Alphane_Moon
@Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.
- Comment on What is happening to Lemmy instances? 59 minutes ago:
minnix.dev seems to have been abandoned:
!sbcs@lemux.minnix.dev
Admin hasn’t posted in 5 months and images aren’t working for me.
Got to admit, this is extremely annoying with the threadiverse, especially in context of people pushing for decentralization too much.
I am all for decntralization, but you need a functional, long-term foundation first.
- Comment on Kratsios: NIST needs ‘to go back to basics’ on standards for AI, not safety evaluation 2 hours ago:
Violence and historical conceptions of servitude aren’t the only way to violate rights. Rejection of externalities does not require violence or servitude; yet it is arguably a fundamental aspect of libertarianism.
I don’t mean specific instructions, I am talking about philosophical perspectives too. Perfect freedom of association does not exist in a universe (reality) with externalities.
No it’s not and it isn’t. Very easy to call it that now, when the oligarchs themselves “confirm” it, but 10 years ago oligarchs themselves just loved liberal democracies with left traits, because those made laws convenient for them. Your memory seems a bit short.
I would disagree, be it in the American context or in other countries. In other countries, oligarchs don’t bother since libertarian polemics aren’t the best tool for the job. I lived in the US under Bush and Obama, I can’t say that US oligarchs from the time “just loved liberal democracies with left traits”.
“It’s a war,” Schwarzman, [chairman and cofounder of the Blackstone Group], said of the struggle with the administration over increasing taxes on private-equity firms. “It’s like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.”
Some other examples come to mind (no web searches, just going from memory).
Yes, it doesn’t, but the closer the better usually. Nobody claims it does. Nobody relies upon that.
While on a general level, I agree that “the closer the better”, individuals who associate with libertarianism almost universally reject personal responsibility by leveraging polemics about “free” association.
Even casually opening the Cato website (did it as an experiment), reveals a clear disregard for reality and tons of open corporate propaganda. Demagoguery; undeniably pre-meditated dishonesty.
- Comment on Kratsios: NIST needs ‘to go back to basics’ on standards for AI, not safety evaluation 7 hours ago:
Can’t speak for Khemer Rouge, but I agree that oligarchy is not some sort of isolated element and it is a reflection of challenges within a society.
The theory of liberaterianism sounds good on paper, but it does not reflect reality. The reality is that it is an oligarch ideology aimed at providing polemical cover to corruption and criminality.
Perfect freedom of association does not exist in reality. There are informational asymmetries, externalities, natural monopolies (makes no sense two build two set of water pipes to a house) and whole host of other issues.
It’s like with communism, good in theory, but the individuals who went about implementing it all turned out to be brutal and authoritarian.
From my perspective, it’s the same with libertarianism. Lots of pompous musing about freedom, but when it comes down it, it’s just a type of brand of polemics favoured by the American oligarch regime.
The Cato institute solved the problems of externalities? Wow, this is news to me! How did they do it?
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- Comment on Kratsios: NIST needs ‘to go back to basics’ on standards for AI, not safety evaluation 12 hours ago:
I would argue that’s part of the (unfortunate) effectiveness of libertarianism as an oligarch polemic.
- Comment on Kratsios: NIST needs ‘to go back to basics’ on standards for AI, not safety evaluation 14 hours ago:
From the perspective of a foreigner who has lived in the US, libertarianism is very much a scheme created by local oligarchs.
Americans think they are special and it’s only in other countries that people can fall for propaganda and schemes.
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- Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month 2 days ago:
For sure, I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.
- Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month 2 days ago:
There is definitely a lot of truth in this.
If gamers were more critical about with their purchases, we would have a very different gaming industry.
- Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month 2 days ago:
If the focus was on more competitive markets (in the real sense, not PR) and we had less corruption, Nintendo copyrights would already begin to expire.
This way Nintendo could make it’s own game and it’s own console and others could try out their own concepts.
- Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month 2 days ago:
Nintendo was never really a thing where I live (other than late NES clones and occasional Gameboys back in the day).
With Nintendo’s pricing policy and focus on rehashing the same properties, it’s doubtful Nintendo will ever be a thing.
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- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 4 days ago:
Relying on American companies is a liability in of itself.
While there is corruption everywhere and on a standardized basis, there are of course countries with higher levels of corruption, the US is the #1 source of corruption and criminality in the world. Additionally it’s the ideological centre for global oligarch/criminal gangs.
Microsoft’s monopoly in Windows and Office alone results in extraction of hundreds of billions of dollars from companies and individuals all around the world.
- Comment on Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews 4 days ago:
Wasn’t a thing when I lived there, but that was pre-COVID. ))
We don’t have this with the delivery services (Glovo, Bolt, Uber Eats).
- Comment on Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews 4 days ago:
payments for user-submitted photos.
Didn’t know this was thing. Is this US-specific?
- Comment on Juggalos Not Happy as Insane Clown Posse Releases AI-Generated Video 4 days ago:
ICP has a podcast?
Man, what is the world coming to?
- Comment on Someone who claims to have scraped public listening data from a number of public figures — politicians, celebrities, journalists — spun up their alleged playlists and made it into a site 4 days ago:
It makes sense that you would have a lot of IDM style tracks for a playlist called “writing music”.
- Comment on Meta touts 'superintelligence' for all as it splurges on AI 4 days ago:
Theregister is a top notch technology news source. I don’t work in enterprise IT and I find their enterprise coverage very insightful both from a business and a tech perspective.
The irreverent and playful attitude is the cherry on top. :)
- Comment on Police in German state to use controversial software by Palantir | dpa international 5 days ago:
“strategic autonomy”
- Comment on I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden 6 days ago:
Wow, this sounds like a terrible UX.
- Comment on GoFundMe Must Stop Blocking Lifesaving Fundraising Campaigns to Gaza 6 days ago:
OK? What’s that got to do with what I said?
I said your “Monero for Gaza!” is a fucking stupid idea. And you almost certainly don’t care about Gaza and your are just trying to find marks to potentially increase the value of your bags.
You’re not going to admit this, but we both know it’s true.
Why play dumb and act as if this is my first time on the internet?
- Comment on GoFundMe Must Stop Blocking Lifesaving Fundraising Campaigns to Gaza 6 days ago:
Where I did mention asking permission from GoFundMe?
“Unstoppable digital cash”
Don’t play dumb my man. Don’t pretend you’re incapable of understanding why your “Monero to Gaza!” is an extremely stupid idea.
Honestly, I got to screenshot this, “Monero for Gaza!” is sort of funny in a black comedy kind of way.
- Comment on GoFundMe Must Stop Blocking Lifesaving Fundraising Campaigns to Gaza 6 days ago:
Lol.
This is the kind stuff that makes me sceptical about the intentions of public crypto promoters.
- Comment on Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears 1 week ago:
I use LLMs as a complement to search and Luma is far worse than even Le Chat from Mistral for moderately complex prompts.
Luma is also notable slower (to an unacceptable level).
I would they rather they focused on existing services. I use their email services and it’s pretty good. Based on reviews, it seems that their cloud storage offering isn’t on that level.
- Comment on Scam recovery hack and spy 1 week ago:
clear debt and mortgage
What don’t you do? You’re like a genie.
“Make dick long and thick” not on your ahitty list?
- Comment on Lemmy has a problem 1 week ago:
Agreed on both counts! :)
- Comment on Lemmy has a problem 1 week ago:
If you have 10,000+ users that are a representative sample of all internet users (or pretty close), your estimates should be pretty good for popular sites.
Your sample might still be small for lemmy.ml.
- Comment on Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears 1 week ago:
I don’t think they can make a direct competitor. An LLM is expensive to run and getting a good LLM model requires lots of spend.
I like the idea of a private cloud LLM, but based on my experience with Mistral (an EU based LLM service), it is noticeably less useful than ChatGPT and especially Gemini for work use cases.
Bases on some basic test prompts (related to finding sources and documents related to specific parts of government budgets in different countries all around the world), Lumo did not perform well. Only some general suggestions for sources were provided.
It would be great to see Lumo improve, but I have my doubts.
- Comment on Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears 1 week ago:
I don’t believe they will be able to compete with Google/OpenAI in a direct battle by having a 1:1 LLM product copy but with privacy. The costs are likely too high for an organisation like Proton and their LLM is likely to have significantly subpar output.
Don’t get me wrong, I am all for a private, cloud LLM, but I would rather they came up with novel usbaility features, a better front-end for evaluating sources (and faster identification of errors and hallucinations) and so on.
I am not seeing any of that.
- Comment on Simplifying Crypto Parties 1 week ago:
Ah, Ok!
Thanks for the clarification!