vrighter
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- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 1 week 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 weeks ago:
again: hype train, fomo, bubble.
- Comment on Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code 4 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 4 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 4 weeks ago:
ever heard of hype trains, fomo and bubbles?
- Comment on Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code 4 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? 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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”. 5 weeks 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 4 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.