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Enemy of the State predicted this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EwZQddc3kY&t=11s It's only a matter of time before it's in use by law enforcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/…

Archive now, make public after X amount of time. So, maybe both publisher and archiver are happy (or less sad).

This answer is the most important one. The future of state LLMs is not censoring subjects - it's slowly but surely persuading people using your LLM that your version of events - or…

Core of the article: the cathedral, the bazaar, and the workshop - https://jamesmunsch.com/words/2026-01-18-the-atelier--craft-...

Apologies if this is against the rules. I linked to a sub-heading of the article (which I think is the core and most important part of the article) and named the link after that. R…

Also, what is their USP? "Join our social network so we can train our models on your data!"

I've invented a replacement for the PDF format. It's called Locked Markdown. `*.lmd`. It provides 98% of the functionality most people use PDFs for, without all the extra bullshit.…

Cory Doctrow goes into the reasons behind the rise of playlists and the control it gives the platform over their users/artists. Worth a read. https://craphound.com/category/interne…

What is modulex: https://www.newelementary.com/2017/11/old-bricks-what-are-mo...

You should be embarrassed by the obviousness of this spam.

Nice 'Holy Mountain' vibes in the promo video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXGhsAynGI

Maybe you would never misuse this technology, but if it becomes widespread and normalized then plenty of people are going to be walking into public toilets (other previously privat…

Maybe "contactcode" would be better in this situation, as it doesn't imply any specific relationship between participants.

Complaints about TailwindCSS always remind me of this quote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Si…

These companies are not designed to last forever. Many wrappers can make decent amounts of money for their creators for months and then die. Under these conditions a company can cl…

I will have to update my belief that LLMs would not be practical for use by citizens of authoritarian regimes.

What happens when you ask about Tiananmen Square? (Asking for redwood, who's comment was inexplicably flagged).

https://m.youtube.com/@HackersCurator https://hackerscurator.com/

This is assuming you are trying to create a perfect system. The "good enough" version of this solves most Sibil Attacks[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

This seems like an Innovator's Dilemma (adjacent) trap. The actors will prevent hollywood or the mainstream studios from using synthetic actors, writers, etc. so it will be left up…