ranger_danger

There are entire youtube channels dedicated to "who did it first" rabbit holes regarding inventions that didn't gain popularity until it was properly marketed by someone else, whether independently discovered or not.

I always wondered why v2 is never used... you can even search for files by their individual hash with it.

> Also Chinese labs are in particular very careful about anything which be used to create pornographic content, which is highly illegal in the PRC.

MiniMax H3 is dominating AI porn right now, and they are Chinese.

Please re-read the first sentence of my previous comment.

IMO This is actually the most positive way to frame the whole "slippery slope fallacy" of impending technological progress causing cascading "problems" in society. You know, the arguments that went something like:

Wait until the cotton gin arrives, all the hand weavers will become jobless and no one will have experience anymore.

Wait until the printing press arrives, all the scribe monks will become jobless and no one will have experience anymore.

Wait until the computer arrives, people will become obsolete and no one will have experience anymore.

Wait until the steam engine, automobiles, planes, calculators, telephones, etc.

---

But history shows that when such a "slope" appears... regulation steps in, technology evolves to solve the problem, or the culture shifts to reinterpret the tool.

In almost every case, the feared "bottom" of the slope was never reached because humans constantly built ramps or bridges along the way. And that's what progress is.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

"As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding." -Sloman and Fernbach

Also, the Dunning-Kruger effect still applies to smart people. You don't stop when you are estimating your ability correctly; as you learn more, you gain more awareness of your ignorance and continue being conservative with your self-estimates.

Perhaps they should read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil

My understanding is that SCOTUS has held since the 50s that 'the people' means people inside the country, and a border does not count as being granted entry into the country yet, therefore the Constitution doesn't really apply, especially for non-citizens.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/345/206/

> (c) Although a lawfully resident alien may not captiously be deprived of his constitutional rights to due process, the alien in this case is an entrant alien or "assimilated to that status" for constitutional purposes.

And another gem from the same case that is recently all the more relevant:

> Nothing in the Constitution requires admission or sufferance of aliens hostile to our scheme of government.

Meaning they can seize all your stuff and deport you if you criticize the government. Also, immigration lawyers are part of the Executive branch.

That is the same site as archive.ph with the same issue :/

Also they are known for abusing javascript on client browsers to DDoS someone they didn't like.

Endless captcha loop for me, is there an archive? (archive.ph etc. has the same issue for me)

There is a fork of it here: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop

where exactly does it say that? I don't consider "designed and developed in Japan" to be the same as manufactured there

A lot of people spend more than 1 or 2 days visiting family during Christmas time, and travel long distances to do so.

> GPS spies on everyone.

That's... not how GPS works.

That, or they'll just decline to actually prosecute any targets that aren't worth revealing a backdoor during discovery.

The reason I left Linux was because I didn't want to be associated with the high-ranking developers that openly abuse and demean others with unprofessional attitudes for decades on end with impunity.

I know this is an extremely unpopular position that many people will disagree with, but it's my decision and I made it. I'm not asking you to follow. Feel free to tell me how much of a misguided/stupid decision it is. I think if everyone were able to "separate the art from the artist", then boycotts wouldn't even exist.

Same goes for OpenBSD, GNOME, GrapheneOS, Kitty/Calibre and many other applications... I have been personally attacked by several people from all of these projects just for asking simple questions, and I know many others that have gotten it much worse.

What's wrong with going where you're treated best?

I assume that eventually the flag will just become meaningless and there will be other methods of verification in use by then... because cutting off a huge chunk of your customers just isn't good business.

But for now I'm already cut off from half the internet due to endless crimeflare captcha loops... I just don't visit those sites anymore because I literally can't.

Keep in mind these databases can be wildly inaccurate and basically impossible to prove them wrong (you can't prove a negative).

I've seen this (and verified with others) with other sites like iknowwhatyoudownload.com where they allege your connection downloaded something very illegal (like CSAM) even though you know for certain it never happened and you haven't been hacked.

I meant to say their availability will not last forever.

> SimpleX does not.

https://simplex.chat/faq/

> Private message routing is, effectively, a two-hop onion packet routing.

And actually, it's even better than that:

> Private message routing routes packets (each message is one 16kb packet), not sockets. Unlike Tor and VPN, it does not create circuits between your client and destination servers. The forwarding server creates one shared session between itself and the destination, and forwards all messages from you and other clients to that destination server, mixing messages from many clients into a single TCP session.

> As each message uses its own random encryption key and random (non-sequential) identifier, the destination server cannot link multiple message queue addresses to the same client. At the same time, the forwarding server cannot observe which (and how many) addresses on the destination server your client sends messages to, thanks to e2e encryption between the client and destination server. In that regard, this design is similar to onion routing, but with per-packet anonymity, not per-circuit.

> This design is similar to mixnets (e.g. Nym network), and it is tailored to the needs of message routing, providing better transport anonymity than general-purpose networks, like Tor or VPN. You still can use Tor or VPN to connect to known servers, to protect your IP address from them.

One idea I had for an improvement to Tor wrt sybils was to split traffic up and send different pieces to different nodes, possibly using different circuits for the pieces, so that even if you have control over all the nodes in one path, you most likely won't have full control over all the paths it sprays the pieces over.

reader mode button works wonders for me

How do you know data is copied to their servers?

> If you serve as a mere conduit for automatic transmission of user communications, there are no other qualifications or obligations you need to meet. If you serve a caching function, in addition to the two requirements above, you must maintain comply with the notice-and-takedown process.

https://www.copyright.gov/512/

https://internetcases.com/2024/02/12/dmca-subpoena-to-mere-c...

Development still continues by others: https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter

Aurora Store does the same thing to facilitate downloading Play Store apps.

And the company's previous name was, ominously... Luminati.

Go look at the github commits for llama.cpp and read the actual code they're adding to support new model/quant types... to me at least it's some serious black magic, and the sheer number of genius developers and activity level in this repo is absolutely wild.

Imagine what could happen if other open source projects had this level of engagement and expertise at hand and eager to contribute... instead of arguing over politics and making yet another fork of something.

For cars they most certainly do.

Besides the irony of a privacy-conscious user using facebook to buy a car... those "perfectly-serviceable vehicles" are 1. no longer manufactured, and 2. will not last forever.

Unless a new age of unconnected cars becomes a reality in the near future, I don't see this being a long-term solution.

I think most people would not be on board with your solution, but in general to your point I would say everyone draws the line somewhere different.

Yes there are many (maybe most) who will not give up their comforts or risk modifying their vehicle in order to make it more private... but trying to play the judge in a made-up internet game of altruism olympics is not going to convert many people either.