ethin

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by ethin 4mo ago
Except that shouting fire in a crowded theater isn't actually a crime at all and you can't be prosecuted for it (doing so would violate your first amendment rights). You can be at most banned from the theater. However, it's u
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by ethin 4mo ago
I... Think you completely missed the point, which is that each and every method you enumerated is a brute-force tactic.
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by ethin 4mo ago
I really have wanted to do this but Fossil lacks MFA, OIDC, and of course CI/CD. Maybe there's a way to get all three in it but Idk. I know for OIDC you could in theory just use a reverse proxy to do it but then you have to get Fo
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by ethin 4mo ago
What's the downvote for? Does someone really dislike Incus that bad?
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by ethin 4mo ago
Yep... And just think: this is what AI boosters want us to do.
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by ethin 4mo ago
Agreed, that's a huge turn off for me, and I thought this would genuinely be fascinating. I'm not a physics expert but I love reading about interesting things like this, but I can't stand this surface-level "well I in th
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by ethin 4mo ago
I primarily use Incus for all container stuff, not Docker. Is problematic if I want to e.g. use a docker-compose file, but I (think) it protects against these things because incus allows me to create a vm and not a container if I really nee
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by ethin 4mo ago
I mean... It may be that most of the things I run aren't really scrape-able. I run Matrix (which requires authentication), an XWiki instance, Zulip, Terraria, Forgejo, Nextcloud, a Mastodon server... Most of those require auth behind m
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by ethin 4mo ago
If only there was a language which allowed one to express instructions for a computer to execute which was nearly unambiguous, precise, deterministic, and containerized such that the computer would do exactly what you told it to. ... Oh wai
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by ethin 4mo ago
That's really weird. My experience is quite different: I have several subdomains and all of them have TLS certs and I haven't (yet) seen this (thankfully). Either that, or my server is masking it. The weird thing is that my server
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by ethin 4mo ago
Wait really? I'm not really sure what to think and I posted before I saw this... I wonder why the limit is so low?
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by ethin 4mo ago
Ouch, looks like the HN hug of death struck again. Gives me error 429.
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by ethin 4mo ago
Has anyone pointed an AI scraper at your server at all? Unless your website appears in search engine listings I don't think the AI scrapers will slam it. My server has never been hit by them but my server is also practically unknown. A
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by ethin 4mo ago
The problem is what is the alternative? I'm (not) defending them or this practice by any measure, but we all know what happens if you just open your site up without these, especially with AI bots which hammer servers and are in effect
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by ethin 4mo ago
I mean my idea isn't the only one in that solution space. My reasoning was to ensure that the government actually reviewed the patent and ensured it was valid instead of rubber stamping it. Or, even better, the filer of the patent appl
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by ethin 4mo ago
It may always happen but it would happen less if we updated patent laws to fine people who filed invalid patents or enforced some kind of similar punishment. If you file a patent, it's up to you to verify that your patent is actually v
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by ethin 4mo ago
And how long will it take before someone implements this standard and gets sued because Adobe or Dolby or whoever wanted to get slapped down? My knowledge may be out of date but if this is as "open" as AV1, I'm very skeptical
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by ethin 4mo ago
> That’s not a Carte Blanche that forbids the government from everything. I never said it was. Yes, commercial speech has diminished protections, but it is not annulled. It is still protected to a degree, even if less than ordinary speec
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by ethin 4mo ago
What are you proposing then? The government is not allowed to compel speech for good reason.
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by ethin 4mo ago
I think I've only read "smoke test" in a programming book (or maybe an OSDev wiki) but I can't remember now
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by ethin 4mo ago
Like IPv6 addresses, UUIDs, the list goes on. Does it mean anything that Go themselves had to invent a custom uint128 type in the standard library because they didn't want to add it to the language? There's a very long list of ins
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by ethin 4mo ago
Now there's a surprise. I've generally been very disillusioned with Go after they absolutely stonewalled everybody on uint128 (and continue to do so) for absolutely no reason (and ignoring that it would make many things in the lan
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by ethin 4mo ago
Watch as this gets rejected for nonsensical reasons just like the issue about adding uint128, which also has been open for an extremely long time and they keep moving the goalposts as to reasons why it can't be done...
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by ethin 4mo ago
> If you just do the math yourself, it's easy to compute that inference doesn't cost all that much. Show us your work, then. If it's so easy to do, this should be a trivial request to accommodate, no?
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by ethin 4mo ago
I really am not a big fan of this... Hand-waving, I guess? Around this problem. Saying "well the norms are still being established" feels kind of like a "well don't really get mad at the people doing it, they're sti
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by ethin 4mo ago
> Why did he mention it? Because it's this thing us humans call context. Or background. There are a number of terms for it. I was providing that so the rest of my post would make a bit more sense.
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by ethin 5mo ago
Good. Now take the next step and ban them outright.
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by ethin 5mo ago
> People probably said the same thing about using pocket calculators when they started getting cheap and mainstream in the 1970s. Except a pocket calculator is very different from an LLM. It isn't a tool you can go to and ask it lit
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by ethin 5mo ago
The problem is natural language as a medium. It is too ambiguous and has way too many variants to say literally anything imaginable that there is no way of protecting against prompt injection without some kind of NLP filter or something. I
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by ethin 5mo ago
So so much this. Also: what does 100x even mean? What is the baseline? I can write a program in 5 minutes that will spit out 10 billion lines of code. As such, does that somehow mean I'm 1000000x more productive?

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