Hidios

We don't understand how they work. We know how to make them, but much like the human brain, the very low level workings are beyond our understanding.

Broadly it can be said that LLMs work by reducing uncertainty. Interestingly, human consciousness is also theorized by some to work the same way, react to the input in ways to reduce uncertainty.

That is true for people with the same level of access as you. The 3 letter agencies have access to much wider array of data and yours can and will be used to track people of interest and those who they deem problematic.

Would it not be in the interest of Google as well to fund Firefox? I would imagine they wouldn't mind spending a small amount to keep it alive to prevent accusations of Anti-competitive practises? ;)

How does HN maintain such a great community?

Agreed but as a read-only user of HN, I am compelled to say that your comment borders on Reddit-like low brow posts that fills most of their tech subreddits. I come here to get a break from all that and get an idea of purely the technical aspect of stuff.

I have not seen such a great community on the internet before, so if you have any recommendations of forums like HN, it would be great!

> i think a vast majority of it is people who want to stream content, pirate torrents, etc, without getting a strike letter from their ISP

This use case is definitely very underrated, people usually associate VPNs with higher latency but if your ISP has bad peering to certain locations, which many of them do, a good VPN can do wonders.

That can never ever happen in Europe. You can't just go ask Vodafone for a new sim with the same number because you lost it. You must be American.

Saying Russia did it too and they were much worse about it is not a valid defense of anything.