jrochkind1 (u/jrochkind1)

jrochkind1 commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man

jrochkind1 · 14 days ago

I do not think of Github as primarily an AI product or service. That Microsoft does is certainly alarming.

I still feel that there's no competitor I like as much. But that may not matter.

jrochkind1 commented on How I lost my backpack with passports and laptop psychotechnology.substack... · Posted by u/eatitraw

ted_dunning · a month ago

That reading skill you have is really impressive.

I can't even imagine a world in which everybody could do it!

(sarcasm intended for the grand-poster, not you)

jrochkind1 · a month ago

OK, perhaps there are regional differences in language, or perhaps I'm just a moron, to me the "backpack being intact" does not obviously say anything about the contents of the backpack, to me it's a synonym for "undamaged", and neither are phrases I would use to describe the original contents of the backpack all still being present.

Either it's an American English thing, or if other Americans did not share my confusion then I guess it's just a me thing, and the appropriate response is for you to make fun of me and tell me I don't know how to read, so nice work.

jrochkind1 commented on I was wrong about robots.txt evgeniipendragon.com/post... · Posted by u/EPendragon

jrochkind1 · a month ago

I think we are seeing the death of what was left of the open web, as people react to inconsiderate crawling for uses (AI) they are not sympathetic with by deciding trying to ban all automated access is the way to go. :(

The result will be that giant corporations and those will bad intents will still find a way to access what they need, but small, hobby citizen and civil society efforts will be blocked out.

jrochkind1 commented on How I lost my backpack with passports and laptop psychotechnology.substack... · Posted by u/eatitraw

jrochkind1 · a month ago

i'm trying to figure out if the laptop and passport were still in the backback when found? I think so?!

jrochkind1 commented on Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists holovaty.com/writing/chat... · Posted by u/adrianh

jrochkind1 · 2 months ago

What this immediately makes me realize is how many people are currently trying ot figure out how to intentionally get AI chat bots to send people to their site, like ChatGPT was sending people to this guy's site. SEO for AI. There will be billions in it.

I know nothing about this. I imagine people are already working on it, wonder what they've figured out.

(Alternatively, in the future can I pay OpenAI to get ChatGPT to be more likely to recommend my product than my competitors?)

jrochkind1 commented on Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries' wired.com/story/sam-altma... · Posted by u/spenvo

px43 · 2 months ago

For some people "free" means "autonomy", and copyleft licences do a lot to restrict autonomy.

jrochkind1 · 2 months ago

So interestingly, free meant autonomy for Stallman and the original proponents of "copyleft" style licenses too. But autonomy for end-users, not developers. But Stallman et al believed the copyleft style licenses maximized autonomy for end-users, rightly or wrongly, that was the intent.

jrochkind1 commented on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme dublinlive.ie/news/world-... · Posted by u/miles

paxys · 2 months ago

Wonder what the "political correctness is bad" "nobody is allowed to crack jokes anymore" "cancel culture is out of control" crowd will say about this one...

jrochkind1 · 2 months ago

They're gone, they don't exist anymore. Turns out they were fine as long as it was fascism.

jrochkind1 commented on Wrong ways to use the databases, when the pendulum swung too far luu.io/posts/2025-databas... · Posted by u/luuio

luuio · 2 months ago

Look up the two general problem on youtube. Unless the entire end to end operation is wrapped inside a giant transaction, no system in the world can give you the confirmation.

Imagine this: you issued a write, a few things can happen: 1. The callsite crashed, maybe due to an out of memory issue or whatever. You don't know if it succeeded

2. The database returned an acknowledgement, but then the callsite crashed before storing the acknowlwedgement for the next step.

jrochkind1 · 2 months ago

You are under no obligation to continue this conversation of course.

> Unless the entire end to end operation is wrapped inside a giant transaction, no system in the world can give you the confirmation.

But how do people use, say, redis, without an external "checkpoint" system, how do you do, say, an INCR operation, and know if it succeeded or not?

Or are most uses of redis actually dangerous and subject to these error conditions, perhaps it's tolerable to risk that error for most redis use cases, but wasn't for the system under discussion? Most developers using redis definitely aren't using external "checkpointing" systems, or considering if they should be or not -- should they be?

But of course you've convinced me that the system under discussion would have been better off using an rdbms, something I never doubted.

jrochkind1 commented on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers kianbradley.com/2025/06/1... · Posted by u/k-ian

NoMoreNicksLeft · 2 months ago

Was that the actual tracker and tracker only, or was there a web front end that hosted all the torrent files and forums and so forth? Because the latter will make you a big target.

God I miss rarbg. And KAT.

jrochkind1 · 2 months ago

I'm curious the nature of the US laws that would make the web front end illegal (or subject to civil penalties?) but not the tracker?

jrochkind1 commented on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers kianbradley.com/2025/06/1... · Posted by u/k-ian

aidenn0 · 2 months ago

IANAL, but my understanding is that running a content-neutral tracker is legal in the US.

In other jurisdictions it most certainly is not, and the VPS maybe in a different jurisdiction and the .si TLD definitely is.

jrochkind1 · 2 months ago

Googling, there's been at least one tracker shut down by US law enforcement, EliteTorrents [2005] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-26-fi-torre...

I think there have probably been more. There are definitely more that had civil suits with MPAA etc suing for damages.

It may be somewhat harder to make the case in the US, but a tracker where a great majority of what's listed is copyrighted, I'm pretty sure it can be shut down in the US.