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- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 1 day ago:
I get most of the tweet but not the “who would post this?” part.
Wouldn’t everybody post it?
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 2 days ago:
There is a Wikipedia article about what I mean. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 2 days ago:
The problem I have with this is that “anonymized” data in the past has often been trivial to de-anonymize. And if they can remove some promises now, they’re going to keep going in that direction. Just like Microsoft telemetry used to be less but is getting worse and worse.
- Comment on Github scam investigation: Thousands of "mods" and "cracks" stealing your data 2 days ago:
Yeah it’s difficult how to know which mods are trustworthy
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 2 days ago:
Iirc it started its life that way but Mozilla abandoned it and the community picked it up
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- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 5 days ago:
:/
- Comment on Google Calendar Malware Is on the Rise. Here’s How To Stay Safe 6 days ago:
Basically calendar invites can have links and those links can be malicious.
Make sure your browser is updated, don’t click strange links, and be careful where you give your private information.
- Comment on The Generative AI Con. 6 days ago:
Basically the LLM may make people’s jobs easier, for instance someone can get a meeting summary with less effort, but they produce worse results if you consider everyone affected by the work product, like considering whose views are underrepresented in the summary. Or, if you’re using it to categorize text, you can’t find out why it is producing incorrect results and improve it the way you could with other machine learning techniques. I think Emily Bender can do a better job explaining it than I can:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ul_bGiUH4M&t=36m35s
check out the part where she talks about the problems with relying on LLMs to generate meeting summaries and with using it to clarify customer support calls as “resolved” or “not resolved”. I tried to get close to that second part since the video is long.
- Comment on The Generative AI Con. 6 days ago:
Yes I think it’s a good option for spell check, or for detecting when the word it sees seems unlikely given the context.
For things where it’s generating text, or categorizing things, It might be the easiest option. Or currently the cheapest option. But I don’t think it’s the best option if you consider everyone involved.
- Comment on The Generative AI Con. 6 days ago:
But is it worth the cost, and is it the best option? Everyone knows that the generative models are heavily subsidized by VC.
You could have other kinds of language processing and machine learning do document discovery better.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
I remember this being true almost as soon as smart phones and QR codes were invented. There were so many things you just couldn’t do as easily if you didn’t have one. Even in 2006.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
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- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
Plenty of developers use Linux every day – the problem is it’s not a viable choice for users because of anti - competitive practices by Google and Apple and probably others
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
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- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
Does the supermarket sell the data, or use it for their own purposes
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
They know that a lot of people would rather have it work a little better by getting an app, if they keep reminding people it’s an option.
Even if “better” is just lack of nags.
It’s sad. We need a digital privacy law so that an app can’t be more invasive than the website.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
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- Comment on smort 1 week ago:
Dear reader, it was Steven Hawking who really said that, not Albert Einstein.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 1 week ago:
It’s like they want people to use npp instead
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 1 week ago:
One thing I did recently was search mastodon for some “normal” topics like fashion and yoga, but I didn’t find much.
The nice thing about Mastodon and ActivityPub is that they’re designed for the long run, and don’t need profits to be successful. So they can have slow growth year over year and still survive and slowly build up a user base that gradually adds more and more topics to attract more people.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 1 week ago:
They have a pattern of trying something and seeing how far they can get. Then they’ll say it was an oversight or a joke.
Someone recently called it similar to “reconnaissance in force” by the military – you go out with an uncommitted force and learn from the kind of resistance you get so you can be more effective.
The point is “mistakes” like these are not benign, or at least should not be treated as benign, since we can’t ever really know for sure.
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 1 week ago:
This is not the same thing, as the other comment explains.
- Comment on boo! 1 week ago:
And what does it eat? What teeth does it have
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 1 week ago:
Why does it do this?
- Math operations in JavaScript may report slightly different values than regular.
PS grateful for this option!
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 1 week ago:
The joke comes from the infinite hotel paradox, which is from a property of infinities that you can always add to them and they’re still infinity. This leads to a paradox where if you have an infinite hotel room with no vacancies, every single room in the infinity is full, as a given. But if everybody moved over one room, there would be an empty room in position 1.
The punchline is that in real life if you asked every guest to move over 1, they wouldn’t want to, and some would be big babies for some reason.
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower’s deemed suicide 2 weeks ago:
Yes he did
- Comment on Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon 2 weeks ago:
Will be one major barrier removed. I hope people will like these safer quote toots
- Comment on Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon 2 weeks ago:
True but also slightly more friction to get back to the original account – have to search them instead of just click
- Comment on “This was CS50”: Yale ends largest computer science course 2 weeks ago:
This gives some hope. One thing I liked was the class updated each year. In the 2015 class, David Malan tore a phone book in half as a demonstration of search algorithms, but moved on after phone books became a distant memory.
While Yale shifts to more specialized computer science introductory courses, David Malan, who teaches CS50 at Harvard, will focus on a new partnership with the University of Oxford. However, Malan looks back on his partnership with Yale as a “perfect proof of concept” that higher education can be more collaborative.