Technus

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been incensed about this since I first heard about the merger over two years ago. The fact that both the US and EU rubber-stamped the deal is easily one of the biggest regulatory failings of the tech sector in the past ten years.

  I still can’t believe that the only stipulation was that CoD had to remain available on Playstation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the real danger of opening ports?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone’s self-hosting, I’d be willing to bet they don’t have the same hardened config or isolation that a cloud provider would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the real danger of opening ports?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Docker containers aren’t a full sandbox. There’s a number of exploits that can break out of a container and gain root access to the host.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could we survive eating only humans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Prions and population collapse aside, your cannibal population would eventually succumb to simple nutrient deficiency as the human body can’t synthesize a number of essential vitamins and amino and fatty acids. Without any outside food sources, those nutrients would eventually be completely exhausted.

  So if you’re going to start eating people, only eat people who have been a fed a diverse, nutrient-rich diet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time private equity buys out a public company, they saddle it with debt, gut its intellectual properties, turn its products and services to shit then close up shop for good.

  Given that EA has already managed 3/4 of those things on its own, I wonder how much this will actually change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beyond proving hallucinations were inevitable, the OpenAI research revealed that industry evaluation methods actively encouraged the problem. Analysis of popular benchmarks, including GPQA, MMLU-Pro, and SWE-bench, found nine out of 10 major evaluations used binary grading that penalized “I don’t know” responses while rewarding incorrect but confident answers.

  “We argue that language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty,” the researchers wrote.

  I just wanna say I called this out nearly a year ago: lemmy.zip/comment/13916070

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a senior dev and I want nothing to do with AI. By the time I understand what I want well enough to describe it in a complete sentence or paragraph, I can just write the fucking code myself. I figure it out as I go.

  The whole point of having devs under you that is to be able to trust them to get the job done and do it right. You want to be able to delegate tasks to them and not have to peek over their shoulder every five fucking minutes to be certain they’re not making a mess of things.

  I seriously doubt AI will ever be able to replace that. Not until they figure out how to make it afraid of fucking up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No weirdo's please⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the number, OP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Futurama s2e5: I Second that Emotion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Yeah, right. You’d have to be some kinda genius to count that high.”

  “… He’s seven.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an old meme, sir, but it checks out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y tho⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We used to make these all the time as kids. You need a second pair of magnets in push configuration on the back for this to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Black Holes...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would 100% volunteer to be the first person to cross the event horizon of a spinning supermassive black hole, just to see what’s on the other side.

  Like yeah it’s guaranteed to be a one-way trip and probably a horrible death, but there’s also the possibility that it’s actually a gateway to alternate universes, and that’s something I’d give anything to see with my own eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SlaveDriver Engine for the Sega Saturn classic shooter PowerSlave gets open sourced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I played Powerslave: Exhumed but it wasn’t quite the same game I remembered playing. I think it’s more of a “reimagined” version than a remastered one.

  I’m hopeful that this means the game could be ported to modern platforms so it doesn’t have to be run in DOSbox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how you’ve deliberately ignored the specifically chosen wording of my statement, and completely disregarded the rest of my point, simply because you perceive it as counter-factual in your world-view, thus exhibiting the exact kind of behavior you were talking about. That’s really funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Political map of the Americas 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe swap California and Canada, US and Florida.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A neurotypical human mind, acting rationally, is able to remember the chain of thought that lead to a decision, understand why they reached that decision, find the mistake in their reasoning, and start over from that point to reach the “correct” decision.

  Even if they don’t remember everything they were thinking about, they can reason based on their knowledge of themselves and try to reconstruct their mental state at the time.

  This is the behavior people are expecting from LLMs but not understanding that it’s something they’re fundamentally incapable of.

  One major difference (among many others, obviously) is that AI models as currently implemented don’t have any kind of persistent working memory. All they have for context is the last N tokens they’ve generated, the last N tokens of user input, and any external queries they’ve made. All the intermediate calculations (the “reasoning”) that led to them generating that output is lost.

  Any instance of an AI appearing to “correct” their mistake is just the model emitting what it thinks a correction would be, given the current context window.

  Humans also learn from their mistakes and generally make efforts to avoid them in the future, which doesn’t happen for LLMs until that data gets incorporated into the training for the next version of the model, which can take months to years. That’s why AI companies are trying to capture and store everything from user interactions, which is a privacy nightmare.

  It’s not a compelling argument to compare AI behavior to that of a dysfunctional human brain and go “see, humans do this too, teehee!” Not when the whole selling point of these things is that they supposed to be smarter and less fallible than most humans.

  I’m deliberately trying not to be ableist in my wording here, but it’s like saying, “hey, you know what would do wonders for productivity and shareholder value? If we fired half our workforce, then found someone with no experience, short-term memory loss, ADHD and severe untreated schizophrenia, then put them in charge of writing mission-critical code, drafting laws, and making life-changing medical and business decisions.”

  I’m not saying LLMs aren’t technically fascinating and a breakthrough in AI development, but the way they have largely been marketed and applied is scammy, misleading, and just plain irresponsible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even as an American with everything going on here, this bullshit makes me feel bad for the Brits. How fucked up is that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All aboard the enshittification train! Choo choo!

  I mean, it’s been well underway for a while now but this is certainly a transfer over to an express train.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get scoffed at every time I call LLMs “glorified auto-correct” so it’s nice being validated.

  Anyone who actually has a grasp of how Large Language Models work should not be surprised by this, but too many people, even engineers who should really know better, have drunk the Kool-aid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6's beta been treating you to infinite loading screens? EA are on the case⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A triumphant return to the series’ roots with the exact same game-breaking bugs as Battlefield 3 had. Nice job, EA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD CPU Transient Scheduler Attacks security flaw revealed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No information on the 9000 series, why? Kinda sus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinder, the Brookings fellow, said she worries that companies soon will simply eliminate the entire bottom rung of the career ladder.

  What the fuck do they think is gonna happen when the current seniors start to retire? Are they just betting that AI is gonna be good enough to replace all of them then?

  Cue all these companies in 5-20 years’ time having to completely rewrite their software stacks because they have no fucking clue how any of it works anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can do it. It's an easy one⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i 8 sum apple pi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A few horny memes are acceptable surely⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a starving furry artist out there who would jump at the chance to take your commission.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The article is full of typos, too.

  Who let this dreck out the door? Did Forbes lay off all their editors or what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I downloaded the demo last night. It’s pretty fun but definitely rough around the edges. I hope the developer is amenable to feedback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found that demos can be a double-edged sword.

  I picked up the demo for A Bumpy Ride after watching a YouTuber play it. I really enjoyed it, but it only lets you play for one in-game day so there’s only so many times you can do that without progressing before it gets old. I still find myself jonesing to play it but I can’t really do anything but wait for the full game to come out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instantly wishlisted. My inner child is screaming with delight. I’ve wanted a game like this for literal decades.

  I’d try to build machines and industrial flows in falling sand games but never be able to manage anything much more complex than distilling saltwater because of the limitations of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Opinion] Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still using the Blink engine, so it only provides an illusion of competition just like all other Chromium-based browsers.

  If the web becomes nothing but Chromium, then Google can dictate web standards as they see fit.

  And don’t count on Apple to save you, either. WebKit’s monopoly over browsing on iOS is slowly being eroded by anti-trust rulings. The first browser most people will install when they have a choice is Google Chrome.

  Ditching Firefox entirely because of a few missteps by Mozilla is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.