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VMs and containers are fairly isolated and reproducible. A separate user on your machine still depends on the programs installed locally.

For the first time in human history, military power doesn't require advantage in numbers. The rich will simply build an artificial army and use it to control everything. Kinda like Mr House from Fallout New Vegas.

Exactly. You've hit the nail on the head.

And quite frankly, your AI slop garbage radar is not just an indicator of good taste — it's the essence of humanity that keeps you above it.

I can get the same thing with an aux cable

In some corporate networks, everything is locked tight, and if you want any access (outbound or inbound), you have to send a request with business justification.

What we had was many devices behind such corporate networks. Instead of requesting exposed ports for each device, or setting up OpenVPN (never done it so I'm not sure how much the red tape would it be), I requested only outbound access to our bastion server's SSH. Since SSH is pretty standard, admins usually allow it fairly quickly.

There were also a few cases where non-HTTPS connections were also banned, so we set up an HTTPS proxy that tunneled the SSH reverse forwarding... But that's probably not needed in most cases.

How do you use -J to connect to a device that isn't publicly reachable?

There's an old blogpost I wrote at the time I came up with this method [0]. I think it contains most of the technical details.

Let me know if anything is confusing, I'll answer it here.

[0] https://paskozdilar.github.io/blog/entries/zero_code_ssh_jum...

How would you use ProxyJump with Reverse Forwarding?

If you have many different remote devices behind NATs or firewalls, a cool trick to access them all via EC2 server (or such) is to setup Remote Forwarding via UNIX socket on the server side, to devices' port 22. Preferably, UNIX socket filenames should start with a common prefix, so an SSH config can be written that will use ssh+socat in a ProxyCommand to establish the connection.

It's amazing how lightweight this method actually is. I have managed to connect hundreds of devices using a single EC2 nano instance.

Maybe superficially, but most of them are unbalanced, leading to a handful of meta builds being overpowered.

Meta-gaming is a natural progression in all human games. Chess players find "metas" like openings. It's just that video games are too simple and have very restricted meta set.

By themselves, they don't. But quantum probabilities are unique. They cannot be explained by missing information about local, pre-existing properties. Therefore, to maintain determinism, you are forced to accept extreme alternatives like non-locality (actions here instantly affecting the other side of the universe) or the existence of infinite splitting universes. If we reject those unobservable overheads, non-determinism is the most direct conclusion.

Any interpretation that asserts a deterministic universe must invent a "hidden" mechanism which causes the apparent non-determinism, and which we cannot measure nor predict.

By Occam's razor, it is more probable that the universe is simply non-deterministic.

Care to elaborate?

Reality is non-deterministic (not actually, but in practice).

At a quantum level, it is also actually non-deterministic.

Sounds like a Death Note internal monologue.

What would constitute "consent" to being communicated information to?

With physical contact, speech can signal consent or lack thereof. How would you consent to speech itself?

When you write Rust long enough you settle on certain architectures (message passing, event loops) that go well with the borrow checker

So basically Go?

And if you have a local app, how do you take a dependency on whatever random model is installed?

Why not ship your own model? In the age of Electron apps, 10GB+ apps are not unheard of.

It will take a few years until scheduled data center construction finishes, and together with software optimizations that may come up in the meantime, it may cause a significant decrease in token price.

When you say "a society" sets a goal, it always implies a ruling group of people imposing their view of the common good unto everyone.

How do you make sure that whoever makes that choice makes it in a way you yourself will agree with?

We should, but we also shouldn't decide what other people consider proper use of their time

GNU + kink

Elon is best in the world at drinking pee

What? How does this not show willingness to insult Musk?

Not my experience. Grok seems to be perfectly willing to roast Musk for his shortcomings.

Where did you observe the bias? Can you share any example of the conversation or post by Grok?

So Elon Musk was right in his view that Grok should focus on truth above all, even if it became offensive?

You do realize software engineering is in the midst of a tectonic shift?

As an everyday user of AI, both at work and privately, I am not that convinced. The biggest effect I've seen so far is demand for faster work because "everything is faster with agents", but software quality is slowly dropping in software I see around me.

Current AI is very useful as a trivia engine and as a language manipulation tool - i.e. it can quickly extract information from a huge amount of text. But it still sucks when writing new things.

Admittedly, here has been much progress, but it seems to be slowing down. Money is drying out, models are getting nerfed, and only better scaffolding and workflows are making it better. Unless they build 100x more data centers, I don't see models getting significantly better.

On the other hand, code produced with AI and reviewed by humans can be perfectly good and indistinguishable from regular old code.

Obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/810/

Incomplete chain seems to load on Android Chrome...

It's just "->" - the ligature font just renders it as a unitary arrow