blibble

don't forget the economy too

no labour? no demand to buy products/services

that's only the mechanical translation too

the hard bit (borrow checker) has still to be done...

happily hosting my own email, only problem has been Microslop hotmail, who use some RBL that run as a racket

https://luc.lino-framework.org/blog/2023/0725.html

(but you can just route these through someone else)

> Agree, and it's also such a shame that none of the AI companies actually focus on that way of using AI.

their valuations are replaced on getting rid of you entirely, along with everyone else

the "humans can use it to increase their productivity" is an interim step

> A while back I made completely separate Google accounts for YouTube and Maps just so my longstanding Gmail account wouldn't get banned if the system somehow detected that my Youtube account for example breached Google's TOS.

I bet you that if they ban one they ban the other too

the only safe way is to get your important data out of Google entirely

after manifest v3's announcement, I de-googled: gmail, chrome, search, google cloud, photos, family on android phones

2 years later, it's all gone, except youtube

and if they ban that I don't care

a preview of things to come, when the entire software trade is reliant on these third party services

all hosted by companies so huge they consider your $200/month to be an annoyance

rather than something valuable

at that point the coffee machine is sort of redundant

defeated by walking into a random shop and picking one off the shelf

rather than buying it from scamazon

> You'd think these apps be a shining example of what's possible.

it is

this is you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We7BZVKbCVw

if that's the case, why don't you just ask it to "make it not shit"?

> especially not at this price range

pay peanuts, get monkeys

it's the Capital A Agile(TM) shysters all over again

put up against waterfall, which no-one ever did anyway

say you're Shell

you are vertically integrated, you have billions invested in oilfields, refineries, distribution, and the retail channel ("gas stations")

if transport switches to electric, what's your role?

answer: there isn't one, you are completely redundant

but what if hydrogen took off instead?

if you produce via electrolysis, you only keep the retail channel

but if you can get H2 established, then you can do a switcheroo and feed in H2 produced from your existing natural gas infrastructure, and massively undercut everyone's electrolysis business

at which point you're back to the old days, just instead of selling gasoline from your oilfields, you're supplying hydrogen produced from their gas

... and that's exactly what they're trying to do

this is the case while they're in the hype building phase, when people are paying attention

if hydrogen even gained widespread adoption, it would be mass produced via steam reforming of natural gas

(which is why the oil majors are the ones desperately pushing it)

there was also a post here where an engineer was parading around a vibe-coded oauth library he'd made as a demonstration of how great LLMs were

at which point the CVEs started to fly in

okay so the code which returned everything isn't there

actual explanation: the API server by default returns everything. the client attempted to make a request to return "pending_deletes", but as the request was malformed, the API instead went down the default path, which returned everything. then the client deleted everything.

makes sense now

but is that explanation is even worse

because that means the code path was never tested?

is this blog post LLM generated?

the explanation makes no sense:

> Because the client is passing pending_delete with no value, the result of Query().Get(“pending_delete”) here will be an empty string (“”), so the API server interprets this as a request for all BYOIP prefixes instead of just those prefixes that were supposed to be removed. The system interpreted this as all returned prefixes being queued for deletion.

client:

     resp, err := d.doRequest(ctx, http.MethodGet, `/v1/prefixes?pending_delete`, nil)

server:

    if v := req.URL.Query().Get("pending_delete"); v != "" {
        // ignore other behavior and fetch pending objects from the ip_prefixes_deleted table
        prefixes, err := c.RO().IPPrefixes().FetchPrefixesPendingDeletion(ctx)
        if err != nil {
            api.RenderError(ctx, w, ErrInternalError)
            return
        }

        api.Render(ctx, w, http.StatusOK, renderIPPrefixAPIResponse(prefixes, nil))
        return
    }

even if the client had passed a value it would have still done exactly the same thing, as the value of "v" (or anything from the request) is not used in that block

I know you're not really supposed to do it, but I've kept my git bare repos in syncthing for years

as long as you don't work on two machines at once and they're always online it's ... fine

(I do have a daily backup though)

> I value my credibility as an independent voice

not enough to not take their money though?

insipid

Simon Willison claims to be an "Independent AI researcher"[1]:

but then at the top of this article:

> Sponsored by: Teleport — Secure, Govern, and Operate AI at Engineering Scale. Learn more

not exactly a coherent narrative, is it?

[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net

500MW doesn't get built on the other side of the country when needed as the power has been sold

so there's a lag, but at this kind of scale you don't really care

I think it's worse, cigarettes never threatened democracy

the solution is real easy, section 230 should not apply if there's an recommendation algorithm involved

treat the company as a traditional publisher

because they are, they're editorialising by selecting the content

vs, say, the old style facebook wall (a raw feed from user's friends), which should qualify for section 230

it's exceptionally hard because energy is fungible

try writing the contract, say, requiring 500MW of new gas generation to be built locally to power the DC, which is grid connected

they'll then secretly write a contract to sell 500MW of gas generation on the open market, conditional on approval

at some price they'll find a buyer, at which point 500MW increase in grid capacity has been cancelled out despite them actually building the plant

and all it cost them was the difference in the contract price

if it's connected to the grid and you make them buy capacity, they will write a contract to sell the same amount of capacity the moment it's approved

and you've accomplished nothing

and if you make them hold a certain position they'll simply sell in another subsidiary, or use derivatives

the only way to deal with this type of parasitism is blanket refusal

> how about making the new datacenters fund nuclear, solar, and grid battery?

good luck with that

any promises will be ignored, avoided or dumped onto regular people the very moment the approval is granted

it's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than the US system

in the UK a similar unconstitutional behaviour by the head of government took...

from the start of the "injury":

    - 8 days to get to the supreme court
    - 2 days arguing in court
    - 5 days for the court to reach a decision

15 days to be ruled on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(Miller)_v_The_Prime_Ministe...

elect a reality TV star, and look, you get reality TV in your politics

I wish I could ignore United States Season 47 entirely

"we've been getting great ratings"

an exoskeleten made of cheese

yeah, as it would open up the market