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 Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded 4 days ago:
Hahaha, that’s a pretty wild read.
The fucking Gamaverse,
- Comment on Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded 5 days ago:
It all depends on what areas of technology interest you. Some context (e.g. in the body of the lemmy post) for more niche areas is always helpful.
- Comment on Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse 5 days ago:
Do you have any more info on this?
I use Mastadon pretty regularly and I feel like I somewhat know how it works, yet I read the Threads FAQ on federation and I have no clue what’s going on.
But yes, the ability to subscribe to “mainstream” accounts in Threads from mastadon servers (if they allow federation with Meta) would be a good feature.
- Comment on Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded 5 days ago:
Some context on what the fuck is rabbit and r1 would have been helpful.
- Comment on Taking a closer look at AI’s supposed energy apocalypse 5 days ago:
While a lot of the technical details are beyond my paygrade, this seems to be a potentially large game-changer in the medium term (with possibly a massive impact on Nvidia’s share price).
- Comment on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free 6 days ago:
The Wikipedia article is a good starting point if you wanted to actually get an alternative perspective.
But you don’t.
- Comment on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free 6 days ago:
Sure he had some shady connections, but all accusations of actual wrongdoing supposedly comitted by Assange himself were brought forward, sourced and verified by the same US authorities, that employed or protected the criminals he exposed, which makes them basically worthless.
Opposing the Lukashenko regime is being a criminal?
I get tankies and right-wingers, they actually know what Assange is about.
But allegedly well meaning people thinking that he is some sort messiah or saviour, that’s what’s sad.
He is a genuine supporter of russian imperialism and he has no qualms with sending opposition activists to hellish prisons, all the while positioning himself as some sort of fighter against US imperialism.
- Comment on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free 6 days ago:
You are the traitor for siding with the oppressor.
Right supporting Lukashenko’s regime is such a noble endeavour!
- Comment on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free 6 days ago:
@Zoldyck is not lying.
Look up Assange and his connection with Israel Shamir, who helped Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus target opposition activists.
This wasn’t a mistake, he knew what he was doing.
- Comment on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free 6 days ago:
He’ll be back to supporting russian imperialism and working with russian security services. Even more people will end up in russian concentration camps (where they have way worse than he did in British prison) because of his actions.
- Comment on Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack 6 days ago:
Funnily enough, I was hearing this from developers in the early 2010s when I was just starting my career (IT adjacent, but not a developer).
- Comment on Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack 6 days ago:
Representatives for developers of the remaining three plugins couldn’t be reached because they provided no contact information on their sites.
You’re asking for trouble is you’re using such random plugins on a production sites.
- Comment on Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds 1 week ago:
Thanks! Too bad it’s not more activity.
Outside of job searching, I can’t stand LinkedIn, the “content” and self-promotion you see there makes me want to become a committed misanthrope.
- Comment on Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds 1 week ago:
AI could categorize users by competency (i.e. how often they discuss specific topics and agree with some corpus), but I doubt it does that. It’s probably just taking posts at face value.
This is not being done though right? I haven’t heard anything about content ranking with connections outside of Google seemingly using authors name is articles from large news sources.
- Comment on Inside Netflix’s bet on advanced video encoding 1 week ago:
They are correct in that encoding is a super geeky topic even by the standards of technology discussions.
It is fascinating to see how encoding has changed across generation. Take a relatively high bitrate source file and encode it with XviD, x265, x265 and whatever is the top AV1 codec at the same bitrate x resolution.
Not surprisingly, the biggest jump in quality will be from XviD to x264, but x265 does offer notable improvements.
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- Comment on Self hosting is hard. How do you overcome? 1 week ago:
I had a pretty decent self-hosted setup that was working locally. The whole project failed because I couldn’t set up a reverse proxy with nginx.
I am no pro, very far from it, but I am also somewhat Ok with linux and technical research. I just couldn’t get nginx and reverse proxies working and it wasn’t clear where to ask for help.
- Comment on I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity 1 week ago:
It’s not that commonly used these days (especially online?), I think the phrasing is a bit old school, but it’s a totally legitimate phrase.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
183,200 TV episodes is pretty modest compared to alternative “non-approved” sources.
One datapoint is one source (that has a rule against any TV/show content released in the last 5 years) has a total number of 19.5K shows and TV movies/specials, with ~80 K releases. For many shows a single release can be a full season.
- Comment on Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company 1 week ago:
Unfortunately Terminator 2 is bit childish and naive in its script.
More realistically, these individuals will try and fly away with oligarch Peter Thiel to his end of the world bunker in New Zealand.
If in some fucked up reality this ever happens (IMO there are far more pressing problems in the world), I hope the New Zealanders will have a very long and unpleasant surprise in store for these individuals.
- Comment on Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company 1 week ago:
Thank you for the clarification regarding ASI. That still leaves the question of the definition of “safe ASI”; a key point that is emphasized in their manifesto.
To use your example it’s like an early mass market car industry professional (say in 1890) discussing road safety and ethical dilemmas in roads dominated by regular drivers and a large share of L4/L5 cars (with some of them being used as part-time taxis). I just don’t buy it.
Mind you I am not anti-ML/AI. I am an avid user of “AI” (ML?) upscaling (specifically video) and to lesser extent stable diffusion. While AI video upscaling is very fiddly and good results can be hard to get right, it is clearly on another level with respect to quality compared to “classical” upscaling algorithms. I was truly impressed when I was able to run by own SD upscale with good results.
What I am opposed to is oligarchs, oligarch-wanabees, shallow sounding proclamations of grandiose this or that. As far as I am concerned it’s all bullshit and they are all to one degree or another soulless ghouls that will eat your children alive for the right price and the correct mental excuse model (I am only partially exaggerating, happy to clarify if needed) .
If one has all these grand plans for safe ASI, concern for humanity and whatnot, setup a public repo and release all your code under GPL (and all relevant documentation, patent indemnification, no trademark tricks etc.). Considering Sutskever’s status as AI royalty who is also allegedly concerned about humanity, he would be the ideal person to pull this off.
If you can’t do that, then chances are you’re lying about your true motives. It’s really as simple as that.
- Comment on Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company 1 week ago:
Just noticed that the cropped image makes it look like he is doing a nazi salute and then the first sentence of their “manifesto” is “Superintelligence is within reach.” :)
- Comment on Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company 1 week ago:
I don’t consider tech company boardroom drama to be an indicator of anything (in of itself). This is not some complex dilemma around morality and “doing the right thing”.
Is my take on their PR copytext unreasonable? Is my interpretation purely a matter of subjectivity?
Why should I buy into this “AI god-mommy” and “skynet” stuff? Guy can’t even provide a definition of “superintelligence”. Seems very suspicious for a “top mind in AI” (paraphrasing your description).
Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying he acts like a movie antagonist IRL, but that doesn’t mean we have any reason to trust his motives or ignore the long history of similar proclamations.
- Comment on Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company 1 week ago:
What do you mean by anti-commercial style? I am not from North America, but this seems like pretty typical PR copytext for local tech companies. Lot’s of pomp, banality, bombast and vague assertions of caring about the world. It almost reads like satire at this point, like they’re trying to take the piss.
If his intentions are literal and clear, what does he mean by “superintelligence” (please be specific) and in what way is it safe?
- Comment on Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company 1 week ago:
This honestly looks like a grift to get a nice salary for a few years on VC money. These are not random sales goons peddling shit they don’t understand. They don’t even bother to define “superintelligence”, let alone what they mean by “safe superintelligence” .
I find it hard to believe this wasn’t written with malicious intent. But maybe I am too cynical and they are so used to people kissing their ass, that they think their shit doesn’t smell. But money definitely plays some role in this, they would be stupid to not cash in while the AI hype is hot.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity 1 week ago:
I don’t think it’s supposed to have a cohesive narrative structure (at least in context of a structured, more formal critique). I read the whole thing and it’s more like longer shitpost with a lot of snark.
- Comment on GenAI more buzz than biz as tech barely dents jobs 1 week ago:
Had a very similar experience in pretty niche-use cases. LLMs are great if you understand the what you are dealing with, but they are no magical automation tool (at least in somewhat niche, semi-technical use cases where seemingly small errors can have serious consequences).
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- Comment on The return of pneumatic tubes 1 week ago:
Yeah, I was curious what new use cases were being deployed; was disappointed not read about this in the article.
