Tetsuo
@Tetsuo@jlai.lu
- Comment on Turns out Generative AI was a scam 20 hours ago:
Don’t worry, we will all be paying for it when the AI jenga tower will fall.
Businesses can make huge investments mistakes and then they will ask for help from the government that will have to save them to prevent total collapse and to save jobs. So we will pay for a few dumb CEOs like we always do.
- Comment on How Russia is intercepting communications from European satellites 20 hours ago:
Yeah, this article forgot about encryption.
And I doubt a military satellite would be launched without some very strong encryption from the get go.
Now if the enemy satellite docks or send any projectile to our own… Now that’s an issue.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 6 days ago:
Jailtime for wearing glasses that can recors videos un the courtroom?
Maybe the death penalty while you are at it?
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing a built-in network speed test to Windows 11 6 days ago:
What if they have so much telemetry to send they could do a speedtest with its data?
- Comment on Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake 1 week ago:
Or Aaron Swartz…
- Comment on YouTube star MrBeast buys youth-focused financial services app Step 2 weeks ago:
I think you just contradicted yourself.
I rest my case about generalization.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people I see are very critical of Discord on that but I dont see any solution either.
I think it’s much better than just letting these nasty DMs stay in the dark.
At least a teen will have to go out of his way and ignore the warnings to get in contact with some freak.
Also what better solution do you suggest to implement ?
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
So teen-per-default means that adults can freely talk to teens, which should be prevented.
That’s not my understanding.
I get your point but by default if Discord thinks you are a teen it also implies all the limitations associated with that status. Which means some media will be blurred and some commands cannot be done.
An adult can keep his “teen default status” but he also keeps all the limitations associated with it. Which I suppose doesn’t mean they can “freely” talk to other accounts as you state.
Notably the DM that a groomer would send will end up in a special inbox for all teens or for that matter “default teen”.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Please read the Discord official post.
one to access teen spaces,
That account will be tagged as a teen account until proven otherwise. Therefore any message or DM he will receive will go to a special inbox with most likely warnings to consult it.
Please, again, I understand that the pitchforks are out for discord, I’m just asking you to take the time to read the official discord post from top to bottom.
There will still be unknowns until they release the update but your question is already answered by their official post.
- Comment on YouTube star MrBeast buys youth-focused financial services app Step 2 weeks ago:
to understand the appeal of YouTubers.
Come on, are you really putting all the Youtubers in the same boat as MrBeast ?
Take a look at channels like :
- Veritasium
- Technology connections
They only share a platform with MrBeast but it’s nor fair to compare them to that prominent idiot.
It’s akin to saying all books are bad because you didn’t like your last book…
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Please read the end of my message.
If you are a teen “by default” you will have all the restrictions of a teen until you prove you are an adult.
So an adult with ill intentions should either be :
- A teen by default and therefore have many limitations.
- An adult that have limitations in reaching to teens.
Again it’s what the very vague statement of Discord says. We also have no clue how their “inference model for age classification” works either…
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Any source for this ?
The official announcement is quite vague and since the feature isn’t out it’s hard to know how it will work exactly.
Also, I assume the biggest risk isn’t for teens to send nudes “unprompted” but to let adults contact them and ask for them.
This for example is very vague :
Age-gated Spaces – Only users who are age-assured as adults will be able to access age-restricted channels, servers, and app commands.
So if a teen can only interact with other teens on dedicated spaces it should make it harder for perverts to ask for stuff.
And if an adult tries to pretend to be a teen he will only see blurred content ?
I’m sure many will think I’m trying to defend Discord on this but I’m not. Again we dont really know how this update will work. I’m just trying to make sure we dont spread misinformation.
There will be plenty of time to criticize Discord when they push this update.
What I’m sure of is that discord was definitely a platform of choice for many bad people to hunt and groom teens.
Personally, it’s the fact that discord says they will delete my verification data :
Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.
In most cases ? Really ? Is that supposed to look trustworthy ?
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been forwarded this pretty neat summary of the current alternatives (Mastodon thread) :
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
No. Recently I played a bit using a friends mumble server. And it’s a friend that is already privacy conscious. But these friends are not the norm. They are the exception.
Interesting to see Teamspeak evolved but still you have to pay to host a server so that’s a huge difference.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
A federation based discord would be amazing !
But still that’s a big challenge as voice chat will be costly to host.
Also out of curiosity do you aim for something that would connect through the fediverse ?
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
For context my country (France) is trying to pass a law that forbids the use of social networks to users younger than 15yo. So I suppose this move from Discord is partly due to that.
Now that being said I would hope the verification process will have much more scrutiny in Europe than it would in the US.
I would definitely not be happy about it but if they are not allowed to keep any of the verification data afterwards it could be “acceptable”. But if I have the feeling they keep any data I will actively look into building a Stoat instance and try the even harder task of convincing my friends to switch over.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
Well yes, I would say it’s very much an integral part of mt social life.
I spend a lot of time with my gamer friends and it revolves around our discord servers.
We even have a discord servers dedicated to our role play sessions.
IMHO Discord is a bit more than just a voice chat app. It’s also rooms with persistant chats. It’s the ability to share media etc.
Also their noose reduction tech is top notch.
I knew when I got in that it would be another “Gmail” for me. It’s great but you have to give a bit of your soul to it and I knew it would enshitify eventually.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
Sure.
But what are you replacing it with ?
I tried Mumble and Teamspeak in the past and it’s pretty far from the same level of comfort.
Don’t take that the wrong way though, I’m all for supporting open alternatives, I’m just saying you have to think about the alternatives too.
I just saw something about Stoat.chat but a lot of people will have to bear the cost of self hosting these servers.
I know I will think carefully before slamming the door on discord.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
Nowadays everyone accepted the name “Discord” but I think it’s a pretty poor choice of branding too.
A communication app called Discord is pretty weird too.
A stoat is a pretty cool animal.
I think without prior knowledge of any voice chat Discord would probably rate worse in perception than Stoat.
- Comment on Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models 2 weeks ago:
AMD hasn’t stopped making consumer GPUs yet.
OpenAI owns a good chunk of AMD and AMD definitely also want their share of the AI pie.
I wouldn’t look at AMD as some savior that wouldn’t ditch consumers for big AI.
- Comment on Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models 2 weeks ago:
AMD is also partnered with OpenAI.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 2 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest that’s a bit of a red flag to me. Anyone can get hacked, sure, but we don’t know what malware was shipped with the builds, we don’t know what vector the hackers used to infect the builds.
So I’m not sure I would be willing to give my YT credentials in this context.
Anyway, since I have a WebOS TV :( I guess I will have to endure the official WebOS app for now…
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 2 weeks ago:
Interesting ! Thanks for the suggestion.
Although I usually have issues with third party clients all the time.
On Android for example I used the following clients so far :
- Vanced YT
- Revanced YT
- Freetube
- Newpipe
- Morphe
- Grayjay
All of them eventually failed or were down for extended durations. Point is, these third party apps are always vulnerable to YT purposefully sabotaging them.
But I will try it out anyway I don’t have much to lose.
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 2 weeks ago:
They also said they play a lot of games so might as well have everything included. Especially when “onboarding” a former Windows user…
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 2 weeks ago:
Most of the time I dont see any ads on YT and I watch a lot of content there. It’s getting harder to not get ads there on all my devices but it’s doable.
But when I go see my parents, I use their smartTV to watch YT. And I realize how horrible the experience is with all the interruptions and the impossibility to just focus on what you are watching.
And yesterday I got multiple time for a crypto scam called Ryxero or something. The scam was using AI clones of Bernard Arnault, a french billionaire, pretending you could win 1000€ a day…
The scam also had deepfakes of news outlets pretending that people in France were “queing to ATM” to get their money…
I think it’s absolutely unacceptable that YT let them serve crypto scams to millions in complete impunity.
I will try to report the scam to authorities. I also reported it to YT but I dont expect them to act. The 3mn long ad was paid by an american business called “EX” which I think serves their scam abroad through YT in complete impunity.
For me the scam and AI clones is obvious but how many got scammed with the complicity of YouTube ? Hundreds ?
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 2 weeks ago:
You should recommend Nobara then.
- Comment on What digital indie games would you like to see at libraries? 3 weeks ago:
Here would be my list of games that I think are either enriching or artistically so noteworthy they have to be shared as much as possible, and also that would run on fairly basic hardware :
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Factorio (with the space age DLC) : This is a game about logistic and automation. It teaches a lot and could even open new paths for younger players. It teaches you to itterate, to optimize and to scale things up. I think it’s very much educational. It’s not for everyone but for some it might be a great opportunity to learn.
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Hades : Great game to discover the Greek mythology. Beautiful artistic direction and outstanding music.
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Ball X Pit : Less educational or artistic but a great game for all to have some Arcady fun. I think it would fit well for a game to be borrowed for a few hours of fun.
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Hifi Rush : Am amazing rhythm game that should run on modest hardware.
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Dredge : A beautiful game about fishing. Great story and art.
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Stray : 🐱
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Outer wilds : Do I really need to explain why ?
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Dispatch : A story game that would fit very well to be borrowed in a digital library.
So a bit of an eclectic list with some games that requires to have at least an old gaming setup or at least slightly modern integrated graphics but I believe many people would at least like one of these game and grow from it.
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- Comment on Voxtral Transcribe 2: transcribes at the speed of sound 3 weeks ago:
I agree completely that it is scary we use extensively something that we truly dont understand. But even with the cleanest and most open source and open weights model ever, this statement would be just as true.
With parameters in the billions all interacting with each others it’s extremely hard to analyse. LLM are inherently hard to understand fully not really because of the opaqueness of the training data but rather the raw number of parameters involved in inference.
I would certainly be more appreciative of an open weights model were we destroy the environment (I have no choice in that) but at least we get the resulting matrix of parameters rather than OpenAI shit were we have absolutely nothing.
IMO a model like Deepseek is most certainly a clone of someone else model that published their open weights. An open weights model enabled someone else to build on top of whatever controversial base was used. So at least it can be used by a wider audience and the original trainers don’t have their say in what you do as long as you respect the licence.
I think the above process has pretty much nothing to do about the struggle of some linux dev losing hair trying to make sense of a Microsoft obfuscated binary…
I guess many will not share that “lesser evil” point of view on open weights model but it’s not like anybody is gonna stop the AI conglomerate to do their shit in the complete dark and under no regulation whatsoever.
- Comment on Voxtral Transcribe 2: transcribes at the speed of sound 3 weeks ago:
But a modeled isn’t “compiled”.
The weights are fully readable. Every single one of them.
In a binary you have to use special software to get to the source code. The weights are the source and can be freely used to create a model with. The weights are used “as is” no transformation has to be done like when reversing a closed source binary that could also use obfuscation to make it more difficult.
That’s why I would like to insist that open weights are not like a binary as they are usable as is essentially. When I use a model like that my computer is no executing the weights like instructions. They are aptly named “weights” for a reason and are a mere reflection of what the model learned through training.
Disclaimer, below this is the explanation between a closed source binary and open weights by an LLM :
A closed-source binary is like getting a sealed, opaque machine. You push a button, it gives an output. You have no idea how it works inside.
Open weights are like getting the complete, labeled blueprints (architecture) and the exact, measured specifications for every single component—every gear, wire, and circuit (weights). You don’t have the designer’s engineering notebooks (training data/recipe) or the factory that built it (training compute), but you can absolutely build the machine yourself, measure every part, swap out components, and try to improve it.
- Comment on Voxtral Transcribe 2: transcribes at the speed of sound 3 weeks ago:
My understanding was that the weights were the “essence” of the training.
I think it’s a bit misleading to present them as “executables”.
I agree that open weights is a bit of marketing mumbo jumbo but I wouldn’t say they are akin to a closed source binary.
That being said I was just reading an article about LLM sleeper agents and their trigger words… So you can hide stuff on training and it’s fairly hard to spot with just the weights.
But again it’s not really like a black box executable. And I’ve seen many great models that successfully builds on top of an open weights model.
In the end I much prefer open weights to the very popular “‘’'openAI”“” that have opaque training and weights…