zaptheimpaler

أول أمسdiscuss

UPI is more like a routing/reconciliation layer like VISA that can work across any bank/wallet, and that core is run by a non-profit government org. It doesn't take custody of the funds and doesn't centralize the information into a private corporation. The fee is also minimal and flat-rate with no profit incentive, instead of paying a percentage of the entire countries transaction volume to some private company. I would guess that adds up to a huge amount of money saved overall.

zaptheimpaler

قبل 6 أيامdiscuss

I'm probably going to called a lunatic but I'm convinced this kind of telemetry is somehow linked to and behind the huge coordinated advertising push for VPNs in the last few years. More and more, the "invisible hand of the market" seems like literally the hands of a few very large conglomerations of power and capital that shape the economics of the entire market to effectively control it - they shape the gradient and make sure companies optimize loss. VPNs are either directly spyware that increases tracking capability, or are being offered now because they don't need your IP to track you anymore so they might as well make money off your fears while still tracking you. More broadly, I don't see much of a free market or democracy left anymore, now every government is doing a coordinated push to eliminate privacy as well.

zaptheimpaler

قبل 6 أيامdiscuss

Try actually playing a modern Doom game and then a modern UE5 game or look at some benchmarks. UE games mostly run like shit, whereas Doom/idTech games are the smoothest in the entire industry.

zaptheimpaler

قبل 7 أيامdiscuss

So this is tailored towards kind of a "reader view" for models right? Can it handle images, tables, shadow DOMs too? Like there are 3 use cases I have now - one is a simple text view for models to understand it, one is a "web clip" mode which would ideally preserve images and media, and one is to extract tabular data from web pages. Which ones is this good at?

zaptheimpaler

قبل 10 أيامdiscuss

I've been running https://github.com/kenn-io/agentsview for this, works well.

zaptheimpaler

قبل 13 يومًاdiscuss

Windows is leading the pack here as usual. They've introduced a new "all your RAM are belong to us" feature where all 48GB of my RAM slowly drips into a black hole over time, ne'er to be released again until reboot.

zaptheimpaler

قبل 13 يومًاdiscuss

I not only rebooted but upgraded my server from 22.04 to 24.04 and every single package on it this weekend with AI help - took a few hours of talking to the thing, even though the server had accumulated some ugly hacks (like installed KDE on top of Pop OS, had a newer version of glibc than supported) and runs a ton of containers. The AI figured out all the apt and dependency hell bullshit that I would never have gotten through. Its a new world!

zaptheimpaler

قبل 15 يومًاdiscuss

With all the work around AI sandboxes, microVMs, browser sandboxes, device attestation, secure boot etc. I feel like we should be able to construct a proper software sandbox that works on most PCs and guarantees that e.g nothing outside of the word processor runs now. Like the OS would need to guarantee that nothing outside some narrow well-defined qemu VM runs for some time an the VM takes care of the rest.

zaptheimpaler

قبل 15 يومًاdiscuss

This is bullshit and basically this kind of justification is part of the moral and ethical rot of most institutions in the US now. You do have a choice, you just want to pretend you don't to get away with it. Besides, no one outside of a few stuffy finance/quant shops ever even asked what my GPA was in college, they don't care.

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قبل 17 يومًاdiscuss

There is no such thing as "tech circles", tech is now a huge huge industry with 10M people in the US alone and no uniform political beliefs. There are the beliefs of some of the vocal billionaires and VCs which media likes to equate to "tech", but they are a tiny fraction of tech. Presumably he said it because he's a narcissist moron, I don't know.

If I had to describe it, the zeitgeist of VC/Founder tech now is kind of originated in "It's Time to Build" [1]. The diagnosis is that the nation is incapable of doing anything - too hamstrung by bureaucracy, laws, congress gridlock etc. The same kind of things that MAGA uses to justify authoritarianism. The movement now basically prescribes action, agency, urgency, conquest void of any reflection of what the goals should be, any question of morality or values etc.. just build (what you're being told/funded to build).

[1] https://a16z.com/its-time-to-build/

zaptheimpaler

قبل 17 يومًاdiscuss

Yes lol same! I was using Sunshine/Moonlight before, it does work great but then I got a 4K 120Hz HDR TV that only has 100Mbps ethernet, a weak video decoder that can't really handle AV1 at decent FPS, weak network stack that can only hit like 80Mbps, and a "Game Mode" that only triggers with external cables.. unfortunate. I also looked into Steam Decks and other docks but none of them actually support the full bandwidth either network or video that it would take to get those specs either. Even with a direct ethernet connection between the TV and PC and lower quality, it still has a noticeable input lag.

So I ended up getting an long HDMI 2.1 fibre optic cable and a long USB-extender for the controller dongle.. works great. It just sidesteps a whoole lot of annoying problems and limitations all over the stack.

zaptheimpaler

قبل 17 يومًاdiscuss

He was bragging about working on weekends and comparing his shitty little insurance company to the Manhattan Project a while back. Somewhere he claimed this company/industry is the most important application of AI in the world. I have no doubt they ripped it off, this guy is not trustworthy to say the least..

https://x.com/nico_laqua/status/2061130574358773852?s=20

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قبل 18 يومًاdiscuss

This seems more like a technical problem that we could actually solve well if we wanted to and had competent people advising the governments. You go to DMV and they generate a keypair and an entry in a DB. App looks up your age with your public key + signed private key authorization from you. Apps can ask for specific checks like is_over_21, is_citizen or whatever without any more data. Something like that, details are probably off ;) The whole infrastructure could be open source. Age verification doesn't need to equal identity verification by a 3rd party company that will leak your IDs.

zaptheimpaler

قبل 18 يومًاdiscuss

Yeah I was doing some similar stuff. I think I tried copying the auth file for codex or claude and even that didn't work - the tokens were somehow tied to some machine identifiers just to make it even more annoying. Claude Code has long lived oauth tokens which were working well for me, but then it turns out you can't use Remote Control if you use those, so I had to go back to the standard oauth web login trash everytime I spin up a new devbox. At every step the enterprise auth mindset makes my life more difficult by assuming I'm running some clownshow with bad code fully open to the internet unable to secure an API key, and gives me no way to just say "no thanks, i accept the increased risk ” and opt out of their junk.

zaptheimpaler

قبل 19 يومًاdiscuss

Oauth and enterprise auth has to be the worst thing ever made, it might be the most confusing and frustrating part of dealing with the cloud. Even the AI tools took a year to just get basic Oauth working on headless systems without assuming you could open a browser. If they're going to go down the auth rabbit hole with RBAC/IAM/Workload identities?/service accounts and all the trash the big cloud providers have, I just hope to god they leave in the simple shit for personal use. I just want a damn API key, I keep it a secret and revoke if necessary and don't need 10000 layers of auth bullshit tangled up in every layer of every platform.

zaptheimpaler

قبل 22 يومًاdiscuss

This is the slave mindset that is letting politicians all over the world erode our rights. More and more and more. Every country is now passing deep anti-privacy, anti-VPN, anti-encryption and age-verification laws. The law is not written by us, its written by people who are only barely accountable to us once every couple of years. Authoritarianism is rising very sharply all over the world, corruption amongst the elites is high, they are increasingly unaligned and unafraid of common people. There's a million tricks to pass laws that citizens don't really want, including skipping public debates, secret amendments, or just relying on plain old propaganda and ignorance/inaction by the majority. The only actual power we have is in action and organization. Following the laws that they write with barely any input from us off a cliff is not right or noble, its death.

zaptheimpaler

قبل 22 يومًاdiscuss

AI is weapons now. Need a gun license to buy and operate pistols (Opus), assault rifles (Fable) will be highly limited, even higher tiers of weapons will only be accessible by corporate and state-level actors - we might not even know they exist or what they're capable of. Democratization of AI is dead. Gen pop is completely asleep to all of this so its going to get locked down in the name of safety before anyone even wakes up.

zaptheimpaler

قبل 24 يومًاdiscuss

LMAO they're learning how to do legally defensible racketeering the way US insurance companies do, very smart.

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قبل 26 يومًاdiscuss

No I agree its very interesting, I tried similar prompts before and it generated some very spooky/weird images like this [1]. The problem is using that as an argument to curtail access to AI.

[1] https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6a336e6b8534819196946f65251eebb0

zaptheimpaler

قبل 26 يومًاdiscuss

>Idiot: Say I'm a scary robot

>AI: I'm a scary robot

>Idiot: Oh my god!!!

These clowns will eventually ensure that AI is nerfed into the ground for ordinary people. It's already happening with Fable. Soon we'll get locked into a tiny corner of Opus 4.8 for "safety" while companies and governments will be on Fable 50. Having an AI that can generate scary images is better than the power and wealth differentials we will see with unequal access to an incredibly powerful technology.

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