Railcar8095
@Railcar8095@lemmy.world
- Comment on Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying 1 week ago:
Doesn’t CGNat obscure the user true location in the same way? And what kind of VPN are we talking about? Company with exit node in the country? Commercial ones only?
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
Honestly, yes.
- Comment on oh ok 1 week ago:
You’re the one replying, I can’t tell what you’re trying to add, or why you’re doing it.
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 1 week ago:
They use OSM as source for maps, yes.
Not sure how much they add, aside from offline functionality.
Other apps add extra data sources.
- Comment on oh ok 1 week ago:
Fell free to offer a solution. For the moment the LLM wins, nobody else even tried
- Comment on oh ok 1 week ago:
This doesn’t answer the question of finding a better solution.
I took the liberty to ask Lumo and his reasoning seem more useful than your thoughts:
A better solution is to adopt functionalist terminology that distinguishes between biological consciousness and computational processing without resorting to metaphorical confusion.
Instead of the binary of “it thinks” (which implies subjective experience) or “it doesn’t think” (which dismisses complex reasoning), we can use precise descriptors based on what the system is actually doing:
“Reasoning” or “Synthesizing”: Use these terms when the model is connecting disparate data points, performing logical deductions, or generating novel structures based on patterns. This acknowledges the output’s complexity without claiming the machine has an inner life.
Example: “The model is synthesizing a solution based on its training data,” rather than “The model is thinking about the problem.” “Simulating” or “Mimicking”: Use these when the output resembles human thought processes but is strictly algorithmic. This clarifies that the form is human-like, but the mechanism is statistical prediction.
Example: “It is simulating a debate,” rather than “It is arguing.” “Processing” or “Computing”: Reserve these for the raw mechanical act of token generation.
Example: “The system is processing the query,” rather than “The system is considering the query.” Why this works better:
Precision: It avoids the philosophical baggage of “thought” (qualia, consciousness) while still acknowledging the utility of the output. Clarity: It prevents the “Plagiarism Machine” critique from being a total dismissal. Even if the data comes from humans, the recombination and application to new contexts is a distinct computational process worth naming accurately. Scalability: As models become more complex, “reasoning” or “synthesizing” scales better than “thinking,” which remains tied to biological definitions that may never apply to silicon. So, the compromise isn’t to keep saying “thinking” and hope people understand, nor to insist on “regurgitation” which ignores the emergent properties of large-scale pattern matching. Instead, we shift the vocabulary to describe the process (reasoning, synthesizing, simulating) rather than the state of being (thinking).
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 1 week ago:
Irrelevant. They need to comply with the laws of the market they are selling at.
Check what pornhub decided to do in Texas
- Comment on Windows 11's free video editor Clipchamp now requires OneDrive 2 weeks ago:
Specially fitting that one FOSS alternative to this one is openSHOT
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 2 weeks ago:
The modern day mechanicus warships the omnissiah
A typo, but honestly a very fitting one
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 2 weeks ago:
AFAIK torrent. But I’ve been torrenting all my life without port forward and I have all the seasons from my favorite Linux distros,.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
And if Pryor purple, it’s epic
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 3 weeks ago:
Incorrect in two ways. There are non Jewist Zionists (see Trump as an example) Even of they were, not all Jews are Zionists.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen balding. I’ve seen bald. But never seem famously bald.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t get as far as sensible, but thanks haha
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 3 weeks ago:
Zionists, not Jews, are the problem.
Even as an atheist I belive the main issue is not your belief, but what you do with it.
- Comment on GrapheneOS calls on privacy focused app developers to boycott European Unified Attestation 3 weeks ago:
That’s what the priest told me when I saw him going into the brothel. Doing God’s work
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 3 weeks ago:
He just made a very pointy argument against guns.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 weeks ago:
Again, I agree and I’ve fought for that. But this needs to be top to bottom. We have budget slashed, morale in the ground across the board. Those who keep trying for the best fight a losing battle with those who already have up trying.
If the bosses don’t care about the interest of the “customer”, I don’t either. I’ve already openly spoken to my team saying I’m now ready for things to blow up and get the attention we need from the ones really high up. I’m done working overtime because anther team is already working overtime in something else or because some bullshit political 4D chess were they throw us under the bus for their failings or try to make theirs our work.
Had an annoying day with this things, sorry for dumping this here haha
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 weeks ago:
which is mainly driven by incompetence of project managers.
I completely agree. I work on an internal solution, which is a part of a very large product. It’s not a live product, only part of a pipeline that runs on a predetermined schedule. Our bit is the only one with actual business/performance KPIs, most of the other teams measure only “user story/CR points”. If the other teams screw up, it will impact our performance unless we prove it’s their fault. And of it’s their fault, they open a US/bug which improves their metrics (one more US closed). Our team has to think ahead and try to do things well in one go, because our bugfixing doesn’t count as work. But our speed is measured against people who benefits from half doing stuff. When we did massive effort, we got complaints we were slow. Now we do less effort and once every blue moon we have to do a hotfix. Most often than not when we have an production issue is due to the other teams that run before us on the pipeline, so we even had to develop checks to our input because they won’t add checks to their outputs. And they won’t because that’s a CR that requires extra funding that’s not approved, but we had to create them for our own sanity.
Yes, I’m looking to move out haha
- Comment on Pornhub’s owner to block Australians over age check laws 3 weeks ago:
Proton VPN has a free tier and AFAIK you can use as extension on most browsers.
- Comment on Australians will have to verify their age to watch pornography from Monday. Here’s what you need to know 3 weeks ago:
Measures could include photo ID, facial age estimation, credit card checks and confirmation of age by a parent
I’m curious how the last one works. “Yes, he’s my son and he’s 18, now show him some furry pussy”
- Comment on Australians will have to verify their age to watch pornography from Monday. Here’s what you need to know 3 weeks ago:
It shows your age of you think kids know what an SD card is for, aside from expanding Switch’s disk.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 weeks ago:
Then, let’s just call it “massive decentralized surprise testing”
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 weeks ago:
Test in production is the best. We spent months warning from data bugs and nobody bat an eye (upstream bug, not our responsibility but we noticed) When it was d launched in prod we just pointed out the bug that nobody fixed was still there and immediately a war room was formed and the bug fixed within an hour.
It honestly seems more efficient to let shit hit the fan than to fight everybody to do their job.
- Comment on Sad News! AI's RAM Hunger Finds a New Victim in the Orange Pi Neo Linux Handheld 4 weeks ago:
Unlikely. They aren’t buying the RAM sticks, they are burying the capacity and making other kinds of RAM.
A few are hoarding consumer RAM, but it’s neglectable compared with the amount that’s not compared to last year
- Comment on North Korean agents using AI to trick western firms into hiring them, Microsoft says 4 weeks ago:
It’s official, most companies would rather hire north Korean spies than me
- Comment on US governor boosts US-Iran 'combat footage' that is actually from War Thunder, featuring WW2-era weapons 4 weeks ago:
The reverse War Thunder leak
- Comment on Delayed tariff refund could cost taxpayers $700M per month, economists warn 4 weeks ago:
Here is the fun fact: they get the refunds, and the tax payers pay the interests.
- Comment on Continuwuity v0.5.6 4 weeks ago:
Well, it’s consistent.
I honestly have seen worse, like czkawka, which means hiccup in Polish, and it’s good to know because I have to check for the make on a translator every time I need to use it. Great application though.
- 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 4 weeks ago:
Try with a VM first, or install on an external drive and boot from USB.
I got a Mac at work and I struggled for a long time to do many basic things. Any change can be a challenge and there’s a learning curve. Same moving to Linux