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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Agreed, but I think it’s more than that

    I don’t think he’s offering them plane tickets. That means they have enough wealth to move there - it would instantly be a shot in the arm for the Russian economy. They’d get a captive market, and he’s not even inviting them to be Russian

    That selector also means they’re more likely to have useful skills, and the messaging is targeting people very susceptible to Russia style propaganda - he could censor their connection to the outside world, and they’d thank him for it

    Also, if NATO arms hit American civilians, that would be a powerful message to reduce international support for Ukraine or NATO.

    They’re too valuable. They’d pay off for him immediately, and long term he’d have an isolated community that is just begging to chug the Kool aid




  • Just to put this in context:

    There’s only so many ways to turn a bunch of files into one - mainly, you stick them back to back. Easy.

    Then, there’s an infinite ways to compress that file… You could come up with you own method, but what good is that? It’s better and smarter to use a format already supported by your users

    So of course most bundles are the same archive type under the hood. Everything from backups to installers - you shouldn’t be inventing new formats without a damn good reason








  • Nah, I’m thinking much bigger. I’ve got an AI that can transcribe video, I’m working on one to summarize and put facts into a knowledge graph, I’ve got one that can hold a conversation, and I’ve got a script that scrapes sites and does natural language processing. I just need an agent to tie the pieces together and some control scripts to manage the containerized pieces

    The idea is, my assistant will go out, read up on programming topics and build knowledge graphs with references to the source, and I’ll fix my biggest issue - shittified searches crippling my work speed

    Then, I’ll send it off to find content. It’ll transcribe/summarize videos and rank them, research topics and come back with reports, and trawl my socials to find new things I might find interesting

    I plan to take all that, then let my assistant create video channels to watch and additional content to read if Lemmy is slow. And if my friends and family show interest, I’ll add in hosting and an internal social media and convince them to run additional nodes at home

    I’ve been working on it for a while because I saw this coming, I’ve got most of the key pieces already.

    And that’s the bubble of Internet I’m building - AI curation of my Internet life, it’ll happily work away the hours deshittifying a bubble of Internet






  • That’s honestly the most disgusting part of it to me. The amount of money they make doing it is barely enough to insulate them from the effects of living in a worse country

    If they got $250k to redirect $1m in funding to a company, I wouldn’t like it but I would understand why someone without morals would sell out like that

    But it’s more like $100k over a decade at the cost of billions to the country. Half the time, they’re basically just funding their next campaign… they’re burning our society, and they don’t even come out ahead


  • I mean, I’ve got one of those “so simple it’s stupid” solutions. It’s not a pure LLM, but those are probably impossible… Can’t have an AI service without a server after all, let alone drivers

    Do a string comparison on the prompt, then tell the AI to stop.

    And then, do a partial string match with at least x matching characters on the prompt, buffer it x characters, then stop the AI.

    Then, put in more than an hour and match a certain amount of prompt chunks across multiple messages, and it’s now very difficult to get the intact prompt if you temp ban IPs. Even if they managed to get it, they wouldn’t get a convincing screenshot without stitching it together… You could just deny it and avoid embarrassment, because it’s annoyingly difficult to repeat

    Finally, when you stop the AI, you start printing out passages from the yellow book before quickly refreshing the screen to a blank conversation

    Or just flag key words and triggered stops, and have an LLM review the conversation to judge if they were trying to get the prompt, then temp ban them/change the prompt while a human reviews it




  • To put it more descriptively, when you do industrial scale WiFi, you’re supposed to design out the network during the blueprint stage, then go through with a signal analyzer to map out the radio properties when it’s time to install the telecom

    You can put an access point in every room or every 30 feet, and tune them to work seamlessly without interference. You can do the same with cell signals too. They even make cables that are also the antenna - they’re cut with gaps in the shielding, so you can get perfect coverage inside an iron maze if you wanted to

    It’s all just a matter of cost… It’s not cheap, but a few million dollars is just a line item at that scale