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Rhaedas

@ Rhaedas @fedia.io

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There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

  • A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

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  • Yes. You can either give them your real one, or not. That's the point being made. Actually the point of the whole page is that just loading a website tells a huge amount about you, even if you are behind a vpn and extensions to minimize your fingerprint. You are a product for sale.

  • Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Because Wheels May Fall Off

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  • It might be better if it was made of cardboard or cardboard derivatives.

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  • A lot changed over those decades, so grouping it all together seems a bit too broad.

  • Notepad++ creator threatens legal action over macOS port of open-source app — developer says port is fine, but branding is too far

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  • The funny part is, it sounds like he could have been successful, but it sounds like his prompting for the port omitted a lot of important things to consider. He may have just done "make this run on a Mac". I think if he had mentioned it was a port, one of the major LLMs would have known to change enough about it to make it different and avoid this.

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  • It's just not great in Wine. I ran across someone else's post just now asking for any other editor that can do comparison editing like it because of that fact. It's so useful in Windows, but graphically it's a pain in anything else, and really needs a port. A legit one.

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  • Imagine UBI and allowing robots and AI for the mundane tasks that are dangerous or boring. The jobs no one wants to work.

  • Do you think every generation thinks their time growing up was the best?

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  • Young adult in the 80-90s was peak. I think things would be different if we could take a glimpse into the future and realize how good we had it. There were problems, but most weren't predicaments yet. And it's definitely the era that we point back to and say "we didn't listen".

  • Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown

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  • It can be, but it depends on how dependent one is on various applications and sources. I'm in the process of doing such a thing, but I'm taking the slow route so I don't break everything. Meaning I'm moving one thing at a time off Snap, and then I'll be closer to a Debian/Mint DE version in the switch over than if I did it right away with so much tied to it being Ubuntu.

    For a casual user it may not be that dramatic and just a matter of moving data and learning a new desktop look. I'd still suggest the Debian version of Mint over Debian if they went to Ubuntu for the easy use.

  • With things like the Tesla Optimus and similar robotics, how far are we from "I, Robot?"

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  • Even system prompts or core training gets ignored in LLMs. It's not so hard coded that it will shut down or reset the thinking. I don't even think they could do that, based on how transformers work. Even after a few years now, it's still a black box as far as knowing for sure what will come out. Not black, more very opaque, as they have been able to do things like the Golden Gate bridge experiment. But that's one thing in a billion (or more?) connections. A long way from fixed codes of conduct.

  • Battle of the translators

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  • "Gracie is pregnant."

  • Battle of the translators

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  • "Caught"

    Happened to mention something about them, totally not caring about the intent at all.

  • Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

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  • Well, encryption is hard and expensive. /s

  • Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them.

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  • That visor is some under-appreciated technology.

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  • I know, I was there. I was on Quantum Link, which AOL would later buy out for the infrastructure to build on. I was with Compuserve and Prodigy before moving to AOL. Webpage commerce was already a thing before the crash, it just wasn't as established as it is now. Even Amazon had started going past just books into selling other things. I'll agree that what the web would be used for and how was still being figured out, but it was far past any niche thing by the late 90s. The wiki on the crash is an interesting history read. In the end, it was a stock crash because people were literally making up companies that didn't exist and getting money for it. Getting back to the topic at hand, sounds a bit familiar.

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  • You can't retain your level of intelligence forever, unfortunately. He's probably heading the same way I've seen people I watched get older and slip into things that I know they would have laughed off years before. Now he may have been a bigot and an asshole before, but him not understanding LLMs and their limitations suggests a definite decline in reasoning, from the person who helped me grasp evolutionary theory and the scale of time with his books.

  • Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them.

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  • So R2D2 is La Forge? He seems to get everything fixed just in time.

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  • I said questionable in nature in comparison to the other two bubbles, which were established technology to build off of.

    I agree on usefulness, to a point. It's being used everywhere, and while an LLM breaking in some situation can be countered, look how many places it's being given full reins and crossed fingers. Knowing it makes mistakes. Bad mistakes, Maybe not often, but sometimes you need as close to 100% as possible, with redundancies in place.

    I use LLMs myself, and in just using it for things that aren't critical, I'll catch that small percentage and realize, it's not good enough for most things it's being put in. I do find it amazing that it produces what it does, but that doesn't make me ignore when it breaks gloriously.

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  • Yes. It's like code comments.

    We all do that, so understand your point.

    All of us...

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  • This works, until it doesn't. And then you can't go back and find the mistake, and save time by both realizing the error part and not having to redo it all to get there.

    I get it, I was bad about that too, but any form of writing improves the understanding of the concepts because it uses a different part of the brain that I think retains better than the one doing the thinking work.