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GoblinSlayer··on Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
Features complicate things, not markup. JSON protocols still do all the things xmpp does.
GoblinSlayer··on Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
AFAIK, it's Matrix markup, the idea is to make plaintext easy to extract, so you can send plaintext notifications, keep it simple. Markdown is fragile too for some reason. You can't use normal libraries with untrusted messages, because normal libraries work only with trusted data. HTML sanitization works like conversion between different formats.
GoblinSlayer··on Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
Temporarily delete messages from unknown servers.
GoblinSlayer··on Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
Won't users block people they don't like themselves?
GoblinSlayer··on Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
Can't you just forward ports through ssh?
GoblinSlayer··on Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
let's make capitalism == everything is for sale == let's buy government == let's make government work for the buyer == government works well ==...
GoblinSlayer··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
At Planck scale it becomes a big particle, and such particles are known to be unstable and quickly decay.
GoblinSlayer··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
It's a straightforward extrapolation. Big bang is extrapolation of Hubble law too. If the initial state was complex, why it would be consistent and why it would have low entropy?
GoblinSlayer··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
It's Cauchy problem.
GoblinSlayer··on Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024)
Conventional fuzzing tries to overwrite executable code? I thought crashes are usually due to dereference of a corrupted pointer leading to unmapped memory.
GoblinSlayer··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
Then you suddenly realize you outsourced your thinking to Claude, because it's tiresome to think by yourself.
GoblinSlayer··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
In Rambo 2 (1985) it sort of was.
GoblinSlayer··on Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024)
Yes, the author uses specialized terminology which is easy to misunderstand. They automate DEP compliant transition from buffer overflow to RCE.
GoblinSlayer··on Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024)
TFA says memory corruption is a data-only attack, because it just overwrites data in memory.
GoblinSlayer··on Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0
Rust is slower too, and git is IO bound anyway, and routinely calls bash.
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
It was your argument that you verified that we can't verify. But if we can't verify, then how could you verify? Fallibilism doesn't lead to a contradiction, it only rejects infallibility. If you think agnosticism helps you prove your infallibility, prove it. Also radio demonstrates that your approach is unworkable.
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
The chicken has a problem with prediction of future because of intelligent behavior of the farmer, i.e. the farm is a conspiracy of sorts.
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
If you don't like such skepticism, then it should be okay to believe in fields. Where do you draw a line, how much skepticism is enough? Does radio exist? You can't see it, just like other fields.
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
Chaos, biology and exponential complexity.
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
Chicken and farmer.
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
Are you familiar with fallibilism? Aristotle justified geocentrism too. Who's to say your justification is correct for real this time?
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
Only infinite magnitude causes problems in physics, infinite precision doesn't. Real numbers have infinite number of digits only in digital model of numbers, so their infinite size is a modelling artifact. e=1 in base e - one digit.
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
The underlying structure is the quantum field, it looks empty to particles just like steel looks empty to sound.
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
Mathematics can model simple parts of physics, because mathematics is simple and can do simple things, like a puddle fits in the hole. It doesn't model complicated parts of physics, because it can't to complicated things, because mathematics is invented by humies and thus limited by humie cognitive abilities.
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
Trading sacrifices for a good hunt is kinda useless now.
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
Did you verify that we can't verify?
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
For a regularity to be broken, the phenomenon causing this regularity should be sentient to break the regularity in an intelligently chosen way. It doesn't matter how sentient are neurons, they don't affect anything and might as well be absent. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_Neptune - what neurons did there?
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
I don't see unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. On one hand, it's a self fulfilling prophecy: if your math doesn't work, just make different math, and so on until it works (gravity was invented 6 times or so), so it's as effective as logic. On the other hand, it's fundamentally approximation limited by precision, so for any model we know when it breaks. And it's basically unworkable for chaotic or exponentially complex phenomena.
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
The standard model is completely accidental, no? Also hierarchy problem.
GoblinSlayer··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)
Measurement works because universe moves in a simple way. As Hume indicates, you need very complex motion for irregularity, maybe even sentient, but sentient universe is fairy tale.
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