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infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

The coffee isn't why I go there, it's where my friends meet up, and I go to the gym next door. He's also threatened employees, one quit. I'm not sure why you're making jokes, but since you are it seems like I should double down and insist that I have the right to film such encounters.. especially when my account of these events isn't taken seriously.

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

I'll give a personal example. At a coffee shop I go to, someone repeatedly threatened to kill me. The owners would call the police, and they'd take a report, but without direct evidence the police claimed to have no power other than to trespass this individual. Which they did. Since that first time, he's threatened to kidnap, torture, and then murder me on several occasions. For my own safety, it would have been nice to have a video/audio of these events. As you might imagine, pulling out my phone and filming it seems like a dangerous option.

infinite_spinon The lost joy of music piracy

*archiving/sharing

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

I would be satisfied with that, what bothers me is hypocrisy. If we want to do away with all of this behavior, then let's do so, but failing that then we're simply making up rules that some people have to follow, but others don't.

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

4. Dash cams do it 5. News agencies do it 6. Parents with babysitters do it

I'm not sure this is helping your argument. Why are some entities given the benefit of the doubt, while most individuals are not?

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

> covert recording of other people in public is not OK

This rules out the use of dash cams then.. but I'm sure you realize the public benefit those offer, so I'm reluctant to accept this argument.

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

How does having a video record of encounters benefit women? I'm sure you can figure that out. You only have to remind yourself of what catcalling is.

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

Not a substantial difference, recordings of both kinds are uploaded to the internet all the time. So if we're not going to forbid one, then I don't see a significant enough reason to forbid the other. What it seems like is that you offer your trust for one situation, because you benefit from it, but are unwilling to trust the other, because you don't. This seems like selfishness, especially after years of being told there is no presumption of privacy in public spaces.

From my vantage, this appears to be a "rules for thee but not for me" situation. If you support filming in public spaces, but believe restricting that to only those you trust, then this is hypocrisy.

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

Help me understand this attitude, because I've mostly seen women wearing these types of products, and they stand to gain a lot in terms of security from wearing them. So why the ad hominems? What is your best argument against these devices? When I go to a coffee shop I do so with the understanding that the establishment is likely recording me, are we going to accept this same rhetoric for anyone that films others in public and/or commercial spaces?

infinite_spinon Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left

that might be a nice incentive for bounty hunters, a sign of recognition and a good metric for triage

infinite_spinon Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

yeah, this is like calling 911 and ordering a pizza, the goal is for a victim of abuse to hide their intentions from their abuser

infinite_spinon Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left

Do you have a tier based system for identifying high value reporters? Like a credit score for vulnerability hunters?

infinite_spinon Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

> we should tax the rich

> everyone should be taxed the same

Ireland, as a sovereign nation, gets to decide their own tax policy.

None of this is theft, you're just maligning Ireland for their choice of tax policy, something they're entirely within their rights to decide without external influence.

I think we're at an impasse.

infinite_spinon Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

> So they should take away other people's money because they can

Ireland isn't stealing from other people by changing their tax policies to attract business, that isn't theft by any stretch of the imagination outside of a libertarian one that posits all taxation is theft.. and you haven't answered my question: Why should Ireland change their tax policy to benefit other (much larger) governments?

It's fairly insulting that you've described the Irish as thieves, something Europeans have done for centuries, just because you want more tax revenue for other, much larger, governments.

infinite_spinon Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

Why should Ireland, a historically poor nation that has been exploited by European powers for centuries, be concerned with the taxes that other (much larger) governments collect? The entire point of tax sovereignty is to avoid this exact issue.

infinite_spinon Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/publication-files/...

> it is estimated that in 2024, of the order of ~€104bn in annual GVA, 876,000 jobs and €14.6bn in annual employment related tax was enabled by the availability of digital infrastructure provided by data centres located in Ireland.

Seems like the economics of hosting these data centers benefits Ireland substantially, even with their tax breaks.

infinite_spinon Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

A parking structure owned by a shopping center might offer free parking in order to drive business goals. That's as much a policy as it would be if they were to charge a fee.

infinite_spinon Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

> Dump #datacenters - they are not critical Internet infrastructure!

what is the alternative? I don't think self hosting is a robust/defensible option for a majority of internet services

infinite_spinon Tiny Emulators

just want to mention that some of these have the volume turned up a bit higher than I expected, which you don't notice until you click on the game

infinite_spinon I think I have LLM burnout

Training a lion to jump through a hoop might be fun, but it is probably more rewarding when the lion jumps through a hoop in front of an audience.

infinite_spinon I think I have LLM burnout

> That's tantamount to "I don't care about the coding itself, or the underlying quality of my systems".

This is "incredibly aggressive, hostile, and rude, of out nowhere". Please leave me alone, I have nothing else to say to people like you.

For anyone else, imagine a winemaker that cares about their end product more than they care about growing grapes.. does that mean this winemaker doesn't care about the quality of their grapes? Probably not, but apparently to this individual the english language requires that we believe the winemaker to be disingenuous if they clarify their position on grape quality.

infinite_spinon How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

dear terrorists,

do not drink water, fish fuck in it.

sincerely,

fatty arbuckle

infinite_spinon I think I have LLM burnout

It's not tantamount to that outside of your imagination. I've spend 30 years coding, I'm well aware the the underlying quality of the systems I build. Please try not to impart upon me these beliefs I do not hold. I stand by my initial statement, which in no way should be regarded as "I don't care about the coding itself". That's just your way of disregarding information you don't like to hear. It's an odious habit from people that disregard clarification in favor of their own preconceived views.

infinite_spinon I think I have LLM burnout

I never said I don't care about the coding itself, or the underlying quality of my systems. I can care about more than one thing, while still identifying goals that I have for how I spend my time.

infinite_spinon Why American ambulance rides are so expensive

In a market where competition isn't relevant, the price of things is whatever you can get someone to pay for it.

infinite_spinon How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

One thing I've learned from responding to emergencies is that you can't just yell "help" at a crowd, you have to pick out someone specific and say "You, dial 911."

We had someone collapse on campus and have a seizure. An entire group of people stood around this person as they wet themselves, nobody doing anything but watching. I picked out specific people from the group to help, told them what to do, and told everyone else to back away. There was even some guy who got pissed at me for telling him to leave the area, but he's exactly the kind of person you want out of the way.

Lesson here, be specific, be aggressive, and take charge when it's needed, because it's very unlikely that a bystander will do anything but watch.

infinite_spinon I think I have LLM burnout

> Nobody said you should?

This is dishonest. Your quip was to imply that I'm reducing what is otherwise a fun activity to an automation, on the basis of a purity test.

> Some people merely enjoy programming more than engineering.

And I haven't said otherwise, so I'm not sure what point youre trying to make. My initial goal was to provide my own viewpoint on how to enjoy the process while taking advantage of modern tools, not to tell people they shouldn't enjoy programming more than engineering.

infinite_spinon I think I have LLM burnout

> At this point, it's being overstated

then so is your opinion on the matter. this goes both ways. I can just as easily dismiss your commentary as "drive-by".

> Not really a statement of your drive, is it? More of a directive or suggestion.

Yeah, so was my initial comment. Merely a suggestion concerning view points, and how a shift in that can bring back some amount of joy.

You don't have the moral high ground here.

infinite_spinon I think I have LLM burnout

This is just a purity test disguised in high minded rhetoric. Defining "quality" in practice is both impractical and a matter of opinion. Building something first, and making it better later, is it's own form of quality.

infinite_spinon I think I have LLM burnout

If solving jigsaw puzzles with claude will enable the creation of tools that help the people I want to help (students with disabilities), then I would use it for that, without feeling any guilt at all for doing so.

Why should I regret that? Why should I care about your purity tests?