At least if more people ended up doing this on their own hardware with open source software, it would cut off a lot of the opportunities it presents for companies to abuse people’s privacy and manipulate them.

Think of it this way though, would it have propagated as content without the misspelling?

I can’t see deleted comments but I still upvote them because why not

But then you’d be tempted to become someone who tells people their IQ

It does seem like it would simplify moderation a lot though, I could see someone doing that because they don’t feel up to the task if it is more complex. Not that it isn’t obvious mod abuse to ban anyone downvoting your post.

If he’s taking a clear position that the controversies over whether AI is a net negative for society may have merit but still are not going to be considered because that sort of thing is not the priority of the project, it seems reasonable to not lay them all out or get into why AI may or may not be overall bad. You can say that choice is wrong, but it isn’t an evasive statement.

In a way, I like to think about these [open source] maintainers kind of like 18th century weavers in North of England. Uh these weavers were kind of known as Luddites. They were specialty weavers. They built uh they wove amazing clothes. They were the best in the world at what they did. And then, British colonialism happened. They were replaced with machines. And these well-compensated weavers uh that lived on nice for farms in Yorkshire, they were forced to move to London and live in cramped housing and eat stale bread.

So, the future of open source maintainers is moving to London and eating stale bread.

Potentially.

There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but “is it useful” is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn’t actually used it.

It’s implied to be included in ‘other questions’, and that whether AI is useful to development efforts is the only question being considered for whether to permit its use.

At least everyone who was actually banned for no reason will believe the other people saying they were banned for no reason

A traditional roguelike DCC fangame would go hard, even if it’s just a mod with some renames and stat tweaks

There are view keys, but that wasn’t considered to be enough when Binance was demanding more access to fulfill their new compliance requirements and other privacy coins were making changes to give it to them.

I can’t easily tell whether people want me to contact them, and often they don’t. I’ve been told by multiple people that they’d rather I didn’t and to leave it up to them, although I suppose I self selected into talking to those kinds of people by being very non-proactive. If there’s any ambiguity it’s basically impossible for me, but it becomes possible though still difficult if I’m actually asked to do so (indirect but still clear asks work too).

It seems like it could be kind of awkward, but it should still be more normalized to outright let friends know that you would appreciate and be ok with them taking more initiative with you, because otherwise they might not know.

Monero is private by default, and lacks ways to make exceptions to that privacy for governments. They don’t like that, because they want to spy on people’s finances, and have been both banning it directly and putting pressure on exchanges to get rid of it. For instance a few years ago the US government got Binance to delist it as part of the settlement terms of a lawsuit against them. Kraken is a US company and is the only centralized cryptocurrency exchange left that both offers Monero and will let you withdraw/deposit US dollars.

The text in the email says a lot:

These limits are being introduced as part of Kraken’s ongoing efforts to maintain risk-based compliance controls while continuing to support XMR trading and transfers.

Emphasis mine, they are doing it to try to keep the government happy, government does not like financial privacy.

I would trust the media recommendations of someone on drugs personally

You don’t think frontier AI models are leaving some out deliberately?

There’s a better way to use a butter knife, which is to slice a grid into the half avocado, after which you can use a spoon or your fingers to pop the cubes off into a bowl. Then you can put those in a bag in the freezer to have ripe avocado anytime.

It would be nice if these kinds of projects moved towards developing and using interoperable standards, so using something like XMPP seems like a good direction. It makes sense that people have different preferences and dealbreakers for software but it seems like it should be unnecessary for open source chat programs to be the subject of contentious arguments about which one people should use. The argument should be whether to keep using Discord etc. or switch to a unified open ecosystem, not Discord vs picking one of many separate small networks.

I guess using a non-internet connected gps device puts me somewhat out of the loop here but yeah you’re right

Even if it was a good idea to optimize traffic based on live data, it doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense for AI to be in the loop as opposed to just a normal algorithm, because the problem isn’t that dynamic. Maybe unless it’s so individual decisions are a black box and no one can be held accountable for them. Anyway, again, I think this example is just something the LLM thought sounded plausible and isn’t based on anything real.

I’m pretty sure the article itself is generated. This sort of refusal to commit to saying anything concrete is a hallmark of AI generated articles. The closest it comes to saying how AI is being used differently and it hedges with an “imagine this” sort of statement without references:

Now imagine AI in a different role. Instead of answering questions, it adjusts traffic lights as congestion builds. It balances electricity across a grid as demand shifts. It predicts equipment failures before they occur, reroutes freight around disruptions or continuously updates a digital model of an entire city as millions of people move through it.