lordhumphrey

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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
The "spirit" of FOSS licences the various sorts of ideas that lead to the GNU project and the FSF in the 80s, and all that user-freedom-fighting heritage. I think even critics of the GNU project and the FSF would have to admit tha
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Urgent – OSU Open Source Lab needs your help(gentoo.org)
8 points by lordhumphrey 1y ago|1 comments
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
They provide funding for "Drupal, Gentoo Linux, Debian, Fedora, phpBB, OpenID, Buildroot/Busybox, Inkscape, Cinc and many more!". There was a drop in corporate funding, so they had to rely more on the OSU College of Engineeri
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Whether an action has gotten a legal thumbs-up or not is of little relevance here. I'd like to leave the question of why that's true as an exercise for the reader, but your comment makes it sound as if you have trouble with this c
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Extremely interesting! I did ask myself if all those people would like having their photos online, what with the PRC across the pond. But perhaps I'm being "old-fashioned" there. Very much appreciate the insider story. I&#x27
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Just read the Wikipedia page - holy sh*t, if you'll pardon my French, what a figure! I haven't done anything with Perl, or Haskell, so this figure was just outside my view. Will definitely check some stuff out, I appreciate the po
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
What's amazing is the cynical moral calculus people like yourself engage in when you completely discount some types of human lives, but then display this theatrical shock at the notion that the lives of your personal mythological figur
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Yes, and the name for this behaviour is called "being scientific". Imagine a process called A, and, as you say, we've no idea how it works. Imagine, then, a new process, B, comes along. Some people know a lot about how B work
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Excellent name! BULLSHIT really captures the spirit of the whole thing.
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Marshall McLuhan called, he said to ask yourself, who's driving who?
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
I strongly encourage anyone who finds Meta's repeated crappy behaviour objectionable to delete their accounts on Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook, etc. Or, at least, to delete as many as they can get away with, given their personal constr
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
I think you may be being downvoted for the exclamation mark, which I also found a tad over the top, although I didn't downvote you. Particularly when the mistake you're correcting was so reasonable and charming. It's an excel
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
The comment you're resonding to didn't say one thing about not punishing "actual criminals". What in the world are you responding to?
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
> It's why I'm here - it's one of the only countries on earth for which I'm politically optimistic. My curiosity is piqued by this. Do you mean to say you've moved there from somewhere place? And what do you mean
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
This is a copy-paste of what I wrote elsewhere: > Here's the definition from the esoteric programming language wiki, which is a lovely resource for anyone interested https://esolangs.org/wiki/Esoteric_programmin
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Your musings at the end reminded me vaguely of https://www.greenarraychips.com/ a Chuck Moore designed computer chip. "With 144 independent computers, it enables parallel or pipelined programming on an unprecedented sc
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Malbolge and then https://github.com/iczelia/malbolge-lisp were mindblowing to me. And then there's the legendary https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca "Orca is an esoteric programming
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Forth isn't an esoteric programming language. The word “esoteric” has a specific meaning in this context.
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Hmmm. GP listed three languages which are not esoteric, and you've patted them on the back and shared three more which are not esoteric. Oops. Esoteric language =/= any non-mainstream language. Here's the definition from the
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
> 2. We will not accept changes (code or otherwise) created with the aid of "AI" tooling. "AI" models are trained at the expense of underpaid workers filtering inputs of abhorrent content, and does not respect the own
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Could this argument not be made for anything plugged in to OpenAI's API? If so, I don't see how it's a response to the point. If you make an app for interacting with an LLM and in the app the user has access to all sorts of s
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
The worker-drones powering the software world have so far resolutely not managed to reflect on their primary role in implementing the dystopian technological landscape we live in today, when it comes to privacy. Or they have and they simp
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
I take it you haven't seen this then: https://cybersecuritynews.com/fraudgpt-new-black-hat-ai-tool...
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
As the other replies allude to, it worked at one stage. This subjective and lovely history of the Great Firewall of the PRC was posted recently, about the to and fros in the methods of this kind of thing, and is really very good, if you&#x2
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Wowser. Is it a similar story to the Chinese olympics successes - train kids from a (very) young age in specialised schools?
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
It absolutely did. 100% literacy, but all we read is garbage, and all we write is short and shallow. 100% computer literacy too, if that term means making accounts, clicking on links, scrolling up and down, taking videos of things, and comm
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Wow, China with a pretty dominant position there with 3 teams in the top five. Interesting seeing Karlsruhe there too, I'd been looking at that school.
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Peak HN here. Playing musical instruments is "redundant because of technology". And so is "riding horses"? And "painting pictures". Eh, what?
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
The 'internet tax' will not last, either, I fear. Loads of VPNs are simply, someone other than the local ISP gets your data. Mullvad seems trustworthy, as an exception to this, and who else? And even then, Mullvad faces issues fro
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by lordhumphrey 1y ago
Reading your comment, my mind is immediately awash with the endless sea of memories I cherish so dearly of discussions I've had with economists, psychologists, computer scientists, social scientists, political scientists, and of course

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