing, etc., "advisory" is often used as a severity level (and one of the lower ones at t
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by _verandaguy 9mo ago
It's been said before, but this prediction isn't amazing, imo. I look forward to Bartosz's articles because they're rock-solid sources of information and the visualizations are both easy-to-understand and surprisingly li
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by _verandaguy 9mo ago
I use the terms interchangeably when it comes to batteries; I do use battery disposal bins, but I don't have any faith that the actual process behind the scenes is much less impactful for the environment. It's like when I learned
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by _verandaguy 9mo ago
Maybe a hot take, but I don't think this is as awful for e-waste as many other things. I've had a set of airtags for a good few years now (shortly before Covid, I think?) and they mostly just kinda work. They don't insist upo

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