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This is what you get when you sell a lifetime product

Tailwind UI is a phenomenal product, but, there's a simple mathematical reason you cannot sell code like in this way to create a sustainable business


skill issue

same way a lesser engineer might say they cannot do X or Y


deepfake edits are a feature, not a bug


its the same as banning knives because they can be used to hurt people. we shouldn't ban tools.


with that analogy, OP's solution is akin to banning the use of knives to harm people, as opposed to banning the knife itself


If I undestood correctly he's unsharpening knives.


Or making knives that turn into overcooked noodles if you try to use them on anything except vegetables and acceptable meats


and who decides if I want to use a knife to cut mushrooms instead? see where I am going, there are (or could exist) legit cases when you need to use it in a non-standard way, one that the model authors didn't anticipate.


But we do ban tools sometimes: you can't bring a knife to a concert, for good reason.


> we shouldn't ban tools

When I see the old BuT FrEe SpEeCH argument repurposed to impinge civil rights I start warming to the idea of banning tools.

Alternately "Chemical weapons don't kill people, people with chemical weapons kill people"


Not really, its like banning chemistry sets cause they may be used to create chemical weapons.


Not sure the comparison works when it does all the work for you

I've had very little success mumbling "you are an expert chemist..." to test tubes and raw materials.


In this case, image generation and editing AI is a tool which we managed just fine with until three years ago, and where the economic value of that tool remains extremely questionable despite it being a remarkable improvement in the state of the art.

As a propaganda tool it seems quite effective, but for that it's gone from "woo free-speech" to "oh no epistemic collapse".


it's just jealously.

hate only comes from below!


nice, another stupid license for my ai dataset scrapers to ignore, thanks!


HN applauds this vibe-coded “privacy” site yet condemns decentralized messaging.

States control what’s centralized; incentives ensure they keep doing so.

Protesting it is like arguing with a thermostat—it can’t hear you, and it’s built to tighten control.

As technologists, we have a lot more power than we realise.

(Yes, I’m speaking to the blob, but the Venn overlap of anti-crypto and pro-this seems big.)


Genuely curious. What would the problem be if it was vibe-coded? It's an easy to read site that succeeds in communicating what it wants.


there's no problem with it being vibe-coded

The point is that the site, contacting your local MEP, and all the discussion in this thread, is pointless to affect some kind of durable societal change

Pointing out that it's vibe-coded just emphasises that all of the above actions are just low-effort cope


Can you suggest an alternative action?


Decentralised messaging providers

Can't enforce everyone to scan

What are you going to do? Arrest everyone?


> What are you going to do? Arrest everyone?

Just like in any other authoritarian state, you make examples. People will quickly learn how to self-police (and to turn enemies in).


Maybe accelerating is an option


>decentralized messaging

This doesn't help, Chat Control scanner run directly on your device. It doesn't matter which chat program you use.


Incorrect

> ... providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content [1]

Even if that were the case, the answer is the Framework phone

[1] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/


>On 11 May 2022 the European Commission presented a proposal which would make chat control searching mandatory for all e-mail and messenger providers and would even apply to so far securely end-to-end encrypted communication services

And scanning end-to-end encrypted is only possible on-device.

And of course the next step is that the EU will mandate that every device needs to implement this scanning, they are very aggressive with this stuff. Framework phone won't help you in this case, this is obviously the next step. That's why we have to fight against it. Reminder that soon online age verification with an app that can only be downloaded from the Play Store and used within a "trusted environment" (e.g. SafetyNet) will be mandatory.


> we also introduced an additional layer of evaluation by testing an adversarially fine-tuned version of gpt-oss-120b

What could go wrong?


It solves the problem in a simpler and faster way than OP requested. OP does not wish to see AI content, this tool solves it. Simple.

Your statement is factually incorrect. Have you no embarrassment?


can anyone comment on what their experience of using mise is vs. other tools a a la nix home-manager/flakes?

I see this "one tool to rule them all" and instantly my senses go off that this is too good to be true to work in all the long-tail scenarios.

There always seems to be some strange edge-cases with tools of this nature.


Why do non-users of LLM's like to despise/belittle them so much?

Just don't use them, and, outcompete those who do. Or, use them and outcompete those who don't.

Belittling/lamenting on any thread about them is not helpful and akin to spam.


Some people are annoyed at the hype, some are making good faith arguments about the pros/cons, and some people are just cranky. AI is a popular subject and we've all got our hot takes.


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