Well that soured quickly. A wiki is only as good as the human experts who volunteer to contribute towards it. I’m not sure there are any in this one?

The parent comment is demonstrating the exact type of internet savvy critical thinking that you’re ostensibly arguing for, but you seem to be reflexively defensive.

Making an ad hominem attack on a random poster asking for critical thinking on who to trust and then making false claims is not "internet savvy critical thinking" since they can't string two thoughts together coherently (a bio blurb vs. an appeal to authority in a random comment).

VSCodium was better on this front last time I tried it, and since Microsoft seems intent on allowing the Extensions to be a wildly insecure free-for-all, I am seeing fewer and fewer reasons to stick with the official version.

Is it the reply to ‘HELO’ that enables things like tarpits?

Like if my server replied with ‘HI PLEASURE TO MEET YOU 127.0.0.1 THAT NAME SOUNDS FAMILIAR ARE YOU BY CHANCE FROM BOSTON MY MOTHER IS FROM BOSTON WELL QUINCY ACTUALLY BUT DO YOU KNOW 127.0.1.1 THEY ARE A REALLY GOOD FRIEND OF MINE YOU SHOULD MEET I HEAR THEIR DAUGHTER IS A DOCTOR DONTYAKNOW AND YOU COULD…”

etc, etc?

For SMTP tarpits you can do all kinds of fun stuff. Not just in the reply to helo. Like: always be slow to respond. Respond to each command with a temporary error. Accept everything, then pause, then error. Send back large chunks of garbage.

Well, now when she wants to know the symptoms of dehydration, she can purchase some sort of Gatorade really convenient like.

Or that the tariffs were ham-fisted, arbitrary, and lacking in rational justifications. I’m not sure one can draw too many firm conclusions from that particular “policy”.

No they were simply meant to help UWA workers.

I’ve nothing empirical to back this up, but it’s my understanding that shiny objects like bottle caps are prized toys, and the sort of thing one might be gifted by corvids who have taken a liking to you. I have heard plenty of anecdotal evidence that crows will exchange gifts with one another, and with humans, to develop and nurture positive relationships.

Someone pondered a correlation between intelligence and some notion of “evil”. I personally believe empathy and altruism are highly connected to intelligence, and the act of giving a gift to another is suggestive of both attributes.

There are also examples of altruism in other species not frequently considered intelligent. Vampire bats will regurgitate food to share with others, even if they are not tied by familial bonds and even if there’s no other tangential benefit to the individual giving up its own nutrition. We have also recently observed female tigers caring for and protecting another female’s cubs while she feeds, which is novel behavior to observe in typically solitary tigers.

We’ve repeatedly watched that trust abused and exploited in these last few years, in both public and private sectors (including specifically in this field). I broadly agree with you, but I tend to think it’s a finite resource that’s eroding rapidly just now.

Imagine how many tokens Claude would burn waiting for litigation, not to mention letting it reconsider now that it understands the problem completely!

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