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I think we are closing that gap with AI coding tools.

A growing number of people people today can figure out how to run Fable in a co work session, or codex, and that can indeed set up the self-owned backup system for you along with an alternative trustable cloud backup thats not Apple or Google.

CSAM (“see-sam”) refers to any visual content—photos, videos, livestreams, or AI-generated images—that shows a child being sexually abused or exploited. Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is not “child pornography.” It’s evidence of child sexual abuse [1]

I can't wrap my head around how AI-generated imagery is evidence of child sexual abuse (CAS). How are you abusing a real child by generating an image of a fake one?

[1] https://rainn.org/get-the-facts-about-csam-child-sexual-abus...

Right. when you say waste capitalism, I hear that it's really a hostile form of extractive, incredibly selfish, self-serving philosophy that takes more than is sustainable.

When I believe sustainable practices can go farther that waste capitalism, and that we could feed most people on earth with that change, I do feel anger and frustration.

What have you looked through already and what kinds of sources do you consider reputable and trustworthy?

Asking because there's a lot of trolling and hostility disguised as curiosity on hacker news lately, and I've wasted a lot of time engaging with these people. Not saying thats you or the guy above you, but I'm not open to spending my time only to receive a dismissive and hostile response discounting my sources when your preferences (obviously different from every other person) would point to different level of burden of proof.

In which case I'm curious, why haven't you already looked for this? What's stopping you? or did you check and couldn't corroborate - why would I answer then for someone who has already started with dismissiveness and demonstrated a filtering perception that won't be open minded? I find it akin to talking to a wall when someone asks for proof when they've already made up their mind that it cannot exist.

Most people on earth: Let's just look at how many people use technology. How many use it? And how many are obviously also using it more than 4 hours/day to consume information in a fashion that doesnt' serve their health, connection or wellbeing?

Those statistics are widely known and accepted. Do you need me to provide evidence from that?

OK sure, Google deserves credit for that.

On the other hand, they also directly contribute to the technical addiction and attention economy that has created more depression and a lower quality of life for most people on earth. Maybe google taking responsibility for that can help improve their reputation.

is the correct answer what you are saying though, to pretend this other bad thing hasn't happened and only say google can do good?

Probably news, on TV, or in the paper, or radio. I imagine also we had more connection socially in areas like coffee shops, the library, bars, etc. What was before that I wonder?

Your thoughts?

Thank you for sharing all that, and your experience. I didn't know sludge was an issue, and that's valuable for me to remember that it can be tested for! In some of my past I lived on eco villages and sustainable cooperative farmland housing, and we had a regenerative farming process going - since they were on remote regions like Hawaii big island or Oregon sludge likely wasn't used though I know now to check wherever I go next.

1. (bio-solids, along with everything ever flushed down a toilet or run down a sewer or drain, and then some)

Ah yes so the sludge or at least the other undesirables ends up on the land even without the owner intentionally using it there?

I think from our convo maybe the options in popular states or counties are limited or corrupted and that leaves a few. I wonder if non-USA areas are just simply better for many of the reasons mentioned.

Good chatting my friend.

I'm disappointed you focus on weirdness and whats normal, and respond in a dismissive tone from there and then expect that I would suddenly engage your hostility and bad faith with respect.

You have disrespected me and I am not open to engaging with you further. Please read the hacker news rules as well, you have violated them.

Weird question - is there any talks or attempts at limiting land owner usage of their soil for "<insert purpose here>" or is this mostly folklore or conspiracy talk?

I want to buy land some day and want to avoid the hotspots where my freedom of my property is curtailed in this way.

And maybe the soil use isn't specifically limited, but other proxies are in effect: I think of (a) water use, (b) spread of patented seed observed and business prosecution of your crop or even (c) control of your livestock or animals because "<insert plague or health concern here>".

Qwen 3.8 3 days ago

It's an interesting time to be alive when your local models are supposedly the pinnacle of what a free nation is capable of, yet the ethicality of the companies is disliked and their models restrict and limit you so much you root for the models from a socialist/communist state. If it wasn't for the effectiveness of propaganda, tribalism and psyops in this scenario my words wouldn't even be controversial and would just be seen as a truthful observation.

I wonder about that. Why is this one of the few communities, that despite being so high quality in a technical sense has so little in person community connection?

It was technology. With greater efficiency, came also greater separation and distance at home and with family and community and our initiatory rituals/rites.

We used to use community to pass those down, but now the average American family gets divided from each other at an early age as soon as the distraction and ideology from technology like screens and things social media comes into play.

Edit: Before internet, there were other forms of "social media" at play attempting to extract the attention of the individual units of the family and community, but they weren't as effective. With the internet they are more effective.

AI appears to be doing this Software Engineering too, so seems it applies to other industries too.

Maybe the net effect so far has been more extractive and a transfer of wealth to a select few people? Is this how past technological revolutions were, or is this the first so far?

I think the elephant is the room is we hope things will change later - will they really?

So because it would wreck they if others found out, it’s unlikely?

Which is more likely? That past behavior is an indication of future behavior, or that they because they could be eliminated from being found out it’s unlikely they’d do that thing. (By the way it’s also likely they’d are eliminated if they dont train their data with every advantage over their competitors possible). So I think it’s naive to think the incentives reward not doing the malicious thing now.

I think the risk of not doing is more existential than doing so and getting caught. Wouldn’t you agree?

Edit: And the point of the poster is they have already demonstrated a track record of lying and misconduct, so how can you trust their word now? What have they done to show you they have taken responsibility for past actions and changed?

I prefer to have minimal flows where each window is just the pure session contents, with a title maybe (even then I don't like the bloat of a title taking up any screen real estate).

I definitely wouldn't use any coding agent, GUI (yours included) without my skills. They are where most of my effort has gone, and what make the session effective. Without them, I'm spending a lot more time hand-holding and re-doing work with the AI.

So I created a system that seems a bit opposed to yours, or at least I'll take inspiration from you and probably update it. It's an overlay that I can resize, and an accompanying web view, of all my running coding agent terminal sessions. I can find old ones too, but mostly I want to know when something finished running or if it's waiting for me on something and if so what. It's not published anywhere but if you want to try it or see screenshots I can share.

I'm so sorry. This sounds horrible. Have you local elected officials or the contractors been made aware of this and are willing to do anything about it? Even help sound proof windows, outdoor areas, etc.

I think this kind of behavior by the groups causing this impact on you is irresponsible and harmful, even if it's not known. If they know I think they are being unethical - I think its fair if they suffer harm and damage as a result such as in court or you similarly start to coordinate a group of people that can make their jobs harder as well through legal means of course.

Maybe ya'll stand outside their work and speak with megaphones for as long as possible, or just stream a speaker blasting audio towards them as they work.

I think you are pretty Ad Hominem oriented in speaking with me, and I don't like that.

I have first-hand experienced being non-consensually preyed upon and experimented on by that organization, and am traumatized from my experience with them.

Yes I've taken the appropriate escalations and saught support from my elected officials. So far, no relief. My experience dictates that most people are quick to laugh and ridicule me, like you and your hostility and Ad Hominem style logical fallacy based messaging. I think you are just a astroturfed style personality on the web and if you didn't mean to be hostile, I hope you know that you certainly came across that way. edit: I see this is not an engagement that is serving me in any way, and is hurtful and abusive over substantive or providing value. I'm going to check out now and wish you luck at whatever it is you seek.

Interesting. Just opened it up to use, while I had a codex terminal session running - my first instinct was to want to see my pre-existing open session in the GUI instead and be able to drive it in either spot. Is that something I can do?

Also when I opened a new session (in the Juggler GUI) at my root where all my projects live, my instinct was to navigate to a project directory first or to have it open there. Not sure how to do this, without changing the global setting for my projects root. That's how I think through claude code/codex coding sessions via the terminal wondering if that mental model is wrong.

I asked which skills it could access, and it turns out it couldn't access any of my global skills already - I thought that part would just work since it accesses my codex subscription. is that something you plan to add.