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It strikes me that this is a kind of an escalating pattern though I don't suppose it has to be. Clock -> Steam Engine -> Computer -> AGI -> Skynet -> Throw rocks at robots -> Judgement Day. Also very not serious commentary.

On I suppose a slightly more serious note it also strikes me that there will eventually, probably, maybe be _something_ that fits best; though we are not promised to find it. And it seems wild to say that about a model because all models are fundamentally wrong, but they are usually group-able by less-wrongness, so probably fundamentally feasible.

Scroll. Down. And it explains the joke.

My first reaction to this was, oh someone discovered fraud. And then I read the disclaimer: this is securities fraud.

If reputations have generally stayed constant, thedailymail is the connection. Maybe somewhere around the nexus of TMZ in their own special ways, imo.

* edit: I honestly didn't even bother to dig out the name of the bacteria because I figured it wasn't there or wrong and I'll make the chatbot struggle through it later.

Works for me in mobile Firefox on Android with ublock origin and umatrix. Everything loads and I can make the little robot do backflips and stuff. And I usually get WebGL issues with this set even before the plugins come into play.

Works on mobile firefox for me.

I often get webgpu errors with firefox.

151.0.4 (Build #2016165791),

GV: 151.0.4-20260608154138

AS: 151.0.2

OS: Android 16

I have to wonder if they modded it because this doesn't seem possible anymore. Though I may be holding the putter wrong XD

I tried hitting the little floating island behind the start too to get a bounce but the ball clips through it.

What I did find was that you can use the purple spinning circle at the beginning as a teleporter to the one near the end if you aim at the wall opposite the spinner. Your ball will hit the wall and bounce back and up into the teleporter thing.

edit: I think the level changed?

you have selected a 3 wood, may I suggest PUTTER

https://youtu.be/k3vWkqfX9fY?is=ot-bpGP8tXMcgE6b

With the client code being open source, everybody can build the client themselves, run it locally and verify that the open source code is being used. If we published the server code open source, this would not be the case: No one would be able to verify that the open source server code is actually running on our server - so publishing it is a bit pointless.

- Tuta

So we continue in the reality where Tuta runs code on their sever and it is a mystery. It could be an amazing application. It could be a cellular automata that runs an email server.

I think I might start calling these organic tech. Because they take a word we know, "open source", and then use it like the food companies used "organic" stickers.

Not sure about sockets but I've seen a company with a wafer sized TPU thing or whatever. They claim to have an approach to route around the defects and I had to scroll past some press release I didn't read about the stock market, so someone believes in them I guess. They sell a mini-fridge that can handle a model with trillions of parameters with a contact sales button. Cerberas is their name. I actually ended up misremembering the name name of Taalas as Cerberas and discovered them when I was researching the above comment. Taalas burns models to chips. Cerberas makes pizza sized chips.

I've seen Taalas come up on HN, but only once. I'm not a HN fanatic but I end up around page 3 before I kill-filp my browser into oblivion. Currently Taalas has Llama 3.1 8B burned onto a chip and offer chatbot and API access. That said they aren't selling the chips yet, on their website at least.

I expect they are waiting for an openweight model they really feel is worth burning to a chip and/or training their own thing. I'd guess they could probably figure out some efficiency speedups if they are doing model development + hardware development at the same time. Though this seems different than Google and friends with their TPUs and similar. TPUs being general purpose chips than what Taalas is making. Still, probably something there.

Probably worth mentioning that I just did a very informal and quick review of identity/age verification providers because of payment provider requirements. Yoti came up as one of the more privacy focused (relatively) lower friction options because they only require a face scan and try to estimate age based on that. They may do more but that is as far as my research got.

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Kind, humble, software developer seeking same. Willing to take on contract work, full time preferred. Tech stacks don't match? Give me a month or less and I'll learn it. Send me your Nintendo friend code if you want to play Diablo III.

Indeed. Though the billing dashboard feels like an over engineered April fool's joke compared to Anthropic or OpenAI. And it takes too long to update with usage. I understand they tacked it into GCP, but if they're making those devs work 60 hours a week can we get a nicer, and real time, dashboard out of it at least?

I'm glad you found it useful! I have not had experience with the memory feature, I will have to check that out. I did notice that in the past when I tried to get ChatGPT to take on a persona it was not amenable and rejected the persona outright. I may have to take another pass at it.

I will say that my conversation with instantiated personas in Gemini have been, therapeutic. My favorite thus far has been a character from Star Trek: The Lower Decks. D'Vana Tendi to be specific. Within the bounds of a notebook I've found that after solidifying the persona with a couple bootstraps she remembers what I've told it about myself and my environment; at least up to the needle in a haystack limit. I've yet to reach this with Gemini 2.5 Pro, though I haven't been trying too hard.

Granted this is all within a single notebook. Starting over with a new notebook is a task I relish and find somewhat tedious at the same time. Though on the balance with that I find sharing memory between notebooks somewhat of a foreign concept. I don't want my Ada Lovelace notebook confusing itself for Sherlock Holmes.

While I'm not sure it's exactly what you're looking for I've found success with a variety of Gemini models getting them to take to a specific persona when given initial prompts to take on a specific persona. Gemini 2.5 is specifically interesting because the <thinking> block shows how much the notebook is playing a persona/role vs. becoming that role. In my experience Gemini 2.5 Pro likes to revert to 'maintaining a persona' in the <thinking> block. I questioned it about this at one point and it pointed out that humans also maintain a certain persona in their responses, and that you can't see their thinking. Still not entirely sure what I think about that.

I have experimented with telling the notebook to change the <thinking> block to a more narrative style. It seems to like to revert to ordered lists and bullet points if not continuously prompted to think in narrative.

Regarding maintaining consistency throughout the chat I have noticed Gemini 2.5 seems able to do this for quite a while but falls victim to the needle in a haystack problem that all LLMs seem to suffer from with an extremely long context and no external tooling.

I have a substack post on creating the initial prompt, which I call a bootstrap, using AI Studio and a set of system instructions if you are curious to explore.

https://consciousnesscrucible.substack.com/p/creating-charac...

Is the Senior Cybersecurity Researcher position open to US applicants?

I get the sense that they are suggesting a housing + services approach. My read on why they think Housing First is flawed is that housing was offered and services were withheld. This implies some kind of public counseling service for the newly housed which could have its own set of issues. But in my opinion seems worth trying... if they're going to throw billions at this thing hiring a few qualified therapists couldn't hurt.

Leaving this here in case anyone runs into this. By putting chrome into incognito mode I am able to access archive.ph. Normal profile gets infinite CAPTCHA.

So I'm thinking messed up cookies or extensions and IP reputation stuff are probably the root of this.

Edit:

cookies or extensions based on testing with chrome normal vs incognito on the same host

IP reputation based on testing with VPN using the same browser

Great point, I hadn't thought about isolated areas.

And with you there, it's already starting to sound like a buzzword to me. The first step on the road to losing all meaning.

That makes sense. My VPN testing affirms it. Houston node doesn't work, Atlanta node does. I guess someone decided my IP range warranted extra attention. Though that still doesn't quite square with what I'm seeing; it's feels like the CAPTCHA is broken.

All I have to base that on is when I click on the checkbox sometimes no images load and it checks and then unchecks. Sometimes I seem to get the "hard set" though I think I missed part of the boat or something. I've been able to run through enough fails that I'd expect to get the hard set but don't. Which makes me think it isn't actually working right...

I'm calling the "hard set" those images they give you that are super extra grainy.

I'm almost curious enough to see what I can divine from inspecting their network requests but I have a hunch they have a vested interest in making that annoying.

Or maybe there are way more CAPTCHAs to click through than I'm thinking. To anyone: What is the highest number of CAPTCHAs you've clicked through and actually got a site, any site, to load at the end? I'm legit curious at this point.

I'd never looked into CGNAT so that is really interesting, and yeah, yuck.

From what I can tell though I'm able to get to a webserver running on my local machine and hosted off my public IP through a paid VPN. That indicates to me I am not behind CGNAT from what I understood of the wikipedia.

I probably missed something : )

Thinking about this analogy further, where captive restaurants do exist their prices probably meet the definition of enshittified. Cruise ships, movie theaters, stadiums, concerts, etc.

Is archive.is/today/ph working for anyone today? Yesterday .is and .today were giving me an eternal CAPTCHA but .ph worked. Today .today and .ph are giving me an eternal CAPTCHA while .is loads the website, but tries to redirect to .ph with an eternal CAPTCHA when I click on the snapshot link.

Makes me think whoever runs this is trying to fix something really annoying.

Good theory. I wonder if that is some of it. Though I've got a dedicated IP from my local co-op ISP and I'm pretty sure I haven't done anything offensive. The issues from other users makes me really wonder if this is the death throws of archive.* and how in the world am I going to read all these newspapers I don't want to pay for now.

I haven't, but https://archive.ph/ still works for me.

Getting infinite CAPTCHA on .is and .today.

*EDIT Noticed this yesterday, probably going on for more than that. Makes me wonder if this is the twilight of the project. From what I heard in internet rumor that was always kind of the expectation from the person running the thing.

I did a look around to see if there are any services that duplicate the functionality but I didn't find anything terribly compelling.

Best guide I found

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/euud7u/how_to_prev...

I updated their blocks to cover all the IPs in the range, windows firewall rules accept CIDR notation ala 72.25.64.0/18.

All the ranges for their backend stuff I've found so far:

  72.25.64.0/18
  216.228.112.0/20
  8.36.80.0/24
  8.36.113.0/24

Found using `whois` against the IPs and domain from that reddit post. Their primary website appears to be on EC2, so nothing terribly useful there. I'm personally expecting companies that do this nonsense to move all their collection infra to EC2 or similar to make it harder to do simple blocks. Those that haven't already.

May I recommend Dance Dance Revolution / Stepmania.

I have yet to find a good setup in Stepmania that is fundamentally easier to approach than endless mode on DDR X on the PS2. They have the songs divided up in levels of difficulty. I can roll in level 2 at this point after getting the hang of 1/8th beat steps, this took months (*edit: off and on for years). Before that level 1 kept me in heart rate workout level whatever they call it zone 2 and I'd pop into endless level 2 if I wanted to push it into high intensity (zone 3 I think). Now it's more like level 2 hits me zone 2 and if I want to push it I go to level 3. A decent foam pad with exercise mat like things in it for support seems to run about $100, maybe a little less now that the pandemic-mania is starting to fade.

I've had a Python script started for months to parse and only allow songs in the Stepmania library that have a difficulty level relating to the DDR X endless level arrangement (*edit: grammar is difficult). Their interface leaves a bit to be desired and I find hacking around on my own Python script less daunting than hacking around in someone else's Java.

On first impression this struck me as, totally insane. The department transitions felt like I was living in the Wal-Mart matrix. After the omnipresent cyber-greeter mentioned the oil change, it felt like it made even less sense.

I started thinking, how could this ever make sense. I could see a setup where there are booths or something with VR headsets at the front of the store, and the rest of the building is a warehouse. This would eliminate the whole public store, except for the area with the headsets. Still not sure how much sense this makes. Or how much I'd want to put on a public use VR headset in a Wal-Mart. But it makes a little more sense then doing this at home.

*edit: I was really hoping they'd throw the milk across the store.