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medstrom··on Matrix v1.15
Element is just one UX.
medstrom··on Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
I imagine both of you would have the power to license out your likeness.

Same situation as today: if you have a lookalike out there who does pornography, and somebody you know runs across it, they'll think it's you and not much you can do about that except explain.

medstrom··on Sailing the fjords like the Vikings yields unexpected insights
> In terms of the results themselves, the boats are extremely seaworthy crafts. When you get in them for the first time, you don't think that, because they're very, very light. They feel very flimsy, and they're very low in the water compared to a modern sailing boat. So you feel really in touch with the wave, which is kind of scary. But because they're so flexible and because of the way they're rigged, they're actually really stable, even in big waves.

> "We kept going out thinking, 'Oh, this is maybe the limit of what this boat can tolerate,' and then it would be fine, and we'd be, 'Okay, let's go a little bit in slightly bigger waves with slightly stronger wind,'" Jarrett continued. "So I think our comfort zones definitely visibly expanded during that period. And I had the chance to work with the same crews over three years. By the end of those three years, we were doing stuff that we would never have been able to do at the beginning."

Sounds like they had fun.

medstrom··on OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract
So MVP (minimum viable product).
medstrom··on OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract
Sounds like it needs some AI.
medstrom··on The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
> Everything has to “touch grass.”

Not wrong, but it's been said that a videoclip of an apple falling on Newton's head is technically enough information to infer the theory of relativity. You don't need a lot of grass, with a well-ordered mind.

medstrom··on The Future of Flatpak
Question, since you maintained many packages:

> I'm back to using the AUR for most

Have you tried makedeb then as a second channel? https://www.makedeb.org/ It uses PKGBUILDs, so pretty easy to translate. It seems so well-placed to help packagers I'm not sure why it isn't heard of more.

medstrom··on The Future of Flatpak
Yes! It's very helpful, if you can get it on your distro.

GitHub link: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

medstrom··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
Maybe https://pinboard.in? I haven't used it, but it tempts me a few times per decade.
medstrom··on The Fall of Roam (2022)
But... backlinks are fully automated. If you just make forward-links that you'd normally do in the course of writing.

You're thinking of an optional step of adding extra links "just because", but IMO that's as a learning process in the beginning when you're not used to adding any forward-links whatsoever.

medstrom··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
Maybe you're projecting? Not everyone has an agenda beyond just thinking it looks good.
medstrom··on London's Heathrow Airport announces complete shutdown due to power outage
Why don't you tell us too?

For anyone reading: it means "of course"

medstrom··on ChatGPT Search
There is an admin that has been erasing or downplaying any criticism on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study for over a decade. I don't know why some people bother.
medstrom··on How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me
Exactly how I feel with redstone contraptions in Minecraft. Already have OSS projects to my name, and my way to "play" is to refactor them endlessly. In a game I'm looking for a different type of fun for once.
medstrom··on How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me
What would you do?
medstrom··on Post World War II Food
People making that argument basically assume you are not already stuck in the honey if you go with your default ISP.
medstrom··on Accountability sinks
I believe they make a good point: making a vertically integrated entity could matter more than just buying most of the shares.

If we are discussing tendencies of "privatized vs public", it's hard to ignore that factor. Public entities that historically worked well weren't just masses of 600 subcontractors.

medstrom··on Accountability sinks
The actual root is even widely acknowledged: DB has been underfunded for a long time.
medstrom··on Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?
Sell pyromaniacs this product, find the lighter two months later in a burned-out building, use it to identify which phone did it, catch perp.
medstrom··on I've tracked every piece of clothing I've worn for three years (2021)
Your pick, I guess :)
medstrom··on Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)
And in GNU info manuals. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Se... Just so happened to be reading that in the next tab.
medstrom··on EU: Definition of "potential terrorists" opens door to broad information-sharing
Is this different from your own government?
medstrom··on John Wheeler saw the tear in reality
Speculations done correctly can have a good chance to arrive at truth. That's also known as reasoning. There's probably no experimental confirming or disconfirming this, ever, but that doesn't mean all theories stand on equal ground.

After almost a century of discussions between smart people, the physics consensus has steadily inched away from Copenhagen.

That said, that doesn't mean lazy evaluation isn't happening. You just can't use lazy evaluation to "explain" wavefunction collapse, it's more the other way around, that collapse can be a lazy evaluation trick. It'd describe only this simulation and say nothing about outer reality (thus no longer works as evidence for or against the simulation hypothesis, it's just a consistent part of the story given that it's true).

medstrom··on John Wheeler saw the tear in reality
Sounds like anthropocentric bias. If you can implement a true RNG for some things, why not for all things?
medstrom··on Hash Ordering and Hyrum's Law
I get two of those, can you tell me more about float summation?
medstrom··on Hash Ordering and Hyrum's Law
They might depend on it even if it's not uniformly distributed :)
medstrom··on Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store
I knew that, but the person I replied to just said uBlock. Still, good to point it out.
medstrom··on Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store
This isn't about uBlock though. Just uBlock Origin Lite.
medstrom··on Evolving GitHub Issues
Aren't issues already threads?
medstrom··on Evolving GitHub Issues
If it turns out to be too complex, Codeberg and SourceHut are some actually nice alternatives that exist now. Not like GitLab which brought its own complexity.
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