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gravitas_deficiency ,

I’m actually mildly surprised it’s still only two devs. Are they treating it like a walled garden, or is there really a complete lack of interest in contributing to the codebase?

gravitas_deficiency ,

Rust is not a niche language. It’s a strict and strongly opinionated language by design. People with background in strongly typed languages, who additionally use opinionated linters and formatters have an easier time adjusting. JavaScript “devs” (note: distinct from “software engineers”) probably pull their hair out over a lot of stuff in because in my experience, many js devs know enough about the language to work proficiently in a couple of frameworks, but haven’t really dug into the nuances of the language, and also have limited experience with strong typing.

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Explain?

It’s a news aggregator whose primary standout feature is scanning for similar articles across tons of news sites across the ideological spectrum, and points out where stories are predominantly or entirely present or absent from one side or the other. It’s not perfect by any means, but I think it does actually provide some meaningful value in terms of offering the context of possible political narratives, especially in entrenched two-party systems.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Lmao they recalled Recall

gravitas_deficiency ,

Ah, neat! The wordplay is definitely stronger in German, which I’m sure is why it became an idiom in the first place.

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I’ll wait until they demonstrably prioritize security. Corporations will say literally anything to avoid negative PR.

Edit:

But also, this isn’t actually about Recall:

Microsoft is pivoting its company culture to make security a top priority, President Brad Smith testified to Congress on Thursday, promising that security will be “more important even than the company’s work on artificial intelligence.”

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, “has taken on the responsibility personally to serve as the senior executive with overall accountability for Microsoft’s security,” Smith told Congress.

His testimony comes after Microsoft admitted that it could have taken steps to prevent two aggressive nation-state cyberattacks from China and Russia.

According to Microsoft whistleblower Andrew Harris, Microsoft spent years ignoring a vulnerability while he proposed fixes to the “security nightmare.” Instead, Microsoft feared it might lose its government contract by warning about the bug and allegedly downplayed the problem, choosing profits over security, ProPublica reported.

Holy fuck. This is like National Security level shit. As in, potentially dire implications on supposedly-secure SCI-related systems. There will probably be Very Fucking Serious criminal charges of the type that you can’t rub money on to get out of.

Say it with me now: this is what happens when you let the business and finance idiots run the show.

gravitas_deficiency ,

No he’s from Star Trek

Hamas Wants Guarantees Ceasefire Will Actually Happen, While US Says Hamas Is Rejecting the Proposal (truthout.org)

Following the UN Security Council vote to approve a three-phase ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. officials and other international allies of Israel are cynically placing blame on Hamas for a stall in current ceasefire negotiations — even as Israel has insisted on indefinitely continuing its massacre in Gaza and Hamas has said its main...

gravitas_deficiency ,

shakes magic 8-ball:

signs point to yes

Americans, how do you feel about being stored in a database by government agencies like the NSA?

Every search you make, email you send, text message, voice chat, location, and most likely the conversations you have in your own home are monitored and stored in a database for whoever knows how long (probably forever). When I hear land of the free, I immediately think bullshit. We are slowly losing our freedoms, what can we do...

gravitas_deficiency ,

In point of fact, the alphabet agencies have for years now adopted a “capture now/read later” approach to encrypted traffic they consider to be suspect. “Later” is code for “after we’ve got cost-effective and scalable quantum compute that can break traditional encryption”. So if you haven’t been keeping up with bleeding-edge quantum-resistant cryptography when generating and using your own keys, you’re probably going to have your traffic read by an NSA analyst (or more likely, some sort of NN-based “terrorist detector”) at some point.

gravitas_deficiency ,

must’ve messed up some mundane detail

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“Gimme a blowie and you can just have one of my horses”

Fuckin yikes

gravitas_deficiency ,

“Sack”

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/0f59f823-4954-4307-9909-7c0066e14f20.png

gravitas_deficiency ,

https://media1.giphy.com/media/toB3AnUDkqE3GENKx0/giphy.gif

It’s like every time he opens his mouth nowadays he somehow comes off as even more of an imbecile.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I just mean that he’s had an amusing number of these headdesk moments in the very recent past

DPRK Dookie Deposits Defy Downtown Defenses (www.bbc.com)

South Korean private citizens send snack cakes, pamphlets, movies and K-Pop, North Korea’s defense ministry sends (or strongly condones sending) dookie and trash, says that their deliveries represent how hard it is for the DPRK to get rid of their trash. I THINK WE KNOW who the real victims are here.

gravitas_deficiency ,

An altogether admirable alliterative article

gravitas_deficiency ,

Nobody who’s not an engineer seems to give a shit - or, indeed, even understand - the nuance of LLM technology, or the technical reasons behind its limitations and the implications thereof. Hell, I know a lot of engineers who don’t care or understand it at a meaningful level.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I gotta be honest: it’s deeply frustrating and dismaying that Intel is tied up with Israel, but the fact remains that, as technical professionals, it is literally impossible to avoid Intel, because enterprise customers don’t really care about that BDS list. Ignoring technical innovations from Intel - one of the leading CPU manufacturers since CPUs became a thing - is only going to kneecap your own knowledge and expertise.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I don’t think it’s feasible to blacklist posts about Intel in computer science related communities, to be perfectly blunt.

gravitas_deficiency ,

The construction quality is… shall we say, not great. Pretty sure lots of it would not pass code in the states - let alone Europe, Korea, or Japan.

US will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system after Kyiv's desperate calls for air defenses (apnews.com)

The United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system, two U.S. officials said Tuesday, answering Kyiv’s desperate calls for more air defenses as it battles an intense Russian assault on the northeastern Kharkiv region....

gravitas_deficiency ,

For fucks sake can we just, like, given them a dozen or so? And a shitload of CRAMs? For fucks sake. Genuinely this pussy-footing around with the military aid to Ukraine is fucking infuriating and embarrassing.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Pretty sure we have more than that in just the Metro DC area. We just don’t talk about them as loudly as Russia does about their IADS.

Also, we absolutely should be building more.

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Such a strategy is deeply immoral, since it forces our ally to slowly grind their forces to a pulp

gravitas_deficiency ,

You’re not wrong.

gravitas_deficiency ,

There’s a ton of different Patriot flavors. PAC-2 GEMs are great at smoking aircraft. PAC-3s are great at anti-ballistic, but they’ll also ruin your day if it doesn’t want you flying near it.

Russia loves to brag about the extreme ranges their SAMs can supposedly reach. And sure, they can probably detect and reach as far as they say they do under ideal conditions… but actual combat is anything but ideal conditions. Given how poorly they’ve performed in Ukraine (a combination of the equipment itself, doctrine, and mediocre training), even their most cutting edge SAMs are getting smoked by gulf war vintage ATACMS.

Meanwhile, the US and allied nations tend to keep the specs of our much closer to the chest, and in fact often understate the performance. We’re not in a dick-swinging contest. If it flies, it dies, and both the Patriot system and AEGIS/SM-2/SM-3 naval SAMs (which, by the way, we’ve apparently started strapping to Super Hornets, so that’s neat) are incredibly deadly, effective, and probably a good bit better than the public specs say they are.

gravitas_deficiency ,

For real - there’s a real strong “France for the French” thing in some areas. I was a bit shocked when I learned about it… but then again, any society is going to have its regressive elements. It’s just disconcerting to see them getting so much popular traction these days.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Germany has been on the appeasement track for well over a decade at this point.

To be fair, they’ve become pretty gunshy and conflict-averse since that bad time with mustache guy, but the effects of that tendency are very frustrating at times.

gravitas_deficiency ,

but tribalism, blaming out-groups, and simplistic reductive talking points make my lizard brain feel good >:(

gravitas_deficiency ,

He’s also been a bafflingly strong proponent of Ukraine “just letting it happen” vis a vis the Russians invading. His geopolitical worldview is disappointingly Kissinger-esque.

gravitas_deficiency ,

He subscribes to the “great power” doctrine. His geopolitical calculus is unfortunately ossified with regards to military action potentially escalating to nuclear confrontation. It’s a mindset he shares with a TON of older politicians on both sides of the aisle, and it’s a key reason why Putin’s saber rattling is so effective at making the rest of the world mostly not get in their way in Ukraine, and why most western leaders are still shitting their britches over every single threat Putin makes. And in point of fact, that’s the reason Putin uses the strategy in the first place. He’s playing for an audience, and the audience is 70-80ish year old western politicians who have strong memories of the worst of the old Soviet saber rattling.

gravitas_deficiency ,

that’s right - the square hole!

psyche visibly crumbling

gravitas_deficiency ,

https://media2.giphy.com/media/9EwnzGNjvmIG4/giphy.gif

But also

https://media2.giphy.com/media/WJBi5QcyxdL7JKnhc6/giphy.gif

gravitas_deficiency ,

A small nozzle is perfectly sufficient if you’re working with enough axes.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Chief O’Brien:

Sorry about that transporter malfunction, sir! Won’t happen again!

gravitas_deficiency ,

Goodnight, sweet prince.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Now, it stands for “Raspberry Intellectual Property”, in addition to the obvious colloquialism.

gravitas_deficiency ,

AFAIK, unions are insanely strong in Sweden. Though that doesn’t help IKEA employees outside of Sweden.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I mean… compared to the states, they’re practically a political party.

Help for getting started with hardware

I dived into the selfhosting rabbit hole once again and again I am stuck at the hardware part. I’d like to start small-ish to make it realisable. I thought about a NAS (Openmediavault probably). First I wanted to do it on a Raspberry Pi with an external hard-drive but then I read USB connected drives are unreliable and so on....

gravitas_deficiency ,

Some foundational questions:

  • budget?
  • rough desired capacity?
  • desired level of resiliency?
gravitas_deficiency ,

I would recommend:

  • go on eBay and find some sort of cheap Lenovo/dell/hp thin client for your secondary node. You can find workable 1L-class boxes for around $100. You can get away with some of the older m700/710/900/910 tiny models, but the extensibility of the m720/920 tiny models is going to be much better.
  • for your primary, I think you’d probably be best off finding an old server tower with 8 3.5” bays - if you’re lucky and on-the-ball, you may be able to snipe something like this, but shipping is of course going to be a bitch. An alternative is to pick up another one of those thin clients (making sure it’s a model with USB3, but preferably 3.1 or 3.2 whatever the gen is (side note: fuck anyone involved with the USB versioning scheme, because it’s absolutely indecipherable) that can actually support meaningful data transfer, and then just find a cheap DAS and connect it to that node.
gravitas_deficiency , (edited )

They support NVMe and have a PCIE riser; if you get the little adapter from Lenovo’s proprietary slot to standard PCIE, you can run it as a nic, or get an HBA with external SFF-8008 ports and then find a cheap enclosure to use as a custom DAS solution.

gravitas_deficiency ,

But now it’s on your iPhone.

I agree that it’s dumb.

It will still make stock go up.

gravitas_deficiency ,

That’s great. But that’s not how it’s being marketed and sold to the public. It’s being sold as an oracle (as in crystal ball, not database). And it’s misleading and hurting people as a result.

I’ll reiterate: An LLM has no comprehension of what it says.

It’s a matter of engineering ethics, on multiple levels:

  • the training data in the vast majority of cases is outright stolen
  • it’s being sold as something that it’s not, and the result is causing real damage to people and society in a ton of ways we’re still discovering
  • most people deeply involved in developing LLMs, and basically all of the technical leadership, are categorically ignoring and abrogating any and all responsibility around this “magical” new system they’ve made. We’ve seen this before with social networking. We know where this road leads.

I’m not saying the tech should be banned. That’s obviously idiotic. Neural nets can - and are - used for tons of fascinating and excellent applications. It’s just that my staunch opinion is that LLMs are a terrible application of that the tech at this stage of development, and it’s particularly terrible that OpenAI/Microsoft/etc are aggressively foisting this technology on the public, and simultaneously refusing to take any ethical responsibility for it.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I’m saying that I wish that more people involved with the core development of the technology took the ethical considerations seriously, and communicated those concerns as a first-order issue when they talk about applications like this.

It’s fascinating tech, but the way it’s being employed these days is deeply irresponsible.

gravitas_deficiency ,

If you mean my car: I am the warranty, at this point. I will be driving that fucker into the ground. And then I will find another used, fun, manual transmission car, because I absolutely hate automatic transmissions on my daily driver. Manual is way more fun and engaging. No, I do not mind using it in traffic at all, and I’ve lived in LA with a manual transmission.

If you mean my phone: I don’t understand how you’ve phrased question.

gravitas_deficiency ,

pulls fuse for 4/5G car modem out

Oh dear! Looks like it broke!

Your move, car companies.

Edit: side note: not sure why it seems that you’re negging me for trying to wring as much life as possible out of a car? This is a very reasonable and feasible approach to take if you’re somewhat mechanically inclined, as I am.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Fair enough. And no worries - tone sometimes gets lost or misinterpreted when commenting on the intertubes :)

Honestly, by the time we get to that point, I hope that mass transit has improved enough such that a car is no longer critical to have in most urban/semi-urban areas of America. But that also depends heavily on how politics pan out in the coming years.

For what it’s worth, I absolutely agree that the pervasive data-gathering bullshit they are trying to push on everyone is messed up.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Software eng

gravitas_deficiency ,

They didn’t have it set up to be easily disable-able, as far as I understand it.

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