mrweasel

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by mrweasel 1y ago
The problem, I think, is that IF OpenAI fail, they'll take with them a lot of other AI companies, simply because funding will be redirected away from the field entirely. If you're profitable, then you're probably going to be
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by mrweasel 1y ago
> They’ve never turned a profit Now that OpenAI is starting to talk about ads and allowing "erotic" content, I feel more comfortable in my prediction that not only have OpenAI never turned a profit, they never will. They will b
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Denmark had an unfortunate situation about 13 years ago, where the only rail bridge to the northern part of the country was hit by a ship, cutting rail network in two. Some trains where stuck in the north and had to be ferried to Sweden and
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Maybe you want it to be easy to grant a babysitter access to the cameras temporarily and not bother getting them VPN'en into your CCTV network. Maybe you want to check up on the babysitter (as creepy as that sounds, there might be good
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by mrweasel 1y ago
That old computer running NetBSD probably also isn't running 24/7, making the environmental impact that much lower. The comparison probably needs to be: Running that old NetBSD machine for a few hours a day, worst case about 40 wh
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by mrweasel 1y ago
We should encourage number 2. So much of the content that the AI companies are scraping is already garbage, and that's a problem. E.g. LLMs are frequently confidently wrong, but so is Reddit, who produce a large volume of trading data.
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by mrweasel 1y ago
There's an interview with Torvalds where he states that his daughter told him that in the computer lab at her college Linus is more known for Git than Linux Clip from the interview: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Mozilla doesn't have any money... do they?
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Just imagine if they had put the same effort into making a usable Android app, then the author wouldn't have bothered. In some sense it's negligence on Amazons part. Years ago I dropped buying stuff on Amazon, because they can&#x2
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by mrweasel 1y ago
> Even banks seem to be getting comfortable with making mobile optimized websites now At the cost of making an actually useful website for those of us not on mobile. My bank insists on making their website/online banking platform wo
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by mrweasel 1y ago
That is pretty interesting, because I figured that maybe that would solve my issue of trying to get a cheap "landline". Sadly no. My ISP also doesn't want to do VOIP. They have the product, but doesn't sign up new custom
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by mrweasel 1y ago
> Was there a serious issue while using a regular landline? So a few other issues with landlines, in other countries: 1) Crazy expensive. 2) You can't sign-up for one anymore. 3) They may no longer be available. The cables have alre
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by mrweasel 1y ago
That explains the pricing. I've been looking for a cheap way to get a SIP/VOIP connection, so the kid and I can play with some old phones she's been gifted. I really want to make one or two of them work, so she can do interna
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by mrweasel 1y ago
I still need to know how fast I need to ride my bike to not freeze my hands, when biking during the winter without mittens. There has to be some sweet spot where my hands a warm, but not burning.
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by mrweasel 1y ago
I think you misunderstand what Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is trying to do. They take no stake in Igalia, which also isn't a German company, so best case the tax money goes to Spain. They are trying to build digital sovereignty
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by mrweasel 1y ago
That's really the issue isn't it. Many of the LLMs are trained uncritically on very thing. All data is viewed as viable training data, but it's not. Reddit clearly have good data, but it's probably mostly garbage.
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by mrweasel 1y ago
I was thinking the same, but many other countries have drivers and pedestrians more separated, to while the distraction, from either the driver or the pedestrians is still a problem, it's mitigated by the greater distance between the t
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by mrweasel 1y ago
But why would anyone opt-in to that? You could do what some site are doing put up a "Either pay us or opt-in to cookies and tracking". The problem is I don't think people fully understand how much tracking we're talking
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by mrweasel 1y ago
No, governments caused the issue by demanding customers to ID themselves, while failing to provide the necessary tooling for doing so in a secure manor. There's really only a few countries in the world who can provide the services need
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by mrweasel 1y ago
True, but having worked for quite a few software companies in that city, most probably agree with him. Hell, he'd probably get job offers. But I don't blame him, the Danish minister of justice who is pushing for this bill is a com
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by mrweasel 1y ago
No one should be allowed to use "engineering" in the context of producing something with LLMs until they learn to say "No, I'll not help you cut corners on this, and if you persist I will report you". If you're
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by mrweasel 1y ago
It's probably more that a lot of people have been convinced that they need a VPN, but they don't. There are use cases, like I trust Mullvad more than I trust some random hotels WiFi. When traveling it can provide a slightly higher
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by mrweasel 1y ago
While I haven't tried it myself, I've seen a few of the monthly summaries videos. Passing the tests and being fast enough for daily usage is two very different things and right now Ladybird doesn't appear to be all that speed
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Sounds about right, but they also don't need to, all the OpenBSD specific configuration is mostly done in the same manor, meaning that if you know PF, then the configuration language for httpd, relayd or OpenSMTPd isn't all that f
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by mrweasel 1y ago
My thinking is just that having so many services ads funded means that companies like Google and Meta will never ever show a company that their ad spending yielded no measurable result. If some of the larger buyers of ad space started pull
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by mrweasel 1y ago
This is starting to become really weird. How much can ads actually fund? The quality of the ads and the products they sell are both going straight down. If we filter out ads for various subscriptions to other apps and game, as well as down
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by mrweasel 1y ago
Neat, but why? I could see this being handy if the pf language was changed and this tool could covert between the old and new configuration. I believe pf have been substantially updated in the past and I don't recall there being a conv
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by mrweasel 1y ago
The data you need is mostly not remote. A friend works at a software development company, they can use LLMs, but only local ones (local as in their datacenter) and it can only be trained on their code base). Customer service LLMs need to be
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by mrweasel 1y ago
At a previous job I was not allowed to do disaster planning with customers, after I told one of them that it was entirely possible to take out both our datacenters with one plane crash. The two locations where a "safe" distance ap
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by mrweasel 1y ago
When Denmark liberalized gambling small "casinos" with slot machines and sports betting started to pop up everywhere. Those wouldn't be an issue if it was regular people popping Friday afternoon to get a coffee and spend $10

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