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Is this how globalization ends?

This https://www.whoisxmlapi.com/whois-database-download.php is a start, but there's new ones every second so you're going to need to update a lot.

All we need is for HDMI to be unlocked so it works on phones, or maybe VGA adapters that work on phones. And a way to "sideload" our own apps. Hackers please make this happen.

I thinks its the same reason why chess tournaments, where two AIs play against each other are not as popular, compared to when two humans play each other. Maybe its because humans generally compare themselves to other humans and that's part of how they value.

Ironically RMS is to be blamed for AI coding.

https://bit1993.bearblog.dev/blame-rms-for-ai-coding/

> Indeed, investors left to their own devices act in this way.

Interesting. Capitalism is often touted to be more decentralized than socialism, but this is an example of how it can centralize.

Ah. I agree with you. When unsafe is used the borrow checker cannot check for memory safety, the programmer has to provide the guarantees by making sure their code does not violate memory safety, similar to programming in C.

But unsafe Rust is still far better than C because the unsafe keyword is visible and one can grep it and audit the unsafe parts. Idiomatic Rust also requires that the programmer provides comments as to why that part is unsafe.

> ... then we can make C safe without any technical changes just by adding some language to the standard saying that C programmers are obliged to ensure that their code maintains a certain list of invariants.

In Rust you can use #![forbid(unsafe_code)] to totally forbid unsafe code in your codebase. Rust also checks for memory safety at compile time, these are strong guarantees that ensure that if the code compiles it is memory safe.

If the security flaws are in the training data AI will be able to detect them, stuff like OWASP are definitely in the training data. So in a way this is like more intelligent fuzzing, which is a fantastic tool to have in your toolbox. But I doubt AI will be able to detect novel security flaws that are not included in its training data.

> Our rats (Todd, Kojima, Gabe)...

Missed opportunity to name them Neo, Morpheus and Trinity.

Patents, trademarks, copyright, deeds and other similar concepts are part of what makes capitalism what it is, without them capitalism will not work because they are the mechanisms that enforce private property.

Literally reverse engineering.

This is a socio-economic problem, it can happen with non internet platforms too. Its why people end up living in cities for example. Any system that has addresses, accounts or any form of identity has the potential for strong network effects.

Part of the problem is that Codeberg/Gitea's API endpoints are well documented and there are bots that scrape for gitea instances. Its similar to running SSH on port 22 or hosting popular PHP forums software, there are always automated attacks by different entities simply because they recognize the API.

I don't agree with this at all. I think the reason Github is so prominent is the social network aspects it has built around Git, which created strong network effects that most developers are unwilling to part with. Maintainers don't want to loose their stars and the users don't want to loose the collective "audit" by the github users.

Things like number of stars on a repository, number of forks, number of issues answered, number of followers for an account. All these things are powerful indicators of quality, and like it or not are now part of modern software engineering. Developers are more likely to use a repo that has more stars than its alternatives.

I know that the code should speak for itself and one should audit their dependencies and not depend on Github stars, but in practice this is not what happens, we rely on the community.

I agree with the title, but for me the evolution is more higher level and based on Data. No AI without search engines and social networks, No search engines without WWW, no WWW withou TCP/IP and no TCP/IP without the computer.

"Anything trying to be a social network in a properly peer-to-peer fashion would have to be as simple to use..."

In practice this issue arise something like this: A decentralized service is launched it is so decentralized the user has to store their own private keys. Later a centralized solution is launched where the user does not have to go through the trouble of storing the private keys, everything is managed for them... everyone joins the centralized service.

Great. I suspect this will push more developers to publish web apps.

The issue is only developers know the benefits of those features. Most people just want to view content or post and get their likes. That is why they use social media rather than post on their own website.

I don't think this is a technology problem, its more of a socioeconomic problem. People tend to choose the centralized option and projects that start out decentralized tend to end up centralized WWW-Social media, Email-Gmail, Git-Github, Bitcoin-Coinbase etc

Allot of people have a social media account rather than a website and allot of people use gmail rather than host their own mail. Decentralized means do it yourself, but most people just want something with batteries included that works well and don't really care about centralization.

I have the client send a custom header with every request, and block all other request.

We should not forget that LLMs simply replicate the data humans have put on the WWW. LLM tech could only have come from Google search, who indexed and collected the entire data on the WWW and the next step was to develop algorithms to understand the data and give better search results. This also shows the weakness of LLMs, they depend on human data and as LLM companies continue to try to replace humans, the humans will simply stop feeding LLMs their data, more and more data will go behind paywalls, more code will become closed source, simple supply and demand economics. LLMs cannot make progress without new data because the world-culture moves rapidly in real-time.

> it would be a pity if nobody came to the rescue when China eventually puts its Taiwan plans in motion!

Wouldn't that just mean that Taiwan has to choose between two villains, and China can take the advantage of this by changing its narrative and taking the position as a hero, protecting Taiwan from the US.

I think what GP is saying is that in most cases generating allot of code is not a good thing. Every line of LLM generated code has to be audited because they are prone to hallucinations and auditing someone else's code is much more difficult and time consuming than auditing your own code. Allot of code also requires more maintenance.

Great point. Verifying the synthetic data also has a cost, I wonder if it is cheaper than generating it?

Than I would simply use AI to generate chat histories and get paid (:

Dam! Great tool. Very clean. Thank you.

Its because hackers are fed up of being conned by corporations that steal our code, ideas, data. They start out "open" only to rug pull. "Pissing in the pool of opensource".

As hackers we have more responsibility than the general public because we understand the tech and its side effects, we are the first line of defense so it is important to speak out not only to be on the right side of history but also to protect society.

The biggest threat is vendor-lockin at the programming level, far more destructive than SAAS lockin. We already have monopolies in hardware now we are about to have monopolies in software by the same companies who monopolized the hardware. Giving them so much power that there will no longer be computer programmers, there will only be LLM prompters.