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You can talk about it, but the hidden social credit system operated by the 3-letter agencies in conjunction with techno-feudalism oligarchs designed explicitly to bypass constitutional rights is very real and has very real long term consequences for your privacy and freedom.

ECC and DDR5 2 days ago

I'd rather just have the conversation here. I don't need some hallucinated random seed response to tell me what China can and cannot do.

Of course an AI is going to tell you AI isn't a bubble.

This quote feels pretty delusional even at the time (2015), although 11 years later, this quote (view) holds almost no water imo.

The community is happy to overlook any questionable methods by Chinese Labs.

Using the US-based models are arguably even more questionable. You have to be content with the OpenAI and Anthropic literally scraping the entire internet. They've all pirated content, scraped against ToS, ignored robots.txt, bypassed paywalls all to train their models. It's well known these AI labs have ingested the entirety of Annas-Archive into their models, the largest collection of books ever assembled.

They didn't credit or compensate literally any artist, author, scientist or publicist in the creation of their models.

They've lobbied against local Governments to shove big and loud datacentres in peoples backyard. They've polluted local water supplies, they've doubled energy costs for these regions. They've tormented locals with subsonic frequencies.

They've given access to the DoD to use their models to kill people, or assist in killing people. They've used these models to enable mass surveillance, allegedly not domesicially but since when can we trust any of the 3-letter agencies.

Using "US Models" is not the moral high ground you think it is. Kimi saying its Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT is not the "substantial evidence" you think either.

We witnessed the most extensive industrial espionage campaign, probably ever, and nobody in the industry cares at all that it happened.

Because they stole for every one of us without permission. Thousands of my comments on this site and others (Stackoverflow, etc) are all used in their training data.

Not to mention, OpenAI has allegedly just stole tons of internal Apple documents... I guess we'll just ignore that too.

Codex Resets 3 days ago

It is safe to assume there are more 'normal' chat sessions than 'codex' sessions, although Codex sessions likely consume 10x the tokens the average person does asking for a lasagna recipe.

HMD Touch 4G 3 days ago

There isn't many (if any) countries with only 5G, although most countries have shutdown both 2G and 3G networks, with the 4G shutdown likely within the next decade.

Not supporting 5G limits this devices longevity, although at the price point and Indian market focus, I think its acceptable.

You still would need to know how networking fundamentals and how network protocols work.

Just because standards like DNS, NAT64, OSPF, ARP, etc, exist doesn't means its easy to get these things to communicate.

Ubiquiti isn't exactly known for being the best in terms of standard adherence, especially with their historically week IPv6 support.

In fact, most people try and distance themselves from Reddit as much as possible.

Most people I spoke to don't even know what Grok is, or that Twitter had (or needed) an AI.

Not a fan of Musk either, but him being "Racist" or throwing a Nazi Salute are quite frankly the least of my concerns with him.

These "technologies" are unbelievably "cringe" (for a lack of a better word).

Car enthusiasts want the sound to come from some mechanical aspect. They want the sound and smell of burning fuel, pushing pistons up and down at extreme speeds with hundreds of other rotating and spinning parts working in unison for a cool sound.

A speaker diaphragm moving up and down 20 to 100 times a second doesn't quite scratch that itch. A speaker can nearly "replicate" any sound, which takes the fun out of it.

A single 12 isn't really going to be too audible outside the car unless its being pushed very loud (excess of 600W~).

Most people don't have two alternators, with battery banks to drive multiple 12s or 15s.

There is effectively no point ever where my system has "impacted" others.

When students are provided work sheets, assessments and powerpoint slides made by AI, its no surprise that students resort to AI to assist or complete these.

Garbage in, Garbage out.

The University market is brutal too. If you aren't using AI too, you are falling behind. Many see it as a means to an end.

I don't think he's far off though, albeit a bit exaggerated.

The difference between the S21 Ultra and S26 Ultra is pretty small, all things considered. Appearance wise almost identical. Battery size is still 5000 mAh. Cameras are marginally better (maybe even worse since they removed the 10x zoom camera).

Counter points though, privacy screen on S25 Ultra is a nice new feature. CPU/GPU performance has been improving, including efficiency for lower compute tasks.