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- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 1 week ago:
exists() is just a hashtag or other type of information lookup. The information is either there or it is not.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
People underestimate the cost of building a fucking browser
The browser is built. I don’t want to see them have a gigantic development staff because further updates are just as likely to enshitify as to improve something.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
I have no solution for their funding issue, what are they supposed to do?
Stop updating their browser every 5 minutes. Software that already works fine does not need continuious updates that will sooner or later subtract value.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
Waterfox
Very interesting. Did not know about this.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
Like how samsung updated and BLATANTLY made their peice of shit AI button TAKE OVER THR POWER BUTTON
Was that part of OneUI 7? I’m so glad I never installed that downgrade.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 week ago:
Literally no one on this green earth asked for this shit.
This is why I use the version of Firefox that does not update.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 1 week ago:
No computer programs “know” anything.
LMFAO…
if exists(thing) { write(thing); } else { write(“I do not know”); }
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 1 week ago:
I am here to assist you.
Can you jump in the lake for me? Thanks in advance.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 1 week ago:
Why wouldn’t you use Basic for that?
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 1 week ago:
Again, they don’t know if they know the answer
Then in that respect AIs aren’t even as powerful as an ordinary computer program.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 1 week ago:
Are you saying the AI does not know when it does not know something?
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 1 week ago:
Can you explain why AIs always have a “confidently incorrect” stance instead of admitting they don’t know the answer to something?
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 1 week ago:
[ “I am a disgrace to my profession,” Gemini continued. "I am a disgrace to my family. I am a disgrace to my species.]
This should tell us that AI thinks as a human because it is trained on human words and doesn’t have the self awareness to understand it is different from humans. So it is going to sound very much like a human even though it is not human. It mimics human emotions well but doesn’t have any actual human emotions. There will be situations where you can tell the difference. Some situations that would make an actual human angry or guilty or something, but won’t always provoke this mimicry in an AI. Because when humans feel emotions they don’t always write down words to show it. And AI only knows what humans write, which is not always the same things that humans say or think. We all know that the AI doesn’t have a family and is not a human species. But the AI talks about having a family because its computer database is mimicking what it thinks a human might say.
- Comment on President Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign 1 week ago:
One thing I’ve learned in the past 10 years is that Republicans always abandon their previous “core principles” with astonishing ease to chase the Party Line in goose step formation. Principles are never important to them. Only power. The real goals of the GOP are identical to INGSOC.
- Comment on President Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign 1 week ago:
I am looking forward to seeing internet video of somebody pissing on his grave.
- Comment on President Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign 1 week ago:
I am calling on Traitorapist Trump to resign immediately, with the same authority over Trump as Trump has over Intel.
- Comment on New executive order puts all grants under political control 1 week ago:
Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.
It’s actually much worse than that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Trump is not just going to suppress real science, he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.
- Comment on New executive order puts all grants under political control 1 week ago:
When the right wing dictatorship has safely grabbed full power, they are very likely to eventually take everyone’s guns away just because they can. They will suddenly start telling everyone that we have always been at war with East Asia and you better be a team player. And all the conservatives who have been conditioned to chase the Party Line in goose step formation and forfeit their previous principles will fall in line just like they always do. And within a few years 99% of everyone’s guns will be gone except for the regime.
- Comment on New executive order puts all grants under political control 1 week ago:
Traitorapist Trump and the MANGA crowd are gleefully enshitifying everything that made America great.
MAKE AMERICA NOT GREAT AGAIN
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
Your own link proves my case. No where in your link does Cerf say that the Arpanet was not the beginning of the internet. If fact, he indicates the opposite of that.
[While still at DARPA, I formed an Internet Configuration Control Board…]
You would only have a leg to stand on if there was a moment in history when 2 or more similar sized networks combined to form the internet. But that is not what happened. What happened is that the Arpanet formed in 1969 with 4 nodes, and over the next 56 years grew bigger and bigger and bigger until there were billions of nodes. And it did that mostly by adding individual nodes. When it got too big for ARPA to manage it all, the name was changed from Arpanet to Internet.
I get it. You were taught in school that US government created the internet.
No, when I first started using the internet in 1982 when the internet had hundreds of nodes, I learned how this network was created by using FTP to get the papers that described it. But I get it. You watched a youtube video that covered the entire 56 year history of the internet and you got confused about the difference between the creation of the internet and the entire history of the internet.
What we are discussing is the BEGINNING and CREATION of the internet, not the entire 56 year history of the internet. The internet did not start as a gigantic network with millions or billions of nodes. It started with 4 specific nodes in 1969 and then grew from there, and we both know that.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
First computer network to send packets to another computer was British NPL network.
TCP/IP is not “the Internet”.
ARPANET is a computer network, but it’s not internet, nor it was the first.
The Arpanet IS the Internet. THE ARPANET IS THE NETWORK THAT WAS LATER RENAMED “INTERNET”. Did you really think that the internet just blinked into existence with millions of nodes? LMFAO. No, it had to start small and get big, as common sense dictates. UCLA, ARC, UCSB, and the University of Utah School of Computing are literally the very first 4 nodes of the internet. We know exactly how, where, and when the internet started because we no what the first 4 internet nodes are.
[The first four nodes were designated as a testbed for developing and debugging the 1822 protocol, which was a major undertaking. While they were connected electronically in 1969, network applications were not possible until the Network Control Protocol was implemented in 1970 enabling the first two host-host protocols, remote login (Telnet) and file transfer (FTP) which were specified and implemented between 1969 and 1973.[10][11][65] The network was declared operational in 1971. Network traffic began to grow once email was established at the majority of sites by around 1973.[12] Initial four hosts First ARPANET IMP log: the first message ever sent via the ARPANET, 10:30 pm PST on 29 October 1969 (6:30 UTC on 30 October 1969). This IMP Log excerpt, kept at UCLA, describes setting up a message transmission from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer The initial ARPANET configuration linked UCLA, ARC, UCSB, and the University of Utah School of Computing. The first node was created at UCLA…]
But saying ARPANET was the internet is like saying gramophone is Netflix.
Would you stop with the nonsense? Gramophones were never renamed “netflix”. LOL…
That’s still not internet. It’s 1980
Would you again stop with the nonsense? Everyone with common sense knows that the internet did not just blink into existence with a million domains. The internet was created in 1969, not 1980. The very first internet connection occurred on 30 October 1969. The first 4 internet nodes were: UCLA, ARC, UCSB, and the University of Utah
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
Or in 1860 where they started laying sea cables to connect landmasses.
I never claimed that other countries do not do valuable things, but these things are not the internet.
I’m talking about something very specific: the Internet. It was created by the US DOD in the 1960’s. Without that happening what would have likely developed are a bunch of private networks like Compuserve, AOL, MSN etc that charge us by the hour.
It is typical that the US claims to have invented something when it is clearly a collaborative effort.
Why is it important to you to revise history on this particular topic? Creating the internet was not even a collaborative effort within the USA. It was done entirely by one single government agency, the Department of Defense.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
Nope. The US government Department of Defense literally funded and created the internet. It was initially called Arpanet and mainly US government sites. This is why few people use the .us domain. Because the initial domains .gov, .mil, .org etc were all USA sites. Usenet does not require the internet and telnet is simply one program using the internet.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
People would need to sub to your instance though for you to post content right?
I think there is some way to automatically forward your content but I don’t self host and am not an expert.
Pros are that while you could be “defederated”, you can’t be banned. You make any decisions and could also let others use your system.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 weeks ago:
What happened was everything went up 10x in price.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy will be pressured into age verification also and most hosts will crumble.
Then just self host
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
The US government created the internet
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 weeks ago:
I have like 5 alternates I would use before Spotify.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 weeks ago:
I could tell Spotify was trash when I first heard about it. That Spotify decided to enshitify their already bad site makes it even worse.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 2 months ago:
If Bezos thinks people are just going to forget about not getting a $65 item that they paid for and still shop at Amazon, instead of making sure they either get their item or reverse the charge, and then reduce or stop shopping on Amazon but of his ridiculous hassles, he is an idiot.