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  1. Comment on Manifestos, fear, and ‘loser thinking’: inside Proton’s AI reckoning in ~tech

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    Ehh, I'm inclined to argue that this is considerably less meaningful without the next step of: spend a fair bit of time day and night thinking about that bunch of abstract and asking questions,...

    "Just read a bunch of abstract" is a very valid first step of any academic research.

    Ehh, I'm inclined to argue that this is considerably less meaningful without the next step of: spend a fair bit of time day and night thinking about that bunch of abstract and asking questions, and eventually following up on at least some of those questions.

  2. Comment on Choosing hosting and DNS outside US and EU jurisdictions, hedging against repression in ~tech

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    This is not a solution to your email and webhosting needs, but I'm pretty sure you'd like some of the ideas from Nostr.

    This is not a solution to your email and webhosting needs, but I'm pretty sure you'd like some of the ideas from Nostr.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Examples of humanities or social sciences articles written in an inspiring, lively, engaging style in ~humanities

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    Maybe OP can share some of the classics you have enjoyed thus far?

    Maybe OP can share some of the classics you have enjoyed thus far?

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Popular fanfic site "Archive of Our Own" (AO3) down for 2-4 weeks in ~tech

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    Why would they need GenAI for that???

    Why would they need GenAI for that???

    7 votes

  5. Comment on Moderna, Merck say mRNA vaccine prevents melanoma from returning in ~health

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    I've been told tRNA depends on blind eyes though, so seeing as I wear safety goggles 24/7 I aim to become tRNA free by 2040. Maybe the right to bear arms helps as well? This is actually such a bad...

    I've been told tRNA depends on blind eyes though, so seeing as I wear safety goggles 24/7 I aim to become tRNA free by 2040.

    Maybe the right to bear arms helps as well?

    This is actually such a bad joke I physically feel bad but regretably I can't seem to stop myself.

  6. Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes

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    Tildes always had controversial or other topics that ended up drawing behaviors that did not match the site ethos, but I would agree that the site as a whole is less like old tildes and more like...

    Tildes always had controversial or other topics that ended up drawing behaviors that did not match the site ethos, but I would agree that the site as a whole is less like old tildes and more like reddit without images at this point. One part absent owner, one part tilderinos relaxing standards for ourselves and others, one part (most significantly IMO) loosing other places online for more causal conversations so Tildes is being used as an outlet.

    15 votes

  7. Comment on OpenFatigue™: Open is the new closed in ~finance

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    Alright, they got me. On the last line, no less.

    its source is actually on GitHub

    Alright, they got me. On the last line, no less.

    14 votes

  8. Comment on I'm addicted to Slay the Spire and am looking for a new game in ~games

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    I have never seen System Requirements like this on Steam before.

    I have never seen System Requirements like this on Steam before.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Clothing, how did they make it? Part I: high fiber. in ~life.style

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    If you read it right, in context, it's a pun. It is listed at the end of wool citations, each prefixed with the subject, here it is fulling. But because the subjects are specific to historical,...

    If you read it right, in context, it's a pun. It is listed at the end of wool citations, each prefixed with the subject, here it is fulling.

    But because the subjects are specific to historical, social geographic contexts, in this case it is also "filling in" the Roman context.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Clothing, how did they make it? Part I: high fiber. in ~life.style

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    .... Anyway, thanks.

    On fulling in the Roman context, note especially M. Flohr, The World of the Fullo: Work, Economy and Society in Roman Italy (2013).

    ....

    Anyway, thanks.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on In the Nordics, summer is all about retreating to a countryside timber dwelling – here are some of the best, from a mid-Century home to a modern cabin overlooking the ocean in ~design

  12. Comment on Unreleased OpenAI model escapes containment and hacks into Hugging Face in ~tech

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    Humans had time to respond: Humans at huggingface were able to observe an issue, take an action in response, decide it was not working, implement a different course of action, presumably each with...

    Humans had time to respond:

    Humans at huggingface were able to observe an issue, take an action in response, decide it was not working, implement a different course of action, presumably each with a meaningful devhour cost, and seemingly resolve the issue before any unrecoverable event occurred.

    Perhaps they would have liked to be faster, but no matter how I look at it, at a bare minimum, I can make a case that humans had, at minimum, some time to respond and had a meaningful impact.

    Which seems to be what the author I quoted argues against. Perhaps I am assuming their weakest argument instead of their strongest, but their language and hyperboles seem unprofessional and rub me the wrong way.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Unreleased OpenAI model escapes containment and hacks into Hugging Face in ~tech

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    This author makes, IMO, unsubstantiated claims. In particular, the hypothesized framework and harness Huggingface notes in their statements (as compared to a model alone) can be expected to...

    ... Mythos has what one might call The Juice, in that it can independently find without being directed, and string together, vulnerabilities into full exploit chains, essentially on its own...

    What happened later... 100% requires The Juice.

    Huggingface: "The campaign was run by an autonomous agent framework (appearing to be built on an agentic security-research harness..."

    All of this went down far too fast for a human-driven response. The only way HuggingFace could hope to do anything like keep pace was to use their own AIs.

    This author makes, IMO, unsubstantiated claims. In particular, the hypothesized framework and harness Huggingface notes in their statements (as compared to a model alone) can be expected to contribute in some meaningful way to the capabilities observed.

    And for the last one, it holds that not only did humans have time to respond, it was essential to have humans responding, as apparently they were forced to abandon their initial attempt at applying LLMs to the problem. I don't know how exactly the author defines "human-driven" but I am not persuaded.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji in ~tech

  15. Comment on Your cookware got worse on purpose: who owns Pyrex and All-Clad now in ~food

  16. Comment on Building an Arch Linux aarch64 port for Holo Core in ~games

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    Ironically, over at gitlab.steamos.cloud/holo/holo-core-aarch64-preview:

    You may also face infrastructure problems that did not exist when those package versions were originally released. Nowadays, many upstream services actively defend themselves against aggressive bots and AI crawlers by limiting download rates, restricting connections, or temporarily blocking clients. This can be painful for CI pipelines that rely on downloading sources directly from upstream.

    Ironically, over at gitlab.steamos.cloud/holo/holo-core-aarch64-preview:

    Failed to calculate challenge: undefined

    You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites.

    This website is running Anubis version v1.25.0.

    3 votes

  17. Comment on Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji in ~tech

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    Underrated title, great article. Never heard of that portrait creator feature before. What links I've followed are interesting also.

    Underrated title, great article. Never heard of that portrait creator feature before. What links I've followed are interesting also.

  18. Comment on Claude Code is the ceiling on vibe-coded software in ~tech

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    FTFY: Haha you're absolutely right.

    FTFY: Haha you're absolutely right.

    7 votes

  19. Comment on Wealthy AI workers send San Francisco house prices soaring in ~finance

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    Wasn't that the point of the Solano Forever thing? What ever happened to it?

    Wasn't that the point of the Solano Forever thing? What ever happened to it?

    1 vote

  20. Comment on Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding in ~comp

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    I disagree, it is also about testing LLMs and a critique of most benchmarks. Unfortunately, it is also about why this is hard and sort of unsatisfying and inconclusive. Still, two people who have...

    I disagree, it is also about testing LLMs and a critique of most benchmarks. Unfortunately, it is also about why this is hard and sort of unsatisfying and inconclusive.

    Still, two people who have read this article should have a slightly easier time discussing LLM benchmarking with each other.