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Fellow finanzamtpostempfaenger here. I've experienced the moment of shock reading their amounts and almost fainting more than i'd like to admit.

Sites need to include this language to protect themselves from malicious law suits

No, they do not. They do need to have people believe they do need to.

We'll see.

How fucking cool would robohorses instead of cars or bikes be?

smtp grew up to be an antisocial curmudgeon. extended smtp starts with EHLO.

email will become so unusable, next one will have to be HELNO i guess

Why?

Ignoring the actual situation as I don't care to go into that right now, just talking about the mechanisms working with here. I did have access accidentally to buy cheap social stuff. Not that it would be hard to run it myself, just wouldn't be worth the effort to make it run well for controllably long time. But anyway, i didn't do anything with it, but i always thought, how do easy it would be for a competent, young, informed government, to realize counteracting the digital influence of foreignn governments is much more important than whatever else they prioritise. Exaggerated, maybe, but it should be at least top 3 or whatever exact position in ones priority list. Because especially: it's so easy, to spend a few thousand euros to hire some really competent people who might just pay some shady social account broker, now even with the use LLMs , much more scalably & effectively, to counteract and do even better stuff than what they do.

But then, remembering bernays, i am happy they are incompetent. The day they reach competency with the toolset that is yet in infancy, i will regret not having tried to control who is running this. On the other hand, you just can't risk doing this. It will lose your control eventually. And without being a conspiracy theorists, it won't be long until more pips (people in power) will notice the ease of influence- and propaganda (in bernays understanding, the one who rebranded it as public relations), through these tools.

Luckily, i've never been in a knife fight. Though i've heard, that with an unskilled fighter, you have pretty bad chances of not getting hurt. But a skilled one is a death sentence. Of course i don't want to be attacked by a knife. And i don't want to take some other unskilled street gangster and train him. Of course, some people get humbled if introduced to power. But many corrupt. And those hungry for power, are rarely those, who should have it. This could be an hour long discussion. But just look around the people you know well. Maybe yourself in certain situations or relationships. Every humans has the potential.

So what i think w

Of course. Everybody knows to rather use the obvious alternative to ffmpeg!

So who is someone who's opinion is worth anything to you?

Except yourself, presumably, to me it almost seems nobody is perfect.

Unfortunately this statement will, in spite of what you identified correctly, likely do its job and divert attention from the fundamental issues we are facing with a technology that has already spread further than anyone can control. From enterprise too lay man. The whole world of computing was not built ever expecting software capabilities like this to ever exist.

I am not saying it's like a nuclear bomb. Rather like the first guns brought into fights the others were perfectly prepared for ti fight with swords and didn't even know yet, about this fascinating invention called a gun. Sounds interesting. Let me inspect it. Oh wow, that's interesting technology. What happens if i push that thing back? Will it re... oops...

Thank god that we have honourable people like altman, zuckerberg, musk. Imagine how bad all this would turn within the next few years, if major decisions were made by self-serving, delusional, greedy egomaniacs...

Of course currently let's first hope those wars and all the tension in societies all over the world, in war or peace, won't explode into something really, really bad. Looking at history, i fear we see how social tension on large scale over time... not saying it's not obvious to almost everyone. So well, let's just keep hoping. Maybe throwing blackbox AI tech into the mix, would surprise and change course of history. Actually, while i am thinking about it, i think i just changed my opinion into the opposite position, lol. Honestly, if it's 50/50 that this will lead to the worst possible outcome intensified, it's still better than just checking boxes following the "humans slowly stumbling into near-extinction experiences 101" handbook. Because just according to that, we're lucky if we're off by 10 years. There must be a big change in humanity and how the world is currently constructed, for all this leading to anything other than what we should expect from history. If we kept all nations busy with huge technological issues, that made all of their personal lifes so complicated, turn every elitists luxury into a burden, busy to defend what they own, while they can't realize, that normal life has changed so much, they now are the ones, frozen in life. They would have no time for conflict.

This sounds totally logical. In any other scenario, it would be pretty insane what we are all doing and entertaining (including me, top10 hypocrite).

I fear it's too late to turn ship, yet we still can jump ship.

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Especially because now thinking about the thoughts that just went through my head, maybe (technological) disruptions are actually disrupting. But not a status quo of an economic model.

But a pretty clear loop of human nature and "humans in societies". And the more often we disrupt this loop, the more time we get before it's ready to start over again.

And now we have something that has the potential to change all fundamentals so much, that all the major conditions inside this loops iteration become meaningless. The environment changes so much, the state of the checkboxes gets emptied. Cache invalidated. Indices are gone.

Oh, i know how dumb this sounds. I am not even trying to claim anything. I didn't even think about it before, this is just a note of the words that i typed, almost on autopilot. No idea if i believe a part of this could be real. But even thought, just as a mere fictional story, it already entertained me.

"I phrase can this words a way not make sense. seems! but point across still!"

AI can turn it into a pseudo-poem or a 4 pages document. Or it can just fix the grammar. But it doesn't really change the point of the sentence– nor does it fix the actual issue with it.

Similar for code: There are codebases with lots of smells and really dirty parts, yet, that are still better than methodically clean ones that just don't "get to the point".

I am so sick of all the AI bloat. People were able to hide their incapability behind unnecessarily complex frameworks or obscuring it through "clean code" concepts. Now LLMs give those uninspired people the option to invest even less of what makes worthy software and hide it in more abstraction.

Just: AHA! (AI won't)

why not just agree on a release date? while i enjoy circumventing moneyfences, i understand the wallmakers do not. i think this would be an easy deal, if someone just laid it on the table.

Very interesting. I have been working on something quite some time, where something like this would play a very crucial role, but i never got around to really thinking about how to implement everything. And as I have still a lot of work to do on my project, that would utilize something like freenet, i am very eager to dive into your work. Just wanted to write this as some form as appreciation for your work.

I wonder though, what is your idea of a future, where freenet plays an important role in most peoples lives?

Great work it seems, so far. I will yet have to really look through it all. Congratulations on this.

Also, usually, as soon as they realize they have a not-total-shit product, they immediately start to screw it up completely. So if bing ends up being better actually, it won't be long until they replace every good part of it with something ridiculous. I don't know how microsoft does it, but they are so incredibly good at that.

I don't know what happened in my brain but i expected a piece about points as in keeping scores. Maybe about how we evolved from binary results (alive/dead in early human competitions) to more complex systems. I'd say humans played games long before being able to count. Of course competition is inherent to human nature. But i'd say, without getting into any philosophical debate, a certain amount of compassion and empathy is as well. Which must have resulted in early ideas of fairness. Especially when respect and status seem to be crucial to society.

So, how and when did points come into play? ...

Well, ok. I stop procrastinating for now (i hope). I hate my brain.

or it can be a bad thing if you insist that "this is how we do things, because this is how we've always done things"

Or... maybe... just maybe... it can be a bad thing, because it's a bad thing.

So, what are you building in that space?

The graham hancocks of the future are gonna go nuts finding out about this mythical new orleans

I'm using them just to start even more of those projects. I guess i'll always be, most literally, a beginner.

ai;dr

Haven't seen that one yet. I like it.

"There is a part of a URL called the fragment, the text after the #. By design, fragments are never sent to servers. They exist only in the browser, only on the device, only at the moment of access. Nowhere puts everything there. An entire website compressed and encoded in a string of characters. There is no server holding it. There is no account it belongs to. There is no company you need permission from. The link is the site. Wherever the link travels, the site travels with it."

I am so tired of this type of phrasing... OMG, this is gonna change the world!!!

...

And we are just starting out... oh boy...

Anyone up for working on a new internet, designed for keeping stuff like this an the people who produce it, out?

Even worse if you've spent time developing a moral compass

Anyone who needs an article for this: don't bother, nothing to lose!

"We’re not building some “better git”.

We’re building the infrastructure for how software gets built next."

Dude, aside from this type of phrasing being cringe, it's such blatantly obvious LLM induced psychosis phrase... ridiculous.

I didn't even read that insanely long article explaining why one would need this (the necessity should have rang one or two bells for the author)... but all i could think of before reading that cringe ending, was: you're building what comes after git, but carry "git" in your name seems kinda odd... already revealing you either don't believe your own claims, or you do, but don't really mean what you're claiming... either way: WTF. Insane what's getting funded.

Also: the trend of companies overly feeling the need to explain they're not just X + AI (which also means LLM API), should really ring a lot of other bells to everyone else... god damn, too many bells to ring... and it seems like there is only AI chatbots left, that respond to anyone ringing the bell... god damn... they already took over & infected the human brain...

Lol. I mean what the hell is this. I have this weird feeling this guy got tricked by an LLM into thinking this move is smart... "what you've built is not just a json formatter, it's the next big...".

I mean good luck to that guy. Everyone should have a shot at turning his free work into something worth it. I think i've been using that extension as well. But yeah, i never cared enough to know if it was this one. But i do hope there are others who did & he can surprise me and turn this user base into customers of a commercial product. If he pulls that of, i'd be truly impressed.

the gap between capability and behavior might be much smaller

Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean with the gap?

What exactly does it do that a professional would charge you thousands for?

(I'm genuinely asking)

How did people forget that github was purchased by that one company?

I don't know what to think. These blog articles are supposed to be a showcase of engineering expertise, but bragging about having AI vibecode a replacement for a critical part of your system that was questionably designed and costing as much as a fully-loaded FTE per year raises a lot of other questions.

I agree. But most of the time the people responsible for the codebase / architecture do not want those questions raised. AI is greatly appreciated emergency exit for those situations. Apparently.

at least they‘re not trying to play the „our tech is too dangerous“ card as the sunset reason (again [yet]).

also, for a company carrying „open“ in their name, that pretends to still remember its origins, they could open source at least the projects they sunset…