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"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuiler
- Comment on Brave browser starts testing agentic AI mode for automated tasks 2 days ago:
Especially when it’s the shady near-scam quasi-religious cult known as Brave
https://hackread.com/brave-browser-tor-leaked-onion-queries-isps/
https://twashingtonledger.com/brave-browser-privacy-scandal-goes-right-to-the-heart-of-brave/
https://www.lifewire.com/brave-browser-falls-short-of-its-promises-of-privacy-5206799
https://eathealthy365.com/brave-browser-s-controversies-downsides-explained/ - Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns 5 days ago:
And they wonder why darknet forums like Dread exist
- Comment on Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL— Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push 1 week ago:
Plot twist: Vizio monitors become the new WRTG
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 1 week ago:
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 1 week ago:
Libreddit FTW
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 1 week ago:
How can I say goodbye to a place neither I nor anybody I know has ever been
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 1 week ago:
… and then all that will be left will be .onion sites
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This is what you want
It’s literally the latest FF but with the telemetry and AI ripped out, and proper adblocks etc
- Comment on It would be so funny if China colonizes Mars, then the Martian Colonists declare independence, and Mars become a new bastion of Freedom and Prosperity. 1 week ago:
All her books are life-impacting
Would have loved to have been able to be yet another fan telling her how much she affected my life
- Comment on It would be so funny if China colonizes Mars, then the Martian Colonists declare independence, and Mars become a new bastion of Freedom and Prosperity. 1 week ago:
Not terribly far off the plot of one of the great works of science fiction
- Comment on Halloween is a more giving and fun holiday than Christmas 1 week ago:
He was by all accounts an insufferable asshole, petty, vindictive, and completely aware how fucking stupid most people are esp compared to him. And also a Biblical conspiracy theorist who was much more interested in the exact dimensions of the Old Temple than in developing Calculus.
Also he arguably created the miraculous technological world in which we live better lives than he could have dreamed. Our debt to him can never be fully paid. His name will rightly outlive us.
- Comment on Halloween is a more giving and fun holiday than Christmas 2 weeks ago:
Screw Christmas.
Instead, on that date, celebrate someone real and much more worthy of consideration
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 2 weeks ago:
+1 for more fellow PieFeds
- Comment on Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing 2 weeks ago:
s/blocking access/releasing the viewing history of/
- Comment on I signed up for Trump Mobile two weeks ago and I still don’t have my SIM 3 weeks ago:
Tulsi hasn’t finished putting in the freedom taps yet
- Comment on Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup 3 weeks ago:
Animal brains have pliable neuron networks and synapses to build and persist new relationships between things. LLMs do not. This is why they can’t have novel or spontaneous ideation
This Nobel prize winner seems to disagree with you.
Neural nets do indeed learn new relationships. Maybe you are thinking of the fact that most architectures require training to be a separate process from interacting; that is not the case for all architectures.
- Comment on Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup 3 weeks ago:
LLMs are just fast sorting and probability, they have no way to ever develop novel ideas or comprehension
And how do you think animal brains develop comprehension…?
- Comment on Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup 3 weeks ago:
this Chinese feller
He’s French, actually.
This is one of the three people that basically invented Deep Learning . One of the others is Geoffrey Hinton, who got the Nobel Prize in 2024
No matter what you think of LeCun or his opinions… he’s damn well worth listening to with attention and respect.
- Comment on Israeli society is truly gone so outrageously far right that translation from Hebrew is now disabled on X (#Twitter) as of Nov16 3 weeks ago:
TBH this is damning both of auth-right antisemite “extreme free speech” X/Musk, as well as of religious genocidal right-wing Israeli politics
- Comment on In reversal, Trump supports House vote to release Epstein files 3 weeks ago:
This
You kill bulls quietly in the Senate not the Houe
- Comment on Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now 4 weeks ago:
En-shit-ti-fi-cation
- Comment on When Did VLC's Site Get Ads? 4 weeks ago:
Probably to recoup hosting costs for downloads
- Comment on Is the EU spy unit about to become reality? Von der Leyen wants her own secret service 4 weeks ago:
Please let them overthrow dictatorial regimes like the USA
- Comment on You can only read this scentence if you can read this scentence. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on To what extent dœs mass-overwriting files with random data wear out NAND storage ? 5 weeks ago:
Now if the drive contains personal data but you want to resell it, boot into the BIOS and see if there is a TRIM SSD / SECURELY DELETE SSD option. Doing a manufacturer’s “Trim” on the disk will delete it completely and securely.
- Comment on To what extent dœs mass-overwriting files with random data wear out NAND storage ? 5 weeks ago:
If you want to destroy storage, whether it’s spinning platters or NAND SSD, the single fastest most effective way is with a hand drill. A few holes through the media will make it unrecoverable.
For an SSD, overwriting to wear out the media will take years of continuous writes and you will get slow degradation as blocks wear out, not a nice clean failure.
Physical destruction is the way to go.
- Comment on Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their name 5 weeks ago:
FB and its inevitable relationship with authoritarian governments is the problem.
Just being on Fedi is being part of the free-speech (and in this case, beer) solution.
- Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 5 weeks ago:
per OP, signal reached T.C. in 1998
T.C. is ~12 ly away
if they responded that year we’d have got the message in 1998 + 12 = 2010
that was 15 years ago - Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 5 weeks ago:
If you’re thinking of the “Wow” signal, it turned out to be a magnetar
- Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 5 weeks ago:
Tau Ceti is only 12 ly away
So they’re like 15 years late replying to the pussy call. Either they are too old and slow or they have so much already they’re just too busy
