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gcb0 commented on OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1B onezero.medium.com/openai... · Posted by u/andreyk

hypothesis · 4 years ago

I think that article does explain that it was basically a “sell” out of necessity:

> OpenAI was an AI research laboratory. But its ambitions were simply out of reach for the resources it had access to.

gcb0 · 4 years ago

That is the most distant definition from "necessity" i can think of.

gcb0 commented on Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany demoscene-the-art-of-codi... · Posted by u/quakeguy

blondin · 5 years ago

this is so the scene could be remembered.

be it unesco, internet archive, the big museums, whatever works. as we are losing more and more control over the hardware and software that we buy, the scene and anything similar will ultimately disappear.

gcb0 · 5 years ago

demoscene reason d'etre is antithetical to museums. But i think this is very fitting for a time when, as you say, "we are losing more and more control over the hardware and software that we buy"

This may be a huge ego trip or pure gatekeeping, but I never wrote anything that I expected people to run, look at the pretty pixels, and be done.

You cannot be truly impressed if you don't know the effort to put that art into a tiny file or abuse the hardware in ways never seen before. If you never fired a debugger or other development/reverse engineering tool, then you missed most it had to offer. And IMHO you never connected to the artist in any way.

gcb0 commented on Run More Stuff in Docker jonathan.bergknoff.com/jo... · Posted by u/psxuaw

lrossi · 5 years ago

The advantage of running apps in docker is that you avoid the risk of breaking your system by adding 3rd party package repos or even worse, curl | sudo bash. Cleanup/uninstall is very simple as well.

However, I don’t agree with using it for sandboxing for security. Especially if you are giving it access to the X11 socket, as the author does in the examples. It might not be obvious, but the app will have access to all your other open windows.

gcb0 · 5 years ago

> It might not be obvious, but the app will have access to all your other open windows.

Fun fact, most docker hosts will allow access to all your files anyway! (specially true on docker for mac, which all the cool kids(tm) here are using). Even if you restrict container host-FS access to a source repo dir, mind rogue code changing your .git hook scripts in there or you might run code outside of the container when committing ;)

Another slightly relevant fun fact, USB is a bus. That means that any device can listen in on any other device. And USB access is given by default to some X-enabled docker (--tty something), and to most virtualbox machines (including the hidden one running the fake docker linux host on docker-for-mac), and more recently Google-Chrome. ;)