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biometrics are ripe for abuse; i wouldn’t opt into that.
why not use the lottery system like in japan or simply put a name on the ticket so it can’t be scalped.
Let’s start with Eurovision.
the token usage isn’t sustainable. formal english is a barrier but requirement for specification. brevity is the language of money and that’s the premise of management using ai.
fyi language alone can’t define/describe requirements which is why UML existed.
it’s a commonality. we discover the same over and over on the 8311 discord at pon.wiki. often the result of disclosure is a firmware update that removes the ability to create a configuration backup and restore.
wearables. u need to authenticate a literal pulse. essentially a passkey for being alive. we can’t allow a corporate entity control, it needs to be truly open and not like fido.
Got it all wrong, typical AI slop. It reveals that Fabrice Bellard is still above all, super human. LUL
Why bother? Ask yourself first if you’re doing anything truly meaningful. The answer is likely no; it’s all irrelevant. Time is finite. The thousand ideas you had don’t need to be built. You’re only being productive for show. You’re orchestrating your time building agentic irrelevance, why? It’s not going to make life any easier long term. What you’re actually doing is crafting an addiction, a reliance on technology, because you aren’t doing what humans must: learn. You’ll spiral out once the systems go down, and they will, because you’ve forgotten to build contingencies. And your knowledge gap will cascade beyond help and time. For you are on the path to becoming the walking dead. Go out and find value in what you’re capable of, not just in productivity gains; 1 line of code has more meaning than ever! it’s the critical thought. Time slows when you’re in the zone. Good luck, and remember, the tortoise beat the hare.
Where did u get this notion from? you must not be old enough to know how subscription services play out. Ask your parents about their internet or mobile billings. Or the very least check Azures, AWS, Netflix historical pricing.
Heck we were spoiled by “memory is cheap” but here we are today wasting it at every expense as prices keep skyrocketing (ps they ain’t coming back down). If you can’t see the shift to forceful subscriptions via technologies guised as “security” ie. secure boot and the monopolistic distribution (Apple, Google, Amazon) or the OEM, you’re running with blinders. Computings future as it’s heading will be closed ecosystems that are subscription serviced, mobile only. They’ll nickel and dime users for every nuanced freedom of expression they can.
Is it crazy to correlate the price of memory to our ability to localize LLM?
I have a wonderful collection of retro consoles and games that I let my nephews play when I babysit without much worry or trouble. Sure some of it is considered obscene, offensive, gory for today’s standard, but I can definitively say the internet and connected games are far worse but let the modern parent be fooled.
I prevented a lot of IRL fighting over the holidays. I tell them, if they want to fight each other that they can only do so in game (their preferred fighting game is primal rage) and it gets their aggression and hyperactive tendency out. Beyond fighting games they love to battle out in racing simulators like Daytona USA or controller swap Crash Bandicoot and Sonic. They have Switch 2 at home and can play it here as well but it’s not sick as Neo Geo, Sega Genesis/Saturn, NES, GameCube, PlayStation, Virtual Boy, and many others. 67
The biggest benefit of offline gaming is that friends interact IRL. You either get invited or invite friends and have real interaction, share snacks, etc. which often leads to outdoor activities when gaming is a bore or over. We need to bring that back. If the companies are unwilling it’s time to hack the offline switch or speak with our wallet.
Sorry to say but the output hasn’t been this poor. Even in the day of Geocities, marquees galore, we were producing better markup, javascript, and content.
monetization makes for a conceiving argument so I will leave this here as well https://www.wwt.com/case-study/tactical-chat-solution-navy/
Is it really a question about processing performance though? I’ve always assumed it was about bandwidth and latency… Communication protocols don’t need to be human-readable because tooling has always provided that at a higher level. A binary protocol just as a text protocol like S-expression or the divine simplicity of IRC is just as digestible when documented. And there are better facilities to have extensibility regardless. I think we can all agree it’s as much a failure as a success if we’re still talking the same points 25 years later.
Lay-off the engineers and promote the mouthpieces. It’s not a Microsoft issue, it’s an industry 1.
They’re making poor choices because there was a major shift to incompetence. Using web technologies on the desktop when we as engineers know it was birthed as a whack-a-mole hack job that continues today as a accumulation of human-centric decisions not computing (engineered) 1s.
Applications really don’t need such flexibility to look (ie. dom), they need to function and cohabitate to be resourceful, which clearly they’re not.
And that’s not to say engineers haven’t tried to fix those mistakes but the catalyst was already set.
Design should have never taken precedence over compute, just as much as interpreted/runtime over compiled. They need to be balanced if not swayed back.
We still have the capability to learn the machine and shift the narrative as long as we’re willing to lose the brand for the generic. That’s the biggest obstacle because we sell out to the language, the architecture, etc. by the marketing of efficiencies in time to create rather than compute and each iteration of that deteriorates the experience and the art.
I maintain multi OS documentation at pon.wiki and it’s just easier for me this way as it’s distraction free, synced to a NAS. I could setup a VM or another system but I’ve always maintained a separate disk as it’s economical with licensing.
At 1 point I was using https://looking-glass.io/ but half of my time is spent doing digital art and couldn’t part with the discrete gpu full time.
I had to take screenshots and that was as frustrating where it just works in macOS and all Linux DEs but Microsoft broke that as well.
I dual boot with Fedora but rarely ever boot into Windows, last week was 1 of those times and seeing the menu render on right click in explorer had me shutting down in frustration.
How did we forget about deferred rendering, offscreen buffers, etc. And why is it so darn slow? It’s a deplorable experience and it’s obvious strictly Windows users have become desensitized and numb to it all.
Piracy and meshed networks are going to be an inevitable future. We fought for and lost net neutrality which hasn’t shown face yet but with subscription browsers it’s time is nigh.
I kinda question the validity of the NSFW explanation news articles are bringing up because it’s signalling out foreign assets more than anything. Maybe a ploy in trying to keep the reign of the US currency, G7, and debt holders over BRICS plus outspoken critics? Just a quick look at the nations and currencies it seems more plausible. As a bank you don’t want that target on your back nor do you want to be excluded from SWIFT. But I guess this is way over the heads of the average gamer so blame corn.
the truth to the article and also hinted at is that they’re squashing the competition with lobbying and bulking on the single platform/subscription meta; the title should be
“sex is getting scrubbed from the internet so billionaire tech bros can sell you ai nudes”
What’s idiotic is Canada has TeleSat which was established by the Canadian Government in 1969, although it’s private today. It’s also headquartered in Ottawa so I don’t know how the provincial government is ignorant of its existence. But this is a provincial government that has a proven record of corruption and in all likelihood was bribed by Starlink.
You’re making it out like it was zero sum prior which it wasn’t and never has. The increased is 5% and the new baseline for taxable goods ie. 15% from the prior 10%. It’s basically the EU equivalent of VAT but without telling the naive American it’s an increased tax on the consumer.
The real news is these investments/purchases and that’s what my comment was about. No other country is investing in the US outside of mining. But to make face you’ll agree and setup a paper mill for manufacturing, as for power/natural resources, buy back through your own entities. Look up the news about foreign mining, they’re up in arms, but that’s exactly what they voted for.
My take is that it’s all an illusion. The deal looks good on paper for the US. But EU/Japan/etc. big business will setup subsidiaries in tax haven states such as Texas or Florida and sell back to themselves. Similarly to how US firms used Ireland.
Problem with AMD is that it’s heavily tied to Taiwan and its government, similarly to nVidia, and that presents itself a bigger problem for the defence industry and geopolitics for both the USA and by proxy Isreal if Intel dissolves. As is unfolding in the USA and has unfolded in the past with the USSR, you can’t remain a superpower without a self sufficient at “home” chip industry, it must keep on existing and evolving. Alas IBM would be the fallback and not AMD in dire need with Apple or better TI not far behind.
Intel can’t and likely won’t fail, just as Boeing can’t. They’re integral to the defence of the country and government bailouts will keep them afloat for the eternity of power. Upper management knows this and they can line their pockets regardless of the impact on the consumer branch, all within reason and diligence not step on too many government toes.
Sucks that it has to get political but you can get too big to fail. All said and for the sake of their technical legacy that they do succeed and remain competitive.
The dataset is tainted, guardrails or not, it’s theft. Unity already perjured itself, admittedly by the mention of “guardrails”. They can’t conceivably put guardrails for all copyrightable works unless they retrain on verifiable public domain only, which in all likelihood will not happen. What they’re actually saying is you can steal from the small but not the mighty who can sue us.
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Another lesson to be learned is not to put all your bread in 1 basket. They should disperse between all the European providers listed and not just with OVHcloud. Like that’s the entire premise of a network.
The reasonings is simple. It’s the cons con, it legitimizes their bs. And the other cloth are too lazy or naive to see the error of their ways. Those are the same people who have a high tendency to fall for a phishing/ponzi/etc scam or join a cult.
Don’t get me wrong, LLM have potential (proven mostly to deceive). But like everything else in life, cross reference and don’t be a shill.
We’re intelligent because we question, not because we answer.
That’s exactly where the article should’ve started and ended rather than becoming a propaganda piece. We vs them adage is exhausting.
Anyway, it didn’t even bring up the software ecosystem. It obviously would have HarmonyOS support out of the box but is there more in regards to Linux and maybe Android? We’ll never know..
We’re not moving forward, we’re moving towards lock-in and dependence. I can foresee a future where runnable code will require a subscription. Secure boot and hardware code signing is already in active use. Self expression will be lost as that’s what has made programming rewarding for generations, it is an art but not for much longer.
They need to focus on the bot problem.
I don’t care about their own IPO grift. I’m a community server owner and I’m not interested in inflating my own server membership for the grandiose delusions of fame like a influencer on a follower high.
My community doesn’t need to be invaded by hundreds or rather thousands of bots training a few dozen LLMs on lazy internet speak.
My community doesn’t need to be on alert and woken by sleeper bots itching to advertise the latest grift or account stealer.
We kick hundreds of bots weekly because the core system is broken. If you want me to pay for a subscription focus on the community building experience, not the clickbait features (currently the server tag, flooding communities with apathetic members).
Humans have guns. You must have been noticing the crime uptake everywhere. This is no coincidence and it’ll get worse and never better until the system is derailed. Not to say society will not change its viewpoint on human appreciation and humility, similarly in Japan where manmade has a greater appeal and respect for the sacrifice for one’s art.
We’re not enslaved to the system but to our own desire for accomplishment. Being lazy for a day is fine but being lazy for life isn’t sustainable. There are only two avenues adulting humans can take, it’s either work (crime included) or substance abuse (drugs & alcohol).