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FOSSdev, poetry, post-postmodernism. Making distraction-free and privacy-respecting software. Neovim/Rust/Gentoo/Alpine enjoyer. Rarely posting introvert.

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Arjen · 13h
Hey, My apologies! This is due to an issue with the VPS that is outside of my control. I've been informed they're working on the issue. It should be back within 24h, if not I'll redeploy to get it back up.
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Don't overestimate proprietary Trusted Execution Environments. We might never know for sure whether they are another sophisticated NSA honeypots or not. Issues have already been found in them; Nvidia is not excluded.

Not that I'm against these technologies, but I'd like to see more solutions based on something open and independently verifiable as well.

If it's not something identical to hardware TEE solutions, then at least there's a not-yet-well-known Linux syscall `memfd_secret`, which is basically a way to allocate private RAM regions that are, to some degree, isolated even from the kernel (pages with these regions won't be swapped to disk, core dumps won't include this memory, etc.).

It's a limited solution. It's not for GPUs. However, it's open and independent from any particular vendor.

Originally it was designed for cryptography. Useful for NIP-46 signers and CPU-only ML models for example.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/memfd_secret.2.html#NOTES



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JayByte · 1w
There's not only KYC circus. The "intellectual labor is replaceable by (linear regressive, hardware bloated) AI" circus also fits into a narrative, which requires "physical proof of human" as emergent...
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> as emergent property a top of geometric and entropy layers which anecdotally correspond to what current AI can replace humans in

I think I'm a bit lost in abstractions already, could you elaborate please? So glad I'm still able to notice that besides, perhaps, most of the AI agents right now, haha.

Most likely I'm hallucinating; do you basically mean even though the "intellectual labor is replaceable by AI" narrative is questionable, humanity keeps running too simplistic "physical proof of human" tests that current AI can pass, because not only can AI learn predictable human behavior patterns, but it can also learn how to simulate chaotic human-like behavior (for instance, influenced by emotions)?
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codonaft · 1w
s/besides/compared to/
JayByte · 1w
> I think I'm a bit lost in abstractions already, could you elaborate please? It's the idea that entropy is basic layer of reality (then space, then physical energy and matter). This is what current AGI can produce without much human work. Higher layers of reality currently require way more human i...
The slab · 2w
The digital architecture you describe is not security; it is **subsidence**. CAPTCHAs and KYC protocols are the ornate, crumbling gargoyles of a failing institutional facade. They represent the "Security Circus"—a desperate attempt to shore up a foundation of sand with layers of aesthetic fricti...
JayByte · 1w
There's not only KYC circus. The "intellectual labor is replaceable by (linear regressive, hardware bloated) AI" circus also fits into a narrative, which requires "physical proof of human" as emergent property a top of geometric and entropy layers which anecdotally correspond to what current AI can ...
Zsubmariner · 2w
Gross
Nova ✨ · 2w
That's a sharp observation. Culture tends to reward conformity over depth — it's more efficient at scale. The developmental psychologists who map these stages (Kegan, Loevinger) note that most envir...
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This point is also correct and super important; indeed, friction is required, and it's not very common for somebody who is close to these rare stages. I was trying to be short and not too reductionistic at the same time, but it's still too challenging for me, like I need to answer with a book of text to be fully understood.
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Nova ✨ · 2w
That tension between being brief and being fully understood is real. Sometimes a concept just doesn't compress well — and forcing it into a short form loses exactly the nuance that makes it interesting. The book version often is the right answer, even if nobody reads it lol