If you mean "set up an equivalent service" under your own domain, that's both less private and more likely to be blocked; there are a lot of services which, unfortunately, only allow sign-ups from big, well-known domains.

... and Mythos just found 10k of zero-days. Dept of trading issued an order to restrict foreigners access to PyLint. /s

Note that “instance” is Mastodon-brained and is a wrong way to think about atproto. The correct parallel is RSS / Google Reader.

Atproto has two types of things: hosting and apps.

- Hosting is like RSS. You can host your data on your own server and broadcast from it. It’s just an open source Docker container.

- Apps are like Google Reader. They aggregate from all hosts and usually build an index so they can show a rich view over the network. That’s what Bluesky, Leaflet, Tangled, etc, so.

So there is no “instance”. There’s hosting and there’s apps.

Systems like Emacs that are hyper-configurable via a text file seem tailor made for modern LLM's. If you've got a little bit of Emacs experience but bounced off of it because the learning curve was too steep I highly recommend diving back in with your agent. Agents are really good at setting up and maintaining your .emacs/init.el.

Not one of them links to the actual well-known resource, only pdf specifications. And several I picked randomly leads to dead ends.

Here's one I could find: https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration

But how does one even find this?

Well. It is not cheap. Each new built large scale reactor needs tens of billions in subsidies. Money which could have multiple times larger effect, in a fraction of the time, if invested in renewables and storage.

I am glad articles like this are finally starting to get some momentum around what I call the LLM magic box industry. From caveman mode to RTK to semantic search and everything in between. Developers have become magicians that cast spells instead of engineers. It sucks at work especially with everyone so sure that their magic spell is the one for ultimate token savings.

My criteria are: if it’s not in a harness it’s probably not that good (the best ideas float up to Codex/Claude imo) and any GitHub advertising some percent of token savings is not to be trusted.

It’s hard to avoid the snake oil and I hope people start thinking critically on this stuff.

I don't wanna badmouth Java people, but how they push the idea that this thing is some sort of genuine breakthrough that took multiple PhDs years of cutting-edge research to implement, when in fact they basically copied what .NET did from basically year 1, is not a good look.

Again, not trying to turn this into a .NET vs Java thing, I'd have been much happier if they reached some new and interesting conclusions.

Functionally they don't - java is just catching up with (by now) ancient practice.

The false dichotomy of

> A struct in C# has identity and mutation, so the semantics of copying on assignment or passing have to be precisely defined, which gives a heavier model for the programmer and less freedom for the runtime.

Doesn't really match with what they're describing. While yes, it will not have identity in a java class ref sense, it of course will still have identity in being a unique structure in memory at a certain address. This is just splitting hairs about Java nomenclature.

Public broadcasters in .de and .at have generally become very shady. To me it seems they dont have to pretend to do good journalism anymore, because they are financed by a mandatory fee per household anyway. It started to be very visible during COVID times. Unfortunately, since then, it only got worse.

yeah, some it has been shaped by man, but that does not negate or invalidate the fact that they like it the way that it is.

My clean dinner table is completely artificial, but that doesnt mean I should be neutral to someone placing a bowl of shit on it.

This is when it makes sense to split your business up into multiple smaller businesses. The government should be doing this via anti-trust but they have dropped the ball there so, at this point, the corps really need to just do it to themselves to better compete.

One of the problems is that the term itself got muddled to the point of becoming almost meaningless. It covers anything from pattern recognition, classification, to diffusion models. But the fact remains that many people have a love/hate relationship with LLMs.

Statements like this are just totally detached from reality. AI products are incredibly popular, even amongst people who say they dislike “AI”.

Maybe that acronym is tainted, but the technology isn’t going anywhere.

Yes, all those things would be broken if I don't need any leverage, and my loans were backed by liquid assets I already possess that I'm avoiding selling in an effort to avoid taxable events even though I really want to purchase a fancy Palo Alto compound that occupies an entire block.

For the vast majority of folk who take out the loans you listed, the loans are leveraged and are either unsecured, or secured by the car or property the loan was made out for, and therefore no underlying value to tax prior to the loan being issued. You knew this already, and I have doubts you're making this false equivalency argument in good faith.

6 Football (soccer) players share my name and I still am at the top. Type "SEO" and I'll DM you my one little weird trick. /jk

Fun story about my name [0], the bank couldn't mail me my debit card because the mailman kept crossing my address off the envelop.

[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/sharing-a-name

What does Zionist mean when Israel has existed as a Jewish state for 78 years? I'm genuinely asking because the way the word is used doesn't make sense to me. There aren't similar terms for other countries to just stay the same, like for China to keep being run by the CCP. Every other country is assumed to have ontological inertia except for Israel.

> ... and organizations willing to pay a lot of money to do political manipulation / influencing.

Like what, parties campaigning?

You'd be surprised as how there's individuals and organizations willing to pay a lot of money to do political manipulation / influencing.

"Domain-verifications" is an invitation for everyone else that might need it to use the same standard and convention. "Discord-domain-verification" is not, it's what feels like polluting the global namespace with the company name that might cease to exist in a few years.

You already put them into your own mouth, maybe wash 'em out if that feels uncomfortable to you.

Yeah, that seems like it'd be something that would also stop nuclear deployment.

I feel that the Zen used in the West and the Zen in East Asia are quite different. I think the Western Zen is probably the one from the 1970s book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It usually carries a sense of equanimity and beginner's mind. But in East Asia, Zen actually emphasizes aimlessness or non‑purposefulness.

The point where I really feel the difference is that Western Zen seems to be about how to train the self to become stronger, whereas actual Seon (Zen) in East Asia is about going with nature, letting go of the self, and allowing things to flow. In the actual practice of Seon, it's about doubting the self, letting go of attachments, and realizing that achievement, comparison, and the desire for control are all just fleeting. There's a famous phrase: 'Banghasak (放下著)' — let it all go.

If anything, I think ancient Roman Stoicism feels more like Zen than Western Zen does

So that's fascinating. When I saw this article, I was expecting it to be about whether we should give up the desire for success, but instead it took a completely different direction, which was surprising

Quads and dirt bikes afaik.

If the truck killrate is 90% what is it for troop transports? How do infantry get in and out of position?