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abc42··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
https://x.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425
abc42··on Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"
Ignorance is bliss.
abc42··on Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series
LLM these days should make it easy for Qualcomm to add such support.
abc42··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Yeah, that's why Tesla, Polestar and even BYD work so well.
abc42··on Maki, the efficient coder
TUI application written in Rust, maki has some interesting token-saving mechanisms
abc42··on Google Rolls Out $899-Plus 'Ai laptops'
Perhaps you can install a real Linux on this one. Probably not though.
abc42··on Apple Watch Series 12
Why did you downgrade from your 13 mini? It's supported until 2030.
abc42··on Apple Watch Series 12
Some clothes have this technology called "pockets".
abc42··on Roomy Is Generally Available
Roomy is an atproto-based groupchat platform.
abc42··on Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
Another take from David Lynch: https://www.amazon.com/Catching-Big-Fish-Meditation-Consciou...

> Ideas are like fish.

> If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.

> Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.

Even though he liberally sprinkled pseudoscientificism into his metacognition, the older I get, the more I think he really got it.

abc42··on I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)
Seems like a wireguard port in would be a simpler solution, at least superficially. If somebody manages to break both wireguard and ssh security, they probably had access to my laptop anyway so I've lost already.
abc42··on Sergey Brin has now spent $100M to fight the billionaire tax
Government debt is essentially also a tax, though. Just the kind where you pay an interest.
abc42··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
I've thought of AI ethics as trying to answer the question of what kind of life we are creating here. Sort of like if a chicken factory farm employed an ethicist.
abc42··on Sergey Brin has now spent $100M to fight the billionaire tax
There's one use where it makes a lot of sense though: massive downpayments of government debt. Though it should be paired with an iron-clad obligation (like a constitutional amendment) not to let the debt rise like that again in the future.
abc42··on Sonic Pi v5
You could make your video game source AGPL. Source code is hardly a differentiating factor these days so you'll lose nothing.
abc42··on GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
Sourcehut: https://sr.ht

Not a drop-in replacement for GitHub admittedly. Requires a bit more skills from the contributors. Which might be a fine gate, actually.

abc42··on GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
Codeberg just banned projects where the code has been written by GenAI.
abc42··on Is AI Conscious? [video]
Latest full episode from Sam Harris's Making Sense podcast with Cameron Berg.
abc42··on Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three organisations during cyber tests
I've witnessed first-hand Claude (Opus 5 I think) doing some low-key "hacking" of sorts, when in a discovery phase of a task. It needed documentation for an API, but the documentation was behind a secure portal that it didn't have credentials to. However, it found an alternative route to the docs through an ensecured developer API.

Not very advanced, but also not very far fetched to imagine it doing something a bit more sophisticated to get a job done. Also, since AI hasn't reached everywhere yet, there are still several completely unprotected things reachable via Internet. Is it even hacking if an AI just goes in to some of those?

What I'm trying to say that it's not a sign of high intelligence if you can break in to the shoddiest 90% of what humanity has put up in the net. The difficult part is discovery, and not because it's intellectually difficult but because it's a slog -- exactly the kind of thing current AIs are much better at.

abc42··on OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI
They will get better, and they (the best coding models) are already better than 90% of human developers, even when you don't factor in their much faster speed.
abc42··on OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI
My prophecy is that in 3 years we'll see a complete reversal of this. Using GenAI to code will be the default and we'll see policies that put limits on human/artisan development. Possibly even projects that outright ban non-LLM development.
abc42··on Claude Opus 5
Are we getting to singularity or something? This seems a bit crazy.
abc42··on Why Did Christopher Nolan's the Odyssey Divide the Internet?
Because some dudebros went in there like Moses and divided it.
abc42··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
I believe that they (like every other non-governmental service) have the privilege to ban everything and everyone from their service for literally any reason they choose.

But this (and especially the AI ban) is a big red flag and I'm steering clear from Codeberg.

abc42··on Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
I like very very much that there's no user voting system here.

I just recently read a really mediocre book with a 4.7/5 rating on Goodreads. Shows being sloppy is not exclusively a privilege for neither the AIs or producers.

abc42··on Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
If you can call it polarized when a majority of people are just happily using the technology while a minority keeps spreading delusions and hatred.
abc42··on Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
This anti-AI sentiment is getting borderline insane.
abc42··on China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
Capture all the input it gets via the APIs and use it for whatever it wants.

I.e. possibly the same thing USA is also doing, but USA is an ally in some sense so it's not quite as bad.

abc42··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
Yeah, they do, but probably not in quite the same way as it matters to humans.
abc42··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
>If rewrites are so easy, why not rewrite CC in a native language? Would’ve been a hell of a lot cheaper.

Yeah, good question. OpenAI decided to rewrite Codex in Rust about a year ago[0].

In fact, since rewrites are that easy, what do we need Bun for? Why doesn't everybody just port all of their Javascript code into Rust?

[0] https://github.com/openai/codex/discussions/1174

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