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- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 5 days ago:
Well, Discord is available on Linux, Archlinux for example has the package and I suppose this is true for many other distros.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 5 days ago:
Dual boot is an option, but I would go with 2 machines, one with Windows with only the Autodesk products and the other with Linux and all the other software.
- Comment on Has anyone sold or otherwise handed off their 3d printing business? 5 days ago:
He can do both.
He can sell the STL to someone willing to print the thing himself and there are people who prefer to let someone else print the thing. One thing do not exclude the other - Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 6 days ago:
Partially true. Old generation is used to do things, I would bet that it would have easier anyway.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
I think that you overestimate the capacity of the yourger people to solve problems without any access to any form of online informations.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
Not really, sorry. Only problem would be the freezers.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
Point is that most people who read on Internet have not the experience to do somthing without Internet since they never lived without internet.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 1 week ago:
With a bank investement I get something back, even if less than what I invested. Could OpenAI pay back even half of what received ?
Which send us back to the starting point: what will happen when the VCs will start to ask for their money back or for their share of the revenue ? Inevitably the bubble will pop.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 1 week ago:
I think that this is just a technical difference based on what you are investing into.
A personal bank’s investement is a different thing than a investement in a startup, with different level of risks and revenue. - Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 1 week ago:
I would think that this warning, in a way or another, is true in every kind of investment, even my bank’s personal investment have something like it.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 1 week ago:
I don’t think it, I was only pointing out that he was comparing two different things.
I know that there is no way the two events have a compatible frame of reference but that does not means that you can compare the two values.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 1 week ago:
You are right, but you are comparing apples with oranges here, what was the Great Depression economy contraction ? Or what was the unemployment rates in 2008 ?
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 1 week ago:
It would be interesting to know how many resources this growth has taken from others places…
As for now it don’t seems that AI has generated a profit for the companies that bring it to the market and it seems it will not do it even in the near future, so I assume the question is: how many years can your economy be sustained by a sector that is not generating any revenue and is absorbing a monstrous amount of resources ?
We are not talking about a single company (like Amazon back at the time), do you really think that even when Ai will start (if ever) to generate profits these will be able to repay all the investements done today ?
- Comment on German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email 2 weeks ago:
It is first step. If it will work well, maybe other states will do it.
- Comment on Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online 2 weeks ago:
As today if I give you a phone number you have no idea who is the owner if you don’t look up on some service.
It will not change if instead of the phone number we use the IMEI or a UUID, somewhere you need to have a link between the owner and the something, if nothing else in your phone and at the phone company. - Comment on ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all 2 weeks ago:
Even talking about phones, having so many fees that you cannot list them all is insane.
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 2 weeks ago:
so instead of creating some kind of authorization system that would not require sending your private information to everyone the govt did nothing and instead put that responsibility on EVERY company. begs the question why rushing so much?
I would suppose that this is because there is not a single way valid for every govt. For example, in Italy we have SPID, which is different from what Germany, France and every EU state have.
If Discord wanted to use it, they had to implement a numbers of way to do it, which can be not that easy. - Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 2 weeks ago:
Option 3: companies that you pay to provide authentication service. Regulated so that they clearly tell you if they are subsidizing service outside of your payments.
Then you just need to hack this company instead of Discord, you only change target.
- Comment on Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. 2 weeks ago:
Also a great way for Flock to lose their contracts with large blue cities in Texas (and elsewhere).
This would only lead to the emergence of another Flock, with the same problems.
What you should really do is abolish that stupid and retrograde law.
- Comment on Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible 3 weeks ago:
More than Open Source, I would say that Vibe Coding is the new Visual Basic 3.0
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 3 weeks ago:
And probably it is also the only thing that China wants so that can try to corner the market. But if they move half of the production oversea then they probably will become less appetible for China since they cannot really control the production.
Not that they must do it, just a consideration. - Comment on Any tips for designing a fitting part for the golf 6 dashboard 3 weeks ago:
Probably without a 3d scanner, using paper and scissor you will only get a (hopefully) better and better approximation of the real surface.
Anyway, without a 3d scanner, to have some precise measurement you could just use some modeling clay to recreate the correct form and then set some reference point and take measurements from there, it should be precise enough to create a model in Fusion360 that account also for every asymmetry that could be present.
- Comment on Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search 5 weeks ago:
They say to use PDQ for images which should output a similar hash for similar images (but why MD5 for video ?). So probably it is only a threshold problem.
The algorithm is explained herehttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebook/ThreatExchange/main/hashing/hashing.pdf
it is not an hash in the cryptographic sense.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 1 month ago:
For example, I went in to met a coworker and fix her laptop. While I was there the devs in front of me were discussing a thing that my team was working on. I didn’t know they needed that thing and they didn’t know we were working on it. I took new information back to my group.
Ok, but that just demostrate that you have no communication between teams. You get the information by sheer luck. have you been there 10 minutes earlier/later you would have missed it.
While bullshitting with the tech support manager I learned some things about their policies and procedures. Found out I had made incorrect assumptions and learning about those helped me in my role.
Again, non clear communication between teams and again you got the information by sheer luck.
True, it has happened because you both were in the office but in a sane environment you would have knows these thing because they would have been documented.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 1 month ago:
At some point they just said it’s happening and we’re not listening to you.
Which at this point is a more honest answer than the mental gymnastics they are pulling out.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 month ago:
Without an actual victim there is no crime.
And I understand this. What I don’t like is the idea that to try to prevent that there will be victims is bad.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 month ago:
We agree on the last part. But my feeling is that if a crime isn’t “bad” enough to require actual jail time then it probably shouldn’t be a crime at all.
Define “bad enough”, because this is a very slippery slope. What about thefts ?
Speeding, DUI, and other risky behaviors should be punished if, and ONLY if, an actual incident occurs. Because then there is actually a victim, and not just some nebulous might-have-been.
Following this reasoning, there are no crimes until you get caught and/or there is a victim. To me this is unacceptable in a decent society.
Hurt someone while drinking and driving? That’s no accident, that’s an intentional attack. Kill someone? Again, not an accident, but premeditated murder.
And why we should not to try to avoid to have a person in jail and one killed in the first place ?
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 month ago:
Probability is not certainty.
True, but there is an history of cases about it where the probabilty became certainty.
I do not want people in jail for doing something that is probably a crime.
Me eighter but at the same time I would like to prevent some behaviors that could be dangerous to others.
I know it could be a slippery slope but honestly it would not console me to know that the drunken driver where punished *after *he hit me, I would prefer if he would be stopped *before *being able to hit me.Every so-called crime that has no jail time shouldn’t be a crime. Fees are just another way of enforcing class warfare.
But fines works only if they are proportional to your wealth, else they are a punishment only for the poor.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 month ago:
Proven? To whom?
Never heard about people killed in crash caused by drunken driver ? Or pedestrians hit by cars driven by drunked drivers ?
Excessive alcoholism is known to cause harm. Should we make being an alcoholic illegal? Wouldn’t that make it harder for alcoholicsnto try to get help, for fear of being arrested instead of getting help, much like what happens to drug addicts?
No, we should just have laws try to avoid consequences for others Are you an alcoholic ? Ok, we will help you to be ok but at the same time we try to avoid you drive while drunk. It not seems too unreasonable
People get hurt constantly while fishing, too. Should we make fishing illegal?
Point is: how probable is that someone fishing hurts someone else ? How much damage you can do ?
Again, the point is not to make something illegal because you can hurt yourself, it is about trying to have law that try to prevent you hurt someone else while doing something.
If fishing can hurt others, maybe we should have a law that, while not forbidding to fish, protect the others from what you are doing. I would imagine that you would not like to swim in the sea while someone is fishing with bombs (illegal) 2 meters away from you, don’t you ?The problem is where do we draw the line. You want to draw it at some possibility of harm to others. I want to draw it at actual harm to others.
Fine as long as you accept the consequences. I just don’t agree with you.
Which of these is more or less likely to wind up being stretched over time?
Both, because you just need to redefine what “harm” means. And some people is good to do it.
- Comment on Young Workers Haven’t Been Replaced by AI—Economists Are Just Looking for Them in the Wrong Places 1 month ago:
And secondly, we have to consider why gig work even exists, aside from being a fresh new way to exploit workers and deny them the traditional protections of the labor market. Because there is a specific reason gig work exists right at this very transitional moment in the workforce, and I’ll give you a spoiler: It exists because of AI.
Wrong, gig work existed way before the advent of AI, even before the advent of Internet and PC. It was not uncommon that teenagers worked during the summer holidays to have money to go on holidays, to buy themself something or to pay for school or other activities.
The problem is that for some people it is the only way to work, and this was happening way before companies started to use AI for everything.