belit_deg
@belit_deg@lemmy.world
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 2 weeks ago:
Great article, thx
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 weeks ago:
Don’t remember whose quote it was, maybe Hannah Arendt, that the real tragedy of tyranny is not when people self-censor what they say out loud, but when this leads them to filter out those thoughts from arising at all
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 3 weeks ago:
I get that people who sell AI-services wants to promote it. That part is obvious.
What I don’t get is how gullible the rest of society at large is. Take the norwegian digitalization minister, who says that 80% of the public sector shall use AI. Whatever that means. nrk.no/…/regjeringen-vil-at-80-prosent-av-offentl…
Or building a gigantic fuckoff openai data centre, instead of new industry openai.com/nb-NO/…/introducing-stargate-norway/
Jared Diamond had a great take on this in “Collapse”. That there a countless examples of societies making awful decisions - because the people making said decisions are insulated from the consequences of their choices. On the contrary, they get short term gains.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 weeks ago:
Got this response from one of the developers:
Looks like a routing issue, it works when navigated to from the index page without a full reload.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 3 weeks ago:
If I was China, I would be thrilled to hear that the west are building data centres for LLMs, sucking power from the grid, and using all their attention and money on AI, rather than building better universities and industry. Just sit back and enjoy, while I can get ahead in these areas.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 weeks ago:
Also apps that don’t need servers. Switched to this for staying in touch with family p2p, works surprisingly well keet.io
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 3 weeks ago:
Dude, I decided to make a personal note with lots of similar links regarding privacy, so that I can provide the source when I discuss these matters with people. But yours in much more thorough - and public. Thanks for saving me a ton of work!
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people 5 weeks ago:
I have a few colleagues that are very skilled and likeable people, but have horrible digital etiquette (40-50 year olds).
Expecting people to read regurgitated gpt-summaries are the most obvious.
But another one that bugs me just as much, are sharing links with no annotation. Could be a small article or a long ass report or white paper with 140 pages. Like, you expect me to bother read it, but you can’t bother to say what’s relevant about it?
I genuinely think it’s well intentioned for the most part. They’re just clueless about what makes for good digital etiquette.
- Comment on As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water 1 month ago:
There can be an unlimited no. of connections (peers). Remember the bittorrent days, where you could seed to and download files from many peers simultaneously? You can do the same with data streams, f.ex. video and audio. Try Keet if you want to see a practical example. We don’t need data centres for video conferences or calls.
- Comment on As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water 1 month ago:
If I’m having a video meeting p2p instead of microsoft teams running in the cloud, that would reduce power consumption, not increase it.
- Comment on As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water 1 month ago:
How about reducing our dependence on data centres by using software that is more peer to peer and local first etc?
Of course some data centres have legitimate use cases, such as big data analysis on weather and climate data etc, but building huge data centres for social media and running everything in the cloud is silly from an environmental perspective
- Comment on Hat. 2 months ago:
Reminds me of this classic
- Comment on Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer 2 months ago:
P2P + IoT could be great for safety and privacy. We should just remove the middle men (datacentres, servers) so that data travels between the devices you own, and not via some data vampire trying to get in the way.
- Comment on matrix is cooked 2 months ago:
Just try and see for yourself. Like I said, only tried Keet. Features
- Share files as big as you like, 2m, 2g, 2t, doesn’t matter
- Windows, linux, ios, android
- Groups, dm’s, broadcast feed
- No phone number or email needed, add by alias/link/qr
- Unlimited call quality since theres no server in between or throttling
- Share emojis, gifs, videos (no stickers or self-destruct atm)
- Comment on matrix is cooked 2 months ago:
I’ve been using Keet for a couple of months now, really like it. Still in beta, but you can ask questions to the devs in the open chat rooms and they actually give you sound answers
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 3 months ago:
Absolutely, people still need money. So P2P would not solve that bit, but at least the donations can go directly towards content creation rather than having to cover server costs as well.
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 3 months ago:
Maybe a silly idea, but what about a P2P-based video hosting! Hear me out:
We have more computing power and bandwith in our homes than ever before. We know that sharing data and files via P2P works, is resiliant against attacks, and scales really well.
No server costs mean that people could support creators by seeding the content to other peers. One cool thing about that would be seeing how you are making a difference, in real time.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 6 months ago:
I’m lost for words.
…what if the whole family is watching? Does everyone have to raise their hands and yell “McDonalds”? Including the kids?
This might just as well be used in “smart” fridges. “Do this corporate dance to get 20% off your next Corn Flakes”
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 6 months ago:
Is this real?? Do you have the source?
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 7 months ago:
Check out this guy and his research if you haven’t already. Confirms what you describe, with some rally alarming numbers and data to back it up