View quoted note → The saga continues. Now with OpenAI throwing their weight behind OpenClaw, will this monster only ever grow faster??

I asked the claw to parse the bitcoin blockchain on a limited disk. In its second, fixed run it forgot to prune and ran out of disk space and threw away all the results to start over but pruned now. That is Claude Sonnet 4.6. Maybe my enthusiasm for the singularity being just around the corner are a bit too optimistic 🤔

View quoted note → It's all so tiring. The human race is literally at the singularity and it doesn't matter if super-intelligent AI is a year out or three. Why are we still fighting over who owns which speck of dirt to the point of nuclear Armageddon? If we hang in here some ten more years, we might be reaching out to the stars! We are on track for an age of unbelievable abundance! In 20 years we will have warp drives getting generational ships to new frontiers we now can only dream of.

Ars Technica

New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises

That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.

That's serious stuff :/

Movie night recommendation for not the whole family

What really grinds my gear are banks and their security theater. Here in Chile you can trivially find anybody's national ID number "RUT" but still banks send you bank statements by email in encrypted PDFs - using 4 digits out of that RUT. I tried it out. It takes my cheap laptop on average 16s to figure out the right digits. seq -w 0 9999 | parallel -j8 --halt now,success=1 "qpdf --password={} --decrypt /tmp/bankStatements.pdf /dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo PIN: {} && kill $$"

I hear people say If agents do your stuff, you lost your agency. The average tech bro is ai pilled to the point of being unable to complete basic tasks on their own anymore. but I think that's upside down. Humans are lazy. We use calculators for stuff we could figure out with pen and paper and yes, we could stay sharp on the math front by not using calculators and now, by using LLMs, we might get less sharp on the general thinking front but I don't think that's what's happening. The human brain can do many things but one thing it can't: not learn. So using agents, we still learn ... something. We learn to use agents but we are in control of these machines. Now what happens when those machines - co-controlled by their big makers - nudge us in one way or another or outright deny to do what we need done? Yes, that is a big problem! We need not only self-hosted "open source" models. We need to control the weights cause how these models are made is not as open as they try to make us believe. The biases are baked into the training process, so you can self-hoste it but it still might be woke or leak your company secrets to China. So who has more agency, Elon Musk, commanding thousands of workers and machines reaching even to outer space or the guy living off the grid in the woods? Agents give us agency but we need the right agents. Ones that we truly control and know how they were trained.

@Cody what is happening here? Often, when I had some down-time and come back to my Jumble tab, it appears to be logged out, saying "Log in" bottom left. When I click it, it claims I'm logged in? And something spins when I click that? But I can't use Jumble until I sometimes can use Jumble again later? What gives? Using Amber.

The Dooms-Day-Device: If Hal detects a nuke going off, it will retaliate with all it has. The 100% mad-man cold-war deterrence for the other side launching the first nuke. Glad, Hal is infallible, right?

@PayPerQ you might want to change the copy here a bit ...