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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(LLM) A language model built for the public good⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Large language models and "generative AI" such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DALL-E are all just machine learning models. We do not currently have a real "AI branch" of computer science, we have a branch of machine learning that poses as AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  five minutes later

  Grok: "Heil hitler!"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess this depends on things like location, soil type, and environmentally disruptive neighbours.

  I grew up in a Scandinavian forest with a well, no filtering needed. Sure, after heavy rainfall the water could end up containing a few more minerals than usual, but it would never require filtering, and the house has been standing for almost 40 years now without sediments building up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If they continue like this, their customers will be so fed up with them that they can lay off the entire customer-facing part of the company within a few years! Imagine how much money they can save once they don't have to deal with customers any more. Finally the AI innovation department will be able to focus fully on their work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(LLM) A language model built for the public good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I just find it to be a great rule of thumb. Those who understand what they are doing will be aware that they are not dealing with AI, those who jump to label it as such are usually bullshit artists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(LLM) A language model built for the public good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually when I see this it's using other machine learning approaches than LLM, and the researchers behind it are usually very careful not to use the term AI, as they are fully aware that this is not what they are doing.

  There's huge potential in machine learning, but LLMs are very little more than bullshit generators, and generative AI is theft producing soulless garbage. LLMs are widely employed because they look impressive, but for anything that requires substance machine learning methods that have been around for years tend to perform better.

  If you can identify cancer in x-rays using machine learning that's awesome, but that's very seperate from the AI hype machine that is currently running wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(LLM) A language model built for the public good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gigantic hater of all things LLM or "AI" here.

  The only genuine contribution I can think of that LLMs have made to society is their translation capabilities. So even I can see how a fully open source model with "multilingual fluency in over 1,000 languages" could be potentially useful.

  And even if it is all a scam, if this prevents people from sending money to China or the US as they are falling for the scam, I guess that's also a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the sense of multiple users in Android settings? That works, it can be enabled in settings -> system -> multiple users. I haven't tested it though, as I don't have any need for that.

  I use Microsoft Authenticator and Microsoft Outlook for work, and both work flawlessly with /e/OS. Thankfully I have not had any reason to test Teams, but I'm pretty sure that would work as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe /e/OS supports a broader range of devices, and it's also pretty great in my experience. The focus is on getting rid of google (replacing all services with MicroG and nextcloud integration) and blocking trackers while providing a smooth user experience, so it's security features are not as over the top as Graphene. It's still a huge freaking improvement over stock Android though, and I find it to be a joy to use.

  On devices supported by the online installer it can be up an running in like 30 minutes, no technical skills required. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it's based on software rather than hardware I think it's safe to assume it will be lost.

  You can reinstall some things (such as the default camera app) from apks you find online, and apps such as Google Maps can be downloaded from the app store (which contains all apps from the play store). But by default it strips away everything that is installed on the phone by default and replaces it with a degoogled ecosystem, and I don't think it differentiates between different devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pixel 6 is supported through a community port, but unfortunately it is not supported (yet?) by the online installer tool. So it's for people who are a bit more willing to get their hands dirty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you own a Fairphone (3-5), Pixel (4, 5, 7 or 8) Nothing phone (1) or OnePlus (7 or 8), it's super easy to install /e/OS using this online installer. Most android apps work well out of the box, but all Google stuff has been stripped away and replaced with MicroG where necessary.

  I'm never returning to Google anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For most jobs it's hard to do a hiring process without in-person interviews, or at the very least video calls. So I'm not really sure how one could realistically get rid of biases. But I completely agree that whenever there are too many applications to interview everyone individually, the initial screening of applicants should be completely anonymized and rely only only technologies where biases can at least be understood.

  For the final step I'm afraid we'll have to try to train people to be less prone to biased decision-making. Which I agree is not a very promising path.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It's not men against women, it's people against billionaires.

  It's not the fact that these people are men that I take issue with, it's that they are hypocrites trying to capitalize of feminist sentiments without making any actual effort towards real change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least where I'm from, it's pretty well know that the education system is better suited to girls than boys, probably because it needs a reform

  I didn't say it doesn't, clearly there's a problem when half the population is systematically favoured.

  To paraphrase: women can get pregnant and can't work and it's the man's fault

  Where the fuck did I say that it's the man's fault? It's a societal problem, doesn't mean it's anybody's fault.

  What I observe in society are a huge increase in the amount of advertising aimed at women with a feminist message because women are being programmed to flock to such messages

  I'm the first to criticize corporate feminism (just like greenwashing and pride washing), but I suspect feminist messaging appeals to women because they are sick of the patriarchy, not because they are programmed by marketing agencies. The fuck are you on about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least where I'm from it's pretty well known that girls outperform boys in school, probably because their brains develop slightly faster in some ways useful to perform in a class room.

  This could give women a head start and very well lead to them on average performing better in work life, until they are forced to choose between careers and families while they partners continue to advance their careers at full speed not worrying about being pregnant.

  But that's a different discussion. We should avoid biases in hiring because biases suck and make for an unjust society. And we should stop pretending language models make intelligent considerations about anything.

  What's fascinating here is that LLMs trained on the texts we produce create the opposite bias of what we observe in society, where men tend to get preferential treatment. My guess is that this is a consequence of inclusive language. In my writibg, whenever women are under-represented, I make a point out of defaulting to she and her rather than her and him. I know others do the same. I imagine this could feed into LLMs. Whatever it is that causes this, it sure as fuck isn't anything actually intelligent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the AI considered

  Sorry to break it to you, but the "AI" does not "consider" anything. They are talking about a language prediction model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  European legal systems are largely built around the idea that courts are apolitical, and that judges make their decisions neutrally based on the word of the law and the facts of the case.

  This is of course impossible, but some people—especially judges themselves—are afraid that the system would collapse if the public learned how political the work of courts really is. So when France started publishing all the judgments of their courts to the public, they also forbade the public from studying individual judges.

  It's pretty funky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, studying the performance of individual judges is criminalized in France, so we have very limited ability to know about their individual performance. :)

  It's a huge lie that judges are neutral, but some argue it's a necessary lie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then again it seems battery life is a lot better this time around, so this should ideally be less necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "Creators led this revolution"

  The same way cows lead a slaughterhouse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that would be most people these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tens of thousands join anti-government protest in Madrid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They have powerful (and generous) international allies these days. No wonder they feel empowered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could also be two separate things? I have a) dumped Windows and b) installed Lineage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We're outsourcing thinking to a bullshit generator controlled by mostly American mega-corporations who have repeatedly demonstrated that they want to do us harm, burning through scarce resources and rendering creative humans robbed and unemployed in the process.

  What's not to hate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE targets Windows 10 'exiles' claiming 'your computer is toast'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is 2025, and the KDE project is still using the glory of the desktop cube to appeal to Windows users.

  The desktop cube has been our single most powerful tool on the path to world domination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not strictly a scam, but there's a little money to be made creating viral content on Facebook. They receive a tiny portion of the ad revenue from Facebook when they generate engagement.

  It's just Facebook sucking really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A rule of thumb for weirdness in age difference is age/2+7, leaving you at 51/2+7=32,5. So going by that, 30 is a bit on the young side, which is obvious also from the fact that you felt the need to create this thread.

  If one person would be in a position to judge you for it (or rightfully feel weird about it) it's your daughter. It's safe to say she seems cool with it, so whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Users report that clicking the Start button can spike CPU usage by 30% to 70% on at least one core, depending on the hardware configuration.

  Good grief. And that's coming from a GNOME user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Copilot Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm sure you could have a fruitful conversation with the crowd insisting it was written by AI. :)