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Deno Desktop 1 month ago

Deno desktop can use system web view OR embed CEF. Tauri is just system web view.

I also love the transparency and am surprised it hasn’t been used more. Granted, it would be very difficult to achieve with natural materials and also be durable. A flag should be able to withstand an ocean voyage exposed to the elements.

100% run through an LLM. Not sure if the author started with a draft or only an outline, but there are multiple instances of stuff like “it’s not just X, it’s Y”.

SFO Gate Explorer 3 months ago

Pretty cool program. Would be slightly annoying if you wanted to get the pass with any regularity, but I love that it’s being offered.

San Diego has SAN Pass, which is essentially the same program with the same rationale for existence.

Flipdiscs 3 months ago

This is the product they commercialized: https://flipdisc.co/

Last I heard a number of years ago it’s around $2000/sq ft. Around the same price scale as mid range LED wall modules.

GPT-5.5 3 months ago

Models are still in arms race mode, but harnesses and subscription strategy are tiptoeing into their enshittification era.

It would be nice if you could “see” the AI in your vault making changes. Almost like a Google doc collab session. Even if you weren’t directly interacting with the agent, and it was making change thru a CLI/MCP, its presence would be highlighted in the frontend. And then it appears as its own contributor in the git history.

The clean up prompt needs adjusting. If your transcription is first person and in the voice of talking to an AI assistant, it really wants to “answer” you, completing ignoring its instructions. I fiddled with the prompt but couldn’t figure out how to make it not want to act like an AI assistant.

human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems

So there’s the difference, and an erasure of a red line. OpenAI is good with autonomous weapon systems. Requiring human responsibility isn’t saying much. Theres already military courts, rules of engagement, and international rules of war.

It took Google 11 years to delete Don’t Be Evil. Anthropic only made it 5~ years before culling the key founding principle and their reason for building a company, which seems worse than Google’s case.

With the bot slurping up context from Moltbook, plus the ability to modify its soul, plus the edgy starting conditions of the soul, it feels intuitive that value drift would occur in unpredictable ways. Not dissimilar to filter bubbles and the ability for personalized ranking algorithms to radicalize a user over time as a second order effect.

Sufficiently advanced technology always looks like a DDoS on society. It overwhelms the senses, and when we come to the realization we cannot comprehend or fully predict its implications it puts a subset of the population into a bit of a crisis. We’re in that phase right now where we just need to brace ourselves.

You can debur it as part of the manufacturing process, and then when it gets powder coating it smooths out even more. But you can just embed the sheet metal edges in a groove on a wooden side.