hendrik
@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
- Comment on AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence. 2 hours ago:
Yes. Plus the turing machine has like an infinite memory tape to write and read. Something that is in scope of mathematics, but we don't have any infinite tapes in reality. That's why we call it a mathematical model (imaginary) and not a real machine.
- Comment on Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it 8 hours ago:
Sure. I think you're right. I myself want an AI maid loading the dishwasher and doing the laundry and dusting the shelves. A robot vacuum is nice, but that's just a tiny amount of the tedious every-day chores. Plus an AI assistant on my computer, cleaning up the harddrive, sorting my gigabytes of photos...
And I don't think we're there yet. It's maybe the right amount of billions of dollars to pump into that hype if we anticipate all of this happening. But for a lame assistant that can answer questions and get the facts right 90% of the times, and whose attempts to 'improve' my emails are contraproductive lots of the times, isn't really that helpful to me.
And with that it's just an overinflated bubble that is based on expectations, not actual usefulness or yield of the current state of technology.
- Comment on Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it 10 hours ago:
At the current state of things, AI just feels like being forced on people. There isn't much transparency and a lot happens without people's consent. Training data is taken without consent, and they display AI-written text, often riddled with msinformation to me withoit being upfront. I also stop reading most of the times, unless there is a comment section beneath for me to complain 😉
- Comment on Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it 10 hours ago:
Uh. What do they say to an AI shill, rewriting their social system with AI code? Or a president writing the countries economic strategy with AI? I also believe that's going to have... consequences...
- Comment on AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence. 18 hours ago:
It's a long article. But I'm not sure about the claims. Will we get more efficient computers that work like a brain? I'd say that's scifi. Will we get artificial general intelligence? Current LLMs don't look like they're able to fully achieve that. And how would AI continuously learn? That's an entirely unsolved problem at the scale of LLMs. And if we ask if computer science is science... Why compare it to engineering? I found it's much more aligned with maths at university level...
I'm not sure. I didn't read the entire essay. It sounds to me like it isn't really based on reality. But LLMs are certainly challenging our definition of intelligence.
- Comment on The Growing Number of Tech Companies Getting Cancelled for AI Washing 2 days ago:
Yea, I dunno. Seems investors like buzzwords more than anything else. I'm not really keeping track, but I remember all the crypto hype and then NFTs. I believe that has toned down a bit.
- Comment on The Growing Number of Tech Companies Getting Cancelled for AI Washing 2 days ago:
I think the mechanism behind that is fairly simple. AI is a massive hype, and companies could attract lots of investor money by slapping the word "AI" on things. And group dynamics makes the rest of the companies to want in, too.
- Comment on Open-Source is Just That 2 days ago:
Yeah, seeking support is notoriously difficult. Everyone working in IT knows this. I feel with open-source, it's more the projects which aren't in a classic Free Software domain, who attract beggars. For example the atmosphere of a Github page of a Linux tool will have a completely different atmosphere than a fancy AI tool or addon to some consumer device. I see a lot of spam there and demanding tone. While with a lot of more niche projects, people are patient, ask good questions and in return the devs are nice. And people use the thumbsup emoji instead of pinging everyone with a comment...
I feel, though... I you're part of an open source project which doesn't welcome contributions and doesn't want to discuss arbitrary user needs and wants, you should make that clear. I mean Free Software is kind of the default in some domains. If you don't want that as a developer, just add a paragraph of text somewhere prominently, detailing how questions and requests are or aren't welcome. I as a user can't always tell if discussing my questions is a welcome thing and whether this software is supposed to cater for my needs. Unless the project tells me somehow. That also doesn't help with the beggars... But it will help people like me not to waste everyone's time.
- Comment on Car sun visor with built-in navigation 3 days ago:
I've also printed a few thingies for the car and my experience is, PLA deforms on the first hot day and you can throw it out. PETG lasted 2-3 years for me until it became brittle and broke.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 5 days ago:
There are no tags as of now. Everyone is running the main branch from Git. I suppose that's going to change at some point when PieFed deems itself ready.
- Comment on Encrypting data on local servers? 1 week ago:
I'd go with the Full Disk Encryption. You can be sure everything is encrypted that way. Any additional complexity adds ways to mess up and compromise security. Entering the password is a bit cumbersome. But that's part of the deal. I just carry my computer keyboard to my NAS and enter the password each time I need to reboot. Which doesn't happen that often. There also used to be some tutorial somewhere on how to put an SSH server into the initrd so you can enter the password over network.
- Comment on Will big tech be caught in the crossfire of trade war? 1 week ago:
Btw, I think a great thing would be tariffs, or more taxes on private data. Make companies pay for hoarding them and for exporting them into ither countries.
- Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use? 1 week ago:
inwx.de
- Comment on Multiple Lemmy Accounts? 4 weeks ago:
I think it's a waste of time. It doesn't really add anything. If you don't want to lose your subscription in the unlikely event that your server/instance goes down forever, just use the export feature to make occasional backups. You can always create a new account after something happened. No need to invest that time otherwise.
You're free to use sockpuppets though. Or if you're moderating stuff or on instances/communities who don't federate (if that's even a thing).
- Comment on Is it possible or is there a guide on how to revamp this forgotten TV box (Arris VIP4302) into a home server? 4 weeks ago:
Well, it's a mass-produced, embedded device, designed to do one specific task. I guess lots of the video related stuff is assisted by hardware and they usually strip down the embedded Linux to the minimum needed. Because every Megabyte of storage costs extra and they need to hit some 99,- or 89,- price point. Furthermore, they don't want it to boot for 20 seconds, so these devices generally don't contain any extras. Similar things happen on wifi routers, the ones below $100 usually contain similar amounts of memory (or less). At least the last time I bought one.
- Comment on Is it possible or is there a guide on how to revamp this forgotten TV box (Arris VIP4302) into a home server? 4 weeks ago:
Google the product name and Linux. If nothing turns up, you need to find the name of the SoC / processor and google that. Find out if it's supported by Linux and what other people did to install Linux. You might need additional hardware though, like a serial or JTAG adapter and a soldering iron. And I must warn you, that thing has 1 GB of RAM and 256MB(!) of flash storage. You won't be able to do much with those specs.
- Comment on What if we called instances providers? 4 weeks ago:
Sure, go ahead. Technically it's not 100% correct. I mean lemm.ee wouldn't be your provider, it'd be the people operating the server who provide the service to you... But I think it's close enough. Only issue I can see is the term "provider" usually being used with commercial services. Like a cellphone provider or ISP. So I'm not sure if people start to think this costs $10 a month or something and is run by for-profit businesses... But we also use the word "provider" fir free things, so I'm not entirely sure about that.
- Comment on CalDAV Server Without Exposing Server? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is there any counter AI bots in the fediverse 4 weeks ago:
I often recommend Mistral-Nemo-Instruct I think that one strikes a good balance. But be careful with it, it's not censored. So given the right prompt, it might yell at people, talk about reproductive organs etc. All in all it's a job that takes some effort. You need a good model, come up with a good prompt. Maybe also give it a persona. And the entire framework to feed in the content, make decisions what to respond to. And if you want to do it right, and additional framework for safety and monitoring. I think that's the usual things for an AI bot.
- Comment on Apple reveals M3 Ultra, taking Apple silicon to a new extreme 4 weeks ago:
Is memory that small, connected externally, or does that SoC just end up in a large package, whith that much RAM on it?
- Comment on Is there any counter AI bots in the fediverse 4 weeks ago:
What kind of models are you planning to use? Some of the LLMs you run yourself? Or the usual ChatGPT/Grok/Claude?
- Comment on Is there any counter AI bots in the fediverse 5 weeks ago:
It is like I said. People on platforms like Reddit complain a lot about bots. This platform is kind of supposedto be the better version of that. Hence nit about the same negative dynamics. And I can still tell ChatGPT's uniquie style and a human apart. And once you go into detail, you'll notice the quirks or the intelligence of your conversational partner.
- Comment on Is there any counter AI bots in the fediverse 5 weeks ago:
I really don't think this place is about bot warfare. Usually our system works well. I've met one person who used ChatGPT as a form of experiment on us, and I talked a bit to them. Most people come here to talk or share the daily news or argue politics. Wit the regular Linux question in between. It's mostly genuine. Occasionally I have to remind someone to tick the correct boxes, mostly for nsfw, because the bot owners generally behave and set this correctly.
- Comment on fedi 4chan? 5 weeks ago:
I think there is quite some overlap with Lemmy. You can do images and threads here. And they even show up in a tree-like structure. I'm not sure about ephermal, I don't think Lemmy is as advanced. But other Fedi software have ephemeral posts.
- Comment on Is there any counter AI bots in the fediverse 5 weeks ago:
Lemmy and Fediverse software have a box to tick in the profile settings. That shows an account is a bot. And other people can then choose to filter them out or read the stuff.
- Comment on Choosing a second drive for my home server 5 weeks ago:
SATA is more reliable than USB. And SSDs are faster, but more expensive than a harddrive. In the end all of this is possible. You need to see how much space you need and what you can afford. Unless you need it to be quiet/silent or super fast, a regular harddrive might do.
- Comment on People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now 5 weeks ago:
And with machine code, you got to keep track of what's in the stack, CPU registers, ... to make a sense of what the code and the next branch command does. It's completely unalike processing human language. LLMs aren't really set up to do it.
- Comment on Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head! 5 weeks ago:
I'd say if it's as power hungry as people say, it'd maybe make a good on-demand backup solution. Install some NAS distribution and power it on once a month, make backups of your *arred collection and your laptop/workstation and shut it off again.
- Comment on Fedi-plays live stream 5 weeks ago:
He's stuck 🙁
- Comment on The UK Government Just Made Everyone Less Safe As Apple Shuts Down iCloud Encryption 1 month ago:
What kind of influence are you referring to? On how the internet gets shaped in the future? Or society and politics, or as part of the Five Eyes?