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utopiah

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  • What is your policy on letting a child use the internet?

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  • crontab, it's enough to :

    • kill any add during specific period
    • accumulate usage per app
    • check if tabs are opened

    and it's pretty straighforward to configure, e.g. 

     
        
* 8-17 * * 1-5 killall SlayTheSpire && date >> ~/shame
# prevents from playing during weekday working hours

    or for accumulation (which can be reset daily, weekly, etc by simply deleting the minutes file) 

     
        
pgrep mpv && >> mpv_minutes; if [ $(wc -l mpv_minutes) -gt 1000 ]; then echo beyond threshold; fi

    That works also for turning up/down network interfaces.

    PS: I use this on myself. I'm not a child but I don't have perfect self control. It works.

  • GrapheneOS patches an Android VPN bypass that Google decided to leave alone

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  • Because Linux phones with proper hardware are sold at 1k and hundreds of people want to but that, not thousands or millions and thus they don't actually get built. Couple of attempts just lasttear didn't pan out.

  • U.S. companies back Sam Altman’s World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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  • To be honest I don't know what the solution is. What I'm convinced of though is that if we don't push back, at the very least signify that it is actually a problem, then it silently becomes the new norm.

    Edit : related in school context https://lemmy.ml/post/46392253/25351905

  • U.S. companies back Sam Altman’s World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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  • FWIW I had to use an equivalent which didn't work on my setup. I emailed the company, they said try this, try that, which I did, still no dice. They emailed me a form to print, sign, take a photo of, and email them back. I did and the 3rd party that relied on their service was notified.

    So... it's OK to be "annoying" with this kind of services if it doesn't work respective of your setup itself respective of your concerns.

    I'm not saying it will also work, or that it's efficient, just that it's a possibility.

  • Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie

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  • IMHO what's interesting is that the platforms benefit from it because their metric is engagement.

    Consequently this scammer, med student or not, is generating traffic and transactions through the platforms he used. Those platforms grow and keep their user base, can sell more ads, etc. Some platforms might ban this kind of practice but barely enforce their own rules, others might precisely exist because they don't have such rules.

    So what's fundamental here is the dynamic, how engaging content, fake or not, controversial or not, dangerous or not, does keep on being promoted to more people because it does make sense for the platforms.

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    Microsoft Exec Suggests AI Agents Will Need to Buy Software Licenses - Business Insider

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  • The one thing Microslop excels at is precisely lock-in.

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    Microsoft Exec Suggests AI Agents Will Need to Buy Software Licenses - Business Insider

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  • That's the beauty of totally arbitrary restrictions, you can change them as you want.

    Pay by seat? Pay by client? Pay by byte of data stored? Pay by backup location?

    ... pay by moonphase? Pay by AI personality? Pay by virtual AI seat?

    Such BS but why wouldn't Microslop extend its business model. It worked well so far. It's not about software, or datacenter, or AI, it's just about entrenchment.

  • 8 in 10 Europeans don’t trust US, Chinese firms with data

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  • How many of those 8 are doing anything, ANYTHING, about it though?

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  • Regardless of skill level for-profit GenAI/LLM AI has a terrible economical (funding focus), political (regulatory capture), social (dataset clean up, PR floods on FLOSS projects, spam & scam) and ecological (GPU deprecation pace, data centers) impact.

    So... even if somehow a person is so skilled they finally find good use for models hosted by Anthropic, OpenAI, etc then unfortunately they can't disentangle it from all the negative externalities.

  • France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

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  • AFAICT its creator it's entirely focused on the mobile challenge know, working on /e/OS for his Murena company.

  • VLC got to the moon before bitcoin or gamestop

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  • Yes, I didn't know the expression "local rewrites" but that seems to capture it well.

    My bet it's another version of the inverse of Not Invented Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here where the IT department or a random manager claims that whatever was generated is "theirs" implying agency. They don't realize that each iteration will get harder and more expensive (bigger context window) while alternatives have accumulated thousands and thousands of "bugs" or even just usage highlighted limits of their implementation. So they are re-inventing their version at great cost and in the end the difference between what they worked on is basically equivalent of open source equivalents but with no community support and instead a dependency on models and infrastructure they don't own.

  • VLC got to the moon before bitcoin or gamestop

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  • Maybe but that wasn't my point. My point is that a lot of people now invest a LOT of resources, being token, money, time, etc to invent the wheel again. Instead of relying on e.g. Drupal they'll "generate" yet another CMS which will work (for a while, in theory) not because it's a good idea (IMHO it's not) but because it's been marketed as doable and even "better" on some aspects (e.g. customizable).

  • VLC got to the moon before bitcoin or gamestop

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  • And that's why GenAI for code is gaining popularity.

    It's not because it's better than free open-source libraries. It's because it's better marketed.

  • GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

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  • Micro$lop is all about "AI" so no surprise there.

    Glad I moved away from Github and self-host for few years already.

  • I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots

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  • I agree with everything you wrote but I'm not sure how it helps clarify what I said earlier. So... I think we agree?

    On your final point I think the big difference between then (before LLMs) and now is that until recently a very demanding PR, in the sense that the person asking for the merge would have a good idea yet didn't really get something about the project and thus needed a lot of guidance, it was seen as an investment. It was a risky bet, maybe that person would just leave after a lengthy discussion, maybe they'd move to their own project, etc... but a bit like with a young intern, the person from the project managing that PR was betting that it was worth spending time on it. They were maybe hoping to get some code they themselves didn't have the expertise on (say some very specific optimization for very specific hardware they didn't have) or that this new person would one day soon become a more involved contributor. So there was an understanding that yes it would be a challenging process but both parties would benefit from it.

    Now I believe the situation has changed. The code submitted might actually be good, maybe not. It will though always, on the surface, look plausible because that's exactly what LLM have been trained for, for code or otherwise, to "look" realistic in their context.

    So... I would argue that it's this dynamic that has change, from the hope of onboarding a new person on a project to a 1-shot gamble.

  • GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information

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  • Using a 2nd hand Pixel 8 I got for 180 EUR running GrapheneOS, daily driving it since I received it.

  • I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots

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  • IMHO what it shows isn't what the author tries to show, namely that there is an overwhelming swarm of bits, but rather that those bots are just not good enough even for a bot enthusiast. They are literally making money from that "all-in-one AI workspace. Chat - MCP - Gateway" and yet they want to "let me prioritize PRs raised by humans" ... but why? Why do that in the first place? If bots/LLMs/agents/GenAI genuinely worked they would not care if it was made or not by humans, it would just be quality submission to share.

    Also IMHO this is showing another problem that most AI enthusiasts are into : not having a proper API.

    This repository is actually NOT a code repository. It's a collaborative list. It's not code for software. It's basically a spreadsheet one can read and, after review, append on. They are hijacking Github because it's popular but this is NOT a normal use case.

    So... yes it's quite interesting to know but IMHO it shows more shortcomings rather than what the title claims.

  • Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over

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  • Ragebait marketing.

  • Hydrogen Direct Reduction ❌ EVs Powered by Fossil Fuels ✅

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  • I eat food, and the food I eat doesn't just walk to my place.

    So... sure I'd rather have a lot less energy spent on agriculture and industry but if there is one place where I feel energy use is legitimate, it's feeding us.

    Meanwhile I do NOT want better tools for scammers, spammers and fake experts.