vrighter

@vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they need none of that stuff. It’s your own pc that handles the heavy stuff. From their end, the only point is to allow you to stream videos from behind one or more NATs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  just because it is used for stuff, doesn’t mean it should be used for stuff. example: certain ai companies prohibit applicants from using ai when applying.

  Lots of things have had tons of money poured into them only to end up worthless once the hype ended. Remember nfts? remember the metaverse? String theory has never made a testable prediction either, but a lot of physicists have wasted a ton of time on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  we already knew what X was. There have been countless articles about pretty much only all llms spewing this stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the model does X.

  The finetuned model also does X.

  it is not news

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  again: hype train, fomo, bubble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  so? the original model would have spat out that bs anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  well yeah, I tend to read things before I form an opinion about them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ever heard of hype trains, fomo and bubbles?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  well the answer is in the first sentence. They did not train a model. They fine tuned an already trained one. Why the hell is any of this surprising anyone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  bitcoin is a workaround, not a solution to the byzantine problem. Its security hinges on humans placing value on it and wanting to hoard it. It’s a clever psychological thing that makes it so that the participating cleanly is more advantageous than trying to cheat. But the byzantine fault problem is just as mathematically impossible to solve as ever (because proven math does not change).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the chances of this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this cracked me up so much. Saw the video, read the comic, but never put them together haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  if you have an active and an inactive process, you’re already incomparable to an llm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that CEO Aravind Srinivas says has been “post-trained to remove the China censorship”.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  not remove ic replace.

  Also, stop calling releasing binary blobs of weights as open source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, exactly. You lose your critical thinking skills

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong).⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I view it as the source code of the model is the training data. The code supplied is a bespoke compiler for it, which emits a binary blob (the weights). A compiler is written in code too, just like any other program. So what they released is the equivalent of the compiler’s source code, and the binary blob that it output when fed the training data (source code) which they did NOT release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  hadn’t even thought about that. Nice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  factorio!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  telegram is not encrypted e2e

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Year, RISC-V Laptops Arrive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  do they come with all the necessary drivers? Or are they hoping they magically appear in the linux kernel after they’ve sold a bunch?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  nah, this is just copium. Apple don’t release dev-kits to the general public. It was a real product, and it was a dud

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way to search through all the games on Steam for titles that don't use the word "dystopian" anywhere in the description?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i would like to filter out all “massive multiplyer online arena shooter” There are way too much of them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sorry for the brief interruption⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We forgive you (as if you owed us anything in the first place, lol). Thank you for all the hard work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  to avoid disappointment: It doesn’t end… it just… stops

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  going to “C:\Users\user\Documents” in explorer, vs just typing in “documents”. One takes you to your documents folder, which will be empty, the other takes you to some other path from onedrive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  on some sites the plugin fails to properly detect which fields correspond to which, true (usually when javascript fuckery is involved). But fixing that by manually pointing out the fields once on such sites is easy enough for me. I also switched firefox to use keepassxc for passkeys, which makes them actually portable and usable for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 in 3 People Often Encounter Hate Speech Online.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  asking such an open ended question doesn’t mean much when nowadays, more and more people consider “anything I don’t agree with” to be hate speech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  what sucks about keepassxc?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i hate coding for browsers. To that end, I do not actually know css. I just called it padding when I wrote my own qr code library, because it was easier to say than “quiet zone”.

  Just like “dots” or “pixels” are easier to say than “modules”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  playing nintendo games, on a pc, using a dualshock feels so wrong and yet so right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the bottom one is not a qr code. The padding is part of it.