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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My work processes PDFs from government sites, filling them out for end users automatically. Would be cool if the API could do this somehow. Parse fields, and let you put text into them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if it stays at $5 then it’s probably not a popular idea. If 1000 people like the idea and each put $5, now we’re talking $5k. Still probably not quite enough, but it is producing income via a novel way of getting in touch with the audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Random idea: do you think a platform for crowd sourcing / funding ideas could go well for musicians? Like a feature request in software, where users can like a post about a feature to show interest, except it would use dollars instead of likes. Fans could publish an idea for a song they like and donate $5 or whatever. If it’s a popular idea, more people donate to it and the artist takes notice (having now been somewhat paid to produce it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be that refactoring the code for Windows 11 compatibility, and new features, would have been roughly equivalent in effort to rebuilding. If the code has been poked and probed for years already, still follows old patterns, and have devolved into a tightly coupled mess of scattered system dependancies… maybe it just becomes easier to justify rebuilding it as a way of clearing out technical debt?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  also, time between key presses on the compromised machine could indicate network lag to what is actually a Remote Desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does iMessage store the keys locally and encrypt the entire message so only the recipient can decrypt it? Any idea what their handshake looks like—I’m curious if they can still see the messages or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m with you there. They sure as shit are going to try, regardless of whatever sustainability point you or I can think up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some idiots voluntarily give it away? Brother… we as a society moved the public common areas for discourse, entertainment, finance, and research onto a digital landscape. That landscape, in particular, is set up like as though every Roman in the fora had an invisible personal Sherlock Holmes set up to automatically dissect their footprints, fingerprints, the direction and timeliness of their stair, … and then to record it in a virtually limitless ledger where it can later be aggregated and analyzed for behavioral patterns. We aren’t giving it away anymore than the Roman commoners would have been by merely walking around town. This is a very aggressive data harvesting situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, it’s a culture I can get behind. Lower ewaste, reduce the product cycle to something greater than a year, encourage more hobbies and less consumerism, … people will flock toward things that last, which is a market that can use some love.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Propped up by what, though? They’ll just continue to dilute the name of AI with underperforming technology and yield more backlash from the public while making an oligarchy out of their richest tech influencers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what do y'all use for CI/CD?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gitea Actions, as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Is The Most Blocked Bot And .Christmas Is The Most Dangerous Domain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Information is contextualized data. Knowledge is contextualized information. Wisdom is contextualized knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace all upper case I with a lower case L and vis-versa. Fill randomly with zero-width text everywhere. Use white text instead of line break (make it weird prompts, too).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is “a nap” related at all to “a napkin?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An unstable desktop environment reintroduces market for anti-virus, backup, and restore. Particularly, with users who don’t understand this stuff and are more likely to shell out cash for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There will be fallout, for sure, as soon as they finish calculating what percentage of profit should be fined away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re welcome to hold whatever abstract position you like, but the claim that context I’ve raised is “meaningless” misses the point. Meaning isn’t inherent in the universe—it’s created by observers—so dismissing context as meaningless is simply incoherent. Context is meaning.

  I’m not here to debate metaphysics. I’m here to discuss the economic implications of current events: (1) China’s push to build a gold-backed, highly liquid, transferable settlement asset, (2) Russia’s claim that the U.S. may pursue similar moves that could undercut the dollar, (3) gold doubling per USD in the last two years and the long historical context that introduces, and (4) the everything bubble we’re in right now. The question is what these signals imply for the future, not whether signals “mean nothing.”

  If you believe they point to a different outcome, offer a substantive alternative. Otherwise, insisting that everything is meaningless adds nothing to the discussion; it only reveals the limitations of your perspective, which I’m uninterested in. That, limited, world view is the safe “fantasy land” here…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my fantasy world? Alright friend, you can take whatever high level position you want and forever repeat your incorrect points. As a matter of fact, however, there is no essence to meaning in the universe. Meaning is derived from the observer. So your point about the validation of meaning is fruitless: no such thing as a meaningless piece of context, unless you are so narrow minded in your fantasy land as to believe in such limitations. I would encourage the interested reader, not those of whom are only interested in preserving their shallow ideological pool, to consider for a moment that the world is far more complex than is immediately obvious.

  As for you, on the other hand, I fail to understand why you’ve tethered my curiosity to the dispute of whether meaning is pervasive to all things—or not. Meaning is what you make of it, and you’ve clearly made nothing of it, and I clearly can not help you see beyond such boundaries, so I will (hopefully) end this discussion now. I am not interested in debating my philosophies with you anymore. That’s just not what I came here for.

  My goal was to discuss the meaning of various macroeconomic market activities, alongside the (very real) efforts China is taking to develop their own gold-backed liquid, transferable, monetary-grade asset that can serve like a global banking/settlement medium. As well as, Russias claim that, the US is moving toward a similar move which would deface US currency.

  This debate is about whether or not the completely valid and present signs actually point to anything. It’s not about the validity of signage. It’s not about whether meaning is inherent or not. Nor is about fantasy land ideology. It’s about economics. If you think the signs mean something other than what they suggest, be my guest and introduce a novel idea. Otherwise, like I said before, I don’t care whether you think the signs may or may not mean nothing.

  “Nothing” doesn’t even make sense in this context. It’s akin a statement like “global warming means nothing.” Duh, you make the meaning. If all you can think of is “nothing,” it says more about you than the actual affairs of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard ram pricing is high. There’s their use, an economic one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I do see. You’re conflating what has no meaning to you with what has no meaning at all. They aren’t the same thing, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re confusing what I mean. Of course you can make fictitious meaning out of anything. But all meaning is created. No meaning is discovered. To say there is no meaning, it represents the depth of creativity rather than the depth of reality. Everything has meaning. Whether or not you think the meaning fictitious is another topic altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only woks until you find yourself in the same debt spiral that royally fucked Rome, Spain, Italy, …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can be greedy, idiots, and still know how to come out on top of a failing empire. Everything means something because meaning is created, not discovered.

  I really think there’s a lot more to this than use the eye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone else concerned that the AI bubble is actually an everything bubble, and more or less represents the devaluation of the US dollar? We have a lot of debt, we can’t necessarily keep raise interest rates to slow down spending (as that would make the debt’s impact far greater), and so they’re printing money onto the deficit. Meanwhile, you have the White House eye balling cryptocurrency, letting banks hold it alongside gold, … what does all of this mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vibe coding is a self perpetuating feedback loop of hallucinations. The more complex the project gets, the worse the problems. The agent reads its own prior code, which biases it to the prior approach. That bias just pushes issue further, buries them deeper, and you don’t find out until the product is done enough to actually look at it.

  I knew a guy who wanted his vibe coding project to display the page count in a PDF. I showed him a super simple python script to do it, but it wasn’t usable for him because his shitty implementation was so unmanageable, so grotesquely over and under engineered at the same time, … he rather spent hours trying and failing to get the AI agent to implement my feature for him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - DioCrafts/OxiCloud: ☁️ OxiCloud server, efficient and secure way to save all your data⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These might be apples and oranges, but how does NextCloud compare to Seafile?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like mailsac. Any user handle and no signup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was curious and, yeah, it seems like docker hub not requiring signature means many popular publishers don’t bother to sign. But that’s not to say it can’t be done. For example: github.com/sigstore/cosign

  Today, cosign has been tested and works against […] Docker Hub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Again we’re talking past each other. I’m sure those results are available and I’m aware docker doesn’t verify signatures automatically, but I’m asking how that necessarily makes docker insecure in spite of best practices being implemented. It’s about pinning yourself to trusted digests and having a verification process (like time) before updates. Why would you need authorship verification in that case? If there’s a good answer to that, I’d consider alternatives too. I’m just saying I don’t think it’s inherently insecure over this, and at face value I wouldn’t call docker insecure over this. It boils back down to the classic: don’t download untrusted software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re making big claims on security here, like “cannot be done,” and each time you do I feel like we’re talking past each other a bit. I never claimed you can verify that the person who pushed the container had access to a private key file. I claimed you can verify the security of a container, specifically by auditing it and reviewing the publisher’s online presence. Best practices. Don’t upgrade right away, and pin digests to those which can be trusted.

  When you pin a digest, you’re not going to get a container some malicious agent force pushed after the fact. You pinned the download to an immutable digest, so hot-swapping the container is out the window. What, as I understand, you’re concerned with is the scenario that a malicious actor (1) compromised the registry login beforehand, (2) you pinned the digest after hand, and (3) the attack is unnoticed by you and everyone else.

  I’m trying to figure out under what conditions this would actually occur, and thus justifies the claim that docker pull is insecure. In a work setting, I only see this being an issue if the process to test/upgrade existing ones is already an insecure process.

  Can you help me understand why I should believe that, even with best practices in place, Dockers own insecurities are unacceptable? Docker is used everywhere and I’m reluctant to believe everyone just doesn’t care about an unmanageable attack vector.