ethin

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by ethin 6mo ago
I mean... You could? AI comes in all kinds of forms. It's been around practically since Eliza. What is (not) here to stay are the techbros who think every problem can be solved with LLMs. I imagine that once the bubble bursts and the L
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by ethin 7mo ago
This does not answer my question. The quoted content said that "Lacking Copyright (or similarily a Public Domain declaration by a human), we don't receive sufficient rights grants which would permit us to include it into the aggre
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by ethin 7mo ago
> Lacking Copyright (or similarily a Public Domain declaration by a human), we don't receive sufficient rights grants which would permit us to include it into the aggregate body of source code, without that aggregate body becoming l
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by ethin 7mo ago
I mean yes but why keep the analysis private? I can think of very few reasons to do that, and one of them is because they know their methodology or data is flawed or inaccurate and they don't want people figuring that out. Obviously th
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by ethin 7mo ago
I believe designating an entity a supply chain risk has far deeper implications than the DoD avoiding that entity, and goes as far as a lawful prohibition for any contractor of the USG being also prohibited from using or working with the e
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by ethin 7mo ago
And obviously your forgetting that doing this is from my perspective a very novel idea and I didn't consider a TXT record as a data storage system. Good grief.
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by ethin 7mo ago
That very quoted section indicates the analysis has not been made public. IMO that's very fishy and makes me question the authenticity of the source. What is Dr. Thornton hiding, exactly? Why conceal the review, methodology and data? E
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by ethin 7mo ago
I read this title, did a double-take, then had to go look at the git hub because it still didn't click for me. Because this sounds absolutely amazing, and absurd, and weird, all at the same time. Like..... Wow? Talk about turning proto
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by ethin 7mo ago
This... Is a really weird take. Really. Maybe, just maybe, people want to dedicate full time to OSS? Maybe they can't find a job? A donation is just that, donations. Quite different, I think, from a tip, in that there is no cultural pr
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by ethin 7mo ago
In a way it still is true. Swift works on Windows and Linux until it doesn't. It's taken until a couple years ago for other build systems to get swift support (which I suppose is the fault of said build system, but Swift taking so
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by ethin 7mo ago
This, and locking down everyone to a single blessed Linux distro would be... Rather difficult given how widespread Linux is and just how many distros exist. It is one thing for each distro to decide "Hey, let's use systemd".
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by ethin 7mo ago
> What fearmongering has the anti-systemd crowd been selling you? I can't tell if this is a legitimate inquiry or if you are just trolling with this argument.
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by ethin 7mo ago
> it is really fearmongering when the systemd people literally founded a company to develop attestation for linux? Can you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they intend to force this on you without any way of disabling it, or that the
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by ethin 7mo ago
I don't understand this immediate reaction. What is it with people getting bitchy the moment a project starts asking for donations? Are people really that greedy that they would want something to be free forever? I mean sure, a corpora
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by ethin 7mo ago
Can you actually definitively prove this, or is this just more fearmongering from the anti-systemd crowd that I at least don't at all take seriously?
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by ethin 7mo ago
Why shouldn't they? They're constantly being told by CEOs and big companies that AI is going to take all the jobs and do all the things. They're told the same by AI boosters who only see utopias and not the consequences of sa
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by ethin 7mo ago
This, and add to that the fact that web apps make it trivial for the dev to just randomly change the GUI out from under me without my consent or ability to prevent it, and, well, wonder why I and so many others dislike them? I want to be ab
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by ethin 7mo ago
Not really. Because the biggest problem with LLMs is that they can't right naturally like a human would. No matter how hard you try, their output will always, always seem too mechanical, or something about it will be unnatural, or the
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by ethin 7mo ago
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I fully support the no-AI stance. AI-generated code belongs nowhere in an operating system or it's low level/kernel components. Especially considering the shear amount of power the kernel has
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by ethin 8mo ago
what is such a shame is, well, two things: first, that these companies even do this kind of thing at all (i.e., age verification); and second, that it takes the kind of backlash this event has generated for them to cut ties with these compa
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by ethin 8mo ago
I have as well. I find RW locks much easier to use than, say, a recursive mutex. Mainly since it took me a long time to actually understand how a recursive mutex actually works in the first place. When you want to use only the stdlib, you a
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by ethin 8mo ago
Networking is not in the standard library of either C or C++. It is strictly an operating system extension. Since it's provided by the operating system, I don't really see how you reach the conclusion that it is a part of the stan
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by ethin 8mo ago
These concerns seem like OS level concerns. Networking primitives like IP addresses is probably a good idea. But anything more than that (like the GP is implying) is absurd to want in the stdlib.
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by ethin 8mo ago
Oh here we go again, someone demanding networking (of all things) in the standard library. Are you next going to demand a GUI toolkit too? Maybe an entire game engine and Vulkan/WebGPU implementation too while we're at it? Just be
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by ethin 8mo ago
How exactly can you "mitigate" prompt injections? Given that the language space is for all intents and purposes infinite, and given that you can even circumvent these by putting your injections in hex or base64 or whatever? Like I
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by ethin 8mo ago
Doesn't it use gtk? Which currently has no built-in accessibility on Windows?
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by ethin 8mo ago
XMPP's biggest failure is that there is no client which is on advanced on most of it's compliance suites. So if someone uses Windows for example, they're pretty much locked to "Well, you can chat, but no video/voice
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by ethin 8mo ago
> Parents need to have personal responsibility, but corporations get to use section 230 to absolve themselves of any. Game seems rigged. This is not at all what section 230 does. All section 230 does is get rid of lawsuits that wouldn&#x
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by ethin 8mo ago
You have got to be kidding me. What is it with these lawmakers and websites demanding people do all of this stuff using services that nobody has ever heard of? I myself (as someone who is blind) have never been able to do the face scanning
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by ethin 8mo ago
Honestly I've been wondering if I could do this with Ezquake or similar (and how hard it would be). Problem is that Ezquake has VoIP too and a bunch of other things (and is for whatever reason stuck on SDL2 (?)), so that might be quite

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