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Looks great!

Heads up, for the `Backend Tracing` screenshot there's a typo, it reads "enviroment" with the missing 'n' and on the AI debugger page on narrower screens the bubble for the "Learn more about JamGPT" text doesn't fit the text.

I have to admit, I once agreed with this position, before I got to a ~5g a day habit. While I was a heavy user (6+ years) I was a strong proponent of legalization etc. "Better than booze", "It's only a gateway because it builds connections with people that have other stuff available".

But there is arguably a physical dependence at that routing usage. First thing every morning, every 1-2 hours another J. I wanted to quit almost every day. I'd have conversations with my partner about quitting every few days. But neither of us could. If we had none we wouldn't sleep for 48+ hours, just didn't happen. Anxiety sets in, stress about everything. You just want to sleep, so you smoke. You go broke you scour the house to find enough coins or bottle to return (EU here) to get .2g to roll once to just get to the next day. You leave the house to do anything and you're so anxious and paranoid you become misanthropic. Only way to deal with it is to go home and "relax" to manage the borderline panic. Just for reference, before I was maybe a bit awkward sometimes but had absolutely no issues with the outside world.

I also don't agree that afterwards you're in the clear. I used to be borderline photographic with my memory. I'd pull random statistics from papers I'd read years earlier in conversation with references that I could use to validate when challenged. I no longer can even remember what I decided to go to the grocery store for, even though it's a ~2 minute walk. I forget what I started a sentence to express while typing. I'm a systems engineer, when I change tabs in an IDE I lose nearly all the context I took with me to the new tab. Sure context switching breaks flow yadda yadda, but it's just different. I don't even remember there was something to remember, just... "why am I here again?"?

I do agree that the behaviour trigger is very strong, so I replaced the urge with League, an arguably far more self-destructive tendency.

Apparently you can literally mail them cash with your randomly generated user id on a card and they'll top up credit for you.

Not op but I imagine:

Increase tolerances to reduce cost at scale, sometimes doesn't fit perfectly or requires a little jiggling to line up right.

But now you can't do the jiggle or try to manually quickly realign it, instead you need to call a tech to do it for X bucks and a wait time of longer than a few seconds.

Having your own address in most places is a part of a "dedicated business line". My ISP in Switzerland literally refuses to issue so called "static" addresses at all, business or not.

I miss the days of sending someone a letter with some cash for them to associate address A with line B. All I'd have to do to stay essentially anonymous is finding a someone with bad record keeping.

Suddenly someone shows up with address A and threats and then drowns trying to interpret that persons mappings. While that's happening I can find 5 other someones and suddenly I have 6 addresses all of which essentially ephemerally link to my system. Someone else does that for their mapping system and you get to Dijkstra levels of working out how to block connections.

After like 3 levels of middlemen even centralized authorities just struggle to do the actual work of blocking, outside of just issuing the order.

To me that was the real strength in IPv6. (I know I know innefficient protocol with complex upgrade path lead to near negligible adoption)

NAT "fixed" the problem of address exhaustion, but it killed the old internet. You cannot run your own network anymore. In the "old" times, I gave you a phone number or IP address and that's it, direct connection. All anyone could do was show up and take the computer to stop that. Sure there's a phone company or ISP involved, but they just powered the pump, you completely controlled what went through it.

Now I can't do that. They ran out of addresses and I share an address with X unknown others. So I can't give you a home address, just to a bank of doors. I could give you an apartment number, but that's also shifting transparently, so num X to you is num Y to someone else.

IPv6 would have solved the problem of exhaustion while preserving the right to an address. I could be some number permanently and you could reliably find a connection to my system using it. In that world I could set up a private DNS service in my house no one can alter without physically plugging in. Then have that store records to other addresses. Every part of that chain requires someone finding you and showing up at your door to disrupt.

Instead now I have to pay digital ocean 5 bucks to keep an address for me so anything can find me via them. A bunch of servers in my home effectively an island without a coordinate until DO points me out on request. Like having all mail addresses be to the local town hall for them to forward to me. Sure maybe you trust your local town hall, but they are fundamentally beholden to someone else.

With IPv6 support and adoption a whole network could be set up independent of any other authority besides BGP. Which requires nation-state levels of mobilization just to block an address, with fallout affecting literally thousands of others. They'd have to nuke a block to suppress any site, only for that site to find another address and be back to normal within minutes. Instead they do a WHOIS, send a scary email and boom, you're unknown, unfindable and disconnected. Hoping that word of mouth brings people to your new "address" exactly like losing your phone (and SIM) while abroad.

I know it sucks as a protocol but v6 to me is a massive extremely important development that would change how the internet, and from that all communication, works.

Can you explain how you'd use Webtorrent to synchronize a large dataset that's updated in realtime? If you mean to get a P2P transport wouldn't WebRTC be what you're aiming for?

I'm genuinely curious but isn't Webtorrent just using WebRTC to join a Torrent Swarm? Torrents are fundamentally immutable, the identifier is a static hash of the content of the torrent. That would mean producing a new torrent for each new data point or chunk of data points only to then submit that hash to a WebRTC based connection to again fetch torrent content?

Genuinely curious, I'm interested in how torrent swarms can be used for novell applications.

Ipse dixit

I feel the issue with the meat alternatives has been the idea that Vegetarians and Vegans are growing in number and most people don't prepare their own food.

Couple that with some indications that in the western world both Vegans and Vegetarianisms seem to have more disposable income [0] and you get people with business backgrounds naturally pricing the products higher.

Also from a social perspective in the west, people will pay a premium to appear to be making "healthier" or "ethical" purchases.

0: A study on self-reported eating habits with some interesting citations https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5622783/

I think the point is bot emails shouldn't be fresh.

Same way some people just set up businesses with random names in tax-shelter territories and sell the company 10 years later to add a sense if legitimacy.

It appears any important strings have been replaced with 'S' characters.

So you definitely can't use this unless you pull the strings from the compiled APK theyve published.

Looks interesting, I might take a deeper look into using this.

One thing to note, on my mobile browser (Firefox Nightly) the site is a bit broken. The page has the wrong width so periods etc are off screen and for the code example blocks I can't scroll them to see the whole line.

I truly and sincerely am glad the old creepypasta of Maggot/Blowfly Girl has started to fade out of common consciousness...

Definitely did 6. a good amount of times.

The best we got up to was the year we found the admin password for the default image root user in some cached Skype logs. First we would SSH into random people's systems and use Applescript to type random things etc., bonus points if they currently were presenting something. We got bored of that pretty quick and resorted to just selling the ability to do stuff as an admin like installing things.

Earlier in middle school we figured out that the MacBooks the school issued had an IR receiver and the apple remote available at the time could trigger some Fullscreen tools by hitting a button on the remote and aiming at a victims computer, again mostly to disrupt teacher presentations.

Both bits of fun came to an end when some kid figured it out and ratted us out. When they figured out I was selling root access (installed CoD4 for a friend's little brother and changed the root password for them at extra cost, when they couldn't remember what they changed it to the went to the admin) all hell broke loose and they confiscated the laptops to re-image... no fun.

While having a Customer Service Rep tell you you're shit out of luck if you can't remember your master password may suck, it's pretty much the only way to actually be some semblance of safe.

The Mud-puddle test is to demonstrate that only you can access your services. If you can call and go "hey can I get back into my vault" so can anyone that convincingly can make the same call on your behalf.

I completely agree with this sentiment.

I think VR has the same issue that smartphones had at the start of their cycle, the UI/UX is not designed to intuitively mesh with how users actually want to use the system. Even things like keyboard inputs are just not quite there yet, resorting to clunky index-finger typing at best and type-by-laser at worst.

I think we are moving towards a usable version of AR eventually (with tech still needing to catch up on weight/latency/tracking) but full VR is almost only useful for games.

As much as I'm not an Apple-enthusiast, the one thing they (used to) get right is the sort of UX where you almost don't even need to explain how to do things, they just intuitively make sense and you can just let intent directly flow. Given their current trends though I'm not convinced their alternative AR/VR UI will be that though.

I'm essentially waiting for glasses that go full VR when they need to, and otherwise just allow me to overlay a GUI on reality with minimal effort.

E.g. a video player following me around while I do normal stuff. Helpful, and importantly, optional popups overlayed on real objects to enhance my interactions, not completely replace them with a crude 3D facsimile.

HN: Pretty sure their relationship with DigiCert predates LE, why change if the current relationship is functional.

Google: Browser Maintainer that runs entire TLDs, doesn't need a third party, it could just decide to trust itself and 60+% of the market follows.

Amazon: Runs a massive chunk of the internet, it's already MitM'd itself and most other things, doesn't really need a third party for Certs but still uses DigiCert which predates LE and they clearly have a working relationship.

Netflix: See Amazon, HN.

You: Barely exist to the infrastructure of the web as people experience it. Maybe you have a static site you don't care to protect from MitM (could add some malicious scripts or whatever but who cares). Maybe you're a tiny service that offers some 50 users something, their plaintext auth probably shouldn't be readable to just anyone along the network path, but they're not paying you for services so you might not wanna spend much money on that service. Use LE.

Also, if you think LE as a company has the ability to take sites with it if it goes down, you don't really understand Web PKI. At most likely within a year to 3 months you'd need to find a new place if their signatures expire. At worst someone could pretend to be you, but still not read that traffic protected by the old cert.

Why so salty about LE? Especially from a "seasoned" SysEng? Didn't it just make your job easier and safer for those with slightly less experience?

That's definitely a concern, but I feel this can be mitigated by running your own network on top of theirs. Anyone in my home is part of my network, doesn't mean they're in the wg network too.

Aside from that, it's definitely a problem that they could include themselves in any customer network, but the accountability still stands. If someone got in without your screw-up, at least you know who to point the finger at once the dust settles.

I'd argue it should be treated as a base to overlay your network on top of. Although admittedly I say that as someone that doesn't use their services for similar reasons.

Honestly, I hate the idea of having a middle man, but having tried and researched extensively how to make something like a direct tunnel between two clients over the internet it just doesn't always work.

NAT is a godsend for IPv4 exhaustion, but it's also fundamentally crippled the ability for people to host things or make things available directly from their homes.

Hole-punching is an inexact process due to the variety of different NAT types, some of which (e.g. Carrier-grade) simply do not allow that sort of connection. So there must be a middle man that accepts packets on their publicly available port and passes it on to another established connection. TURN/STUN (et. al.) exist but are archaic and do the same thing but with less accountability.

I hate it too but until we have IPv6 by default with user controlled firewalls hosting something in your garage without a business line is not feasible. Hell I have a 5$ a month VPS purely so it can act as the middle man to the servers in my home. At least then I only need to trust myself as the middle man.

I admit, although not medically prescribed or supervised, doing mushrooms has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.

Although I still have persistent nightmares it changed my understanding of other people and their perspectives to the point my anxiety in a lot of situations has vanished.

I don't think people should go nuts with them but I do think it's a good idea for some people with anxiety to find a clean pleasant care-free place to try them. Even if it just allows them to spend a few hours immersing themselves in completely different thought patterns and potentially gain something from them.

Next you just need to find a BTC to Bottlecap ATM and you're set!

I've had this discussion with people before, the best answer I've come up with is this:

Nihilism is less the idea that all things are irrelevant or immaterial but rather that there is no universal valuation to things. What we do may not affect a universal scale observer or tautologically "matter" in some sense but there exists some scale or model under which things have some valuation.

The trick then becomes rather than conform to some agreed scale or model of the universe for the moral or value derivative we instead turn to what we have decided is valuable.

If I am cold is irrelevant to the universe, but it is relevant to me, and as such being cold may only last a short time and can be survived but it still matters to me.

Equally there is no universal sense of being moral, there is however my sense of being moral and as such some actions can be good not by being derived from some universal morals but instead by my own definitions. "Being kind to a stranger" is moral to me in line with my definitions, but "not eating fish on Fridays" has no moral definition within my moral declaration so I can eat fish on Fridays without being immoral.

Nihilism isn't an end, it's the start to a personal conversation on values that are specific to you and become meaningful to you by your understanding of their worth. Once you have defined your values independent of some larger prescriptive whole you have a system you actually understand and can defend the merits of, a much stronger core for reasoning about morality and the goodness of your actions.

I'm sorry but the American police and their training to "mag-dump" is something even an uninformed bystander could probably call excessive. A car with no weapons, hence no returning fire and 7 separate officers all but empty their clips until the smoke clears is a quintessential example of the criticisms of American police training.

I spoke recently with a swiss police officer that complained they aren't even allowed to taze someone with a knife explicitly threatening life and instead must attempt to talk them down before even being allowed to put hands on the obvious perpetrator. One is training as an officer of the peace, the other is training for a soldier in a warlords personal hit squad. Even actual American soldiers are court-martialed if they even raise their weapon at an incoming hostile without several verbal warnings going unheeded and even then must fire a warning shot before they can engage.

I remember at 21 getting an email from Paypal that the account I'd used my entire online life was banned because I started it when I was 12. They noticed this after I reached out to support...

Switched email addresses and used that instead. Although I've not used PayPal in a good while because it just randomly rejected transactions for no clear reason.

I think the killer app for FHE is an Ethereum-esque Globally distributed VM (yes eye-roll I hate Crypto/Blockchain nonsense as well). To me that was always the big interesting concept behind Ethereum, running some sort of code with persistent state. Obviously no free lunches so we gotta pay for that somehow to incentivize people to pay for power on computing equipment they aren't personally utilizing. But somehow "crypto" got caught on the literally first example of a distributed systems correctness: debit/credit of synchronized accounts.

I feel FHE combined with slightly cheaper cost might enable things like community run server-less apps that have user state stored and processed by untrusted nodes with persistent state stored and accessible only by the data-owner. E.g. a simple excel-esque web app which only serves the UI while State and calculations are running on this hypothetical system at no cost to the apps creator with me paying only for exclusively my usage. They provide the code but no one but me can extract my data and the results of any computations, and for the privilege I pay the system.

I miss the days of upload and forget software that just relies on client resources and so require little upfront investment from developers, I feel FHE plus distributed computing could enable this.

I am aware "Web3" claims to want this future as a concept but the cost and utter lack of confidentiality (I can observe all data to and from a contract as well as the sender/receivers identity) makes it a super-niche borderline useless VM. For distributed governance sure, it's a public ballot box (the preface to the first distributed systems example, a single account with credits), but for any application/user data absolutely unacceptable.

The vast majority of homeless/unhoused people are completely normal healthy adults that had one bad turn in life and could not get back.

In a 2016 Census, only about 12% of the homeless population aged 15 and up were actually unable to work due to various maladies[0]. According to the same census report a whopping 62% of homeless males were currently employed.

The issue is not to just remember the 3 or 4 homeless people you've seen clearly dazed and likely unable to work, it's the thousands of people living in their car because rent is unaffordable for their income. That's the first point, abundance of housing lowers rents to the point of being affordable to Minimum-Wage workers.

Secondly, one of the first issues homeless shelters noticed is that employers require and address to even apply. So if one of those people living in their cars or under a bridge and still heading to work god forbid loses their job, they literally cannot apply to another one without a fixed address, another way affordable/abundant housing explicitly affects homeless employment.

The 12% that cannot work should probably not be on the street and should be cared for in shelters, but many shelters are filled with people who's employers underpay or pay an unlivable income and so also require shelters. Abundant housing thus allows people in the work-force to not be priced out of a roof, opening up shelters for those that cannot care for themselves.

More housing is a win-win-win. Except maybe it means aunt Karen notices more busses, which she doesn't like the sound of, hence no more developments to appease those with the ability to make their points to local government, at the cost of those that many people even avoid eye contact with.

[0] https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cp5hpi/cp...

Exactly, it's worlds that aren't a sequence of stories but a mesh of relationships that seem much more alive.

I can obviously see how it's much harder to make a narrative state machine than a sequence of events with maybe a few branches, but still it's disappointing when huge budgets are spent on visuals alone with no good reason to examine them deeply.

Cough Cyberpunk 2077 Cough.

Haven't played it, but admittedly I've seen the Hbomberguy video on it and was really interested. Might take another look.

I haven't actually but I've heard great things. I admit the setting isn't one I usually pursue, but I'll get over myself and take a look.