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Governments can hire a hitman to go after you, if you say something wrong. So can international crime syndicates. Will this have a meaningful effect on chilling your speech? https:…

This already happened in many other areas. You don't ask locals for directions anymore. You just have Google Maps. There used to be jokes about how men don't want to ask for direct…

That’s how much their silence was able to accomplish!

Sounds like most URIs have been downright uncool, then!

It's all a matter of whether someone is willing to pay for the hosting. Which is not, in my opinion, how things should be hosted on the Web. Freenet had a different approach, even …

I think a) seems very quixotic and causes more problems than it solves. Instead, I would say that discrimination should probably only be illegal in places where there aren’t enough…

Orthodox Jews do it every Sukkot :)

Wow, congrats! Can you discuss how you got YCombinator to select your open source project? I know they sometimes fund open source… I’ve been building several large platforms since …

Kenton, back when I was building qbix.com/ecosystem you were building sandstorm, and I wanted to get in touch. Now I have spent about 6 months building the hardened, self-hosted AI…

I only realized it wasnt after googling for the phrase “cloudflare.pay” and finding the announcement on Cloudflare’s own blog, which I trust because it is on cloudflare.com All the…

Yeah, there are all kinds of spinoffs. How closely does Alan Watts actually teach Buddishm?

Hm, Absurdity is an interesting concept, M. Camus. Thank you for posting it to HN, I have looked through the docs and I got curious. How does it compare with Buddhism of Siddharta …

That is why I built https://safebots.ai/safebox.html Your strategy can’t be patch AFTER an intrusion. Only to build a hardened environment from scratch and be ready in advance.

Very relevant: https://magarshak.com/blog/government-and-industry-distract-...

An excellent and very detailed post-mortem analysis of the intrusion. It was clearly done with LLMs doing the forensic analysis. Here is an analysis of how the same exact attack wo…

Yes, actually. To be fair — from about half of the papers.

Funny, as ONE PERSON with Claude, I've been on a tear when it comes to publishing my own research: https://arxiv.org/search/?searchtype=author&query=Magarshak%... So I know that sm…

How would it be unfeasible to check someone’s age if it’s feasible now with a driver’s license? The technogy exists — it is called deepfakes LMAO

We can talk, talk, and governments will still move forward. Or we can build an alternative that shows it's possible to get age verification while maintaining privacy. There is a re…

Reminds me of this btw: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-12343597 Microsoft replied that Bing uses “many different signals” —- including cribbing from Google :-)

That’s an issue with the README. The server doesn’t do that. Thanks for the good catch, will update README.

It is quintessential socialism: collective ownership (of the “means of production”). It is just embedded in a market system, just as, say, USSR or Cuba was embedded in the global e…