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pocksuppet··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
Oftentimes the government drops the case. When people get convicted for things they did on Tor, and don't settle, the government often drops the case so they don't have to reveal how they got information about activities on Tor.

When Germany, which doesn't play by the same rules, got DiDW and then Boystown, that was quite revealing on how authorities can break Tor.

pocksuppet··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
Airlines can refuse to carry people whose name starts with a vowel, if they want to. That's a principle of free business.
pocksuppet··on I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_beliefs
pocksuppet··on I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
Is Elon evil?
pocksuppet··on I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
Trust... and encryption. That second one's quite important.
pocksuppet··on I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
Ironically this page has censored me, it shows "Please wait while your request is being verified" indefinitely.
pocksuppet··on The compiler was supposed to end programming too
Not true, never was true. You can't write real code for either Linux or Windows without venturing into what C calls undefined behaviour, but Linux and Windows don't.
pocksuppet··on The compiler was supposed to end programming too
It did. Programming used to mean manual register allocation, and we don't do that any more.
pocksuppet··on Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good
pocksuppet··on Found archive.today debug dump glitch
no, I'm sure many people are. Great powerful interests want that site shut down and there were many attempts to doxx and swat the owner. It's basically another Anna's Archive.
pocksuppet··on Found archive.today debug dump glitch
no info provided and nothing interesting leaked
pocksuppet··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
A social contract towards a profit-maximizing corporation is not real. They are amoral entities with only one goal. The real implicit contract between you and a business is simple: they will do everything they can to make you give them money, and you will do everything you can to not give them money, or else you're a sucker. "Everything they can do" includes convincing you there's a social contract involved.
pocksuppet··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
The centralized platform in open-web shopping is Google, which is how you discover shops.
pocksuppet··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
technical solution to a social problem
pocksuppet··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
Or make users scan their passports to log in.
pocksuppet··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
git hosts get the same effect - ddosers request a diff of every file between every combination of first and last commits.
pocksuppet··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
Everyone is for their own automation and against their competitor's automation. It's just how business works.
pocksuppet··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
Average log size is about 300 bytes. 1GB of logs per day is approximately 40 requests per second average.
pocksuppet··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
Make your site performance fast enough that bots don't bother you.
pocksuppet··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
Cloudflare doesn't even stop bots very well. Many bots are using real browsers, which pass all fingerprint checks, and scripts that can click the checkbox. What Cloudflare has is mindshare, and being a checklist item and an accountability sink.
pocksuppet··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
It's called GEO
pocksuppet··on You could have invented transformers from memory
You always have an embedding matrix. The embedding matrix specifies which token vector is 'AL', which vector is 'AK', and so on, and which one is 'Cheyenne'. You could do it trivially and say that 'AL' is 1,0,0,0,0,..., 'AK' is 0,1,0,0,0,..., and 'Cheyenne' is ...,0,0,0,0,1, but that's still an embedding matrix - one which doesn't scale.

I didn't really follow the article to its conclusion. Surely the logical conclusion of "higher powers are better" is to take the limit as power goes to infinity - which is equivalent to just finding the most similar key and then returning the corresponding value. Why would you take a combination of all powers, when you know that higher powers work better?

Nothing in the article explained why we need "a memory" to work in this particular way that leads to it becoming a kind of transformer.

Talking about context tokens storing memories makes no sense. By definition, they are not memories, because they are all from the current prompt!

The whole blog post feels like a just-so story designed to make you think transformers were obvious.

pocksuppet··on A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)
Or - a wacky idea I know - it could just show the status all the time. Maybe in another window pane, which isn't a terminal emulator. Or there could be a button you click on to show/hide the status.
pocksuppet··on America.gov
Tiananmen Square happens in other countries - communist countries. Freedom-loving America could never do such a thing.
pocksuppet··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
The US does routinely murder much larger numbers of people over much smaller crimes, like those fishing boats their AI thought might be carrying drugs.
pocksuppet··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
That's why they said "also"
pocksuppet··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
Could I be arrested and sent to Texas for running a site with porn that doesn't demand ID?
pocksuppet··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
As long as Congress thinks drugs are shipped in giant parcels, it doesn't matter how drugs are actually shipped.
pocksuppet··on Factorio that you can touch
And when Age of Empires came out, Age of Empires 2 became the focus of development. You could still play Age of Empires.
pocksuppet··on Factorio that you can touch
Have you played the Factorissimo mod yet? It's literally abstraction.
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