buredoranna

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vor 12 Stundendiscuss

> we still need good judgement and communcation in deciding where to go

I want to emphatically endorse this statement.

This is where the human workload will shift to: making good decisions... understanding why one path is preferred over another. And collaborating and communicating in constructive ways. More to the point, humans excel at being able to recognize when a chosen path is no longer fruitful, or where a conversation devolves into the unproductive.

We are constantly making decisions based on tradeoffs. We choose one approach over another, not so much because our chosen path is obviously superior, but because the peril on our chosen path is preferential to the peril on a different path.

I have used ai to great utility in my design process, to help me understand the tradeoffs within any given endeavor, greatly helping in choosing which path to take.

Thus far, I haven't seen an AI which can unilaterally be relied up on to always effect "good judgement" for the work it is tasked with completing.

But once good judgement, and the correct path, is codified in markdown files, ai can be exceedingly efficient in carrying it out.

vor 7 Tagendiscuss

Since we're talking WiFi, I'll mention

https://www.wiisfi.com/

The single best wifi reference I've found to date.

vor 11 Tagendiscuss

It was a major contributor to why I didn't learn more about containers earlier on.

vor 11 Tagendiscuss

Top of my list as to why I prefer podman...

no "container root" / "docker group" = "host root" shenanigans

podman doesn't spew garbage and punch holes in my firewall (iptables)

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vor 20 Tagendiscuss

I'll mention it here, because I learned about it here.

"~C" will drop you into the SSH command line, allowing you to, among other things, effect port forwarding

  -L8080:localhost:443

Learning that "~C" exists, and what you can do with it, has supercharged my use of SSH tunnels, which were already awesome on their own.

But for some reason this has been disabled by default in more recent ssh configurations... to ensure its available

  -o EnableEscapeCommandline=yes

or, in your ~/.ssh/config

  EnableEscapeCommandline yes

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vor 27 Tagendiscuss

Fair point... but I feel awash in doom, gloom and other apocalyptic predictions.

I found this book to be a welcome breath of fresh air, and I enjoyed listening to it.

It revealed to me that maybe, just maybe (we can only hope) things aren't quite as bad as we've been lead to believe... and while ai is obviously not mentioned, it does help cast modern tech developments in a more favorable light.

One specific upside from ai?

I no longer have to write systemd unit files.

That alone may be worth the cost.

vor 28 Tagendiscuss

If you're interested in upsides, I can highly recommend the book "Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future", by Johan Norberg [1].

I was able to borrow the audio book from my library... absolutely worth the listen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress:_Ten_Reasons_to_Look_...

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letzten Monatdiscuss

Or, as a variation on the theme...

kill 200 brown boars.

kill 300 black boars.

letzten Monatdiscuss

Obligatory xkcd

remember... order matters.

https://xkcd.com/1613/

letzten Monatdiscuss

Since we're talking numbers stations...

I'll take this opportunity to plug the CONET project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conet_Project

https://archive.org/details/The-Conet-Project

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letzten Monatdiscuss

This is a student problem, not an ai problem... if the student chooses to not learn, to just use ai for answers, that's on them.

And their failing grades reflect the choices they've made.

ai is the single most powerful learning tool ever invented... but only if you choose to use it for learning.

letzten Monatdiscuss

If you haven't experienced the awesomeness of "The Front Fell Off", do yourself a favor and seek it out on youtube... you won't be disappointed.

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

... what a world.

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Please don't rely on my judgement for this being safe for production, but after blacklisting the modules, the provided python exploit failed.

Check if the following are modules

  grep CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API /boot/config-$(uname -r)

If they are, you can try blacklisting them

  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-crypto-user-api.conf
  
  """
  blacklist af_alg
  blacklist algif_hash
  blacklist algif_skcipher
  blacklist algif_rng
  blacklist algif_aead

  install af_alg /bin/false
  install algif_hash /bin/false
  install algif_skcipher /bin/false
  install algif_rng /bin/false
  install algif_aead /bin/false
  """

  update-initramfs -u

Can anyone comment on the ramifications this?

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

> the whole thing being built on copyright infringement

I am not a lawyer, but am generally familiar with two "is it fair use" tests.

1. Is it transformative?

I take a picture, I own the copyright. You can't sell it. But if you take a copy, and literally chop it to pieces, reforming it into a collage, you can sell that.

2. Does the alleged infringing work devalue the original?

If I have a conversation with ai about "The Lord of the Rings". Even if it reproduces good chunks of the original, it does not devalue the original... in fact, I would argue, it enhances it.

Have I failed to take into account additional arguments and/or scenarios? Probably.

But, in my opinion, AI passes these tests. AI output is transformative, and in general, does not devalue the original.

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Wish I could... but I know of it from a previous HN post, where there is some discussion on its purpose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22367416

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Still my all time favorite snippet of code.

    TC    BANKCALL    # TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE
    CADR  STOPRATE    # TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE
    TC    DOWNFLAG    # PERMIT X-AXIS OVERRIDE

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

People who dedicate their lives to studying an industry, can get very good at being able to predict the probability of events in their domain.

These same people are commonly off by orders of magnitude when predicting the magnitude of these same events.

The author of this article won the "Toner Prize for Excellence in National Political Reporting". I'm going to infer from this, that he's better at political reporting, than he is at predicting the future of an entire industry.

And if he is truly convinced of this outcome, he should be shorting the airlines. (I'm gonna guess he hasn't done that).

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

I grew up with Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes, by far, in my opinion, the most accurate representation of the stories.

Only in my adult life did I read the stories, finding large chunks of the dialog in the TV show being word for word taken from the stories. And when not word for word, the tone and feel of the scenes so well portrayed on screen.

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Thank you for this. I lost that CD years ago.