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Cake day: February 10th, 2025

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  • One of the first videos I watched about LLMs, was a journalist who didn’t know anything about programming used ChatGPT to build a javascript game in the browser. He’d just copy paste code and then paste the errors and ask for help debugging. It even had to walk him through setting of VS Code and a git repo.

    He said it took him about 4 hours to get a playable platformer.

    I think that’s an example of a unique capability of AI. It can let a non-programmer kinda program, it can let a non-Chinese speaker speak kinda Chinese, it’ll let a non-artist kinda produce art.

    I don’t doubt that it’ll get better, but even now it’s very useful in some cases (nowhere near enough to justify the trillions of dollars being spent though).





  • All phones have a BFU (before first unlock) state, and GrapheneOS doesn’t require a passphrase unless you’ve set one, otherwise it’s your PIN. Fingerprint unlock is disabled until after BFU though, so it requires essentially using a backup PIN even if you always use your fingerprint, at least for first unlock.

    To add to the security of the PIN and to prevent reading screen smudges you can enable an option so that the digits on the PIN pad are randomized each time it loads.

    Graphene also supports fully isolated user accounts. Applications running in one profile can not even discover the existence of the other profiles*. There is a way to forward notifications from user containers but is disabled by default. Each account, when inactive, is encrypted independently of the system drives and the key is generated at user login with the entry of a password and overwritten in memory upon logout.

    *If you enable the notification forwarding, a hostile application running on the primary account could deduce that there is at least one other user profile on the phone by analyzing the notifications.






  • Karl Popper’s paradox of intolerance is about how we can’t tolerate intolerance in society.

    It isn’t a cloak for you to wear when you want to be intolerant and feel justified. Nor is it a proscription to dehumanize and celebrate suffering.

    Those are the actions of the intolerant, which we will not tolerate here.

    Similarly, it’s fine for those who want others to suffer, to suffer themselves.

    The irony.

    So you mean people like OP? You?

    Don’t confuse feeling outraged or righteous for an actual moral high ground.


  • The topic was illegal procedures, the person I replied to was comparing a vasectomy to abortion by asking which states it is illegal in.

    The comparison isn’t valid. A vasectomy isn’t remotely the same procedure as an abortion.

    Well I don’t know

    You could check before posting so that you would know.

    If you did, you would find out that there are 0 states in the United States where either tubal ligation or vasectomies are illegal.

    I do agree that the access to care situation is shit and caused by sexist lawmakers and doctors.

    But, just because you agree with someone, doesn’t mean you can’t tell them that they’re making irrational arguments. If people want to continue to push for change, it’s important that everyone is capable of understanding the issues and know how to argue them effectively.

    Making outrage baiting statements are good for social media engagement, but they’re antithetical to convincing people to change.


  • Hey, asshole, not everyone who lives in a rural area and is poor is a Trump supporter. Nor, would being a Trump supporter mean that it’s okay to let them freeze or cheer at other people suffering. You’re engaging in exactly the same toxic dehumanization as the MAGA crowd.

    If you think rural voters are your enemy or the source of our problems, then you’re woefully ignorant about the current political situation or how political influence works.

    You’re very much right to be angry, but make sure you know where that anger should be directed before making outrage bait posts like this.