balder1991
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- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
I am a small sample to confirm that’s exactly it.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
My brother said his superior asked him to use more AI auto complete so that they can brag to investors that X percent of the company’s code is written by AI. This told me everything about the current state of this bullshit.
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 5 weeks ago:
In reality, this doesn’t affect the existing batteries we have, it’s just for future battery technology.
- Comment on aight... i'm out.. 1 month ago:
There’s a difference between OpenAI storing conversations and the LLM being able to search all your previous conversations in every clean session you start.
- Comment on aight... i'm out.. 1 month ago:
But the fact they OpenAI stored all input typed doesn’t mean you can make a prompt and ChatGPT will use it as context, unless you had that memory feature turned on (which allowed you to explicitly “forget” what you choose from the context).
You’re confusing what it means OpenAI to have a conversation stored and ChatGPT using that text and searchable context for every prompt you make.
- Comment on aight... i'm out.. 1 month ago:
Maybe for training new models, which is a totally different thing. This update is like everything you type will be stored and used as context.
I already never share any personal thing on these cloud-based LLMs, but it’s getting more and more important to have a local private LLM on your computer.
- Comment on Zuckerberg Lobbies Trump to Avoid Meta Antitrust Trial. 1 month ago:
No paywalled link: archive.is/1QR8H
- Comment on China plans world’s first fusion-fission power plant 1 month ago:
It’s more accurate to say they might be, but not necessarily. China is very aware of the benefits of keeping ahead technologically.
- Comment on MIT introduced a smart assistant for LLM 1 month ago:
Well yeah, but the article is about a paper that’s showing a strategy to improve planning capabilities in comparison to using LLMs as they are currently. It’s just research, they’re not saying to use that in production now, and I’d say it isn’t something the researchers are even worried about for this particular artifact.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 1 month ago:
I think the problem is there’s just too much work that needs to be put in these things and people don’t really think about it. Android has at this point almost 2 decades of refining the experience for phones, so it’s a good starting point.
But the most important thing I guess is software. People often neglect how much time and effort is put to refine software to the point it becomes polished and bug free. Android has a mature stack to build apps that is very difficult to replicate.
But to be more clear I didn’t mean just getting a degoogled Android and settle with it. Android could also evolve in other ways that aren’t in Google’s interest, such as allowing you to have a sort of Dex that’s actually a Linux Desktop Environment.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 1 month ago:
It’s much less effort to have something based on Android open source project though.
- Comment on Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos. 2 months ago:
At this point, I think it’s required to have a sort of alternate identity online and keeping anything private, photos of yourself and other information just offline. Except for government stuff, which requires your real identity.
- Comment on Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos. 2 months ago:
Brace yourselves, because this is only going to get worse with the current “vibe coding” trend.
- Comment on Move fast, kill things: the tech startups trying to reinvent defence with Silicon Valley values 2 months ago:
I’m starting to guess my parents who are already reaching their 70s are lucky people.
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 2 months ago:
Only those that criticize the government, somehow. “Oops, because of some complicated algorithm, it only affected people who posted the word ‘orange’ on social media recently.”
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 2 months ago:
Yeah the text makes many freestyle assumptions, although the overall sentiment is correct that these big companies and especially egocentric billionaires do stuff to trigger others simply for power display. I believe the text linked about it being a distraction for the new round of funding is the real reason.
- Comment on Grok Reveals Elon Musk Has ‘Tried Tweaking My Responses’ After AI Bot Repeatedly Labels Him a ‘Top Misinformation Spreader’ 2 months ago:
I mean, you can argue that if you ask the LLM alerting multiple times and it gives that answer the majority of those times, it is being trained to make that association.
But a lot of these “Wow! The AI wrote this” might just as well be some random thing that came from it just out of chance.
- Comment on Google will move Android AOSP development behind closed doors 2 months ago:
Not only that, the Android Police article mentions they had a lot of trouble merging the internal branches and the public branches, so I’m guessing as time went on they’ve diverged more and more.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 2 months ago:
Many apps do display the user karma though.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 2 months ago:
I remember listening to a podcast that’s about explaining stuff according to what we know today (scientifically). The guy explaining is just so knowledgeable about this stuff and he does his research and talk to experts when the subject involves something he isn’t himself an expert.
There was this episode where he kinda got into the topic of how technology only evolves with science (because you need to understand the stuff you’re doing and you need a theory of how it works before you make new assumptions and test those assumptions). He gave an example of the Apple visionPro being a machine that despite being new (the hardware capabilities, at least), the algorithm for tracking eyes they use was developed decades ago and was already well understood and proven correct by other applications.
So his point in the episode is that real innovation just can’t be rushed by throwing money or more people at a problem. Because real innovation takes real scientists having novel insights and experiments to expand the knowledge we have. Sometimes those insights are completely random, often you need to have a whole career in that field and sometimes it takes a new genius to revolutionize it (think Newton and Einstein).
Even the current wave of LLMs are simply a product of the Google’s paper that showed we could parallelize language models, leading to the creation of “larger language models”. That was Google doing science. But you can’t control when some new breakthrough is discovered, and LLMs are subject to this constraint.
In fact, the only practice we know that actually accelerates science is the collaboration of scientists around the world, the publishing of reproducible papers so that others can expand upon and have insights you didn’t even think about, and so on.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to Pinterest? 2 months ago:
Still what makes you think that an alternative isn’t going to get flooded with AI too? That ship has sank already.
- Comment on We all deserve better than this 2 months ago:
And the same applies to smartphones since a while ago.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 2 months ago:
Having more people help, but only to a certain extent. At some point, it just becomes difficult to moderate and having a higher number of casual users that don’t give a shit about the rules.
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 2 months ago:
Making Mercosur more valuable is a good thing for South America itself in the sense that it keeps countries from doing radical movements. For example, Venezuela was suspended from it because of their violation of human rights.
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 2 months ago:
Like this?
- Comment on Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes 2 months ago:
For c example, some conspiracy theories say that FOSS maintainers being trash talked and having their families threatened online might be state actors trying to get them to give up the project so that someone else can continue it and insert vulnerabilities.
- Comment on Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order 2 months ago:
This is true, but considering all the US government problems with China, if Apple does send your data to Chinese servers regardless of where you are, I’d guess governments in the US and Europe would make iPhones forbidden for all their sensitive personnel.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 2 months ago:
Maybe something to use only for fun, but check out Marginalia. It’s open source and as far as I know, runs in the guy’s computer at his house. It deprioritizes commercial websites and boosts small blogs instead.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 2 months ago:
There’s also the problem that there’s much more noise in the web nowadays. It becomes more difficult to filter out that’s good and what’s bad. Be too strict and you risk missing valuable but less polished information. Be too lenient, and you drown in low-quality, SEO-optimized content that prioritizes visibility over usefulness.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 2 months ago:
Also Homo Deus.