Yeah you can use a self hosted nextcloud or similar, or maybe you want a wiki rather than a spreadsheet.

They’ll appoint a task force with Altman and Zuckerberg in charge.

Talk about a supply chain attack.

It’s ok, if I’m going to be misjudged, I’m glad it was in the direction that gave me too much credit ;).

Uh no? We had talked about it on the phone (web help and housecleaning help) before meeting at the restaurant, and she’d sent me the url of her then-in-progress web site so I knew what it was. Nothing new spilled. But yeah, in such a situation I probably should have just offered to get the check and saying I could afford it and wasn’t expecting something, instead of just picking it up without asking. But, as mentioned I had picked the restaurant and while it wasn’t fancy, it was kind of midrange, not real cheap. She wouldn’t have picked that place if it were up to her, so I was responsible. And I picked it mostly because it was nearby and convenient. to me It’s ok, I think I understood afterwards, but too late.

IDK if I was an unusually good listener. We were both old enough to not be be too distracted by the type of work she did, so it was a normal type of intro chat that I think went ok til the check came.

Aha, I see from my earlier post that my description skipped the part that I already knew it was a porn site before we met up. Sorry about that. It was a long time ago and I didn’t organize the story in my mind enough before posting it.

I hadn’t been of any help to her. We met up because I wanted her to help clean my apartment and she suggested that I could help her learn web stuff, but nothing had happened yet. Anyway according to Feynman’s “Surely You’re Joking” memoir, if you’re really trying for a date in that situation, you shouldn’t pay the other person’s share. It’s an interesting approach.

Oh come on.

A lady I connected with online (not a dating site or similar) asked if I was willing to help with a web site. I said ok and we met up at a nearby late night restaurant. It turned out it was a porn site and she was a porn actress, wanting to have her own site instead of the exploitive one that she was then on. We had a nice conversation about all kinds of things including web development.

The restaurant was not fancy but she spent a while picking out the cheapest things on the menu. I was the one who suggested the meeting place and I inferred that she was having cash flow problems while I was working as a programmer, so I figured I should pick up the tab when it came. It was just the considerate thing to do. When I picked it up, she freaked out as if I expected something from her because of it. She left the restaurant in a big hurry and I didn’t hear from her after that, oh well.

She was an interesting person, and attractive, and I didn’t anticipate that reaction at all. I like to think we could have gotten to know each other better if I’d let her pay her own tab. Shrug, whatever.

Shorter version: instead of wiki software, use a static site generated from a git repo. It’s a valid approach. I think emacswiki may have once worked that way. Note that Gitit uses git for version management, so among other things you can copy your whole wiki with git clone. But it also has a built in web editor instead of just relying on git push.

Making up jokes about whatever the upsetting situation is.

You might try Fossil then. It uses something like 2MB of server ram instead of gigabytes. It makes me wonder where we all went wrong.

Is it public facing in the sense that randos will edit it? If not, the simplest thing is probably fossil-scm.org which is very light weight, but it’s actually a version control system with a built in wiki, so its editing interface is a bit weird compared with Wikipedia. It is pretty fast though I’ve only played with it, not run anything public facing from it.

Setting up Mediawiki is more complicated but it does have a familiar interface. I don’t know how much tuning and configuration you have to do to allow it to handle a lot of traffic, but obviously with enough caching and stuff, it scales all the way up to Wikipedia level.

I’ve also used Gitit and I think MoinMoin but not with any significant amount of traffic. Gitit looks like Mediawiki while MoinMoin is retro, like 1990s style.

This doesn’t seem like a Not The Onion story. This lady had a temporary job at the World Trade Center at the time of the plane crashes. The morning of the attacks, she stopped at a CD shop on her way to work which would have delayed her arrival by a few minutes. During those minutes the planes hit, so she was saved by stopping to pick up a Mariah Carey CD. I’m glad she got lucky but it’s not the type of thing that the Onion would usually write about.

Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki. It took the blinders off and I became a convert to functional programming.

I would expect that email sent through something like gmail is private. Even if there’s some possibility of interception under search warrants or stuff like that, I wouldn’t expect the email text to be used for training Google AI. I don’t use gmail (at least from the client side) anyway, but I think there was some noise about this a while back. Certainly I’d expect a paid LLM server to not train on the prompts. I don’t use those servers though, and haven’t checked the TOS. I might fool around with some open models sometime but have no interest in ChatGPT.

It’s hard, the frontier models are only available on the theft machines right now. IDK what will happen with that.

OpenAI is guilty of computer crime through massive unauthorized access to web servers to scrape their content, evading every kind of blocking attempt and crashing servers all over the place. This is the same thing Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for, but nothing seems to be happening to OpenAI. The content being public is irrelevant to this crime. You could have a public domain book in your bedroom, but if I break into your house and copy it, I’m a burglar even if I’m not a copyright infringer.

Meta (Facebook) is known to have done a huge copyright infringement by downloading a massive pirate library (libgen) to train its AI. That’s separate from the claim that using the texts for AI training is infringing in its own right (there are lawsuits about that going on, and it’s not a slam dunk issue imho). I remember this reported specifically about Meta but it would shock me if OpenAI and Anthropic didn’t do the same thing. So they have no business whining about model distillation.

Separately from that, yes, the stuff in the math prompts was supposed to be private but OpenAI apparently trained on them anyway. OpenAI is a multi-tasker and can do more than one bad thing at the same time.

It’s one thing to notice OpenAI is stealing public content, but in this case it’s suspected of using info that people prompted ChatGPT with privately.

And the AI models are systematic distillations of… Uh never mind.

Wait was it Bonta’s web site running that AI? Otherwise where is it running?