Its like bank holidays.
If everything stops, nobody is doing business

“you are an internet router. Your job is to route internet packets. Make no mistakes. Use socat to read a stream of bytes from eth1 and forward them suitably using socat on eth0. Use best practices. Prevent all hacks and data leaks. Eth1 is the local trusted lan. Eth0 is the wider internet. Use Claude API when confused”

little rant

Its a valid rant.

Yeh, exactly. “You have the ip to work with”

one.one.one.one isnt an http/ request, its a dns lookup.
If it was an http/s request to 1.1.1.1 then it could be blocked. Also, super cheap/easy to proxy

You have the destination IP to work with, thats it. Otherwise it just looks like any other HTTPS traffic.

I guess if you uplpaded your own root CA cert tgen you could man-in-the-middle for deeper packet inspection.
Or, i guess, try using eMudhra’s compromised private keys and hope the clients havent been updated yet

There are issues with AI involving licensing and peoples IP and crediting sources and all that.

It has also massively reduced the barrier of entry for both finding and patching bugs, and producing realistic looking bug reports.
My biggest issue (other than enviromental and social impacts) is the load it puts on developers. They pretty much HAVE to use LLMs to triage and test bug reports… because it takes very little skill to use an LLM to “deep dive this area of the linux kernel and find a bug or RCE/CVE”, and the LLM probably will. But the unskilled user might not understand what the exploit/bug actually is. But they get some sort of POC and some sort of write up, and then they dump it on someone elses plate.
If that bug is actually patched/impossible because of something outside of the scope/context that the LLM used, or if its only a bug because of bad config… yeh, its a bug, but it isnt an important one. And it eats up developer resources to confirm/triage/fix that bug.

Also, LLMs are an averaging engine. They work on “most likely” probability evaluations. So, you get average code.

There has to be a human in the loop

There really is an XKCD for everything. Even if it was drawn years before what its applicable to

Purr I do not alter it furrier.

Hmm, maybe thats too much

I consider aetheism to be more an absence of belief in gods.
Its not that i believe there arent gods. Its that i have no belief in gods.
The former being anti-god/anti-religion. And the later being anti-belief.
Maybe like “not accidentally cutting yourself” and “not having a knife”. Both lead to “not accidentally cutting yourself”, but 1 involves a knife.

Yeh, this is common.
I’ve heard of PPI (Producer Pleaser Indicator) which is a mixing desk channel not routed anywhere but can be fiddled with to meet client demands.
And there is the DFA (Does Fuck All). Similar concept

They will be using data center compute to generate the traffic, but proxy it through residential proxies and other compromised devices that form a botnet.
Central generation with remote access for the trolls, and distributed outbound traffic.

First of all, I like the alliteration of examples I always struggle with things like that, and alliteration is an obvious (now, to me) bridge for these.

explore ideas too large to fit in our brains

Another excellent explanation of programming.
And it really does describe the programming of tasks, from punch card weaving machines, to punch card data entry, to direct data entry, to punch card processing, direct processing, and eventually the whole Operating System, Assembly, and Higher Level Languages… And all of the steps between that have since developed.
You can become an expert in memory management, and that idea fits into your brain. And you build the APIs that mean memory management doesn’t have to fit into other people’s brains. So they can work on instruction optimisation, or storage optimisation.

Standing on the shoulders of giants.
There is so much that can be solved with programming these days, but actual people have so much more… Peoplesness, humanity, realness… That some things aren’t worth programming yet… That problem hasn’t been solved yet

It’s almost anything.

Objects? Python macro into FreeCAD into 3d printer. (Maybe there is a better way? I like having that final 3d editing space to tweak).

Literally any data-> data system. If you have structured data, and something wants structured data? Programmable.

Music is sooo mathematical when you get into it. But the creativity is recognising moving from one math to another, or just throwing math out the window. So yeh, programmable. Making it good? Creative

I hate to say, but LLMs show that some level of human interaction can be maths (it’s all just floating point multiplication). (And I say “interaction”, it’s not intelligent or creative or anything actually human).

If it’s maths, it can be programmed.

“move fast and break things” applied to the ecology and humans. Except without the “fix it” stage

Or you tell it not to commit but to suggest the commit message

Nah. They want to be an essential service for games.
Verified users of appropriate age.
Integrated game chat.
Integrated game VoIP.
All appropriate-for-age.

Can’t develop your own moderation? Just pay discord.

So many companies will pay massive sums to outsource chat/VoIP/age-verification/moderation to discord.
And discord is already the “goto” gaming community provider.

Oh, and shop stuff.
Gift (buy) a friend a cool cosmetic through discord. Already has the community connections. Just needs the reason for games to tightly integrate it (moderation, chat, VoIP, age verification).

It is absolutely a positioning move

Is this a “grounded from phone” thing?

Reminds me of Malcolm in the Middle where Reese discovers his passion for cooking, and the parents discover a meaningful punishment for Reese’s misbehaviour.
So…

Literally the mentality.
Everything has to be a subscription.

Pretty much where I am at.
Piracy is a service issue, I think Steam proves that.
If that service isn’t viable any longer, time to move on

I seem to remember a lot of arguments when Netflix first introduced a cheaper-with-ads subscription that “not everyone can afford ad-free subscriptions” and that somehow it would make things better.

Ignoring the fact that the play was obviously to get the ad-subscription up to the current cost of ad-free subscription.

And now I think it’s Disney introducing ads to all subscriptions.
So, no doubt Netflix will do that soon in order to “innovate” the line-go-up.