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- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 1 week ago:
As somebody who has a more basic car with just adaptive cruise control, the peace of mind makes driving less exhausting. I think there’s a considerable number of accidents caused by driver fatigue, such as rear-ending due to reduced reaction speed. A simple driver assistance technology like adaptive cruise control can prevent an accident like that, and advanced front collision warnings can stop cars like mine from speeds up to 100 km/h.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
Why do these companies still sign with AWS? Didn’t they learn from the last two major outages in us-east? To say nothing of the deceptive business practices to obfuscate service utilization to overcharge businesses?
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 2 weeks ago:
I think there’s a distinction to make between driver assistance technologies and how drivers become reliant on automation. Because otherwise, should we not have automatic transmission, either?
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 3 weeks ago:
So you care a little bit about the clickbait headline? What an odd way of expressing that.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s meant to be a conclusion. The article serves as a recap of several reports and studies about the effectivity of LLMs with coding, and the final quote from Bain & Company was a counterpoint to the previous ones asserting that productivity gains are minimal at best, but also that measuring productivity is a grey area.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope—"If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive"~ there’s a big problem 1 month ago:
I’ve no interest in debating your opinion, forgive me for not entertaining it. Perhaps you’ve not recalled your past interactions accurately, and my only goal here is to correct the misinformation written in this thread.
If you’re instead looking for some sources, I’ve performed a rudimentary search on interpreting paragraph 64:
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope—"If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive"~ there’s a big problem 1 month ago:
That is not the full paragraph. It reads:
“If it is not practicable or appropriate to seek consent, and in exceptional cases where a patient has refused consent, disclosing personal information may be justified in the public interest if failure to do so may expose others to a risk of death or serious harm. The benefits to an individual or to society of the disclosure must outweigh both the patient’s and the public interest in keeping the information confidential.”
Let’s not forget that you had previously stated:
FYI a dokter/psychiatrist [sic] is just as banned from exposing a confessed murder or rapist,
From this UK source, doctors are explicitly exempt from violating doctor-patient confidentiality in the aforementioned case. This directly contradicts your statement.
I’m eager to read your referenced citations from the individuals you’ve interviewed in other regions where doctors would be banned in such cases.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope—"If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive"~ there’s a big problem 1 month ago:
Doctor patient confidentiality does not override the public interest.
Have we resorted to stating overt lies now? The most basic internet search will provide you with reliable sources that show this absurd statement is untrue.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 month ago:
As an engineer, it’s honestly heartbreaking to see how many executives have bought into this snake oil hook, line and sinker.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 month ago:
In 2014 he promised 90% autonomous by 2015. That was over a decade ago and it’s still not close to that…
- Comment on Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal 1 month ago:
I saw a Pixel 10 Pro with 128 GB storage online today.
Kinda crazy (stupid) how people spend that much on a fucking TV.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 month ago:
This honestly doesn’t surprise me, because English proficiency in France is below that of Spain, Russia and even Italy, which says a lot.
- Comment on US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know 2 months ago:
It’s the same thing with the Linux kernel
It’s funny you should mention this, because Google has needed to adapt this for mobile and are already open source. If the opportunity existed for a “free” and open source version of Android to be embraced by consumers, there are many such options today, like GrapheneOS (or even forking AOSP, for that matter).
My concern is that if the major contributor to that steps out, the volunteer community will need to substantially step up.
Consumer devices ship with proprietary software which is licensed all the time
The reason I called out your example of Red Hat is to illustrate how enterprise is financing a free consumer experience.
With a very limited enterprise market, it’s not realistic to expect this to apply to an almost exclusively consumer product.
So there are two options. Either we don’t have an open source Android and in addition to the license cost of GMS, OEMs would have to license the OS itself. The alternative is that OEMs shoulder the development cost of their own fork of AOSP, which would simply be passed on to consumers. Either way, this would drive up the price of devices.
I’m not sure why you’re speaking in hypotheticals about what Android could be if it had license fees, as it’s readily available in open source under the Apache license today and, despite that, steadily losing market share.
- Comment on US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know 2 months ago:
Android is already largely open source. Yet it takes a massive investment from Google to continue developing it and curate the app store with it.
I’m genuinely struggling to envision how we move from the current situation to a somehow better but more fragmented ecosystem that doesn’t negatively affect consumer experiences. Whichever way I’ve approached it, it plays in the favor of one company in particular who already has a leading market share in the US, and I truly don’t see how that would be better.
- Comment on US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know 2 months ago:
If you’re referring to Google Play itself, it’s my interpretation that this is exactly what needs to be uncoupled that the proponents of separating Android from Google are arguing.
- Comment on US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know 2 months ago:
The primary ways in which the Mozilla Foundation earns money is through search partnerships, donations and grants. Guess who is the major contributor.
As for Red Hat, this comes down to subscriptions or enterprise offerings, neither which really apply to a consumer OS unless you’re willing to pay a subscription fee out of pocket. I doubt there will be much to be earned from offering consulting or training, either, unless they make Android exceedingly confusing to use.
The only companies that would pay for Android are OEMs who are already making thin margins, and effectively it’d drive the price of non-iPhones up. The alternative is that OEMs take the Huawei option and fork AAOS and develop it at their own expense.
- Comment on US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know 2 months ago:
What do you mean by “get”? Who will be funding the creation of all these OSes? The phone margins are already razor thin.
- Comment on US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know 2 months ago:
Android would be unprofitable and unsustainable in isolation. So that would leave each OEM to build their own thing, but to make a long story short, everybody would just get an iPhone. So then I wonder, if making such a ruling would create the void for a monopoly, what’s the sense?
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 months ago:
Apple requires developers to go through a Notarization process, much in the same way that Google intends to introduce restrictions to sideloading on Android. How is this different?
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 months ago:
Interesting perspective. So the suggestion is to redirect our blame away from our elected representatives or even from electing representatives that run in a campaign that aligns with our priorities.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 months ago:
Yet Apple has been able to profit from their walled garden for decades now. Doesn’t that set a precedent that it’s okay? I honestly don’t blame Google for going this route—it’s inaction from our policymakers that has created the space for abuse.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 2 months ago:
What I meant with “things like this are awful for the web,” I meant that automation through AI is awful for the web. It takes away from the original content creators without any attribution and hits their bottom line.
My story was supposed to be one about responsible AI, but somehow I screwed that up in my summary.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 2 months ago:
I’ve developed my own agent for assisting me with researching a topic I’m passionate about, and I ran into the exact same barrier: Cloudflare intercepts my request and is clearly checking if I’m a human using a web browser.
So I use that as a signal that the website doesn’t want automated tools scraping their data. That’s fine with me: my agent just tells me that there might be interesting content on the site and gives me a deep link. I can extract the data and carry on my research on my own.
- Comment on Intel Outside: Hacking every Intel employee and various internal websites 2 months ago:
That was an interesting read, thanks for sharing!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
No doubt they are all overpriced, but I thoroughly researched my Škoda before buying it in 2020 and it was competitively priced, especially with its reliability score and relatively low maintenance cost. In my case of course anecdotal, but I’ve had no issues after 90,000 km with a lot of Autobahn.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 2 months ago:
Ah, my apologies. I had interpreted your message to suggest that pouring cement from a robotic arm fully replaced all of the construction work of framing and finishing all of the walls of the house, interior and exterior, plus attaching them and insulating them, with a single step.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I understand your point, but have you driven a VW in the past decade? They are reliable, relatively easy to repair and have comfortable interiors that aren’t with “hard plastic.” Perhaps you’ve confused VW with Ford?
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 2 months ago:
Spoken like a person who has never been involved in the construction of a home. It’s effectively doing the job of (poorly) pouring concrete which isn’t the difficult or time consuming part.
- Comment on Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world 2 months ago:
fediverse
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 3 months ago:
Amex works outside the US. I use it in Europe.
