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by hootz 4mo ago
Companies aren't really that better. Actually, sometimes it's even worse, because they are not even formally required to serve the public.
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by hootz 4mo ago
It is still happening, a lot of things are still being adopted by Node after being available on other runtimes. They aren't forks, but they still provide pressure towards progress.
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by hootz 4mo ago
The problem is that for most people, facial recognition is just another method of account verification. Sometimes worse than alternatives, but also sometimes more convenient, and convenience wins over privacy if people are not actively made
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by hootz 4mo ago
README should be written for humans. Agents don't need fancy rendering in the repository page, we do. Agents already have their own dedicated context file.
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by hootz 4mo ago
The thing about "local" models for me is that they usually mean open-weight (and maybe open-source too), so they can be used locally, yes, but they can also be hosted by independent providers! With models like Qwen, DeepSeek and o
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by hootz 4mo ago
Not just LLM companies, but bots in general. They were a big problem even before LLMs.
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by hootz 4mo ago
But it's not free, unless you also call Claude free just because it has a free tier.
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by hootz 4mo ago
So the defaults are Codex and Claude? I use neither.
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by hootz 4mo ago
I think they expect you to also use an LLM to review, and I bet they are doing exactly that when asked to review someone else's code.
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by hootz 4mo ago
Apparently, how it handles binaries when developing games.
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by hootz 4mo ago
That's great! Maybe in the near future you will be able to feel less distressed and return to some of your ideas with a clearer mind.
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by hootz 4mo ago
Wilson, you may need professional help as this is clearly causing you a lot of distress and may lead you to psychosis. You may be right, I don't know, but it doesn't matter that you may be right if your mental health is compromise
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by hootz 4mo ago
Nothing to see here guys, we have already arrested the perpetrators, move along and hail Putin.
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by hootz 4mo ago
Ugh, I'm already tired of seeing ads everywhere for Cursor about how you can build EVERYTHING and solve all problems using their agentic IDE, so now I have even more reasons to dislike SpaceX too.
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by hootz 4mo ago
And you can tell Fable to fix it and Sonnet to explain the diff, effectively making Claude reveal a simplified list of found vulnerabilities.
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by hootz 4mo ago
Yeah, and all search engines can index a website with fake info to the top of the results for a question, so that makes search engines a terrible tool for looking up information. /s Wikipedia never was a definitive or authoritative sou
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by hootz 4mo ago
Apparently no public money was involved.
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by hootz 4mo ago
So basically do exactly what Karl Marx says about surplus value and exploitation of work, but as the capitalist instead of the exploited worker.
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by hootz 4mo ago
Oh my god! They are so funny and memeable! gets RCE'd
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by hootz 4mo ago
But it has potential to be permanent through the means of other people storing copies of it. If you send a photo via WhatsApp to someone, for example, that photo is by default saved automatically to their phone, and potentially synced to th
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by hootz 4mo ago
As someone already said, I am not talking about legality, but about ethics.
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by hootz 4mo ago
https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
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by hootz 4mo ago
They are not exactly potential capabilities, but real capabilities already being used by people like obnoxious TikTokers to record them harassing people in public places without the person realizing they are being recorded. If you need to p
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by hootz 4mo ago
Yeah, someone giving me even the slightest hint of being uncomfortable already makes me instantly delete their photo. Like, I want to photograph the public without ruining spontaneous moments, but I don't want to make others uncomforta
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by hootz 4mo ago
I guess people wearing spy camera glasses won't do anything at all with the images! /s
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by hootz 4mo ago
While they are a problem, they are a different problem from spy cameras capturing you up close for the benefit of a single person. Surveillance cameras are for shady governments and maybe "security", camera glasses are for straigh
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by hootz 4mo ago
I do photography as a hobby, especially street photography and related styles, and I constantly question myself on the ethics of photographing people in public without permission, even with my huge ass camera. Meanwhile, we have people runn
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by hootz 4mo ago
This can be used for general organization or privacy against other people, not just trying to hide conversations from Anthropic.
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by hootz 4mo ago
Last time I found a spam account only posting links to scam websites, I sent an email to HN and they banned the account.
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by hootz 4mo ago
Makes sense.

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