> Is there something like a Turing test for AGI? There is the "Economic Turing Test", you let it find a job and earn money for itself. If it can do that reliably, across a wide area of jobs, that should fit most…
And even if it wins, it won't matter much, since it is only one of many issues with the current Internet that prevents people from connecting to each other. Even with IPv6 you'd still have no way to find the other…
Internet deserves some blame too, when you have 8 billion people, but only 4 billion addresses, you are naturally going to end up with a lot of centralized services to work around those limits.
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Lack of BitTorrent support in browsers is big thing that is missing. Brave and Opera have it, but all the mainstream browsers don't. Thus torrent downloads never got out of its specific niche. That said, I don't think…
It would be more analog to HTTP not specing out how CDNs should work, or Usenet not specing out how DejaNews is going to work. It's infrastructure stuff neither the client nor the simple server has to care about. The…
Looking at my complete grey friends list in Pidgin, with not a single user left active, it looks like every left around 8-12 years ago. Many of the old servers are offline as well.
Nostr is a protocol, not a service. That's like saying HTML was adopted by the alt right.
Nostr relays can censor however much they want. And users can just add other relays and route around it. That's fundamentally different from most other protocols, where user identity and posts are tied to a single…
And how am I going to find the valid friend requests under the hundreds of spam ones? I used it just like a chat version of public email, for bug reports and such, so I don't know who is going to message me beforehand.
> XMPP is the pinnacle of chat that just works. Not my experience. I had to give up on it since it was just completely flooded with spam, and unlike mail readers that have ways to mitigate it, XMPP clients were ill…
It's a nice example how one can generate infinite outputs and avoid the problems that normally come with combinatoric explosions from offering too many options. Say you have a program that can use Gtk or Qt, but also…
How is that grim? It's the dream of the Semantic Web coming true, just by different means than planed.
> Waiting 90 years to obtain the right to make copies is a tradeoff. That's a little more than a trade off, it means nobody alive today will ever experience those games. And those people 90 years in the future, probably…
> Libraries and archives are able to keep digital copies, with limits imposed on how they may share them Share them by bundling them with DRM[1]? Like archive.org does with books and games that you can't download, but…
Yeah, of course you can, but that isn't exactly an argument for DRM-free GOG if you need the evil Steam to get your games running, or mess around with DOSBOX, Wine, Heroic, Lutris or whatever else is the workaround of…
Whenever an AI hallucinates an API call, you run the compiler, give it the error messages and it fixes it. A proper agentic workflow might do it all automatically. These are arguments form 2023 ChatGPT3.5 days when it…
DRM-free was a nice idea 20 years ago, the problem is that it doesn't scale. There is just way to much media out there to keep track of and especially with games you are looking at frequent updates and patches, that…
That's how it should be. Make the Internet 18+ by default and sites targeted at younger audiences can add a more detailed rating. Let people configure their devices however they like it. The whole problem with the…
I thought it was the other way around, X11 has supported multiple cursor since 2009 and Wayland didn't add support for it since toolkit developers weren't making use of it anyway. Enabling in X works via: xinput list #…
Veho[1] is experimenting[2] with similar kinds of robots for package delivery. [1] https://www.shipveho.com/rivr [2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d6jU_4XjkTU
There is Radicle for completely distributed hosting.
Gemini3.5 Flash didn't have a problem OCR'ing and base64 decoding it, despite the OCR step having errors, it just fixed them in the base64 decoding step.
They all degrade and hold less charge over time and eventually fail completely, it will just take years or decades. But with today's forced obsolescence on the software side I tend to agree. The chance that a device…
It's not about the console itself, but the accessories, anything that makes you buy more controllers means more money for them. And batteries aren't even the worst offender here. Controllers have been using USB and an…
> Is there something like a Turing test for AGI? There is the "Economic Turing Test", you let it find a job and earn money for itself. If it can do that reliably, across a wide area of jobs, that should fit most…
And even if it wins, it won't matter much, since it is only one of many issues with the current Internet that prevents people from connecting to each other. Even with IPv6 you'd still have no way to find the other…
Internet deserves some blame too, when you have 8 billion people, but only 4 billion addresses, you are naturally going to end up with a lot of centralized services to work around those limits.
[dead]
Lack of BitTorrent support in browsers is big thing that is missing. Brave and Opera have it, but all the mainstream browsers don't. Thus torrent downloads never got out of its specific niche. That said, I don't think…
It would be more analog to HTTP not specing out how CDNs should work, or Usenet not specing out how DejaNews is going to work. It's infrastructure stuff neither the client nor the simple server has to care about. The…
Looking at my complete grey friends list in Pidgin, with not a single user left active, it looks like every left around 8-12 years ago. Many of the old servers are offline as well.
Nostr is a protocol, not a service. That's like saying HTML was adopted by the alt right.
Nostr relays can censor however much they want. And users can just add other relays and route around it. That's fundamentally different from most other protocols, where user identity and posts are tied to a single…
And how am I going to find the valid friend requests under the hundreds of spam ones? I used it just like a chat version of public email, for bug reports and such, so I don't know who is going to message me beforehand.
> XMPP is the pinnacle of chat that just works. Not my experience. I had to give up on it since it was just completely flooded with spam, and unlike mail readers that have ways to mitigate it, XMPP clients were ill…
It's a nice example how one can generate infinite outputs and avoid the problems that normally come with combinatoric explosions from offering too many options. Say you have a program that can use Gtk or Qt, but also…
How is that grim? It's the dream of the Semantic Web coming true, just by different means than planed.
> Waiting 90 years to obtain the right to make copies is a tradeoff. That's a little more than a trade off, it means nobody alive today will ever experience those games. And those people 90 years in the future, probably…
> Libraries and archives are able to keep digital copies, with limits imposed on how they may share them Share them by bundling them with DRM[1]? Like archive.org does with books and games that you can't download, but…
Yeah, of course you can, but that isn't exactly an argument for DRM-free GOG if you need the evil Steam to get your games running, or mess around with DOSBOX, Wine, Heroic, Lutris or whatever else is the workaround of…
Whenever an AI hallucinates an API call, you run the compiler, give it the error messages and it fixes it. A proper agentic workflow might do it all automatically. These are arguments form 2023 ChatGPT3.5 days when it…
DRM-free was a nice idea 20 years ago, the problem is that it doesn't scale. There is just way to much media out there to keep track of and especially with games you are looking at frequent updates and patches, that…
That's how it should be. Make the Internet 18+ by default and sites targeted at younger audiences can add a more detailed rating. Let people configure their devices however they like it. The whole problem with the…
I thought it was the other way around, X11 has supported multiple cursor since 2009 and Wayland didn't add support for it since toolkit developers weren't making use of it anyway. Enabling in X works via: xinput list #…
Veho[1] is experimenting[2] with similar kinds of robots for package delivery. [1] https://www.shipveho.com/rivr [2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d6jU_4XjkTU
There is Radicle for completely distributed hosting.
Gemini3.5 Flash didn't have a problem OCR'ing and base64 decoding it, despite the OCR step having errors, it just fixed them in the base64 decoding step.
They all degrade and hold less charge over time and eventually fail completely, it will just take years or decades. But with today's forced obsolescence on the software side I tend to agree. The chance that a device…
It's not about the console itself, but the accessories, anything that makes you buy more controllers means more money for them. And batteries aren't even the worst offender here. Controllers have been using USB and an…