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VincePlatt
·8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา·discuss
So.. yeah, the bottom line here is that the font has to render from something.

In this case, it's rendering from a hidden input element:

<input id="ghost-font-message" class="GhostFontLanding_messageInput__La9Ij" type="text" maxlength="36" placeholder="SECRET MESSAGE" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false" value="HELLO HUMAN">

Gee.. yeah, that's entirely indecipherable.

If you want to erect security between AI and content, then ...

yeah, just don't bother. It's not even worth the trouble and it's quite likely impossible at scale anyway.
VincePlatt
·5 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Very neat implementation! I freaking love how nice Rust makes this!

Any plans to support structures in the language? I know that's not a typical Basic feature, but it would be awesome. Also, be a rebel: add block comments.
VincePlatt
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
It doesn't take that much effort to put guardrails around your prompt to solve problems in a certain way and with certain frameworks and excluding certain others.
VincePlatt
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I was curious to see what it would be like to run this under WLS. I'm guessing we'll get our chance at some point.
VincePlatt
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Solution: Replace the leadership mandating AI with AI. I'll bet not even AI would mandate it to the same extent.
VincePlatt
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> I will bet dollars to doughnuts that she had been warned multiple times about “risky” behavior.

Your theory lines up best with Occam's Razor: it's the more likely and simple theory, and probably true. Even so... what counts as "risky"? And the reason for her detention was having been sent something illegal from the outside. The speculation has been OTC drugs which are legal elsewhere but not in Japan. But what would that have to do with "risky" previous behavior? Granted, she missed responding to an email while she was out of country, but that hardly seems substantive either.

Honestly, it seems much more likely that she was targeted because she's visible on social media or because she's black or because she's female; or perhaps she's in some undocumented category of special contempt because she's all of those things.

On that note, I checked out her social media and she showed a property remodel and after purchasing property in Japan. It seems to me like that might show the way to others too. What better way to dissuade future immigration by simply randomly detaining folks in categories they don't like? Of course they would never do something so unseemly so as to make laws specifically disallowing blacks, single females, or even just foreigners but then again the pendulum in Japanese politics is swinging towards conservative isolationism again, no? So, it wouldn't be surprising. And if her own testimony on YouTube is to be believed and she isn't omitting anything, then I have little reason to believe any other version of this.

All that aside, and to keep this in perspective, I have no doubt that Japanese treatment of prisoners in general and even of foreigners is still by and large very good; but it's still unsettling to hear about how this was handled and about how "hostage justice" is the norm there. It seems beneath like it should be beneath them and it's very surprising to learn this about their system.
VincePlatt
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
And right after starting that awesome little glimpse of the future, because weren't we all headed for the Max Headroom / Lawnmower Man inspired VR someday? It sure seemed inevitable - You would start up another wonder of the CD-ROM era like Encarta and just wonder at how they could have fit SO MUCH information on one computer. How could you have ever wanted for more?

Lol

Past me's head would have exploded just to have seen modern Wikipedia and GitHub back then.
VincePlatt
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
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VincePlatt
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
You might find her explanation of why she was detained interesting:

https://youtu.be/Q2epTf2IW1g?si=ipy4m3rgFDw3b3cD
VincePlatt
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The reasons for her detection appear really unfair and specious to put it nicely: https://youtu.be/Q2epTf2IW1g?si=ipy4m3rgFDw3b3cD