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basilikum··on Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training
I'm asking sincerely, how do you get to the conclusion that it's those two?
basilikum··on The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
Yes, hold people accountable for their actions. Don't take away their freedom. We may prohibit individual actions that involve a general tool when they harm others. That is compatible with a free society. We may not prohibit fundamental tools¹ That is fundamentally incompatible with a free society. Especially when that tool forms the infrastructure for the flow of information and free speech.

[1] General purpose computing

basilikum··on The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
People accidentally hurt themselves with kitchen knives every day. They are also very often used for violent crimes.

Clearly we need to regulate the kitchen knife industry more. There should be a central authority that sells authorized kitchen knives with at max 6cm length and all other knives should only be available to certified chefs.

Once we have outlawed the longer knives and strong restrictions on ordinary kitchen tools become normal we should just outlaw knives altogether. You can still hurt yourself with a short knife. Only chefs should ever be allowed to own such a dangerous tool. Just buy or order readily prepared food. Why would you do this weird nerd thing called cooking anyway? Just choose from the official list of allowed foods.

The idea that we have to prevent people from being in control of their own computers — that's what a smartphone is — is deeply dystopian and authoritarian.

basilikum··on Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training
How did you dertmine it was those two companies? Also did you disallow them in robots.txt?
basilikum··on An update on Wayback Machine access
Mad props to the people at the Archive. You are the heros we need in a formerly open internet that is surrendering to evil big corps and closing down free access.

The Internet Archive is in a really bad spot being attacked from multiple sides at once. But — while service has not been consistent — they have maintained open access. I can still access anonymously from Tor without Cloudflare or some other centralized gatekeeper showing me the middle finger.

If you got some money to spare, consider donating to them. They need it.

basilikum··on Closing the IPv6 first-packet gap with GRAND
Interesting topic.

Started reading, the text is dreadfully lengthy, hard to stay concentrate on due to all the filler and mindlessly arranged words that obscure the actual content, notice AI tell signs.

Stop reading, paste into Pangram, mostly AI,

scroll down on the text, find this:

> Note: The author used AI tools to assist with drafting and language. The technical work, analysis and conclusions are the author’s own. For more information about our policy on AI-generated content, see our Contributing to RIPE Labs page.

Do better RIPE. I assumed RIPE had some standard. If you decide to not have any standards, at the very least put the AI disclaimer at the top so I don't waste my time on slop. It's disrespectful.

Does anyone have an article about NDP and GRAND that is not slop and worth sharing and reading?

basilikum··on GRP-Obliteration: Unaligning LLMs with a Single Unlabeled Prompt
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding you or the article, but as far as I understand it from a cursory reading this is not a jailbreak. They use this one prompt for fine tuning and use the model's response to the prompt as the sole underlying benchmark.

How would you do this with a closed weights model?

basilikum··on How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
We can't judge code quality without having the code.
basilikum··on How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
Perhaps it would be useful if both of you could provide examples of supposedly good and bad code – the latter being the result of a genuine effort to produce good code with state of the art models. Just asserting that LLM code is good or bad ends in a yes - no - yes - no back and forth circle immediately.
basilikum··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
Because that's what's being discussed?
basilikum··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
How do you even know what "side" I'm on?
basilikum··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
Twitter heavily censors speech on the platform itself by downranking things they do not like without any transparency.
basilikum··on Why is privacy so hard? (2019)
That is overly simplistic to the point where it is hard to interpret it as good faith.

We live in a world where both the government is increasingly spying on everything, often in secret, as well as companies in every aspect of modern life who constantly lie about this. It is not a fair choice with natural disadvantages.

Blaming all this on the individual reeks of bad faith.

basilikum··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
Most captchas are invisible as long as they like your IP and device. But they still do the fingerprinting in the background.
basilikum··on There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis
Google may actively prefer AI slop over human quality content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2QF9JwtLc
basilikum··on Simple Is Not Small
Could you try to define these three separate concept?
basilikum··on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs
VPNs
basilikum··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
> Everyone has heard all the libertarian and contra-libertarian arguments going back decades; no one is learning from yet another go-round

People are generally massively uninformed if not misinformed. People have not heard real arguments or data for most issues in general.

basilikum··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
Don't remove freedom from society - Be kind to people and give them equal opportunities to make sure they use their freedom for good. Prosecute bad apples with actual police work and don't let them ruin a good thing.

Want to track what people are doing all the time? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyeurism#Treatment

basilikum··on Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
For what is this exploited in the wild when it doesn't include a sandbox escape?

Is this chained with n-days?

basilikum··on .name Termination
I seriously wonder what ICANN is good for.
basilikum··on Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards
We don't know a lot of things. That does not make it sensible to just make up unfounded claims about them.

I don't know what you ate today. It would be insane for me to confidently claim that you ate two bananas and a pizza today.

The burden of proof is on the person making the claim. That's the basis of empirical research.

basilikum··on Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards
You could just as much argue that a stone has consciousness. Some people believe that. Insane describes it quite well.
basilikum··on Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS
> have they blocked every OS they're unable to verify

This is evil in itself.

basilikum··on Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
Great job, man. We have to make ourselves get heard. It's a social problem after all. Technical workarounds are great and sometimes the only practical short term option, but we have to fix the social issue at the root.
basilikum··on YouTube Format IDs
Playing at low framrates is a lot worse than just watching though.
basilikum··on PageRank explained
Milliondollarhomepage is a little strange and irritating, you're just buying pixels after all. But it is interesting and has a certain conflicting charm to it.

Outbid is just sad. People pay money to get on a slop board?

basilikum··on NIST is selling Peanut Butter for $415.33 per jar
I buy my peanut butter in bulk. I ain't dumb. 500$ for a single jar is ridiculous.
basilikum··on Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
Anything below /64 should be straight up illegal.

We got IPv6 just so people can dot the exact same dumb shit with it that IPv4 forced us to do.

basilikum··on NIST is selling Peanut Butter for $415.33 per jar
it's three jars
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