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- Comment on NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code 1 month ago:
I never felt so close to try NetBSD as after reading this 😃
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 2 months ago:
The position and length can be randomized, for sure you can throw ai at it… but ai is stupidly expensive… companies that offer AI systems are all operating that business at loss… and no big company would engage in something like this… distilled model on client? Sure… but who trains it? My point is… things can get worse and worse
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 2 months ago:
If you don’t have to reencode but only concatenate the streams it can be done for your request specifically because it’s not meaningfully more expensive than just serving the content
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 2 months ago:
Training a combat pilot used to cost (in early 2000, not sure now) 10M€ for a NATO member.
Find me a modern jet that costs so little. Regardless of what politicians say, human life has a price… and it is waaaay below a jet (even including the training)
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 2 months ago:
As far as I heard (but I am not too familiar) the CEO is essentially never in the office.
Also, according to the video, the office is in California. People were arrested (and fired) in NY as well (where there is no such an office).
Yes, insubordination is the key point. But it’s also the key point of a protest. The take away is that Google doesn’t accept a protest (any more?)
Re trespassing: in the Google offices everyone can pretty much go to any office. They realistically didn’t break into but, sure, they were in an office that wasn’t theirs
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 2 months ago:
Confidentially incorrect: at Google there is no clock in and no clock out (for employees, contractors is different). At Google you can work 1h per day or 20h per day you earn the same. Performances are assessed on the output not on the hour worked.
So, no, find another reason for which Google is right. Popular topic is “they disrupt other people work by making noise” or “they destroyed properties… you cannot see in the picture but they destroyed millions of precious bacteria on the floor”
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 2 months ago:
What year is this? 2008?!? Now we have Netflix and piracy is not a problem, right? Oooohhhh right they decided to kill the golden egg chicken but they still want the eggs
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 3 months ago:
To the part that they were bribed.
I think they are simply in the pipe dream that they will become the new LinkedIn
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 3 months ago:
While I see what you are seeing, I think people will just move to the next startup.
Also by Occam’s razor, don’t explain with malice what you can explain with stupidity
- Comment on Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, as internal dissent mounts 3 months ago:
Regev then told the crowd, “Part of the privilege of working in a company, which represents democratic values is giving the stage for different opinions.”
Followed by:
A Google spokesperson said the employee was fired
Do I miss any logical step or a managing director just said that Google doesn’t represent democratic values? 🤔🤔
- Comment on Encrypted email service Skiff gets acquired, will shut down in six months 4 months ago:
This! Encrypt at rest with the key handed off to the provider every single time you login is just a PR stunt
- Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims 4 months ago:
Here we are talking of very debatable definitions of “making sense” tbh
- Comment on AI lobbying spikes 185% as calls for regulation surge 4 months ago:
That’s called science… You know the thing that you publish on scientific paper. Nothing to do with lobbying… You know… Giving “donations”
- Comment on Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs 4 months ago:
If you stop putting fuel in your car, the first few miles are very cheap i must say…
- Comment on U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried | Trader Joe's, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting worker... 4 months ago:
I hear the general sentiment against billionaire and corporations but from game theory point of view what they are doing is the rational behavior.
The problem is not them doing this, the problem is that the system (judiciary system in this case) is not neutral as it is supposed to be.
The problem, though, is that it’s short sighted. If the workers are abused less and less business opportunities there are. In other words on the short term the corporations win, on the long term everyone loses.
A single billionaire, overall, can spend less than 1000 millionaires that can spend less than 10 ppl that make 100k/y
- Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. 5 months ago:
This! The point of automation is rarely saving time. The point of automation is increasing quality.
It can be a data quality, it can be mitigating a production risk, can be avoiding regression.
Heck even unit tests are automation (you may just manually test your code once and call the day).
I am not saying that automation is always good, but the evaluation should be
- what is the cost of production/data quality/regression gone wild? (Possibly in€/$/¥)
- what is the cost of the person/team performing the task over 1 Year (Again, £€$¥)
- what is the expected cost of the person/team implementing automation?
Then you do (3)*3 - (1) *3 - (2). Is it positive? You do, is it negative you? You don’t. The more it’s positive the higher the priority of doing.
Why the *3? The first because the expected cost of automation is always massively underestimated The second because it takes multiple times something goes wrong till the decision is reconsidered 🙂
Why 1 year? Because generally the task to automatize changes or disappear
- Comment on Don't expect iPhone apps to get cheaper now that you can pay for them outside of the App Store 5 months ago:
This article is totally not sponsored by Apple 🙄🙄🙄
So many BS points
- Comment on CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024 5 months ago:
I am here with my popcorn to see how well this will play for those CEOs.
We are in an age in which getting to a power position is a reality show. You don’t need to know how to do anything, really. It’s enough that you have charisma and trigger emotions (possibly negative emotions, they work better)
- Comment on Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and others accused by rivals of not respecting new EU competition rules 5 months ago:
EU always escalate slowly. Eventually it enforces though (e.g., USB-C, GDPR).
Given the companies are almost all US based and US historically have been very defensive of their businesses (not only in IT) this seems a pretty reasonable approach for avoiding diplomacy escalations.
IMO DMA will be fully enforced in 3-4 years (and collecting some Billions here and there in the process). First in line for the few initial billions: Meta and Microsoft. We’ll see what comes next
- Comment on Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and others accused by rivals of not respecting new EU competition rules 5 months ago:
Penalties for DMA is 10% of global turnover for first offense and 20% of global turnover for subsequent offenses and, eventually, further penalties like the prevention to acquire companies.
DMA is not a joke (and I <3 EU, DMA is a very balanced law aggressive on the big player and not impacting small players)
- Submitted 5 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on What's your favorite note-taking application? 6 months ago:
VSCode + Foam + gitea (+ hexcalidraw if you want to draw)
- Comment on Millions of UK households forced to unplug fridge or freezer amid rising bills | UK cost of living crisis | The Guardian 7 months ago:
It’s unconscionable that the government is reportedly considering cutting struggling families’ benefits to fund tax cuts
😮😮😮
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 7 months ago:
I was more thinking about using the matrix <> WhatsApp bridge for avoiding the pop up. It’s impossible to migrate people (especially strangers)
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 7 months ago:
Yeah… the result is that now I have WhatsApp, signal, telegram. 99% of my contacts are on WhatsApp, maybe 20% are on telegram (and a number of group chat are there) and 1% take it or leave it has signal (and no group chat).
In practice the only one I can get rid of is signal (that is also the one I would like better 🙄🙄)
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 7 months ago:
The real question, in EU, is not Facebook (or even Instagram). It’s WhatsApp. Business talk with WhatsApp, family talk with WhatsApp, meet a person in a bar? Yep WhatsApp or you are the weirdo
As soon I got the banners, I uninstalled the app and switched to friendly. Not sure if I have such luxury with WhatsApp…. Maybe time to explore matrix? 🤷
- Comment on Trillium Notes 7 months ago:
FWIW I use foam. It is a visual code extension so you piggyback on all Visual code features and extensions (e.g. git, md lint, etc). And I sync with my self hosted gitea. It doesn’t have a mobile app but I use obsidian with the obsidian git plugin
- Comment on Google accused of rigging market to secure dominant search monopoly in biggest US antitrust trial for years 9 months ago:
Because Google is like 90% of the market. It’s not the bidding part the issue, the issue is that the bidding (and possibly other effective strategies) are so successful that Google is almost a monopoly. The illegal part is that google is a bit too successful 🙂
- Comment on More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user 9 months ago:
It’s software, everything can be done. Even if username and passwords are not kept in plaintext as you suggest (and likely nobody would do)
Problem is that the number of people that self host password repositories is so little that it makes no financial sense. And so for this reason your “massive scale” is an hyperbole because there isn’t a massive scale of people that self host password repositories
Botnets that stole from local password repositories makes more sense because there are more people that use password managers of sort.
Humans looking are flexible enough to look at all possible long tail cases like this… but not going to happen except for high profile targets.
All in all what i am saying is that i don’t see clear evidence that self hosting is more dangerous (in practice) than centralized hosting
- Comment on More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user 9 months ago:
You need to aumatize any operation… It’s not conceivable that an human look at every device for stuff to steal. It would be even more expensive.
Generally all these bit malware do is 1) using a vulnerability to replicate themselves 2) mine crypto or other kind of crap. Sometimes (1) involves also stealing ssh keys but it’s not the goal, it the mean.
Self hosting password/code/photos/whatever niches you are almost guaranteed that no human will look at hit because the amount of IoT/Routers/etc with nothing valuable beyond themselves generally composes the majority of these compromised bots
This is just the economic incentive