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- Comment on 'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director 2 days ago:
Fortunately, everybody with any sort of experience with LLMs already learned that. Nothing with LLMs are absolute. It’s all weights, and depending on the situation, it might choose to follow one “IMPORTANT” instruction over another.
The whole concept of Asimov’s rules was obsolete from the get go.
- Comment on Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work — not take more time off 2 days ago:
Taking more time off costs PTO. That’s how vacation days work, asshole.
- Comment on 'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director 3 days ago:
Anybody who says that missed the point of the short stories he wrote in I, Robot.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Quietly Stopped Updating In April. Basically No One Noticed. 4 days ago:
ie: Nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t get the high praise of Bluetooth. It’s one of the worst fucking protocols from a security standpoint.
Oh, it requires a simple PIN to connect? And often the PIN is just 0000? And most devices just connect unauthenticated anyway?
And even if you legit connect to a device you own, it often has terrible issues reconnecting to that device. It’s even worse than HDMI handshaking.
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But, but, but, SpaceX stock!
- Comment on The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired 2 weeks ago:
H264 is already old news. We be using H265 and AV1 now.
- Comment on AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking 3 weeks ago:
I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it.
Then those companies will die, as they should. There are also companies who will fail to adapt, either because they are so anti-AI that they actively refuse to do so, or because they are luddites that weren’t well-tuned to technological changes in the first place. Those companies will also die, as they should.
What’s left are companies having measured conversations about how to make use of this new technology without ignoring the problem areas, figuring out ways to work around them, being careful of security implications, and acknowledging the importance of human review and architectural design.
This is how all bubbles and trendchasing works. Investors in the 2000s learned pretty quickly that dumping billions of dollars into every company that was even vaguely connected to the Internet is not a long-term business strategy. All topics have nuance, and everything must be consumed in moderation.
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 4 weeks ago:
Dunno why you’re getting downvoted. Had a co-worker fully adopt a VR workplace set up, which saved on physical monitors. So the technology had promise, even in a professional setting.
- Comment on Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days 4 weeks ago:
They funded some of the best VR games ever made.
Oculus Studios published Beat Sabre, so I’ll give you a pass.
- Comment on Big Tech slapped with $3.5bn in fines for using your personal data to train AI — and 'it could be only the beginning,' warns Surfshark 1 month ago:
This is also rich coming from its parent company, which is involved in the Incogni scam.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 1 month ago:
Your responses are the equivalent of “I don’t use the internet, because nothing beats the experience of walking to your library and looking through the research material yourself”.
Sure, I can do all of those things. But, sometimes I don’t want to spend hours going through the searches, bang my head against the wall with useless tech forums, and get frustrated with shifting through the results. The LLM can get it done in a minute or two, and I can still ask follow-up questions if I don’t trust anything, or want clarification.
And yes, like Wikipedia, I still review the sources and review the code.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 1 month ago:
I also just plain don’t know what I’d use any LLM for.
PewDiePie has been on a tear lately with recommending everybody switch to Linux and recently experimenting with LLMs. He put out a legit good local LLM project that showcases the different kinds of things you can do with a model.
My biggest LLM use cases have been:
- A replacement for search, since you typically need multiple searches and multiple sources to get the information you need
- Code generation, because it’s so good at producing entire fully-featured utilities or just let it spin away at implementing some new functionality
- Helping me out with some random Linux error or difficulty, because support forums are fucking garbage
- Comment on This month's Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and possibly your PC's stability 1 month ago:
Well, when the conversations comes up talking about the Windows 11 crashing or has some horrible bug again, then yes, they will definitely tell you. It’s kinda hard not to educate people that it’s fairly easy to just switch to an OS that actually works.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 1 month ago:
I generally favor local LLM usage, but I will sometimes use Kagi’s assistant tools. I trust them to throw out my data a fuckton more than I do Google.
- Comment on IBM and Red Hat commit $5bn to secure open-source software 2 months ago:
Remember, IBM is the company that fucked over CentOS when they acquired it, and then tried to block their forked OSs from getting updates.
IBM’s acquisitions over the last couple of decades have ended in sadness, so I wouldn’t trust that company to take out my trash, much less “secure enterprise open-source software”.
- Comment on US | Anthropic is blacklisted by the Pentagon and being used by the NSA at the same time 2 months ago:
OpenAI already at the stage of begging for a government bailout. So, they are in the process of imploding, and Hegseth will come crawling back to Anthropic, anyway.
- Comment on Milei’s proposal to allow ‘non-human corporations’ run by AI causes concern in Argentina 2 months ago:
At first, I thought this was the next step after the whole AI minister is preggers with 83 AI babies scam, but realized that was Albania. Still, “non-human corporations” is close enough on the corruption scale.
- Comment on How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart 2 months ago:
So, you’re a robot?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Government incompetence and lack security practices have been around waaaaay longer than AI.
- Comment on AI Assistants Are Leaking Your Conversations 2 months ago:
What’s this, you say? Does it involve running LM Studio with a GLM-4.7 Flash model? And it only costs the kilowatts for my video card? And it can only go out to the internet if I allow it to?
- Comment on AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent 2 months ago:
“AI data center”? Do we actually know it’s a dedicated data center for AI?
You and I are typing a message on a server that’s hosted in a data center.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Gen X here. You want me to pay $60-70 for a game with Denuvo crap on it, littered with microtransactions, and has shit scores on MetaCritic?
Fuck that bullshit!
- Comment on Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks 3 months ago:
Well, only when they are forced to. The rest of the time, it’s all “here my social security number and credit card and all of my PII”.
- Comment on Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed 3 months ago:
Solid journalism from… *reads notes* Yahoo Finance.
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 3 months ago:
No, no website does it. There is no such thing as 100% uptime. If it happens, great, but I can guarantee you that no website even aims for 5 nines of uptime.
Google is the benchmark for website availability and in 2022 they had an outage that lasted an hour, meaning they didn’t meet 4 nines for the year.
In 2022. In the other years, they had 100% uptime.
Also, yes, there are plenty of clients that ask for five-nines. Is it realistic? Probably not. But, they definitely ask.
If you miss your SLO target for the year, then you missed your SLO target. If you’re down for 60 minutes but fine for the other 11 months, 29 days and 23 hours, you still missed your yearly SLO.
I understand how SLO targets work. If somebody is asking for a five-nines as an SLO, they are basically asking for 100% uptime, because there is no such thing as a “five minute outage”, especially not one that is fixable without total automation.
Again, a human hasn’t even gotten paged and out of bed in 5 minutes time.
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 3 months ago:
No, that’s infinite nines, which isn’t possible.
It’s not impossible. Large reliable websites do it all the time. It’s call 100% uptime.
Sure, it’s measured per year, and sometimes they have some outage that breaks the record. But, it is possible to have 100% uptime throughout the year.
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 3 months ago:
Five nines means that you need people at their desks in shifts ready to start fixing something the moment there’s a problem
No, it means you don’t have outages. Ever.
Five-nines is something like 7 minutes of downtime throughout the entire year. At best, you might have automated failover systems that require tiny outages. No human involving, though, unless you’re deal with some major breakage that would have killed the five-nines commitment that year, anyway.
It’s takes a human something like 5-10 minutes just to get out of bed and figure out the situation, anyway.
- Comment on The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril 3 months ago:
The NYT is now compromised. Has been for several years now.
