Dojan
@Dojan@pawb.social
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Software developer by day, insomniac by night. Send me pictures of baby bats to make my day.
- Comment on Owners, not renters: Mozilla's open source AI strategy 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s the right approach at all. Mozilla has been taking some incredibly dubious steps these past few years, when we need them to be the bastion of the free and open internet. They shouldn’t be refocusing on a bullshit technology they don’t have the resources to keep up with.
The goal of the big AI companies isn’t to provide a good and helpful product. They’re jamming it in every nook and cranny hoping they’ll find a niche where users get hooked on it. Then once they’ve become essential, and they control it, they can do whatever they wish.
My biggest worry here is not OpenAI. It’s Google, with Meta a close second. Google holds a significant stake in so many markets. They control one of the most used operating systems on the market. They control one of the biggest email services. They control the most used search engine. They control the browser with the highest market-share.
They effectively have the ability to fully control information.
Firefox isn’t entirely under Google’s control. If Google decides to do something shitty with Chromium, like oh I don’t know, phasing out Manifest V2, Mozilla and Firefox isn’t beholden to follow suit. Unlike every other Chromium based browser. Now, that’s just one example of things they could do, but they could do literally anything to the web-standard, and if they’re the only player on the market, the open web is fucked.
Without the web, what do we do? The web connects billions in ways both meaningful, and not. It democratises information. Wikipedia for example would be entirely impossible without the web. This platform we’re on right now wouldn’t exist without a free and open web.
That’s what Mozilla should be working to protect.
- Comment on OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records 3 weeks ago:
Well, the short of it is; ChatGPT fed a man’s delusions of being targetted by them, and surviving multiple imagined assassination attempts, even pointing the finger to the man’s own mother, culminating in a murder-suicide.
It’s not the only time ChatGPT has coaxed someone into killing someone else either, the video brings up another example.
Nor is it the only time ChatGPT has coaxed someone into suicide. Wikipedia has started collating a list on the subject!
- Comment on OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records 3 weeks ago:
Since ChatGPT already does, why not?
- Comment on Microsoft just open-sourced bitnet.cpp, a 1-bit LLM inference framework. It let's you run 100B parameter models on your local CPU without GPUs. 6.17x faster inference and 82.2% less energy on CPUs. 3 weeks ago:
We already have that. It’s like, you put the AI in your brain. You are the AI.
- Comment on Has bad branding ever turned you off from software, FOSS or not? 2 months ago:
Ooh. I don’t think I’ve encountered the term used like that before.
- Comment on Has bad branding ever turned you off from software, FOSS or not? 2 months ago:
Handicap slur?
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’s what was subtly hinting at.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 months ago:
Right, they’re supposed to be best at letting you cancel their services. They could handle the traffic, I’m just sure they choose not to.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 months ago:
Right. Microsoft’s website is struggling. The same Microsoft whose core business model is selling server/cloud infrastructure? Yeah, I definitely believe that.
- Comment on Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice? 5 months ago:
This is how I ended up with an orchidectomy of my sixth distal phalange. :(
- Comment on More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org 5 months ago:
Seems a bit like a waste of storage space.
- Comment on LibreOffice calls out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users 6 months ago:
I remember working with a library called HSSF to read excel files some years ago. It’s an acronym meaning Horrible SpreadSheet Format.
I echo the devs sentiment.
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 7 months ago:
Oh my gods please, I want this too!
- Comment on Paradox Interactive's return-to-office policy may be driving employees away from the studio 8 months ago:
Aye. My company has three offices, and people are allowed (and encouraged) to use those as necessary. People do enjoy the social aspect too, hell even I do, but I do best working from home. I’ve worked in offices previously and while I can manage it for a time, I eventually burn out. I don’t exactly wish to burn out so for me to be a functioning member of society I genuinely need work from home.
- Comment on Paradox Interactive's return-to-office policy may be driving employees away from the studio 8 months ago:
Good. Return to office is evil and needs to be stopped.
- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 9 months ago:
Oooh. Always interested in Godot stuff. Resonite is currently on Unity, but in a while they’re throwing Unity out the window. It’s just the audio system that’s coupled to Unity at the moment.
Resonite is small and friendly. Highly recommended.
- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 9 months ago:
There’s Resonite. And Matrix.