I was just wondering the other day (after a long back and forth with some AI about a technical issue involving PostgreSQL) how AI was impacting this platform. What a massive loss in interactions! Is there anything besides AI that could explain this?
ChatGPT without a login is basically a 5 minute free trial with no integration with any other system besides web search.
You get bumped down to a way worse experience almost immediately and the login nags are so strong that logged-out use is almost certainly going away in the near future.
It’s like the contractor that comes over for free but mainly does so to find every possible problem in your house that they might be able to charge you for.
I've been using Orion browser (WebKit-based with support for Chrome and Firefox extensions) for quite some time and haven't had this issue with YouTube, but I've definitely experienced the same with Firefox. If it's an issue of artificial slowdowns, you'd think they'd apply it to anything not running on Chrome's engine, which makes me think it's specifically Firefox's rendering causing this issue.
I think there will actually be a couple interesting adjustments/market forces acting in the car companies' favor.
First, if the insurance applies to fully autonomous driving only, then I suspect they’ll reach a point where the cost of insurance+automation ends up being less than just insurance through third parties.
Second, cutting into the traditional insurance market share is likely to increase costs for those who remain on traditional insurance, assuming there’s a significant enough number of people jumping ship. Combined, this creates a huge incentive for more users to jump on the self-driving bandwagon.
It's definitely a work in progress, but AnyType has a lot of functionality similar to Notion. I haven't used it in a while, so I don't know whether there are plugins in any meaningful capacity.
From past experience, it's even pretty simple to host your own sync server to get away from their account/storage limits.
Fair enough, it's protocol is open source and the apps are source available. Modifications can be made by individuals for their own uses, though. I think it's as close as you can expect to get with a mostly full-fledged Notion competitor.
In any case, I don't particularly enjoy AnyType, despite coming back to it a few times to test it out (and still maintaining my own sync server, despite not actively using it, in case I go back to try it out again after some demonstrably updates). Just pointing out that it's a less restrictive alternative.
Presumably for cross-device interactivity. If I interact with ChatGPT on my phone, then open it on my desktop. I might be a bit frustrated that I can't get to the chat I was having on my phone previously.
OpenAI could store the chat conversation in an encrypted format that only you, the user, can decrypt, with the client-side determining the amount of previous messages to include for additional context, but there's plenty of user overhead involved in an undertaking like that (likely a separate decryption password would be needed to ensure full user-exclusive access, etc).
I'd appreciate and use a feature like that, but I doubt most "average" users would care.
Syncthing could do that, if the software is designed to store locally.
Ever since I put the effort into Syncthing across my all devices (paired with restic on one of them for backup), I can't help but see how cross-device functionality and cloud this are the Sysco hash potatoes that balloons Big Corp services' profit margins.
Not saying it's easy to set up. But when you get there it's so liberating and you wish all software was bring-your-own-network.
SyncThing syncs only when both clients are running at the same time. Nobody who edits a document on a website expects that they'll need to leave that browser window open in order to see the document in a different browser.
Am I missing something? Is this seriously a heated HN debate over "why does this website need to store the text it sends to people who view the website?"?
We're not talking about collaborative tooling, just a record of what you've asked an AI assistant. If it doesn't sync right away, it's not the end of the world. I find that's true with most things.
And the clients don't need to be running at the same time if you have a third device that's always on and receiving the changes from either (like a backup system). Eventually everything arrives. It's not as robust as what Google or iCloud gives you, but it's good enough for me.
Chatgpt.com is essentially a CRUD app. What you're saying here amounts to saying that it could conceivably have been designed to work dramatically differently from all other CRUD apps. And obviously that's true, but why would it be?
It's a website! You submit text, that you'll view or edit later, so the server stores it. How is that controversial to a HN audience?
Also:
> the clients don't need to be running at the same time if you have a third device that's always on
An always-on device that stores data in order to sync it to clients is a server.
TBH it sounds like you're just imagining a very different service than the one openAI operates. You're imagining something where you send an input, the server returns an output - and after that they're out of the equation, and storing the output somewhere is a separate concern that could be left up to the user.
But the service they actually operate is functionally a collaborative document editor - the chat histories are basically rich text docs that you can view, edit, archive, share with others, and which are integrated with various server-side tools. And the document very obviously needs to be stored on the server to do all those things.
It's great that you'd enjoy a significantly worse product that requires you to also be familiar with a completely unrelated product.
For some reason, consumers have decided that they prefer a significantly better product that doesn't require any additional applications or technical expertise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Facebook messenger tries to marry end to end encryption with multi-device access and it's a horrible mess with some messages not being delivered to some devices for hours , days or ever.
I absolutely want OpenAI to keep all of my chats and I absolutely don't want them to share them ( voluntarily or by force) with any private agent.
I have exactly the same expectation of any document or communication platform. It's been long established as accepted compomise between security and convenience.
> We knew this was an adversary, rather than a legitimate user, based on several telling clues. The standout red flag was that the unique machine name used by the individual was the same as one that we had tracked in several incidents prior to them installing the agent.
So in any other context, they probably wouldn't do any digging into the machine or user history, but they did this time because they already had high confidence of malicious use from this endpoint.
I've been through 2 offensive courses (SANS GPEN and Parrot Labs Offensive Methodology and Analysis) and yeah, that was the take I got even back then (5+ years ago). Everything we used was open source and near-fully functional. There was a lot of knowledge needed on the syntax for some tools, but otherwise it was insane to think how easily these could be used by a motivated person.
For some of them, it makes sense. Metasploit, Cobalt Strike, and similar tools are good because they can be used to give people a good idea of the impact of the vulnerabilities in their system as well as giving them knowledge of the TTPs that attackers use.
But some of these, like Bloodhound are not really telling you much you didn't know. They are tools to make exploiting access, whether authorized or otherwise, easier and more automated. Hell, even in the case of Cobalt Strike, they are doing their best to limit who can obtain it and chasing down rogue copies because used for real attack purposes.
I'm not really saying anything should (or can) be done about this. Just ruminating about it, as after many years in the industry, seeing a list of a mostly open source stack used for every aspect of cybercrime sometimes surprises me at just how good a job we've done of equipping malicious actors. For all the high minded talk of making everyone more secure, a lot of things just seem to be done for a mixture of bragging rights ego and sharing things with each other to make our offensive sec job a bit easier.
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