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And why do we need this drama of authenticity at all? It always baffles me how humans keep creating problems just like that.

Before looking for a solution, just stop for a second and evaluate whether we need more problems. If so, ask yourself for whom we are creating more problems?


The drama of authenticity is only a veil over the problem of trusting other people. If you cannot trust other people, why even post a comment, or for that matter contribute to society?

If you can trust people, then knowing when and how to trust them matters, and thus authenticity is a concern.


So it's about connection, and how authenticity affects it.

The author's gripe is about losing one's self to the influence of society.

Being driven, rather than doing your own driving. Following instead of leading.

And then once you're in this rut, it becomes difficult to connect with you. Trust is an issue because the reader doesn't know who is writing anymore. Hence his disclaimer at the start.

I don't know what to say though. Careful, authentic writing takes time that everyone seems to be running out of.


You have actually observed something interesting here because authenticity is how we decide who to trust. Effort and voice used to be cheap signals of a real person now llms can fake pretty much both, so I'm having to work harder to know who is on the other end.

Because authenticity matters today even more so. A simple observation, imagine this post was purely generated/optimized by llm, it wouldn't have gotten people discussing about it. Cause it's easy for smart people to quickly notice the slop and the tone. You definitely have noticed that llms don't seem to have strong opinions, it always tries to be politically correct and that's easy to spot. But having strong opinions itself isn't necessarily a sign of authenticity though. As "itsalwaysgood" put it, authenticity forces people to think through what they want to communicate so it works as a friction for good writing and drives genuine engagement. I mean who would love the idea of talking/arguing with a bot.

When I'm talking to a person irl or even chatting online I would find it very weird if the the person is always conforming to me and rarely brings up a new genuine insight or a contrary thought to add to the discussion. I'm not looking for a debate always though, sometimes just listening to someone is enough. But I hope you understand what I mean here.


Why? Just release Graphene without those security requirements. It must be a user's choice and responsibility. You sound exactly the people you fight against.

You understand that just having a firewall is a big step for security?


Diverting a massive amount of resources to devices where we can never provide decent updates and our core security features doesn't interest us. It would reduce the privacy, security, usability, app compatibility and robustness of GrapheneOS for users on the officially supported devices. It would also result in many people getting insecure devices. Many people would get those devices and then realize they made a poor decision later. We already see this happen with devices approaching end-of-life and already have to put significant work into avoiding people getting those.

GrapheneOS is permissively licensed so that people can do exactly that (and fork for different hardware platforms) if they want to. It is a donation-supported open source project with a small team, and it is not a crime or moral failing for them to put those resources into doing the best that they can, instead of spreading themselves thin on something they cannot be motivated or proud of.

I never hated a programming language grammar until I saw Rust's. I understand the technical advantages; I still hate it.

I know it's silly.


Oh these are the peope who have genuine good intention behind AI censorships

Is this just a marketing stunt? From a completely ignorant user, doesn't AI reeuqires high bandwidth ram (like the GPU)? Is really DDR5’s bandwidth enough?

> 192 GB GPU memory

How did I miss that? I was still sleeping I guess

Hehe - yeah, I was pretty sure that you just overlooked it - pointing that out was irresistible :o)

> Calling things you disagree with "slop" is slop /s

Does this apply recursively? /s


Really? I always thought KVM came to existence aftern VMware.


My guess is it's referring to ESXi's GPL'd (or not GPL'd) code and the 2016 suit which failed (on procedural grounds).


Does it do cosmetic block of just DNS block?


The same as on macOS. Comzmeti. And dns block


It is always the next year


I put my mum on Linux three years ago, and os-related issues dropped to approximately zero. I'm claiming 2023.


i still don't understand what it does. Can someone ELI5? I've read both articles, still clueless.


I'll take a shot at this.

Native applications ship as executable files. These files are basically a combination of machine code instructions (the program logic to be run) + a bunch of extra data that needs to be loaded into memory for the program to run + metadata so the operating system knows how to combine it all.

The first article noted that the file format for this can be thought of as a very specialised, antiquated database format. The author then managed to convert some real applications of theirs into sqlite databases of the necessary program data, and then taught the operating system how to treat those sqlite databases as programs to run.

The second article builds on this, by creating a program shipped as an sqlite database, and then making that program read and write itself (through sqlite code) to store its application state. So instead of having a web server application that loads an sqlite db table, it is just a database file that the operating system can run as a native application, that also stores user data in itself.


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