alightsoul

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by alightsoul 1mo ago
Even if this is the case, this is still a valuable contribution to learn upon.
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
Xcancel was accused of using the twitter API. You don't have to use it. You can have a machine vision model process screenshots. You can also process the Dom. You don't offer a freely usable service or software to the public, only
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
Is it legal to make the whole world addicted to your product? Litigation, in the same way, is a ticking time bomb for meta worldwide.
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
That is an European privilege. Paper costs money so in the global south companies want to get rid of it asap because money is much more scarce for everyone because many things are imported from industrialized countries
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
My solution to this is creating bots that repost content on sites like bluesky. The network effect can be overcome because people use a site for the content it has and not necessarily to interact with others Of course I only do it with acco
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
Yes
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
Yeah it's a relic from when computers booted off floppy and hard disks were rare and expensive
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
And of course this mostly only happened and is far more noticeable in the us than elsewhere when measured in car size and people were convinced to buy the larger cars aka turned SUVs and pick up trucks by marketing. This started to happen i
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
The honor 400 used to be sold for 300 dollars with 12 gb of ram. Now the replacement the honor 600 comes with 8 GB at twice the price.
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
And cars started getting bigger because, it was a way to legally classify them as trucks thus saving money for the manufacturer. And then everyone had to follow just to feel safe
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
So it's the us wanting to control their backyard. UPI is halfway across the globe so it would be harder to mess with Indians
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
UPI in India too. Why are they targeting pix specifically? Yappy in Panama and alipay in China but those are privately owned, as the us wants.
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
Banning drugs like alcohol imo is not a solution for any drug, people have their own reasons to consume them and the underlying cause should be resolved first
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
That implies running a model on a third party cloud like azure or AWS or local models. All this comes at a premium. Do you know of any companies doing this? Most companies I have seen don't due to cost and simply log conversations and
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
LLM generated content is not the user's, it's the company's, licensed to the user under ToS, not copyright. Even more so with the raw proprietary reasoning traces, which most users never see and are only available as summarie
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
They are very popular in china, such as the Wuling ev. In America, they are afraid of them because they are small. They want big cars to have a large crumple area in a crash.
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
With wasm, I see a future where the browser and thus web technologies are a UI toolkit for a Linux desktop environment. It already is, people hardly use GTK and qt anymore except for desktop environments or embedded like on cars due to perf
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
I think people actually expect it so they are not impressed when it happens
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
Many companies are choosing not to send any sensitive data to any ai vendor. They don't really trust they won't train on user data.
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
Not storing prompts but they absolutely can store reasoning traces, summarized or sanitized reasoning traces and the whole LLM output as well.
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
Zero data retention commitments? Technically generating synthetic data off of user data on the fly, counts as zero retention of user data! And it technically means they didn't lie either, because they didn't keep user data, they k
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
Anti distillation is just American nationalistic marketing, the amount of data they have "distilled" makes no difference. Deepseek "distilled" like 10000 messages? That's clearly not enough. You gain a lot more doin
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
Anthropic does the same thing but it's not problem
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
How is climate change not the most dangerous activity right now? Why are we talking about nuclear weapons?
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
Yeah, wealth inequality rests solely on each individual that experiences it. Humans should do nothing but give me money and if you can't that's your problem.
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
In Latin America people have fewer unions, usually centered around construction because it is very easy to die on a construction site. Latin American countries are among those least friendly to unions and there have been anti union crackdow
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
But it's paid. Some people use brave because it's free and not google. More than duckduckgo
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
There's some sort of reranking, maybe this is how they measure site reputation now? By linking from a large website and people in that website like it? Or SEO?
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
This is all news to me. Like these news outside mexico are quite rare
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by alightsoul 1mo ago
I forgot i don't live in the us. So in Latin America people just call it a day and survive and try to get another job, they don't even know companies lay off or move operations during mergers

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