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Womble

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  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • If you want to get an actual left winger into office in the us you have exactly three options, entryism into the democrat party and pushing a left winger in the primaries (ie bernie, maybe AOC in the future), building up a new party starting by taking local offices in progressive places until the dems either have to pivot to the left or are replaced by you, revolution.

    Ignoring reality and voting for a third party in the presidential election is nothing more than posturing at best and actively enabling the worst elements in society at worst.

  • Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

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    • Lemmy is no better or worse than Reddit
    • Pixelfeed is significantly better than Instagram
    • Mastodon is much worse than Twitter

    Seems to me pretty much an even spread of how good the names are

  • OpenAI hits back at DeepSeek with o3-mini reasoning model

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  • Sure but i can run the decensored quants of those distils on my pc, I dont need to even open the article to know that openai isnt going to allow me to do that and so isnt really relevant.

  • X expands lawsuit over advertiser ‘boycott’ to include Lego, Nestlé, Pinterest, and others | TechCrunch

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  • To be clear, its not that twitter is too fucked up for nestle to work with, they absolutely would if they thought it would benefit them. Its that twitter has become so toxic that they see advertising there as a net negative.

  • Contempt Culture

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  • If they had stuck to that I wouldnt have an issue with it, but they broaden it out to

    I’m tired of calling people out again and again for dumping on PHP.

    I’m tired of people dumping on Windows, that most popular operating system, because it’s not what we choose to use

    I dont see critising PHP or Windows as a problem, both have serious faults. The argument put forth here conflates two things: That critising a language is bad (fine IMO), critising people for liking a language is bad (not fine). We should welcome the former while insisting the later isnt acceptable.

  • Contempt Culture

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  • So should we be entirely uncritical of whichever language people choose to use because it might be percieved as offputting to someone? Would someone writing in brainfuck or whitespace or FORTRAN66 for an actual project (i.e. not just for their own interest) not be subject to critisim for that choice?

    Discussion of how languages have bad features and what they could do better is how progress gets made and languages improve over time. I personally find it annoying the level of recent dumping on python that seems to be popular, but they often have a point. Those points are useful in figuring out either how to make those languages better or how the next language to be created should be. Labeling that as problematic and "actively participating in the exclusion of women from STEM" seems to me to be a huge reach.

  • Chinese AI startup DeepSeek overtakes ChatGPT on Apple App Store

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  • Because you used Russia and USSR interchangeably in your argument

    It worked well against Russia and the Soviet Union, but it’s been my claim for years now, that this won’t work against China anymore. Because China is way more advanced now than the Soviet Union ever was by comparison for the time

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    China has 10 times the people Russia has

    You first say what worked again Russia and the USSR (which is a bit weird, like writing new york and the USA) wont work against China, then say its because China has 10 times the pop of Russia.

  • Chinese AI startup DeepSeek overtakes ChatGPT on Apple App Store

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  • I dont fundamentally disagree with you, but it should be pointed out that the USSR and its proxies in the Warsaw pact had about 0.4 billion people in 1980 to the PRC's 1 billion. So it wasnt anywhere near 10x the size. The important difference IMO is that china has opened up economically, whereas the USSR stayed closed, and are acting out Lenin's maxim of "the capitalists will sell us the rope to hang them".

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  • Not everything has to be about the USA.

  • AI struggles to understand human history and fails miserably when tested

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  • It would be interesting to give these scores a bit of context: what level would a random person off the street, a history undergrad and a history professor score?

  • Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

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  • See i understand that one, LLMs dont work with letters they work with tokens which are more like Chinese characters. So even though they display letters to the end users the models themselves dont see them which is why you can get dumb mistakes like that.

    The chess thing is strange though, its not like there is a lack of writing on chess so I do wonder where it got that idea from.

  • Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

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  • Huh, interesting, it does do it with 4o mini but not with 4o. I stand corrected.

  • Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

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  • Yeah thats not real, if you ask chat gpt it gives the obvious answer of you have to look at the pieces. Either its shopped or its leaving off previous messages where the user has deliberately conviced it that it is cheating.

  • Sweeping Cyber Security Order

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  • Yes, I'm sure random commentors on the internet know better than the NSA what an appropriate use of AI is when it comes to cyber security...

  • Is a software developer working for an "evil" company more or as guilty than/as a building maintenance technician?

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  • Maybe, I started a new job 9 months ago going down on the evil scale, but I was meaning in general not specific to now or anywhere in particular. It might not be a great time to get a new job as a dev, but you still almost certainly have more freedom to do so than a janitor.

  • Is a software developer working for an "evil" company more or as guilty than/as a building maintenance technician?

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  • More, but not much more. Presumably the developers have more capability to get another job elsewhere and are less constrained by economic neccessity. Even then though their amount of "guilt" is tiny compared to those in decision making roles.

  • Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood

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  • It's not, to provide 2 weeks of storage (a reasonable amount to cover a period of no wind in winter) for the UK would cost about 2,000 Billion USD at current Li-ion prices.

    Intermittent renewables are great as a component of energy generation but storage costs become prohibitive as you get to large fractions of intermittent power generation.

  • IEEE 754

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  • Eh, if you use doubles and you add 0.000314 (just over 0.03 cents) to ten billion dollars you have an error of 1/10000 of a cent, and thats a deliberately perverse transaction. Its not ideal but its not the waiting disaster that using single precision is.

  • Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour

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  • "Let me help subsidise a company paying below minimum wage" totally normal not batshit insane idea.