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i imagine that it’s only the UI - they’d have to implement all the profiling etc themselves… but it does mean they have a framework to build the tools into, and not having to build the UI rather than starting from scratch which is a huge help

waterfall:

• you want to go to mars
• plan to build a rocket
• sign contracts with vendors for every tiny part
• shit we didn’t need most of those parts but it’s too late
• continue to follow the plan anyway
• you now have a rocket but it doesn’t really work properly because parts needed shims to work together because the brochure didn’t mention that and the people making the plans weren’t actually building anything and also you actually wanted to drive to the beach but now you have a rocket so you have to use it anyway so you fly your rocket to the beach for $20m and you bail out and it explodes and everyone has run screaming but you’re technically on the beach and now you have to pay environmental clean up costs too

open source is also very tricky with LLMs: i’d argue if you can’t recreate it from scratch, it’s not open source… deep seek does not contain all the data necessary to recreate it from scratch: it’s open weights (the model itself can be downloaded and run) but not open source… i’d classify it as free (as in beer) software; not open source

and now you’ve robbed her of her chance to sell john oliver her collection of valuable rat erotica

this is actually the way it works in australia: downloading content is not illegal; sharing content is illegal

thus as a consumer, usenet is fine

obligatory ianal

did they ever clear up that random unexplained binaries issue?

gimme an advanced advanced mode that mimicks the uMatrix UI and i’d donate monthly for sure - uMatrix is one of my most used tools! i’d switch to uBO if the UI were as powerful

i’ve tried using dynamic filtering before, but honestly the UI for it is horrible… their example they give for allowing youtube embeds shows my issue with it pretty well:

their solution is either to allow everything from google.com and youtube.com, or to allow all 3rd party frames

uMatrix allows me to, for example, allow 3rd party frames only from youtube.com, and block cookies for those same frames (heck you could even allow frames and block CSS originating from google if that worked!)

this is particularly useful for analytics services… sometimes the whole page won’t load if an analytics script doesn’t load, so you can allow only scripts and block xhr so it can’t send pings back home

you’re welcome! you too!

it should be noted though that it hasn’t been updated since 2021, and its repo has been archived (i’m not sure of the reasons). it still works great, but it’s not going to get any updates

i use uMatrix (by the same author as uBlock Origin), which essentially allows very granular control over what dynamic content to allow:

per domain and subdomain you can allow script, xhr, media, frames, cookies, images, css, and other things

so you can say, for example, on lemm.ee deny any scripts from google.com from loading and deny any xhr (so analytics can’t work even if the script is hosted on the sites own domain)

this stops a lot of fingerprinting in its tracks (except when you need to allow eg reCAPTCHA), but it does break pretty much every website until you go and allow only known good things (like scripts and xhr to the sites own domain)

there’s also server-side fingerprinting, which is harder again

reheated espresso tastes a WHOLE lot different, and reheated latte or flat white etc… well… nothing about them is the same except the caffeine content at that point

i can’t speak much for drip because american and australian coffee preparations are very different, but i imagine it’d be similar: coffee has oils in it, and i imagine that when it cools down the oils would solidify out… reheating the oils would reliquify them, but i’m not sure they’d be evenly distributed or even in the liquid any more (could be on the cup)

similar reasons as to why freeze dried doesn’t taste as good

when you get good enough that people care more about that than dumb shit like how you dress, being quirky is a massive benefit because it makes you even more memorable

i think it’s also incorrect: the basic premise of arch is minimally configured, do whatever you like… no installer is going to allow a user to do everything they want, so that’s kinda not “the arch way”… it’s not some gatekeeping BS, it’s just not what arch is about, and that’s fine… that’s why there are spinoff distros that disagree and make their own - this is FOSS after all

tonic water is further from water than vitamin water is. fizzy water means exactly 1 thing: carbonated, plain water

that’s rather untrue. sugar is actually very addictive, and the quantity in soft drinks (they have additives that make them actually palatable - without they’d be so sweet you couldn’t drink much) makes them particularly problematic

totally agree that at the smaller level more democratic decision making is the way to go. on the larger scale though i think there needs to be more direction and planning. if you take that small organisation-level decision making and make it plan for others, then you essentially have a government department

i think that small groups are great for small groups but big and complex achievements are just big and complex, and need appropriately sized infrastructure (including human and organisational infrastructure) to properly manage and complete. society is kinda past small achievements - the things we have to learn are big and complex

thus, we need appropriate big and complex organisations… the structure of those i’m not sure, but they’re always going to be somewhat autocratic - you can’t just have small groups decide not to cooperate because they don’t like something that they don’t agree with. sometimes people have to do things that aren’t in their best interest because it’s in the best interests of others… NIMBY is the antithesis of a functioning society - we all give up something so others can be better off, and others give up lots of little things so we are also much better off

and none of these big projects that we’re talking about are shoddy science. they’re highly structured, complex, peer-reviewed affairs with thousands of people involved. we could use far more money towards these things and peoples’ lives would get significantly better

sorry! i thought i was reading and replying to part of another conversation about getting big projects done!

you’re absolutely right

you can’t just hand wave away the problem and say it’s a problem in capitalism and then not tackle it. capitalism solves it with horrible living conditions: work to someone else’s standard or die

game theory exists - the system only works when everyone is honest, and every human system is going to have selfish, egotistical, and sociopathic people

i’d argue that slow scientific progress is morally questionable… people live longer and quality of life increases dramatically with new scientific research. to extend that time would need a pretty big offset to that to make up for it