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by palmotea 4mo ago
> I set up OpenCode Web UI with Git access to make my homelab easier to manage. OpenCode pushes to Git, I approve the PRs, GitOps deploys the changes. Best of all, OpenCode runs as a server with persistent coding sessions synced across d
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by palmotea 4mo ago
That's why all civilizations need to proactively obliterate any durable structures and artifacts they create on a regular basis. Destroy everything in that sweet spot where it's old junk that no one cares about' nothing shoul
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> Musk for me was never a nerd. Many "founders" aren't nerds for me. In the end, I wouldn't classify anyone who is "money" first as a nerd - to me they are businessmen (and businesswomen) in their core. Peop
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> Discussion from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504361 That post: > 140 points by mrmarket 3 days ago | unvote | flag | hide | past | favorite | 110 comments This post: > 626 points by vrnvu 8
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> We chose a cheap off-the-shelf switchable voltage 20W hand-crank generator marketed for emergency USB charging. The Pi normally draws around 1.5A, but when it’s working hard (as it does when doing inference on the CPU), its current req
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I always found attempted distinctions between nerds and geeks to be kinda fake. As long as I've been alive, there's been so much overlap that any distinction is at best a slight and unreliable shade of meaning (e.g. nerd "sou
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>> I don’t know why you’d think “being interested in nerdy stuff like computers” would somehow translate into virtuous behavior. > The cultural perception of nerds being relentlessly bullied for the crime of having imaginations&#x2
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> If you did SQL injection to "; drop table" on someone else's server, that would be a crime. > I don't see why prompt injection to delete files on someone else's machine would be any different. The difference
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> How about the author actually reads the finished report a couple of times and checks all the references? But then you wouldn't be embracing the new agentic ways of working!
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> If copyright is abolished, nobody's getting revenue from views. They can resell your work for $0, or can try charging, but word spreads and everyone will seek the free alternative (yours). Exactly. Abolish copyright, and no little
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> if copyright was abolished, people (even rich) still want art, so studios would still end up paying artists, from patronage or some other system. Yes, it would be exclusively the domain of the rich and powerful. If you're a little
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> That’s ok, GPL’s entire purpose and only restriction is to prevent other copyrights. You sure about that? Because I'm pretty sure it's "entire purpose" is to keep open source code open. > And without copyright, s
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> RMS will happily tell you that he'd trade enforcability of the GPL for the non-existence of copyright. Thankfully, RMS is not my guru. Copyright is a valuable legal technology. It should be reformed to curb abuses, but we shouldn&
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> [Copyright] is a societal evil. Such an extreme and emotional statement makes me think you've never really thought it through. For instance: without copyright the GPL is nothing . Also without copyright, all of the profit made on
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> If you believe it will be developed regardless and that that there's a 30% chance of doom, they want a company prioritising safety research to be the one threading that needle. They also want to be trillionaires. If they don'
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> This certainly did strike me as a big scam. A few minutes in I was thinking "the LLM actor is going to ask for donations at some point here" and low and behold. There's the claim of debt, the call for pity, and the crypt
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> I...remind you it's completely legal and simple for you to go and start a company that does equitable distribution of company profits. More people should do it instead of complaining that few people do. No. Instead of doing that,
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> Let's rephrase: labor is used to ultimately provide owners more money than they put in. I'd rephrase that: labor is used to provide the owners the maximum amount of money they can manage to extract from the people doing the
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> Why is there an imbalance between what an employer gets paid for a unit of production and what an employee gets paid for a unit of production? Because labor gets exploited to make the owners richer. That's the basic fact, even tho
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Russia was also communist in Soviet times, and it's not like the slate was completely wiped clean when the Soviet Union fell. IIRC the Russian Federation also is officially the successor state to the Soviet Union, and took on its tre
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> What makes you so sure? Doctrine and propaganda can make someone that sure, and the thing they're sure about doesn't even have to be true. > There's been massively successful government funded and run projects before.
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> It would be impossible for the govt to allocate this much capital towards such a moonshot... You have a false definition of "impossible." It would be true to say it could be challenging, given current political dysfunction, b
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> The comment is just asking for evidence. I am curious too. Given "before 2006" includes the entire history of Soviet espionage , that's kinda like demanding evidence that the sun rises in the East. It's very obviou
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> Firefox haven't caved in so far. Why do u think it might in future? Because pretty much all their revenue comes from Google.
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The Nerdy Escorts Cashing in on Silicon Valley's AI Boom(forbes.com)
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> This somehow confirms my gut feeling that digital certificates are mainly a means to enforce exclusion on behalf of the certificate authority ownership. It is a tool to prevent people from taking full ownership and control of whatever
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tl;dr: > [The person they're investigating] even posted about income she generates from Meta's monetization program, which rewards creators for engagement and solicits subscribers on her personal page. Facebook pays people to p
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> I don't think we believe that the automation makes the human operators safer, but that it is overall safer than the human operator alone. If the automation is for the easy/routine stuff, then no. The automation doesn't w
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> Having seen shows with super-premium prices at the front, with half the place being non-reactive to the show because people paying extra are not actually huge fans but huge wallets, yeah you need to put down prices and get those front
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> Anyway, that guy said something along the lines of “we should be patient with these companies and give them room to fail.” I like to call this the OnlyFans economy. Nobody is simping for a cartel. The simps thrive in the parasocial eco

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