skybrian

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by skybrian 4mo ago
Letting people suffer to get political advantage isn't right, even if it's for a good cause.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
I'm wondering whether this is a permanent change. After all the easy-to-find bugs have fixed and you can't find them just by asking an AI, perhaps security issues will deserve special treatment again.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
No, I'm not talking about forcing anyone to leave. There are likely people who do want to leave who are trapped there.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Maybe it would help if other countries focused on the immediate problem: rescuing people from a dangerous situation. They should be volunteering to take refugees. Sadly, it's unlikely because they care more about keeping immigrants out
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Yes, but I don’t read blog posts for the art. As placeholders they’re not terrible.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
But switching from Bitcoin to something based on proof of work is always going to use less energy. Bitcoin was innovative when it was invented, but now it’s antique, inefficient tech that’s still being used because apparently fame overwhelm
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by skybrian 4mo ago
The El Salvador government bought Bitcoin and promoted it, but the reports I’ve seen suggest that ordinary people and businesses don’t use it much.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
They’re more likely to use a stablecoin and those don’t use Bitcoin.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
That sounds like a good bet.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
I don’t believe the “cheaply” part. You end up building storage that only gets used for one cycle a year, so the capital cost is very high per watt.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
It seems like the role probes they came up with could somehow be used as feedback during training to teach it to use the role tags properly.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
I'm wondering what you did when you made it log every tool call? (I mean, that happens automatically as part of the chat transcript, but what did you do that made it catch on?)
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by skybrian 4mo ago
They will also want reliable power, which seems like justification enough to keep their options open. A “phased, modular approach” sounds like it would give them options. Maybe Microsoft could install solar and/or batteries later and u
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Or to take an intermediate value, $10 million is 500k a year and most people will find it difficult to spend that much on themselves, so it’s going to grow on its own and compound. It will grow more rapidly if some is invested in the stock
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by skybrian 4mo ago
For anyone curious about the issues discussed in this topic, see: Identity and your signing key https://cirrus.earth/concepts/identity/ > Cloudflare secrets are write-only: once set, they cannot be retrieved th
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Perhaps as open source software, but it would require building a community that agrees on some common procedures about what to build and how to use AI.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
If you assume that Bluesky won't suddenly turn hostile (we'll get some warning) then being able to migrate your PDS is better than what X gives you and about the same as being able to move your git repo off of GitHub.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Good point, but how many projects require people to sign their git commits? it's not something I've had to do at all. If you're not signing them then hosting on GitHub gives GitHub the ability to do arbitrary commits in your
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Most people don’t worry about it for the same reason they don’t worry about GitHub abusing their GitHub account and are even willing to use “login with GitHub” to access their other accounts. Account takeover by a third party is a bigger ri
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by skybrian 4mo ago
As a programmer I’m wondering how you get a decent graphics library out of it. If it’s conceptually better, shouldn’t it make writing code to do calculations easier?
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by skybrian 4mo ago
We don’t need everyone to run a relay to get to the point where there’s sufficient redundancy that no relay matters too much.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
> The result is a PDS that runs at the edge with no servers to manage, automatic scaling, and pay-per-use pricing. Since you have no control over traffic, that seems a bit worrisome compared to a flat rate for a VM?
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by skybrian 4mo ago
That's for a server that downloads and forwards all Bluesky traffic.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
How about, less than what many people pay for a tank of gas? Most people won't do it, but they don't have to, and it's not a particularly expensive hobby.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Web pages aren’t digitally signed, aren’t necessarily indexed by search engines, and there are ways to block bots with things like captchas. You also have much more control over the UI. If your blog has comments, you can moderate them, for
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by skybrian 4mo ago
I know that, but a blog isn't normally referred to as a "more popular press" so it doesn't fit.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
An important distinction is that blogs have their own websites and they're not required to publish full articles in their RSS feed. Bluesky doesn't normally work that way - everything in the PDS gets replicated. They are also enco
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by skybrian 4mo ago
> although there are traces of an earlier edition published by a more popular press What’s that referring to?
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Part-time jobs are available and they are often taken by people who work multiple jobs.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
That’s not really an LLMism. It’s a phrase that ordinary writers use and was perfectly fine, but LLMs started overusing it, so now you see it as a “tell.” People who haven’t read enough LLM-generated writing to see the pattern won’t notice

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