Nothing happened here except a small project website temporarily lagging. Nobody has been assaulted here, which makes this an extremely different situation than that.

Stuff like getting rid of these things makes so much sense, I don’t understand how some people can think human cooperation isn’t important.

I want an AI that figures out who would be likely to want to hear from me, and prompt me to start a conversation with them. That would be way better than Meta owning an ever increasing share of my attention.

Here’s an idea: gameplay sort of like Goblin Cleanup, you have various chores you have to do cleaning and arranging the various levels of the tower at night while the dragon is home, and your work has to pass an inspection. Then during the day you are locked in your room, and have some ability to watch a prospective rescuer attempt the dungeon crawl without your direct input. But you can strategically arrange items, enemy spawns, and Dark Souls style hints to try to tip the scales during the chores phase. So kind of like a tower defense game in reverse where you are trying to lose.

Not even just because people are idiots, but also because a LLM is going to have quirks you will need to work around or exploit to get the best results out of it. Like how it’s better to edit your question to clarify a misunderstanding and regenerate the response than it is to respond again with the correction, because there is more of a risk it gets stuck on its mistake that way. Or how it can be useful in some situations to (if the interface allows this) manually edit part of the LLM output to be more in line with what you want it to be saying before generating the rest.

all this data is made up lol

wtf

Sure but, if it’s between setting up a bunch of laptops for people to proxy through or whatever, or running a VPN server from your home they can use instead, that would be the same IP.

During this time she hosted computers for overseas IT workers — who were posing as American citizens and residents — to ensure the devices had local IP addresses, making them appear to be in the US.

Why would you need physical laptops for this? Wouldn’t it make more sense to just have a server hosting a VPN?

I haven’t really had negative interactions with hexbear users since instance blocking and blocking like 30 users I noticed being assholes way back. Maybe they’re still responding to my comments without my knowing but idc

Complex requirements for social media websites to verify the identity of users, respond to spurious automated takedown requests, provide authorities with backdoors, etc. I think instead of explicit bans, it’s more likely they pass a regulations that are made for large websites with lawyers and algorithmic moderation, which are in practice not something fediverse instance operators can safely deal with and go against the basic values of the open internet.

Money is a type of private property. Private property is an arrangement of power relationships, and those are real. It’s real that you’ll get evicted if you don’t find a way to pay rent/mortgage.

It’s self-adjusting isn’t it? The more people mining, the smaller share of the pie you get? It isn’t very meaningful then to say how a particular electricity price compares to the Bitcoin price for profitability. That isn’t much of a metric for the strength of the network. I feel like a better measure would be something like, the bitcoin marketcap divided by current hash rate; how much computing power is available to protect the network relative to how much value it is protecting. I’m kind of skeptical they will be able to keep that one up given that block rewards are going to decline and stop entirely to assure the 21 million, and actual use of Bitcoin for transactions is discouraged so potential fee revenue is limited.

I think they have stuff to detect and ignore brigading, which would probably especially apply to platforms as large as Reddit.

what a weird form of flirting

So I see I owe you 100 billion, and I’m absolutely good for it, but as I am low on liquidity at the moment I’m going to need you to front me an extra 50 million, a really reasonable ask if you consider the how it compares to the total amount if you think about it

Mealworms

Just looking at this picture makes my hands sweaty

To me embedded gifs are alright if they are in comments by themselves because I can hide them, but if it’s the start of a longer comment chain it’s harder to read the comments under it without being distracted by the moving images so a regular link I can open in a different tab seems better

They’re free to reject it

When I was young, insecure about my sexual inexperience, convinced I was worth less than others, and on 4chan all the time, there were some levels on which I really did not understand that, which led to some uncomfortable situations, and could easily have led to worse ones. Flirting isn’t really something you analyze and make decisions about anyway, if someone isn’t responding to it, maybe that says something about how they are feeling and should be respected regardless of if they understand on a conscious level what is going on.

TIL apt isn’t literally the same thing as apt-get