TheOctonaut
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- Comment on Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine? 1 week ago:
Rockerface is Ukrainian, not American.
Being a seemingly temporary non-nation, Americans don’t always understand that people don’t usually just give up and accept conquest. If a people continue to distinguish themselves strongly enough without being literally wiped out or assimilated, they will survive annexation until the next opportunity for rebellion or freedom. Ireland resisted Britain for 800 years - a few years in the shadows of dictators until ordinary Russians grow balls/tits again isn’t necessarily the end of Ukraine.
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 2 weeks ago:
the accepted terminology
No, it isn’t. The OSI specifically requires the training data be available or at very least that the source and fee for the data be given so that a user could get the same copy themselves. Because that’s the purpose of something being “open source”. Open source doesn’t just mean free to download and use.
opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition
Data Information: Sufficiently detailed information about the data used to train the system so that a skilled person can build a substantially equivalent system. Data Information shall be made available under OSI-approved terms.
In particular, this must include: (1) the complete description of all data used for training, including (if used) of unshareable data, disclosing the provenance of the data, its scope and characteristics, how the data was obtained and selected, the labeling procedures, and data processing and filtering methodologies; (2) a listing of all publicly available training data and where to obtain it; and (3) a listing of all training data obtainable from third parties and where to obtain it, including for fee.
As per their paper, DeepSeek R1 required a very specific training data set because when they tried the same technique with less curated data, they got R"zero’ which basically ran fast and spat out a gibberish salad of English, Chinese and Python.
People are calling DeepSeek open source purely because they called themselves open source, but they seem to just be another free to download, black-box model. The best comparison is to Meta’s LlaMa, which weirdly nobody has decided is going to up-end the tech industry.
In reality “open source” is a terrible terminology for what is a very loose fit when basically trying to say that anyone could recreate or modify the model because they have the exact ‘recipe’.
- Comment on Wonder Woman Game is "Years Away From Release" As Warner Bros. Gaming Division Struggles 3 weeks ago:
How about if the idle animation is Gal Gadot in full IDF regalia singing “Imagine”?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Quite the opposite, my workplace is pretty fun and we definitely don’t need to couch jokes in emotions for safety. Maybe this is the same thing that requires people these days to use sarcasm tags.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Please don’t wink in a work context
- Comment on Someone ported Discord to Windows 95, because why wouldn't you 3 weeks ago:
While I sympathise, hat’s not what imposition means. For better or for worse, both Discord and Reddit got where they were by being good for what they offered.
I’d almost agree in a way about Reddit - they basically imposed a shitty app after building their base. But apart from the username change, Discord is as shitty or great as it always has been.
- Comment on Someone ported Discord to Windows 95, because why wouldn't you 3 weeks ago:
Imposes?
You just not use it right?
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 3 weeks ago:
The point is that no branch was ever called a slave branch, just as no audio copy was ever called a slave copy. One does not direct the other in the same way that master and slave implies. Usually quite the opposite.
Oh and master-slave usually refers to hardware infrastructure, not programming. Where, as you mentioned, client-service is the equivalent, or parent and child.
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 3 weeks ago:
Master in branch meant the same as the master of an audio track or video. We haven’t all stopped saying “remaster” or “masterpiece”.
As it turns out, there are software developers from outside the country with people whose grandparents-grandparents were chattel slaves, and they name things without the same baggage. It’s Gulf of America stuff, but for the ‘good guys’.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 4 weeks ago:
It reads like regurgitating dehydrated phlegm
- Comment on Civilization 7's post-launch plans include free multiplayer and Age features and paid Ada Lovelace 4 weeks ago:
I’ve put hundreds or thousands of hours into every Civ game since Civ 2. I’m so fucking sad that I don’t care about this new release. I’m Irish and I can’t even enjoy Britain being relegated to DLC because somehow Ada Lovelace is a leader? Who is this game for?
- Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm 1 month ago:
I live in a functional society where ordinary people families don’t have to worry about giving an extra few thousand people cancer to feed their families. Maybe work towards that instead of the new American trend of “we can’t fix that, it’s hard”
- Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm 1 month ago:
headlines
Do you mean the Food and Drug Administration regulator? The one that’s about to be gutted in a week?
What about people getting cancer for a company’s benefit is key to a “functional society” to you?
- Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm 1 month ago:
Yeah they should be able to wind down the cancer doses in an orderly fashion. We wouldn’t want to hurt their EBITDA
- Comment on First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed 3 months ago:
No source code and no federation just makes this a worse app with less liability for bad actions. Not sure why he’s pushing this before those are ready. Pixelfed itself isn’t exactly finished yet.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 4 months ago:
I do not wish to enjoinder with your Game Launcher and anonymous telephony
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 months ago:
Too cowardly to do anything useful to make amends. Just let another conscript fill his space.
Brave enough to drive over Palestinians and call them “terrorists in their hundreds”. Not brave enough to stand up to criticism from his countrymen. This is what spending billions of dollars on an asymmetrical war gets you: a system in which the weakest people can still take the lives of hundreds before being thrown away themselves.
- Comment on Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato 4 months ago:
Right. Not something we knew 30 years ago, though.
- Comment on Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato 4 months ago:
There were nukes in Ukraine. This is not the same as Ukraine having nukes. They couldn’t control, and worse, couldn’t maintain the nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union left behind.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will stop working on outdated Windows 11 and Windows 10 versions 5 months ago:
Do you not have a browser?
- Comment on Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech 7 months ago:
“Rust Belt” isn’t literal, it refers to an area of the US where industrial manufacturing declined significant in the second half of the 20th century. It’s called that in part at least because its previous moniker was “Steel Belt”.
- Comment on Just had someone say they are going to have a Fatwa put on me . What the hell does that mean? Do I need to report it or something? 7 months ago:
The issue is taking a broad concept and making it mean a very specific one instead.
(Please note I am an atheist that lived for years in a “Muslim country”. I don’t actually agree with any of the below, but understanding what words are intended to mean is important when you are surrounded by their use in 2 different contexts).
Fatwa: a Sharia law ruling by an imam Fatwa (western): a ruling by an imam that a person is not protected by the law and therefore a target for assassination
Hijab: men and women of Islam should maintain a sense of visual propriety in order to avoid devaluing what can be seen in private. Hijab (western): that cloth Islamic women wear on their head.
Jihad: the righteous struggles that each human faces to choose a difficult path for good reasons. Jihad (western): a holy war of aggression against infidels
- Comment on India to mandate USB-C connectors on smartphones and laptops by 2026 8 months ago:
Some of us live in functioning democracies where “switch to USB-D” won’t come with an “it’s illegal to give your son a name that wasn’t previous a job title” attachment.
- Comment on Time to fix sleep schedule 8 months ago:
Why are its eyes on the back wall of its orifice
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 9 months ago:
They might be cheaper, but then you have to either have a cable coming in the door of the freezer, or drill a hole in your $10k freezer’s wall.
In my country you’d definitely need to have video footage to accuse someone of abusing aerosols at work, but yes in some less civilised places a general pattern might be enough to accuse someone and hope they weren’t just going in there to do their job.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 9 months ago:
These people are presumably paid to go into the freezer. If they weren’t going into the freezer that would be a problem. It’s going into the freezer and doing whip-its is the problem.
I was going to say then that you’d need to prove the person was actually doing whip-its and not their job, but I’m guessing this is America and it’s not actually required to have a reason to euthanise underperforming employees.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 9 months ago:
Walk in freezers are usually aimed at -18C, but that isn’t the main problem with trying to get a WiFi camera to work behind several inches of insulation.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 9 months ago:
WiFi works poorly behind insulation.
Cameras don’t do great covered in frost.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 9 months ago:
One that works in a walk in freezer?
- Comment on Sony Music warns AI companies against “unauthorized use” of its content 9 months ago:
Maybe musicians might end every song with some magic words that stop people using it.