No no, he's, uh, he's resting.
You know resting, like in a bed. Or a bath. Or The Beyond. Resting all peacefully too!
bitofhope
joined 2 years ago
Someone needs to add a community note that the hack did not in fact result in "millions of dollars worth of NFTs stolen". It resulted in zero dollars worth of NFTs being legitimately transferred to another holder as specified in the smart contract approved by parties involved.
infinite lives in their head with every female service that made the mistake of smiling
The basilisk is real!
The sex research stuff reminds me of the time a bunch of my friends got their first introduction to Aella. Someone posted in the group chat one of her Buzzfeed personality quizzes masquerading as respectable sexuality/kink surveys where at the end it tells you what fictional character your sex life resembles. Aside from myself, only one of my friends in the group knew who Aella is and the one who did didn't realize it was her.
Anyway, if you want to make a good impression on a new group of people, maybe don't make a cute and kinky fun little sex survey that compares some of them to Jabba the Hutt.
LWers love Ashkenazi so much they'll happily have some even without the Ashke.
Credit where it's due, I appreciate them leading with a TL;DR link to a summary. Unfortunately the summary was also too long and I didn't read it. I'm happy for you though. Or sorry it happened.
I have not understood the purpoted purpose of the so-called stablecoins. I thought the whole point was to have an ostensible foundation of value separate from state power and central banks.
Check out the fiatcucks using a currency subject to the tyranny of the European Central Bank. Well not me, I use this shitcoin that's pegged 1:1 with the same currency they're using except hardly anyone accepts it and when they do I pay exorbitant transaction fees. Freedom, baby!
Some claim that stablecoins are intended to pull people into the cryptocoin ecosystem or facilitate transactions between real money and buttcoins but I don't get that one either. Why would I rather buy 100 stablebutts for 100 dollars and the trade that for so-and-so many speculasses than just trade the speculasses for dollars from the get-go?
Most people fucking around with buttcoins are just wishing for another surge of hyperdeflation like the Bitcoin bubbles in 2012 and 2017. What's the appeal of a shitcoin that definitionally can't do that, at least relative to its backing currency?
You're laughing. A supply chain attack on the Ledger connector application has rippled throughout the world of decentralized apps, which widely use the software to enable people to connect their popular Ledger hardware wallets to perform transactions, and you're laughing.
Epilogenic - relating to or involved in the creation of an epilogue
Would be nice if this actually did cause the end and some kind of metaphorical postscript of eugenics but I doubt it's going to be that easy.
I am not familiar with Nigel Molesworth books beyond a quick skim of Wikipedia, but this had me hooked right from the first illustration.
Chapter 1 reminds me of A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages.
Can I ask for elaboration? In the context of GPL and free software licenses in general, "strong" and "encumbered" tend to refer to roughly the same thing, i.e. conditions requiring that the work and derivative works to be also distributed as free software.
Nothing in the license text of GPLv3 or GPLv2 reads to me like deliberate distancing from communism or anything else other than nonfree software. Do you have a different interpretation of the text or are you basing the claim on something else? Sure, RMS is not a socialist nor is the FSF a socialist organization, but I'm not aware of them "going far out of their way" to disproportionately emphasize the GPL's noncommunism. OSI and ESR arguably have, given their more corporate focus and particularly ESR's far right views. You also have to take into account that associating free software in general and GPL in particular with communism has been a deliberate smear tactic against them, so a lot of the ink spilled about the un-commieness of the GPL has been in response to its equally or more anti-communist opponents.
Designing a truly communist software license that still makes sense in the capitalist context of international copyright law seems like an interesting exercise. I like that the GPL has a whole preamble to explain the intent and values behind its terms, and that it manages to essentially invert what would normally be an exclusive privilege granted by copyright into a communal obligation enforced via the same. A communist equivalent would be something like exploiting property rights to ensure that some capital asset remains de facto collectively owned.
I think the (A)GPL manages to implement some radical and admirable principles while acknowledging that we live in a society [bottom text]. Even if the software licensing interests of some libertarian pedophiles happen to sometimes align with mine and what I consider the common good, they don't get to claim the license as theirs any more that I get to declare it to support my ideology.
I would certainly be in favor of a movement to extend human rights to AIs, provided that AIs are sentient intelligent beings, which they are not. I can see why this would surprise him, but if your movement insists that large language models can think and feel and are not only as smart as humans but way better at almost everything, people may end up wanting humane treatment for them.