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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  own forever

  Ownership implies control - being able to maintain/repair, modify or even resell.

  To be in control of software you need access to it’s source code, and have the right to share changes with others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given it’s unrepresentative voting system I think how much is enough to be a democracy. T hot take for people that see democracy. Two parties to choose from is just one more than a clear dictatorship. If neither actually represents you then yeah it’s not healthy .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says latest legal win against piracy "significant" for "entire games industry"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not my games industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Vermont, an ultralocal social network is as popular as Facebook⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🫡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company is 'out of GPUs' to which I reply 'welcome to the party, pal'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  youtube.com/watch?v=xBZU4PJhVL0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that refers to lithium ion batteries. Some EVs use lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) which can still can catch fire but can be starved of oxygen. Sadly it is heavier but it is made without the immorally sourced cobalt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not. | TechPolicy.Press⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We may be able to tell with great confidence what you’re thinking or feeling but not how it feels to you. There’s a subjective, 1st person experience. Something that it’s like to be you which is different from me. I can’t tell what it’s like to be someone else, or be another animal, or if it means anything to be a rock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not. | TechPolicy.Press⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what you mean. By that definition of engineer then I would agree.

  We could perhaps engineer androids that mimic us so well that to damage them would feel to us like hurting a human. I would feel compelled to take the risk of caring for an unfeeling simulation just in case they were actually able to suffer or flourish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not. | TechPolicy.Press⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that’s what was ment by privacy of consciousness and agree that’s how it is.

  However, being unable to inspect if something has a consciousness doesn’t mean we can’t create a being which does. We would be unaware if we actually succeeded, or if it was not the goal we wouldn’t know it happened an unintentionally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not. | TechPolicy.Press⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does privacy of consciousness mean one can’t engineer consciousness by mimicking states of the organ that probably has something to do with it?

  What does phenomenal transparency mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not got to try it out properly yet. Waiting on new AMD GPUs, hoping for a low-end encoder or I ma get access to a RX 480.

  What does Jellyfin use .NET for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can understand separating a new paid-only feature, especially if you don’t much need that part. The new features are reportedly accessible from the GUI of Notepad so I wouldn’t blame anyone else who thought “NOTEPAD” asked them to sign up and pay a subscription to use “NOTEPAD” features.

  I used to rage when reading bad changes to Windows, even after I’d stopped using it. Now I just feel bad that my friends are still in that a bad relationship with their computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you did want apps the majority only offer it from 1 of the 2 popular repositories (" stores "). It’s a shame they do not have a way to track that lost sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspired by Wikitok, Papers Tok: An experiment to try to improve accessibility and discoverability of AI academic papers.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does Tok mean here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was that a warning or a threat from Kissinger?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • Humans write code
  • Humans make mistakes ∴ Humans write bad code
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not seen those (may not be in my country). What do the concrete walls stop, explosions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t appear so but there is that potential in a future update as they’re in control of what the software actually does. If data is indeed stored in plain text files then hopefully an alternative software could still read that data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Batteries and liquid fuel are both hazardous in terms of catching fire, do you mean something else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the most comfortable prison is still a prison - Captain Picard, TNG

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP to Acquire Parts of Humane, Ai Pin Startup From Ex-Apple Managers, for $116 Million⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  HP nickel and dime their printer customers… for this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I ethically use LLMs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m unsure that using complicated algebra to regurgitate parts of people’s works is different from just copying it. Perhaps you could say a human brain learning how to code is just regurgitating the code it’s had as an input before, but intuition says directly copying is somehow different.

  I add copyleft licenses to code to ensure the code cannot be legally copied into proprietary software, for moral beliefs. If the output of a LLM was free software and copyleft (as would be the input) then perhaps that would be fine. Github probably has some complicate legalese that says by uploading it you permit them to use it, I’d want that to be legally voided.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source Software and Corporate Influence.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Money to live is an important point but open source is still preferable to proprietary as any company shenanigans can be found, removed and the new version shared legally.

  A universal basic income would allow software authors to more easily work on less profitable projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A woman made her AI voice clone say “arse.” Then she got banned.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The harm this time is indeed less, but the potential for harm is still the same as Meta. There is always the temptation to use power over your SAS users for your own gain. Maybe one day they’re a bigger company who think ‘you know what, maybe it’s better for the company that our users not swear’. Either way lets hope for libre, self-hosted alternatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Paid $70 for an AI Boyfriend: Here's Everything I Learned⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If only people would do that, but I bet that advice is just like telling an overweight person to stop eating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla has sued customers and journalists in China — and won most times, review finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you need to ask a company for data recorded on YOUR hardware then something has gone wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who so they think owns the Jeeps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare Joins CAI and Enables Content Credentials for 20% of the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They say it’s not hard when you know how. I don’t know how and even when I think I do it’s usually still difficult :)

  Currently using no-ip so friends can use a web address for game sever or get some files, instead of my every changing IP, for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare Joins CAI and Enables Content Credentials for 20% of the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  what to use instead of cloudflare?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt they understand local vs server distinction.