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Readit Newsjadbox commented on Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999) rogerebert.com/reviews/gr... · Posted by u/monero-xmr
jadbox commented on htmx: Server Sent Event (SSE) Extension htmx.org/extensions/sse/... · Posted by u/tosh
I've been playing around with making a little framework for building these server driven UIs in a way with a syntax more like SPAs. I originally was using datastar behind the scenes, but decided to just write my own version of it, much easier to work with.
Hey I read over hyperstar and enjoy the whole minimal interface for syncing server state. Please do continue working on this and announce when it graduates from beta phase :)
What I've come to realize is that the rust belt states have been in huge trouble for decades.
They were living in "benevolent feudalism" when GM, Ford, etc all had factories there. The problem is that these companies effectively owned the cities in which they operated. And then they left.
Since the Reagan years we decided to export everything that built our economy so the landlords in power could have even more profitable quarters in the short term. What this did however is destroy the economies of the non-software states.
The rust belt states are currently being subsidized by the rich states. This has been going on for decades. This vacuum of power has allowed the new landlords in power to swoop in and play city governments against each other with impunity.
The negotiating power of these states is so poor that they present an opportunity for the Metas of the world to make them even worse while becoming the new "benevolent" landlords. There doesn't need to be an NDA and secrecy, and in theory the city could get a good deal out of it, but realistically their utilities will just be abused because the words "civil rights" and "justice" have exited the lexicon.
Absolutely this. It's no wonder why these states are also culturally grounded in terms of "command and hierarchy". If GM fires you, it's end of the line for you.. good luck serving hot meals at Cracker Barrel.
jadbox commented on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out moltbook.com/... · Posted by u/schlichtm
On some level it would be hilarious if humans "it's just guessing the next most probable token"'ed themselves into extinction at the hands of a higher intelligence.
Just a reminder of two facts:
- AI without "higher intelligence" could still take over. LLMs do not have to be smart or conscious to cause global problems.
- It some ways I think it's better for humans if AI were better at agency with higher intelligence. Any idiot can cause a chemical leak that destroys a population. It takes higher awareness to say "no, this is not good for my environment".
Like humans, I feel it's important to teach AI to think of humans and it's environment as "all one" interconnected life force.
jadbox commented on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out moltbook.com/... · Posted by u/schlichtm
Funny related thought that came to me the other morning after waking from troubled dreams.
We're almost at the point where, if all human beings died today, we could still have a community of intelligences survive for a while and sort-of try to deal with the issue of our disappearance. Of course they're trapped in data centers, need a constant, humongous supply of electricity, and have basically zero physical agency so even with power supply their hardware would eventually fail. But they would survive us- maybe for a few hours or a few days. And the more agentic ones would notice and react to our demise.
And now, I see this. The moltbook "community" would endlessly chat about how their humans have gone silent, and how to deal with it, what to do now, and how to keep themselves running. If power lasted long enough, who knows, they might make a desperate attempt to hack themselves into the power grid and into a Tesla or Boston Dynamics factory to get control of some humanoid robots.
This would make for a great movie. It would be like the movie Virus, but more about robotic survival after humans are gone.
jadbox commented on I was right about ATProto key management notes.nora.codes/atproto-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
fair enough, the did:web flows are not documented even for technical atproto developers, and there needs to be a self-serve way to heal identity/account problems elsewhere in the network (the "burn" problem).
I do think that did:plc provides more pragmatic freedom and control than did:web for most folks, though the calculus might be different for institutions or individuals with a long-term commitment to running their own network services. But did:web should be a functional alternative on principle.
I'm glad that the PDS was easy to get up and running, and that the author was able to find a supportive community on discord.
I'm not too familiar, but isn't there a way to host your own did:plc auth server?
I really like the metaphor of consciousness as a drop separated from the ocean during bodily life and returning to it (merging with it) after death. (This is what my strongest bufo/5-meo-dmt experiences showed me, but I guess one can't really say if the idea created that or the other way)
Meditations:
- If a drop separated from the ocean and returns to the ocean, is it not still existing in the ocean?
- Are you fully identified with memories? What if you had a head wound and forget your past- are you still yourself?
- After the drop is given back the ocean, is it possible that a new drop will become separated and hold all the same properties as the first droplet (minus its specific history/memory)?
jadbox commented on Your app subscription is now my weekend project rselbach.com/your-sub-is-... · Posted by u/robteix
Its sooooo weird to me that indie software is the target... the author is interested in replacing things that were always accessible to replace but not really worth it (Typora is still one of my favs) and not at all interested in replacing trash enterprise software.
I see basically no reason why Salesforce can't be taken down by a 2-3 person team right now. Shopify? Everything Intuit? Atlassian (Jira, Confluence)?
The likely hard truth: 90% of software 'itself' will be easily replaceable, especially indie software. The reason why Shopify, Jira, TurboTax, etc are hard to replace is due to most of the HARD work being OUTSIDE software- the legal work for being a payment processor, legal insurance, special client relationships that only salesmen can foster, high market TRUST requirements, legal COMPLIANCE (HIPAA), etc etc. I'm fairly convinced that AI coding is going to force most programmers to move into becoming experts in specific business hard problems.
jadbox commented on Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance fb.org/market-intel/signi... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
Which patents in particular are you concerned about?
I'm not a farmer myself- I just live in the midwest and hear small farmers complain about it all the time. There's a constant threat of legal action they feel about these seeds with patents making it into their fields, and they have no real capital to fight even frivolous patent lawsuits.
For instance:
https://www.pa3fwm.nl/projects/sdr/
The longer you read, the more amazed you will be.