AlienRobot

At least it wasn't a crypto scam.

These people created a law that is catastrophic for privacy, so I don't believe they will be stopped from banning VPN's just because someone claims VPN's are good for privacy.

PotPlayer is the new kid, I guess? Personally I don't like VLC because of the UI, so I've always used MPC.

AI starts charging money -> Everybody stops using it.

Not many people could have gotten that done. Sounds like expertise to me.

I think that undersells the real problem.

In many cases "AI" signals some sort of betrayal to users, because it shows that the developer CAN drastically change the GUI to implement features it wants to implement, except in practice "AI" isn't a feature that provides tangible benefits to the user.

So you get the feeling of "you could have done this this WHOLE time?" + the fact they didn't do it for you but just to say they are using AI now.

If the developer wanted to please the users, they would instead implement features that users have been demanding for a while. That got a lower priority so that AI that nobody asked for could be implemented.

The model's webpage at https://huggingface.co/prefeitura-rio/Rio-3.5-Open-397B says it's a merge now. It previously didn't contain this paragraph:

>The model is built via a merge of https://huggingface.co/nex-agi/Nex-N2-Pro and https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, proceeded by On-Policy Distillation from a stronger model. We detected an incorrect upload in the previous version, where the base merged version was upload instead of the final distilled model. We are sorry for the confusion and apologize profusely.

Incidentally are people using Github issues as blogs now?

The best case scenario of LLM is transforming input into output where both are languages and accuracy doesn't matter, e.g. "rewrite this poem in pirate speech."

But that's not worth trillions of dollars...

What if they aren't faking the e-mails, and it's Yoti who is lying? Then it's just a privacy-conscious person.

What if neither is lying? The e-mail was sent, but this was never recorded on Yoti's customer support records, or the record was deleted? Do we know what kind of customer support system Yoti is running? What if there was a bug or hardware failure? What if someone saw it being deleted but they figured it's better for them if they didn't say anything, so Yoti isn't aware of its own internal cover up?

What if PalDuck was actually paid by Yoti to publish a fake e-mail screenshot as part of a PR campaign? What if the screenshot is real, but it comes from a different timeline and Yoti did nothing wrong in this timeline?

With this "he said she said" situation, considering nobody is going to open an investigation over a reddit post, I think we might have more fun speculating about time-travelling screenshots. We'll never know the truth either way.

Does "publication" refer to the software or to something documenting the existence of the bug? Because I thought zero-day meant the bug was exploited the same day the software containing the bug was released, but your phrasing sounds like if you exploit a bug before the maintainers know about it then it's a negative day.

Zig raises overflow. There are +|= and +%= operators for clamped and wrapping addition.

Rust doesn't raise overflow by default. But you can just 123.checked_add(321). Now your code is unreadable, but it's overflow safe.

Honestly, based on the way I write code I'd rather something like an end of line comment. Like:

   var x = y + z; # wrapped

Because I'm very unlikely to mix wrapped/checked/clamped arithmetic in a single line. It can't be a compiler state like doing(wrapped) { x + y } because in Zig every line must be "compilable" by itself, without requiring context from other parts of the code. Function names are too verbose. Casting is too verbose. Having a statement-level modifier would be a good compromise.

>They may be trying to vilify Yoti, they may be farming karma, they may be trying to discourage people from using GrapheneOS

I don't understand why you draw that conclusion. Based on:

>The OP of this reddit post has a lot of other posts (now hidden) about age verification, bypassing it, and privacy. They even got called out about this in the reddit thread and responded by hiding their profile

That just sounds like a privacy-conscious person doing things privacy-conscious people would do.

It's been a while since I last used IRC, but afaik one of the issues with it was that servers revealed the IP address of users to every other user by default. Since the IP is geographic that's one piece of information you could use to doxx someone.

One time I clicked "I forgot my password" on a website and they e-mailed me my password.

Ever since I don't trust online services.

Nothing gives me less confidence that something is a genuine question than opening the question with the phrase "genuine question." :(

Did you really ask this hoping to reevaluate your perspectives from the answers, or did you only ask this in hope to make OTHERS reevaluate their perspective by making them ask themselves "why am I anti-AI?"

This can't be a trillion dollar industry...

They should add a feature called "auto-really" that just automatically says "really?" after the chatbot answers a question to check if it's going to 180 upon this tiniest bit of scrutinity.

You know, Google has an index so it doesn't crawl the whole web every time you type something in the search box, because that would be massively wasteful.

Seeing every chatbot instantly turn into a scraper every time you type anything into it was a "uh oh" moment in the sense it was very lamentable.

If there is one thing AI has "democratized" it is scraping.

Indeed. The best endorsement is done explicitly by obnoxious users.

I use Linux, btw.

Youtube implemented the same sort of thing for channels. If you have a youtube channel and someone comments on one of your videos, there is an AI-generated "reply" that you can click to avoid having to actually think about interacting with commenters on your videos.

The weird thing is, if I commented on a channel and they sent me an AI-generated reply, I'd just hate them forever.

The answer to life, the universe and everything, I guess?

Case against 255: it looks wrong in the graph :(

Case against 256: no 0 or 1 values :(

Considering how important having a 0 and 1 value is for arithmetic in general, I think 255 is better.

I saw a thumbnail on Youtube that said "GitHub is killing open source" and I think the sheer wrongness of the statement surmises the entire idea very well.

There are many things that I don't like about Github, but I think the most important one is that Github doesn't allow users to have multiple free accounts.

You can create as many accounts as you want on Reddit, have as many blogs as you want on Tumblr, and even create multiple personae on Facebook on a single account, but Github doesn't allow you to do any of that.

You can't be a "hacker" platform when you give users less control over their privacy than Facebook provides.

I assume that is a bigger problem when you consider everyone decided to stop hosting their own forum and moving all their discussion to Github issues and Github's built-in forum.

Maybe we can reach there by using integers as fixed point decimals?

It's not called artificial intelligence for nothing.

The harness is vibe-coded.

Replace journalism with AI summaries... of what?

What is the AI going to summarize once journalism is dead?

Why would they remove the ads from users who have proven that they would even pay for a Facebook subscription?

Imagine paying for the privilege to display an animated icon.

I blame Bethesda and their horse armor for this.

That surprised me as well.

I thought the whole point of cookies, local storage, session storage, and indexed DB were to avoid what origin private file system is doing.

You mean I could have just saved stuff as a file this whole time instead of serializing it to a string? Why didn't we just do this from the start?