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utopiah

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  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • Sure, you're right, I just worry (maybe needlessly) about people re-inventing the wheel because it's "easier" than searching without properly understand the cost of the entire process.

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • FWIW that's a good question but IMHO the better question is :

    What kind of small things have you vibed out that you needed that didn't actually exist or at least you couldn't find after a 5min search on open source forges like CodeBerg, Gitblab, Github, etc?

    Because making something quick that kind of works is nice... but why even do so in the first place if it's already out there, maybe maintained but at least tested?

  • Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

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  • I agree... but beside the point I have access to a dedicated workshop and a tool library https://www.tournevie.be/ which challenges this whole setup. It's relatively unique though, unfortunately, so your example still stands, thanks for sharing.

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  • Yep. That's exactly why I tend to never discuss "AI" with people who don't have to actually have a PhD in the domain, or at least a degree in CS. It's nothing against them specifically, it's only that they are dangerously repeating what they heard during marketing presentations with no ability to criticize it and, in such cases, it can be quite dangerous.

    TL;DR: people who could benefit from it don't need it, people who would shouldn't.

  • Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

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  • Mostly because the model is incapable

    There, fixed that for you.

  • Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

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  • That's their question too, why the hell did Google makes this the default, as opposed to limiting it to the project directory.

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  • Because "agentic". IMHO running commands is actually cool, doing it without very limited scope though (as he did say in the video) is definitely idiotic.

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  • Well... at least do that for Windows and MacOS, not for Linux.

  • Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

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  • Because people who runs this shit precisely don't know what containers, scope, permissions, etc are. That's exactly the audience.

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  • The user can choose whether the AI can run commands on its own or ask first.

    That implies the user understands every single code with every single parameters. That's impossible even for experience programmers, here is an example :

    rm *filename

    versus

    rm * filename

    where a single character makes the entire difference between deleting all files ending up with filename rather than all files in the current directory and also the file named filename.

    Of course here you will spot it because you've been primed for it. In a normal workflow, with pressure, then it's totally different.

    Also IMHO more importantly if you watch the video ~7min the clarified the expected the "agent" to stick to the project directory, not to be able to go "out" of it. They were obviously painfully wrong but it would have been a reasonable assumption.

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  • It should also be sandboxed with hard restrictions that it cannot bypass

    duh... just using it in a container and that's it. It won't blue pill its way out.

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  • I think that's the point, the "agent" (whatever that means) is not running in a sandbox.

    I imagine the user assumed permissions are small at first, e.g. single directory of the project, but nothing outside of it. That would IMHO be a reasonable model.

    They might be wrong about it, clearly, but it doesn't mean they explicitly gave permission.

    Edit: they say it in the video, ~7min in, they expected deletion to be scoped within the project directory.

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  • Wow... who would have guessed. /s

    Sorry but if in 2025 you believe claims from BigTech you are a gullible moron. I genuinely do not wish data loss on anyone but come on, if you ask for it...

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • Sure, remove the red light but please also remove cars.

  • Interoperability between self-hosted services

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  • The plain n8n app is very capable of doing a ton of stuff.

    Sorry if I'm a bit slow but what does it actually do? I skimmed through "automations" earlier this morning and I mostly found paid-for GenAI related stuff.

  • Interoperability between self-hosted services

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  • Thanks I'll dig deeper. I guess I do want something like n8n but ideally :

    • no AI
    • self hosted FLOSS services first, if possibly only (can just be filters like F-Droid has)
    • no need for no-code / low-code, code is great

    which makes me wonder what they do provide, e.g. is it mostly indexing existing plugins and then some scaffolding for non coders?

  • Interoperability between self-hosted services

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  • Do you have a specific use case for two containers that you want to talk to each other?

    Sure, for example once a Jitsi Meet meeting ends (more than 1 person in a room in, everybody gone), save the chat log to CopyParty e.g. WebDAV push to /meetingname_date.txt would be enough to be useful. It's something we tend to do manually on a regular basis.

    road map of what you are trying to accomplish before hand, and run it by the dev teams.

    Yes no rush and I can code so I would be able to test before suggesting anything.

    As I’m thinking about it, I wonder if your solution might be automation?

    I don't touch AI but I do think conventions, e.g. not "just" an API but SWAGGER, specific filesystem on mountpoints, etc could facilitate this.

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  • Indeed and for PeerTube for example it has an API, cf https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api-rest-reference.html which I did use. It also provides SWAGGER so that could facilitate integration with others services also providing APIs. I was starting to think that the meta service could have read only public only token generated for each new service and provide a SWAGGER endpoint to facilitate using the API of more than 1 service.

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  • Thanks, that's indeed exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for "The authentication glue you need." but even more generalized than that, e.g. just "the glue you need." not solely for authentication.

    Edit: to clarify and coming back after leaving few other comments, the 1 thing authentik has is that it is a cross-service need, namely nearly all services do need authentication AND, probably consequence of that, there are conventions and standards already in place, e.g. SAML, OAuth2/OIDC, LDAP, Auth0. So that makes everything much easier.