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I would certainly be in favor of a movement to extend human rights to AIs, provided that AIs are sentient intelligent beings, which they are not. I can see why this would surprise him, but if your movement insists that large language models can think and feel and are not only as smart as humans but way better at almost everything, people may end up wanting humane treatment for them.

No no, he's, uh, he's resting.

You know resting, like in a bed. Or a bath. Or The Beyond. Resting all peacefully too!

Someone needs to add a community note that the hack did not in fact result in "millions of dollars worth of NFTs stolen". It resulted in zero dollars worth of NFTs being legitimately transferred to another holder as specified in the smart contract approved by parties involved.

infinite lives in their head with every female service that made the mistake of smiling

The basilisk is real!

The sex research stuff reminds me of the time a bunch of my friends got their first introduction to Aella. Someone posted in the group chat one of her Buzzfeed personality quizzes masquerading as respectable sexuality/kink surveys where at the end it tells you what fictional character your sex life resembles. Aside from myself, only one of my friends in the group knew who Aella is and the one who did didn't realize it was her.

Anyway, if you want to make a good impression on a new group of people, maybe don't make a cute and kinky fun little sex survey that compares some of them to Jabba the Hutt.

LWers love Ashkenazi so much they'll happily have some even without the Ashke.

Credit where it's due, I appreciate them leading with a TL;DR link to a summary. Unfortunately the summary was also too long and I didn't read it. I'm happy for you though. Or sorry it happened.

I have not understood the purpoted purpose of the so-called stablecoins. I thought the whole point was to have an ostensible foundation of value separate from state power and central banks.

Check out the fiatcucks using a currency subject to the tyranny of the European Central Bank. Well not me, I use this shitcoin that's pegged 1:1 with the same currency they're using except hardly anyone accepts it and when they do I pay exorbitant transaction fees. Freedom, baby!

Some claim that stablecoins are intended to pull people into the cryptocoin ecosystem or facilitate transactions between real money and buttcoins but I don't get that one either. Why would I rather buy 100 stablebutts for 100 dollars and the trade that for so-and-so many speculasses than just trade the speculasses for dollars from the get-go?

Most people fucking around with buttcoins are just wishing for another surge of hyperdeflation like the Bitcoin bubbles in 2012 and 2017. What's the appeal of a shitcoin that definitionally can't do that, at least relative to its backing currency?

You're laughing. A supply chain attack on the Ledger connector application has rippled throughout the world of decentralized apps, which widely use the software to enable people to connect their popular Ledger hardware wallets to perform transactions, and you're laughing.

Epilogenic - relating to or involved in the creation of an epilogue

Would be nice if this actually did cause the end and some kind of metaphorical postscript of eugenics but I doubt it's going to be that easy.

I am not familiar with Nigel Molesworth books beyond a quick skim of Wikipedia, but this had me hooked right from the first illustration.

Chapter 1 reminds me of A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages.

Can I ask for elaboration? In the context of GPL and free software licenses in general, "strong" and "encumbered" tend to refer to roughly the same thing, i.e. conditions requiring that the work and derivative works to be also distributed as free software.

Nothing in the license text of GPLv3 or GPLv2 reads to me like deliberate distancing from communism or anything else other than nonfree software. Do you have a different interpretation of the text or are you basing the claim on something else? Sure, RMS is not a socialist nor is the FSF a socialist organization, but I'm not aware of them "going far out of their way" to disproportionately emphasize the GPL's noncommunism. OSI and ESR arguably have, given their more corporate focus and particularly ESR's far right views. You also have to take into account that associating free software in general and GPL in particular with communism has been a deliberate smear tactic against them, so a lot of the ink spilled about the un-commieness of the GPL has been in response to its equally or more anti-communist opponents.

Designing a truly communist software license that still makes sense in the capitalist context of international copyright law seems like an interesting exercise. I like that the GPL has a whole preamble to explain the intent and values behind its terms, and that it manages to essentially invert what would normally be an exclusive privilege granted by copyright into a communal obligation enforced via the same. A communist equivalent would be something like exploiting property rights to ensure that some capital asset remains de facto collectively owned.

I think the (A)GPL manages to implement some radical and admirable principles while acknowledging that we live in a society [bottom text]. Even if the software licensing interests of some libertarian pedophiles happen to sometimes align with mine and what I consider the common good, they don't get to claim the license as theirs any more that I get to declare it to support my ideology.

Appropriately, "hanuri" in Finnish means "accordion" but it's also a slang term for anus.

Store of sound value brrp

People have been modifying the code to copy housing designs without permission from the original designer. As such, it is in the housing community's best interest for updates to the code to no longer be published. The MakePlace community agrees with this approach too.

I might not respect the terms of free software licenses, but MMO interior designer IP rights are sacrosanct!

He already gets the credit for a lot of things he didn't come up with and gladly takes it. Unlike the electric car and spacecraft companies he bought and whatever nice things already existed or were in development at Twitter when he bought it, I fully believe he was at least the one who demanded they start working on an LLM, which I guess makes it more of his thing than most of his claims. And since he's getting all kinds of undeserved credit anyway, I'm happy to let the narrative be "Elon Musk built a chatbot intended to be a cryptofascist piece of shit like him, but failed because reality turns out to have a liberal woke bias".

How was that a surprise to anyone? I'd wager indiscriminately scraping the web at this point will net you more words of GPT output than, for instance, Douglas Adams books.

The way they fail to separate her from the AI cultists is sad and cringeworthy, but the thought of OpenAI considering Timnit Gebru on their board of directors is incredibly funny. Almost like Activision-Blizzard hiring James Stephanie Sterling.

These recommendations are lovely and I will try most or at least some of them, at least the ones relevant to my use cases.

I adore wireguard and I use it for couple of personal and small org things. I would hate to set it up for a double-digit number of people. OpenVPN and IPsec are a pain in the ass and not just once, but in some use cases I would absolutely prefer them to wireguard.

Zsh is my main shell and I love it. Sometimes it breaks in bizarre ways through odd interactions between plugins. Sometimes I just spawn a different terminal with a more primitive shell because zsh's tab completion shits itself attempting to list a dirtily dropped remote filesystem.

I don't particularly like language-specific package managers. It's not too bad to install rust packages through cargo instead of apt when I'm writing rust, but if I just want to put a thing on a Debian box, why do I have to give a shit if it's implementes in C, Python, Rust, JS or Fortran? Fully a case of sysadmin brain over programmer one.

I risk playing the heel because I believe these tools, lovely as they are, have weaknesses that can sometimes be addressed and sometimes constitute inherent tradeoffs that need to be considered. This is not synonymous with discounting them or considering them inferior to other, possibly older solutions.

For a more positive contribution I will second ag as a grep/ripgrep alternative, though I will refrain from comparing it to rg itself.

And for a more old school recommendation, awk has been invaluable in my career and I would heartily recommend any unixist to learn it a little further than { print $n }.'

The fuck do they mean "solve culture"? Is culture a problem to be solved? Actually don't answer that.