tonymet

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by tonymet 5d ago
> He was a sysadmin who built a system can you elaborate on this ? what were his responsibilities and what role did he have in setting up the system? He seemed to imply that he helped deploy these systems (though he never authored them),
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by tonymet 5d ago
SQL alone is just a query language. the MySQL design docs Snowden shared were primitive installations that did not meet the claimed capability of their surveillance system.
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by tonymet 5d ago
* and I don’t remember Snowden presenting evidence that NSA (et al) had the datacenter / compute capacity to surveil these targets. Even a fraction of the target traffic (3+ wireless carriers, dozens of messaging email software firms)
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by tonymet 5d ago
While I respect Snowden and find many of the claims plausible much of the evidence and story didn’t add up. Here are a few doubts I have, and I’d like to see the rebuttal. First, he seemed to embellish his role and authority at NSA. Based
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by tonymet 7d ago
can you add a tab showing the authority graph . the current "power map" is showing mentions in the news. I'd like to just drill down each branch by "boss" or appointment / appointee
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by tonymet 7d ago
tredre3 explained it above
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by tonymet 7d ago
precisely (thanks!)
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by tonymet 8d ago
any app will connect with an IP am I missing something . a socket is exactly (IP, port) (src, target) tuple
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by tonymet 8d ago
i love this! never understood why a proxy app was needed
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by tonymet 8d ago
Username and password was a predictable flow. Passkeys are just a small component in the modern obstacle race of logging in. Every few months a new credential or ritual to access your own resources .
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by tonymet 8d ago
were we building fabulous software beforehand? It was clumsy, buggy, expensive, demanding, oppressive, cluttered. AI , trained on that garbage , is producing what now? Supposedly clumsy , buggy and so on. The lack of self awareness is jus
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by tonymet 9d ago
I'm hoping the "blogging about doing" format will fade away, now that doing is cheaper than blogging. It used to be that the doing part was expensive, and risky. Now you can just do 5 things and throw away 4. So I'd
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by tonymet 9d ago
can you recover one of the old contact points (phone or email) for a reset code? I would send a paper letter to the Google legal contact. It's the only way to get escalated support. I agree the covenant for account recovery has been br
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by tonymet 9d ago
That’s a specific example that doesn’t have anything to do with the general approach of prompting.
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by tonymet 9d ago
I hate to break it to you, comments were mostly useless.
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by tonymet 9d ago
Even AI would have provided a more insightful response than this.
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by tonymet 9d ago
What’s the difference between a skill and a prompt? Separate files? Aren’t tokens, tokens?
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by tonymet 9d ago
> I don’t like them. They talk to me in this grating LLM-voice, an uncanny valley of talking to a real human. This takes about 30 seconds to fix permanently. You can prompt them to use any tone , be as concise or verbose as you like. &g
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by tonymet 10d ago
ok
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by tonymet 10d ago
Not OP but upstream patches are rarely worth it. Better to share the fork and if the upstream is interested they can integrate. Integration, testing, meeting upstream expectations usually takes 10x the time, and can be handled faster by tho
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by tonymet 10d ago
It takes time, money , a creative idea, development time, testing time. Don’t be a snob.
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by tonymet 10d ago
CI is expensive, and often a blocker for critical releases (e.g. patching a production issue). Every second saved is a relief. I’ve long wondered why setup-go was so slow and expensive it’s great to see improvements made.
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by tonymet 10d ago
Yeah you do. If you’re not offering a better way, you’re only moaning.
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by tonymet 10d ago
The subject was “you should buy quality items with longevity”. My point is that’s not a reasonable demand on consumers, or even producers, until the restrictions on creating accessible , quality items have been resolved.
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by tonymet 10d ago
The capabilities of the "space weapons" didn't exist. Reagan used the threat of those weapons to perpetuate USSR's unsustainable military & defense investment, knowing the US could sustain it. Within 5 years, USSR
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by tonymet 10d ago
That’s one of the tradeoffs. And an undervalued one.
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by tonymet 11d ago
"there's no aesthetic difference between this beautiful portrait and the contemporary pile of trash in the corner"
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by tonymet 11d ago
yes. And you're reversing cause and effect. Do the consumers prefer a disposable lifestyle or is that a cope?
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by tonymet 11d ago
Ikea compressed wood dresser = $125. Proper oak dresser = $5000 . What consumer is capable and willing to make that trade off. Much of that cost is because we nuked the American timber industry ? Appealing to the fabricators (or even cons
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by tonymet 11d ago
how did critics become suddenly concerned with virtue and beauty with AI? Wouldn't it be better to judge these apps on their utility? The authors are sharing their creativity, and spending time & money to publish apps with a free

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