I really wish we could do stuff like this without worrying about getting sued. Like, think about it. The copyright for games is extremely long (I won't google it) yet they only have a short period where they make money. All that work went into those games that are no longer financially viable. But no one can do anything with them due to copyright.
I've thought about this so much as I'm building my own game. I see all these amazing assets in older works like music, 3d models, textures, and so on, yet if you use any of it you're just going to get sued. I feel like there could be a good middle ground that might work for the publisher better than just keeping everything in a warehouse...
This website here is likely to be sent some not-so-polite emails soon telling them to take it down as they don't own the assets...
It's not that hard to get crypto, pay for a VPS while using a decent VPN (the VPS itself probably dodgy and bugged by the operators; but oh well), buy a non-Verisign/etc domain, and have it up on the internet.
Especially with the rise of AI/LLM spam, you might get a DMCA or cease and desist, but the third party contracted by $RIGHTSHOLDER isn't going to go NSA-level de-anonymisation as long as you stay small scale.
After all, it is still relatively trivial to find whatever movies, TV shows, etc online from a web browser. Yandex is convenient, but DeepSeek Search API is also decent (and very cheap) too.
VS code with claude plugin. Basic private git repos per project on github, nothing special, I keep everything simple.
1. subscription: claude max 20x
2. other subscription: nope
3. harness: vs code with claude plugin
4. orchestration: no
5. broader agents: grok for outreach.
my development setup is a high-end local esxi server (multiple internet cons and a graphics card). The server has about 30 different OSes on it (static ips / ssh setups for all vms.) I use a VM on that machine to run my IDE with full access to the other VMs. I have good snapshots for all the VMs so if anything breaks they are easily restored. This setup makes it easy to develop software for any OS and also test complex software interactions.
For hosted internet services: I use a single OVH debian machine. I pre-pay everything over a large period so the bills are always paid. That keeps it reliable as I can say that even if I go broke in the future I'll have paid it for quite a while (useful in this economy, lol.)
Session notes: I feel like the best approach is for us all to just maintain a personal wiki for our projects. But I must admit I've been lazy in that respect. All my attempts to manage my notes never works because im such a messy, chaotic person. My natural state is disorder. So I'll just (1) destroy it by accident (2) forget to back it up (3) forget to use it (4) get tired of using it. I envy those super organised people.
Backup: my services are backed up locally. My local repos are backed up to github, email, and remotely. Agents deleting anything by accident isn't something i have to worry about. They have ruined VMs before. I can easily restore them. So far I've only ever lost notes because of laziness.
Security: my security setup could be vastly improved by using discrete key pairs with restricted permissions for github. What I worry about most is just things like prompt injection and the agent accidentally downloading malware. Lateral traversal out of vms is hard but not impossible. I'd wager there's still lots of private stuff on the vms too. I monitor everything closely at least and can restore a snapshot if i get paranoid.
Because being surrounded by people who use English as a second/third language, they often encourage us to report "mistakes" and "weirdness" in their language, as a way of improving and learning.
I don't think its that deep, man. I think its more like: "ha look you made a mistake, here's how it's meant to be written, dumb ass." Like the person above said already: the majority of the time people do this it's a simple typo and they know how it's spelt. So I don't really think adults appreciate being corrected on basic shit.
It's like the people who attack grammar in arguments instead of the core point. I've seen enough people doing this across the Internet to know the reason they do it. And it has everything to do with being a smug asshole and nothing to do with helping.
There already are real flying cars though. They are vehicles with wings that extend out from the car's body and can take short flights. They fly in the sense of what people expect from any other plane -- and thus need flat ground to act as a run way. None of these designs use cold air thrusters because its simply not viable for extended flight.
The reason thrusters work well in space is minimal weight there. You need to work many times harder on Earth to counter act the weight of the object here.
I don't think its just rationalist blogs who do this. Authors don't realise how little time people have now and catching anyone's attention is a miracle. These examples for the nicotine aren't the best though. Gwern's articles are long because he includes literally every thing he can possibly find on a subject. They're not meant to be like short summaries but more like evolving wikipedia articles.
If you read what gwern says on nicotine its far more nuanced than "nicotine is fine, use nicotine." He does acknowledge that frequent use leads to tolerance. But tolerance is not the same as addiction. I think also if you're going to try argue against his post (which is thoroughly researched) then you ought to do better than just set up a strawman and say he's wrong....
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