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Kissaki

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  • Why is privacy important? Be specific.

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  • is a well-researched topic. The elimination of wolves, less so.

    There's plenty of research on wolves, their disappearance/eradication, and (incentivised, supported) reintroduction to Europe.

    A well fed wolf has little interest in breaking your door.

    I find this symbolism stupid. Wolves aren't exactly well known to attack doors.

    One approach to keeping the wolves fed might be UBI.

    They were talking about sheep becoming wolves, not wolves going hungry. Wolves will be wolves. A UBI won't change that.

  • Why is privacy important? Be specific.

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  • Why is privacy important? Be specific.

    That's how I prompt AI, not how I would address [a community of] people. But that's just me, I guess.

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  • The German passport allows services to verify age through you NFC reading your passport on your phone and confirmation of validity through intermediates state service. All they see is a confirmation of age requirement met. No name, no age, no address, no face.

    Some other countries have similar systems. It's already a EU directive to be implemented on a broader European level.

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  • What do you man by tell it to write good code?

    You mean specific prompts, which you mention afterwards, but as also hit and miss?

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  • Most projects don't have enough people or external interest for that kind of process.

    It would be possible to establish some tooling like that, but standard forges don't provide that. So it'd feel cumbersome.

    And in the end you're back at having contributors, trustworthiness, and quality control. Because testing and reviewing are contributions too. You don't want just a popularity contest (I want this) nor blindly trust unknown contribute.

  • Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot

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  • The because of training claim is wrong.

    Quoting the Gentoo post:

    Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories,

    It seems to be about GitHub pushing copilot usage, not them training on data. Moving away doesn't prevent training anyway. And I'm sure someone will host a mirror on hitting if they don't.

  • Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead

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  • Or maybe the bubble will pop, and we’ll have a repeat of 2008, except 100 times worse.

    The AI spending and stock is much more localized. It's not grown over more years and integrated into many financial systems. So the results may be much less severe.

  • Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead

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  • I've always bought Western Digital. The one time I bought Seagate I eventually had data loss. Stuck to WD ever since.

  • Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead

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  • I'm not sure feeding more misinformation to our systems and society is that good of an idea. I don't think it'd be an effective influencing strategy either.

  • Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die

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  • Additionally, patentable materials must be novel, useful, and a non-obvious inventive step. - Wikipedia

    What does the patent contain? Where is the non-obvious inventive step? Using an AI to impersonate someone doesn't strike me as novel, inventive, or surprising.

  • Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

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  • From The Software Quality and Productivity Crisis Executives Won’t Address (via on Lemmy)

    Executives aren’t ignorant. They have the data. They commission the surveys. They attend the conferences where CTOs present their concerns. They know that:

    • 91% of CTOs cite technical debt as the biggest challenge
    • 75% of projects are expected to fail
    • 69% of developers lose significant time to inefficiencies
    • Only 39% of projects meet success criteria
    • The recommended 15–20% investment in technical debt management yields better long-term returns than crisis spending

    Yet they choose:

    • Not to allocate recommended budgets for technical debt management
    • Not to make quality a strategic priority despite CTOs’ and developers’ concerns
    • Not to mention these challenges in public communications to shareholders
    • To celebrate AI productivity gains whilst developers report record inefficiency
    • To focus on the next hype cycle (AI) rather than address fundamental problems

    This isn’t a failure of knowledge. It looks to me like a failure of courage and integrity. A failure of the very concept of leadership.

  • Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

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  • If it's only vibe coding, going by vibe, being an expert makes no difference.

    If you go for thorough reviews and corrections, supposed code generation efficiency gains are typically offset by review and correction effort.

  • Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

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  • function GetRandomNumber(): return 42;

    It's a random number, what more do you want 🤷‍♂️ /s

  • Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

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  • An LLM wouldn't have made that mistake. /s

  • Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

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  • Prompt: On line 23, between the words fn and close, write void.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • So, between a copper wire, a banana, and wet mud, the mid-level stuff is the banana, right?

    I'll go for that, then.

  • Fluxer is another open-source Discord alternative

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  • It always feels great seeing Mumble mentioned, especially with such a positive sentiment. I was a core dev, or am but have been mostly inactive for a long time now.

    Discord with millions in funding and a dev team - Mumble with contributors you can count on one hand obviously can't keep up. If a community wants text messaging, that's just not Mumble's target of primarily voice communication. Whether that's because of limited resources/people or a deliberate target scoping.

    My clan briefly switched from Mumble to Teamspeak for a while. I was happy to see that the majority preferred Mumble and we moved back to Mumble back then. That was still before Discord was a thing.

  • Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein

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  • I assume it was a subset of languages. Only EN is much smaller than full with all languages.

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    What are your thoughts on apolitical people?

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  • Distancing from politics is a political act.

    Being embedded in a society formed by politics, they become beneficiary and victim to what others decide.

    I can empathize and understand why one would be apolitical. Some things need activism and political involvement, though. Investing the minimum is not that hard - if you at least know your sources. If they're aware of being a beneficiary and there's no immediate need for activism, I'm find with their political decision to be apolitical. If they ignore (glaring) issues, I may be a bit disappointed or sad.

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    What are your thoughts on apolitical people?

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  • I'm not sure if you expanded over broader society, but people of public institutions not making (public/visible) political remarks has good reasons: As representatives of the public institutions which are supposed to serve all citizens it's important they are seen and trusted to be neutral and serving the state, the public, everyone.

    If public servants talk one way or the other, others may lose trust.

    Obviously, right now people are losing trust, and for good reasons, for other reasons and prevalence.