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tough··on ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression
today's phone cameras abuse AI too or had some blunders around that like fake moons etc
tough··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
rabbit-holed onto MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC—Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding
tough··on LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators on Earth
ooof yes on a re-read and further inspection looks clearly AI so i just unvouched.

Thanks for the heads up.

tough··on Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service
vercel-labs/emulate [1], has stripe and twilio (their emulators are much more shallow generally like their AWS one can't really be compared to floci here, but i've made custom ones for stuff like emulating hardware devices (airplay/google play) with much success so you can basically extend their base framework with custom emulators or their own provided ones to your needs on a fork.

1. https://github.com/vercel-labs/emulate

for modelling and testing a CI software i was working on, i had to extend their github emulator in several places for example. but it was great to already have a working base.

tough··on Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service
Flickr*
tough··on LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators on Earth
edit: nevermind. commenter clarified and prior comment indeed does look AI gen. probs auto-flagged as they said.
tough··on OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
Usually also, and more so nowadays, a few of the public sources of data left, even after the recent USGov intention of defund and close as much of them as possible, im guessing would be precisely, government websites!
tough··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
You could have local caches of the users recently watched videos on their machines as available seeds. bittorrent now also supports http based init seeds so you could create torrents with a verified sha of a youtube mp4 downloaded once or something like that.

if someone is seeding that video cause they recently watched it and it remains on their local cache, you could get the bits from there vs hitting youtube servers

tough··on How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)
1% Rule [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

tough··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Indeed. Touche
tough··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
Not being sure or not having proof doesn't mean it makes logical sense to infer we're not that different from other animals.

wtf is with this nonsense where humans are some how special snowflakes always all the time

tough··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Wouldn't candidates use AI, like they used social media ads, to win?
tough··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Some times also having unreasonable goals makes them creatively work around the problem to meet them. I guess it works similarly for meat or sillicon
tough··on Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust
You could give it some robot hands if you felt so much inclined
tough··on Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust
Why haven't then done this things so far?
tough··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
the app store is filled with scammy apps, its just a different flavour

I once got a crypto-wallet PK leaked by a fake wallet app impersonating another very known brand. Found out on reddit it was a fake... After a few months the real app came out but yeah...

tough··on Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
I remember fondly on early math school, being able to come up with the correct output/answer by doing a totally different "intermediate thinking" that wasn't what the professor expected.

Only after sharing my Chain Of Thought would they believe I didnt cheat.

Not all problems can be solved only in one way.

Most of learning is pattern matching.

If you give a kid a dice. and tell it to figure out the number that will be hidden underneath, he can try to memorize all combinations, or he could figure out that every time the hidden value is the one that sums 7 with the one at the top.

If you're seeing a 6, there's a 1 hidden. etc

most people don't see these patterns until told imho. But others can just see them as they unfold

tough··on Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
Wouldn't politics be precisely a sector of human endeavour where being amorally unfair is an advantage to achieve your goals? If the other guys are lying, and everyone is gonna believe everyone's bullshit anyways, might as well get good at lying yourself.
tough··on Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
Not that version or instance, but in the grand scheme of things most of its interactions go back to train the next model that will precede it
tough··on Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
I like to call this "The stupidity of the Mob"
tough··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
> It's why youtube still hasn't figured out piracy Are you sure that's even on their roadmap. If they profit from piracy why would they care.

the whole DMCA/Takedown process is another shenanigan ripe for abuse. Not real copyright enforcement.

tough··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Yes AdSense pays 3rd party publishers locating your ads on their site. They fake their site click through rate with bots, and get paid as if they had real users clicking the ads
tough··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
I'd say "Content marketing" [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_marketing

tough··on Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
Patchright is a patched playwright that clears turnstile and other similar automation hostilities
tough··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
Have you ever heard of Chain of Thought?

Might want to rethink your statement after going again through what it does exactly. No need to sound more human. but it gives more tokens to "think" like a human committing brain-time to a problem would

tough··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
also by abusing linters and other guardrails you can basically automate the rewrite
tough··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
Both mathematics and the laws of the universe exist way before any understanding kicks in
tough··on 27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter
you have to bundle and ship per language syntax dictionaries tho
tough··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
lmfao
tough··on 27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter
g@shud.in was listed as contact email on his older portfolio
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