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truthfultemporarily

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  • Trump threatens Strait of Hormuz blockade after US-Iran ceasefire talks end without agreement

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  • Just to make sure I understand.

    • the US is now doing what Iran wanted to do anyway, but
    • Iran does not have to spent any assets on doing it
    • all the negative optics are now on the US

    Genius.

  • Chat control: Tech giants want to continue scanning despite expired EU rules

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  • For others reading it:

    ChatControl 1: allow scanning on voluntary basis (voted down twice recently)

    ChatControl 2: mandatory scanning

  • Help identifying issue?

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  • Well you say it was air printing could be: wet filament, clogged nozzle, extruder or AMS issues.

  • Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008

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  • Nice its in my hatefolio ( like a portfolio but its shorts of companies I dislike).

  • You're missing at least five

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  • That'll be 10 extra per user per month.

  • Your logging is probably down

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  • Have you tried introducing unnecessary complexity?

  • Hidden Valley hiring “Ranch-bassadors” to travel Europe and test ranch on local food

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  • Another Walmart moment.

  • Postman Strikes Again

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  • I once used that thing and couldn't figure out why I got errors. After hours I realize postman was sending headers you didn't specifically configure and that caused it to fail.

  • Mini PC to replace fiber modem and wifi router. How to proceed?

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  • This may not be so easy, what protocol does the ISP use over fibre? Honestly the network card that you will probably need might already pull more than the modem.

  • AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins.

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  • I think you are making the mistake of attributing intent to an LLM. A LLM does not have intent. It takes the context and generates the statistically most likely tokens that come next. The biography is part of the context.

    The fact that it gives different answers based on context purely comes down to how it was trained and that there is no concept of "factual information".

    I'm not defending LLMs, this is just LLMs doing exactly what they were trained to do.

  • Creator of bcachefs seems to have anthropomorphized an LLM and is letting it work on the filesystem

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  • I always read this as bca-chefs.

  • AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins.

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  • I mean this study literally says that poorly worded prompts give worse results. It makes sense too, imagine you are on some conspiracy Facebook group with bad grammar etc, those are the posts it will try to emulate.

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  • There is a book called "cooking for geeks" which instead of just giving you recipes explains why stuff is cooked a certain way. What actually happens, chemically, when you cook something. After reading that, I could just improvise dishes and they would usually come out pretty well.

  • A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.

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  • You were just boycotting before it was cool.

  • Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy

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  • Lots of governments want it. But its no excuse doing it in a stupid way. For example EU IDs should have a function that just verifies someone is over 18 without any other info being send. At least the German one does. But its not being used.

  • DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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  • Depends on how important it is. Looking for a hint for a puzzle game: never. Trying to find out actually important info: always.

    They make it easy though because after every statement it has these numbered annotations and you can just mouse over to read the text.

    You can chose different models and they differ in quality. The default one can be a bit hit and miss.

  • DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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  • I use kagi assistant. It does a search, summarizes, then gives references to the origin of each claim. Genuinely useful.

  • The epiphany hits hard

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  • This is great. Since some concepts only exist in certain languages, this will open up the thoughts you can express.

  • What thing at work made you rage quit your job?

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  • More funny than rage inducing.

    Worked as a Senior DevOps engineer at a startup. They have no proper automation for deploying their code. Manually updating config in a GUI type situation. This takes a crazy amount of time, there are many errors, and it generally slows down development progress. There are 300 people working there, at least five dev teams, its hundreds of work hours every month wasted by this.

    So I start writing a system to automate it - what is called Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery or CI/CD. Issue is, they have many projects, they are all a little different and managed by different people. No problem, I write the thing super configurable and write another system that will automatically deploy this thing to all the hundreds of repositories, taking into account their local config. We start rolling it out, when I suddenly get a new boss.

    They are very smart but the kind of person that wants to do everything their way. So they did all the architecture and just delegated the most menial implementation details. At my previous company I pretty much rebuild every system from scratch. Yet now I was super bored and underutilized, while they were pretty overworked and stressed out. All while the company was held together with duct tape.

    While this boss was really good in certain areas, I was more experienced in others, and they kept making errors that could have been easily avoided if they just asked me earlier. And they did not like when that was pointed out. Thing is, I was hired as a senior engineer. It is my entire job to be more experienced and point issues out, especially security related.

    So this new boss is being super careful about this CI/CD system that I wrote. They are scared that deploying my system may break things - understandable. So the entire project grinds to a halt. I keep pushing for it but give up after a while.

    Then, one day, my boss says "alright, today we deploy the CI/CD solution to ALL repos. By hand.". I'm a bit puzzled by this: has the reason for being careful suddenly disappeared? Why not use my automated system to deploy it? Doing it by hand is super repetitive and annoying. Also, if there is a bug in our solution, we would need to roll out the fix manually as well. That's why I wrote automation for that.

    So I ask to clarify: " so you're sure we should deploy this to all repos now? You always wanted us to be careful about that". Answer: "are you incapable of reading?! New information > old information!". I laugh, think about it for 15 min and put in my resignation, suggesting they hire a Junior instead. Bit of a shame, the place was pretty cool. Just the boss was a dolt. Also they quit a month later.