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- Comment on ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets 2 days ago:
You need to learn how to use a microwave. It’s way more versatile than people think. And more of a steamer than an oven. cookanyday.com/collections/recipes
(This is not an analogy about LLMs anymore.)
- Comment on Tailscale Services GA: App-aware connectivity with more control 4 days ago:
Just tried it, Services doesn’t work with funnel. You need to be on the tailnet.
- Comment on AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins. 5 days ago:
Gpt3 completions would contain spelling errors if the prompt had errors, as if it was mocking you lol
- Comment on Tailscale Services GA: App-aware connectivity with more control 6 days ago:
Immich needs this, right? I remember it not working on a tailscale funnel path.
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 2 weeks ago:
No the poorly redacted ones were real, from the first release. They were not redacted by the DOJ, they were old court documents. Afaik all of them were also already released unredacted.
- Comment on Google Translate is vulnerable to prompt injection 2 weeks ago:
Not working for me, is my country not getting old school translation models? Is it already fixed?
- Comment on Google Translate is vulnerable to prompt injection 2 weeks ago:
Not in a meaningful sense. It used to be actual string-to-string translation, now it’s extracting the translation from a question-answer zero shot.
- Comment on Google Translate is vulnerable to prompt injection 2 weeks ago:
It’s only an issue with LLMs. And it’s because they’re generative, text completion engines. That is the actual learned task, and it’s a fixed task.
It’s not actually a chat bot. It’s completing a chat log. This can make it do a whole bunch of tasks, but there’s no separation of task description and input.
- Comment on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Microsoft Teams 3 weeks ago:
It’s the EC doing software. They will somehow find a way to pay at least double and it’ll be declared a success if someone manages to install it on a reviewer’s laptop.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 3 weeks ago:
Let’s start with normalizing it for businesses like game companies! Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good!
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but only when it’s the dominant form of doing business? We have a bunch of them in my country but we’re definitely still capitalism.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 3 weeks ago:
My country has a bunch of syndicates, even some big coops, it’s not uncommon in Europe. You just need the legal structures for it.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 3 weeks ago:
You talk as if with corporations a single person can be held responsible…
You can have syndicates and get close to socialism
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 3 weeks ago:
Since when is “open image” gone for you? Are you sure it’s not the site blocking you? Many do that these days, but FF still has the option. There are some addons that can circumvent sites trying to block you (part of the functionality of addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/search_by_image/ for instance)
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 3 weeks ago:
“Open image…” is still there. If you’re not seeing it anymore, it’s sites taking it away from you. (I notice you didn’t check before getting outraged.)
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 3 weeks ago:
You can do it. F12->debugger->cog->uncheck “Show paused overly”, click the pause button. Very very few sites still work well that way. It just doesn’t make sense to have this functionality in a HTML5 world.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 3 weeks ago:
You were always able to turn it off, now it’s easier.
You haven’t seen this movie before with Firefox. All the ad stuff and sponsoring integrations like Pocket were always very easy to turn off.
- Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 4 weeks ago:
Seems like it’s down because investors think they didn’t spend enough on AI.
- Comment on UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake 1 month ago:
I mean, every chat starts with “Copilot is an AI and may make mistakes.”
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 1 month ago:
The law disagrees. Compression has never been a valid argument. A crunchy 360p rip of a movie is a mostly useless approximation but sharing it is definitely illegal.
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 1 month ago:
As you can learn from reading the article, they do also store the information itself.
They learn and store a compression algorithm that fits the data, then use it to store that data. The former part of this is not new, AI and compression theory go back decades. What’s new and surprising is that you can get the original work out of attention transformers. Even in traditional overfit models that isn’t a given. And attention transformers shine at generality, so it’s not evident that they should do this, but all models tested do it, so maybe it is even necessary?
Storing data isn’t a theoretical failure, some very useful AI algorithms do it by design. It’s a legal and ethical failure because openai etc have been claiming from the beginning that this isn’t happening, and it also provides proof of the pirated work it’s been trained on.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 1 month ago:
Is that an upgrade or a fresh install?
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 1 month ago:
Also because many software did version checks by doing a substring search “Windows 9”.
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 1 month ago:
AdBlock is also a rules format, obviously you run it with ublockorigin or Adguard etc.
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 1 month ago:
The AdBlock blocklist does accept cookie banners without concenting to tracking, when possible.
Check out the rules. It doesn’t just zap the overlay, it executes some custom js for every site.
- Comment on What an unprocessed photo looks like 1 month ago:
You could see the little 2x2 blocks as a pixel and call it RGGB. It’s done like this because our eyes are so much more sensitive to the middle wavelengths, our red and blue cones can detect some green too. So those details are much more important.
A similar thing is done in jpeg, the green channel always has the most information.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 months ago:
It’s not great.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 2 months ago:
Memory hogging browsers usually do release memory when pressured. You can take it further by getting extensions that unload unused tabs.
The problem electron apps that load the whole browser core over and over.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 months ago:
Doesn’t work. Any semi complex problem with multiple constraints and your team of AIs keeps running circles. Very frustrating if you know it can be done. But what if you’re a “fractional CTO” and you get actually contradictory constraints? We haven’t gotten yet to AIs who will tell you that what you ask is impossible.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 months ago:
What full ass changes have you made that can’t be done better with a refactoring tool?
I believe Claude will accept the task. I’ve been fixing edge cases in a vibe colleague’s full-ass change all month. Would have taken less time to just do it right the first time.