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- Comment on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Microsoft Teams 1 day 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 2 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 1 week 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 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Is that an upgrade or a fresh install?
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
It’s not great.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung 2 months ago:
That you don’t need AGI for a paperclip maximizer was obvious a decade ago antipope.org/…/dude-you-broke-the-future.html
- Comment on AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles 2 months ago:
More like 1, sometimes 2, errors in 90% of wikipedia’s longest and most active articles.
- Comment on I dunno 2 months ago:
And in some languages a number can be used as a name of a variable or a function, so it can be anything really
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 months ago:
The article is about a XAML bug, which affects a lot of core components, when used in a corporate setting.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 months ago:
To a billion parameter matrix inverter? Probably not too hard, maybe not at those speeds.
To a GPU, or even just the functions used in GenAI? We don’t even know if those are possible with analog computers to begin with.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 months ago:
But it only does 16x16 matrix inversion.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 3 months ago:
Will they pay for it though? The real cost of it, I mean.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 3 months ago:
Disks or partitions?