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sharperguy
·3 days ago·discuss
seamlessly jumping from local to remote sessions is something ive been hoping for in zellij for quite a while so if herdr supports this it could be interesting.

Until I try it, though, I don't think I'll understand why it needs a specific feature for running an agent tool in a side panel, which is appartently one of it's main selling point.
sharperguy
·13 days ago·discuss
They are talking about mandatory on-device scanning. E2E doesn't solve this.
sharperguy
·13 days ago·discuss
I'm not certain that local police forces are always consulting the NSA or Palantir to find out who is behind a particular account. I would guess that the vast majority of arrests for offensive posts were made openly under a real identity, with only the most extreme cases leading to a deeper investigation.
sharperguy
·15 days ago·discuss
The biggest angle for me is censorship. You associate your online identity with your legal identity, there is no longer any recourse if you are banned from a platform. You could easily be arrested if your posts are determined to be 'offensive' in some manner considered to be in breach of the law, or simply have no ability to rejoin a platform under a new identity, or have identities across multiple platforms banned in parallel.

I've found that many people are actually in favor of these when they believe that it will only be enforced against people they disagree with. I'm hoping that people will be more likely to listen when they realize that their enemies may in future be able to get into power and change the definition of what is 'offensive', 'misinformation' or 'disinformation' to their own personal opinions.
sharperguy
·18 days ago·discuss
Doesn't _have_ to be except not enough voters can tell the difference which is exactly the goal.
sharperguy
·19 days ago·discuss
You could implement it this way:

- the first time you select a directory it must be empty

- you can drag files in there afterwards

- the directory gets whitelisted for future use

Probably has bad usability, but would be more secure.
sharperguy
·26 days ago·discuss
Considering the Trump administration's policy on Isreal / Palestine / Iran seems to be a direct follow-on from the previous administration, I'm not so sure about that assertion.
sharperguy
·28 days ago·discuss
In a two party system, do you vote for the party that promises small government and never delivers, or the party that promises bigger government and does delive?
sharperguy
·30 days ago·discuss
I can't find a Pi Zero 2 W for sale anywhere that will deliver to me
sharperguy
·last month·discuss
Free speech doesn't mean that we don't desire filters. Go check your gmail spam folder. Twitter would look identical to this with filters at all. What we really want is:

* transparency about the filters we have on our feeds

* the ability to tweak them if they're not working

* the ability to change providers without losing your entire social graph / reach
sharperguy
·last month·discuss
So in future we will have "retro" streaming platforms that buffer with the spinner a random times for nostalgia and have menus full of promotional material that are impossible to navigate to just find what you're looking for.
sharperguy
·last month·discuss
You're assuming a file containing a statistical model that exists on your hard drive has agency. It doesn't. You as the user have sole agency and what you use the statistic file for.
sharperguy
·last month·discuss
You could say it's more akin to if we have all been writing in a assembly and suddenly we got access to compilers and high level languages. Would we all be complaining that every conference is "about compilers"?
sharperguy
·last month·discuss
It's hard to avoid the topic when it literally redefines what it means to create software. If I'm using it to create some piece of software, then I turn around and say "I wrote this" am I even being truthful? But if I'm trying to avoid mentioning LLMs what other wording could I use?
sharperguy
·last month·discuss
I'm someone who makes extensive used of LLMs and agents for daily research, and I 100% of the time ignore the AI summary that google gives at the top of the page. If I am performing a web search, I've already decided that I'm explicitly NOT looking for an LLM summary.
sharperguy
·last month·discuss
I imagine something like 98% of articles also get less than 100 views. So the question is more about the articles you're reading rather than articles in general.
sharperguy
·2 months ago·discuss
Much of the recent improvement in models is in being trained specifically to make use of the tools the harnesses give them.
sharperguy
·2 months ago·discuss
I've switched to using traefik from caddy. For simple use cases it's a little more verbose in the configuration, but for more involved things like multiple load balancing backends, rewriting paths and headers and so on I've found it really good.
sharperguy
·2 months ago·discuss
So I wonder, if a more powerful agent harness could have the agent basically write and exectute its own deteministic code, which when executed, spawns sub agents for each of the subtasks?

So far we've seen agents spawn subagents directly, but that still means leaving the final flow control to the non-deterministic orchestrator model, and so your case is a perfect example of where it would probably fail.
sharperguy
·2 months ago·discuss
Both Arch and Nix solve this by making it very easy to write packages that work around the compatibility issues. When I used to use ubuntu and mint it was a lot more common to run into these types of issues.