Dojan

@Dojan@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta snubs the EU’s voluntary AI guidelines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  PleasedontadaptandGTFOinsteadpleasedontadaptjustGTFOpleasepleasejustGTFOrotinhell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Mullvad’s VPN and DNS on a router level. Every device on my network is blanketed by it. Some services don’t work, but I am willing to sacrifice their profits for my integrity. Thus, to them I say 然らば fuckmothers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL about Fedi-Search, an open sourced frontend to easily search the Fediverse with a lot of mainstream engines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. It even supports Kagi. That’s neat!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice calls out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember working with a library called HSSF to read excel files some years ago. It’s an acronym meaning Horrible SpreadSheet Format.

  I echo the devs sentiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They did! I’m curious about the overlap between retro-gaming enthusiasts and fascists though. Do fascists really care about art and its preservation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean so long as they don’t try to profit off of it I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This subject is very clearly a sore point for you. It might behove you to figure out why that is, rather than spontaneously attacking people that are essentially siding with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know, on Pixel phones it’s integrated. Discovered that my work phone (Pixel 6) suddenly has it, I’ve never installed it, and I can’t remove it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My company has a policy to try to make use of LLMs for work. I’m not a fan. Most of the time I spend explaining the infrastructure and whatnot would be better spent just working, because half the time the model suggests something that flies in the face of what’s needed, or outright suggests changes that we can’t implement.

  It’s such a waste of time and resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mole or cancer? The algorithm that gets one in three melanomas wrong and erases patients with dark skin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a direct result of structural racism, as it’s a product of the treatment of white men as being the default. You see it all the time in medicine. There are conditions that disproportionately affect black people that we don’t know enough about because time and money hasn’t been spent studying it.

  Women face the same problem. Lots of conditions apply differently in women. An example of this being why women historically have been underrepresented in e.g. autism diagnoses. It presents differently so for a while the assumption was made that women just can’t be autistic.

  I don’t think necessarily that people who perpetuate this problem are doing so out of malice, they probably don’t think of women/black people as lesser (hell, many probably are women and/or black), but it doesn’t change the fact that structural problems requires awareness and conscious effort to correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mumbai, ID⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love dogs!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mumbai, ID⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No idea who they are but I’m hoping they’re enjoying their new life in India.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I hate most about this is the lack of control over this it implies. Sure, maybe you don’t install this on your device, but all that’s needed for Google to access your messages now is for someone you message to have it installed and enabled, then anything you send to them will be gobbled up by Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic tested Claude's(LLM, AI Chatbot) ability to manage a physical “storefront” to mixed results, as the AI struggled with pricing strategy and inventory management⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so funny. It fails miserably and they’re all “yeah so this is promising.”

  Sure, a world where your manager hallucinates meetings with you and assesses you poorly for not performing according to plans that were hallucinated through said meetings sounds like a fantastic idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germany deems DeepSeek as illegal content after it is unable to address data security concerns, and asks Apple and Google to block it from their app stores⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hoping this sets a precedent for the same kind of regulation about non-Chinese corporations. Otherwise it just comes across as sinophobic grandstanding and not actually about protecting the privacy of the end-user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds interesting. Would definitely like to try it out⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A musical buttplug sounds interesting. Would definitely listen to Toxic with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Capsaicin trigger nociceptors, tricking the brain into believing you’ve hurt yourself. It’s not a flavour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes. You obviously still can’t say “le dollar bean” without getting nuked from orbit. YouTube is a goodly Christian corporation after all, can’t have such content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microbiota⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kissing isn’t the only thing one should do like the French.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The rest of us will be stuck with those consequences also. When idiots are at work, third party always suffers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why so much hate toward AI?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s honestly ridiculous too. Imagine saying that your whole business model is shooting people, and if you’re not allowed to shoot people then it’ll crash. So when accused of killing people, you go “nu uh” and hide the weapons you did it with, and the legal system is okay with that.

  It’s all so stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Through the years I’ve bounced between different engines. I gave Bing a decent go some years back, mostly because I was interested in gauging the performance and wanted to just pit something against Google. After that I’ve swapped between Qwant and Startpage a bunch. I’m a big fan of Startpage’s “Anonymous view” function.

  Since then I’ve landed on Kagi, which I’ve used for almost a year now. It’s the first search engine I’ve used that you can make work for you. I use the lens feature to focus on specific tasks, and de-prioritise pages that annoy me, sometimes outright omitting results from sites I find useless or unserious. For example when I’m doing web stuff and need to reference the MDN, I don’t really care for w3schools polluting my results.

  I’m a big fan of using my own agency and making my own decisions, and the recent trend in making LLMs think for us is something I find rather worrying, it allows for a much subtler manipulation than what Google does with its rankings and sponsor inserts.

  Perplexity openly talking about wanting to buy Chrome and harvesting basically all the private data is also terrifying, thus I wouldn’t touch that service with a stick. That said, I appreciate their candour, somehow being open about being evil is a lot more palatable to me than all these companies pretending to be good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are search engines that do this better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At my old workplace we ended up getting like a thousand toilet seats delivered to us. We were a web publishing firm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Japanese Law Stops Parents From Naming Their Baby 'Pikachu'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah it’s kirakira names in general. So weird made-up readings, pop culture references 光宙 (pikachuu falls under both), foreign words, and taboo/denigrating names.

  For example.

  • 皇帝 (koutei) meaning emperor, read as Kaiser
  • 光宙 (kou, light and chuu, space) read as Pikachuu
  • 愛保 (ai, to love, and go, to keep) read as Rabuho (love hotel)
  • 宝冠 (takara, treasure and kanmuri, crown) read as Tiara.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Positive reinforcement wins. You’re a good boy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Might there not be a way to extract them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Much faster and less prone to ghosting.

  That said, I never took much issue with it. I didn’t have any of the very first e-readers so I’ve no idea if they’d bother me, but my first e-reader, a Kobo Touch from 2011 worked just fine and the refresh rate and ghosting wasn’t a problem.

  I think the biggest pro with modern devices (to me personally) is that they’ve gotten more compact. I like how slim and comfortable my Boox Color 7 is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI sees human interaction as a competitor to ChatGPT's super assistant ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dystopia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think we've all been there.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Comglaturstion! We’re both going to die.