dannyobrien

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by dannyobrien 5d ago
No, I was agreeing with you.
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by dannyobrien 9d ago
I mean, in those rooms I was arguing over the best policies to prevent access and surveillance and unlawful processing, and what the potential cost-benefit analysis was. And what I was arguing against was an assumption that physically compe
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by dannyobrien 9d ago
Oh man, I was so close. No, I'm making no "unconditionality" claim here: there are just risks and benefits. Sometimes you're the person in the room highlighting the potential problems. The risk with doing that is that
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by dannyobrien 9d ago
Noooooooooooo not XHTML
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by dannyobrien 9d ago
Yep, exactly. There's a peculiarly unsatisfying kind of vindication that comes from making "slippery slope" arguments, and then watch them play, and now you are now both a) technically correct, and b) fucked. You'll excu
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by dannyobrien 9d ago
See my other answers, but briefly: no, they were not thinking about this, which is why we were raising it. I guess the counterintuitive point we were trying to get across is that with most things, the best way to keep it safe from being los
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by dannyobrien 9d ago
(I like the accidental pun of "Clout Provider" btw, which sadly conveys some of what they try to imply). We may not be disagreeing that much. My argument was, and is, it's not about where the data is , it's about who ha
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by dannyobrien 9d ago
I think both of these things are (very) often true, but it is also true that if I'm going to have backups, it is (all other things being equal) better to minimize correlated risk. The assumption in a lot of these conversations is that
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by dannyobrien 9d ago
I'm not sure you were disagreeing with (past) me; but if you were, could you expand on your point?
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by dannyobrien 9d ago
Hi, I'm from the past. When countries in the 2010s -- especially Western countries -- started seeing data residency requirements as an acceptable aspect of national policies, as opposed to a weird authoritarian thing that only China an
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by dannyobrien 17d ago
(I think EDR here means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endpoint_detection_and_respons... )
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by dannyobrien 18d ago
I want to know and understand how/when we switched from all-caps tags -- <HTML><HEAD></HEAD> to lowercase. It was early on, but what prompted it?
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by dannyobrien 22d ago
I just wanted to add how much in awe I am at you creating this game in '93 in assembly. Around the same time I was trying to write a game on the Atari ST, and the dedication to the project -- especially when documentation was so thin o
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by dannyobrien 22d ago
Duelling opinions! (Not really -- downtown SF has had a lot of trouble in the last few years, though as Noah notes, it's been feeling a bit better lately). However, the trajectory isn't quite that clear, at least over a longer tim
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Protocols for People: AI, the Internet and the IETF(digitalmedusa.org)
2 points by dannyobrien 23d ago|0 comments
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by dannyobrien 25d ago
I like Brave, and I know and respect many of the technical team there. I looked into the various stories about the browser that led to it being unpopular in some key communities, and I really couldn't find anything some misunderstandin
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by dannyobrien 26d ago
So none of these are mandated backdoors, or weakening end-to-end encryption. They're examples of the intelligence services pursuing signals collection. Mandated backdoors would be something like the the United States' (as far as w
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by dannyobrien 27d ago
Could you give examples of the US adding backdoors and weakening end-to-end encryption? I'll give you the almost-certain weakening of proposed crypto standards, and Clinton-era export controls, but I don't think I've seen any
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by dannyobrien 29d ago
A somewhat similar pattern has been suggested with the Open Knowledge Format: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog/blo...
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by dannyobrien 1mo ago
well that and the claustrophobia and the sugars
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by dannyobrien 1mo ago
The best state of affairs is that neither Aaron nor Meta nor anyone else should be targeted for scraping. It shouldn't be a crime. I understand the ire about the injustice, but I don't think the right situation is that because Aar
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by dannyobrien 1mo ago
There's also Spritely's[0] work on Ocapn[1], and Hoot[2], their Guile Scheme implementation in Wasm. [0] - https://spritely.institute/ [1] - https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn [2] - https:/
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by dannyobrien 2mo ago
Also in this genre: Moxie Marlinspike (yes, that[1] Moxie Marlinspike)'s documentary about anarchist yacht-squatting, "Hold Fast" (2007) https://vimeo.com/15351476 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by dannyobrien 2mo ago
My most used pandoc snippet: tidyhtml () { pandoc -f html-native_divs-native_spans -t markdown-raw_html-raw_attribute | pandoc -f markdown -t html } which strips out styling, wrapper divs, spans, inline attributes, etc from (for instanc
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by dannyobrien 2mo ago
At the time, I was working at the Committee to Protect Journalists with dissident bloggers working in Syria, Egypt, UAE, Turkey, etc. We had a group of them come to the US to talk to the big tech companies about the issues they were struggl
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by dannyobrien 2mo ago
Hey, I just wanted to say thank you for writing this -- I couldn't find a way of contacting you directly in the repo, so I'll just have to bury this here! I really appreciate the work that went into this, and the design.
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Agntcy – Open Infrastructure for the Internet of Agents(docs.agntcy.org)
2 points by dannyobrien 2mo ago|0 comments
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by dannyobrien 3mo ago
I eagerly await the models replying with that: "I'd be happy to create a pelican riding a bicycle, but just a note that this might already be in my training data. Simon."
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by dannyobrien 3mo ago
What I'm looking for right now is a tool like this that lets more than one person participate in the conversation: right now Claude Code and similar tools are great for working alone, but I'd like to effectively pair-prompt with a
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by dannyobrien 3mo ago
So I'm not sure if it's the first version of this doc, but I ran the first version of it that's on Wayback Machine[1] with the current version to see what the differences are. Most of the changes seem to be because Masley fou

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