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- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 1 day ago:
- Comment on AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer 1 day ago:
Public articles like this will likely be used to train future models, and end up crushing their self-confidence.
You do you, little LLM. Here, have a cookie.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 day ago:
There’s a difference between ‘repairable’ and ‘upgradable.’ Most of the comments seem to conflate the two. Lenovo isn’t doing a Framework.
It’s a smart move. Differentiates them from other laptop-makers for corporate IT, who can do the parts swaps themselves. Also smart is associating the brand with iFixit and working to get a 10/10. That’ll be what sets them apart from all the others, at least for the next year or two.
- Comment on How we are brought into this world 2 days ago:
Ah, pregnancy… when internal organs migrate to the arms.
- Comment on OpenAI Is Developing an Alternative To GitHub 2 days ago:
Was self-hosting gitlab or foregejo not an option?
- Comment on MCP's disregard for 40 years of RPC best practices 3 days ago:
MCPs could learn a thing or two from the failures of ActiveX.
Will they?
No…
- Comment on Developer claims to have built an autonomous AI system that can earn money, pay for its own computing, improve its tools, and even copy itself without human approval 3 days ago:
Web4? Seriously?
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- Comment on I was all set but then saw the sign and moved over one to the left 4 days ago:
There’s a reason that sign is there.
- Comment on Peer review my foot 5 days ago:
You said “two of the three reviewers found substantive deficiencies in rationale, design, validation of results, interpretation, and presentation.”
So… what is left?
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- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 6 days ago:
These are all the Least Worst solutions. I humbly disagree.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
When LLMs first came out, I asked them a few fun logic puzzles. The kind that Martin Gardner used to publish in Scientific American.
Got total gibberish answers. A while later, tried again. This time, perfect word-for-word responses. Had LLMs become sentient and developed logic? Turned out they had found all the old Scientific American back issues to train on.
Guessing the same is going on with the carwash question. The more posts come out about it, the more likely the LLM responses will get closer to publisher answers.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
- Comment on An android, a space cowboy, a smuggler and an idiot walk into a bar... 1 week ago:
- Comment on Nvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece 1 week ago:
Question is, how long before it makes it to the next DGX Spark? Some people don’t have $10B to burn.
- Comment on Malaka, philosophy is the deadlift of the mind 1 week ago:
370 BC?
The beards need to be way more fierce.
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 1 week ago:
- Comment on You know you wanna 1 week ago:
Remember, every time there is a cautionary, public sign, it’s likely because more than one person (and likely more) did what the sign said you should NOT do.
Nobody puts up a sign as a theoretical deterrent. It happened.
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Been there, done that.
- Comment on Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs 1 week ago:
Japanese-designed TV has fallen way behind South Korea (LG, Samsung) on quality and features, and Chinese brands on price.
It’s too bad. Sony and Panasonic used to be fountains of innovation when it came to TV tech.
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 1 week ago:
- Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"opper.ai ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 271 comments
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- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
Deer: Urine Stick? 😳
- Comment on World’s Most Harvested Crops (2024) 1 week ago:
Gallagher’s fault.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 1 week ago:
I won’t repeat what I said in the sibling thread.
But I don’t see anywhere in this specific Colorado bill trying to restrict OS level features or go anywhere near open-source. As a parent, if I put little Timmy on Arch and give him root access, I don’t get to bitch about what they do online.
This is about a single signal (kid/no kid) at the user-auth level, without slurping up PII and shipping it off into the ether.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 1 week ago:
I’ll caveat this by saying IANAL. But the way I read Bill 26-051 is that it’s looking to implement “user age attestation” not “device or application” (WEI). Two separate things.
Age Attestation requires the OS (or really, the cloud service that implements account-level authorization) and come up with an “age signal.” It prohibits using third-party non-public data, and puts the burden on the OS for managing the Go/No Go process. No PII leaves the device.
The alternative is dystopian, poorly managed KYC/AML over-reaches. Under the guise of anti-fraud/anti-gambling, these will reach deep into our communal shorts. They could well soon require individual biometric verification (iris scans, face contour maps, fingerprints, etc). No, thanks.
WEI is a separate story. It’s trying to cut down on malicious apps and maybe stop individual sites doing browser fingerprinting. It can only work on systems with single-points of app installation (without side-loading) and devices already locked down with hardware TPMs. So far, that only covers iOS. All the other systems (Linux, Mac, Windows, and Android) let you install your own system-level code without having to go through the One Official appstore. And with WASM, the browser makes it all moot.
Personally, I think WEI is a total waste of time. Trying to squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube. But it’s solving a different problem than age verification.
Not to say the Colorado bill is perfect. There is a truck-sized app vs. website loophole in it, so kids can still access social media sites from the browser vs their phones. But the OS can offer an API that browsers can vend to websites without every site rolling their own crappy system. It also doesn’t account for a clever kid figuring out how to create a separate adult-appearing user account. Because of course, they will.
Saying it’s parental responsibility is unrealistic. I’ve helped folks set up Screentime, router-level filters, and even Circle (in-home ARP spoofing box, and mobile VPN + fine-grain URL filtering). There are ways around all of it. Besides, the kids can still get exposed to utter bilge via school-approved sites like Zoom, YouTube, or Google Drive. Let’s not even bother with messaging apps or in-game chat. This is all assuming parents have the time or knowledge to set things up and manage the filters.
We’re not trying to be over-controlling, stop the kids from dancing too close at the prom, or yuck their yum. But as parents, we do want to have some sort of say in what they’re exposed to online before their brains have the capacity to process them. The risk to their mental health is real, and just YOLOing it hasn’t worked out too well.
I’m sure there’s a lot of subtle behind-the-scenes stuff in the Colorado bill. I’ll wait to hear what EFF or Mike Masnick have to say about it. But as a techie, app developer, and parent, it reads like the least-worst way to keep a minor away from nasty crap without requiring every one of us to scan our faces and provide IDs to every rando website.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 1 week ago:
I’ve been a longtime mobile and web developer, have a teenage kid with a phone, and am a big privacy advocate (card-carrying member of ACLU and EFF). As a parent, I don’t want my kid exposed to cyber-bullying, toxic social media, or algorithmic bullshit.
And I will tell you this: the operating system is 100% where you want to do age verification.
I don’t want individual social media sites, dodgy third-party orgs, or government agencies scanning our faces or IDs. Under a family sharing plan, the OS already knows how old the kid is. Any site wanting to gate access can privately ask the OS if age > X without spilling their PII. Same concept as OAuth. An opaque, encrypted token indicating GO or NO-GO.
Raging that they shouldn’t do any of this is just idiotic. Unfettered access got us CSAM, kids getting radicalized, or bullied to the point of self-harm. Fuck that.
From a technical point of view, having OS-level verification is the least worst, and in my technical opinion, the best option.
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 2 weeks ago:
