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by tancop 4mo ago
they can set it up to be secure by default and allow bootloader unlock like most android phones. if theres some form of owner authentication before you unlock evil maid attacks are impossible. you also need the ability to do a clean system
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by tancop 4mo ago
data centers with evap cooling use a lot of water and in some places its taking away from residents. thats a fact not a conspiracy. closed loop systems exist and its possible to make them mandatory by law or city ordinance, but if they did
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by tancop 4mo ago
china is doing political censorship on specific well known topics - their current government, corruption and workers rights, taiwan, tiananmen square, human rights in xinjiang, old communist leaders and a couple others. not defending them j
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by tancop 4mo ago
apples private cloud compute can get close, its still not 100 safe because backdoors and crypto breaks are possible but you go from trusting the data center operator with all their employees to only the person thats inspecting new hardware
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by tancop 4mo ago
wasi 0.3 just came out and its fully component model based with no emscripten specific parts. also supports dynamic linking in the spec but afaik no runtime actually has it implemented in a released version.
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by tancop 4mo ago
> as is even knowhow in model training you think its that hard to get trade secrets from some openai or anthropic engineer if you promise them anonymity and a new better paid position? hell they might even give it away for free if they t
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by tancop 4mo ago
the fix here is create a system where patents can be taken away for excessive profits. if your manufacturing cost is $10 a pack and you sell it for $500 after you already paid off development you deserve to lose it.
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by tancop 4mo ago
> These samples have very good scores overall, but they are useless. I am guessing it's not English text... I counted a few hundred examples mostly from LOC-PD and other few hundred in the OTA datasets. Imagine if I feed that crap t
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by tancop 4mo ago
todays EA is not about giving to charities, that was the original mission with 40k hours and ethereum (i think vitalik still believes in this version). then the yudkowsky xrisk/ai safety crowd took over lesswrong and turned it into a
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by tancop 4mo ago
> America is paying for "freedom" through the nose if you ask people on the street i think more than half of them will say they dont care if china gets ahead. even with conservatives who dont like china its more about keeping t
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by tancop 4mo ago
sandboxing native apps just gives you security. with wasm you also get a single portable binary that can run on x86 windows, arm64 linux and in your browser with zero modification. you dont need to write platform specific code or use third
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by tancop 4mo ago
i use revolut in the eu and disposable cards work. its legal because kyc is only between you and your bank (revolut is a bank operating out of latvia), they are not required or allowed to give your personal info to anyone other than paymen
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by tancop 4mo ago
with nukes you can regulate the inputs because its physically impossible to build one without uranium or some other fissile material. they also give off radiation making it easier to detect. its hard to make them in secret when you need min
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by tancop 4mo ago
what about going in the other direction? apps instead of sites. wasm for everything, shared immutable libraries, strict capability based security. client side rendering where you can choose between html+css, new binary formats or doing ever
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by tancop 5mo ago
i dont think its going to automatically prevent others. super claude might understand why diversity is important. if were talking sci fi scenarios the most likely one is probably overwatch (multiple independent ais with gray ethics and comp
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by tancop 5mo ago
all these projects and im thinking about making the opposite, alternate feeds for bluesky designed to make it as addictive as legacy social media. imo thats the only way we can get everyone to switch.
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by tancop 5mo ago
its just like normal drugs, alcohol, weed cocaine and everything. dopamine, quick release, addiction, none of that is harmful by itself. some of them just have danegrous side effects when you OD so you need to watch out if you decide to tak
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by tancop 5mo ago
whats the security problem here? all mutations go through the server authority and clients can only load data they have access to. the only thing i see is users being able to read cached versions of private content that was accidentally set
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by tancop 5mo ago
we still got newer companies out of china like moore threads working on gaming gpus, they had to pause new production because of the whole ai shortage but it looks like they might restart. is it usable for any serious gaming right now? no.
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by tancop 5mo ago
worldwide means israel russia and china so far. all countries that dont exactly like internet freedom and have a long history of spying and censorship. this might be a side effect of some government policy against p2p networks designed to m
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by tancop 5mo ago
if its really about development only and not preventing regulations on ai usage then its not a bad idea. but i dont see US politicians doing something like that. i really think the best way to handle this is federally protect open source
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by tancop 5mo ago
> Linux is infamous for requiring a specific build for each SoC no, thats just androids problem. desktop linux like ubuntu ships all the device trees from their supported arm variants. its still more work than acpi for kernel maintainers
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by tancop 5mo ago
> EU company, flat tax 20%, goodbye. One month no reason firing. thats how you get a hyper capitalist nightmare like south korea. firing with less bureaucracy makes sense but if your company really needs it that is already a legal reas
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by tancop 5mo ago
no, its public federated social media running on at protocol. no big tech control, no crypto bullshit like nostr, no way for bad admins to delete your posts like mastodon (they can only ban you from their own server). you can build a web of
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by tancop 5mo ago
the danger comes from the fact anthropic is a for profit company and they could train it to benefit them instead of the public. if they go ahead with it they should get nationalized, their self improving ai analyzed for any hidden agenda an
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by tancop 5mo ago
the main reason i dont like sql is the way it splits your query into parts that run in a different order and you can only have one of each. thats why you need things like ctes. if it was a more "functional" language with features
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by tancop 5mo ago
its more than annotations, your code fails to compile when you get a type error at least with strict settings. if it type checks and fails at runtime that means youre missing input validation or using bad declarations for third party/l
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by tancop 5mo ago
i only see two options. either the state of research funding and support in america is so bad that people lose their mental health and die by suicide, or its a murder campaign. theres no way all these deaths are coincidence.
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by tancop 5mo ago
was there some regulation preventing them from just shutting the plants down and selling off the real estate and equipment? severance payments too high?
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by tancop 5mo ago
> move to self-hosted servers on onion sites, and have automation that copies out the relevant products to the centralized watering holes to attract noobs or self host a federated forge like tangled.org where you get all the discoverabil

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