the ridiculous "no ad blocker" full-screen modal that's unclosable led me down a rabbit hole there - turns out there's some obfuscated script from "Ad Shield" which replaces the whole site with an iframe if you dare to block their domain, "html-load.com", which proxies ad networks.
fortunately one can just run debugger; to stop it early
Is this a script-kiddy DDOS (when many users run it) of someone's email? This doesn't seem very HN.
Edit: No, the email is blank, so it's just a regular DOS, unless his email is public somewhere and everyone will fill in the same email. Still not very HN, but just bad, not malicious.
Back in the 1800s, we had this idea called Manifest Destiny. There was a famous painting about it, _American Progress_, painted by John Gast in 1872. It depicts Columbia, bringing civilization and liberty - telegraphs and railroads - for creating a great nation. It was devastating for the Native Americans.
I didn’t think we’d get to the point where all compute is headed for the data centre and normal people don’t get to have anything bigger than a phone but here we are.
Kind of inevitable when you realize how much people are naturally willing to give up computational sovereignty for the sake of convenience and psychological safety espousing values claiming the opposite, and it's still the case despite everything that's happened so far
I don't think there is a lot of conscious choice here: If at some point, anything more complex than a phone would be phased out or become unaffordable for consumers, that's not because consumers had somehow collectively voted they only want phones from now on.
Well sure someone could argue that the market isn't an actually reasonable set of choices that people can vote on, but how can it not be considered at least some form of voting? There's been at least 30-40 years in which consumers could try to find out. Unfortunately there's only a finite amount of resources in the market and consumers have to compromise on what takes priority in the tech industry, like getting work done or tackling issues that are visible only in front of them. When people collectively vote for politicians they also have to compromise
I don't feel extremely on either end, but I would prefer if consumers could own their choices and not try to pretend otherwise
To rub Altman's nose in the fact that we have RAM that he wishes he had.
Or, more likely (since I doubt he's ever going to see one of these emails), to make us feel a bit better about ourselves after Altman said (in effect) that what we want doesn't matter.
So, the guy who built an AI company that thrives on your personal information to sell you ads and your idea of fighting the said guy is voluntarily emailing him everyday more personal information?
I am an old-school guy. I don’t send them emails with unused RAM, I just fax them a printout of the script so they have to physically look at it and remove it before it goes in the trash. Bonus points if you send it to legal. Legal always has a fax machine.
With what people at OpenAI make per hour, every fax costs them thousands of dollars in labor costs, wasting all their precious resources one toner cartridge at a time in the process.
I am just making proper use of all that underutilised toner.
If you do not store a Group on any of your Brother machine's One Touch or Speed Dial locations, you can Broadcast a fax to as many as 272 different numbers.
lol, it’s so funny watching the cynical AI haters whip yourself into a frenzy over this. I bet 99% of you didn’t even listen to this podcast episode. His comments were so anodyne, y’all are ridiculous.
EDIT: lmao, and now people are going through my history and rage-downvoting things. Imagine being this fragile.
You have to factor in all the people enjoying that the shitcoin-for-your-iris-scans guy is having his time in the comedy-drubbing barrel. Don't leave us out, we've been waiting a lot longer for this.
FWIW, "anodyne" is not the word I'd reach for when describing things Altman says — I much prefer "banal".
fortunately one can just run debugger; to stop it early
I was wondering if they're was some kind of consolidation/buyoff of pro-ad-protection services.
Edit: No, the email is blank, so it's just a regular DOS, unless his email is public somewhere and everyone will fill in the same email. Still not very HN, but just bad, not malicious.
Back in the 1800s, we had this idea called Manifest Destiny. There was a famous painting about it, _American Progress_, painted by John Gast in 1872. It depicts Columbia, bringing civilization and liberty - telegraphs and railroads - for creating a great nation. It was devastating for the Native Americans.
https://youtu.be/HCZmBMo_jhM
Similar ideas now, though it doesn’t have broad support. People are angry and fighting back against data centers.
I don't feel extremely on either end, but I would prefer if consumers could own their choices and not try to pretend otherwise
Or, more likely (since I doubt he's ever going to see one of these emails), to make us feel a bit better about ourselves after Altman said (in effect) that what we want doesn't matter.
I am an old-school guy. I don’t send them emails with unused RAM, I just fax them a printout of the script so they have to physically look at it and remove it before it goes in the trash. Bonus points if you send it to legal. Legal always has a fax machine.
With what people at OpenAI make per hour, every fax costs them thousands of dollars in labor costs, wasting all their precious resources one toner cartridge at a time in the process.
I am just making proper use of all that underutilised toner.
22 direct-dial and 200 speed-dial entries. Broadcast to up to 272 participants. Sexy.
Lots of companies still use Laserfax. dr2200 toner cartridge is 40 bucks for 12k pages.
256 + 16? How do you get a number like that? Some trick with variable-width binary codes?
22 One-Touch numbers + 200 Speed-Dial numbers + 50 manually dialled numbers = 272
If you do not store a Group on any of your Brother machine's One Touch or Speed Dial locations, you can Broadcast a fax to as many as 272 different numbers.
Regards,
https://fbi.cults3d.com/uploaders/15196480/photo-file/19c974...
Fucking Cry Harder, AI bros.
EDIT: lmao, and now people are going through my history and rage-downvoting things. Imagine being this fragile.
A single unencrypted point of access is the dream for watching and controlling your life.
That is the centralized API in a nutshell, a single unencrypted point of access.
You have to factor in all the people enjoying that the shitcoin-for-your-iris-scans guy is having his time in the comedy-drubbing barrel. Don't leave us out, we've been waiting a lot longer for this.
FWIW, "anodyne" is not the word I'd reach for when describing things Altman says — I much prefer "banal".