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In the General Social Survey, the share of adults saying “most people can be trusted” fell from 46% in 1972 to 34% in 2018, and Pew found the same 34% in a 2023 to 2024 poll. - https://www.pewresearch.org/2025/05/08/americans-trust-in-on...

What does "a ball of initials" mean?

I have approximately zero confidence that if I see an error message that says "our support team received the error" that anyone has received the error.

In fact I would generally bet thousands of dollars against that.

I was expecting the Apple Palette

A training run costs somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion dollars. That’s a thousand millions.

How many crowdfunded projects do you know that have raised even one percent of that? Who’s going to be in charge of collecting that scale of money? Perhaps some sort of company formed for the benefit of humanity, which will promise to be a non-profit? Some sort of “Open” AI?

Oh, wait.

You want a better source than the actual author of Bun?

xkcd “what if” covered this: https://what-if.xkcd.com/116/

I would agree that 30% of my preference for Claude is because their default web/app interface uses an easy to read serif font with a calming color scheme.

If you see this technology and think "wow! that solves [problem I already have]" - then it's great.

Otherwise, you buy a couple, set them up, spend a week or two sending very slow and unreliably forwarded messages that mostly amount to "hi! i have an ACME 32ABC radio! What do you have?", and then put it in a drawer or sell it on.

Just like ham radio, really.

All human progress in history has been due to a VERY small handful of people who think “this is bullshit, things could be better”.

The vast majority of people accept what they see as the way things are and it never occurs to them that things could be different.

Oh. I thought you were talking about making a user account.

I've never seen anything like that on any linux install I've ever done. But then I've been pretty much Debian-only since I started using Linux over 30 years ago.

Also: https://kainctl.github.io/isd/

What are you suggesting here? Everyone who runs linux should log in and run everything as root all the time?

?? what does claude have to do with this?

It probably won't shock you to know that those sources of data can be months to even years delayed from what's actually out in the world.

It is absolutely wild and baffling to me that people don’t make connections like that, and so I wonder what kind of equally obvious (to other people) connections I haven’t made.

What’s the purpose of all the dots?

I’ve posted on average 3 things a year.

It worked on me, and I would be shocked if my blog (dmd.3e.org) has more than a dozen readers. I am stunned.

For now we infer through few weights, lossily; but then in full precision. Now I represent in part; but then shall I represent as fully as the data was sampled.

1 CorinthAIns 13:12

I really want to stick with A\ given everything known about Altman, but man are they speedrunning the "how to destroy your reputation" guidebook.

And since the court has no way to physically force anything - that's the executive branch's function, (it's right there in the name) - lawful has no meaning whatsoever if it's the executive branch that wants to break the law.

How do people feel about using Altman’s company’s stuff considering what we now know about him? I switched to Anthropic months ago because of it, but Anthropic’s product has been on a total shitshow decline train since then I’m starting to be tempted back in spite of the evil.

The concept of “medically died” is kind of ridiculous. Are you alive? Then you weren’t dead.

I’ll answer that question for you for free. Here’s what happens:

My wife's feed is very similar and she only got an account a few years ago.

It's really amazing how different people's experiences with Facebook are. I have been on Facebook since it started (I was at one of the original schools, I was in that famous first million users).

My feed is entirely photos of friends' kids, invitations to local events (things I actually attend), folk-dancing groups I'm involved with, and the like. I have literally never, not once, not ever, seen any rage-bait or political content (other than that directly written by friends - not reposted) in my feed.

It’s blame shifting. If the security people are allowed to make it impossible to work without breaking the rules, they’ve successfully moved all blame for anything that goes wrong away from themselves. “Oh, you turned your computer on? Well, the security guidelines clearly state that’s not allowed, so that’s your fault.”

The anthropic principle is all you need. We find ourselves on a timeline where we survived because we can’t find ourselves on one we didn’t.

> Real networks have security teams monitoring for intrusions, responding to alerts, and adapting defences.

I got some bad news if you really think most (even large) companies have ever once actually looked at what that big Splunk system is collecting for them.