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New comment by alkindiffie in "TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875"

alkindiffie — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:06:14 +0000

I like that analogy. It reminds me of "Pointing to the moon and looking at my finger"

New comment by alkindiffie in "TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875"

alkindiffie — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:01:49 +0000

That would be possible if LLMs can come up with entirely new words and languages, which I doubt.

New comment by alkindiffie in "“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number"

alkindiffie — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:38:09 +0000

> That's not a long-term option if you want to make something mainstream.

Groups in messaging apps rarely contain more than 100 users. So invite codes can work well for messaging apps.

New comment by alkindiffie in "If AIs can feel pain, what is our responsibility towards them?"

alkindiffie — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:44:52 +0000

Humans already subjugate other humans and animals to so much pain and suffering, why would they care about AI?

I don't think pain can be felt without the ability to have emotions, and no emotions are possible without personality (that "I" feeling), until AIs can feel real emotions and have a personality than they won't ever be able feel pain.

New comment by alkindiffie in "EFF launches Age Verification Hub"

alkindiffie — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:12:17 +0000

Would be great if EFF also sets up a phone verification hub.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45989890

New comment by alkindiffie in "GrapheneOS Moving Out of France"

alkindiffie — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:53:43 +0000

I don't think one thing will solve it, but everyone who knows better can contribute in their own. For example by teaching people about privacy, encryption and free software. Writing books, doing podcasts aimed at the general public to promote privacy tech. Talking to your local government and municipalities, become the local expert and proposing policies.

New comment by alkindiffie in "GrapheneOS Moving Out of France"

alkindiffie — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:10:27 +0000

Why are we giving up. Shouldn't we stand up against Oppressive governments and Corporations.

New comment by alkindiffie in "GrapheneOS Moving Out of France"

alkindiffie — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:00:34 +0000

Canada does not restrict or ban encryption: https://www.gp-digital.org/world-map-of-encryption/

New comment by alkindiffie in "Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp"

alkindiffie — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:23:38 +0000

The RFC addresses security, but does not mention anything about privacy. I think the scheme ultimately boils down to trusting the server/instance.

It would be great if users don't have to share the actual number with the server, a hash or something like that but that would make it impossible to verify the number and verification is required to prevent spoofing.

Another way maybe is to have a trusted 3rd party (something like EFF, LetsEncrypt) that can be used by users to validate their numbers and applications can get the hashes from there.