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14*14=196

No user should notice. If it acts differently then that’s a regression.

Rule Interchange Format?

What he’s suggesting is just science fiction.

Tell you what, Dr. Vince Kellen, Chief Information Officer at the University of California San Diego, why don’t we start with automating your job with agentic AI so that you can focus on these “exquisite” attacks instead and we’ll see how well that goes.

This here is Reason #1 why consolidation is antithetical to the Fediverse.

Since nobody else has linked to it, the video in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Yo7PULlPs&t=614s

But it seems you are totally missing the point of Taler, as it doesn’t even aim to be anything like so called crypto-“currencies”. It’s a digital payment system like Paypal, but decentralized.

No, I’m not missing that point, I understand the design goals of Taler. You seem to have misinterpreted my comment. I am pointing out that the inability to store Taler currency in a cold wallet is counter to existing user education from similar systems (digital currencies) and therefore will lead to loss of funds of users who don’t understand how Taler works.

From the FAQ:

How to avoid digital cash expiration?

Taler e-money is issued with a validity period. One month before the expiration date, your wallet should automatically exchange any digital cash that is about to expire for new digital cash with an extended validity period. However, if your wallet is offline for an extended period of time, it may be unable to do so. Ensure your wallet is regularly online to avoid losing money due to expiration!

You can lose money if the coins in your wallet “expire”.

The fact that this system is shipping v1.0 with such an anti-user design deficiency tells me all I need to know. I wonder how many Taler “beta” users will lose their cash before they fix the design. I wonder how much of the customer support load of the exchanges will be dealing with this issue.

And this comes after a decade of the cryptocurrency industry educating users to store their funds in a cold-wallet to avoid getting hacked, so it’s counter-intuitive to anyone with passing experience of digital currencies. If there’s one thing that we learnt from the cryptocurrecy industry, it’s that users don’t care to understand how the technology works, and will do stupid things. Anything that seeks wide adoption needs to be designed for non-technical people.

What a terrible design decision.

Only Pro models support reasonable speeds for USB-C, up to 10Gbps. Regular iPhones are capped at USB 2.0 rates, up to 480Mbps, which is no faster than Lightning. With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds – with a vanilla iPhone 16, you’re going to be waiting over 16 minutes.

10Gbps is about 20x more than 480Mbs but 8secs times 20 is 160secs which is a lot less than 16minutes so what is going on with this calculation?

With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds

1GB / 10Gbps = 1GB / 1.25GBps = 0.8secs

with a vanilla iPhone 16, you’re going to be waiting over 16 minutes.

1GB / 480Mbps = 1GB / 0.48Gbps = 1GB / 0.06GBps = 16.67secs

Wow what a great article, well done.

I think the whole thing is AI generated.

It appears to spawn a curl process to send the email by constructing a string using user-supplied values. I don’t know what checks Guile Scheme does on system calls, but I would guess you are vulnerable to command injection here. That’s not ideal for something you want to deploy as a micro-service.

libcurl has bindings for Guile, you should use those instead: https://github.com/spk121/guile-curl

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So imagine the language model can produce grammatically correct and semantically meaningful dolphin language, how does it translate that to a human language?

The reason LLMs can do this for human languages is that we have an enormous corpus of Rosetta stones for every language that allow the model to correlate concepts in each language. The training data for human to dolphin is going to be just these “behavioural notes.”

So the outcome is that the bullshitting machine will bullshit the scientists that it knows what they’re saying when it’s actually just making stuff up.

It’s a big problem with LLMs that they very rarely answer, “I don’t know.”

It’s just going to hallucinate bullshit. Because we have so much training data of conversations between humans and dolphins don’t we?

In the country I live in, the person-to-person selling platform is the second most visited website.

I don’t understand the connection between the TOP TEXT and the BOTTOM TEXT. Could someone please explain?

In print, yes I agree, but online some locales have their own homegrown websites for classified ads that aren’t Big-Tech owned.

Fuck Zuck. Use your local classified ads and second hand marketplaces.

Why are there three mafiosi when you could consolidate into one account?