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- Comment on Stray bullet takes out Spectrum fiber, knocks Texans offline 2 weeks ago:
"Have you heard? Jesus is coming back … and will reincarnate in Texas!!
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- Comment on Stray bullet takes out Spectrum fiber, knocks Texans offline 2 weeks ago:
his is the third firearms-related outage problem Spectrum has had in the last 12 months.
Texas, which will feel the warming more than other areas of the USA, is strongly religious, Republican, and needs to be isolated for everyone’s protection
- Comment on Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure 1 month ago:
we think it’s just words, but our brain will seamlessly weave inner monologue into concepts
Are you familiar with latent space representation?
Because yes, that’s how LRM’s work, cycling tokens in latent space multiple times before sending to upper layers and decoding into human words
- Comment on Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure 1 month ago:
- Comment on Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure 1 month ago:
chat bots
Fair, we need to get terms straight; this is new and unstable territory. Let’s say, LLMs specifically.
it did not debug anything, a human debugged something and wrote about it. Then that human input and a ton of others were mapped into a huge probability map, and some computer simulated what people talking about this would most likely say
Can you explain how that is different from what a human does? I read a lot about debugging, went to classes, worked examples…
Why didn’t you debug it yourself?
In my case this is enterprise software, many products and millions of lines of code. My test and bug-fixing teams are begging for automation. Bug fixing at scale
- Comment on Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure 1 month ago:
It’s still not reasoning. It’s running a simulation
As Daniel Dennett once asked: “What is the difference between a simulated song, and a real song?”
You say it’s not reasoning, but I’ve seen it debug and fix a core dump
- Comment on Engineers wanted: Mexico looks to join the global semiconductor race 1 month ago:
Have you been to Mexico City or (even more so) Guadalajara since the Pandemic? Multinational techs are investing and building up campuses like crazy. Reminds me of the go-go years of Bangalore in the 2000’s.
Mexico has a real possibility of moving up the value chain and gobbling up all the good stuff Trump is pushing away from the USA
- Comment on Flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board sets sail for Gaza 1 month ago:
You will find that a way to dehumanize and simultaneously antagonize just about anyone, is to invalidate their feelings and inform them how they actually feel
- Comment on Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure 1 month ago:
I don’t think you have read the relevant papers or are familiar with LRM (Large Reasoning Models). Which is basically all model AIs (GPT5, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek). It’s new in the last ~18-24 months
In a nutshell, they include logical thinking and correct chains of logical thought to the LLM training data, along with tasks like recognizing dogs and predicting next words.
So yes, they are literally trained to reason the exact same way they are trained to write stories and summarize books.
- Comment on Flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board sets sail for Gaza 1 month ago:
I have my own personal theories.
But she is so outspoken about so many things; I am surprised she has been conspicuously silent on religion.
I agree that it’s a wise move as literally answer would be divisive.
I am sad and frankly annoyed to see so many people with a knee-jerk reaction against the audacity of asking, as it if were unthinkable that religion (or spirituality, or the value of the one yolo you get, or whatever) would provide any insight.
- Comment on Flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board sets sail for Gaza 1 month ago:
Personal convictions are actually extremely relevant for a person like this and a news item like this
- Comment on Flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board sets sail for Gaza 1 month ago:
Random question: what is Greta’s religion? Or is she Atheist, like many Scandanavians?
- Comment on Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure 1 month ago:
- Comment on Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” 1 month ago:
Honestly curious how you concluded this
- Comment on Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” 1 month ago:
I work for ibe of the world’s largest proprietary software companies.
100% agree with you
Countries should fund open source OS, browser, mobile OS. It is in their best interest.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
shit registration functions
… and there are some shit moderators here, just like on Reddit
… and there are some really high-value communities here, because of really good moderation – just like on Reddit
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 1 month ago:
Actually having elders in human societies is shown to positively correlate with better outcomes for the youth in that society. Grandmothers in particular have a measurable benefit.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 month ago:
better light sensitivity
I like to think of it as “colors and light so brilliant and pretty it’s like tripping shrooms”
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 month ago:
Yeah, the newer thing to counter that is WebTunnel which came out last year. There’s considerably more setup than just starting a snowflake proxy process, and I am ashamed to say I haven’t set one up yet
- Comment on Is Meta's Superintelligence Overhaul a Sign Its AI Goals Are Struggling? 1 month ago:
This particular coding leaderboard matches my own personal experience. Llama4 is hitting ~15% ; Claude Opus4 ~70% (I haven’t used others personally)
- Comment on Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit 1 month ago:
If you really want privacy, use Tor which is free-as-in-speech-and-beer
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 month ago:
In general real-time games are not great for Tor, because it introduces lots of network latency – which makes you safer
For most applications, the easiest way to Torify is via using SOCKS from the Tor Browser Bundle, which would let you simply pick Snowflake when Tor Browser starts up. I asked Perplexity for directions on running Minecraft over Tor, here ya go
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 month ago:
a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.
That would put them in the company of China, Russia, and Iran. Getting unrestricted Internet to people in those countries is why I am among those who run a snowflake node on a dedicated VPS (the link also has a simple browser addon – it’s easy to support the network, everyone should)
Yes, these moves suck for UK youth. But, anti-censorship tools do exist, and volunteers like me want people who could benefit from them, to know about & use them.
any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.
100% agree, take my upvote
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 month ago:
Even
AF_BLUETOOTHsockets are… sockets, where one machine ("server’) opens to listen, and the other (“client”) initiates the stream - Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 month ago:
This is how you get under-18s to use [Tor browser](www.torproject.org/download/$
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 month ago:
My mistake
hold on I am still somewhat new to Fedi & not fully used to people being polite
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 month ago:
ofc a lot depends on the precise definitions of terms, state corporatism is not synonymous with generally free markets operating under the regulation of a basically diverse inclusive democracy.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 month ago:
The Monero community spent a long time trying to find a “useful PoW” function. The problem is that most computations that are useful are not also easy to verify as correct. javascript optimization was one direction that got pursued pretty far.
But at the end of the day, a crypto that actually intends to withstand attacks from major governments requires a system that is decentralized, trustless, and verifiable, and the only solutions that have been found to date involve algorithms for which a GPU or even custom ASIC confers no significant advantage over a consumer-grade CPU.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 month ago:
Imagine if it was people’s happiness and freedom instead of quarterly profits
- Whose happiness and freedom?
- How is it to be measured?
- Capitalists honestly believe that free trade is the best albeit flawed way to do both of the above
It’s definitely valid to disagree about point #3, but then you need to give a better model for #1 and #2
