yozul

@yozul@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(ROOST) Robust Open Online Safety Tools: Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord raised $27M+ to provide free, open-source tools for improving child safety online.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, that’s pretty impressive. It’s pretty hard to get Discord on a list of companies and make me think they’re the ones slumming it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The biggest breach of US government data is under way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There can be two problems at once. It is a problem that the information was collected in the first place, and it is also a problem that Elon Musk now has access to it. Those things are both bad. I get that government overreach has been our biggest problem for a long time, but that doesn’t mean Musk is incapable of being an even bigger one given the opportunity, which he certainly seems to have now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenEuroLLM: European AI alliance unveils LLM alternative to Silicon Valley and DeepSeek⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If that’s what you took away from my post then I’m at a loss. What in the world would even make you think that? I’m just trying to have a civil conversation and all you’re giving me in response is weird reasons to blow me off that are completely disconnected from anything I’ve said. Why? If you don’t want to engage honestly you could just not reply. Why the repeated nonsense accusations? Honestly. I’m actually curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenEuroLLM: European AI alliance unveils LLM alternative to Silicon Valley and DeepSeek⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it is pure guesswork. It’s guesswork based on the people involved, the history of similar projects, and the language used around AI. Other then just taking everything at face value uncritically that’s all we have for now, because they haven’t done anything substantive. Just made vague promises. I can always hope to be wrong, but counting on tech bros to just do the right thing unprompted is foolish no matter what continent they’re on.

  And nobody said OpenAI is open source. I didn’t even imply that I believed anyone had said it. You’re just making weird accusations for no reason now. I just was trying to be nice and agree that AI “open source” is at least less terrible than OpenAI. Sorry for trying to look on the bright side of things, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenEuroLLM: European AI alliance unveils LLM alternative to Silicon Valley and DeepSeek⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There isn’t really much in the way of meaningful open source AI. What people call open source AI is really more analogous to releasing a pre-compiled binary with a license that gives you permission to reverse engineer it however you want. It’s very odd.

  It is at least better than just forcing you to run an app that just connects to their computer that’s actually running a binary equivalent that you don’t even have access to so they can keep track of everything you type, which is what OpenAI does, but it’s still not really open source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA| Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While this is broadly true, it’s important to remember that individual PBS and NPR stations can have pretty dramatically different funding breakdowns. Stations in big cities will barely even notice this, but stations in more rural areas can often depend pretty heavily on government funding. The last thing rural America needs right now is even less access to non-corporate media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US users dumped RedNote after Trump paused the TikTok ban⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, yeah, obviously. They chose RedNote because it was going to piss the people who banned TikTok off even more then TikTok did. There was never any other reason. I never saw anybody claim there was another reason. It was a giant middle finger to the people who took away their crappy app. They stuck it to the people who took away their favorite thing to do while taking 30 minutes in the bathroom, and then they went on with their lives when they got what they wanted. That is the thing that happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US users dumped RedNote after Trump paused the TikTok ban⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, what? People were obviously using RedNote as a protest against the TikTok ban. They got what they wanted, so they went back. That seems like they successfully stuck it to the US government to me.

  I wish we lived in a world where banning a brainrot app wasn’t the thing that US citizens cared about enough to stand up to the government, but that’s not the world we live in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 Has Finally Hit Overwhelmingly Positive On Steam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’s a good version of what it’s trying to be now, but I was promised a cyberpunk RPG, and what we got was a really terrible Ubisoft game with cyberpunk coat of paint that was eventually patched up to be a good Ubisoft game with a cyberpunk coat of paint. I still feel ripped off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of them even have it on all of the doors. It’s not very helpful if they hide it somewhere you’ll never find it if you didn’t memorize the entire owner’s manual though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Disco Elysium devs are working on a spiritual successor at new studio Longdue, though Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov aren't involved⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a big team that made that game. I know there were 6 full time writers for most of the development, and a pretty substantial art team as well. I don’t expect them to be able to fully recapture that lightning in a bottle that was Disco Elysium, but there was some pretty substantial talent working there. It’s certainly not a given, but it’s pretty reasonable to hope they can do something great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👩‍🦰💔⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, he can be the most important founding father of modern psychology and also have been wrong about everything he said. Let’s be real. Modern psychology is still very, very wrong about a lot of things. It’s a science in its infancy. Alchemists were wrong about everything, but their work made chemistry possible. Standing on the shoulders of giants doesn’t always mean those giants were right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one do you trust the most for your privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of those options obviously Signal.

  In reality I just use SMS because everyone I know is still using that or iMessage so what’s happening at my end is irrelevant to my privacy, and I wouldn’t send anything I wanted to be private from a phone at all. There are no good solutions for that.