Fascinating, if not surprising. I sometimes wonder whether China's firewall is a huge tactical advantage in distributed warfare like this. Open societies are vulnerable to this kind is manipulation, and I'm not sure what defenses there are short of also becoming closed societies. Russian corruption is infectious
Relatedly, I recently heard Dan Carlin (of hardcore history) on Sam Harris's podcast wonder how much of the current discord in the US is the product of Russian influence campaigns (and whether we'll ever find out)
I've been saying this for a while. WW3 is already over and we lost, we just haven't noticed yet. It was fought against the West (primarily the US) using their own tools and ideologies.
It's not really a world war in the WW1 and WW2 sense though. More a low level conflict, plus some fighting in Ukraine.
I guess you could argue Russia got a Russian backed president into power in the US but he doesn't do everything they want and Russia is having a bad time at the moment.
I'm not sure what the rhetorical gamble of "anyone with sense agrees with me" is called, but it's lazy. Maybe a no true Scotsman? I believe I have general intelligence and it's not at all obvious to me.
Putting your hopes on taste is cope. At best AI will just let you brute force 1000 projects to discover the delicious ones.
I'm very confused. You're saying that being concerned about AI impact on society makes me depressed? Really not sure what the "read the room" portion means. Did my comment somehow trigger you?
As someone who's run my own email for 25 years or so (I'm really getting old...) my biggest problem is not that I receive spam (spamassassin mostly takes care of it) but that my sent emails get marked as spam by big email providers. Yahoo is the worst offender and seems to do so at some base despite my best efforts (spf, dkim, arc, and jumping through their registration hoops)
I agree with you but I still run my own mail server. If people like me stopped doing that, we would cede the entire email landscape to BigCorp. A sad fate to happen to one of the true decentralized protocols. It's like if we all just went back to AOL
I read the linked fly article and didn't see where it's mentioned why containers aren't a good fit for sandboxes that need persistent state. You can definitely do all the same snapshoting directly on your local docker volumes, although granted you'd need zfs or lvm backed volumes (which is probably what sprites do under the hood).
I think there are tradeoffs here. Maybe your one person vibe coded app doesn't need any change management, IaC, any of that. No docker file, start with whatever docker file fly wrote for you, beat it with an agent until it works enough. And it's pretty cool that you can then just serve it directly. Is it dev or prod? Yes.
On the other hand, I really don't think editing php files over ftp in prod was ahead of it's time -- I was there, man, and it sucked. I just know I'll be really confused about why something doesn't work eventually and wish I had some tracking of what changed over time. I want my IDE. I want VCS!
Maybe it's concerns about docker chroot escape? I'm not sure what the current consensus is on how "secure" docker is, but in the past I've heard you shouldn't assume an app in a container is fully isolated from the "host" system.
Relatedly, I recently heard Dan Carlin (of hardcore history) on Sam Harris's podcast wonder how much of the current discord in the US is the product of Russian influence campaigns (and whether we'll ever find out)
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