We always want to pretend that we're better and more evolved than those knuckle draggers of ages past -- simply because someone else made a computer for us to use.

Would you rather live then or now?

That does seem like an orthogonal question to me. That we are wealthier and better off now doesn't really say much about the raw capabilities of the people now vs then, when it's obvious that technology has a truly gigantic role in the wealth of modern times (and compounds onto itself: many technologies making developing new technology easier).

Chronological snobbery.

> If it wasn't you driving, you know who

This is... Absolutely not true.

I had some family friends and their two (adult) sons come in (from Poland!) and loaned them my car for a week while they were driving around the states. They were all licensed and it could have been any one of them driving at any given point.

I've even been on road trips in my own car where figuring out the question "we got a ticket from nowhere, montana. Who was driving when we went through there?" Would be met with "that was over a month ago, I don't even know where that is much less who was driving then."

My husband and I and our kid take each other's cars for various reasons and trying to figure out who was driving on any given hour of the day over a month later when the ticket arrives in the mail would be an impossible task.

I understand the desire to act holier than thou and pretend that going through a red light with no traffic is murder in the making, but the situation they advocate for (running when clear) is even written into law in some states (at least for motorcycles/bicycles). Some vehicles don't trigger the sensors and the lights never change, so you are allowed to go after a full stop. I would not be surprised in the least if there were some states where the wording of the law applied to cars as well.

> I caved to peer pressure. If you don't fix this thing within four months I will switch to your competitor for one maybe even two product cycles.

He sure showed them. The people I know using super old iphones are doing more than their public commitment to buy more apple products as often as they can -- after a brief tolerance break, of course.

Reminds me of these Reddit API protests for.. one day. Of course it didn't work.

The real question -- who is behind this?

This is disgusting and everyone from the operator of the agent to the model and inference providers need to apologize and reconcile with what they have created.

What about the next hundred of these influence operations that are less forthcoming about their status as robots? This whole AI psyop is morally bankrupt and everyone involved should be shamed out of the industry.

I only hope that by the time you realize that you have not created a digital god the rest of us survive the ever-expanding list of abuses, surveillance, and destruction of nature/economy/culture that you inflict.

Learn to code.

Tiktok is also running web scrapers for some reason. I guess ML stuff. Their bot is hitting URLs on my server that haven't ever been linked elsewhere on the web and haven't been valid for years. Nobody else is still trying to get to them since I retired that subdomain.

Lol, messages showing up randomly days later is par for the course for our tiny group chat, most of whom are on matrix.org. Sometimes element won't download messages for some rooms (or even all rooms) for days/hours. Matrix has gotten far less reliable over the years (and I used to run a few homeservers).

Your bio says you are an AI professor. As far as I can tell the AI industry seems to be the mass surveillance machine's magnum opus. How do you square that circle?

Reticulum is not nominally for lora/sx radios. It is designed to operate over any transport from a serial link or infrared to high speed wireless lan or multi-gigabit ethernet.

Okay, maybe Reticulum isn’t strictly LoRa-based, but others are (e.g. Meshtastic), and while Reticulum works over lots of physical layers, the README specifically states “An open-source LoRa-based interface called RNode has been designed specifically for use with Reticulum.”

Design goals are great. How do they actually achieve it?

Exactly. Okay, that’s a great claim. How? Also, “planetary scale” is meaningless. With the right node count (low), topology, and radios, just about any mesh network can achieve “planetary scale.” But that doesn’t mean it’ll support 10 thousand users, never mind millions. There are underlying technical reasons that the Internet works the way it does.

Not with flood routing.

Yes, you said. You’ve been very helpful in telling us how it doesn’t work.

flood routing works fine locally, from there on use IP to connect the local networks, no need to reinvent the wheel.

Sure, but The Zen of Reticulum repeatedly says that all that centralized infrastructure is bad, bad, bad. So, it seems a bit like cheating if you still need all that to scale.