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"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuiler
- Comment on Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours 1 hour ago:
Spiral, meet drain
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 3 days ago:
I doubt any of these people are accessing X over Tor. Their accounts and IPs are known.
In a sane world, they’d be prosecuted. In MAGAMERICA, they are protected by the Spirit of Epstein
- Comment on How to Use Local IP for Services when at Home? 4 days ago:
I too run a PiHole in an RPi, physically plugged in to my OpenWRT router
- Comment on Ţ̴̭̪̥̒̽̋͋̿̄́͊̾̌̓̀̔͝͝͝͝ͅh̵̬̙̩̞̻̰͇̠̭̦̊̽̆̓̍͆̑̓͌̓̋͊e̶̢̡͍̪͕̥̤̬̋͂̑̈́̚̕ͅͅ ̵̛̛͖̌̀́̌̑̃̆͆̈́͒́̌̕̚͠ǵ̸͎̩̭͒̎̉̈́̌͂̇o̸͇̗̙͖͋̚v̵͖̫͕̔̽́̋̀̋̈́̉͌͋̽̈́̓͑̚͝͝e̵̙̦̬͇̭̍̏͊̃ř̸̭͈̼̱̤̻̏̎̚n̸͍̰̠̆͆́̓̚͘͝m̷̏͂̕ͅẹ̸̡̨͎͉̲͍̝̲̌̿̽̔͊ͅṉ̶̬̠̱̩̔̌̈́̒̋͘ 5 days ago:
Zalgo
- Comment on Praise Be 5 days ago:
But it’s okay because it was actually incest
- Comment on Praise Be 5 days ago:
Numbers is good but for the very best ultra-violence I suggest Deuteronomy
Deut. 21:18-21
18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. 20 They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” 21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death.
- Comment on Praise Be 5 days ago:
Oblig. 45-second masterpiece
- Comment on The issue with mainstream media and fragmented news communities isnt just limited to the disparity of facts. We also suffer from not "riding the same roller coaster." 6 days ago:
I blame religion. Specifically, faith
The definition of faith is “belief without evidence”
People who elevate this as a virtue, will be unable to have a shared reality. It will always be centered on whatever narrative is popular with your in-group.
Faith is not a virtue. It is the destroyer of civilization.
- Comment on The issue with mainstream media and fragmented news communities isnt just limited to the disparity of facts. We also suffer from not "riding the same roller coaster." 6 days ago:
Just the opposite in practice, ofc, thanks to AIs and algos that slice and dice demographics and do A/B testing on meme penetration
- Comment on The last thing people want is to stop wanting 6 days ago:
- Comment on The last thing people want is to stop wanting 6 days ago:
All their wants do eventually stop, of course …
- Comment on The last thing people want is to stop wanting 6 days ago:
Buddhist minds are so quiet The chat cannot enter them
- Comment on I went back to Linux and it was a mistake 1 week ago:
I stopped using Windows because I needed an OS that I could just use and not have to futz with.
Fedora has done that perfectly for over a decade now.
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 1 week ago:
Fun fact: this guy uses fish shell.
- Comment on It would be a crazy marketing stunt for any of the privacy focused email service companies stated that Jeffery Epstein and others could have kept their secrets if they had used their service. 1 week ago:
all it takes is one subpoena
If the server is hosted on an .onion it can be hard to know where that subpoena should go
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 1 week ago:
Tor
No, it is very different from suggesting TBB or even just TB.
A few websites may have some rough edges. Some of that will come from uBlock Origin. Some will come from LW defaults like letterboxing/anti-fingerprinting.
And some websites will have issues with vanilla FF, because it’s not Chrome.
Yes, for some sites you may need to turn off a privacy setting. I have run across 2-3 such, usually an over-engineered Django or custom-coded WordPress site. 98%+ of the time, I don’t notice.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 1 week ago:
I’ll just leave this here
- Comment on Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
Cretins
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
… and on many of them I complain again that they made a whole new project instead of just using and contributing to Jitsi , which the FSF created expressly to counter Zoom/Teams :/
- Comment on Real and True 3 weeks ago:
Kinda like SQL but in polar coordinates
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 3 weeks ago:
My name registration with porkbun is cheap enough that I don’t remember exactly. Had no issues with them.
- Comment on Heat transfer be like 3 weeks ago:
thermodynamics as an elective
This is the engineering equivalent of people who recreationally run marathons
- Comment on Heat transfer be like 3 weeks ago:
When I was taking the class in college a friend called it “Thermogoddamnics” and that has always stuck with me
- Comment on One day, Red Bull will be sued by someone who got high and thought Red Bull would literally give them wings 3 weeks ago:
Internet Falsehood; I’m unsurprised at the lack of source.
I’ll counter your baseless claim with a contradicting one that’s at least easier to verify.
- The Lawsuit (True): In 2014, Red Bull settled a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. for ~$13 million. The lawsuit claimed the company’s marketing was deceptive because the drink doesn’t actually provide the physical or mental “boost” promised by the “Gives You Wings” slogan beyond what a cup of coffee would provide.
- The Slogan Change (False): Red Bull did not change the spelling because of the lawsuit. In fact, Red Bull had been using the stylized “wiiings” in various marketing campaigns and its logo long before the 2014 settlement.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 3 weeks ago:
Is your app as efficient as what an experienced developer would create?
One of the earliest uses we had for LLMs was literally just asking it to optimize several large codebases. Lots of pointless changes suggested; several huge performance wins we had overlooked.
And all done – implemented, tested, and human-reviewed – in about a person-week, compared to at least half a dozen person-months to go through all that by hand.
I mean, sometimes the LLMs generate slow algos. But less often than human coders.
If you released the source code, would it have security vulnerabilities?
You’re not gonna believe this, but another of the first things we did was ask the LLMs to review the codebase for security issues (and review any new PRs)
OFC the code also gets reviewed for security vulns like it always has, by old-school automation (eg valgrind, fortify, yadda), human review, and red-teaming exercises. I don’t think I’ve seen enough data yet to say whether it’s got more/worse security issues than human-generated code (which, need I remind you, is often highly insecure)
These are just a couple of the more hidden issues that fly under the radar when shipping LLM-generated code. Ummm… those would be issues if you didn’t use good orchestration, didn’t have good tools and docs for the LLMs to use, didn’t have follow good software engineering practices to begin with…
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 3 weeks ago:
already quite useful
Quite possibly solving the majority of human diseases is rather more than “quite useful”
2024 Nobel Prize lecture 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX1aYUckvnY
2025 lecture: Deep Protein Space. If this doesn’t blow your fucking mind… you haven’t heard of DNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_enkgH6Vrxk
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 3 weeks ago:
There’s no such thing as “agents”
Up until ~6 months ago I would have agreed with you, and elaborated that “Agents are just LLMs in a loop with a text file scratchpad”
That’s… still true in a way, but honestly so many people have put so much cleverness into managing that process, that I have to say, yes, Cline or Codex with GPT or Claude Code behind them are absolutely “agentic”.
I can point them to a problem report and our company documentation and… an ever-increasing percentage of the time, I wind up with a problem description, a patch that fixes it, unit, coverage, and stress tests, and (if relevant) updated docs.
- Comment on "GOOD AI DON'T THINK! (They get even.)" would be a great name for a horror movie... 3 weeks ago:
Stanislaw Lem (author of Solaris ) wrote a wonderful short story based almost exactly on this premise (AIs that must not think, but are trying to get even)
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 3 weeks ago:
This reminds me so much of the late-80s when everyone was installing PCs in their offices and everyone was asking if this is actually better than a typewriter and Rolex, because people spend all day “futzing” on the computer.
5 years later we had networking, emerging interoperability standards, office productivity suites. 10 years later there was basically no company left that didn’t have PCs and much better productivity.
I see the same thing playing out here. A year ago we had Copilot and it sucked, I didn’t see the utility. But now coding agents with skills can easily read and understand specs, create testsuites, etc. These are right now revolutionizing my team’s work.
You see this pattern over & over with AI capability on a given task: It’s pathetic at 5%, then it merely sucks at 40%, then it takes a lot of futzing to fix up at 70%, then suddenly it’s at 95% and does as well as most professionals.
Downvote me to hell, this is my honest assessment.
- Comment on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype 4 weeks ago:
“The Internet in healthcare and science has been a boon, but other than that fuck it”
“Computing in healthcare and science has been a boon, but other than that fuck it”
“Electricity in healthcare and science has been a boon, but other than that fuck it”
