Someone made a pretty good, albeit very cautiously, almost concern-trollisly written blog post about recent internet drama Odin v. Wikipedia. Surprise: the conclusion is that Odin is fashTech. (warning, the blog appears to be LLM-designed. I do not believe the actual text is LLM-written but you can never be sure)
https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/
Donations are not a good substitute for taxes at all. A social expectation of billionaires donating only ensures that the people who remain billionaires are the biggest assholes around to an even greater extent than they already are.
Just say nothing. Hitler legally cannot invade if you don’t sign a non-aggression pact with him.
It can only do the impressive numbers after you give it a schema for the data, and the data has to be structured in a way that follows a rigid schema, so it’s not magic.
OpenZL compresses data into a self-describing wire format, any configuration of which can be decompressed by a universal decoder. OpenZL’s design enables rapid development of tailored compressors with minimal code; its universal decoder eliminates deployment lag; and its investment in a well-vetted standard component library minimizes security risks.
The freedom afforded by OpenZL’s graph model is a double-edged sword: the capability it offers comes at the cost of a combinatorial explosion of choices that must be made—namely which components to use and how to compose and configure them. There is no one-size-fits-all compressor
Webassembly for compression or something, but it’s made by the zstd people so maybe it will turn out to be magic eventually.
On one hand the x2.06 ratio for the SAO data is extremely good, zpaq and paq8px are 50x and 10000x slower at encoding and decoding and still can’t even reach that ratio (I didn’t try even more extreme compression, paq8px -8 already took 20 minutes).
On the other hand,
enwik: A Case Study Where OpenZL Performs Poorly
We present this case study to show that OpenZL is not a magic bullet for all use cases. The shortcomings are twofold. First, the standard codec library can achieve good results for many datasets, but is not currently optimized for human text. Second, English text is a highly compressible format for which domain- specific transformations are especially useful. xwrt combines multiple such transformations to achieve its results. With this in mind, we are optimistic that porting text-specific codecs and text parsing will improve the performance of OpenZL compressors in this domain.
Oh you did! Indeed, you have to complete the human campaign all the way through (to the point that you get an epilogue) to even be able to start the 2nd largest storyline after the human things.
Endless sky follows the old and storied tradition where 90% of the game’s content is locked behind speaking to a specific random NPC near the starting town, and as a bonus they will tell you to go away at first. You probably fell victim to that.
What exactly would he go to prison for, that he did before getting into politics? Putting billionaires in prison wasn’t a thing the USA really does even before Trump, and the worst things he’s done seem to all be after he got into politics.
As long as it’s public speaking, and not public screaming, you’re good.
Some agent may do 100 queries for 1 user question, but a single scraper bot will do 100 queries every single second of every single day, and costs less to run than the LLM.
The manager of the store says:
“Stop. You know nothing. You have baked 0 bread loaves by hand. No one has ever depended on your bread. You are a finger-wagging “they put dog poo in my bread” type in an era where you hide in plain sight coasting on the moral high ground of baking homemade bread from scratch at home without poo. You can’t ship bread, can’t adapt, can’t even realize that a bread shop is not the place for this kind of attitude.”
The free tier of IGDB has a rate limit of 4 requests per second and they will block you if you try to download the entire database, so this may be a dead end anyway.
Found a 4 megabyte dump that seems promising though it’s from 2018 so outdated.
https://gist.github.com/LeWawan/5858a9e7bef0f3dc4a79ac8bc1e3380c
There’s also a 68MB 3 year old “dataset” for AI training that seems related to IGDB.
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/anudeepvanjavakam/igdb-api-data/data
The simplest fix is a delay between an update being pushed and the update being deployed everywhere. Several orgs are scanning all popular dependencies for supply chain attacks and they usually catch them quickly, just not quickly enough when there is no delay.
it’s actually fits 3%… PER MONTH
april '24 to august '25 is 16 months
1.0316 = 1.605
$49.24 * 1.6 = $78.78
I remember tab groups showing up one day by themselves maybe a week ago, and then I quickly clicked about two buttons and now they’re totally gone and I almost forgot they were a thing. But likely if I had summarily clicked 2 different buttons it might have been turned on without me realizing it, and that would cause the model to be downloaded and the CPU cycles to be spent (at least if I kept the tab groups on)
They seem to believe Vlang is a cult, and don’t like promoting it because of that.
Now I’m pretty sure Vlang is not literally a cult, though it does have a history of controversy where it claims to be ready-to-use and with lots of features, but actually half the features are not implemented and the rest are extremely buggy (at least in 2022), and if you bring that up with the V community they really don’t like that.
It is partially self-hosted though, which is cool I guess
Video has general VPN background info:
A VPN is ultimately just someone else’s computer that routes traffic through it, and there is nothing stopping you from starting your own VPN company, promising you’re not logging anything, and then logging everything you can. You are almost certainly never going to be punished in any way for lying to your customers as long as you put in a minimal amount of effort.
Some VPN companies like to make ridiculous claims like “the vpn will prevent you from getting hacked” which is not true
For 95-99% of internet users (at least in western countries) a VPN doesn’t really help with privacy at all since your browser is most likely still easily fingerprintable. UBlock origin or similar things help but are not even close enough to stop all fingerprinting, you need something like tor browser with javascript disabled to actually get your browser privacy to the level where a VPN is relevant. (Though it does have other benefits like circumventing some geoblocking, making unencrypted websites slightly safer, etc)
You ought to manually configure DNS, possibly even try to self-host
touched upon in the video but not directly explained, almost all VPN companies just rent from cloud services instead of hosting it themselves so even if they didn’t personally log anything, all the network traffic is likely actually still being logged by amazon etc
governments and police can just get court orders to get all the data from VPNs, or even force them to start logging if they didn’t already, though this is probably not a problem for you if you’re not considered an exceptionally interesting person
generally trusted VPNs are mullvad, IVPN, ProtonVPN, the only one I’ll personally point out is mullvad who have cohosted servers which should bypass the cloud related issues, though you had to manually select a non-cloud server last time I checked
As for more or less unique info specific to this video, it claims that VPNs lying about not collecting user data is indeed very common and done by ad companies that buy out VPN companies etc, and government spying agencies also operating VPN companies as honeypots
Finland never recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, and covid + the end of trade with russia has damaged the economy badly and made public debt balloon heavily. Right now unemployment is about 10%, the 2nd highest in the EU, and the far-right coalition goverment that won the last election is trying to privatize healthcare and disempower unions.
The education system has been getting worse for about the past 15-20 years due to misguided reform attempts (and of course endless budget cuts)
Finland’s birth rate dropped below replacement levels about 50 years ago and has been in freefall for about the last 10 years, and now the population pyramid is starting to be in really bad shape, which means the economic situation is likely just going to get worse and worse.
The retirement savings system is designed like a (partial) ponzi scheme due to aforementioned population dynamics, and participation is mandatory so it is effectively a hidden tax on all workers. Due to old people having the majority of the votes, it’s the one thing that is immune from budget cuts, which forces the government to sell publicly owned infrastructure and dismantle public services in a futile effort to compensate.
We’re going to have nuclear fusion before we have asteroid mining. And I’m not saying that fusion is anywhere close.
wrestle a gorilla and win, obviously
Reading between the lines they wrote this because of seeing “I hear you, and you are right to be suspicious — but I only use AI for spell checking, nothing more” one time too many.