janoc

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by janoc 3y ago
You do realize that you "don't exist" only until one pissed off neighbor complains to OFCOM about you after your cat has pooped on their lawn one too many times? This is a rather incredible mindset to have, IMO. Even for me w
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by janoc 3y ago
>had a much higher bandwidth which is why modems were able to reach 56kbps That is actually completely false. The way that speed was achieved was by using multiple bits per symbol encoding (bitrate != baudrate), not by having some myster
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by janoc 3y ago
The whole point is that they don't have to answer . They hope someone else from the community will before they get to it. It is the evolution of the mailing list then forum style "support". Make a forum, let people ask quest
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by janoc 3y ago
Only that it is clickbait. Those leaked details are relevant only to language model researchers and maybe OpenAI's/Microsoft's competitors, not really to anyone else.
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by janoc 3y ago
I would give the legislators some credit there. While it is certain that the lobbying has been fierce (as with any legislation) and that no law is going to be perfect and make everyone happy, it is a bit of a tall order to expect the lawmak
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by janoc 3y ago
Which is exactly what has happened. GDPR (or any other piece of legislation, really) explicitly enumerates some of the situations. E.g. Recital 47 on Overriding legitimate interest: "The processing of personal data strictly necessary f
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by janoc 3y ago
That's completely missing the point. While Pascal can be used for serious work, it is first and foremost a teaching language friendly to beginners meant for introducing people (who back in the day) likely started with something like BA
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by janoc 3y ago
I think GDPR is pretty clear there. That companies like Facebook push fancy theories of what is and isn't legitimate interest is not the fault of the law. People will always try to push the limits to see what they can get away with, es
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by janoc 3y ago
And everyone will want to funnel their data and pay OpenAI/Microsoft in order to be allowed to implement a basically slightly better Alexa? Dream on. This is not a technical problem, this is a business problem . Sadly a lot of enginee
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by janoc 3y ago
And that actually anyone wants? Google and Amazon have tried to sell theirs for a long time. And none were actually selling much. Amazon admitted to be selling theirs at a loss. Facebook has tried their own - and quickly cancelled them. Goo
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by janoc 3y ago
Have you seen a viable "alternative browser engine" that doesn't require javascript support these days? It is not about "performing slowly" but about getting your app rejected from the App store because it violates
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by janoc 3y ago
None of that needs Linux or a SoC and can easily run from a much simpler, better supported and cheaper microcontroller.
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by janoc 3y ago
Ehm, I guess you have never heard about BSA raids, right?
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by janoc 3y ago
Because that's pretty much what it is.
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by janoc 3y ago
I didn't know that Windows is now free.
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by janoc 3y ago
The cost is not in the servers (even though that costs money too, obviously). 90% of costs of places like Facebook are wages and various other expenses that you need too once you are running operation at a similar scale. E.g. you do need to
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by janoc 3y ago
Sorry but anonymity and resistance to takedown orders is not solvable by technology. What you are asking for is basically for tech to let you violate applicable laws. Whether the law is good or bad is another story but as long as that law i
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by janoc 3y ago
You forgot to say why and how exactly. A decentralized network won't magically remove the need for moderation or make the job less onerous or more attractive to do. Only now the server/instance owner is not only paying for the hos
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by janoc 3y ago
Usenet was literally decentralized before this was even a buzzword.
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by janoc 3y ago
That doesn't really say much. I have never said that no such thing exists or that running on donations/as a collective can't be done. But it is rather an exception than a rule, esp. at the scales we are talking about (e.g.
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by janoc 3y ago
>Every Fediverse instance I've used - and I've used quite a few - has been either so small that the total cost is a few dollars a month, or fiscally sustained by donations from users. And that is somehow invalidating what I hav
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by janoc 3y ago
The problem is that people think that decentralization somehow solves the problem. It doesn't. In most cases, like Reddit or Twitter or Mastodon or whatever the issue isn't that something is centralized but that things actually d
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by janoc 3y ago
Shareholders don't care, the shareholders are the VCs that are now demanding profits and dividends for their initial investment. Why do you think the sudden push for the monetization of the API and the "lost opportunities"?
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by janoc 3y ago
I have never bought them but I have actually received a few silver and gold badges like that for some of my comments. So I guess that makes my account a fake then?
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by janoc 3y ago
Keep in mind that those MBAs making these decisions are not going to be there to go down with the ship when that happens. They will collect their bonuses they got for increasing the short term profits, sell their vested equity and move on,
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by janoc 3y ago
It is equally unhelpful conflating number of internet users with coverage and internet accessibility. It is of no good to you that you have internet connection but the website or whatever doesn't load because you are only on a slow cel
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by janoc 3y ago
And you have to search for them online or order from various strange places because no major stores where people actually go buy "computer stuff" carry them. Coincidence? I think not. Worse, even the lot more expensive "offic
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by janoc 3y ago
That's utter nonsense. You can't consent to stuff that is against the law, esp. when the "power balance" when signing the contract is extremely lopsided. Such contract clauses are routinely ruled invalid and unenforceabl
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by janoc 3y ago
Except that's not how LLM works. LLM has no idea about "ideas", only probabilities of how certain words string together. So you literally can't make it produce functionally identical but not verbatim identical code. It d
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by janoc 3y ago
It is also a lot more expensive to produce. Lego is just injection molded ABS plastic. Meccano/Erector (or the Czech Merkur) are all metal, die cut/stamped out of sheet metal and using actual screws. Moreover, the French factory b

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