But I've been reliably informed that the natural law is a terrible basis for ethics because then we can't use empathy as an excuse for violating it.
It was basketball and I was lucky to get 4 points in a single game. I scored 9 my entire junior year. My kids are welcome to not be like me at all.
Ollama running llama3:70b I only get 1token per second with a 4090 but all the models smaller than that hallucinate frequently.
Ah but my sports glory days! And thanks to someone digitizing some old home VHS tapes to YouTube I now have the receipts. I was terrible, absolute trash.
Yeah I need to go deeper with git. My usage is very basic. I never revise anything.
Alright #nostr what is your solution to coding on multiple devices? Ubuntu desktop and laptop in my case.
Things I do already.
ssh + gnu/screen + vim: the main drawback is that while I love vim, plugins are fragile and are hard to configure for LLM auto complete.
Keep pushing changes to my git server on a branch: this leads to a bunch of nonsensical commits when I am partway through a change.
Ssh within vs code: it is just unpleasant.
#asknostr
I shall never invite you to review the qbasic programs I wrote in highschool. What do programmers even do when they exceed 26 variables in the global namespace? Probably move to a case-insensitive language. Either way it's nice to have a cap on how large any one program can be.
There is also background, expression, and pose. You don't need to determine if it is the same person only if it is the same picture. I imagined something like mii avatars only much more realistic. Start with a standard mesh and change things like forehead width/height, width at eyes, cheeks, chin, then features like eyes (size, shape, color, placement) and all the things you mentioned. Then because it is a mesh, pose it and render with a patterned background to add a few more bits.
I've had trouble thinking up 32 bytes of determinism. But I am sure there is research on facial parameters.
I was going to call it "the three witnesses" because you have to verify that they are the same on both devices as witness to your friendship. If they were cartoon and funny with odd expressions, people would have some fun checking what weirdos stood witness to their relationship. If the key derivation function is deterministic it would always remain the same three witnesses.
My initial solution was to use a asymmetric key exchange to generate a unique key. That key would be used by both clients to generate a series of random faces using the key as a seed. The two paries would have a limited time to select say three matching faces.
They would both have to be able to see both screens and any tampering would be immediately obvious to humans ridiculously good face recognition.
Yeah. That is why it isn't a great solution. One of the problems of key-signing is that it is all or nothing. You assert that you are 100% sure of an identity. Real life isn't like that and normal people verifying each other won't be like that. Forcing in person is also massively inconvenient.
I would have many methods of verification, email, text, manual entry, nearfield, QR codes, etc. each method would carry a probability of tampering so the actual signature would be something like 97% sure this is the Sibyl I expect. You then do a preponderance of evidence algorithm as they are verified in different ways. You'd add that checkmark for high 9's only.
Speaking Sibyl as a name. Usernames should only count as an initial suggestion or at best a nickname displayed as a tagline. Pet names only. It makes no sense to verify you as Sibyl only to have you change your name to Leaserin.
Absolutely. I've spent some time wondering how you gamify key-signing in a way that ordinary people will want to participate but at the same time not fall for social engineering. I don't think I have a good solution yet. But scanning each other's QR codes in order to get a blue-check is a start.
May I politely suggest that it might not be internet normies who show up either. So um, make of that what you will...
For me it is a tool to use along side Google. There was a time I would have to spend a good deal of time doing repeated Google searches trying zero in on the language I needed to effectively search for niche information on topics that I was not even sure existed.
Now I can ask even a dumb AI for information about any A about B and it will return a bad answer that at least contains all the lingo I needed.
