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I’m still using Swarm personally and agree 100%.

I’ve dealt with a fair bit of Swarm internals for https://lunni.dev/, and I’m ready to switch to k8s any moment. Don’t wanna lose Compose Spec support though, so I’ve started an IaC thingy that can map it to both k8s and Swarm resources. (Now I need to find some time for it!)


Can you elaborate?

The mechanics are sort of different. It’s on a blockchain so a true “reverse” is not possible.

But the smart contracts they write look up a blacklist, which only they control. They can block, unblock or burn tokens.

To “reverse” something they could burn those tokens, and then just issue more and send the new ones to the original address.

So yeah it’s like PayPal or whatever. Except with blockchain thrown in so they can say the rules don’t apply to them.


Until you want to block a custom selector.

I think you’ll get banned a few millions in.

> I think you’ll get banned a few millions in.

So? I'll still have those few millions.[1]

Besides, how will they know? Creating a new proxy account for every real account would make it almost impossible for Anthropic to know that someone is coming from China, only that some set of accounts (say, 100k) are coming in from a small set of IPs, but they're still paid accounts!

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[1] The idea is probably DoA for other reasons, such as why would someone proxy through you when they can use a VPN. Or openrouter.


Yeah, sorry, that was a joke :-) In addition to Openrouter, I think big users from China can fairly easily set up a company in Singapore or something (to get volume discounts, perhaps).

> So? I'll still have those few millions.[1]

You almost certainly agree when paying for Anthropic not to do this, so they’ll sue you for those few million


> There are indeed two Congos with ridiculously similar names, and apparently the one that calls itself democratic is the bad one.

Similar to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and People’s Republic of China, hmm.


Before the Berlin Wall fell, East Germany, the communist side, was the German Democratic Republic.

(West Germany was the Federal Republic of Germany.)


Congrats, very impressive!

The linked article is a bit light on actual details – could you share the paper/preprint maybe?


Thanks!

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11096342

That’s the official paper link. Sorry it’s not open access.


Too bad :( Though I’ve just found a PDF here in the open: https://news.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Pulse_Fi_sh...

Oh great- I forgot we had the open pdf posted somewhere

I don’t get it. Couldn’t they just write a liability disclaimer clause that covers that, without explicitly calling out particular jurisdictions? E.g. “you are solely responsible for ensuring your use of the model is lawful and agree to indemnify the authors or whatever. If you can’t do that in your jurisdiction, you can’t use the model.”

The problem is that AI act covers entities releasing AI software as open source. That has never been the case so far, so while they're still figuring it out, better safe than sorry.


Thanks!! I saw there wasn't all that much on github so I missed that part.

It sure can. I’m installing most of my stuff from F-Droid nowadays and I’m sure as hell confused why would anybody call this “sideloading”.

Maybe I'm just exhausted by the many times HN has told me I'm tilting at windmills refusing to call the Llamas of the world "open source".

Well, you side-loaded F-Droid in the first place.

perhaps because that's installing from a store, not sideloading? however poor (security-wise) the offering may be, you're still using the intended install flow

in this sense i do actually agree about the misuse of 'sideloading' - the planned change would not impact just sideloading, but also 'third party' stores


If anything, the store download is the case where it’s not installing.

There’s nothing “installed” about something which can be yanked from your device or prevented from working at someone else’s whim.


“Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.”

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768


Please see his follow up comments years later where he reflects on the situation and agrees that he should not have been hired at that time.

He posted that in the heat of the moment while angry, but they didn’t literally reject him for a single LeetCode problem. He admits that he was just not at a point where being hired into a FAANG job would have been a good move.

That one Tweet has fueled years of internet rage from people who didn’t get the whole story, though.


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