Browser extensions come from the Chrome/Firefox addon store, though and not through distros.

And maybe that's why we have the problem that is being discussed ? No third party that would audit and build extensions from source.

If someone walks up to the owner in a restaurant and offers to pay them money to buy the restaurant, it's not considered suspicious.

Assuming the someone is private equity buying out, I expect the quality to drop like a stone and the place to go to hell.

So. It's not suspicious. But you can rest assured as a customer it isn't good news

(that doesn't make it wrong to sell ofc)

Not the same thing.

Was this ironically written by AI?

> The labor market isn't adjusting. It's snapping.

> MMLU, tokens per dollar, release intervals. The actual capability and infrastructure metrics. All linear. No pole. No singularity signal.

Maybe it was, maybe he just writes that way. At some point somebody will read so much LLM text that they will start emulating AI unknowingly.

I just don’t care anymore. If the article is good I will continue reading it, if it’s bad I will stop. I don’t care if a machine or a human produced unpleasant reading material.

I really hate that the first example has become a de facto tell for LLMs, because it's a perfectly fine rhetorical device.

It is a perfectly fine rhetorical device, and I don't consider a text that just has that to be automatically LLM-made. However, it is also a powerful rhetorical device, and I find that the average human writer right now is better at using these than whatever LLM most people use to generate essays. It's supposed to signify a contrast, a mood shift, something impactful, but LLMs tend to spam these all over the place, as if trying to maximize the number of times the readers gasp. It's too intense in its writing, and that's what stands out the most.

That's interesting -- I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

But reveals it step-by-step. When you click on a Discord link without an account, it says: Hello! What is your name? You check there are no faefolk around, and then type your name. Now you are in the chat room and you can chat to people.

A lot of discords have hoop jumping for rules or explainers. Then Nitro nags almost immediately and periodically thereafter. Server ops beg for Nitro boosts/packs.

I've gotten through a few of these, but they're not trivial.

But the friend group server won't have hoops, and the other nags while annoying don't act as a barrier to basic use.

> Given current events in the USA

Don't worry - they're repealing section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

The one that says platforms aren't liable for what their users post.

This means there will be no platforms at all very soon.

What is the purpose of repealing this act? Make platforms liable and thus enact more restrictions, is that right?

Makes selective political retribution easier.

As you suggest, it's clearly to curtail free speech further; but in a way that their supporters can claim isn't fascist because 'it's the companies doing it not the government'.

We do really need non-USA based social media, stat.

Companies already have the right to curtail space as much as they want. The government wants to force companies to ban left-wing speech.

>Don't worry

I'm not worried. We'll use Zulip which has values and thus takes responsibility for everything its users post, right?

It doesn't work very well. To join a room by address, you type the address into several boxes until you find the right one. If you log out, all your private messages are deleted because they were encrypted and the key is saved nowhere.

Keys are actually saved somewhere. On your homeserver, in a store itself encrypted by another key that only you (and your other clients) have.

You can disregard that store and not use it at all, which I actually think is a totally valid use case. It turns Signal-style at that point.

Why not Signal? I think that Matrix and Discord are for your circles of "friends" you don't actually know.

Well personally, I like to have organized chat rooms or "channels". Matrix is closer to a user friendly IRC client. Signal is great for group chats but some people are looking to have organized chat rooms for their friends.

Someone will eventually ask "why not just use IRC?" and the answer is simply: Would your non-tech-inclined friends enjoy doing that?

Because Signal has a single point of failure and actively fights with decentralization?

I love Signal, but it's not "IRC-shaped" like Discord, Slack, Matrix, etc are. It isn't built to play the same role.

Of course the readme is written with AI

Why can't AI agents use the internet, again?

Any comment for app features? Thanks

They're possible, but they're not exactly relevant, and you couldn't do something like that on newer hardware. It's like playing a guitar from a museum because the world just forgot how to make guitars. Pretty dystopian.