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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • A lot of focus is on how llms are severing connection between the user and the source of info. something I would say is equally if not more concerning is the fact that public services and websites that offer free public access to information are being obliterated by llm agents scraping with absolutely no regard to the site. It’s not just little operations either. Meta takes an approach that I would consider malicious and a threat to anyone hosting anything on the open web as a whole.




  • This feels like bait. But really the answer is encrypt your disks or use something fully ephemeral if you are that paranoid about your hardware physically being compromised. Disabling all of your system logs which do not leave your system and removing any visibility you have is quite honestly the best way to screw yourself over. How are supposed to know if a system is compromised if you are covering your eyes and ears for the sake of obscurity?






  • Yeah, it’s not quite that simple. One thing that really sucks is a lot of the tech, tuning and design that existed is not as simple as just making the thing again. Manufacturing equipment has to exist and experience making the thing has to exist. Take a look at the state of cassette.

    There is only one company currently making cassette and there is no real way to get anything else besides the one model that they make. Even the highest end new cassette players use the same one because there is literally no other facility making them.

    Compare any modern cassette to walkmans or really any handheld player from the 90s in terms of sound or even size and you will see everything from then is so much smaller and sounds way better.

    The facility that makes the modern ones knows this and acknowledges it. It’s just the manufacturing does not exist anymore.

    That is just tape.

    CRTs are absolutely nuts in comparison. It will be a truly sad day that CRTs are no longer a thing you can find.