What happens when the jester and the president are the same person?

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Those came later (late '90s-early '00s), and ran mostly on Windows; believe it or not, at that time there were people that used Linux or Mac (I dual booted, Wintendo for games, everything else on Linux).

And most malware came from shady sites. Again, if you were careful, you rarely got it (rarely, not never). If you were not careful, well, it usually was obvious because even if your Windows was not infected with a virus or trojan, your browser would be full of toolbars and the PC would run like crap.

I also used gopher, usenet, uucp, archie and all that in the early '90s. And if you were just a little bit careful, catching a virus or trojan was very rare.

Now, everything is monetized. You’re under constant surveillance on a scale it was unimaginable at that time, and being careful amounts to nothing (unless you’re super paranoid) because your security depends completely on how others secure your data, assuming that they’re trying to secure and not sell it.

In this respect, now it’s much, much worse than it was, even if in some other ways it’s somewhat better.

Peak internet was around 2005-2010, IMHO.

First they will come for the abliterated models. Then they will come for the chinese models. Then they will come for the rest.

Using the law of conservation of matter and extending your own logic, matter (mass) can never be created or destroyed, only transformed, so weapons of mass destruction don’t exist.

It’s not like that. Tokens are an inherent computational property of how a model calculates the probabilities and such to generate text.

Having said that, what a token means in terms of computation varies wildly between models and is not directly comparable. So attributing a money value to tokens in general, independently of the model, is weird by nature.

And even within a model, the number of tokens needed to generate a response is very variable too, depending of the model itself and the parameters with which it has been configured (thinking mode, temperature, etc.).

So yeah, companies can pretty much set any price they want and there’s not much anyone can do about it.

Claude is trained on stolen data (the whole Internet), so I can’t have any sympathy for Anthropic when someone steals from them.

Given that the LLMs could follow the short lists of words well but not the longer lists, and that they were processing images, not text, I think it’s more likely that their context just filled up and they forgot the original instructions (or they were assigned a lower weight in the computation).

But Windows is doing the enshittification thing since the nineties, generally every other release:

• Windows 95: Good
• Windows 98: Bad
• Windows 98 SE: Good
• Windows ME: Bad
• Windows XP: Good
• Windows Vista: Bad
• Windows 7: Good
• Windows 8: Bad
• Windows 8.1: Bad
• Windows 10: Good
• Windows 11: Bad

8.1 is the outlier, but otherwise this thing works like a clock. You could argue that 11 is enshittifying more than the rest, but that’s probably because LLMs are enshittifying everything, I think.

For many years I have thought that elementary schools should be free of any modern electronic tech. In middle school it should be introduced but not connected to internet (word processors, interactive encyclopedias or coding like we used to learn it in the '80s or '90s, BASIC, Logo, that kind of stuff).

Finally, introduce internet in high school, in a controlled way, focusing primarily on knowledge and research sites. No LLMs included.

Of course you can’t control what happens in the students’ homes, but that should not affect what happens at school, specially if you replace homework with schoolwork, which I also think it’s better in the long run.

Plain wireguard. Or maybe Pangolin?

https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin

A couple of days ago I finished reading “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams. This book really shows how awful the people at the top of Facebook are (it probably applies to other similar companies as well). And it’s not that they want to be evil, it’s more like they are playing a game of fame, pride and power and don’t care about the consequences. It made me recall the quote about “the banality of evil”.

The funny thing is, being a developer, I was talking to someone the other day about how in my opinion, middle managers were way easier to replace with AI than developers (less domain knowledge, less creative work, etc.). And basically, at least according to the article, that’s the people that Cloudflare fired.

Not that anyone should be replaced by AI, but it’s ironic that many of the people who are shoving AI down our throats are the easiest to replace in an organization.

That’s for other sites that sell Steam keys, which obviously use Steam infrastructure hence the limitation. If you sell your game on Steam and other real platforms, like GOG, Epic or Uplay (or whatever it’s called these days), you can set the price you want.

Of course Steam offers a lot more functionality, and many devs choose to tie their games to Steam because of that, not because Steam forces them to do it.