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Re:Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:58AM (#50181071)
I very rarely see actual candles being lit anymore. It's almost always fake candles with led lights.
Exactly I don't get why we can't figure out and prioritize allowing fish to pass around the dams.
Re:Pi 1.0 on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:14AM (#49930689)
Firecracker can be used for sandboxing. I'm not currently using the Pi + Firecracker combination but I think it's a very useful one. But the best sandbox solution probably depends on what you want to do.
Re:GPU World on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:06AM (#49533265)
I find this idea that we need to go through hell to reach salvation to be such a common trope. An unhelpful one. It affects how we see relationships and mental health too.

Maybe we should seek out the good things directly and not act as if the bad things are somehow going to purify us.

Re:GPU World on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:30AM (#49518654)
I think there are scenarios, however (un)likely that will lead us to this point. Imaging them and spreading such ideas can make that more likely.
Re:GPU World on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:28AM (#49518647)
I think the point of stories like these is to accept that the world is too complex to fit into a story but we can try to fit a part of it anyway and we might learn something from it or at least get an interesting experience.
Re:507 Mechanical Movements on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:41AM (#49466640)
Also, set up formulas for calculating speed, torque, forces etc, of each system.

Then create a modular simulation library and point and click simulator where all the component variants are covered so that the user can piece new systems together using those components.

Yeah I agree and I think code forges as well as AI harnesses are kinda the killer apps of this (relatively short) era.

I think once we figure out how to tighten the loop of user feedback, expert analysis, automatic/static verification and AI generation then technology is going to make another leap.

Why not?
Re:Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code on Monday August 10, 2026 @03:49AM (#49240619)
I've tried both incus and firecracker. Both seem to work well after initial script setup. I've got the impression that firecracker should be a fairly safe option for such use cases.
Re:GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement on Saturday August 01, 2026 @12:21PM (#49135733)
I remember there's at least one serious effort for forge federation. But don't know what it's called or how to search for it.

Edit: here's one: https://forgefed.org/

I think these SFRs are basically indoor blimps.
Re:Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023) on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @08:12AM (#48919600)
And yet all this power in the hands of the very few are only there because the rest of us don't know any better than coordinating for their benefit rather than coordinating in any other way.
> places like India

I had the impression that India is quickly turning rich enough to say no to things like this.

Re:Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:31AM (#48890023)
I've used Interrail every time I want to travel a longer distance across Europe by train. Spares me some of the stress of dealing with interruptions since I can often just hop on the next train. Unless it's fully booked...
Re:Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @03:28AM (#48828725)
> Or they scan at the edge on the user's device.

So then the user can "just" install their own client.

Re:Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @03:26AM (#48828702)
> Is scanning mandatory? - No — voluntary.

Voluntary for whom? The service provider? Can I opt out of getting scanned?

> Does it touch encrypted messages? - No. End-to-end encrypted communications were never scanned but providers could deploy client-side scanning under this law.

So it circumvents e2e encryption?

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How would these laws prevent me from just side loading my own open source client?

Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:24AM (#48670556)
Why Oracle?
Re:Iroh 1.0 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @02:55AM (#48551552)
Also, all connections in iroh are end-to-end encrypted.
Couldn't this be a flaw in the attention mechanism? Like they need some kind of grounding. An awareness of what they fundamentally should care about and how the thing they are currently giving attention to relates to that?
It seems like the site is currently getting hugged so I can't look but I'm glad someone is trying to achieve a more minimalistic take on the UX of a software forge. It seems like an area with good room for improvement.
Re:Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse? on Monday June 08, 2026 @06:26PM (#48453200)
Such competition will only turn into a moat of the hardware suppliers never manage (or choose) to fully adapt to increased demand?

But then the real moat should be on the hardware side anyway?

Re:Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse? on Monday June 08, 2026 @08:36AM (#48444558)
Realistically they can't go that much above the actual cost for inference since the customer can always switch to self hosted or inference only providers. Or their models have to be significantly better than the open source models for the foreseeable future. They will never be able to charge much more for their lower tier models.
Re:Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse? on Monday June 08, 2026 @05:20AM (#48443034)
Don't you think that we will eventually get more specialized hardware that will greatly improve efficiency? Running neural networks on GPU:s seem like quite wasteful?
Re:Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse? on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:29AM (#48442297)
I see at least two potential positives in this:

- The frontier AI companies have realized they won't be able to count on gaining ground and earning more in the future through sheer moat. They have to start earning right now.

- The playing field on the market got a whole lot more even as a result. Now everyone is competing on cost and quality - while there are still a lot of competition. AI can't easily get away with subsidizing their own product and enshittify later.

I might be missing something obvious here? It feels to me that if the frontier AI companies thought they could gain a lot more moat they wouldn't raise their prices this much this early? And their current moats/head start doesn't seem insurmountable?

> craftspeople take their jigs with them from job to job

Except for software gigs the software typically belongs to the customer so you'd need to rewrite it every time...

Re:The Dead Economy Theory on Friday May 29, 2026 @12:52PM (#48325839)
I guess it becomes different if instead of hiring more people to do more - all investment goes into more AI credits.

Then again, as long as there is more demand and there's a limited supply of compute you can still continue to hire people as well. If we assume that the market has infinite demand for whatever AI + humans can produce together both will have jobs.

If demand is limited and compute is plentiful it should make sense for a company to try to have AI do as much of the work as possible.

Re:How long until AI automates all cognitive labor? on Thursday May 28, 2026 @10:46AM (#48309712)
I guess AGI is the breaking point and superintelligence is everything above?
> no one can stop me or control what is said no matter what

Can't they just triangulate the nodes and hack or unplug them? And put whoever objects into prison?

You're probably on point there.

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