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- Comment on 1 day ago:
But not necessarily interpreted.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 1 day ago:
The only country bad at using nukes is the only country who dropped some. The US.
Nukes are a deterrence weapon. No one with a sane mind wants to use them.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 4 days ago:
If my memory serves well, it is configurable. I say X seconds because it can be 5, 10, 30, but of course also 60, 120… This is my programmer brain talking :)
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 4 days ago:
Well, from my knowledge, the person you replied to is inacurrate. All tires will transmit at the same frequency. But every X seconds, when each tire transmits its data, it transmits an ID unique to its transmitter with it.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI 4 days ago:
I agree with almost all of your comment. The only part I disagree on is:
How can we attempt to recreate the human brain into AGI when we are not close to mapping out how our brains work in a way to translate that into code, let alone other more simple brains in the animal kingdom.
An implementation of AGI does not need to be inspired from the human brain, or any existing organic brain. Nothing tells us organic brains are the optimal way to develop intelligence. In fact, I’d argue it’s not.
That being said, it doesn’t change the conclusion: We are nowhere near AGI, and LLMs being marketed as such is absolutely a scam.
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 1 week ago:
What they claim to do and what they do is not necessarily the same. If done properly, the server does not need to be trusted.
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 1 week ago:
I believe Proton Pass does not have the design flaws shown in the article. For instance, if you lose your password, you lose your data. Your data is encrypted and decrypted on your device.
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 1 week ago:
If the password manager server is hacked and compromised, then syncing your passwords with the compromised server will lead to compromised passwords (duh)
No, not “duh”. The right way to do this is client-side encryption/decryption. The server then does not at any moment know anything about your passwords.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 1 week ago:
The day when the only options are subscription based cars will be the day jailbreaking your car will be as common as jailbreaking an iphone.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
I do mean “person with a huge setup dedicated to music listening”. An audiophile who actually knows what they’re talking about will tell you to get any cable from a reputable brand.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, for sure. I didn’t include that part because an audiophile setup rarely has a need for long distances.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
Exactly this, the cables never mattered. They’re the least significant part of an audiophile system and I doubt anyone could tell the difference between a crappy cable and a good quality cable. People get good quality cable for durability rather than sound quality.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 1 week ago:
It also means that AI in places where it brings nothing and in many cases make the product actually worse will disappear
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 2 weeks ago:
With an IP55 rating, I would assume it can resist a drop in water. As long as you don’t stare at it for multiple minutes and do get it out asap.
- Comment on YSK You can buy a @linux.com domain for email flex 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that is why it is called a forwarding address and both the picture and the post say you can’t send from it
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Because Protonmail would probably be too much of a competition to TutaMail 🙃
I appreciate the intention of the post, but it is biased and an ad for a different product.
- Comment on Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled 3 weeks ago:
Or even better, get printers that work with ink tanks rather than ink cartridges :)
- Comment on Here I stand, at 50, wishing I could shit as well as my dogs. 5 weeks ago:
While they work amazing, they’re supposed to be temporary fixes (for instance, when medication affects your bowel movements). Your body, with the right nutrition, should not need anything extra to shit properly!
- Comment on Here I stand, at 50, wishing I could shit as well as my dogs. 5 weeks ago:
When I went vegan I saw change in my shits within a week. Turns out animal products make shit shits!
And I don’t even eat healthy. Just no animal products.
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 5 weeks ago:
Sign of the times… If it is on everyone’s mind, it will infiltrate generic subs like these
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 month ago:
Kind of. But it is my understanding that pagers work with centralised transmitters/stations. I am no expert though, so maybe there is mesh-like pager protocols.
This is decentralised, a mesh. Routing is done through the terminals themselves, rather than through a centralised transmitter.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 1 month ago:
Journalist reads “limit” and clickbaits it, typical
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 2 months ago:
And now instead of understanding the functions, parameters, syntax and quirks yourself, to be able to produce quality code, which is the job of a software engineer, you ask an LLM to spit out code that seem to be working, do that again, and again, and again, and call it a day.
And then I’ll be hired to fix it.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 2 months ago:
The things I have seen from devs who thought they could lie and pretend they didn’t use AI…
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 2 months ago:
The Turing test becomes absolutely useless when the product is developed with the goal of beating the Turing test.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 2 months ago:
I am a professional software engineer, and my experience is the complete opposite. It does it faster and cheaper, yes, but also noticeably worse, and having to proofread the output, fix and refactor ends up taking more time than I would have taken writing it myself.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 months ago:
I’m not having, as I said before, any issues with Gecko
Good for you!
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 months ago:
I say that as a web developer myself. Gecko has become problematic to work with. It’s not the web devs fault that Gecko is now full of odd quirks.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 months ago:
If your only criterium is the presence of AI, then of course it doesn’t matter.
But Firefox has been degrading far before AI was even hyped. Mozilla basically gave up on its development as they lost their market share. Full of bugs, poor implementation of new standards, terrible optimization… That’s why I switched to a Chromium based browser. Not because of AI.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 months ago:
Unforunately, there is no solid alternative at the moment. Firefox used to be great, but the quality of the browser has been consistently declining for years now. In terms of features, stability, and accuracy. The various forks I tested back when I couldn’t deal with Firefox’s issues had the exact same issues.
At least Vivaldi is european.