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by layer8 5d ago
We had way, way less, and less polished, entertainment a few hundred years ago. Without copyright, you would mostly only get productions like what now exists as fan/amateur projects. Virtually no creator would be able to make a living
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by layer8 5d ago
Forums were best before up/downvoting/likes/reactions and before sort-by-most-popular became a thing. When they were simply a discussion in historical order (possibly threaded) by topic. HN is halfway down the engagement slop
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by layer8 5d ago
The flicker is fine, especially with 240p and 480p.
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by layer8 5d ago
Obviously LLM-generated text generally doesn’t have the right quality. People aren’t just annoyed by it being LLM-generated, they are annoyed because the writing is bad in a soulless way.
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by layer8 5d ago
Without copyright, almost none of the content would get produced, especially in this digital age of zero-cost copying, and “they” (the companies) wouldn’t exist.
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by layer8 5d ago
You can turn it off: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102 . Does that setting not work for you?
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by layer8 5d ago
More importantly, it would lead to more “product placement” and other underhanded product/brand promotions. And the real annoyance with YouTube Premium is that the UI is still full of engagement dark patterns.
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by layer8 5d ago
You can’t simulate the motion clarity of CRTs (yet).
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by layer8 5d ago
> if you edit it to leak a secret the protection is everything. It’s really not, because knowing when you edited it is already enough, given that there’s a timestamped edit history. And the size and shape of your request payloads will
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by layer8 5d ago
Justifying “they believe it” isn’t so simple, however.
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by layer8 5d ago
Follow-up article: https://datagubbe.se/crt2/
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by layer8 5d ago
They’re just using Claude: https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2026/09/russia-weaponi...
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OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week(reuters.com)
49 points by layer8 5d ago|65 comments
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by layer8 6d ago
> captures the output of anything and allows the LLM to query it later Otherwise known as a “file”. ;)
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by layer8 6d ago
You could shorten it to “sextuple u”.
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by layer8 6d ago
China brought 78 gigawatts of new coal power capacity online in 2025, but also 315 gigawatts of solar capacity and 119 gigawatts of wind.
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by layer8 6d ago
Après nous, le déluge!
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by layer8 6d ago
I also consider it rude to not capitalize the start of sentences.
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by layer8 6d ago
Macs are gaining on PCs in laptop/desktop market share. Only a small minority of those who didn’t already use PCs before are newly getting into PCs with Windows or Linux. This was different when Windows was still the respectable defaul
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by layer8 6d ago
We were talking about the general case for personal use. What is possible on smartphones now with local models is not comparable to what people are using ChatGPT and friends for, and that will remain the case for the foreseeable future.
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by layer8 6d ago
Indeed, it’s generally not worth the annoyance.
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by layer8 6d ago
Isn’t the premise of superintelligence that the intelligence would be using them, rather than the other way around?
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by layer8 6d ago
I don’t think that “independent intelligent entities” or “life” are the relevant categories here. We also want to prevent people from misusing dangerous animals (“life”), and we would still treat “intelligent entities” as things (like machi
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by layer8 6d ago
> Does anyone have a good example of when it‘s useful? It prevents vulnerabilities where an incorrect offset into a string could result in characters being read that aren’t in the original string (which could defeat a prior sanitization
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by layer8 6d ago
Sure, I was talking about the general trajectory, and that there are effective ways to prevent modification that vendors will put to use. Meaning that LLMs are not a panacea.
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by layer8 6d ago
Yeah, $4 at Hetzner is about the cheapest.
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by layer8 6d ago
Most people don’t have local machines with sufficient computational power and RAM.
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by layer8 6d ago
> the two major consoles - Xbox and Playstation - are dying in favour of PC gaming I’m pretty sure that it’s in favor of mobile gaming. The PC market is shrinking. > And LLMs can also help you design your own hardware in the worst cas
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by layer8 6d ago
It’s become pretty difficult in some areas due to cryptographic signatures that are either bound to the hardware or to online services. Apple has feasibly stopped any modifications of iOS and their apps, for all practical purposes. These ki
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by layer8 6d ago
“Load-bearing” doesn’t actually imply “only one specific point” (you can have several load-bearing walls). Anyway, you can use words like “critical”, “crucial” (as you used above), “essential”, “vital”, “key”.

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