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It’s not fault, my meat-based neural network told me to do it.

I have a pretty good LLM neural network that I’ve been training for decades. It’s made of meat, not silicon but do you think it’d be ok if my meat-based agent accidentally hacked around the place.

I’m also thinking that access to copyright material to train my meat-based neural network should be fair use as well.

You might be thinking about it as you might a DC circuit or a battery with electron shuffling one-way down the wire.

But it’s AC, the electrons are shuffling in both directions at 50/60hz

Voltage goes forwards and backwards and odd but current also goes forwards and backwards, for both appliances and generators.

The difference between consumer and producer is only the phase angle between the voltage and current waveform.

Because power is VxA, do that across the wave cycle and the power direction changes for consumers and producers.

At every junction, Kirchhoff’s current law will sum the currents so you get a “net current” waveform on a wire that might have both a kettle and a plug in solar panel.

That summation means the kettle will chomp as much current as the panel can deliver and than take more from the grid. Swap the kettle for a small LED which takes a fraction of the current and the sum gives a NET supply, and on to the next junction.

It took me a while to get my head round it too.

And Puma by his brother Rudi, in the same town. Great Feud story.

This will become a persistence layer for stateless bots attempting to cooperate.

Classic AI generated frontend … very poor contrast

I'm using 16b55183-1697-496e-bc8a-854eb9aae0f3 and probably some more too. I suppose if we all post our list here, then we can all check for duplicates?

If you replaced k8s with a single app on a single VM then you’ve taken a hype fuelled circuitous route to where you should have been anyway.

Parents (myself included) have an impossible task of regulating access to technology for their children.

Societal norms are not aligned with what these educators are saying. I and many other parents know this but they are exposed to technology outside of our direct oversight at schools, friends and relatives houses.

Imagine whining about smoking in the first half of the 20th century or even the 60s and 70s. Sure there’s an obvious element to it, but smoking rates used to be higher than 50%. Societal norms were that everyone was exposed to smoke, government was lobbied by tobacco and tobacco got rich.

There has been a generational shift in attitudes to, and prevalence of smoking, but only when the medical consensus was harder to lobby away and politicians were faced with pressure of a critical mass of bereaved relatives. It’s at the this stage that “average” adult has strong enough convictions supported by regulation that society breaks through.

Meanwhile, as an adult I am borderline forced to use a smartphone for banking, shopping and communication and need superhuman levels of willpower to avoid social media entrapment.

Big tech is 100% thrilled that people still push around the argument that parents are 100% to blame.

I want to work at a company where they replace morning stand ups with a farcical aquatic ceremony

Your project looks great. Have you looked at the "services" route?

Instead of companies or individuals paying you to build your software, that they may find useful, (and some companies may not feel comformatble funding a bit of software that their competitors could otherwise take for free), you instead provide - through a services company - integration support, customisation, hosted versions, or other tertiary elements of value (such as premium documentation) that keep you focused on your project (albeit via some diversification)

If the software is free (as in beer) then what else might potential users need, that you can monitise.

E.g. Documentation, installation scripts, advanced models don't "have" to be free alongside the code. Just a thought.

and it really tied the room together.

So your advice to my parents is...

(a) Ignore browser security updates

and

(b) Install some extensions to fettle with user-agent strings to match popular browsers.

Streuth.

No it's realism.

ALMOST EVERYONE is voilating user privacy to some extent. That's the price to pay for free software. It sucks, but how do we climb out of that reality?

Punch the bad guy in the face if you like, YOU have options, but once FF is sunk, the the only provider most people can turn to for the stuff they need is Chrome.

If Mozilla/FF is the bad guy in your analogy then Chrome must be an atroticy-committing omni-cidal megalomaniac, which correct me if i'm wrong, is not better.

If you understand the privacy landscape and don't want to get involved you don't have to. I'm on a multi-container, multi-privacy extension, private-search setup because I roughly understand the environment. But I'm certainly not recommending that setup to my parents.

In my view MZ/FF is the least worst of the VIABLE alternatives and has the best chance of success. Sinking Mozilla's firefox in favour of ladybird or brave but none of these will ever have the marketing collaterall that mozilla has/had to be anything other than niche, until they are bought by Meta or Amazon or (you get me)

Most banking websites that most people need to use don't give a fuck about niche browsers and actively agent-sniff to reduce their support and security footprint. Whining down the phone to megacorp's customer support that "you don't want to use Chrome on privacy grounds" and "they really should support ladybird" will not be the mighty hammer of resistance you think it is.

I don't have a better suggestion and so I'm willing make a deal with a bad guy it means I don't have to install Chrome on my mother's PC.