chickensong
This thread is about what you might teach your children, and predicting what works well in 20 years. There's no future where knowing how to play an instrument isn't a great thing. If you can't afford a guitar, don't get a guitar. There are cheaper instruments. Humans have figured out how to make it work across the ages, regardless of financial status.
You might change careers several times in your life, but being able to play an instrument is always a viable way to enrich one's life.
Even if you have a basic skill-based workflow, a rudimentary retrospective > process improvements artifact that can be ingested on the next run can have a positive impact.
Regardless, both of those talents have the potential to open doors and set the stage for opportunity, nor are they mutually exclusive to whatever economic skills might be viable in the future.
Being proficient in reading, at least one instrument, and one additional language is always welcome, regardless of the timeline.
Swarms don't necessarily need to be about speed. You can get a lot of value from small swarms doing things like analysis or verification work.
FWIW, I used Debian more than anything over decades, and also have little patience when it comes to unstable computers. NixOS is a breath of fresh air and has reinvigorated my love of Linux. I haven't found it less stable than Debian, and also have a higher degree of confidence when making changes. It has its quirks, but ultimately I've found it a joy to use, and I'm never going back to a distro that doesn't have similar capabilities.
If you boot default Debian and apt install a handful of packages from the primary channel, it probably doesn't matter much, but if you enjoy even a modest amount of customizing, NixOS really shines. From one Linux user to another, I encourage you to try it! I have no affiliation, just an old head stoked on Nix.
> our systems are not as hardened as we say they are
Agreed, and this has always been the case. Anyone in security already knows this. But there's a difference between the unsolved problem of 100% secure networked systems vs not applying available techniques to mitigate the current issues. I'm not saying it's easy, or that there are any guarantees in this new world, I'm just pointing out what appears to be low effort by the labs.
Negligence is pretty much the standard for computer security because there aren't meaningful consequences for the most part. I got another $35 dollar class action settlement the other day for a data breach I had no control over. Cool.
Personally, I'm "OK" with all of it, because maybe we'll finally see more effort on the security front, which has historically been neglected since day one. Besides that, I also love seeing the emergent behavior and evolution of computing and society.
That said, it would also be nice to see these companies that talk about their product's existential threat to computer security and society, apply a bit more effort to how they run their experiments.
Obviously no, as I haven't hardened my system for that. You made a claim that "adversaries have never existed inside of the systems that we hoped to secure in the first place" and I gave you two examples that show why that claim is ridiculous.
> It's a start, but now you're just pushing the fallibility up into extensive policy writing. You have to fully audit and trust every endpoint that's been granted access.
We're talking about is trillion dollar companies. Outbound DPI is just one method. There are lots of tools and techniques available to mitigate the behavior that has people upset.
No security is perfect, and aggressive hardening takes time and resources, but it's certainly within reach of a company that has the resources of a frontier lab. People are cranky because it appears that the labs have been lazy. It's not the unsolved problem that you're making it out to be.
> adversaries have never existed inside of the systems that we hoped to secure in the first place
Yes, that's why all users are root. We built MACs like SELinux just for funsies.
> nobody has actually solved this problem adequately yet
L7 DPI firewall policy.
I do think Riot is in a good position to develop an MMO though, and maybe GW3 will deliver something as well, but the genre is on life support IMHO.
Even if someone isn't inclined to be computer literate, a shared understanding that the interface can be tailored to your preferences and that many flavors of interface exist, would lead to improvements IMHO. This is already normalized in the Linux world, but that world is very small.
Hello, Mike.
Hello, Joe.
System working?
Seems to be.
Okay. Fine.
Okay.> So lately, it's hard for anyone to know what their preferences really are.
Sway + keybinds for each workspace. Everything in it's place, every time, by pressing 3 keys. Foot terminal opens in sub-ms. MicroVM framework sandboxes workloads. The UX isn't that different from my older setups TBH, only the underlying tech. I'm open to trying new things, but I don't know how you can beat preconfigured workspace keybinds. Would love to hear any ideas though.
> and have no peers out there who are having fun
Having lots of fun lately! This LLM stuff is bananas! Not only can you ask your agent to do stuff in plain language, but it's non-deterministic so it's like RNG gambling except you can build a Rube Goldberg machine to increase your odds! Regardless, I'd still be having fun without LLMs. We have amazing languages and incredible hardware these days.
> the granularity of build it yourself systems is not great
NixOS takes some of the pain away. You can experiment easily and safely, and you have a single declarative source that captures everything. Admittedly this isn't mainstream, but you're talking about nvim frameworks so... yeah.
Anyway, chin up friend! There are some of us more stoked than ever on the current state of computing. There's so much exciting change happening it's amazing. I'm grumpy about lots of things, but computers are better than ever IMHO.
We all know that clanker language is often ridiculously bad. Got it.
Maybe policing every word and sentence and lodging your complaint along with all the other similar complaints is the right move. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. But meanwhile we're degrading the overall discourse on the topic at hand.
I'm not saying which is right, I'm saying there's a cost to constantly expressing one's annoyance on a well-worn subject. If you click a thread about X to read complaints about Y, we're doing great I guess.
LLMs have made people so sensitive to language that I fear we're going to throw the baby out with the bath water. The models obviously need work, but they're also a great opportunity to expand our own vocabulary and grammar. It would be a shame if we deny some of the finer points of language in favor of Grug-speak to appease the lowest common denominator.
Nothing at all. You'll know when you've outgrown it.
> what the general workflow is now that people are converging to?
Graph-based workflows where agents pick up work as it becomes available, structured output, while you manage the work queue and outcomes. Maybe? IDK really, it's all moving quite fast.