CursedSilicon

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by CursedSilicon 5d ago
Careful now. Criticizing the slop machine is a great way to get harassed on this site
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by CursedSilicon 7d ago
Do you work for IBM? [1] [1] In IBM there's a religion in software that says you have to count K-LOCs, and a K-LOC is a thousand line of code. How big a project is it? Oh, it's sort of a 10K-LOC project. This is a 20K-LOCer. And t
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by CursedSilicon 7d ago
The problem (particularly on places like HN) are that if you are openly Anti-AI the people who disagree will flex their ability to downvote you (which contravenes HN's rules [1] [2]) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/n
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by CursedSilicon 8d ago
Removed By Facebook or removed by a group admin?
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by CursedSilicon 8d ago
Not to sound like I'm criticizing them too harshly. But I do wonder what the poor souls Facebook hires through a litany of contractor and sub contractors are actually told to remove I've reported images of Swastikas, hate speech
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by CursedSilicon 8d ago
That seems to be an "April Folks Joke"
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by CursedSilicon 8d ago
PFsense gleefully ships vulnerable code to their own customers. They are an even worse data point https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-lice...
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by CursedSilicon 8d ago
I'm not sure why they aren't using it. His github repo is over here https://github.com/patapancakes/dreamconstraint
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by CursedSilicon 8d ago
Wasn't intended as a "nerdswipe". Wrangling OpenSSL to actually work is a herculean task on a good day. Much less figuring out how to enable ancient crypto protocols within it It's okay to "not know things".
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by CursedSilicon 8d ago
Ah, So. I (and one other person) disagreed with you visibly. Ergo you felt personally called out :) Sounds like a bit of main character syndrome
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by CursedSilicon 9d ago
Let's flip it, then Is the "anti AI mob" in the room with us right now? If not, why did you feel the need to lament it?
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by CursedSilicon 9d ago
I don't recall doing any of that. But thanks for affirming my point? :)
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by CursedSilicon 9d ago
Oh, I have * strong* opinions about the slop machine. But I try to temper them so I don't get buried by the usual "pro AI" mob I will say that my projects have a "leading the pack" anti-AI policy [1] [1] https:&#x
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by CursedSilicon 9d ago
A while back I helped a friend (read: dumped a bunch of compute power into it) brute force the SSL keys for Sega's "Phantasy Star Online" Dreamcast game. They used a similar kind of custom (and flawed) TLS implementation in t
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Report: How developers react to AI-scented blog posts(writethatblog.substack.com)
3 points by CursedSilicon 12d ago|0 comments
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by CursedSilicon 13d ago
That sounds rather tautological. If you can't even articulate the virtues in your own words
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by CursedSilicon 14d ago
One of my favourite memories of flying Qantas when I was younger was the inflight entertainment. If memory serves, they were celebrating some sort of milestone like "60 years without a fatal accident" or similar. Quite an impressi
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by CursedSilicon 17d ago
...That sounds like entropy? As in, the thing computers are bad at (truly random numbers) and /dev/urandom in your kernel already spits out an approximation of?
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by CursedSilicon 17d ago
Now that's not fair. Matrix gives you plenty of options to be flooded with CSAM or have all your chats become inexplicably unable to ever be decrypted again The future is now!
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by CursedSilicon 18d ago
I was always more of an MSN Messenger guy. But the Open OSCAR Server project is a fantastic labor of love stewarded by a kind soul. They put up with (if not were outright amused at) me digging up the weirdest 3rd party clients I could [1] a
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by CursedSilicon 18d ago
Not a bot. Just someone with reaaaallly bad takes it seems
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by CursedSilicon 19d ago
Perhaps the reason nobody called you a genius is explicitly because you fail to understand the article
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by CursedSilicon 19d ago
You literally complained nobody is calling you one in your first post
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by CursedSilicon 19d ago
"The rest of the world" you say to a literal thread of people explaining why you're wrong
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by CursedSilicon 19d ago
It's as if the fourth estate is bought and paid for by a side that directly benefits from these kind of money extracting policies
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by CursedSilicon 20d ago
The legality around that has not yet been tested, so
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by CursedSilicon 24d ago
Y'know with the exception of being run over with tanks (yet) I wasn't sure which side you were describing. Freedom of speech only exists on paper. One side screeches about "cancel culture" but then hides behind it to moc
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by CursedSilicon 27d ago
Sorry that self-improvement hurts you so
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by CursedSilicon 27d ago
Given the state of the US, I'm not so sure that pedophiles are truly fit to run anything
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by CursedSilicon 27d ago
Sir Mix-a-Lot tried to warn us, but we didn't listen!

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