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

However, leaks are usually noticed from the floor below the toilet when looking up. Leaks under the tub are often found in the same way. In apartments, it is common for the tenant below to be the one who first notices a problem.

Ugh, been there

It still seems like a very drastic and destructive step, depending on how you are defining social media, which many of these laws seem to do very broadly. If what it amounts to is that minors cannot share their experiences and viewpoints or ask questions in public spaces, there’s a lot of harm in that. Personally I feel that being able to talk to people from other parts of the world through web forums, games and message programs when I was 12-18 made a huge positive difference, and I otherwise would have been way more lost and alone.

How can they act as a proxy if they can’t terminate the connection?

Why wouldn’t they be able to? The DNS record points to Cloudflare’s IP, they forward the traffic to your server’s IP. This is a common choice for self hosting setups because it’s a free service and it is a way to avoid pointing a DNS record at your home IP, which you may not want everyone to know. That doesn’t require decrypting the traffic.

How this squares with the ddos protection and caching stuff, I’m not sure, but I know I set up SSL locally, did not give Cloudflare the keys, turned off all the options for them to handle it, and everything seems to work.

Amazon also has a minimum dollar amount before free delivery kicks in

I’ll be more specific: if you set up a website on your own server, and use Cloudflare as a reverse proxy. If you do SSL yourself, on your own server, then the traffic is encrypted between the client and your server, and therefore Cloudflare cannot read it, they do not have the encryption keys, even though the traffic is passing through them. If you use Cloudflare’s https solution, Cloudflare provides the keys and decrypts the traffic before passing it on.

The former is the more secure way to do it, but they encourage you to do it the way where they get to read all the traffic, which is pretty shady of them, because if a website has https people assume that means it is end to end encrypted to the website itself, but that assumption is being violated here and a user has no way to know.

Cutting off sexual predators is all well and good but it doesn’t justify cutting off all perspectives other than those of their parents and immediate community. I think that would overall make abuse worse, which is most commonly coming from family anyway, especially for adolescents that may have something different about them that their parents have regressive attitudes towards. People really don’t give enough credit to how much of a positive difference the internet has made with that sort of thing.