That’s just an excuse by reddit. Moving to the new style allows them to choke down and control the way that posts and replies are displayed and nested. This is good for them, because it allows them to offer white glove PR services to paying customers. It also obfuscates useful user supplied content so that it can be sold wholesale to anyone who has the money to buy it. That’s more important to them than offering a good user experience and useful website to the proles.

Anyone still posting on reddit (who isn’t a bot) is working for free for an unscrupulous company.

How so?

I think there’s a reasonable, rational position somewhere between the ai hype cringelords on the one hand, and the egotistical humanists on the other who refuse to believe that ai could ever match human output. I think it’s hard to look at what has happened over the past 5 years and have any confidence that ai will be constrained to some trivial, manageable ceiling.

I understand the skepticism people have around claims of the transformative power of ai. Some of those claims are just companies trumpeting their own products, and these breathless tech articles about how this or that tool is going to change everything, it’s tiring. But I think that can numb us to the signs that something transformative and irrevocable is actually happening.

Even if we assume that current ai is at its limit of progress (it isn’t), if an agent costs $10k/year and works 24 hours per day, there is a far greater tolerance for mistakes than a worker who costs $50k and wants vacations and benefits, and sleep. Gates makes this point, and I think it’s strong.

Layoffs due to ai replacing human work are happening in the tech sector already, which I think is arguably a canary in the coal mine situation.

Generative AI hasn’t produced anything that exceeds human capability in any field

Chess is an early and canonical example of ai doing exactly that. The speed at which it can complete human-like tasks far exceeds human capability. It’s hard to talk about the enormous problems with ai if we accept it as an undifferentiated point in the march of technological progress.

I think (comically) Gates uses the word “cognition” to mean, the business output of an individual white collar worker. In that realm, today, ais are faster, more durable, more scalable, more easily put into parallel than humans, they work around the clock and they’re cheaper.

I don’t like ai. Still, I think Gates is absolutely right that ai is going to swing a wrecking ball into white collar work and there’s no government or industry plan to deal with the human impacts of that.

True haha. But yeah, a file hash is actually uniquely useless in this case, any gcode spun out of a slicer is going to be hardware and user specific.

Just seems like there would be opportunities for hacking and reverse engineering this measure. At it’s root, it’s a measure that builds firearm information into the firmware, surely that could be exploited by a person who wanted to do that sort of thing.

Register as a manufacturer of 3D printers

Government gives you an updated, comprehensive archive of STL files your firmware must reject

???

Profit

I tried Mauril out, it’s a really cool concept. I just wish the difficulty curve was a bit softer. Felt like from the outset, I was being quizzed on things that I was unfamiliar with.

“If GrapheneOS devices can’t be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.”

Wonder if Motorola feels the same way.

CC BY-SA is this, in spirit.

This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

There are other flavours of Creative Commons licenses that might suit you better. Anyway, worth looking into.

This might be of interest to you!

“German scents exhibition combines 1,000 years of fragrances with art and history” - Associated Press

This is interesting. Do you have any thoughts on why someone would want to utilize the epstein data for ML? Like, what’s the point, in your opinion? Just lulz? Or, something else?

Ayy, fellow Return of the Obra Dinn lover. Such a good game. Peerless in terms of vibe.

Youtube would rather be able to track every user and make more profit per person than go big tent all audiences.

True, but consider that Google, Alphabet, whatever, is fundamentally an information broker. All of their services and technologies are simply a means to that end. They have no incentive to go big tent if it means sacrificing their ability to harvest data on individuals and groups.

I’m not saying TrueNAS and ZFS aren’t good. For large enterprise systems, arrays with sufficient redundancy, servers with reliable power management, I can see its advantages, esp. w/ snapshots, etc. I acknowledge that Open Media Vault is mickey mouse in comparison.

I just feel compelled to share my experience when I see people considering TrueNAS for their first foray into building a small home media server, running a z1 array, with no mention of battery backup or power management. ZFS isn’t inherently safer. It’s safer when paired with sufficient redundancy and power management.

When I built my first server, TrueNAS, ZFS, and Raid z1 made perfect sense. And I loved it for the first couple months. Then an update and unexpected shutdown rendered my storage pools unrecoverable. Had backups for most but not all of the files, and spent almost a year of bits of free time here wading in way over my head on highly technical support forum threads & there trying to bring the pools back online. Nothing worked, the array was toast.

I don’t know how tech savvy you are, but here’s the advice I’d give my past self - Take a few weeks to read documentation and play with TrueNAS before filling up your drives with stuff. Peek around in troubleshooting forums, see if the troubleshooting you may have to do is in line with your experience level.

After wiping my drives and starting over, I built around Open Media Vault. It’s less pretty and less feature rich than TrueNas, but it’s also much less fragile in a raid z1 setup and I never worry about it.

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Always worth taking a peek at a user’s home instance. Some are pushing out more ragebait than others.

I have a theory about her intentions for writing about killing that dog.

Noem published her autobiography while vying to be the republican running mate in the election. On the one hand, why would she choose to publish something so openly sinister in her autobiography, at such a consequential time for her political career? She must have known that story would get picked up and blasted in the media. But part of me wonders if maybe, that was her goal. Maybe by including the dog story in her book, Noem was sending a signal to Trump that she wouldn’t flinch to do the cruel, dirty work that maga wants done. And now here she is, doing dirty work.

Filtering doesn’t necessarily have to be driven by AI.

Take recipes for example. Recipes are now almost impossible to get non AI results for via search engines. But, simple hardcoded parameters that set a preference for older results, ones without affiliate links (Marginalia does this), ones with fewer than 5 domains executing javascript on the site, some analysis of the date of the domain registration and activity on the domain, some analysis of the top level domain to filter out blogspam, these would all make the search results more human.

My hope is that eventually, there will be a paradigm of search engine optimization, maybe even an open standard for the absence of excessive javascript, affiliate links, social media buttons, etc. Sites that lack those elements are way less likely to be junk.