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#1 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2025-05-05 16:58:48

Sabine Hossenfelder
AI is too nice -- but it has a bigger problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQI8W_XUmww

Can we please get (back) facts and rules based systems?

That statistical large language mess just costs us too much.

#2 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2025-04-14 10:55:39

zapper wrote:

Farron Balanced

FB is one of my daily madness explainers and commenters.

#3 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2025-04-03 01:39:02

Computerphile
Ai Will Try to Cheat & Escape (aka Rob Miles was Right!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqJnK9Dh-eQ

#4 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2025-04-02 19:11:16

Don Lemon
Jacob Ward's Warning | Has A.I. Gone Too Far?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kotgqR3neZ0

#5 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2025-03-25 18:59:25

Sabine Hossenfelder
Ex Google CEO Calls For Mutually Assured AI-Destruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XklF9dQ0x8U

#6 Re: Off-topic » Textmode/Terminal Browser » 2025-03-10 08:47:30

SVG?

In an XTerm?

I read about "something something SVG" in Chawan before, but only today I tried it:

20250310-083030__chawan__mathsvg.png

#7 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2025-02-11 17:41:48

Sabine Hossenfelder
“I'm pretty terrified by the pace of AI development” says OpenAI researcher who left company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgcjOo4HAlg

...fits well to the open Q of the post above.

#8 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2025-02-10 18:38:58

Farron Balanced
Elon Musk's DOGE Staffers Are Dangerously Stupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVa5cXiASQ8

Wait a bit (3m00s) ... this clip is about (ab)using AI too.

The question I'm missing there (or is my babel-fish just too under-caffeinated?):
Does that leak sensitive information into the AI?
I would be surprised if not.

AI is not the screwdriver you have at home, that is totally unconnected to its manufacturer and does not "phone home".

#9 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2025-02-06 07:33:36

LBC
‘Godfather of AI’ predicts it will take over the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxkBE23zDmQ

#10 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2025-02-04 18:37:58

Sabine Hossenfelder
Sam Altman Thinks We Need To Change Our Social Contract
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-5chPHZ18E

#11 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2025-02-04 01:02:54

Hackaday
Examining The Vulnerability Of Large Language Models To Data-Poisoning
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/03/examini … poisoning/

#12 Re: Off-topic » Statement regarding X community » 2025-01-31 12:56:05

blackhole wrote:

I would say that it's verging on the pedantic, to equate those, or indeed mailing lists, to "social media"...

We were very social back then and there.

#13 Re: Off-topic » Statement regarding X community » 2025-01-31 11:51:32

blackhole wrote:

"Social media" should play no part in the development of a computer operating system.

Usenet?
comp.os.minix?
...

#14 Re: Off-topic » Textmode/Terminal Browser » 2025-01-25 00:38:57

Google Image Search?

In an XTerm?

20250125-002559__chawan__google_images_search.png

Would you believe this without screenshot?

#15 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2025-01-22 17:21:58

Sabine Hossenfelder
What Everyone Gets Wrong about AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNJEOTouhvs

#16 Re: Off-topic » Mods modifying posts. » 2025-01-07 16:47:51

golinux wrote:

FYI . . . I notified the user in question by email.

\o/

Thanks for the details!

#17 Off-topic » Mods modifying posts. » 2025-01-07 08:40:31

yeti
Replies: 2

Coming from this thread.

zapper wrote:

pity golinux modified your post, now I don't know what specifically was stupid out of his last post.

Would one get an email when such happens here?

Not so long ago I left a forum because a moderator added a warning to a link I posted only because of personally disliking YouTube and I did not even get a notice that this had happened.  That was not the only community I left because of such incidences.  Sure "your house, your rules" applies there, but it not being a jail, I can leave if I disagree.

#18 Re: Off-topic » Textmode/Terminal Browser » 2025-01-06 16:54:33

Gitea?  Really?
[[siteconf]]
host = "tildegit.org"
cookie = true
scripting = true

20250106-153524__chawan__gitea_at_tildegit.png

Login works.
Colourcancer danger zone.
Maybe this is worth some fine tuning and a repo to play with instead of risking to screw up the other ones.

#19 Re: Off-topic » Textmode/Terminal Browser » 2025-01-06 08:09:36

Unfinished

..., but it looks surprisingly simple to add a protocol:

~$ cat .config/chawan/cgi-bin/nex
#!/bin/sh

printf 'Cha-Control: Connected\r\n'
printf 'Status: 200\r\n' # ~ HTTP OK
printf 'Cha-Control: ControlDone\r\n'
printf '\r\n'

printf '%s\n' "$MAPPED_URI_PATH" \
| nc "$MAPPED_URI_HOST" "${MAPPED_URI_PORT:-1900}"

##
## To do:
## - HTML-ify as <pre>...</pre>
## - links --> active
##
~$ cat .config/chawan/urimethodmap 
nex: /cgi-bin/nex
~$ cha nex://nightfall.city/nex/info/specification.txt
                           THE NEX PROTOCOL                                    
                                                                               
Nex is a simple internet protocol designed for distributed document            
retrieval. It's inspired by gopher and gemini.                                 
                                                                               
Servers should listen on port 1900. Afterall, night falls at 7pm!              
Users connect and send the server a path which may be empty. The               
server responds with text or binary data and close the connection. No          
state is retained.                                                             
                                                                               
Document content is returned as-is. Directory content use plain text           
with a special syntax where each line beginning by "=> " followed by a         
URL is considred a link. The URL can be absolute or relative. Here are         
examples:                                                                      
                                                                               
=> nex://my-site.net                                                           
=> about.txt                                                                   
=> ../nexlog/                                                                  
                                                                               
Clients can assume that an empty path or a path finishing with / is a          
directory. A document should be displayed based on the path's file             
extension. When there is no extension, plain text is assumed.                  
                                                                               
Here is an example telnet session:                                             
telnet nex.nightfall.city 1900                                                 
hello-world.txt                                                                
                                                                               
Hello world!                                                                   

\o/

Which surprise will be next?

#20 Re: Off-topic » Textmode/Terminal Browser » 2025-01-05 07:49:19

I2P works.  \o/

20250105-073448__chawan__I2P_works.png

... still fighting with *.onion addresses.

#21 Re: Off-topic » Textmode/Terminal Browser » 2025-01-04 18:00:33

Testing login and quick reply.

Login works after accepting cookies (I'll do that with site specific rules for now) and clicking into the editarea opens my default text editor.  This is (N)VI on my ARM guinea pigs.

Well, I definitely had browsers before that were far less fun than this one.  \o/

Written on my Android phone a Pi2 using Chawan over SSH in XTerm.

EDIT: And "go back" looks like needing JS.

#22 Re: Off-topic » Textmode/Terminal Browser » 2025-01-04 14:52:23

~$ ls /opt/chawan/libexec/chawan/
ansi2html  dirlist2html  gopher2html  md2html  uri2html  urlenc
cgi-bin    gmi2html      img2html     nc       urldec
~$ ls /opt/chawan/libexec/chawan/cgi-bin/
about   chabookmark  finger  gemini  http  man      resize  sixel    stbi
canvas  file         ftp     gopher  jebp  nanosvg  sftp    spartan

There is much more under the hood than I mentioned.  Like W3M it plays (man)pager too, I assume dirlist2html will mimic W3M's file system viewer and seeing the smolweb protocols and even more being supported is really nice too.  I think its protocol diversity is in the same class as Elinks and Dillo while the overlap not completely is 1:1 to them.  E.g. Elinks currently is the only browser supporting fsp: I know of.

EDIT20240105
I mentioned the GUI browser Dillo side by side to Elinks because of its protocol diversity and I typically mention W3M and Emacs in the same context too.  Dillo is so easy to extend, that I could take it's Spartan plugin and turn it into one for the Nex protocoll easily.
/EDIT20240105

I've no idea what nanosvg is expected to do, my only own webpage with embedded SVG code did not render the graphic.

Meanwhile I've built it on Devuan5/armhf, NetBSD9.1/amd64, NetBSD9.3/amd64, NetBSD10.0/amd64 and OpenBSD7.3/amd64.  The Devuan5/armel build still crawls on a Pi1.  It works in most cases for all protocols I tested and as man viewer, but http: and https: refuse to work on the NetBSDs while the rest works.  As usual, answers will find me, so I'm patient with that situation.  OmmmMMMmmm...  ;-)

It gives me one wide smile after the other:

20250104-151324__chawan__sooo_cute.png

And I had a crash with postbank.de which probably has a gigantic amount of JS in its page.  Without JS being enabled it rendered and looked halfway familiar.  Lots of other JS-heavy pages don't work, but I care more for my own cheat sheets and outsourced reminders written in Orgmode/Org-Babel and for those Chawan is the first textmode/terminal browser that renders this stuff without butchering the layout:

20250104-152317__chawan__orgbabel_notes.png

I expect to discover more positive surprises.

#23 Off-topic » Textmode/Terminal Browser » 2025-01-04 11:15:37

yeti
Replies: 9

Probably worth watching:

Chawan - a web browser for your terminal

https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/

My build of Nim-2.2.0 as /opt/nim "bonsai" on Devuan5 just has finished, but I've not built Chawan on Linux with it yet.  Strangely on the NetBSD9 I tried it on, it does build, but does not work correctly.  So here some snapshots of it running on OpenBSD7 viewed via SSH in an XTerm on Linux:

20250103-201720__chawan__home_sweet_home.png

20250103-175931__chawan__in_xterm.png

20250103-205007__chawan__wikipedia__double-plus-better.png

I'm probably still far from having it configured correctly (and optimally).

#24 Re: Off-topic » Self hosting digital amoebas. » 2025-01-03 19:02:40

Sufficiently "fat" FPGAs will do for the start.  I assume that smaller ones can be interconnected like with classic bus layouts without sacrificing too much flexibility and maybe even that way make incremental live changes in running systems possible.  Just always have some chips more than you need as stand-by and just switch them when a newer one got configured.  That will stay more flexible than ASICs or other chips with only one fixed contents.

#25 Re: Off-topic » [SOLVED] "A future for the i386 architecture" and other good(???) news » 2025-01-03 13:48:36

Threads in Off-Topic have a topic.
Except for just being destructive, I see no reason to torpedo thread's topics here.

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