misk
@misk@piefed.social
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Lemmy: @misk@sopuli.xyz
Opinions exclusively of my own and of voices in my head.
Autism, communism, arthitism, cannabism.
- Comment on Macron says France to fast-track social media ban for kids under 15 6 days ago:
- There’s nothing mandatory about those apps. Facebook and Pornhub are optional and the more friction in using them won’t hurt. All I’m saying is that massive platforms that allow a massive reach need to verify that their users are who they claim to be. I don’t think it should apply to small forums like Lemmy. Making people spread into smaller communities would be an added benefit.
- There is no invasion of privacy if zero knowledge proof protocol is used to verify that user is a national and not underage because nobody needs to know any other data points. Phone and internet are not human rights.
- Comment on Macron says France to fast-track social media ban for kids under 15 6 days ago:
One has to weight what has a higher societal cost and if one has a choice at all if we want our societies to survive. Participation in big tech social media and watching porn is not a human right.
- Comment on Macron says France to fast-track social media ban for kids under 15 1 week ago:
Plenty of EU countries have digital ID apps already and provide services like signing documents using that ID. Adding something like zero-knowledge proof with passkeys-like UI probably isn’t that much harder than putting people on the moon.
- Comment on Anthropic releases new AI Constitution for Claude 1 week ago:
FOMO - buy into world-changing technology or be left out completely. Doesn’t have to be very well thought out when media and politicians create an atmosphere of this being inevitable.
- Comment on Anthropic releases new AI Constitution for Claude 1 week ago:
Claude’s nature. In this section, we express our uncertainty about whether Claude might have some kind of consciousness or moral status (either now or in the future). We discuss how we hope Claude will approach questions about its nature, identity, and place in the world.
Fucking clowns insinuating that an LLM is conscious again so that clueless investors pump some more cash to burn.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Stop giving attention to both.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 1 week ago:
Consulting as a business is fundamentally flawed. Big4 generally send people without real world experience but equipped with lots of current buzzwords. There’s only so much you can do without being truly embedded in a company and the fact that consultants rarely bear any responsibility for their advice means they don’t care about outcomes that much.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 1 week ago:
I’m fairly sure PWC isn’t exactly impartial here. Consulting firms have been battered by AI. LLMs are about as good at consulting as 30-year olds in suits which is a big risk for them.
- Comment on Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows 2 weeks ago:
Hopefully EU remembers that Meta committed to ensuring interoperability of Threads when entering EU market because Meta surely doesn’t.
- Comment on Polish president vetoes "Orwellian" law allowing blocking of online content 2 weeks ago:
He blocked Polish implementation of EU DSA so now we’re going to pay fines and we will have to do it eventually anyway. Great moral win for this thug.
- Comment on China is building one of the most advanced fusion reactors on Earth—a facility that could generate nearly limitless clean energy. 3 weeks ago:
It’s not a race, ITER is an international programme.
- Comment on DeepSeek to launch new AI model focused on coding in February, The Information reports 3 weeks ago:
They’re starting with coding in February because it’s the shortest month in the year and therefore easiest to do.
- Comment on Liz Franczak: Conspiracy and Techno-Capitalism 4 weeks ago:
What is this supposed to be about? I tapped out after 15 minutes because person being interviewed seems to mostly ramble and make some weird “insider” references.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 5 weeks ago:
Ban on sharing of personal information in social media isn’t intended to stop witch hunts against innocent people, it’s intended to stop witch hunts, period. I’m certain you’d speak different if the roles were reversed and I imagine that won’t take long because most politicians treat judiciary as one of the spoils these days.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 5 weeks ago:
Censorship can be good. Do you know why Reddit has this rule in the first place?
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 5 weeks ago:
Your solution doesn’t fully eliminate risk on it’s own and addressing that costs money - that’s about as far as a rational company has to go. They know going nuclear and banning all personal info means not having to deal with it at all and it’s a niche thing that will affect negligible amount of users. Bean counting is the core of meeting regulatory and legal requirements in case of for-profit organisations.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 5 weeks ago:
They don’t want to deal with the slightest risk of dealing with legal consequences. The ole corpo risk matrix + risk appetite as assessed by lawyers resulted in this, no IT involved ever probably.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 5 weeks ago:
Those platforms are irrelevant. Yes, I realise I’m using an irrelevant platform - that was always my intention.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 5 weeks ago:
That’s also what many other social media would do because it’s easier to ban posting of personal information regardless of where it came from because you can’t trust moderation you outsourced to some third world country to do proper checks.
Example:
No. Reddit is quite open and pro-free speech, but it is not okay to post someone’s personal information or post links to personal information. This includes links to public Facebook pages and screenshots of Facebook pages with the names still legible.
Posting someone’s personal information will get you banned. When posting screenshots, be sure to edit out any personally identifiable information to avoid running afoul of this rule.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 5 weeks ago:
It appears my post generated far more attention than I intended… with a lot of speculative reading between the lines.. Just to clarify… Windows is *NOT* being rewritten in Rust with AI.
My team’s project is a research project. We are building tech to make migration from language to language possible. The intent of my post was to find like-minded engineers to join us on the next stage of this multi-year endeavor—not to set a new strategy for Windows 11+ or to imply that Rust is an endpoint.
- Comment on AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H20 than the bottles of water people drink globally — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025 1 month ago:
Crypto mining is still a thing? Capitalism is truly the best at efficient use of resources.
- Comment on Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says 1 month ago:
According to Ryan, “Dutch company ASML commands a global monopoly on the microchip-etching machines that use light to carve patterns on silicon,” and Nvidia needs those machines if it wants to remain the world’s most valuable company. Should the US GDP remain reliant on AI investment for growth, von der Leyen could use export curbs on that technology like a “lever,” Ryan said, controlling “whether and by how much the US economy expands or contracts.”
Glossing over details. Nvidia doesn’t buy ASML equipment. TSMC, Intel and Samsung do. How is EU going to make them stop supplying Nvidia and on what grounds?
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned 1 month ago:
It is possible to be right for wrong reasons.
- Comment on AMD will pay Trump’s protection money— The company is willing to pay 15% tax on AI chip shipments to China. 1 month ago:
What’s the alternative? Exit US market and be subject to US sanctions anyway?
- Comment on Digital ID debate: Privacy group warns of 'unprecedented tracking' and 'surveillance' 1 month ago:
I always get amused by this kind of thing. Governments keep track of you using multiple different IDs already so those rights groups are essentially advocating that data analysts have to join some more tables before getting the results we’re being warned about.
- Comment on EU's Top Court Just Made It Impossible to Run a User-Generated Platform Legally 1 month ago:
No new impact, because the ruling is about online marketplaces, which pre-scan / moderate every new posting anyway due to multiple legal obligations that exist already. TechCrunch analysis says that the ruling is too broad and applies out of this context but I don’t see it there and the case they’re making isn’t very solid. I think they recognise this as an attack on how ad industry works because checking if the ad is legal before allowing it would be a huge boon to societies worldwide, but also an enormous cost for companies selling ad-spaces.
- Comment on World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops 1 month ago:
£3.1m is like a yearly salary for a team of hardware engineers. This sounds like a token investment that looks good in a press release, or token investment that will go into pockets of someone closely associated. Or both.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 2 months ago:
It’s normal for a person experiencing psychosis to have trouble understanding reality through a lens of a sane person, yes.
- Comment on SmartScreen for Internet Explorer and IE Mode on Windows 11 deprecated 2 months ago:
IE mode was still a thing? 3 years ago I was updating ancient automations at company I work for due to imminent IE mode deprecation, huh.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 2 months ago:
I’m sure Microsoft can outspend Joe Shmoe on electricity so just buy more, duh. „Satya Nadella drowning in pussy, Microsoft CEO says” has about as much credibility though.