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chme··on Why is Hacker News like that?
I'd rather have a defensible tolerant system, to prevent such people in the first place. If they come into power, and are able to redefine the definition of intolerance/tolerance to such degree, they have many other means, like control over the executive or legislative to do whatever they like.

Arguments like these just make it so much harder for tolerant people to actually act against attackers of their system, to such a degree that they struggle to defend it. These arguments are about spreading doubt - in that way they are like propaganda, because only tolerant people will think about trying to keep this balanced out.

chme··on Why is Hacker News like that?
> Very apropos is this same author's post from a few years ago where they literally and explicitly support corporate censorship, albeit when that censorship was coming from a lefty perspective.

I am fine with censoring opinions of the intolerant right wing. IMO antidemocratic opinions shouldn't be given a platform. Tolerant people shouldn't tolerate the intolerant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

chme··on K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
I just find it very interesting that someone equates secrecy with privacy. In my opinion, and in the current law there is a distinction.

If private data got leaked, like revenge porn, it is a breach and that private data that belongs to an individual is still private, and still needs to be protected. This is what GDPR and other legislation is about. If secrecy and privacy is the same, someone that isn't able to protect their data sufficiently will not have any privacy, thus any leaking of data is now the fault of the person that got their data leaked, not of the person that broke the trust and leaked it.

Your conclusion seems rather extreme to me. So of course data that got leaked, and is no longer secret is still private, because 'private' means who should be in control of that data, not about if the person has control or not.

I also don't follow your point about waffles and pancakes, because this is a pretty big disagreement we have here. To me this dialog is more like you are saying "I don't like laws", and I say "While I agree that some laws are stupid, other laws are pretty useful, for instance people shouldn't be allowed rob other houses, even if they are able to do that or even where invited." And then, instead of agreeing, you sort of say, "No, I really mean that. If someone isn't able to defend their home properly or give out invitations to someone, it is okay to steal from them."

chme··on K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
So you say it is okay when someone you trust, uses that trust to upload your personal files from your air-gapped system to the internet, for everyone to freely share it, because now the data is "public"?

To me private file stay private, even if they get leaked onto the open or closed internet, because the public has no right to know them, they are private data of an individual. They might no longer be secret, but they are still private.

chme··on K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
The last point is pretty clear, and the text below clarifies it:

> To protect the privacy of the individual and to strengthen the freedom of the information which concern the public the yet last point was added.

The privacy of individuals is important, regardless where they store their private data. Their account information -- what they buy, their medical information and so on is stored on servers and could be hacked.

chme··on K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
That sounds dystopian to me and is against the hacker ethics.
chme··on K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
Well... If someone leaks private data on individuals online, those should be deleted.
chme··on K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
I'd prefer to stay within the [hacker ethics](https://www.ccc.de/en/hackerethics), and protect private data. For non-private/personal data, sure. But individual people need their privacy protected.
chme··on Migrating to HTTPX2
That isn't confusing at all, if you know how maintained stable releases work.

Happens with the Linux kernel as well.

chme··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
> If what you're saying is true and accurate, then US-based AI labs are in big trouble.

Well... I would think that the whole AI industry in the US are working towards public bailouts... Which I guess they'll get under the current administration... So they'll be fine... Nobody there really seems interested in actually creating a profitable business anyway...

chme··on Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
I assumed that they meant that they will not enforce it via technical means.
chme··on AI errno(2) values

    #define EPROCRASTINATE 245 /* exhausted all output tokens with reasoning */
chme··on Say No to Palantir in Europe
I'm just wondering why this isn't a European Citizen Initiative (ECI)...

I could not find any information on what kind of influence a online-petition on wemove.eu would have...

chme··on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams
Threema is still vendor lock-in.
chme··on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams
Element X is in some cases still a downgrade from Element. For instance there doesn't seem to be a way to create local key backups anymore. Also, that calls between Element and Element X are incompatible means both apps need to be installed in order to receive calls from all contacts.

Still, I love Matrix and hope that these issues will be resolved in time.

chme··on A few CPU hardware bugs
I had to deal with Intel Quark SoC X1000 on a Galileo board years ago, where the LOCK prefix instruction caused segfaults. Since the SoC is single threaded, the lock prefix could just be patched out from resulting binaries, before the compiler/build system was patched.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark#Segfault_bug

chme··on Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation
> The problem being discussed is that the user of the script needs to validate it. It's great if it's validated by the author, but that's already the situation we're in.

The user is free to use a LLM to 'validate' the `install.sh` file. Just asking it if the script does anything 'bad'. That should be similarly successful as the LLM generating the script based on a description. Maybe even more successful.

chme··on Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation
Well... Maybe just have a BIOS on your system that fetches a markdown, pushes it to a LLM to generate a new and exciting operating system for you on every boot.

Wouldn't that be nice?

chme··on Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation
TBH, I doubt that this will happen...

It is much easier to use LLMs to generate code, validate that code as a developer, fix it, if necessary, and check it into the repo, then if every user has to send prompts to LLMs in order to get the code they can actually execute.

While hoping it doesn't break their system and does what they wanted from it.

Also... that just doesn't scale. How much power would we need, if everyday computing starts with a BIOS sending prompts to LLMs in order to generate a operating system it can use.

Even if it is just about installing stuff... We have CI runners, that constantly install software often on every build. How would they scale if they need LLMs to generate install instructions every time?

chme··on Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation
Maybe that is a reason for this approach. It changes the responsibility of errors from the person writing that code, to the one executing it.

Pretty brilliant in a way.

chme··on Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation
Even bringing down the "theory" to paper in prosa will be lossy.

And natural languages are open to interpretation and a lot of context will remain unmentioned. While programming languages, together with their tested environment, contain the whole context.

Instrumenting LLMs will also mean, doing a lot of prompt engineering, which on one hand might make the instructions clearer (for the human reader as well), but on the other will likely not transfer as much theory behind why each decision was made. Instead, it will likely focus on copy&pasta guides, that don't require much understanding on why something is done.

chme··on Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation
So... What you are saying is that we don't need 'install.md'. Because a developer can just use a LLM to generate a 'install.sh', validate that, and put it into the repo?

Good idea. That seems sensible.

Bonus: LLM is only used once, not every time anyone wants to install some software. With some risks of having to regenerate, because the output was nonsensical.

chme··on Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation
TBH. I never read prose that couldn't be in some way misinterpreted or misunderstood. Because much of it is context sensitive.

That is why we have programming languages, they, coupled with a specific interpreter/compiler, are pretty clear on what they do. If someone misunderstands some specific code segment, they can just test their assumptions easily.

You cannot do that with just written prose, you would need to ask the writer of that prose to clarify.

And with programming languages, the context is contained, and clearly stated, otherwise it couldn't be executed. Even undefined behavior is part of that, if you use the same interpreter/compiler.

Also humans often just read something wrong, or skip important parts. That is why we have computers.

Now, I wouldn't trust a LLM to execute prose any better then I trust a random human of reading some how-to guide and doing that.

The whole idea that we now add more documentation to our source code projects, so that dumb AI can make sense of it, is interesting... Maybe generally useful for humans as well... But I would instead target humans, not LLMs. If the LLMs finds it useful as well, great. But I wouldn't try to 'optimize' my instructions so that every LLM doesn't just fall flat on its face. That seems like a futile effort.

chme··on F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]
It really depends on the order of priorities. If the overall goal is to allow digital archeologist to make sense of some file they found, it would be prudent to give them some instructions on how it is decoded.

I just hope that people will not just execute that code in an unconfined environment.

chme··on Vet is a safety net for the curl | bash pattern
nix possible with lix, if you can stomach nix syntax.
chme··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
> The spec is being implemented by Apple, who is sensitive to privacy issues.

I generally agree with your points, but I wouldn't trust Apple, or any publicly traded company, to have any kind of ethics. Just because their incentive to make as much profit as possible, leads to them trying to differentiate themselves from other companies, and thus they choose to temporarily align with privacy concerns doesn't mean they will not compromise on them, if they see better profits elsewhere.

I rather have privacy enforcing regulations like the GDPR or policies that go even further, than relying on publicly traded companies to protect their users.

chme··on Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
Not a firefox dev, but pretty sure its 'main'

The "new" git default branch name is 'main' and 'autoland' existed before next to 'mozilla-central' and is the one where commits usually appear first.

chme··on How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013)
Not only that, but the software also contained login information to the AWS backend archive servers:

https://www.techspot.com/news/107792-hacker-breaches-telemes...

chme··on Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It
This is also not surprising for BGS as was demonstrated with the multiple Skyrim re-releases, which didn't fix all issues patched by the unofficial patches, and even introduced more.

See the change log here: https://www.afkmods.com/Unofficial%20Skyrim%20Special%20Edit...

Only a very small amount of the issues fixed there where integrated into the official patch releases.

chme··on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
I was using Truecharts before k8s was deprecated.

The deprecation caused me to move to something more neutral and stay away from all 'native' apps of TrueNAS and migrated to ordinary docker-compose, because that seem to be the most approachable.

I was also looking into running a Talos k8s cluster, but that didn't seem to be as approachable to me and a bit overkill for a single-node setup.

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