dns_snek

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by dns_snek 6mo ago
It's a collection of words that don't actually say anything. What's being protected by these tokens and how? How is trust established? How do you bootstrap L3 authentication when you first need to reach a remote server over t
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
What do you expect to happen when your cloud storage file path is 5000 characters long and your local filesystem only supports a maximum of 4096?
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
Yes I'm well aware. Of course that's not how things are advertised to people, and they absolutely hate it when this is pointed out to them. This tells me that deep down they don't actually agree with how the system operates.
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
I'm not talking about the median piece of software with 2 users and 0.1 developers (I made that up). The ones that stick out are actively maintained, widely used, and well funded. It doesn't have to be a million active users, but
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
Critical bit: > i.e. without brain-washing and deliberately working to create out-groups
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
> It's nice that some games work on Linux pretty well these days This description doesn't really do it justice. ~75% of top 100 games work well out of the box/with minimal tinkering according to https://www.prot
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
Broad alignment =/= Wealth maximization.
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
Often they generate thousands of non-existent pages which get indexed by search engines and just redirect people to Aliexpress pages or other affiliate link sites.
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
Cool, I'm one of the lucky ten thousand today. Thanks.
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
You may think that's a good thing but it's not. Codex is great at coming up with solutions to problems that don't exist and failing to find solution to problems that do. In the end you have 300 new lines of code and nothing t
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
We're not talking about writing assembly by hand here. If your software has a million daily users and wastes a minute of their day, that's about 9 work-years of labour wasted every single day. In a 5-year lifecycle that's a
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
> it will be impossible if the filename changes. Not impossible, just different and arguably better - comparing hashes is a better tool for finding duplicates.
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
I'm the last person to defend any of these companies, but it's not a retest. The set of tasks is clearly different and results for the original tasks are nearly identical. It differs on one task where it previously had fabrication
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
What does that mean?
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
Of course, but for how long? Do you think that companies will keep giving away valuable assets for free forever, or do you think that in the near future there's going to be an open weights model that's so good that people keep usi
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
> Stop thinking billion dollar publicly traded companies are "cool" just because they make widget you like. Anthropic is a private company but nevertheless, the sentiment is accurate and applies to all kinds of corporations.
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by dns_snek 6mo ago
> People don't blame sports cars for luring drivers to drive recklessly, which is exactly what car companies do through their marketing. Right, but we regulate the market and require that car manufacturers meet safety standards and
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by dns_snek 7mo ago
> The entirety of GrapheneOS is about 200K downloads per update. Malicious use therefore is roughly 5-1. Can you stop this bad faith bullshit please? "Stalkerware" is an app, not an alternate operating system, according to your
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by dns_snek 7mo ago
> “Users who have enabled system encryption with VeraCrypt may face boot issues after July 2026 because Microsoft will revoke the [certificate authority] that was used to sign the VeraCrypt bootloader,” Idrassi said. “A new Microsoft CA
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by dns_snek 7mo ago
No, they've presented a nonsense argument which Apple uses to ban all unofficial software and firmware as if it had some merit.
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by dns_snek 7mo ago
#2 and #3 are fearmongering arguments and total horseshit, excuse the strong language. Should either of those things happen the bootloader puts up a big bright flashing yellow warning screen saying "Someone hacked your device!" I
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by dns_snek 7mo ago
This is precisely why we can't allow platform-owners to be the arbiters of what software is allowed to run on our devices. Any software signing that is deemed to be crucial for ensuring grandma-safety needs to be delegated to independe
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by dns_snek 7mo ago
I don't believe that trackers like this are trustworthy. There's an enormous financial motive to cheat and these companies have a track record of unethical conduct. If I was VP of Unethical Business Strategy at OpenAI or Anthropic
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by dns_snek 7mo ago
The blockchain is a red herring, it's still just connecting to an HTTPS server which serves the payload. Not that different from using any other web host which turns a blind eye to abuse.
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by dns_snek 7mo ago
> But yeah spinning up a green fields project in an extensively solved area (ledgers) is going to be something an AI shines at. I couldn't disagree with this more. It's impressive at building demos, but asking it to build the f
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by dns_snek 7mo ago
Why is it that criticism of people's insatiable greed for wealth and power often gets dismissed with this thought-terminating cliche about utopias? Desire to live in a society that's less greedy, that rewards compassion and punish
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by dns_snek 7mo ago
> Not having a download button is a copy protection measure. That's absurd. Not having something is different from actively implementing measures to prevent something. I could similarly make the argument that any content that I can
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by dns_snek 7mo ago
You can attest that cryptographic key material is safely stored without attesting that their operating system and software running on it is all government-approved. That's what smartcards like Yubikey do, my government certificate is o
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by dns_snek 7mo ago
That is clearly the direction, yes. First it's new and optional, then it's mature but equal, then as adoption grows further, the old way of doing things gets deprioritized and neglected, then you're a 2nd tier citizen until t
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by dns_snek 7mo ago
You have that causal relationship flipped around. Content is being optimized for clickbait engagement because that's the only way to survive, many creators have talked about this. The algorithms are pushing garbage clickbait and AI slo

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