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- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 12 hours ago:
Problem is the e2e encryption. The bridge basically decrypts your emails and makes them locally accessible.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 12 hours ago:
It is technically impossible at the moment to keep your emails end-to-end encrypted and not have to use a bridge for your client of choice. It will only be possible if your client of choice partners with Proton to integrate them, or if a standard for e2e encrypted emails pops up and both Proton and your client adopt it.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 12 hours ago:
Because forking a buggy suite isn’t always the best choice? If they have the ressources, and they do, making their own is best for everyone. More choices.
- Comment on YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed. 2 weeks ago:
That is not how the internet works
- Comment on Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' 2 weeks ago:
Obviousness? If you mass layoff your tech staff, you take the risk of more technical failures.
A smaller staff cannot do the same work as a larger one, and I guarantee you they’re being asked to progress at the same speed. So, the tradeoff is on the quality of the product and the testing, not on the speed of development.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 3 months ago:
Yeah, considering it is not impossible to geoblock per instance, they could.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 3 months ago:
Not a single part of your answer is about how the brain works.
Concepts are not things in your brain.
Consciousness is a concept. It doesn’t exist in your brain.
Thinking is how a human uses their brain.
I’m asking about how the brain itself functions to intepret natural language.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 3 months ago:
That doesn’t answer the question you quoted.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 3 months ago:
Of course the “understanding” of an LLM is limited. Because the entire technology is new, and it’s far from being anywhere close to being able to understand to the level of a human.
But I disagree with your understanding of how an LLM works. At its lower level, it’s a bunch on connected artifical neurons, not that different from a human brain. Now please don’t read this as me saying it’s as good as a human brain. It’s definitely not, but its inner workings are not so far. As a matter of fact, there is active effort to make artificial neurons behave as close as possible to a human neuron.
If it was just statistics, it wouldn’t be so difficult to look at the trained model and identify what does what. But just like the human brain, it is incredidbly difficult to understand that. We just have a general idea.
So it does understand, to a limited extent. Just like a human, it won’t understand what it hasn’t been exposed to. And unlike a human, it is exposed to a very limited set of data.
You’re putting the difference between a human’s “understanding” and an LLM’s “understanding” in the meaning of the word “understanding”, which is just a shortcut to say that they can’t be compared. The actual difference is in the scope of understanding.
A lot of the efforts in the AI fields gravitate around imitating a human brain. Which makes sense, as it is the only thing we know that is capable of doing what we want an AI to do. LLMs are no different, but their scope is limited.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 3 months ago:
They are talking at a technical level only on one side of the comparison. It makes the entire discussion pointless. If you’re going to compare the understanding of a neural network and the understanding of a human brain, you have to go into depth on both sides.
Mysticism? Lmao. Where? Do you know what the word means?
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 3 months ago:
You’re entering a more philosophical debate than a technical one, because for this point to make any sense, you’d have to define what “understanding” language means for a human in a level as low as what you’re describing for an LLM.
Can you affirm that what a human brain does to understand language is so different to what an LLM does?
I’m not saying an LLM is smart, but saying that it doesn’t understand, when having computers “understand” natural language is the core of NLP, is meh.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 3 months ago:
That is actually incorrect. It is also a language understanding tool. You don’t have an LLM without NLP. NLP includes processing and understanding natural language.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 months ago:
Haha. Ha.
- Comment on I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table 3 months ago:
It can definitely break when mishandled. With kids you probably don’t want glass furniture.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 3 months ago:
Good luck having that shitty tech win over Europe, where fiber is proliferating particularly quickly. We all know sattelite internet cannot come close to the speed and reliability of fiber.
Plus we hate Musk.
It’s good for remote areas and at sea, it’s shit everywhere else
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 3 months ago:
Exactly. All that the stats do in this case is show what everyone knows: There is a racism problem in hiring.
It doesn’t help prove anything in a court of law, and the multitude of excuses to hide racism make it almost impossible to prove that the true reason is racism.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 3 months ago:
I’m not certain having data on people’s ethnicity is helping at all with discrimination on hiring.
There is laws in France against discrimination as well. The problem isn’t that there isn’t ethnic data, the problem is that it’s really hard to prove that a candidate was rejected because of their ethnicity.
I’d be happy to be proven wrong though.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 3 months ago:
For a small to medium company it’s not necessarily worth it.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 3 months ago:
I use my own gitea server
- Comment on How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6? 3 months ago:
At this point I am assuming that it is actually a docker issue.
Can you show your docker daemon configuration?
Hard to tell where it is on your machine. Try ~/.docker/daemon.json, or maybe /etc/docker/daemon.json… Else look for it haha
- Comment on How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6? 3 months ago:
Well this is getting weird.
Have you tried checking if your os has a resolution cashe active? If so, try to flush it.
- Comment on How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6? 3 months ago:
I have read the rest of the comments to see what you already tried. I was about yo tell you to use sysctl to disable ipv6 but it looks like that is already done.
As a matter of fact, it looks like you have no ipv6 address at all. Which makes me think that your DNS config is off.
Can you show me the content of /etc/resolv.conf ?
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 3 months ago:
I honestly don’t understand ehy Github hasn’t been abandonned by users at this point. If I were a company, I’d either go to the competition, who is just as good if not better, or host in-house if the means are there.
I’m just a freelancer and I gave up on github 3 years ago
- Comment on How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6? 3 months ago:
What version of Pi OS are you running?
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 3 months ago:
… Was it ever since they got bought?
- Comment on How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6? 3 months ago:
Looks like your Pi thinks it can use IPv6. Find where, and disable it.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 3 months ago:
As always, it’s not like both aren’t possible. As a matter of fact, there is a lot of railway projects ongoing at the same time.
A government can take care of more than one issue at a time, luckily.
It may be a small benefit for you (I assume you are german based on your server), but not every european country or citizen has the same access to internet. This is a good initiative, but obviously not primarily intended for the richer citizens/countries of the union.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 3 months ago:
Just hecause you have the option and can afford it does not mean every european citizen can have it or afford it.
EU policies aren’t just for the privileged.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 3 months ago:
Not charging roaming does not mean that your unlimited plan carries over abroad. It just means you can’t be charged more for using your plan abroad.
It is still legal and widely done to have different limits abroad vs domestic.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 3 months ago:
I’m not anerican so I’m unsure how pertinent my experience is.
But yes, my representatives often hold public neetings in which anyone is invited, although I don’t go there myself.