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dmingod666··on Loopholes in Google’s data safety labels
I don't have specific views on what they've written.. but 90% of donations to Firefox come from Google. The 3 year contract ends in 2023..

If Google decides to not fund it next year it's bad management on FFs part.

Putting all your eggs in one basket is very risky and puts you in a place where you may have an ugly compromises Vs face bad consequences..

dmingod666··on Stop developing this technology
What George is saying makes total sense. Why I had commented on your post was I couldn't understand your reasoning that somehow relativity and the 2 bombs couldn't have happened without each other I found that quite bizarre..
dmingod666··on Stop developing this technology
How much are you going to regulate and stop? Game engines currently give photorealistic realtime content.. stop unreal and metahumans too? What about v6 of unreal?

What if this same repo was owned by Nvidia and it had some commercial interest on that product and were ready to litigate.. would everyone still pileup on it?

Is it not on some level disdain that it's just run by a bunch of guys that can be pushed around without much consequence.

Would we have a thread saying, screw it shut down ChatGPT, doesn't fit my moral world-view.. why is that absurd but this is fair discussion?

dmingod666··on Stop developing this technology
Your response doesn't make any sense. Care to elaborate?
dmingod666··on Five mildly anti-Buddhist essays
I bet he doesn't have the same enthusiasm to write about the top 2 religions this way.
dmingod666··on Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or is it just me?
DDG is very nice -- I was pleasantly surprised, I wanted a few images in a python script a while back.. get the library, run all the searches you want, save images.. haven't looked but I just assume, Google won't let you do it and if you wanted, you'll need to install some Google commandline to your machine and enable it's metered API
dmingod666··on Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or is it just me?
I get surprised by so many AI startups using discord as their product interface. First time I saw it used, I was like, don't you have enough funds to build your own interface? Still find it jarring to go from a slick looking site to a discord login. They probably don't want to reimplement chat, but I'm sure there's got to be a couple of opensource chat projects out there..

I don't know - haven't used discord too much to know, does it serve a lot of utility to invite bots to your own server and stuff.. is that a big plus?

dmingod666··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
F222 does a little more coherent anatomy..not surprising given its background
dmingod666··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
A100 costs 10-12k USD 40GB/80GB vram and it's not even targeted at the individual gamer (not effective at gaming) -- they don't even give these things to big YouTube reviewers(LTT). So 4k people will be hard to find. 3090, you can find, that's a 24GB vram card. But that's expensive too and it's a power guzzler compared to the A100 series.
dmingod666··on Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code
I pay for jetbrains and GitHub co-pilot from my pocket I find it totally worth it. I think they must have been hesitant in asking for money. Copilot was free for 3 months and then paid.
dmingod666··on Level responds to lock picker opening its $330 Apple Store lock in seconds
I remember watching a few videos where He's done comparisons as well.
dmingod666··on Level responds to lock picker opening its $330 Apple Store lock in seconds
I mean he could have watched 2 videos of the LPL channel as research and he'd know better that not all locks can be just opened by a rake tool..
dmingod666··on Level responds to lock picker opening its $330 Apple Store lock in seconds
LockPickingLawyer is very skilled, but the tools he used in this video were basic, a wave rake only - definitely a low skill attack. He did it 4 times in a span of 3 mins, while still reviewing the lock..
dmingod666··on Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop implementing SMS/phone 2FA
What I meant to say was, there needs to be a cut-off point for company responsibility. Agree, there should be other alternatives to SMS incase a user get locked out.
dmingod666··on Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop implementing SMS/phone 2FA
Fair enough, but, you then have the problem of not being able to cater to people with feature phones. I think a combined email or SMS based options solve most problem cases.

I don't understand the hate for SMS, like "how are these people in tech?" -- most banks I know of work on SMS based OTP. SMS also gives you a sorr of a real identity to work with and physical location in most common cases (not the app provider, but investigative authorities if they get involved).

dmingod666··on Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop implementing SMS/phone 2FA
I don't doubt your claim, I think it's more common to have ID verification across the world.

That aside, I think at one point if people make dumb choices, they're screwed, can't do anything about it..

dmingod666··on Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop implementing SMS/phone 2FA
"People losing access to their phone is a scenario and puts users at significant risk of losing access to key accounts"

You'd go to your network provider, show ID and in hours you have your SIM back. What is this hyperbole..?

dmingod666··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
The new owner knows this, that the whole company is itching to self sabotage and crash twitter if they can..
dmingod666··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
I don't they're doing code reviews to understand the quality of the code. I think he's getting a few people he can trust to know their way around the architecture, so tomorrow if some employee decides it's a righteous cause to down the service, they still have some semblance of control and are better prepared to troubleshoot.
dmingod666··on I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites (2018)
I don't disagree, but, I mean, the moment you start serving fake google pages from your server -- you are straight 'scammer' in my book.
dmingod666··on The Docker+WASM Technical Preview
'Docker + WASM' definitely gave me the impression that docker is now leveraging wasm to be able to run your normal container workloads directly on the browser.

Like if you have any docker container, you can now take that, with some modification and run that directly on the browser. Reading further, I think this is totally not what it actually is.

You could say 'Docker for WASM applications' or 'Docker to deploy WASM apps' that would make the relationship more clear I think.

dmingod666··on The Docker+WASM Technical Preview
I am trying to head around this.

what are the limitations of this? ok, for example can you deploy postgres on the browser with this? can you have a full OS container running on the browser with this, say ubuntu shell frontend with some javascript and an ubuntu container running on the browser?

The first impression from 'Docker + WASM' surely sounds like that is what it is, but after about 30 mins, I am not so sure that is actually the case.

dmingod666··on I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites (2018)
I always ctrl click and open multiple tabs, back button doesn't come into play. I assume a lot of people do this.
dmingod666··on I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites (2018)
The moment you are impersonating Google and your competitors, it's very clearly in fraud/criminal behaviour territory. No serious business will even consider doing something like this.
dmingod666··on Ask HN: What Is the Hype with Docker?
I'd prefer just go with hyperv at that point and build containers in a Linux environment..

IDEs can still access your VMs so you can have all the nice syntax highlighting etc from Windows but you are building inside Linux.

You have really nice networking options on hyperv so you can even check how your app deploys in a distributed environment.

dmingod666··on Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Management
thanks! this looks really good, will give it a try. love that they have maps! :)
dmingod666··on Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Management
Oh not to forget the beautiful syntax highlighting for the correct language with the ability to paste images .. text files just cannot compete. Of course they have a place but notion as a tool is quite useful.
dmingod666··on Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Management
I do Dev and manage servers and databases -- I need one place where I can find all my stuff. Googling and going through 15 links for the same issue every 7 months all over again is a chore -- as a knowledge worker. I need to have a base of stuff I can refer to, my own curated knowledge base.

I need the info to be available to me on multiple pcs and even better from my phone so I can refer to common things immediately.

I write down stuff that I know works correctly, but have to use very infrequently -- my tmux config or the correct network config so hyperv will work.

I use Notion for tons of stuff like that.

I use Miro (diagraming app) when I am trying to understand complex stuff for the first time -- where there are tons dependencies and I have no clue what is going on like an existing large codebase.

Text files tend to become very limiting in how you can express and present the information back to yourself in a meaningful way.

dmingod666··on A working implementation of text-to-3D DreamFusion, powered by Stable Diffusion
Browse Lexica.art your mind will be blown by the range and amount of detail on some of the art.

Like this (nsfw content): https://lexica.art/?q=Intricate+goddess

There is an addictive and trippy quality to this and it is yet to hit mainstream -- The art itself is stunning but it goes beyond that, the ability to nudge it around and make variations to it is incredible. now add the fact that you can train it with your own content. people are going to go bonkers with this and it's going to open up a lot of debates too.

dmingod666··on Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea
Just last week Putin was saying "we want to keep selling gas", like in quite a desperate tone, "just lift the sanctions on NS2, we want to keep seeling gas." Watch his press conference at the SCO summit it's 10-15 mis long.

Now is the time to use his bargaining chip when Germany will be desperate, why will someone make their own position weaker at the time when they can extract the most leverage, that too for no reason - destroy their own property and that too go all the way up to an area where NATO was doing naval exercises a few months ago and risk confrontation with NATO..

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