Thank you very much! I also feel that the impact of software licensing on violent groups behavior might be low.
It is, however, interesting on principle, since it only allows the use by criminals (implicitly), and not by law enforcement. By then making the tool very impractical to use, we can punish bad actors still.
(I think there was a honeypot operation to this effect, something with feds making up a "secure encrypted phone" and then acquiring Cartels as a major customer.)
(On the off chance I just burned this very similar operation: dear feds, I'm so sorry!)
The comment that started this thread is as follows:
> Too bad the Zen of Reticulum is against freedom. Specifically freedom 0: the freedom to use the software for any purpose. Its restrictions preventing it "from being used in systems designed to harm humans" [...]
So if you're a lawful good human-harming person, you are prohibited from using Reticulum by this Zen document.
If, however, you're an unlawful kind of human-harming person, then you likely don't feel the pressure from the Zen document to stop using Reticulum.
(And surely you can't flip the logic like you did right there: "engineers are implicitly allowed to use X" doesn't convert to "users of X are implicitly engineers".)
So no, I'm saying that of all users intending to cause humans harm with this tech, only criminals are permitted (or at least, aren't meaningfully restricted) to use Reticulum. Only in this niche case.
Yep, and that's how he arrived at the $number. If a small number of people were using ad blockers, the cited sum would approach $0 since disabling ad blockers would affect very few page views, right?
Oh I know this bug! Happens with their own Bixby assistant too.
(Either Samsung dropped the ball on quality in the last 5-10 years, or I just started to pay attention, but the desire to throw this garbage in the bin is real.)
You say that as if I've got any control over the browser on the end users device, some of which will be configured to not apply these rules globally for accessibility reasons...
> Saying "I don't like Unicode" is like saying "I don't like the linguistic diversity in the world": I mean sure, OK, but it's still there and it exists.
Respectfully disagree, linguistic diversity isn't by definition impossible to create a good abstraction on top of; I think that it's more of a failure of this particular attempt.
LLM solves this by meeting devs in the middle: the vibe coded DB schema, coupled with agentically-made application code, makes even 20,000 records a "huge scale".
any blogs/books you'd recommend on schema & query design? it honestly surprises me that these coding-focused models can't look at a schema; look at how data is being queried; reason about the use case for the data; and help prioritize solving for the most likely bottlenecks to scaling the underlying data services.
JVM Python exists for the longest time now, where "exists" is purely technical. It's very cursed and bad, keeping in line with the rest of Java-adjacent stack.
Yet this "Java-adjacent stack" wipes the floor with Python and its ilk w.r.t performance and is what's actually running the world outside of some silicon valley ephemeral unicorns.
It's absolutely possible, but on an M4 mac the largest / slowest model I could feasibly run was very inferior, compared to the default paid Cursor experience.
I tested with Kilo Code: https://kilocode.ai/ -- it's a VS Code / Cursor extension.
It is, however, interesting on principle, since it only allows the use by criminals (implicitly), and not by law enforcement. By then making the tool very impractical to use, we can punish bad actors still.
(I think there was a honeypot operation to this effect, something with feds making up a "secure encrypted phone" and then acquiring Cartels as a major customer.)
(On the off chance I just burned this very similar operation: dear feds, I'm so sorry!)
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