>Meanwhile, human researchers are losing the ability and the will to take true ownership of model-driven research. Researchers and engineers in all parts of the stack are rapidly increasing their dependence on the models even to perceive the world. I myself barely look at raw code anymore, and struggle to maintain the discipline to engage deeply with the model's explanations and proposals throughout the day. Due to the large amount of agent activity data involved in the OpenAI/HuggingFace Incident, even the third-party investigation needed to rely heavily on models to analyze what had happened, and note in their report that their subjective impressions are likely colored by the analysis agent’s biases. The AI labs are far ahead right now in this kind of cognitive offloading (due largely to the gigantic internal token subsidies) but it is easy to imagine the phenomenon spreading throughout the world, until civilization is modulated entirely by the models. It is also not hard to imagine this being superficially positive and coinciding with a scientific and economic renaissance.

The catalyst was the former employee saying it might kill us all. A lot transpired since then. The warning reached a very wide audience and now you see a scramble to put the top back on since it's having such a negative effect on AI outlook for the general public.

I found it interesting one of the guys denied to sign an agreement and waived getting his 2m at open AI. He seemed genuine in my opinion...but who knows maybe it goes deeper than that.

Simultaniously the former employee at anthropic had a similar take that the companies were not doing enough to keep everyone safe from the dangers.

Either way the net effect seems to be a negative impact on longterm AI outlook.

It's really not any easier at all, and really not a wide labor market for it... and an ICF house still needs framers.

It's a really expensive and laboruius way to increase the R value of your home basically.

I feel nerd sniped.

Onion services. Just make it normal. Some may say that's overkill. It's really not today.

It happens to be the best way to self-host with privacy by default.

I don't buy that they are too slow. Its not. It's perfectly adequate.

Onion services never came in my mind tbh, but I think the core problem with onion services is the same with most NAS products and self hosting services out there. Most of the average consumers don't know what Onion services are, plus the technical knowledge barrier is still there, which is the main reason average consumers don't adopt self hosting. Which leaves us with the main question again, which technical barrier has to be removed to make the average consumer even consider self hosting in the first place?

Three commands and you can transform the old phone, computer into a usable service and access it worldwide and its costs nothing.

Perhaps it's just the knowledge that that is possible. People want digital sovereignty. They just don't know how easy it can be.

Most people have an old Mac, used phone in the drawer collecting dust already. The barrier is extremely low.

> which technical barrier has to be removed to make the average consumer even consider

that would be all technical barriers removed at once in an affordable, expandable and good looking personal server device i guess

Sorry, IBM made this?

Yes, I apologize; it's much smaller than what we typically deliver ;-)

Is it that difficult to make an unbreakable cipher anymore?

Very cool! Can you reveal how much this custom board cost you?

> For five fully assembled boards I paid 130 Euros, ordered the E-ink displays from a local shop

I built a project board nearly identical to this one a few years ago, and this seems about right. I don't think the displays themselves are included in the 130 euros. They can vary a lot in price depending on spec and supplier.

I sent in a larger, slightly more complex board to JLCPCB over the weekend and it was $175 for 5 boards with components and assembly. Shipping, tariffs (ouch), and sales taxes added another ~$100 or so.

Nonogra . ph is another one.

Although the link appears to get instantly flagged for some reason

That feels more like a paste bin than a writing platform? How do you know whats published without having the link already?

The hard part of stand alone publishing eg. not being on a big closed network is discovery, this seems to make that even harder than normal.

I don't typically find anything without a link do you? Post to an aggregator and stuff gets around naturally if it's interesting and worth sharing.

The commit history is kinda wild

It's marginally cheaper to install flimsy chains and surveillance than to pony up for a slightly thicker gauge chain get out of here with your common sense /s