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  • yes, that’s why it’s called fingerprinting:

    it’s a kind of mathematical function that takes the entire code as input and outputs a unique result.

    the result is just some string of symbols (which really just represent a unique string of 1’s and 0’s).

    this unique string of characters is, as mentioned, unique for any given input.

    this string can then be compared to any arbitrary other string, and if they match, then you know it’s the same code.

    so in the case of signal anybody can download the source, compile it, and verify that it matches the fingerprint of the compiled code on their own device.

    that’s why it can’t be faked: you compare the already compiled code.

    if even a single digit of the code is out of place, it’s not going to result in the same string, and thus immediately get flagged as a mismatch.

    it’s mathematically impossible to fake.



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    yeah… there’s a reason i didn’t respond to you.

    the other used said you are following them around.

    i honestly don’t really care one way or the other, which is why i simply pointed out the option or filing a report.

    if you’re not following them around, there shouldn’t be anything to worry about, right?






  • not true, it does sort of the opposite:

    debrid services cache torrents in order to provide them at high speed to clients (that’s why they aren’t free: they need data storage).

    this is a good thing, because it means the swarm is only taxed once per file, instead of constantly by potentially hundreds of streamers.

    from stremio’s FAQs:

    How Debrid Services Work with Stremio

    Stremio itself is a media center application that aggregates content from various sources through add-ons. Debrid services enhance this experience by:

    1. Converting limited or slow hosting links into high-speed premium links
    2. Providing access to higher quality sources that might otherwise be unavailable
    3. Bypassing throttling and download limitations imposed by file hosts
    4. Offering cached torrents for instant streaming without waiting for peers

  • sure, and that works at small scales and as long as no change is required.

    when either of those two change (large projects where interdependent components become inevitable and frequent updates are necessary) it becomes impossible to use AI for basically anything.

    any change you make then has to be carefully considered and weighed against it’s consequences, which AIs can’t do, because they can’t absorb the context of the entire project.

    look, I’m not saying you can’t use AI, or that AI is entirely useless.

    I’m saying that using AI is the same as any other tool; use it deliberately and for the right job at the right time.

    the big problem, especially in commercial contexts, is people using AI without realizing these limitations, thinking it’s some magical genie that can everything.



  • yeah, no… that’s not at all what i said.

    i didn’t say “AI doesn’t work”, i said it works exactly as expected: producing bullshit.

    i understand perfectly well how to get it to spit out useful information, because i know what i can and cannot ask it about.

    I’d much rather not use it, but it’s pretty much unavoidable now, because of how trash search results have become, specifically for technical subjects.

    what absolutely doesn’t work is asking AI to perform highly specific, production critical configurations on live systems.

    you CAN use it to get general answers to general questions.

    “what’s a common way to do this configuration?” works well enough.

    “fix this config file for me!” doesn’t work, because it has no concept of what that means in your specific context. and no amount of increasingly specific prompts will ever get you there. …unless “there” is an utter clusterfuck, see the OP top of chain (should have been more specific here…) for proof…


  • no, AI just sucks ass with any highly customized environment, like network infrastructure, because it has exactly ZERO capacity for on-the-fly learning.

    it can somewhat pretend to remember something, but most of the time it doesn’t work, and then people are so, so surprised when it spits out the most ridiculous config for a router, because all it did was string together the top answers on stack overflow from a decade ago, stripping out any and all context that makes it make sense, and presents it as a solution that seems plausible, but absolutely isn’t.

    LLMs are literally design to trick people into thinking what they write makes sense.

    they have no concept of actually making sense.

    this is not an exception, or an improper use of the tech.

    it’s an inherent, fundamental flaw.







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    doesn’t work at all, completely breaks down for the planetoids and moons…

    which makes sense, since those names are not german, which is why german grammar doesn’t apply to them.

    latin loanwords work the same way in german as they do in latin: completely at random and just have to be memorized…but at least they do follow the gender of the deity, so if you know your greco-roman pantheon it’s pretty easy!

    edit: also a very weird example, with a weird rule about ending in “e”; venus and earth (erde) are the only female planets…