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Yaky

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  • The oversight paradox: Why human control over AI may be eroding the very competence it requires

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  • Article uses the "akshually humans are just complex learning machines" pro-AI argument:

    The competence a human needs to oversee an AI system is not a fixed asset. It is built and kept alive through practice – the same practice the AI system is now doing instead of the human.

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  • Google must pay €4.1bn fine for using Android to 'block' rivals

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  • HERE WeGo (aka HERE Maps) is not FOSS, but has traffic, satellite view, offline mode, etc. Some POI might be outdated (due to it being not Google)

  • Which national flags would you change?

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  • IIRC history of the current Russian flag is that it was a naval flag derived from the Dutch by... Rearranging the stripes. Yeah, so original.

    Also, many people confuse the color stripe order anyway. The cynical way to remember it is "blood under water".

    I suppose I should not ask your opinion on color choices for Bangladesh.

  • Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code

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  • Good engineers will produce more good code, because they ask the right questions, know what good looks like and check the output.

    Best code is the code that is never written in the first place. But that concept is difficult to explain and measure for management purposes. Just because "AI" can automate well-structured, tested boilerplate for "good" developers does not mean all that boilerplate should be there.

  • 75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

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  • Instead of headlights 2 feet off the ground, now we have overpowered searchlights (brighter = safer, amirite?) mounted 4 feet high, guaranteed to blind pedestrians and any shorter vehicle's driver.

  • we're living in the future

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  • Not just mechanical stress, but sugars and carbohydrates in those foods feed the bacteria in the mouth, whose byproducts damage the enamel. Few people are blessed with teeth that withstand it, or mouth flora that is non-damaging, but there is no natural selection for that... Because we have dentistry, thankfully.

  • A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

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  • "We installed postmarketOS on some older hardware, look, we are saving the planet!"

    I am being facetious of course, but it would be great if manufacturers+google opened this up to everyone.

  • Anyone using twtxt? It is for posting entirely as plain text.

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  • Love the simplicity and pragmatism of both protocol and gemtext markup (not so sure on TLS requirements though). I even use gemtext to write pages for my web site / gemini capsule.

  • Anyone using twtxt? It is for posting entirely as plain text.

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  • Read about it when playing with Gemini (the protocol, not Google garbage), but just like Twitter, did not find a good use for it. Saw maybe one page promoting it.

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  • On a more serious note, Some Assembly Required by Neil Shubin has a lot of fascinating stuff like this about evolution.

  • GoPro is in serious financial trouble. Action camera giant is at risk for potential bankruptcy

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  • pushing the same product with minor updates for greater costs

    Works for smartphone manufactuters though

  • AI outperforms law professors in blind study

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  • The article says "...had professors assess whether responses might mislead or confuse students."

    professors flagged AI responses as pedagogically harmful only 3.5% of the time, compared to 12% for peer-written answers.

    Which makes me think that real people came to some conclusion, sometimes biased or wrong, but AI could have produced inconclusive inflated perhaps-maybe-sometimes text (which it would be good at) 96.5% of the time. Response not being harmful doesn't mean it's good.

  • ‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: Leaked Documents Show How Tech Giants Hooked Teens at School

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  • Don't worry, we'll blame teachers for this too. Or make them responsible for controlling it in some ridiculous way.

  • What cities have bad vibes or just feel "off"?

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  • What specifically about Cleveland? Can't think of anything unusual compared to other midwest cities

  • What cities have bad vibes or just feel "off"?

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  • Bellevue, WA. Very eerie and felt like a simulation.

    New Orleans felt just sketchy throughout.

    And then there are fun ones (mostly in Ohio)

    • Random suburban road through the mixed woods / fields that suddenly slows down to 25MPH, with very neat lawns, clean buildings, but barely any people (usually there is a cop waiting for speeders).
    • Some side road between an interstate and suburban development goes down into a valley to some creepy Lovecraftian old town
    • In a middle of farm fields, a network of roads, clearly prepared for a residential development, but never finished, but they lead to a large patch of woods (yes, in middle of a farm field), and inside of it is a branch of a local university.

  • What cities have bad vibes or just feel "off"?

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  • IMO the strangest thing about Buffalo is how haphazardly placed everything is. New updated public area, new hotel, office tower - and a dirt lot (not even parking) in between them. New apartment buildings next to abandoned colonial home with "jazz club" sign. Main street feels like a service road once you leave downtown (abandoned buildings, mechanics, garages, and storage for a few miles)

  • Nvidia launches ‘superchip’ putting AI power into laptops and PCs

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  • Isaac Asimov's future of angry men yelling at uncooperative robots is almost here.

  • The Boring Internet - Essay by Terry Godier

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  • XMPP/Jabber protocol has been used by WhatsApp, and then closed off from the rest of the network. Theoretically, it could be inter-operable.

  • Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible — No One's Happy

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  • IIRC (from others, never installed it) McDonald's app is also obnoxious, requiring permissions and refusing to run on custom ROMs and rooted devices. It was once used alongside some common banking apps as a metric of "how close to Google Android is this ROM".