utopiah
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- Comment on StopKillingGames - Yet another reminder for European citizens to fight for software ownership before the timer runs out. A signature takes mere minutes and preserves many games and lots of fun. 1 week ago:
Probably specific by country then because I didn’t have to show any ID. FWIW
“To sign, you must provide a set of personal data, which is required by the authorities of your country for verification purposes.” which is as of a week ago and still today :
- nationality
- name
- birth date
- address
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Nice try FBI, you’re not getting that info from me!
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 1 week ago:
I don’t think eSIM providers do but I admit I didn’t check. It’d be even more convenient, no need to leave your home to switch.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 1 week ago:
Exactly, sure disconnect customers from the Internet if they use it for entertainment… but once they use it to earn the income that pays their bills, it becomes questionable… and once it is in practice required to be a citizen, at the local, national or supra national level then it becomes a totally different question, to which the answer is basically no, you can’t disconnect someone otherwise you remove their citizenship.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 2 weeks ago:
Ironically enough that’s is exactly the kind of seemingly “simple” question a 4 years old could answer… but LLMs can’t.
Asked my better half to test DeepSeek locally few months ago and they, without trying to “trick” it (as I would have tried) genuinely tried “What time is it in Sri Lanka?”. That made me smile because I was rather sure there was no way the model could answer that. It would need to know the current time on any time zone then, if it’s not in Sri Lanka already (which it wasn’t on my local system) would have to convert it. That would be very basic arithmetic (that some 4 years old could also do) but not “just” spitting back words related to the question.
Guess what… it failed exactly as expected. The model replied back “information” (which is being generous for a string of words arguably related to the topic, which was mostly about Sri Lanka, not time) and yet was basically irrelevant and thus useless.
So… yes I’m not actually sure CoPilot could even help there unless there is a lot of custom made handling of this kind of queries upstream!
- Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress 2 weeks ago:
What?! Haven’t your heard?
- FSD is happening next year, for sure,
- we’re still 18 months away from developers being replaced,
- it’s “deep” reasoning, basically nearly ASI!
/s (obviously)
- Comment on It is what it is 2 weeks ago:
changed the search engine in Firefox
Which… takes maximum 1min to do.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 weeks ago:
He should just goto hell early.
He’s going to Mars as soon as FSD on Tesla is ready, next year for sure!, to not blow in his rocket then once there chat with his amazing chatbot telling him, with 20min delay for each message, that he truly is the best.
What an absolute retard.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 3 weeks ago:
So many you didn’t list one.
Also OP didn’t talk about AI broadly, just vibe coding.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully it was a symbolic downvote. They say they did only to provoke but in reality they did upvote.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 3 weeks ago:
Good analogy as most people don’t understand how a microwave is working either.
That being said, at least microwaving isn’t on fast track to pollute our entire ecosystem so…
- Comment on I know I'm a damn failure OK 3 weeks ago:
Hand them a mirror.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 3 weeks ago:
I use the Coil extension but seems it’s now addons.mozilla.org/…/web-monetization-extension/
If you go on my web site fabien.benetou.fr you should see 3 heats under the 3D model if it’s enabled.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 3 weeks ago:
being sensationalist. OR (and more likely answer). Musk is building some bespoke data center in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere without the local infrastructure to support it
It’s exactly what’s been reporting in several pieces from 404 Media, and others. Namely xAI does NOT have the infrastructure BUT Musk has a history (Tesla, SpaceX, etc) of cutting corners. He “gets shit done” like no one else not because he’s particularly smart or efficiency … but because he breaks the law, as simple as that.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 4 weeks ago:
histrionic
True… yet nearly everybody else, maybe beside few like 404 media, seems to be either boot licking or access “journalism” so I get the “spicy” take.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 4 weeks ago:
May I introduce you to webmonetization.org ?
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 4 weeks ago:
You’re right obviously, you dirty community! /$
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 4 weeks ago:
how is Belgium to live in and what would it look like to live there right now?
It’s literally between France, Germany and the Netherlands, I mean geographically yes but roughly culturally too. Arguably Brussels is a mix of all that and other cities again match where they are.
So… it’s a Western European country with good quality of life despite having one of the very highest taxes rate. You don’t have to be a socialist to be here but if you want to become a rich entrepreneur it’s going to be challenging.
Source : immigrated there from France ~10 years ago.
- Comment on The Arc Browser Is Dead 4 weeks ago:
No Linux build, not git link, why would anyone care?
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 5 weeks ago:
Not sure what NLNet is going to do about software lol, I believe you mean something different.
That NLNet nlnet.nl funding FLOSS project.
There are also BlueHats in France showing how administration is using AND consequently funding FLOSS code.gouv.fr/en/bluehats/ by paying for sysadmin, feature dev, maintenance, etc.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 5 weeks ago:
Don’t underestimate management desire to be absolutely indistinguishable from their competition.
They read the Harvard Business Review, learn new terms they don’t understanding, make a PowerPoint out of it and voila, they are “innovative” like everyone else.
If HBR put “AI” on its cover you can be damn sure all those innovators are going to put AI wherever they can.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 5 weeks ago:
I would love to, but we stiill use Windows specific software
If I had 1 cent every time I read that… and I pulled those cents together… and then paid software developers to build that missing software for other OSes like Linux… then we’d gradually see less of those comments.
It’s as if the isolation was the business model, proprietary software insuring that alternatives do not exist because users do not bother to get together and unstuck themselves from glowingly dangerous (security wise but probably even financially dependencies.
Hopefully initiatives like NLNet are precisely trying to alleviate such challenges. Until them compatibility layers like Proton are showing the way with arguably some of the most complex and demanding in terms of performance software, namely games.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 5 weeks ago:
Minority Report, the bad parts.
- Comment on YSK that after leaving power, Margaret Thatcher became a lobbyist for tobacco companies 5 weeks ago:
2, 3 and 4 also are about politics.
- Comment on YSK that after leaving power, Margaret Thatcher became a lobbyist for tobacco companies 5 weeks ago:
I for one knew it and yet I enjoy, in a very tragic way, discovering that she was, actually, even worst than I thought.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 5 weeks ago:
I’m playing games at home. I’m running models at home (I linked in other similar answers to it) for benchmarking.
My point is that models are just like anything I bring into my home I try to only buy products that are manufactured properly. Someone else in this thread asked me about child labor for electronics and IMHO that was actually a good analogy. You here mention buying a microwave and that’s another good example.
Yes, if we do want to establish feedback in the supply chain, we must know how everything we rely on is made. It’s that simple.
There are already quite a few initiatives for that with e.g. coffee with Fair Trade Certification or ISO 14001, in electronics Fair Materials, etc.
The point being that there are already mechanisms for feedback in other fields and in ML there are already model cards with a
co2_eq_emissionsfield, so why couldn’t feedback also work in this field? - Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 5 weeks ago:
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Right, reminds me of the hacker mindset or more recently the workshop I did on “Future wheel foresight” with Karin Hannes. One can try their best to predict how an invention might be used but in practice it goes beyond what its inventors want it to be, it is truly about how what “it” does through actual usage.
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 5 weeks ago:
very very little actual logic
To be precise, 0.
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 5 weeks ago:
The business model IS dodging any kind of responsibility so… yeah, I think they’ll pass.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 5 weeks ago:
I agree and in fact I feel the same with AI.
Fundamental cryptocurrency is fascinating. It is mathematically sound, just like cryptography in general (computational complexity, one way functions, etc) and it had the theoretical potential to change existing political and economical structures. Unfortunately (arguably) the very foundation it is based on, namely mining for greed, brought a different community who inexorably modified not the technology itself but its usages. What was initially a potential infrastructure for exchange of value became a way to speculate, buy and sell goods and services banned, ransomware, scam payments, etc).
AI also is fascinating as a research fields. It asks deep question with complex answers. Research for centuries about it lead to not just interesting philosophical questions, like what it’s like to be think, to be human, and mathematics used in all walks of life, like in logistics for your parcel to get delivered this morning. Yet… gradually the field, or at least its commercialization, got captured by venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, regulators, who main interest was greed. This in turn changed what was until then open to something closed, something small to something required gigantic infrastructure capturing resources hitherto used for farming, polluting due to lack of proper permit for temporary electricity sources, etc. The pinnacle right now being regulation to ban regulation on AI in the US.
So… yes, technology itself can be fascinating, useful, even important and yet how we collectively, as a society, decide to use it remains what matters, the actual impact of an idea rather than its idealization.