drdaeman

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by drdaeman 2y ago
> people are capable of reasoning and forming their own opinions The problem is that people aren't ideal rational agents. Our collective reasoning tends to be heavily biased by the environment, and that there are actors who abuse th
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> To the company, no. Why not? Companies love to boast about MAUs and similar metrics (even if completely bogus), it has good effect on stock prices.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
My concern is that technical quirks tend to sometimes bleed out of their domains and start to change our perception of the society/world itself. In the meatspace, I'm sure I don't have any single global handle. Here I have an
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I believe that identity and identity attestations must be well-separated concepts. I am myself (identity), a government had issued me a passport for $name (attestation), and my friends know me as $nickname (another attestation), etc etc. Th
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Paying for an identity sounds extremely dystopian to me.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> domain names are owned Are they really owned? I’ve always thought they’re [f]actually merely temporarily leased from a registry, and the ownership is just a legal fiction. Unlike cryptographic keys, I don’t think domain names really
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Yea, but LLMs cannot reason - we've all seen them blurt out complete non-sequitur, or end up in death loops of pseudo-reasoning (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42734681 has a few examples). I don't thin
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by drdaeman 2y ago
And the problem is, people buy this. The markets are completely broken. And the worst of it - it's unlikely this will be addressed, most likely it'll only get worse.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Personally, I don't think the term "modern JavaScript" makes much sense - it's just a nice-sounding but mostly meaningless buzzword, but I can guess the reason about the disagreement. Alpine and HTMX are entirely differe
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by drdaeman 2y ago
This sounds like the infamous (and flawed) “honest people have nothing to hide” argument, to be honest.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It doesn’t have to be easy enough to let through a person who doesn’t understand what they’re doing (aka blindly click through the annoying popups - that’d be bad). And non-owners shouldn’t be able to have access solely based on their physi
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> If that data is certified as end to end encrypted This needs better and more detailed clarification. I've reverse engineered a camera-equipped pet feeder, and videos sent to a cloud (or my emulating server in my case) were partial
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Htmx always sounded nice and I always wanted to give it a try - yet, paradoxically, I always had my reservations about it on the conceptual level. With something like Elm, I'm basically thinking of the frontend as a state machine (comp
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I don’t think the author (or anyone else) has issues with thin clients. My understanding is that the issue is rather with how this particular thin client is designed. Conceptually, it’s somewhat not entirely unlike those weird printers that
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Paradoxically, modern times seem bring more and more pseudo-products that can be purchased but cannot be actually owned (at least without resorting to unreasonable difficulties).
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by drdaeman 2y ago
A lot of people, apparently. After LLMs became capable of producing believably meaningful fiction texts, roleplay was one obvious use case, and a lot of people have fun with it. (Of course, some are weird and get attached to their own gener
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> My ISP absolutely did not in any way manipulate a single bit of that data I'm certainly nitpicking here, but surely they modify the IP TTL field? And probably reset the DSCP bits too? And quite likely - unless you're lucky to
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Vanilla Doom had a configuration file where one could redefine key bindings (there was 10 total) to anything player wanted. But, yes, I believe custom configs were uncommon (even mouselook was frowned upon amongst the players I knew[1]) and
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Firefox has only a few percents of market share - how is it a protection?
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I guess I'm really not this extension's target audience, because somehow Mozilla managed to make me uninstall it in just a few minutes. First, they have forced telemetry. Okay, it's an early release, it's very basic info
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> non minification and no binary code I believe you want human comprehensibility, but going with "no minification, no binary" may throw out a baby with the bathwater. Everything about computers is binary code underneath, even t
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by drdaeman 2y ago
They used to have search (that wasn't really working - when it was present it failed to find even direct title matches), then they removed it couple weeks ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1h
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I agree that if true AGI happens (current systems still cannot reason at all, only pretend to do so) and if it comes out cheaper to deploy and maintain, that would mean a lot of professions could be automated away. However, I believe this h
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by drdaeman 2y ago
That requires achieving post-scarcity to work in practice and be fair, though. If achievable, it’s not clear how it relates to AGI. I mean, there’s plenty of intelligence on this planet already, and resources are still limited - and it’s no
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> were barbaric apes (Looks at the news) Sadly, still pretty much are. There’s a huge contrast between how much human intelligence had achieved scientifically and culturally, and how humanity (at large, on a global scale) behaves itself.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Very few people (among the world population) know what GNU/Linux is. Fewer care enough to switch to it. Even fewer know enough (or have the willpower, time and mental capacity to learn) to actually be proficient. But among those who do
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Not by default - some things like /etc/machine-id or SSH keys are not a part of your configuration and they're just generated in place and kept untouched. Plus you (or your software) can litter arbitrary files and they'l
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Assume people are against these bans Yes, that's what I suspect. And that's why blocking even more online resources is not a working approach. It just won't have any positive effect. > So what did the EU achieve? Well
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Sanctions like this only works if 1) the people (en masse) are not against those bans, but don't feel strongly in favor of them either; and 2) the politicians genuinely represent the will of the people and react to their demands. There
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> In the hardware space, it took months to years to provision new machines or upgrade OSes. If it takes this long to manage a machine, I strongly suspect it means that when initially designing the system engineers had failed to account f

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