absentmoon's comments

On: Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'

[absentmoon]

Your comment is definitive but your reference is to a Wikipedia section labelled as "speculation".

[rrr_oh_man → lawn]

It might be beneficial for discussion to lay out this argument in a facts-based manner instead of by namecalling.

[4gotunameagain → absentmoon]

A reminder that the US president PLEDGED to end Nord stream 2 if Russia invades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWUuhNd37WI

Additionally, the only ones to gain from such an action would be US & Ukraine.

An action that risked the livelihood of millions of supposed "allies". Germany would be in shambles if the winter of 22-23 wasn't as mild as it was.

On: Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust

[absentmoon]

What counts as a project in your case? Would you oppose the idea of modules within a project mixing languages? I believe curl is over 500,000 lines of code so in the case of forks a progressive rewrite, module by module seems a lot more achievable than porting everything all at once

[integricho → absentmoon]

I view even the Linux kernel as a project in this sense, as I equally don't like the idea of mixing in Rust modules into the Linux kernel which was so far (and in my opinion should still remain) a C-only codebase. I'm ok with writing an OS in Rust, but make a separate new project based on Rust, don't mix Rust into an already established project like the Linux kernel.

On: They stole my voice with AI

[absentmoon]

I strongly disagree. I don't know the rights around one's own voice, but the idea that you suddenly lose ownership of something because you shared it online is the exact thing that many people take issue with when it is written in the terms of service for social networks, creator tools (adobe), etc.

[cr3cr3 → absentmoon]

I didn't mention ownership and I don't think you should lose it (nor does one lose it really even in this case, legally). But I do think that in cases like these, where there's money involved and YouTube, that they should have the means to prevent it.

[johnnyanmac → cr3cr3]

Issue is that Youtube profits off it while signing away liability. There's no incentive to prevent it.

On: Attacking journalists as terrorists

[absentmoon]

Potential abuse of such powers should not be tolerated regardless of whether one is part of a protected group or not.

[EricE → absentmoon]

Bingo. This whole "journalist" as a protected class just gives them cover to treat everyone crappily by distracting from this core issue.

On: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

[absentmoon]

Cool, now I can name my internal packages keygen to avoid dependency confusion /s

On: I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

[absentmoon]

I assume the bandwidth was too costly. It seems to be archived on Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20230509042606/https://worthdoin...

On: Anthropic's 100k context is now available in the web UI

[absentmoon]

Did you fill in the form with super compelling use case or something?

On: An Update on the Lock Icon

[absentmoon]

They updated it but as soon as you click it the old icon and UX is there?

On: CoLT5: Faster Long-Range Transformers With Conditional Computation

[absentmoon]

That would be nice but at least they published their research

On: Our production servers were suspended by Google Cloud

[absentmoon]

Reading this makes me wonder if there is room for something similar to "The Global Chubby Planned Outage". In addition to good comms, they could gradually degrade your service up until suspension as a way of getting your attention.