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It is extremely rare to find pro-privacy people speak out against Signal's phone number registration system. It is a very obvious privacy flaw that all hobbyist cryptographers will be eager to wave away for some or another reason. Truly shameful. Thanks for voicing your Signal scepticism. I am a Signal sceptic too.

> like Signal

Is xeonmc the only person in this world, aside from me, that is extremely suspicious of walled garden applications like Signal, regardless of how open their source is?

It hasn't and likely never will because it is a structural part of how AI works.

You can see proof of this if you ask it obscure enough questions. That doesn't mean obscure scientific questions, I asked it questions regarding ship fits and modules in EVE Online, which is an extremely well-documented videogame. There are hundreds of online tools to help you for different things, mining yield calculators and more.

Well, ChatGPT just made up almost everything. Very confidently. It couldn't even get the damage types right, I was quite shocked.

Hallucination has only be solved for extremely narrow sets of problems, and only partially. Coding is one of those problems.

Vibecoded slop with terrible performance.

Use https://chiptune.app.

>Preserving the digital underground's musical legacy

Yeah I'm pretty sure the people who made keygens and chiptunes would hate today's AI and LLM. This is a tribute to chiptunes and keygen music as much as putting a picture of your grandma into an AI tool to animate it would be a tribute to her.

I warned people about 4 years ago that this would happen. Checking people's IDs online for accessing certain kinds of porn on telegram and Discord is much more popular than you would have thought.

I told these admins this was immensely irresponsible. They said they just didn't want to get sued by an angry parent whose child joined some porn group. I was mocked endlessly. Now this. I'm not surprised.

Nuclear is indeed the answer. Nuclear power is incredibly safe nowadays and it also provides kinetic inertia, something that solar and wind power lack (they are all DC based and only produce AC when using an inverter, which is wasteful too).

Unfortunately I think it's already too late for nuclear. People who don't understand energy grids are voting for anti-nuclear policies, with very predictable results.

Yes, it tells you that they're normal unlike people who are still arguing today how Musk didn't actually do a nazi salute.

That's fair, thanks for letting me know!

I literally said I'm fine with using LLMs for the frontend, but I think this should be disclosed clearly.

The interface looks vibecoded. I have no problem with people vibecoding things. In fact, I have zero frontend skills, so I rely on AI to be able to make easy-to-use interfaces. However, I feel like this should be clearly and prominently displayed in the project page.

Furthermore it is a little off-putting to see a vibecoded UI because I have very little confidence that the rest of the backend code is not vibecoded. I know I am possibly being unfair, but this is how it looks to me. If the developer tells me they didn't use AI at all, I would believe it.

Yeah, I don't want background sync. I mean, iOS is built upon the idea that any task in the background might be killed at any time and without warning by the OS. This is so the OS is able to manage battery and memory effective.

You can of course dislike this, but not even native apps allow background sync anyway, so of course web apps would not be allowed to do this either.

No, it really is not that easy. Check out China, and read up on the Spanish housing crisis. "Just build more" works only sometimes, as demonstrated in those counter-examples. Housing is massive societal and sociological problem with no simple fix. Furthermore, in many circles, another proposal is to cut red tape. You know, housing in the US already is among the least affordable and lowest quality in the developed world. But some people really insist that going back to asbestos and lead pipes would make housing cheaper.

And don't get me wrong, asbestos and lead are wonderful construction materials. Cheap, durable, and high quality. It's just a shame it causes all sorts of health complications when we use them, right? I mean, it would definitely make housing cheaper, but also cause all kinds of health problems.

Before smartphones and TikTok it was casino TV at 3AM, TV infomercial shopping, and the like.

"right to compute"

Oh cool!

Look inside

No mention of:

- Self-repair

- Self-service

- Hardware and software modifications

- Protecting consumers from proprietary anti-circumvention tools

- Bolstering open source

- Better access to technology in early ages (through funding primary schools and libraries)

- Dedicated computer and Internet crisis response teams to tackle disinformation, cyberattacks, cyberbullying, and state-sponsored attacks

- Improving citizen's access to End-to-End encryption software - Sovereign AI and software

Very cool, Montana. What a load of nothing.

I think it's a gimmick that Samsung will cut out in future models for cost savings reasons. Like Samsung ditched the edge displays, or the Bluetooth in their S-Pen, or like Apple ditched 3D touch.

I care. Online forums are for humans to share ideas around. Not for bots to farm karma.

State of the art literally just means that it is the latest and most capable, compared with peers.

As such, China launched DeepSeek R1, and they kind of broke the web, because it was pretty good compared with OpenAI, but also fully self-hostable. The self-hostable OpenAI and Meta models just aren't very good, Grok has nothing self-hostable, and I think Gemini only has a small model released.

Meanwhile China has the best self-hostable models, up there with Mistral.

So yes, Chinese AI is SOTA. Maybe not better than the American cloud-based models, but definitely SOTA for self-hostable ones.

Also I think you are wrong about "actual practice". Chinese AIs work great. They are not perfect, but OpenAI Codex also messes up a lot.

I do not consider removing redundant sensors like lidar or infrared from the comprehensive Tesla sensor network and pretending that cameras can do FSD perfectly a good example of engineerring.

Wow, good job in doing the bare minimum?

"We will cover the cost of upgrading the electricity grid so we can use more energy" yeah. Of course you will. What?

Layoffs incoming?

A month and a half ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286645

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845759

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845759

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845759

What I did is make the scripts ping uptime kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

This has two advantages. First, if cron jobs are not running at all for some reason, the timeout will notify you.

Second, you can also manually trigger error conditions by pushing to uptime kuma with an error message, exactly the same as if you used cron email notifications.

If the uptime kuma endpoint is pinged with s higher frequency than the timeout you configured it to, then no alerts are fired.

Canada will suffer greatly, and possibly much more than the US. But appeasing US, in the position of Canada, is akin to trying to reason with a wife beater.

You don't reason. You remove the victim from the hands of the aggressor.

It will cost a lot of money, and the Canadians will suffer greatly. But the alternative is to join America, which Canadians have stated don't want to.

I think (or maybe hope) that open source is going to be a large part of the European data sovereignty strategy.

America has had decades to privately run and develop their own software alternatives and everything (Windows, Office, Google) is extremely deeply established now and hard to compete against. I mean, can you imagine building a proprietary x86_64 operating system from scratch not based on Linux? And writing the code is just a small part of the work. You also need drivers from manufacturers like Realtek and Nvidia. You need people buying your product. You need marketing.

It's just not going to happen. Open source is the only way forward for EU, in my opinion.

And therefore, I think you will be able to contribute as much as you want to these open source efforts. Even testing and translations are already great initiatives, but if you can also write code, that's even better!

I think you will probably find great difficulty.

When I worked at AWS, there was GovCloud, and only American citizens residing in American soil and connecting from American soil were able to give support to these customers. So even if you were legally authorised to work in the US and resided in the US, you couldn't work with GovCloud customers.

Or if you are an American temporarily residing in Romania or Canada, then you also can't work with GovCloud customers.

I expect the same situation will happen to you. But I am just speculating.

A European sovereign cloud is desperately needed for highly sensitive government, military, and national security workloads, and these must be thoroughly vetted to ensure compliance.

But for anything else, like personal e-mail or e-commerce? I'm sure there will be a lot of flexibility for non-European contributions, but it will probably be like it currently is: open source projects spanning the globe.

Well, then join and help! I joined, waiting for you there :)

Absolutely. And how the CCP essentially controls any company that becomes sufficiently large. Terrible working conditions and all sorts of workplace illnesses due to exposure to chemicals banned in most other countries.

However, China not only has not collapsed, but it is becoming stronger every day.