Ghost in the Machine Review

Ghost in the Machine details the eugenic and techno-fascist underpinnings of the AI industry.

Python By Night (pythonbynight.com)

And yes, the talks are recorded. Unsure of release schedule but it's usually pretty quick. I'll update once posted.

goatcheese (@goatcheese@eldritch.cafe)

Watched the "AI" documentary Ghost in the Machine today (streamed on [kinema](https://kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machine-pvxg4p), no showings in my neck of the woods). It was Excellent. It connects the dots between eugenics as a byproduct of colonization, to the advent of computers, of Silicon Valley, and all the way to current day "AI" companies.

Eldritch Café (eldritch.cafe)

Lots of awful discoveries for me in that doc. Highly recommend if you haven't seen it.

Are the NBPy talks recorded? I couldn't find a mention of it on the website.

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"I went through being convinced that I couldn't do this, several more times…over time, though, the ups have begun to outnumber the downs.…This is a hard fought improvement. It came through both repeated successes and multiple mistakes."

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"Obviously the response to discovering trauma around contribution is to take on a massive complex contribution, right?"

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I mean, a memory allocator is part of a runtime. And you have panics in Rust, which are normally implemented as unwinding, which can be caught and handled (effectively exceptions). And you have a few other runtime like things like stack guards, the Any type, threads, etc.

However, in Rust panics are truly intended for exceptional situations, while Results are intended for error cases that you expect to handle.

It's possible to write Rust with no (or maybe should say even smaller than usual) runtime, with no_std, panic=abort, etc. And Rust's Result based error handling does continue to work there. But I would say that Rust, as normally written on a std-supporting platform, does have a runtime, albeit a minimal one.

Setting up good processes is important but the *meta*-process being responsive to human input is even moreso.

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- C++ requires a runtime (sometimes: if you're writing kernel code or some other no-runtime context you might have to write C++ in a dialect that is missing runtime-requiring language features)
- Python obviously in its own runtime
- Rust… has no runtime

So: rust has no exceptions.

Rust has result types.

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Unfortunately, these devices now take advantage of DRM or argue that they are proprietary which triggers the DMCA. This has caused a lot of headaches for everyone.

I wrote a research paper on this here:

Written: April 25, 2024

The Paradox of Ownership in the Digital Age:  How DMCA and DRM Limit Access and Undermine Preservation Efforts  The digital age has ushered in a revolution in how we access and intera...

autumn (pen.waltuh.cyou)

load-bearing "hopefully" there

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"Who knows the undefined behavior"

(pause for less than 30 seconds)

sometimes rhetoric is still very effective even if you know exactly how the trick works

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Oops.

Ahem. And now, some examples of idiomatic error handling in C…

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