jchook

Obvious move is to modify GDPR to not be so obtuse.

The most frustrating thing about the cookie banner is that the solution was always obvious: just use the DNT setting on your browser (Do Not Track). It already existed.

However, powerful interest groups like ad companies that profit from your attention (which hysterically virtually powers the Internet today) were able to stop it from happening.

It was debated way back in 2009 when the GDPR was being developed. Iirc the argument was that browsers accept cookies by default so users do not get a fair consent moment. This is obviously easily fixed by regulation requiring browsers to ask users once.

Seems extremely backwards that we chose to forever darken the entire Web browsing experience just so users can "benefit" from a per-site option to let Google profit from them, with virtually zero payoff for the end user (ad relevance?).

P.S. If ad revenue is an essential pillar of Internet survival and fruition, the clear alternative seems to be sharing a fraction of that revenue with the tracked consumer.

Can an AI slop plugin effectively make AI less sloppy?

Have a strong feeling that Anthropic solicited the ban from Lutnick as part of their, “so powerful it’s a national security threat” marketing campaign.

Pretty evident as they kicked it off with self-imposed limits (“0days on every OS”) etc, OpenAI didn’t get the same treatment, and the ban was conveniently lifted as soon as they needed to compete.

Obligatory git joke.

Git gets easier once you understand branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2564...

SillyTavern folks have been perfecting the unslop solutions for years now.

Gotta be a way to draw from their progress.

I am curious about the false positives and why you would need a tool for this rather than just a clever prompt for an LLM.

Afaik many benchmark tools have a way to run until the 95% confidence interval is reached. Might be a good addition to this project.

Can confirm — they got me paying $100/mo this way.

Also I think it’s well known that OpenAI is the much less expensive option (in tokens and $$). For the same $20 you get a lot more mileage.

Curious if folks have strong opinions about the overall UX of OpenCode vs CC…

And it's Howard Lutnick... the guy who lived next door to Epstein and magically wasn't at work on 9/11.

The entire arc reads as a marketing stunt rather than a legitimate national security threat. Maybe Anthropic asked the US for this action to be taken.

edit: > Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (lol)

Fable was out for 3 days, not really long enough for us to properly evaluate it, but the "Sorry we had to remove Fable. Read more. (because it's too powerful btw)" is loudly shown every chance they get for weeks. It creates a halo.

Reminiscent of the 1999 Apple G4 commercial where they displayed it next to military tanks. "For the first time in history, a personal computer has been classified as a weapon by the U.S. government."

The US fundamentally wants the oil to flow globally.

Its secondary blockade of the Strait seems to be driven by optics and PR rather than strategic value.

Recently published https://hngram.com/

It’s an n-gram viewer for Hacker News comment data.

Still working on daily data updates, etc but it’s live!

My first three stumbles were:

- https://halupedia.com/07-hitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerw...

- https://halupedia.com/0-0-fuck-ai

- https://halupedia.com/67

Is the conjecture not trivially sound at an intuition level? It's surprising that this proof was difficult.

I would rename "the dark forest" to "the interesting horizon"

> To see Sid use his motivation and resources to solve his own problem is the core message (IMHO) of the hacker community.

Hacking is about exploration beyond the known, and iterating towards a clear understanding.

Like the evergreen comic, "How would you like this wrapped?" by John Janik

For decades policymakers have been trying to sell us the same surveillance state they accuse their adversaries of having, wrapped as either security or protecting children.

https://i.redd.it/ifb8agngc7dy.jpg

Fool me once...

A lot of vim users use comma as the leader key so this is probably natural for a lot of folks.

Also seems convenient to be able to type ,<tab> to autocomplete over your custom commands, in case you forgot the name you assigned them.

Incredible popular software lore here. Calibre and Kitty are two of my favorite pieces of software in the world.

Obligatory reference to Simple Made Easy https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

I watch this talk about once per year to remind myself to eschew complexity.

Is that true? I thought wg-quick etc were just convenience functions and that it's relatively trivial to use iproute2 to configure a VPN link

Wireguard ships with the Linux kernel so you only need to receive ~60 bytes of configuration information.

Critical portions of the server are not FOSS. Also the core software forces you to join their servers.

Also we have no proof that they are running the server software published on GitHub. This concern is exacerbated by the fact they didn't publish server code updates for many months.

Oops I meant Revolt, the Rust-based alternative to Discord. Updated. Thanks. https://github.com/revoltchat

Signal has a central, proprietary server. It's between impractical and impossible to run your own Signal server like you can with Matrix, Revolt, or Delta Chat for example. BlueSky has a similar approach (compare to Mastodon).

Also Signal requires a phone number to sign-in. It's not exactly private. AFAIK the proprietary server can glean your IP, your phone number, who you talk to, and when you talk to them. This type of metadata is valuable information.

The WhatsApp co-founder gave Signal $105M in 2018. Signal costs ~$50M/year to run. It's also funded by wealthy donors such as Jack Dorsey (Twitter, BlueSky, Square). BTW Jack is now pushing Signal to integrate Bitcoin.

When evaluating the "ethics" of a chat platform, we should factor-in the metadata, soft power, and eventual leverage that centralized (controlled by a few) platforms like BlueSky and Signal afford to wealthy folks who are bankrolling it.

It's illegal to encrypt CB radio signals in the US and many other countries.

Fascinated by so many replies of "actually Nix does this just fine, you just have to be an expert like me"