manitcor @ manitcor @lemmy.intai.tech

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if you just keep your document on your machine and only use it for personal encryption sure. its a key exchange network, this is for when bob and alice want to talk, not look at something in the safe and put it back. distributed PKI has been a challenge for decades, im not sure about this current incarnation of public systems but I find a lot of promise in many other applications.

surprisingly small hardware is needed to sign a message. though I do agree that we are still a bit early for workable end-user use cases. People really dont care what the database or app server is, they just want it to work and raw dogging some public node is just a bit much for people, i dont blame them.

more packaged solutions are under development, these will be more like a proper application with the differences of a chain being abstracted by the provider

things like sms, what if i told you SMS would be fine with this, so would smoke signals

I can say of the top of my head the JPM and AMEX are running internal ledgers but there are many more, IBM and Accenture co-developed a system called Hyperledger which was given to the Linux Foundation. Its a tool kit for developing and deploying ledger applications primarily targeted at internal corps.

One of the cases these are good for is an easier to manage rights and asset control systems than many products you would pay more for and with less futzing with IAM, LADP or AD.

https://lemmy.intai.tech/comment/578972

You can also look in my post history, ask away, I'm no fan of where public systems have gone and understand the anger, point is, these techs ARE being used already in corp systems and even if you dont use this crop of chains, you will likely be using a system like this in the future, even if you dont know it.

Blockchains come in many forms, the ones you are thinking of are what are called Proof of Work chains, these uses a kind of cryptographic race to secure thier data and use a TON of waste energy as a result. Def not a fan either.

The growing popularity and interest in chains is around forms of Proof Of Stake, these use other internal protocol mechanisms to secure the network and work to run the cryptographic functions as efficiently as possible. Unsurprisingly the fastest blockchains are proof of stake and power wise are similar to traditional applications in utilization.

You don't need any of these networks if you don't want to use them, fundamentally, they arent even networks, they are cryptographic messaging systems. How the data is sent and processed is incidental, you could work out a bitcoin block on pen and paper if you wanted. This concept has extended to a cryptographic tool called Zero Knowledge Proofs, these will be part of next generation identity verification systems and is a fundamental of the W3C standard around DiD, the whole point is for disconnected attestation.

This is true, the fundamental of a blockchain is simply signed blocks of binary data. We can get into the debates on weather this can work in a public system like many groups are trying now, though I presume that that is not really what the poster is talking about since most public chains fundamentally rely on thier cryptocurrencies to to function, which for some is an argument as to why they can't work.

Forward signed, immutable ledger - a dataset that is written and logged at time of write and validated using cryptographic signatures of the creator of that data and the node of the network responsible for the data. public systems use incentive systems to ensure unbiased writes, private systems work more like your typical app server.

neutral consensus - this is the p2p aspect, this is a bunch of unrelated actors promising to work toward an unrelated goal, in public systems this is done via some form of game theory, in private systems orgs working together have contract law and are more interested in the the controlled writing.

How it can take a lot of forms. Most people are just familiar with what the general public refers to as cryptocurrency. These are ledgers managed on p2p networks with the aforementioned game theory based consensus system. However ledgers are not required to do this, a ledger and even a blockchain can work without fees or even energy wasting miners, in these cases its usually the cryptographic write and channel messaging they want (some of these are a step up from AWS's messaging stack).

Ledgers like this are used in many ways and used in large orgs around the world, what the public is angry at and what the technology is are very different things.

I hope I have "unsaladed things" for you

The value is in the forward signed, immutable ledger written by neutral consensus. This can take a lot of form and be the backbone of many types of applications (and already is used by large firms), the current market for direct public ledgers is a mess and I don't generally agree with much of the last craze beyond the fundamentals needed to manage transfers, ownership and executions. The applications that will use these kinds of networks haven't really been built yet.

as they took over more subs, even with automated tooling, time starts getting pulled to dealing with those subs in one way or another, no indication they have hired a bunch of new people and they have had to take on the work of thousands of mods.

lol

Report it to the police, corporate and consider talking to your local news. Make sure school admin is aware as well. If you can shift them to different schools (i know not always possible) do so.

My usual response to this kind of thing is to get louder not quieter, that said, I'm also able to put on an angry enough face to make people cross the road which is not a power everyone has.

Go with your comfort level but I would urge reporting to the police and doing what you can to get out of what sounds like broken area.

agreed, every social network in existence was built linking shamelessly to nearly everything out there. You can still link reddit without giving them ad-rev, remember MOST of what they post is not OC either. A quick search and youll find how old most of the posts truly are and how so many of them originated elsewhere.

Use the tools they have to locate and extract.

Also worth noting: every popular social network started with adoption by the "nerds"

mainstream comes after then claims everything for themselves. annoying, but what we want.

GPT releases model tunes using a month-day versioning system.

For GPT-4 there are 2 releases

• 0314 - Original Release, good at math
• 0613 - Recent update, tagged to "GPT-4" in chat gpt and "gpt-4" in API calls.

If you want 0314 you need API access, Azure, or know someone sharing access.

It is entirely possible to use a version of GPT-4 that is very much like the version we used on opening day. just a little diy

I don't know why thier tune is bad for 0613. Altman has made some statements they dont say much,.

1 lemonade pls

wine not some more?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps

pro-tip you can run gimp on WSL2 and have its xwindow appear within windows just like a normal application. The ONLY way to run gimp on windows imo.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps

Yes, community list: https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/2182

LLM's are extremely flexible and capable encoding engines with emergent properties.

I wouldn't bank on them "replacing all software" soon but they are quickly moving into areas where classic Turing code just would not scale easily, usually due to complexity/maintainance.

I'm told by super-smart econ people that companies and states pushing to start child labor up again rather than pay wages that would have adults work is NOT an indication of a failing system.

ok