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I loved that time. Websites, or "apps" that don't change every second time I want to use them, are great.

I think the "overboard" part is that the developer was doxxed and received death threats.

I managed once to complete the maze, but then it went into "checking" and a spinner forever.

Well does it? If I would be able to break SHA2 and make myself rich with it, I would need to be sure that nobody would find out, that Bitcoin can be manipulated. The second anyone is aware, I wouldn't be rich anymore.

Sorry, English is not my first language and I tried to look clever.

While I would have the same reaction, in this case I think it is a sane decision. Ente is cornering the privacy market and I think they're doing a great job. They have a lot to lose (trust) and it would be stupid if they did something shady with the data entered in the 2FA app.

I have the same questions. After installing the app, it downloads 2.5 GB of data. I presume this is the model.

I remember watching the cornetto trilogy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Flavours_Cornetto ) and always wondering why on earth they fill up the glasses up to the brim. It is uncomfortable to transport this way and not spill beer.

Just a follow up: I wrote nexi germany via some contact form, that I will avoid using their services because of that story. They called me back and told me, that they asked the fsfe for a test account only. They also made an internal investigation, if someone asked for passwords of real accounts, which is a clear no-go for them.

Because you long forgot how confusing it was, that you can't see if your keystrokes are accepted by the machine. This is a change for people, that are new to Linux/Unix

I also think it is a good decision. Nevertheless it breaks the workflow of at least one person. My father's Linux password is one character. I didn't knew this when I supported him over screen sharing methods, because I couldn't see it. He told me, so now I know. But the silent prompt protected that fact. It is still a good decision, an one character password is useless from a security standpoint.

I have access to the ChatGPT account of my boss and it is unusable sycophancy slop, horrible to read because every information is buried under endless emojis and the like. And it is almost indistinguishable if the LLM is wrong or right, every answer looks the same, often with a "my final answer" at the end. It's a mess.

I'm using Claude Opus 4.6 and it is much calmer, or "professional" in tone and much more information and almost no fluff.

150m page views a month is peanuts and very far away from the "social" networks numbers. I don't have those numbers, but I know how many page views we had 2011 while running a german browser game community.

And "Witz" means "joke" in german.

Small internet isn't very attractive for most bots. Also, I use websites that are invite-only. This is effectively a web of trust. This works pretty well, bots aren't a real problem there.

Bandwidth is only expensive in the US, somehow. Here in Germany I didn't bother about bots and their additional traffic since 1998 (there are other annoying things about bots though).

They are down to 2,6 seconds now, wow.

This blog post is in the uncanny valley of "looks and sounds nice, but a bit too nice, could be useful, could be useless AI-slop, idk".

I would like to encourage you to step back a little and try to get a broader view on this issue.

I don't want to discuss whether there is more LLM-generated content or not. There clearly is, and there is no feasible way to get rid of it , because there is simply no reliable way to distinguish what was made by humans and what wasn't. Regardless of what is claimed, it is just not possible, if only because hybrid forms exist as well. This text was written by me, but reviewed and stylistically adjusted by an LLM.

It is therefore completely pointless to get upset about LLM content and demand anything from the moderators. All we are left with are our votes and the "reputation" of our user handles - and the awareness that we need to learn to consume content with a great deal of skepticism. We should have been doing this all along, but it seems to be something we struggle with.

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

And yes, this may mean that we stop using anonymous online platforms altogether, because nothing on them can be relied upon anymore. That is a shame, but it cannot be stopped — Pandora's LLM box has been open for at least five years.

I therefore consider any discussion about banning LLM content to be futile. We are witnessing another Eternal September here: it couldn't be stopped back then, and it won't be stopped today either.

So what is there left to discuss?

This naming scheme made things very obvious. While it wasn't the most creative, it was objectively the best ;-)

What is GHCP?

Thank you for your insight and sharing of your perspective. This system leads to some interesting conclusions and observations. One is, that it explains why big brand products made a significant dive in quality. My decades old bose QC25 where of superb quality at 250 € while my somewhat new Bose quiet comfort ultras priced at 350 € are of comparatively very poor quality.

It also opens the market for cheap knockoffs. If some chi-fi headphones for 60 bucks are almost as good as the big brands and the big US brands are forced for high prices despite the bad build quality by Amazon, another big seller website should emerge. Oh wait, this already happened with AliExpress and temu.

Hetzner mostly ate up the rising energy prices in germany for the last 3 years and they have big problems with their hardware supply since then. It is hard to get cloud instances in nbg and fsn. So an increase in pricing is very much expected from my side.

I just tried the demo and I think, this is huge! If they manage to build a chip in 2 or 3 years, that can run something like Opus 4.6 or even Sonnet, at that speed, the disruption in the world of software development will be more than we saw in the last 3-5 years. LLMs today are somewhat useful, but they are still too slow and expensive for a meaningful ralph loop. Being able to runs those loops (or if you want to call it "thinking") much faster, will enable a lot of stuff, that is not feasible today. Writing things like openclaw will not take weeks, but hours. Maybe even rewriting entire tools, kernels or OSes will be feasible because the LLM can run through almost endless tries.

Speed and cost wins over quality and this will also be true for LLMs.

This issue is the main reason why a big percentage of jobs in the world exist. I don't have hard numbers, but my intuition is that about 30% of all jobs are mainly "understand what side a wants and communicate this to side b, so that they understand". Or another perspective: almost all jobs that are called "knowledge work" are like this. Software development is mainly this. Side a are humans, side b is the computer. The main goal of ai seems to get into this space and make a lot of people superflous and this also (partly) explains why everyone is pouring this amount of money into ai.

Try it, your binary will crash at some point, like any other program. If you introduce random bit flips in the trained data, you will maybe get strange responses for some type of query.

I don't have all the details anymore. But one of the non obvious things for me was that foreign key cascades where not in the binlogs. I also think that some changes in the database layout could lead to strange things on the replicas.

MySQL is the PHP of databases. It was free, easy to setup and had the spotlight at the right time. The bad decisions that are baked into MySQL are plenty and really sad (like the botched utf8 defaults, the myisam storage engine, strange stuff around replication and mucu more)

I've used bin log for almost decades and never experienced a big performance impact. This even holds for write heavy MySQL instances in ancient times where servers had spinning disks.

This happened to the female speaker with her voice, which I find terrifying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO0WvudbO04