“When people are worried about surveillance, of course, there are huge dangers there,” Karp said last year on The Axios Show, “but you know, you will have far fewer rights if America’s not in the lead.”

Said the CEO of fucking Palantir, when local AI is the only option to not be surveilled and most of the competitive local models are coming from China because US companies don’t publish their models.

oh damn, I figured it was some kind of rubbery material but its metal

I think it’s some kind of synthetic material rather than sausages, there’s a serial number or something stamped onto one on the bottom left, they don’t look like they have any kind of skin and no oil/moisture/rot

You’ll probably be fine if you post circumvention info then

Why are they explicitly going out of their way to block GrapheneOS despite not many people using it?

I am talking about the part in the video where they described the history of this effect while the scientific understanding of it was still developing, in particular the bit about how it caused church organs to corrode

The trend seems to be to give an AI agent access to the same command line and credentials a person would use, with no sandboxing, because then it can do the same tasks in a similar way and “just works”. Obviously this is insane, and not even attempting building a comprehensive sandboxing system to deploy an AI agent into invites disaster, but you can see why certain people would be tempted, because that would take a lot of work and thought and probably need a human in the loop in the end anyway.

I can see why people would want to throw their hands up and attribute this effect to satan, sounds infuriating to try to debug this sort of problem without anything to go on

Hopefully the person doing that is beyond the reach of US law and/or has very good opsec

Besides being a cowboy themed shooter with lots of particle effects, what kind of game is it?

I’m going with 4

Wow, that was a great talk. I liked the bit about the importance of joy to making effective software/platforms.

“The reality is… what you really need in order for this really to work is a great game that people want to play and get nothing out,” Brink said. “And that’s the problem… By and large, web3 games are predicated on getting something out.”

That and, there’s no incentive or real obligation for developers to use the money earned that way on the game itself, it sounds like Molyneux made no secret of using it for something else entirely:

Despite the game’s almost total failure as a going concern, though, Legacy rode the crest of the crypto hype wave to pre-sold economic success that Molyneux said “[gave] us the money to fund Masters of Albion,” in a 2024 interview. “That’s what we used the majority of the money for…”

I thought it was supposed to be really difficult to become a nun nowadays

Now do the government and some big banks

Nope, most things you can buy new on amazon you can also buy new on ebay. Sometimes it comes in packaging with labels implying it was shipped from other retailers like amazon, walmart or home depot, I’m assuming this is because some sellers get memberships for free shipping and arbitrage it.

Yeah, I did ultimately realize this, maybe I should have written a bit more in my edit earlier but it’s a bit embarrassing tbh, I had come to some wrong conclusions. I think what I’m going to do is simply stop using Cloudflare for anything that does not have an extra layer of encryption on top of https, or that isn’t just a static, public webpage with no interactivity.

idk, I feel like in particular the arguments I’ve had advocating for UBI with people arguing against it from a left wing perspective, those arguments often tend to be basically accelerationist (that it would be bad to improve things for people in a way that enables the continued existence of capitalism) or at least gesture at that. And as others have pointed out, the right is even more outwardly accelerationist.

I think it depends where you live, for me the minimum is $35 which is basically on par with others. I find that I can often get lower cost items with free shipping on ebay for around the same price as similar items on amazon to avoid having to meet an order minimum, although it depends on what I’m buying.

I checked just to be sure (and debugged some problems while I was at it like the certificate having been expired), the certificate is from Let’s Encrypt via certbot.

Here is how to configure Cloudflare for this (I am using the free version):

In the settings under SSL/TLS Overview, in “Configure encryption mode”, select “Custom SSL/TLS” instead of “Automatic SSL/TLS (default)”, and under that select Full:

Full Enable encryption end-to-end. Use this mode when your origin server supports SSL certification but does not use a valid, publicly trusted certificate.

Edit: looking into it more, might have been mistaken about how this works