Damn, how many cookies are you buying that quickly?!

You can still get them!

Pros of being an adult: you can buy cookies whenever you want.

Cons of being an adult: you can buy cookies whenever you want.

Are there even any women left in the administration? Or is now 100% old men who need viagra?

That’s not a loophole, it’s the purpose of the license. The MPL was made to make embedding an otherwise open-source codebase into a new (non-open) project doable. There used to be several commercial products that used the gecko web engine and other mozilla code, and mozilla code was generally provided under a dual (MPL/GPL) or triple (MPL/GPL/LGPL) license so that developers could choose.

When everything you write (online) is recorded forever, it’s fair to say that eventually you will be a target of something or someone. The risk introduced with this AI approach is in the relative ease with which even a novice can do a mass-unmasking of large groups of previously anonymous people.

Yeah, I expect this will become standard for authors of anything remotely controversial (who want to remain anonymous). On the other hand, if so much public speech sounds the same, those authors who push forward with their own unique style may stand out a lot more.

Do you mean the article or me? If the article it read OK to me, but I also assume that everything is at least AI-edited today. The journal article that spawned it seems legit – I’ll add to the article summary. If you’re talking about me, well, my aching knees, hip, and lower back are constant reminders that I am very much human.

This is a pretty interesting project! Assuming one wanted to run everything locally, what’s the minimum viable hardware stack for near-realtime performance?

Right. And that somethingElse is probably not Unix

So what you’re saying is it’s not Linux, it’s somethingElse/Linux ?

For a more civilized age.

perl -e '$_=q|Tnpljoh!ljmmt"|;s/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/eg;print'

For copyleft licenses like the GPL maybe this would be true if the original, attributed code, along with all of the new alterations, modifications, enhancements and improvements, were also fed back into the machine, but even then it seems unlikely. Copyleft is explicitly about keeping derivative works in the public sphere, not really about ownership of ideas per se.

I wonder if anyone has fed Claude Code to Claude Code yet.

Thanks for this image! I’d never seen white Terry Crews before.

woah a limewire link! Let me put on my hazmat suit before checking that :)

Maybe it was in the Australian section

This is very cool. Have you uncovered any hidden gems with it yet (eg genuinely active nice communities, etc). My brief experience with matrix left me feeling that either a) either all of the activity on matrix was for matrix-related things, or b) it was just impossible to actually find active communities.

I think it’s a pragmatic approach to a difficult problem. You’re still trusting that Proton is doing what they claim to be doing by not logging any of the data, and it lacks the verifiable trust chain of the VM that this Conifer system has (which theoretically would let you audit the code to confirm that there is no logging going on, and then check the crypto hash of the VM running your LLM conversation to confirm that it is in fact running that code), but if you trust Proton this step isn’t as important. Otherwise the approaches look fairly the same.Proton is using PGP for the inflight encryption to the LLM while Conifer is using… maybe PGP too, I’m not sure, but a similar approach. And as others have said here, LLMs are stateless so if you can trust that the platform isn’t logging the requests, there should be no record of your discussions.

The articles are light on detail but the code’s all there. The approach makes sense if the VMs are not cryptographically signed with the user’s key, but are just signed against another key to verify authenticity. I read it as if each VM was created on the fly for a user and signed with that users’s key, but that seems unlikely after re reading it.