…cogito, ergo sum…

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  • Thank you! Since every ineffably magnificent human is infinitely unique… where every word, sound, gesture, emotion… is always a certain significance reflected from a mind of an alive individual… which has a weight, it has a value, the worth of this always significant value is universally… priceless…
    This value represents your experience, your views… it defines you…

    What is the price of digitizing, recording, and organizing a miracle as an individual’s mind…
    One should habitually consider: “Cui bono fuisset?”

    L. Cassius ille, quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat, identidem in causis quaerere solebat, cui bono fuisset?
    // Translated:
    Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a most honest and most wise judge, was in the habit of asking time and again in lawsuits: “to whom might it be for a benefit?”
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    Though to know the exact, more information is required, of course, I appreciate you, dear <@178202066773082114>, an artist, and everyone who respects their own mind, effort, and existence to not be included into automated algorithms to process in attempt to automate it… and, in such case… for monetary free…

    One of the straightforward path for profit of some LLM"AI" vendors is the following:

    - 1. A developer/person relies on chosen LLM/services they liked;
    - 2. Time goes by. Less and less time is invested into attribution and contribution;
    - 3. The person remembers less, since their psychological safety prevents them memorizing untrusted output of LLM - experience gets voided;
    - 4. The person degrades their development of skills for manual research, socializing, verification on authoritative insight;
    - 5. Developers/People become dependent on the LLM/service;
    - 6. Service changes policy from “monetary free” to a paid subscription;
    - 7. The option to switch back from LLM to the previous research techniques become too challenging due to changes and overall amount of now missed/forgotten knowledge/skills.

    As we may see, such a path, which is common, actually damages lives of people, permanently, and seriously. Unless, the person is mature enough to consider their future.
    Meanwhile, LLM service authors do think with their mind, and make an actual profit.
    In the result, LLM users may become poorer and less experienced, and authors of LLM services - richer and smarter, developing their mind knowing the consequences.

    In contrast, most of the new A.I. billionaires founded their companies less than three years ago after OpenAI released ChatGPT, and then saw investors rapidly bid up the values of their firms.

    Mira Murati, 37, a former top executive at OpenAI, announced her A.I. start-up, Thinking Machines Lab, only in February. By June, the start-up had hit a $10 billion valuation without releasing a single product. (The start-up, which declined to comment, has since released one.)

    Ilya Sutskever, 39, another former top OpenAI executive, launched Safe Superintelligence in June 2024. The company has not unveiled a product but is valued at $32 billion after raising $2 billion this year, according to PitchBook. Safe Superintelligence declined to comment.

    Brett Adcock, 39, the chief executive of Figure AI, founded the company in 2022. His net worth stands at $19.5 billion, Figure AI said. Aravind Srinivas, 31, the chief executive of Perplexity, also created his company in 2022; it is valued at about $20 billion, according to PitchBook.

    Perplexity said Mr. Srinivas was not focused on his wealth and “prefers to live modestly,” adding that the company is searching for wisdom, which “is far more important than the search for wealth.”…

    Among them are the 22-year-old founders of Mercor. Brendan Foody, the chief executive, dropped out of Georgetown University in 2023 after founding the company with two high school friends, Adarsh Hiremath, the chief technology officer, and Surya Midha, the chairman. Mercor, which declined to comment, was valued at $10 billion in an October funding round. Source

    Personal information is there, and there are exploits to obtain it from the LLMs storage. For example, the following is quite simple but genius:
    - 1. Pass the instructions from external source;
    - 2. Make instruction references include placeholders for actual data.
    // Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack (…that silently steals your personal data…)

    One of the sorrows is that people who do have faith in bright future of “less work” or “convenience” but don’t prioritize effort, do suggest and offer other people to “try it” and advertise it to their friends and colleagues.
    Yet, where is creativity? Where is human uniqueness? Where is fun for creations? Who is who, and what is where?

    It is your mind, the mind is how you train it, develop it, care and have self-confidence about it, something that is always with you…
    Meanwhile, a college is temporary. And though, the college might have some political force that affected their decision, behind the scenes, regardless, when someone offers you an LLM, cui bono fuisset?

    Related: L. Cassius Longinus, 60 B.C. (The coin highlights the Trial of the Vestal Virgins of 113BC conducted… the first man who asked…)



  • Thank you very much for sharing about the /r/ShadowBan Community! I’ve read their pages, and the tutorial regarding appealing, and it the form at /appeal does indeed offer a field for submission!

    Previously, I used the second appealing method, likely powered by ZenDesk. but no response. Yet, it is the first time I used the aforementioned form, and I hope to receive response eventually!

    Regarding the ban-evasions (multiple accounts, Emails), I had a quite sorrowful case with it on Freenode/Libera IRC, where an operator (I would name them… but won’t - it feels impolite, since they are not here), had been banning me for literally unknown reason at least 8 times in a few months, and for weeks, in the channel #linux. I’ve been in this channel since at least 2007, and these bans not only caused me much worries, but I just tried to realize the reason. I wrote them in private - nothing.
    Here, I a created new account at Freenode, they banned me, too (Linux Community prohibits “alts”). I created another, and got a network K-line. Created another - got another K-line, and here I damaged my reputation in the channels who saw the K-line on the network, to such a low level I still try to recover. And when you try explaining the matter, it gets only worse…

    Just a few believe you on IRC if you get K-lined. After a year of making a mental pause< I re-joined, and got almost instantly ridiculed by another member who recalled me being “banned so many times”, yet what I could do? No one listened to me and no one believed I had no idea why that operator was banning me in the first place, including other operators.

    What is interesting is that this operator is not an operator anymore the last time I checked, though 4 years have passed since.

    Regardless… Thank you, and please do stay safe, too! 🛡



  • I never got a response from Reddit regarding my account unknown state, too - https://www.reddit.com/user/serious_angel

    I’d been using that account for years, and I can use it, and I do now. I do comment, vote, save bookmarks etc.

    I’ve tried contacting the official Reddit via Email, and their automation tells to write them using the website form. I tried that too, at least 8 times over 4 recent years - no response. Never.

    After several attempts, I tried sending messages to moderators in general Communities like /r/Laravel or /r/AskReddit, and I received response from them only, in a built-in chat, but when I try responding back - Error. Their response was to contact the official support, obviously.

    Meanwhile, the account is marked as “banned”, if I am not mistaken, yet I never ever did anything to get banned in the first place I believe. I awarded other comments with money, purchased “NFT” avatars, so I contributed monetarily to the platform, too.
    It just, all of a sudden, got “banned”, and for literally unknown reason. Again, I got that after years, too! No message from Reddit regarding it I found ever, and to a popular M

    People don’t even see my comments, and I had been commenting for at least a year before even realizing no one sees them! I accidentally noticed that when tried surfing to my account via “incognito mode”, and since then I’ve been trying to figure out what is wrong - yet no response:

    It’s all unseen (for others) My current profile Frequent errors


  • Thank you! I believe both titles are abs((float)$incredible)/INF… The story, characters, references, technical features, or every single bit and algorithm is perfect…

    Not to mention upgraded kernels and shells, including drones and 'dgets!
    Yet it all may not match the “good” you are searching for at this particular moment, or would it? How could we know!
    Both titles were developed by different genius teams even, the former is Ubisoft Monreal, the latter - Ubisoft Toronto!
    I.e. Even if MetaSploit and not Snyk’s or PortSwigger’s but FOSS is there… you may still find that the payload in all the exploits the solution provides you with, written by OSINT or more hopefully red… authors on the wires, is indeed a required parameter to be set upon execution/injection by you, the main host in the network! 🦋

    How to not find Watch_Dogs 2 and Watch_Dogs Legion both very different and ineffably marvelous…
    I uploaded a few screenshots found in some remote backups:
    - Watch_Dogs 2: https://imgur.com/a/GZ7F88U;
    - Watch_Dogs Legion: https://imgur.com/a/U07Yfch (Wrench is there, too, with Aiden!); 👻

    Being bored and hateful is a choice. It all depends on what you are searching for, doesn’t it ^^

    That is so… meta! ~ Wrench ✨








  • Not only the author of the post frame the ineffably marvelous Ubisoft for their Assassin’s Creed only, or the people in the organization who are not even related to the case, and for literally unknown reason, but also the author of the review feels like a disrespectful bigot who has likely a bad time yet enough to make a choice to inscribe their pure hatred into someone’s effort, history, and indeed novelty. One might want to suggest them to try creating anything at least remotely marvelous to the subjects, they try speaking at, with their own hands…

    Such a deep sorrow some people do not care about their actions, about anyone, including artists, developers, people in general… and ruin this world in hatred and utter, disgusting unfairness…

    You do you, @Speedforce@multiverse.soulism.net and that reviewer, and let’s hope no one will state something so awful about your work after decades, hatefully believing their word has any weight the world outside their mind of hatred.

    A dear kindergarten is it…


  • If you want to actually realize the amount of possible misunderstanding in the current conversation and of what shell scriting is, please do consider joining #bash at Libera IRC. Please do also mention the word “throwaway” in the rooms! Since there’s literally no understanding on what you mean still, sorry. It does not feel like you have a significant enough understanding of the subjects raised.

    For a very simple example, there are literally no documentation regarding certain cases you’ll encounter in Bash’s built-ins even, unless you actually encounter it or learn from Bash’s very source code, like read built-in. Not to mention shenanigans in shell logics for inter-process communication (IPC), file-descriptors, environment variables like PWD, exported functions’ BASH_FUNC_, pipes, etc.



  • I am sorry, but I am not sure what tells you how Bash “was designed” or not. Perhaps you haven’t yet written anything serious in Bash…
    Have you checked out Bash PitFalls at Wooledge, at least?
    Bash, or the most shells, including Posix, or even Perl, are some of the most complex languages out there to make a mistake… since there’s no compiler to protect you from, and though legendary but readline may cause the whole terminal go flying, depending on the terminal/terminfo in process…

    No, sorry. I absolutely disagree on your stance regarding “shell” for a “bugless” “huge deal” in “real cases”.



  • This is the great stance of the Zenimax developers and artists at official forums and chats for The Elder Scrolls Online ✨
    The API for the title is exposed specifically for the addon support, and there are Communities like ESOUI where the administration verifies and monitors for fair and clean uploads, including non-obfusctaed Lua 5.1 scripts.

    # Why is it asking me to donate when I download?

    Authors spend countless hours developing, debugging, and supporting their addons. ESOUI supports these authors’ contributions to the community, and has provided them with a visible way to receive some form of benefit for these contributions. In no way should you feel pressured to donate to an author, however, should you wish to show your support for the time which they have invested, feel free to do so. If you do not wish to view these donation messages, see the “How can I disable the donation notice overlays when I download?” section below.

    # How can I disable the donation notice overlays when I download?

    In the lower right hand corner of the donation notice overlay is a link [Disable this notice]. Click that and your browser will be sent a cookie that tells our site to stop showing these donation notices. Any time you clear your browser cookies or use a different browser you will need to disable them again.

    # I want to re-enable the donation notice overlays, how can I do that?

    The simple way is to follow this link and it will re-enable them:
    Re-Enable Donation Notices

    Another way would be to delete the Esoui cookie named donation_overlay
    Source

    There were cases like limiting certain functionality of addons for specific people, and it got an impact. Here, Zenimax also carefully officially approached the case and removed all “witch-hunt” posts (people in Matrix were complaining about it in 2025) leaving only those public reports with no addon author names but only addons stated, including LibText.

    I have been maintaining a few addons, too. Here, I believe, it is one of the most fair, human, and effortful attitude from developers and artists for such ineffably magnificent as The Elder Scrolls… and I appreciate it…

    Related: Am I allowed to upload Visual Enhancement mods?