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by gambler 7y ago
A handful of oligopolies coercing me to use overcomplicated always-connected gadgets that are orchestrated by "AI" that I don't control, can't train, and whose main objective is to manipulate my behavior and siphon as mu
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by gambler 7y ago
Chrome is usable as a standalone mini-IDE. You can open developer tools, go to sources, open a folder as a workspace and start making an actual webpage - from scratch. It can create, open, save and edit files.
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by gambler 7y ago
What a coincidence. I watched your video on Preventing the Collapse of Civilization just yesterday. (Mostly agree with things said there, with the exception of the part about Smalltalk. Ironically, the video was recommended to me in a Small
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by gambler 7y ago
Is this the official sudo repository? https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/file/f75f786eddd5 It has more than 10 thousand commits, ~600 files, and close to 11MB of C code. Also, the code seems to have no unit tests
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by gambler 7y ago
Yeah, that's the thing: once you get a full suite of PGP tools as a standard feature of your browser it would make a whole bunch of other features possible.
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by gambler 7y ago
Theoretically this is a good thing, but it's way, way too late, since most people use web or mobile clients now. Mozilla should include a proper PGP implementation in their browser . In fact, I have no idea why a browser that position
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by gambler 7y ago
>With that in mind, it may be worth considering Reddit. Or, you know, individual websites with forums that aren't tied into a giant superstructure and therefore is a constant target of efforts in manipulation and social engineerin
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by gambler 7y ago
Enough with ducktape. Just use a fucking Smalltalk already. Cuis, Squak, Pharo. If you want to ship a runtime environment with your apps you might as well ship a good one. They have good UI development tools, fast VM and have (from my exper
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by gambler 7y ago
>Over the past ~25 years, a document delivery system has been perverted into a application delivery system. ...and a protocol for inter-object communication. That's probably the most important part, because that's what create
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by gambler 7y ago
What you're saying: Google, a multi-billion dollar corporation that owns most of the browser and search market share, a company that dictates the next transport-layer protocol we will use - this company struggles to design a sessio
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by gambler 7y ago
>I have no idea how cookies are supposed to having an impact on hosting in Google's cloud vs your own hardware You do not see how lack of built-in authentication increases complexity of implementing your own website as opposed to
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Ask HN: Why PGP isn't built into all modern browsers?
1 points by gambler 7y ago|0 comments
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by gambler 7y ago
IMO, If you can afford it, hardware all the way. You will be much happier in the long run if you use hardware. I find that the device that gives me finished tracks with highest probability is OP-1.
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by gambler 7y ago
> Authoritative seeming sources are not always a good thing. Yeah, but what if stupid people search for the wrong thing, find the wrong website and get infected with Wrongthink? Have you thought about that? Crushing amateur content cre
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by gambler 7y ago
You realize that you're commenting in a thread for a blog post that's 100% about configuration, right? There are articles like this popping up on the front page here every few days. I've never said that K8S is just about wr
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by gambler 7y ago
They are probably scared that when they need to change jobs, the next company will require "5 years of Kubernetes experience". So they convince everyone at their current company to jump into a complexity clusterfuck to see how it
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by gambler 7y ago
>price pain isn't actually enough to drive improvements in efficiency You have something reversed here. Hardware companies that make consumer devices are pumping barrels of money in improving CPU power usage to enable longer batte
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by gambler 7y ago
>energy efficiency is the next key metric, and that specialized hardware (like TPU) might be the future. This is nonsense pushed forward by large corporations who want to own all your data and computational capacity.
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by gambler 7y ago
>"Do you want to literally copy your entire hard disk into the 'inbox' of these utilities, in order to get them to search it for you?" Well, let's think about the goal here. grep reads files and outputs lines f
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by gambler 7y ago
>But what if you’re attempting to use those utilities against your real documents? You copy or move documents inside the specific sandbox. If you want a pipeline, you establish a chain of inbox/outbox folders. Obviously, most of t
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by gambler 7y ago
So we're automating repetitive physical work and then shove people into repetitive information work that pays peanuts, has no benefits, forces you to work in isolation and spend tons of time sitting in front of the screen. And a lot of
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by gambler 7y ago
This is a good question. I think you can make it even better by generalizing the problem. How on earth do developers hope to advance general computing forward when simply running programs isn't a solved problem? Most software engine
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by gambler 7y ago
>If it's tedious, you're probably doing something wrong or sub-optimal. >IMHO we're reaching the point where typescript (or similar languages) should be used by default over untyped javascript in professional environ
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by gambler 7y ago
Look up some semi-recent talks on social media by Jaron Lanier.
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by gambler 7y ago
You're just proving my point. If we go past the fashionable rhetoric about AI and apply the same reasoning to existing technologies, we could conclude that Photoshop was too dangerous to release to the public without "appropriate
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by gambler 7y ago
"Cornell University is studying human susceptibility to digital disinformation generated by language models." "The Middlebury Institute of International Studies Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC) i
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by gambler 7y ago
Hopefully someone will make a working demo of it, like Adam King did for 345M. People should be able to experiment with this stuff without relying on the hype of press releases: https://medium.com/@VictorBanev/interroga
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U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State(theintercept.com)
98 points by gambler 7y ago|25 comments
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Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops(vice.com)
3 points by gambler 7y ago|1 comments
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by gambler 7y ago
>Animals are fed from crops, which sequester carbon from the air. Most animals are fed from industrially grown crops. Those crops require tons of oil to grow and contribute to deforestation. https://www.theguardian.com&#x2

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