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- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 15 minutes ago:
This is how you get under-18s to use [Tor browser](www.torproject.org/download/$
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 4 hours ago:
My mistake
hold on I am still somewhat new to Fedi & not fully used to people being polite
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 4 hours ago:
ofc a lot depends on the precise definitions of terms, state corporatism is not synonymous with generally free markets operating under the regulation of a basically diverse inclusive democracy.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 6 hours ago:
The Monero community spent a long time trying to find a “useful PoW” function. The problem is that most computations that are useful are not also easy to verify as correct. javascript optimization was one direction that got pursued pretty far.
But at the end of the day, a crypto that actually intends to withstand attacks from major governments requires a system that is decentralized, trustless, and verifiable, and the only solutions that have been found to date involve algorithms for which a GPU or even custom ASIC confers no significant advantage over a consumer-grade CPU.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 6 hours ago:
Imagine if it was people’s happiness and freedom instead of quarterly profits
- Whose happiness and freedom?
- How is it to be measured?
- Capitalists honestly believe that free trade is the best albeit flawed way to do both of the above
It’s definitely valid to disagree about point #3, but then you need to give a better model for #1 and #2
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 6 hours ago:
I would give this reddit gold
Instant easy complaints help-i’m-oppressed-by-Capitalism today sound an awful lot like the instant easy complaints help-i’m-oppressed-by-Communism I used to hear from rednecks
Ask someone who starved & dies under either system how obviously superior it is
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 6 hours ago:
Monero
Satoshi was right and Crypto absolutely has valid use cases. What if your government doesn’t want you accessing meds you need at prices you can afford? What if your government doesn’t like your sexual orientation, but you want a subscription to a dating site? What if your government throws up unjust export controls or tariffs that suddenly make you and your business impossible?
Crypto’s best killer use case is uncensorable, untraceable money
Bitcoin is neither of those things. There is a reason people buy heroin with Monero. It actually does what crypto is supposed to do, which means it could safeguard your Grindr XTRA subscription.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 6 hours ago:
client-server model. I want sharing model. Like with Briar
Guess what
Briar itself, and every pure P2P decentralized network where all nodes are identical… are built on Internet Sockets which inherently require one party (“server”) to start listening on a port, and another party (“client”) to start the conversation.
Briar uses TCP/IP, but it uses Tor routing, which is IMO a smart thing to do
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 6 hours ago:
OCR could be done effectively without AI
OCR has been neural nets even before convolutional networks emerged in the 2010s
- Comment on Get to know the robot dog that can clean your house and serve you soda 12 hours ago:
This is why I am waiting for selfhosted
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 22 hours ago:
It’s like cancer.
It’s never good. But when it’s already taken hold once, you want to be extra vigilant.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 day ago:
Dystopian, yes
Also Fascist
Something we never want to see in German politics in particular
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 1 day ago:
If you have a physical Dymaxion Map, you make each vertex a hinge so you can swing to connect the bits you want to be adjacent for the purpose at hand.
- Comment on Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children 2 days ago:
Neil Young and Dolly Parton
Role models we need but don’t deserve
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 2 days ago:
Monero works for anonymous payments for cocaine and fent across international boundaries, it can more than handle the illicit video game trade
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 2 days ago:
DYMAXION MAP OR GTFO
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 days ago:
I am 50+, remember paying quarters to play Pong and Space Invaders.
Built my kids a game box using Batocera Linux and ROMs from the 80s and 90s (Atari2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, etc)
I was thereby able to show them the True Magic and Wonder of Computers
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 4 days ago:
Not just for hiking emergencies.
Many of us in reasonably functioning democracies have had a few decades to forget that sometimes people want to destroy your civilian infrastructure. Far fewer of those people have the capability to disrupt a satellite grid.
- Comment on Terrible liquid coils 4 days ago:
Thank you for the proper link and info, and apologies for the confusion.
I am a SciAm supporter and got this in their newsletter. I would have linked but all the URLs in their emails are to a tracker (!$#^%!$) “ctrk.klclick1.com”
More context for “1847”:
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- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 4 days ago:
Green hat good
Sig heil bad
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 5 days ago:
As a hiring manager in IT for decades, I learned early: do not hire PhDs
They can write a paper about why the program does not work. They are not willing to sit down roll up their sleeves get intimate with a debugger and make the program work.
- Comment on How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? 1 week ago:
Some people like being unpaid OnlyFans models whose intimate details go to corporations instead of pervy guys
- Comment on gpt-oss: OpenAI releases 2 open-source models 1 week ago:
It’s awesome but that 128k context window is a throwback to Llama3 days
I bet the closed $ource model has like 2MB context
- Comment on beaver girls rise 1 week ago:
You do realize that to maintain the natural balance there need to be billions of bacteriagirls for every beaver girl
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 weeks ago:
Ditto. But I am taking my time. I am on the free tier; I cost him money. I’ll move off eventually probably to Tutanota unless something better shows up
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
We have already done that. It’s called Dreddit and not even major governments can stop it.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 weeks ago:
Agreed.
Really, if someone wants to use an LLM, the right place to run it is in a sandbox locally on your own computer
Anything else is just a stupid architecture. You don’t run your Second Brain on Someone Else’s Computer
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 weeks ago:
It’s like the Internet in 1998
Pets.com hasn’t gone but yet, but it will.
The bubble will burst. BUT … the entire world will run on this new technology, nobody will imagine living without it, and multibillion dollar companies will profit and be created from it
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 weeks ago:
How about this one
