Ads back then were so cool, it felt like real magic and it was not hard to believe PS2 is that good.

You can make a lot of things with a good microwave, but just putting something in doesn’t work for that purpose, yes.

a(n effectively) non-deterministic

Almost started to type an angry response to that.

This lady should feel lucky that it only ran amok in her inbox.

I have done that with less than an LLM. Just a typo in my Mutt configuration, and a few hundred e-mails were deleted which shouldn’t have been. After that I decided that removing spam is best done by first sorting into a separate mailbox and then manual revision. Which is an experience of plenty of people.

Which just means that if you use an AI agent (and why not, it appears people do want them), then you should perhaps use many dedicated agents only having access each to its own narrow set of available actions.

It’s more important with things based on fuzzy logic than it is with scripts. But people use Flatpaks and Snaps and AppImages, for isolation among other things, and I have run Skype from separate user under Linux in the olden days (it was such a stupid fashion, everyone wanted Skype, but everyone also considered it proprietary spyware, and nobody thought that an X11 client can spy after the whole display and all keyboard and mouse events anyway ; and that fashion didn’t involve running Skype in Xephyr or Xnest, just from a separate user).

So the thought is not new. These agents should just be used with clear privilege separation, and some uniform way to declare privileges and interfaces for AI agents, and those interfaces simple enough. One can hope.

Separation of server styles, server markup and client styles is definitely something Gemini lacks, not having server styles at all.

But it’s not as much a problem of browsers as it is of the environment in which information is shared and propagated. While we still connect to websites using a browser, those websites will behave however their owners wish, inflating web standards and requiring complex browsers.

I was dreaming of something like “hypertext Usenet”, and making descriptions of another system I was interested in trying to make, I am still not even close to that, and I’m not sure I’m still interested, because it appears NOSTR now has much of what I wanted in its standards.

Basically if you imagine a system for propagating posts addressable by ids and with markup inside, referring to styles and containing hyperlinks by ids to other posts, you can throw away the idea of a website, and still have the hypertext web. That markup can be anything, while the URLs in the links leading to images and such (and other pages) are using those ids or are at least Blossom-compliant.

I think NOSTR of new protocols is the one most likely to eventually attain such functionality. People here wouldn’t like it, I suppose, because of huge intersection with Bitcoin community and because most clients and client libraries are for the web. But there’s now a C client library, functional enough, and architecturally NOSTR is worlds above the thinking of designers of Lemmy, for example.

Oh, I see. So it’s disdain for the open source community, is it.

FOSS has nothing to do with working for free. A freeware program author can work for free and not touch FOSS. A FOSS project can be developed only by people paid wages for that.

I think this sentence made me throw up in my mouth a little… for several reasons.

Economic illiteracy is like that.

OK, everyone can work whatever way they want. I just was in a mood.

Since I like the parallel between that and Star Wars holocrons - perhaps there should be separate dedicated devices. Without networking capability, but with ability to add “layers” of the model in the form of memory cards or optical discs as media, containing database files. It helps that hardware to efficiently run an LLM is different than what’s fit for general-purpose applications. People use GPUs for that, but these can be purely dedicated computers of a particular kind.

The downside is that they’d not be usable for other things. The upside is that you can both have something very convenient and not fear what everyone fears. Display a QR code if you want to copy-paste an answer. Something like that.

This can also apply to spam e-mails. We can acknowledge that the problem doesn’t depend on whether we want to have it.

instead I’m here boning up on the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.

I mean, Ferengistan is Europe and in wider sense the West in Farsi, so - pretty logical.

(Which is why I don’t subscribe to the theory that Ferengi are an antisemitic trope. They are a subversive futurist trope, “seeing ourselves through the eyes of others the same way we often see them”.)

Everyone likes to see themselves as the heroes of some universe.

It’s also true for some Soviet science fiction, like things by Strugatsky brothers communicate that deep painful wish for “us” to be that society of scientific workers and doctors, and the barbaric and lost people they visit and help to be “them”, but that’s not how the world is. Even the “approved” Ivan Yefremov with his “Bull’s Hour” shows a space colony which is supposedly a remnant of the “capitalist and imperialist” world, yet surprisingly reminisces USSR, while that team of heroes from heaven that comes trying to fix them doesn’t seem like anything from USSR.

which uses statistical likelihood to determine correctness is that historical datasets are likely to contain old information in larger quantities than updated information.

They should make some kind of layered models, where the user sets weight to layers.

But in any case, this is not what I necessarily meant, just that a big project relying upon unpaid maintainers is flawed, especially when somebody makes real buck on it.

There have been plenty of cases of state actors putting in backdoors. Those were human, most likely, and not some bots.

To expose places where people work thanklessly guaranteeing someone’s pretty thankful bottom lines? Working for free isn’t altruism, it’s hurting other workers. For example.

You know, sometimes this capitalism thing seems wiser looking from a pretty marxist standpoint, than other not very well thought through schemes.

In what world do you imagine there wouldn’t be 87 forks that went in a different direction.

In every world. Linux is not just the codebase, it’s all the developer work going into it daily. Hundreds of forks and downstreams can pick whichever direction they want, most of that work will still be directed one way.

Because a gun like that is considered a “garage gun” and those are legal under federal law because it’s essentially impossible to stop somebody from gluing together a pipe and a nail to strike the bullet with and fire it down the pipe barrel

I live in Russia and here this is very illegal. It can suddenly become where you live too.

Which perhaps means that it shouldn’t be thankless and the technology, since it exists, should be used to screen contributions.

They have to choose their battles.

It’s good for humans. It’s like using a fuzzer in testing software, except in human interactions. It’ll break things more vulnerable and leave be things less vulnerable.

I hope.

That said, it’s pretty hard to build a responsive web app without at least a little bit of JavaScript.

And then the question comes up, why would you need responsiveness. Auto-completion of search results? Hate that crap. Endless scroll with loading additional contents? Hate that crap. Everything blinking and whistling? I suppose JS in that case is possible, but purely for stylistic purposes and not functionality.

Seems too 1984esque even for Trump, and like it would require actual competence.

Not that much competence. Mostly power to keep applying it.

OK, I think I’ve lost track of what I was arguing. F-35 is fine.

It’s just that strategic reliance upon such a complex system intuitively seems bad without some Russian\Iranian style main scalable cheap body, which is also what Ukraine has, Turkey has and what USA is building. Basically everyone with a pretense at having self-sufficient military.

What would EU countries do if right now a mass of cheap drones, cruise missiles and stormtroopers started moving their way?

Because it’s all trade and balance, so it’s probable that such a window into the world (which will have its own censorship) might be allowed. Probably throttled. Probably allowed and throttled depending on some kind of social rating and individual permissions.

Unlike Tor, it’s not escaping censorship, it’s one portal (it’s in the name) somehow allowing access to a few select “free speech” (quotes mandatory no matter how you feel about actual free speech) directions.

USSR had tourist permissions and allowed directions, and friendly socialist countries for which it was easier to get such a permission, and unfriendly capitalist countries for which it was pretty rare and involved state security following you, and so on.

This might be similar.

If you don’t see how something can be divided into levels of access for different citizens, then that’s just lack of imagination. They will think of a way.

Honestly calling a country that can afford even a single F-35 small seems strange. And having only one doesn’t make sense. You need to rotate them for maintenance, have a few up at once (at least 2) for basic tactics, so it seems having less than 8 fighters is just not enough. And then you need jet fuel, missiles, ground systems, avionics, radars, all up-to-date.