Seems like it.

Reminds me of the Cloudflare incident this year.

And the Cloudflare incident also this year.

The economics of our world are completely controlled by middle-men. This is how much power we have delegated to them. There is no free market, just a series of publisher deals that put producers of value into a casino to decide if they get compensated for their labour.

It’s a cargo-cult for stock price manipulation.

Yes, but this particular abusive feature is a result of misguided legislation, not profit-seeking.

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all that invested money vanishes

Well it’s mostly going directly to the hardware vendors (Nvidia) and infrastructure providers (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud et al.).

Which VPS provider are you using? Many of them end up blacklisted for mail delivery due to spammers using them.

I grew up on Bullfrog games. I thought Molyneux was a genius until that fucking cube scam, and then Godus. I bought Godus on PC and it was the most disappointing trash I’ve ever played.

Can’t wait to see what this youtuber has to say about that era.

Does youtube not know how to count unique viewers like every other web analytics platform does?

This guy is a sex pest.

This is completely missing the point, which is that qualia are only experienced by the conscious mind. They cannot be measured by anything other than the mind of the person experiencing them.

Measuring that the brain activity is the same is not sufficient to prove this unanswerable philosophical question. You would have to also prove that different minds have the same experience while exhibiting the same neural activity - a problem which reduces to the same question: is my experience of blue the same as yours?

Yes we’ve known this about capitalism and automation for centuries. My point (that you’re ignoring) is that LLMs will not give us any kind of automation worthy of discussion in that context.

Except perhaps for shitty SEO recipe website automation.

All of these doomers are talking about the consequences of true AGI.

On the one hand, we don’t have true AGI, and probably won’t for a while yet.

On the other hand, we are so behind with regulating tech that if we do develop AGI we will certainly be completely unprepared for the consequences despite all these doomers telling everybody exactly what could go wrong. And they will be right.

Fingers crossed it doesn’t happen in our lifetimes.

That’s good to hear, thanks for the reply!

A Freedombox user in the wild!! I’ve been following the project since 2011 but I never thought it really achieved its potential. How do you use yours, and how do you find it?

I hope it’s a 3rd person Battle Royale with base building.

The solution proposed by the author is to host your own fediverse instance on a … wait for it … corporate VPS.

I don’t think it helps to gate-keep self-hosting as being only for local hardware. It’s also about managing your own software stack so you’re not reliant on Big Tech to provide services to you.

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Anyone with the ability to inject or modify packets in the network path between server and client can inject malicious javascript or browser exploits into an unencrypted HTTP TCP stream. The client’s User-Agent and other headers would allow the attacker to customize their attack to target that specific browser version, and compromise the client machine.