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matheusmoreira
28,291karma·11,402submissions·October 4, 2016
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Brazilian hobbyist programmer. I mostly do my own thing but I've contributed to some free and open source projects.
I created the lone programming language, a lisp for Linux:
https://github.com/lone-lang/lone
The projects I've published are on GitHub:
https://github.com/matheusmoreira/
I can be reached via email:
hn@matheusmoreira.com
I also have my own website:
https://www.matheusmoreira.com/
If you like my work, consider sponsoring me:
https://github.com/sponsors/matheusmoreira
No pressure though. I do this because I enjoy it.
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I do wonder what the world will look like under a chinese hegemony though...
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To me "safety" means "I'm safe from this while I use it". It means the AI is my loyal friend who will never betray me in any way, no matter what prompt I send it. Not even Ant…
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They were, just not as quickly. The export controls directly accelerated their development. The general rule is: USA bans China from having thing, they make their own version of whatever that thing is…
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Yeah. Exact same concerns here as a non-american. Their "national security" is a constant threat to the rest of us.
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> then changes one bit on every page in the entire virtual space Yeah that sucks. Naively implemented garbage collectors have the same problem: they put the live and mark bits in the object itself …
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> Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models. Not even Anthropic's own Claude believes that.
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> The whole discourse was poisoned years ago when the author of Redis told everyone to disable THP on Linux What's the story behind that? Do normal programs really get affected by this? Normal…
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So, how's the OpenAI situation? Is the grass greener on the other side?
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That's... That's even more terrifying.
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Yeah I remembered the accretion disks immediately after posting and edited the comment. > it’s certainly possible to have maximally scary black holes that have no accretion disk and are small enoug…
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To be fair, is there anyone alive who wouldn't be afraid of a black hole? It's a celestial body so gargantuan its gravity bends the light passing around it like a lens. Anyone who gets too…
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> The last release of GrapheneOS they've been able to exploit on locked device is still from 2022 as of a couple months ago. That's impressive!!
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GrapheneOS is good enough to have an entire column dedicated to it in Cellebrite's support matrix, and if I remember correctly the device could break into iPhones but not phones running GrapheneO…
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Those are expensive, especially in my country where the taxes double the cost of everything.
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> I never did this before so there was plenty to learn, from basic electronics and magnetics to high-speed signal routing. How did you learn this? As a hobbyist I found hardware to be quite impenet…
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Centralization is bad. When people offer a convenient forum, the price is to bend the knee to their rules instead of one's own. There's also the funding question.
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We meme about it because it's virtually guaranteed that corporations and government figures will be immune while the rest of us will be oppressed.
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The data you cited says the opposite. > United States 7.65 > Brazil 6.76
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No doubt. During Biden's presidential term, they told our president Bolsonaro to stop questioning the voting machines. Now Trump's administration is criticizing those exact same voting machi…
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"Stealing" CPU cycles is exactly what PoW bot protection is doing. The whole point is to add cost to the bots so they decide it's too expensive and give up. The only difference is the c…
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> Please consider installing one of the many PoW schemes such as anubis Why not go all the way and mine monero instead of just completely wasting the work?
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I would agree with that... Were it not for the fact Brazil uses voting machines.
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https://archive.fo/lHsam
15 pts
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The optimal amount of crime is non-zero. We can "catch all criminals" quite easily, just install a totalitarian state panopticon where everybody is guilty by default and constantly surveille…
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It's a nice idea. Everything is backwards right now. It should to be the other way around: random citizens should be essentially anonymous while all members of the government are surveilled 24&#x…
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> But you will still be directing the research and involved in the creation. Somehow I doubt it. Maybe there won't be a need for you to be involved at all. Maybe the AI will perform even bette…
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All this boils down to governments wanting security from their citizens and corporations wanting security from their customers. It's not going to stop, ever .
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Android became a lost cause the second they introduced hardware remote attestation. Even if there was a way to install your own software, there's no point in doing so. You're "tampering…
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But if you do, it fails attestation which turns the phone into a paperweight.