It would probably give them the Screamies.

(Excellent 1960s sci-fi book, highly recommend)

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Just be patient for the inevitable uBlockOrigin update that will fix it.

Their HA infrastructure is all built on open source projects. The thing they have that we don’t is teams of SREs on-call 24/7.

So they claim.

Looking through the commit history there are numerous “Manually fixed…” commits, where the LLM doesn’t do what the programmer wants after repeated prompting, so they fix it themself.

And here is the problem. It required expert supervision for the prompts to be repeatedly refined, and the code manually fixed, until the code was correct. This doesn’t save any labour, it just changes the nature of programming into code review.

If this programmer wasn’t already an expert in this problem domain then I have no doubt that this component would be full of bugs and security issues.

Meaning it’s really just running in their closet,

You think they’re lying about having their hardware in a colo?

All pirates drink water. What is water doing to stop piracy?

I think you’ve misunderstood what AGI means.

If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn’t “general”.

Can you elaborate? I don’t get what you mean by this.

It depends on the provenance of the code and who (if anyone) is downstream.

A project that’s packaged in multiple distros is more likely to be reliable than a project that only exists on github and provides its own binary builds.

I think we can make an exception for soup and ice-cream, no?

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The irony of it is that calling something a though-terminating cliche has itself become a thought-terminating cliche.

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Who are you? Even a known and respected cryptographer would not release a tool with such confidence. First you need to request testing and code review before you announce to people that it is a “secure, anonymous file-sharing platform.”

This is not a community for sharing your personal programming projects for feedback. If you post here, there will be non-technical users who don’t know how to evaluate the security of tools and won’t understand they are taking a huge risk by using your unknown alpha release project.

it doesn’t cause me any big problems

Can you be sure about that?

I have a friend who says he has a terrible memory and he often asks me to tell him about things that happened in the past that we experienced together. You should definitely ask people close to you to do the same.

I’m sure mailbox.org’s security is just as good as any other mail provider but these days there are so many database breaches that you need to consider (with every service that you use) what the impact would be to you if that association became public through some kind of database leak.

If your work doesn’t care about your productivity then give them what they deserve for the tools they provide.

They front a huge percentage of the internet, so you can pretty much guarantee that all of the three-letter agencies have their fingers in Cloudflare’s infrastructure, whether they cooperate willingly or not.

If you care about your privacy you should avoid these kind of infrastructure monopolies, since they are such a juicy target.