skisnow
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- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 12 hours ago:
I suspect the world would be safer if everyone just let Trump think he won.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 13 hours ago:
Yeah for sure. Every Apple device I’ve had has been well built. Every interaction I’ve had with Apple Incorporated as a company has been a dystopian nightmare, and with the walled garden it’s not possible to separate the product from the company. Therefore, it’s a bad product.
- Comment on The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead' 1 day ago:
: goes to sign
: scrolls countries list
: no ‘United Kingdom’ option
: remembers
: sadface
- Comment on HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK 3 days ago:
those who haven’t watched much
I mean… I think I know what you’re trying to say, but this seems to imply that you think someone who doesn’t like a show should just carry on watching it anyway
- Comment on See where your tax dollars go 6 days ago:
That is such a weird fucking thing to say on every level.
These people really do just assume that everyone is as awful a human being as they themselves are.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 1 week ago:
The Top Gear Reliant Robin launch reached 3000ft / 900m, although they were unable to stick the landing.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 week ago:
Yeah, it was never not going to happen. Shareholders demand unending year-on-year growth at all costs, forever, until everything is shit.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 week ago:
The problem when it comes to the current situation in the US, is that these protests already came baked in to the Project 2025 plan from the start.
They’re not going to change their minds on anything as a result of the protests because they already knew there’d be mass protests before Trump signed a single order.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 1 week ago:
Please support peertube sites - here’s a list of instances to find something matching your interests: joinpeertube.org/instances
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 week ago:
In the case of Air Canada, the thing the chatbot promised was actually pretty reasonable on its own terms, which is both why the customer believed it and why the judge said they had to honour it. I don’t think it would have gone the same way if the bot offered to sell them a Boeing 777 for $10.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 week ago:
Yeah, I always found it weird how chatbots were basically a less efficient and less reliable way to access data that’s already on the website but all the companies were racing to get one. People kept telling me that I’m in the minority in being able to find information on a webpage, but I suspect the sort of people who are too dumb to do that aren’t going to have much better luck dealing with the quirks and eccentricies of a chatbot either.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 week ago:
You in turn are overestimating how much effort is required for an established bot farm to add a platform to their system.
I used to see that shit decades ago in the phpBB days, you’d get accounts signing up to a board with 20 active users to post climate change denialist articles, even though the website itself had nothing to do with climate change. (Looking back on it now, the oil lobby was probably the first big user of internet forum astroturfing, but somehow nothing ever came of it…)
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 2 weeks ago:
You could probably set a cap on how many different fingerprinty attributes a script is allowed to grab before requesting permission from the user.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 weeks ago:
It can’t, but that didn’t stop a bunch of gushing articles a while back about how it had an ELO of 2400 and other such nonsense. Turns out you could get it to have an ELO of 2400 under a very very specific set of circumstances that, include correcting it every time it hallucinated pieces or attempted to make illegal moves.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 weeks ago:
I hate this analogy. As a throwaway whimsical quip it’d be fine, but it’s specious enough that I keep seeing it used earnestly by people who think that LLMs are in any way sentient or conscious, so it’s lowered my tolerance for it as a topic even if you did intend it flippantly.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 weeks ago:
What’s hilarious/sad is the response to this article over on reddit’s “singularity” sub, in which all the top comments are people who’ve obviously never got all the way through a research paper in their lives all trashing Apple and claiming their researchers don’t understand AI or “reasoning”. It’s a weird cult.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, I don’t see any huge red flags there.
I gather frequency penalties have fallen out of favour, due to the harmful side effects being worse than the very occasional loop trap.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 2 weeks ago:
What’s the associated system instruction set to? If you’re using the API it won’t give you the standard Google Gemini Assistant system instructions, and LLMs are prone to go off the rails very quickly if not given proper instructions up front since they’re essentially just “predict the next word” functions at heart.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 2 weeks ago:
What’s frustrating to me is there’s a lot of people who fervently believe that their favourite model is able to think and reason like a sentient being, and whenever something like this comes up it just gets handwaved away with things like “wrong model”, “bad prompting”, “just wait for the next version”, “poisoned data”, etc etc…
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
Please support peertube, it’s kind of like the Lemmy of streaming videos in that it’s a federated collection of providers.
A list of instances: https://joinpeertube.org/instances
e.g. peertube.tv
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
What pisses me off most is that the way the internet works now is that ten years ago, someone who wanted to share about how to service your 90s Volvo that would have written it on a web page with a few photos that would have been quicker, cheaper and easier to write, quicker and easier to read, and cost next to nothing to host.
But because Google control fucking everything, that same person is now heavily incentivized to make it a pointlessly long video instead, that took days to make and edit, and is harder to use while working, and if they don’t do that then they ain’t getting anywhere near the top of the search results and you weren’t going to find it anyway.
It sucks and I can’t wait for people to wake up and tell Google to fuck off and stop ruining the internet.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
CHAIN “SNAPPER” - Comment on Most American headline 2 weeks ago:
Earlier this week Bernie Sanders called for an end to “school lunch debt”. The senator, and one of the Democrat candidates for president, tweeted that it “should not exist in the wealthiest country in the history of the world” and pledged to “provide year-round, free universal school meals” if he won the White House.
LOL, imagine thinking Democrats would nominate someone standing on a “let’s feed poor people’s kids” platform. Was never going to happen.
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 4 weeks ago:
Sure, I’m just bemoaning the fact that you’ve taken cloud hosting to be the default. It’s as much a complaint about the world in general as anything specific to you. Good luck with it all.
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 4 weeks ago:
I’m old enough to consider the framing of the question to be weirdly loaded.
It does not feel that long ago where people would be asked to justify entrusting their product’s functions and data to a bunch of strangers who can make unilateral decisions about your service with zero comeback. Now we’re being asked to justify not doing that.
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the second one. It’s the ones prepared to do shit like that who get promoted in the first place.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 4 weeks ago:
Having spend some small time in the information theory and signal processing world, it infuriates me how often people champion LLMs for writing things like data dictionaries and documentation.
Information is measured in information theory as “the difference between what you expected and what you got”, ergo, any documentation generated automatically by an LLM is by definition free of Information.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 4 weeks ago:
What’s currently pickling my noggin is how I’ve been seeing “new model smashes benchmarks by an unexpectedly huge factor” headlines every month for the last two years, and yet somehow no matter how many models suddenly score 99% on tasks that they used to score 20% for, I’ve not actually found the damn thing any more helpful or reliable than it was in 2023 for anything real-world. I’m starting to think all these supposed breakthroughs they keep having are being hugely overstated.
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 4 weeks ago:
The image of China as an uncreative, uneducated backwards nation of drones good only for assembling phones, hasn’t been the reality for at least a decade.
A lot of people in the West don’t realize this because to this day there’s a vicious cycle of people only import cheap Chinese crap because China has a reputation for only making cheap crap because people only import the cheap crap. They don’t realize that China is also making top tier products, because nobody’s trying to import top tier Chinese products.
- Comment on Common British L 4 weeks ago:
The British national dish is curry.