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- Comment on What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet? 1 day ago:
Yeah it’s just a thought exercise hypotheticals. There’s no way we’d move off TCP/UDP while it’s still capable of doing most of what we need.
- Comment on What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet? 1 day ago:
BGP is fragile
DNS is insecure
SMTP is insecure
We patch and plug, layer protocols and encryption.
I think if we started over today, we could do better. But I also think if we started over today, we’d just try to wire in more crypto/blockchain bullshit.
- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin is dead, HP is buying the carcass. 1 day ago:
Not for their management and product teams :)
Everyone wants in on AI. Humane probably has a decent, well-versed AI engineering staff, some of its own training models, and maybe even its own functional ready-to-go cloud resources.
116 Mil for a turn-key AI development staff with models and servers doesn’t seem unreasonable if you have HP money.
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 1 day ago:
They still make some good ones, but nothing on the consumer side. The 25k page/month enterprise models are great as home printer. If you shell out about 5k, toner is cheap at volume, scanning/fax/copy is smooth.
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 1 week ago:
Yeah, whatever the case, They were all trained on data from the public. The very least they can do is make the models available to the public.
- Comment on Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone 1 week ago:
If they do, the cops and mid-level government agencies don’t know. When that recent phone reboot patch when in, they were losing their minds because a bunch of phones sitting around for weeks to be cracked ended up encrypted.
- Comment on It’s Time To Rethink 6G. 1 week ago:
I live in a busy metro-suburban area, I don’t even have 5G everywhere. Hell, there are a couple of small spots where I don’t have any service.
Any more than 4k streaming on one device seems superfluous. If they’re making it just for homes, then maybe. I need to be able for 2-3 people to stream while I download from steam and make send a 4k camera stream out to the net.
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 1 week ago:
I am SUPER happy to have a model that performs as well, if not better than OpenAI, that I can run myself. Completely overjoyed. But I’m not certain that they actually pulled it off for that price. They have everything to gain from lying about it. Knowing the hit the US companies would take from it, it could have been state-sponsored. I’m not saying that it was, but if it were, we’d likely never know.
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 1 week ago:
You have an amazing memory.
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 1 week ago:
I think you need to use your imagination a little more
- Comment on Will AI ever be able to keep up with real writers? 1 week ago:
Disagree, I had it generate a story a night for over a year for my kid.
You can’t say just generate a bedtime story for my ex-year-old it won’t have any creative spark.
I had a nice long prompt kind of mad libs style. I define the protagonist, the antagonist, mandatory people to meet along the way, depth of imagery in world building, subjects to avoid, the target audience. Every night I’d ask him for details he wanted to hear about the story or where he wanted it to take place or who the bad guys were going to be. It did a fantastic job he demanded a new story every night and would get very upset if I didn’t have time.
- Comment on Will AI ever be able to keep up with real writers? 1 week ago:
Newspaper and magazine articles absolutely. Short form journalism just doesn’t know it’s dead yet. LLMs are perfectly capable of replacing any short form article where somebody poured over it for a few hours.
To be clear this is specifically on writing the article not on researching it or having the original idea.
But our current forms of AI aren’t capable of handling anything long form content above children’s books. If we ever uncover AGI, then very possibly.
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 1 week ago:
I mean, so did Target. But you can’t expect these companies to resist when we’re barely in the streets. From their perspective the average person doesn’t care and the government is going to fuck them with a jackfruit. So they’re going to sign with the government until we show that we give a fuck, and boycotting products is barely going to move the needle.
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 2 weeks ago:
I personally don’t think there will be another election
I give it 60:40 there will have to be a coup to get him out this time.
dear lord, I hope we have it in us.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 2 weeks ago:
The whole of stack overflow is now siphoned into every public AI.
It died a couple of years ago They just haven’t realized it yet.
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 2 weeks ago:
I’m more worried about Elon ruining around in the treasury department at the moment.
Whatever they call the golf for the next 4 years is just whatever they call it for the next 4 years.
Google does a lot of geolocation dependent map drawing where borders are shown for one location and one country and in another location in another country
- Comment on TikTokers offered $5,000 to join Facebook and Instagram 4 weeks ago:
It’s so strange. When they released reels it was really bad. It just kept force feeding me altright bs and conspiracy theories. Then one day it fed me exactly what I wanted to see and it was like a whole day of just interesting informative content every time I pop back to it I thought oh that’s kind of nice having alternatives is good.
And then it would just flip back and forth randomly. On a given day I’d either get nothing I wanted to see or I would get a bunch of great content.
- Comment on Instagram Is Censoring Abortion Pill Info 4 weeks ago:
When social media becomes state run media…
- Comment on Funded in 5 minutes - the open source modular mini computer 'Pilet' is on Kickstarter 1 month ago:
Every time I see a physical keyboard on a portable device I have this nostalgia for my old Motorola Droid.
Then the lizard brain tags out for monkey brain, and I remember how unpleasant the thing was to type on. The only reason it was cool was because the onscreen was so small that that it was pleasant by comparison.
- Comment on Funded in 5 minutes - the open source modular mini computer 'Pilet' is on Kickstarter 1 month ago:
The device is enormous. The renderings at the top make it look like this cute little retro thing, It’s an inch+ thick and has the footprint of an iPad mini. I hate linear keyboards, and the keys look uncomfortable as hell to type on, but you should be able to hit each one easily with your finger. I’m worried it’s just a bunch of micro switches on top of PCB.
It is unclear if it actually comes with the pie.
The indeterminate shipping fee is separate after the campaign ends.
It’s in this weird spot, If it were a standard consumer product the price would be way too high. But I worry that for a Kickstarter the price is actually too low.
- Comment on Discovery Plus is raising its prices 1 month ago:
Voice dictation censored it. Samsung buried the censorship deep enough in the settings that I don’t care to turn it on and off and I’m not big on hog wash so you’re all just going to have to use your imagination I know you can do it.
- Comment on Discovery Plus is raising its prices 1 month ago:
Discovery literally destroyed every channel in their lineup. Every scientific or educational channel is now infiltrated thoroughly with money making b*******.
It was trash TV before they even decided to try streaming it.
- Comment on Study reveals AI chatbots can detect race, but racial bias reduces response empathy 2 months ago:
The problem with using GPT as it is currently, you can ask it the same question 27 tomes and get 18 different answers. One of them a hallucination.
- Comment on Silicon Valley’s obsession with AI looks a lot like religion 2 months ago:
I think it would be really cool to spin up a open source project using conventional programming and one of these light duty models as a teaching device. Do some specific tuning around different subjects, also set up guardrails keeping them boxed into the subject at hand or related topics that have been tested.
- Comment on “A Digital Prison”: Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia 2 months ago:
Damn, Wonder if the us is going to be there in a decade… Really nice read.
- Comment on Trump transition team seeks to scrap car-crash reporting rule opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla 2 months ago:
Well that sounds fine let’s make a report up and release it. Water stand on a few extra crashes to make sure that it’s reasonable.
- Comment on Silicon Valley’s obsession with AI looks a lot like religion 2 months ago:
TL;DR opinion piece: author has a history with religion, there are a few religious nutters in AI who either make outlandish religious claims, or something close enough that they can be interpreted literally. Article spends a very long, marginally painful time trying to imply all AI people are worshiping AI.
For what it’s worth, I think all AI people are worshiping money. They’re not in there because it’s God they’re in there because it’s might make them wealthy.
Wants people get over all this BS, We can just make cool tools out of it.
- Comment on Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist 2 months ago:
It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse
JFC what a fucking slimeball.
The chip is great and all, they used it to run a specially designed but useless calculation that’s hard to do in conventional computing. It’s not like the thing is going to give you the 7 septillionth digit of pi, Even the fact that it might be able to break RSA is more of a quirk in RSA than anything.
- Comment on Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled 2 months ago:
I am pretty much dedicated to notebooks these days and choices are VERY limited.
For desktops though, absolutely.
- Comment on Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled 2 months ago:
Most of the distros run steam great out of the box. Our biggest problem is video card updates breaking crap. Linux Tech Tips scared a bunch of people off by not reading a warning message on an update then refusing to seek any help when something broke.