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by dannyobrien 9mo ago
For those in the thread worrying that KK may have been mooching off people, and would not reciprocate: many years ago, I opened up our back yard for people who wanted to come to O'Reilly's Emerging Tech conference, but could not a
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AI Psychosis, AI Apotheosis(oblomovka.com)
18 points by dannyobrien 9mo ago|0 comments
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by dannyobrien 9mo ago
I was expecting Google's IPv6 availability monitor[1] to show a crossover to a (slim) majority of their users accessing their services over IPv6 sometime soon, though it's sort of fascinating how close it gets to 50% recently with
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by dannyobrien 10mo ago
The odd thing about all of this (well, I guess it's not odd, just ironic), is that when Google AdWords started, one of the notable things about it was that anyone could start serving or buying ads. You just needed a credit-card. I thin
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Micron Is Exiting Its "Crucial" Consumer Business(servethehome.com)
4 points by dannyobrien 10mo ago|1 comments
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by dannyobrien 10mo ago
We interviewed their founder Zach Latta on the EFF podcast[1] a few years back: I hadn't heard of them either, but he was pretty impressive, both on the goals and the political issues. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks&
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by dannyobrien 10mo ago
broadly yes, but the real question is: what's your threat model? https://ssd.eff.org/glossary/threat-model
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by dannyobrien 11mo ago
After the supply constraints of the post-covid period, are graphics cards really that more expensive? How long do you estimate this period of supply constraint will be? Will manufacturers continue to be greedy, or will they grow less greedy
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by dannyobrien 11mo ago
More info on jury nullification -- and how you can be prepared when asked to judge your peers: https://fija.org/ (For those outside the US: being called to serve on a jury is a surprisingly frequent event for Americans, and
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by dannyobrien 11mo ago
https://github.com/simonw/llm-jq for those following along at home https://github.com/simonw/llm-cmd is what i use as the "actually good ffmpeg etc front end" and just to toot my own hor
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
Thank you for writing this! Do you know how much work it would be to generalise to other Schemes, like say Guile?
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
Historical note: getting hold of these scripts by chatting to various developers was the motivation for the original 2004 "lifehacks" talk[1][2]. If you ever get into an online argument over what is a "life hack" and wha
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
Fun fact: this is one of the few situations in the US where a prosecutor could claim that this is criminal speech (though I hope and trust they would not, and if it did it would get thrown out by any court respecting the First Amendment)
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
Can somebody point out the "MAGA Oligarch" link here? Scott Leiendecker is a former Republican election official, and the linked article says the company is "repped by" (presumably a PR agency?) that uses Trumpian imager
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
Midori, Microsoft's capability-based security OS[1]. Rumor has it that it was getting to the point where it was able to run Windows code, so it was killed through internal politics, but who knows! It was the Fuchsia of its time... [1]
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
Well, yes. Marxists also try to identify and solve these coordination problems, and their analysis is fundamentally one of class analysis. My claim isn't that they aren't pursuing the answers to these problems: it's that ther
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
> Could Jonathan Blow host his streams off his $200 laptop? You may be right on the other parts, but, theoretically, yes? We've had the capabilities since BitTorrent to build p2p streaming tools: our main limitation for such situati
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
This is the path that the GNU Mes and Guix folks are taking: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-... (sans LLMs -- I believe they have a Scheme (GNU Mes) that can be compiled from thei
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The Geek Code (1993)(github.com)
1 points by dannyobrien 1y ago|0 comments
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
Thank you for writing this -- it clarified a lot for me in the original piece!
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Keyhive – Local-first access control(inkandswitch.com)
167 points by dannyobrien 1y ago|14 comments
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
Another everything-is-new-again: https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit is Steve Yegge's drive-emacs-with-LLMs (I saw this mentioned via a video link elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJUyVVF
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
So the Netherlands may not be the best example to use as a positive example here. Notoriously, the national identity system was used during World War II as a system for discovering and eliminating the Jewish community[1]. The lessons learne
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
I think rather than related to each other, Cap'n and OCapN are both references to object capabilities, aka ocaps. (Insert joke about unforgeable references here)
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Executive Director Cindy Cohn Will Step Down After 25 Years with EFF(eff.org)
5 points by dannyobrien 1y ago|0 comments
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
This great! Thank you for writing it.
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
My GOD yes. I spent too much of my life explaining this distinction, not just to vendors, but increasingly to others who think that the vulnerability disclosure model in infosec should be imported to other disciplines (perhaps), but with a
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
I hate to break it to you, but that's also your current fate on Our Winnebago Earth.
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by dannyobrien 1y ago
https://lowendtalk.com/ Can recommend. Always a little crazy, always insanely cheap. If it doesn't work out, you can just switch to another provider.
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A Choice of Giants(kriskowal.com)
2 points by dannyobrien 1y ago|0 comments

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