hera

@hera@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still waiting for a day to use this word in real life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah wasn’t thinking anonymity, but keeping something running and making it hard to take down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  😂 I think I was tired

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like the kind of thing a defederated system would be good for…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you are doing a poor job of it and are bringing an unnecessary amount of heat to an otherwise civil discussion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha wtf are you talking about. You have no idea what generation I am, you don’t know how old I am and I never said there is nothing new under the sun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to think that one day somebody invented the first language, or made the first song?

  There was no “first language” and no “first song”. These things would have evolved from something that was not quite a full language, or not quite a full song.

  Animals influenced the first cave painters, that seems pretty obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No… There are a lot of radio shows that get scientists to speak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha coming in hot I see. Seems like I’ve touched a nerve. You don’t know anything about me or whether I’m creative in any way.

  All ideas have basis in something we have experienced or learned. There is no completely original idea. All music was influenced by something that came before it, all art by something the artist saw or experienced. This doesn’t make it bad and it doesn’t mean an AI could have done it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean what do I mean? You were the one that said about ideas in the first place…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am more talking about listening to and reading scientists in media. The definition of consciousness is vague at best

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What new idea exactly are you proposing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is always my point when it comes to this discussion. Scientists tend to get to the point of discussion where consciousness is brought up then start waving their hands and acting as if magic is real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Philosophers are so desperate for humans to be special. How is outputting things based on things it has learned any different to what humans do?

  We observe things, we learn things and when required we do or say things based on the things we observed and learned. That’s exactly what the AI is doing.

  I don’t think we have achieved “AGI” but I do think this argument is stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does good faith matter ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you can provide some context of what you mean? I assume it is very contextual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Love seeing open source projects from companies that aren’t specifically tech firms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m super interested in alternative browsers but never have the time to test them. I always wonder what the Internet would be like if we built it from scratch right now instead of having the legacy of 30 years of development to support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What browsers does it block?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stupidity knows no bounds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an old kindle and I love it. Does everything I need it to. Read books with a backlight, that’s it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same as wept

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Susie Dent mentioned on a radio 4 show that words that maintained the archaic -t ending are usually more commonly used words. Words that are used less lost their -t ending and gained a more generic -ed ending as people were not taught it and used the rule they knew. So words we have like slept, dreamt, smelt are regularly used words day to day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone might recognise your issue though and have suggestions, even if you can’t reproduce it exactly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems very odd, I’ve been using syncthing for a good 5 years and never had a single file corrupt - might be worth opening an issue on their github

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists '3D Print' Material Deep Inside The Body Using Ultrasound⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was the plan all along. Deposit the building materials for later use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Feel like we’ve been waiting a long time for it :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a very experienced python developer, I have tried using chatgpt for debugging and vibe coding multiple times and you just end up going in circles and never get to a working solution. It ends up being a lot faster just to do it yourself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Super interesting blog, also love that there are still some people blogging and it snot an insta post or YouTube video

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally can’t think of a scientific use case where lossy compression would be acceptable?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's first quantum microsatellite demonstrates secure communication with multiple ground stations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understood some of those words. Sounds like the future though