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by Frieren 6mo ago
> Tbh that's to be expected, the work machine is the company's property and there shouldn't be any expectation of privacy. > I work at a tech firm in India First I wondered how can you have such a low expectation on pri
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by Frieren 6mo ago
Oil countries (that includes the USA) buying political will in Europe is nothing new. The EU was already fighting against its own internal corruption and inequality, the state of the world is not helping at all. As inequality grows in any p
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by Frieren 6mo ago
> The problem is really one of supply and demand. I would blame the monopolization of the economy. A few corporations purchasing big chunks of the industry control the job market create a bottleneck where supply of jobs is controlled by
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by Frieren 6mo ago
The OS should start labeling everybody as a child by default. Forbid Facebook to show ads and any harming content by default. The OS has little less to lose with this approach than FB.
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by Frieren 6mo ago
We are told that we are in a state of preparing for war. When we will start restricting luxury items, unnecessary private jet travel, energy waste in crypto-currencies, etc.? Because it seems that for being so obsessed to be prepared for wa
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by Frieren 6mo ago
> It is far from trivial. What are you going to do if the money goes to an enemy country? Who send it? > And while cryptocurrency are certainly popular with criminals, it is far from the only option for hiding transactions. Start by r
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by Frieren 6mo ago
Stopping Ransomware is trivial if governments knew where the money goes. But cryptocurrencies and lax capital control pushed by the uber-rich makes it impossible. The technology is there and it is used to track the average citizens every mo
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by Frieren 6mo ago
Europe in general have great software engineers. What it lacks is investment. To see the goverment serving its own country instead of foreign billionaire interests is good change of pace. And Linux development and adoption helps everybody n
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by Frieren 6mo ago
Taking into account the amount of crime that Bitcoin is allowing to be monetized it would be great to know more about its creator and motivations.
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by Frieren 6mo ago
Unregulated capitalism descents into scams and fraud. Why better your products and services when it is possible to buy competitors, increase prices and lie? We need judges and policymakers that punish harshly this behavior and force compani
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by Frieren 6mo ago
> Some people point at LLMs confabulating No. LLMs do not confabulate they bullshit. There is a big difference. AIs do not care, cannot care, have not capacity to care about the output. String tokens in, string tokes out. Even if they ha
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by Frieren 6mo ago
> waiting on the govt to do something is a path of failure To keep the goverment accountable is a duty of every citizen and the only way to have a functioning society. The failure is to let the goverment be arbitrary and cater to the pow
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by Frieren 6mo ago
> The LLM companies are not picking on me in particular, they are pounding every site on the net. Why is not this a criminal offense? They are hurting business for profit (or for higher valuation as they probably have no profit at all).
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by Frieren 6mo ago
How are Swedish gangs using music platform Spotify to launder money?: https://www.euronews.com/business/2023/10/03/how-are-swedish... You are not wrong.
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by Frieren 6mo ago
> Then you need to watch comedies made decades ago. Yes. It was nice when corporate taxes were high, xenophobia was seen as something bad, and movies could focus on smaller problems satire. I hope that we go back to the socialist era of
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by Frieren 7mo ago
IBM has more revenue than Oracle even if we hear way less about it. 5 times smaller than Apple, thou. It also has more employees than Microsoft or Alphabet. But it has tighter profit margins than other tech companies. IBM is not in consumer
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by Frieren 7mo ago
There are several ways of looking at law and order. One way is that the law applies to everybody equally. That has been the way it works for many years, not perfectly, in democratic countries. There is another way of working were the law is
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> Unfortunately it is their employees that are paying the price of leadership Neoliberalism at its finest. The world moving towards conservatism has left us with this model: The working class takes the hit of each crisis from small to bi
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> is more valuable to companies as it turns out Yes. I have noticed that is close to impossible to get good deals on flights, hotels, or even good discounts on-line. Sellers have all the information from consumers that they need to maxim
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> OpenAI correctly realized overindexong on consumer where there isn’t money is not the right way. It says a lot about the current economy that consumers have no money. Will companies just stop making consumer products?
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> Somehow It shifted from users know best to "Product" knows best. In a world where consumers have less and less power, products are designed to please CEOs. Money is power, as inequality grows and concentrates the average user
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> they've been cloning features of their API customers and adding them to their core products since day 1 Is this not just the strategy of all platforms. Spy on all customers, see what works for them and copy the most valuable busin
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> From a public perspective, it might be cheaper to just let them die. You missed the point. More tests can be detrimental to the patient's health as increase the risk of unneeded medication or surgery. Also many test like x-rays ha
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by Frieren 7mo ago
Billionaire CEOs have silenced the informed sources of information. We live in a time that everybody knows the opinion of billionaires in every aspect of society (and it is bad) but science and journalism are seen with mistrust. Marketing a
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> "The humans in my life were telling me it was psychological. An AI chatbot was the only one who really listened and took me seriously — it pushed me to ask for specific tests... which came back 6 times higher than its supposed to
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by Frieren 7mo ago
You are basically discovered working in a team. Even that it is an inferior version of that. I have always done that steps with my team and the results are great. If you are a solo developer I understand that the LLM can help somewhat but n
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> doesn't that apply to flesh-and-bone developers? No, it does not. If you have a developer that knows C++, Java, Haskell, etc. and you ask that developer to re-implement something from one language to another the result will be goo
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> If you have such a (legitimate) stance, why don't you delete Pokémon Go (and Ingress) as fast as possible from your mobile phone and encourage other people to do the same? I'm encouraging people to regulate big corporations.
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by Frieren 7mo ago
Big corporations have found the way to make us work for free in their own terms. The balance of power between the working class and capital is totally broken. And for me it is not just the lack of transparency. It is the power balance. I sh
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> write an unambiguous prompt That's an oxymoron. Prompts by definition are ambiguous otherwise you will be writing code.

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