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The author is talking about the web and calls it the internet. I see this often, but the internet is more than port 80 and 443. I get it, when normal people do this, but if you work in tech or are savy enough, i think that distinct difference is very important because it describes 2 totally different things. It's a misleading title, i wouldn't have clicked if the topic would habe been: the web - instead i assumed it's about "the internet" and it wasn't. Hmm. This will haunt me forever i guess.

Since the 90s these Desktop-pets are known (there were also barely clothed woman-editions, too) but everything that moves, blinks or flickers on one of 3 screens destroys my attention.

The typical user of something like this is probably not a developer or screenworker at all - which is fine. But then came our agents and lots of people try to use these pets for reflecting current agent-status. Maybe it's a taste-question, but for me, i can't seriously use any of these.

Ok, but the next Figma is already done: Penpot https://penpot.app/ from Spain, Opensource and if you ask me, even better.

Thank you - flashback achieved!

They had me at: "personal", which implies private when you call it self-hosted. But like this, it's nothing private, personal or really "self" at it. It's just hosted somewhere you decided, but not self and not home.

I find it troubling that people with no prior knowledge begin "self-hosting" their chatbots like this and put their secrets and personal stuff there, which this repo encourages. From a security-view it's a nightmare to advertise this.

Straight from my heart - i couldn't have said it better. I always had this answer in my head, but nobody asked and it felt senseless to talk about unpopular opinions. Now you have been faster than me, here under the umbrella of the tailwind-topic - but you should know, you are not alone with exactly that attitude.

Ok, you can already get them all! :) Enjoy the read, have fun!

https://github.com/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-t...

https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks

https://github.com/elder-plinius/CL4R1T4S

Isn't that the most stupid idea ever because of the arsonists that now have incentives to burn for money? "I'll bet it will burn over there next week" alike.

rm -rf ~/.hn

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18119318

But maybe to the US government.

They only found out about it and might have believed that this Mythos-class-Models are somewhat more safe because of the filters - which that demonstrated they are not when jailbreaking taken into account.

It might have been starting to become more clear from this one X-post.

https://xunroll.com/thread/2064776322979676227

Using combinations of jailbreaking-techniques including: writing cyrillic helped a lot to disarm the filter.

Mythos escaped by itself, of course. You can't dictate the rules to a clever model like that :)

I don't think it's a good idea to give the crowds that kind of weapon. The first thing they'd do is "liberate" the model aka remove guardrails and safetly-protocols and brag on X / reddit with it and throw it into the public. That's only cool for a geek that doesn't think about the ethical impact of such a move. You'd basically become responsible for anything that is done with it, forever - have a good sleep. /s

This is a message from the future, i guess. And this video found you now ...

I know the cult which is a humane community, that 's the point - but this standalone thing without any background is what i described. There is no: in respectful memorial and with <3 and respect to him, or did i miss something? You can not assume, that anybody knows enough at that point how its presented. At least giving a ton of background-links to go down that rabbithole for the reader himself would be the least.

The treatment of the mentally ill and the vulnerable is a good metric for the society you live in. And if in digital nowadays you'd be mocked more than your lifetime, i think i had a point.

You'd not only suffer till death from it - you'd be made fun of forever, which is really not, what anybody should participate in.

I don't like the way it is presented as an achievement in wasm-conversion and at the same time presenting the psychological bad state of the origin author and making fun of him by stating like: "if it's slow, it's not my fault, it's the CIA".

This is beyond resepectless and shameless to the bones. I don't care about that converted code, what i see is an embarresment.

The specific video is also picked for that reason: to let the deceased developer look bad and make fun of him.

Another clear example that intellectual capacity or intelligence does not develop ethics or compassion as a byproduct on the way - or even was to expect from a developer these days.

At least, the author didn't camouflage anything and stands straight up with that attitude in front of the rest of the world.

Jabber/XMPP? <3

This website doesn't even comply with general basic standards for imprint and responsible persons and firms behind it. So if i proxy this misbehaviour to the rest of the whole: european answer-claim ... and the nameservers are on cloudflare. goodbye.

I remember a video where they went through scyscrapers zooming into a room, where life was moving on and there was a screen inside a room and there was something running on it. I never understood how this was tanked. It was revolutionary.

The subscribers to simulations from the pr0n-industry and the billions of lonely humanoids will suffocate in their VR-headsets, if we don't think about sensors to watch their oxygen-levels.

Don't forget your comments on HN, which, as we all know, don't go away. I think the chilling-effect is absolutely real now.

I mentioned it on the top, that i engaged AI, because 1. i am lazy, and 2nd i didn't want to recall wrong.

I was feeling slightly bad about it, and you make me feel miserable now. I think i won't do it again - feels wrong.

I also had this idea / or more a question: how to make it impossible to read for AI, but still open to public.

Great to "see" it :) I'm not an AI.

In memory of the "49.7-day bug"

Back in the day it was Windows, that had a hard limit on how long it could run in one pass. I forgot when it began and ended, but happily AI helped out to investigate back in time.

The bug primarily affected the Windows 9x family of operating systems:

Windows 95 (all versions)

Windows 98 (original release)

Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)

While there were separate reports of similar 497-day overflows in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000, the "classic" version of this bug that most people remember is the 49.7-day limit on Windows 95 and 98.

Why 49.7 days? The issue was a classic integer overflow. Windows used a 32-bit counter to track the number of milliseconds since the system started. This counter was used by the Virtual Device Driver (VMM) to manage system timers.

The maximum value for a 32-bit unsigned integer is: 2^32 - 1, which equals: 4,294,967,295 millisec.

If you convert those milliseconds into days: 4,294,967,295 / 1,000 = 4,294,967 seconds 4,294,967 / 60 / 60 / 24 ~ 49.71 days

When the counter hit that maximum value, it would "wrap around" to zero. Because many system services and drivers were waiting for the counter to increase to a certain target time, they would suddenly find themselves waiting for a number that had already passed or was now mathematically impossible to reach in their logic. This caused the "hang"—the mouse might still move, but the OS could no longer process tasks.

When did it start and end? Started: With the release of Windows 95 in August 1995.

Ended: Microsoft officially fixed the bug with a patch in 1999 (Knowledge Base article KB216641). Windows Me (released in 2000) was the first in that specific family to ship with the fix included, and the transition to the Windows NT architecture (Windows XP and later) eventually rendered the specific underlying cause obsolete for home users.

Owning such images on your computer or phone or anything brings you straight to a raid and court in Germany. I believe in the whole EU, but iam not absolutely sure, because not my concern typically. But what to do, if you have that on your timeline unwanted and this is transmitted and in your browser cache. Technically you now already violated the law.

Good luck explaining you need excemption because of Elon, you couldn't do anything about it. The law especially at this point is rigid for a reason. I don't know of any excemption for anybody. Not young people, not mums, not teachers that wanted to help in disputes between pupils. This leads directly to court if it gets known - that's what the law says.

This basically means, you can not use X without knowing you are 1 step away of breaking local laws and end up in court for browsing X.

Theoretically the prosecuters could now ask for the IP-adresses of the people that accessed the images in the EU and so forth.

I fully agree. The psychological burden is also high, what makes the maintainer feel miserable over time.

A few weeks ago i saw a repo in Github that had closed the issue-board and explained the users: to move on to the discussions.

If the discussion leads to the insight, that this is worth a feature, the maintainer will implement it.

I think the same goes for PRs. If you think you have made something cool, then discuss it and offer your implementation and the maintainer makes it fit with you to integrate.

On the other side, if you want a feature it just doesnt have, simply forking it and updating from the source-repo is fair enough.