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It is extremely rare to find pro-privacy people speak out against Signal's phone number registration system. It is a very obvious privacy flaw that all hobbyist cryptographers will be eager to wave away for some or another reason. Truly shameful. Thanks for voicing your Signal scepticism. I am a Signal sceptic too.

> like Signal

Is xeonmc the only person in this world, aside from me, that is extremely suspicious of walled garden applications like Signal, regardless of how open their source is?

It hasn't and likely never will because it is a structural part of how AI works.

You can see proof of this if you ask it obscure enough questions. That doesn't mean obscure scientific questions, I asked it questions regarding ship fits and modules in EVE Online, which is an extremely well-documented videogame. There are hundreds of online tools to help you for different things, mining yield calculators and more.

Well, ChatGPT just made up almost everything. Very confidently. It couldn't even get the damage types right, I was quite shocked.

Hallucination has only be solved for extremely narrow sets of problems, and only partially. Coding is one of those problems.

I warned people about 4 years ago that this would happen. Checking people's IDs online for accessing certain kinds of porn on telegram and Discord is much more popular than you would have thought.

I told these admins this was immensely irresponsible. They said they just didn't want to get sued by an angry parent whose child joined some porn group. I was mocked endlessly. Now this. I'm not surprised.

Nuclear is indeed the answer. Nuclear power is incredibly safe nowadays and it also provides kinetic inertia, something that solar and wind power lack (they are all DC based and only produce AC when using an inverter, which is wasteful too).

Unfortunately I think it's already too late for nuclear. People who don't understand energy grids are voting for anti-nuclear policies, with very predictable results.

Yes, it tells you that they're normal unlike people who are still arguing today how Musk didn't actually do a nazi salute.

That's fair, thanks for letting me know!

I literally said I'm fine with using LLMs for the frontend, but I think this should be disclosed clearly.

The interface looks vibecoded. I have no problem with people vibecoding things. In fact, I have zero frontend skills, so I rely on AI to be able to make easy-to-use interfaces. However, I feel like this should be clearly and prominently displayed in the project page.

Furthermore it is a little off-putting to see a vibecoded UI because I have very little confidence that the rest of the backend code is not vibecoded. I know I am possibly being unfair, but this is how it looks to me. If the developer tells me they didn't use AI at all, I would believe it.

Yeah, I don't want background sync. I mean, iOS is built upon the idea that any task in the background might be killed at any time and without warning by the OS. This is so the OS is able to manage battery and memory effective.

You can of course dislike this, but not even native apps allow background sync anyway, so of course web apps would not be allowed to do this either.

No, it really is not that easy. Check out China, and read up on the Spanish housing crisis. "Just build more" works only sometimes, as demonstrated in those counter-examples. Housing is massive societal and sociological problem with no simple fix. Furthermore, in many circles, another proposal is to cut red tape. You know, housing in the US already is among the least affordable and lowest quality in the developed world. But some people really insist that going back to asbestos and lead pipes would make housing cheaper.

And don't get me wrong, asbestos and lead are wonderful construction materials. Cheap, durable, and high quality. It's just a shame it causes all sorts of health complications when we use them, right? I mean, it would definitely make housing cheaper, but also cause all kinds of health problems.

Before smartphones and TikTok it was casino TV at 3AM, TV infomercial shopping, and the like.