ThirdConsul
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- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 19 hours ago:
That is an interesting point of view. Very USA exceptional. It’s also dumbed down a lot. ARPANET is a computer network, but it’s not internet, nor it was the first. It kickstarted popularity of computer networks in the USA and provided first FTP and (I think) first remote login.
Popularity of computer networks in USA definitely was a formative quality over the 20 years of international development of the Internet.
But saying ARPANET was the internet is like saying black and white TV was Netflix.
First computer network to send packets to another computer was British NPL network. Then US government founded ARPANET, built upon that. Except that DARPA besides having own researchers outsourced to Stanford, BBN and University College of London (“How the Internet Came to Be”, quoting I forgot whom from DARPA).
Then French Cyclades computer network built upon ARPANET and proposed that multiple networks should be able to communicate with each other.
Then USA non-profit IEEE looked at all that proposed TCP/IP for cross-network communication, and that is the thing that (after many iterations over a decade) led to the Internet not being separate networks like AOL or Computerverse or whatever.
Now we’re getting closer to the internet and it’s time for en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_data_network
First was Spain with RETD , then France, then USA with Telenet. Then Canada. Then in 1978 we started connecting those separate networks. I think the first properly working project was …wikipedia.org/…/International_Packet_Switched_Se… between British post office and USA post office.
On those public data networks the Internet’s physical layer was built.
In USA U.S. National Science Foundation was founding more and more computer networks, including CSNET. That’s still not internet. It’s 1980 and it will take a decade of new inventions (Ethernet, LAN, DNS) and improvements & implementations (like to TCP/IP) before we will get the internet.
Here’s a nifty source for that decade, because I spent 50 minutes writing this post before I noticed I’m arguing with a guy over the internet about the internet.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet (there is a nice timeline list there).
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 day ago:
It is so complicated that you’re both correct and incorrect. US government added to it, yes. I’d argue the fundamental work was independent researchers from multiple countries (UK, USA, France). I’d argue the critical infrastructure was multiple non-profits.
Also the question is “what exactly is the beginning of the internet”. Is it usenet? Telnet? Arpanet?
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 2 days ago:
Same document, section about Shareholders.
There’s no such thing. There COULD be something like shareholders voting on smthing and those votes are binding, but the agenda is declared by the company and can be only shiet like dividends rate, certain acquisitions, etc. Not the company strategy itself.
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 3 days ago:
Technically they don’t - it’s a lie told often by CEO. But its a lie. law.stanford.edu/…/Fiduciary-Duties-of-the-Board-…
- Comment on Meta touts 'superintelligence' for all as it splurges on AI 1 week ago:
What is wrong with you?
þink ðat’s
The fuck is that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah… No
I’m not sure what you disagree with? Me blocking the thread to not see it on my page as per what previous commenter suggest? Or that I should’ve participated without reading the rules like you did?
I’m also not sure why are you calling people whiny dweebs or whom.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Just block the community or ask to be banned
Yup, that’s what I did. It leaves… bad taste in my mouth when it goes to my main page, the topic is interesting, I go to read it, and then I see someone silencing the participants with a very smug “You’re not a woman, so please kindly fuck off from here, flowers and smiles”.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 week ago:
- Comment on Makes sense to me 1 week ago:
imagine they controlled
I’ve read the study. They didn’t. N=183, all anonymous. In the study they played Halo 3, recorded voice over and measured the reactions (if any), and then correlated the few reactions they got with skill level.
Nothing is know about participants. The gamers gender was determined based on institute of my ass, out of 183 games there were no responses in almost half, and in the Introduction they admit what they’ll manipulate their result to prove.
Oh, and the data collected contains also female negative responses, they were removed from further processing because women good men bad.
Interestingly the female-negative raw data (examples picked by study authors in appendix 2)
“Yeah, stop stealing my kills, you little piece of shit.”
“Shut up, you removed. She’s a removed though.”
“Should’ve made me a sandwich, removed.
Vs male-negative:
“Freaking removed.”
“I liked your lag trick, jackass.”
“You suck dick.”
Could be my bias, but male-negative from data set sounds significantly less sexists than female-negative. Female negative more often is aggression related to gender, male negative is less personal.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 weeks ago:
Well, semantically yes, not all telemetry is spyware. However regarding Windows telemetry it’s indistinguishable from spyware - you have no idea nor control over the data gathered, measured and processed.
The crux is that Windows telemetry is opt out, opting out can’t be done during installation, and historically opting out wasn’t sticky. Additionally some Windows telemetry is still being sent despite opting out.
That makes Windows telemetry fulfill all spyware criteria.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 4 weeks ago:
Gets up to 700 degs
That’s a furnace. Aluminium melts at 700 degrees. Gold at 1000.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 4 weeks ago:
I’m an IT guy, if my printer made a noise I don’t recognise I’d shoot it.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 4 weeks ago:
Ever heard of Churchill and what he (and other British people) did in India? He starved millions to death. Look up Bengali famine.
- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 5 weeks ago:
Please don’t upvote this person, I think their a bot. The libs use AWS SDK internally and claim 90% performance boost, and the person explains it as faster development.
- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 5 weeks ago:
The point is not a few less milliseconds, it’s many hours of reduced development for people implementing DynamoDB
So you’re comparing claimed performance (execution) gains to development time? Yeah, that makes sense.
I think you’re a bot.
- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 5 weeks ago:
Thank you.
How did you check the performance though for the ORM? You claim it’s faster that AWS SDK, which literally impossible, as you are using AWS SDK to power it.
- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 5 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity, what do they do and did you use agentic approach or prompt and then copy?
- Comment on Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices 5 weeks ago:
Agreed but you can play only offline without missing on much
That’s such a bad take. Game companies are not allowed to have multiplayer that bypasses psn network.
The Sony and Nintendo have dominant positions in the game market for their consoles. The wallet garden must be breached for the consumer - why do you cate about company profits🙃
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 month ago:
This wikipedia article lists all different studies why. The short answer is patriarchy - men have more occasion to commit crimes and it’s more acceptable from gender role point of view for men to do so.
It also list studies of crimes and offenses where women are found to be more often perpetrators than men, including a very comprehensive guide to domestic violence studies.
To sum it up - your both correct, men do more bullshit, women have similar capacity for it, we are expected to express the bullshit differently.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 1 month ago:
Why are you pushing emotions at me? Don’t do it.
Even google’s Ai summary slop says that industry standard is 5-10 years, not 3.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 1 month ago:
takes about three years for a junior to grow into a senior.
We might have vastly different definitions what is a senior then, or you’re peaking at the Donner-Kebab curve.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 month ago:
Sorry, that was Claude 3.7, not ChatGPT 4o
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 month ago:
If you take s look at 4o leaked instruction (prompt that is “injected” at the begining of the chat), that model is clearly ordered HOW to solve this kind of problem lol
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 month ago:
Your though process is wrong. You need to backpedal it. One bad apple doesn’t mean we should burn the orchard. And you can perverse anything good into an abomination.
eat the rich
How you want to do that without unions? Dude, saying out loud
[I wonder] if any union is worth it if that’s the risk of what they could become.
Is not helping anyone.
Take an L and do better.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 month ago:
With that mindset, why bother living or leaving the bed? Imagine the worst day you could have, why risk it?
- Comment on How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ? 2 months ago:
My point is “summarizing over all of those” and “poisoning”.
Source of category 1 says cheese is made from XYZ and yellow
Source from category 2 confirms 1 in different words and adds that it has holes
Source from category 3 confirms 2 and adds that its blue, not yellow
Source 4 talks about blue cheese only
Poisoning would mean that in the summary cheese is yellow with blue holes.
- Comment on How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ? 2 months ago:
So scrapping “popular websites” plus “someone said this is a good source for topic X” plus wikipedia? And summarizing over them all? That sounds like a very bad idea, because it’s very fragile to poisoning?
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 2 months ago:
I stand corrected.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 2 months ago:
The AGI, by definition, will make something vastly better than diffusion model. That’s one of the cornerstones of AGI, it will explode it’s capabilities.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 2 months ago:
I think they did more - I vaguely remember them admitting they messed up the search result on purpose so the user will run more queries and will see even more ads.