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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. – Hannah Arendt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Be careful of printers with chipped toner though. Older models still rock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or as Dijkstra puts it: “asking whether a machine can think is as dumb as asking if a submarine can swim”.

  Alan Turing puts it similarly, the question is nonsense. However, if you define “machine” and “thinking”, and redefine the question to mean: is machine thinking differentiable from human thinking; you can answer affirmatively, theoretically (rough paraphrasing). Though the current evidence suggests otherwise (e.g. AI learning from other AI drifts toward nonsense).

  For more, see: Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and Turing’s original paper (which goes into the Imitation Game).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet use AI (possibly) to determine users’ AI answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s extend this thought experiment a little. Consider just forum posts; the numbers will be somewhat similar for articles and other writings, as well as photos and videos.

  A bot creates how many more posts than a human? Being (ridiculously) conservative, we’ll say 10x more.

  On day one: 10 humans are posting (for simplicity’s sake) 10 times a day, totaling 100 posts. Bot is posting 100 a day. For a total of 200 human and bot posts; 50% of which are the bot.

  In your (extended) example, at the end of a year: 10 humans are still posting 100 times a day. The 10 bots are posting a total of 1000 times a day. Bots are at 90%, humans 10%.

  This statistic can lead you to think human participation in the Internet is difficult to find.

  Returning to reality, consider how inhuman AI bots are, with each probably able to outpost humans by millions or billions of times under millions of aliases each. If you find search engines, articles, forums, reviews, and such are bonkers now, just wait a few years. Predicting general chaotic nonsense for the Internet is a rational conclusion, with very few islands of humanity. Unless bots are stopped.

  Right now though, bots are increasing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As to how rationales go, this is the clearest.

  I hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owners of a domain, which domain registrar did you choose and why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After a bit of research, I’m forced by facts (NS records can be cached for an undetermined time) to see what you’re saying. Thank you for teaching me.

  The workings are, of course, a bit more complicated than what either of us have said (here’s a taste), but there is a situation as you describe, where separating the registrar from the name servers, and the name servers from the domain, could save the domain from going down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owners of a domain, which domain registrar did you choose and why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If a registrar goes out of business, ICANN transfers the domain(s) to another registrar.

  If a name server business fails, you change name servers through your registrar.

  You can’t really fix registrar services in your name server, nor name server problems through your registrar. (Unless, of course, your registrar is also your name server.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oregon Passes 'Right to Repair' Law With Extra Cojones: Oregon’s “right to repair” bill, which now only needs the governor’s signature before it becomes law, has teeth not found in similar legislation⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, say, slow down an older phone so one has to buy a new faster phone? Source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oregon Passes 'Right to Repair' Law With Extra Cojones: Oregon’s “right to repair” bill, which now only needs the governor’s signature before it becomes law, has teeth not found in similar legislation⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A registration system where only registered parts are allowed, so no clean room (software engineering) third-party manufacturing? Every single part has to be registered with the original device manufacturer? This seems like a detour around right to repair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2016, HDDs were more reliable (MTBF).

  In 2022, for the first 5 years, SSDs are looking more reliable. With more of a constant failure rate (1%/yr), than the increasing failure rate of HDDs after 5 years.

  (Caveat: not just bit rot, but general failure data.)