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  • Where did the dust settle on Syncthing Fork?

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  • Why do so many AI company logos look like buttholes?

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  • I'd have thought it's a stylised asterisk, since it's meant to be a do-anything machine.

  • Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code - Ars Technica

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  • A lot of companies also have a mandate to use AI these days. Microsoft, for example.

  • Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9

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  • P2P wouldn't scale very well, though. It would be really complicated once you have more than a small handful of people.

    From what I remember, Lemmy had/has a similar problem, where the whole thing would start bogging down past a point, because all the connected instances would need to update each other, instead of a main hub they could query like more centralised networks would.

  • White House honors Harambe 10 years after his death, hailing him as a “true patriot"

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  • With this character's death, the thread of prophecy has been severed. Reload to restore the weave of fate, or persist in this doomed world you have created.

  • Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation

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  • Microsoft going out of business/doing severe restructuring or downsizing

    Although I wonder if they could. Microsoft seems like one of those "too big to fail" companies, where they'd never be allowed to fall on their face, since Azure and Exchange prop up so many things. It's not like there's a major second option for an OS if you just buy a computer off the shelf like a lot of people do. You either get a Windows or a Mac.

    If that’s the appetizer, how juicy’s the entree gonna be?

    At the risk of going on a tangent, isn't the entrée the appetiser? You don't have an appetiser, an entrée, and then the main course.

  • Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation

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  • It's also a big attack surface. Just like how a lot of malware looks for the browser password cache now, it doesn't take much for a malware developer to just go for the recall store. The malware doesn't need to pack in software to take screenshots, if the OS serves it up for them on a platter.

  • Might have been useful on a number of occasions

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  • I have much the same gripes about Voyager making the Warp 10 speed limit a universal hard limit, rather than something that the warp drive was simply not able to achieve.

    At least Discovery's could still pulled them back out of the rug with them not having to wring every single piece of dilithium for all it's worth.

    "If you go just a bit faster than the Voyager, the universe itself breaks, and all propulsion technologies are obsoleted past the threshold" is much harder to get around without something like Q shenanigans.

  • It's time to talk about my writerdeck

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  • The year of the word processor approaches

  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai says graduates booing AI will shape its future — and live with its consequences

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  • Also to rouse and inspire them.

    "I'm working on a machine that will make you guys redundant, and then I'll make those booing me see. l'll make you all see." is hardly going to do that.

    He would be much better off talking about how it was the stuff of science fiction not long ago, and how the graduates would be helping to push humanity forward, and make real, things that were also previously considered impossible.

    Some of the talks are also just really bad. I've seen a few, and they're little more than ads, or bragging about a thing the institution is doing that's unrelated to the graduates themselves. Saw one where the speaker was talking about how the college was using AI for various things. Why even have that in the graduates' speech?

  • OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday

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  • Distillation isn't stealing the original model, though. It just uses the models to make synthetic training data to train their own thing. They aren't stealing the model itself.

    Plus, a lot of companies do it. Anthropic's Claude was calling itself DeepSeek for a while.

    It also doesn't seem like as big a deal as Anthropic and Open AI make it look, IMO. Them treating it like a national security issue where the company gets its models stolen from under its nose just comes across like a media company claiming that every download is a copy they would otherwise have sold at full price, and thus they have accrued trillions of dollars in damages.

    I could, in theory, take a bunch of google Gemini outputs, and train a GPT-2 model on them. That doesn't mean that I've recreated Gemini, nor does it mean that i've stolen it from Google, either.

    To top it all off, it's not like their services were abused. The companies were presumably paid appropriately for the usage.

  • OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday

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  • Their reputation is also a bit in the toilet, because people hear "AI" and think of ChatGPT.

    So "man hospitalised after AI suggested he put glue on pizza for tackiness" would have people think he was using it, when he might well have been using a different LLM.

  • Vibe management

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  • The cost has also shot up because a lot of the new frameworks are much more token heavy than the old ones.

    So the original free plan might have made sense when people were only typing little questions into it, and using a handful of tokens, but is no longer cost-effective with things like modern agent pipelines constantly throwing tens of thousands of tokens at the service.

    I tried running a little locally hosted agent thing on my computer the other day, and it was feeding a hundred thousand tokens at the model every few minutes, because it was keeping all the files in context. Sure, it hit the cache a lot, and so the effective cost would be less, but it's still a lot more token usage than me poking the model with inane questions.

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    People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants In Their Area Than AI Data Centers

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  • Do they even make enough heat for that to be viable option? Most computer systems can handle a pretty low temperature before they start having problems because they're over-heating.

  • AI coders are carrying half-open laptops

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  • I don't know, it has the opposite effect, IMO.

    It just makes them seem obnoxious, since the example they chose was a parent who was distracted with the computer open in the changing room while they were supposed to be helping their children with their skates, and literally mentions how the other parents have to navigate around the thing.

    You'd be more inclined to think that they're a computer addict who can't put the the thing down for even a moment.

    On top of that, the video is basically a recipe to drop the laptop and have it shatter into fine powder, if you're holding it by the corner like that.

  • Trump says he’s seriously considering making Venezuela the 51st US state

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  • As many as they need to get a 51st 51st state.

  • New research shows weight loss is possible without GLP-1

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  • I'd be curious if there might also be a cultural aspect at play.

    Apparently in America, their portions tend to be quite large, since the expectation is to get as much for your money as possible. Anything you can't stomach can then be taken home to finish another day.

    Whereas many other places don't tend to do that. Food served in the restaurant is to be eaten there, and wanting a take-away container to take your meal home means paying extra for the container.

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    The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

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  • They're used for some trains now, though I think that a lot of them have since switched to rheostat or regenerative braking instead.

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    The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

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  • Slightly odd choice to use a motor instead of an eddy current brake or some such, when it's supposed to be a drop-in replacement for existing braking systems.

    Is it supposed to be a quick hybrid conversion system rather than just a brake?

    EDIT: I'm not sure if it is. The article makes it unclear, but going by the manufacturer's site, the electric motors are meant to replace the piston on the caliper, rather than using the motor itself as a brake.

    It's still a mostly conventional braking system.