schubidubiduba

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by schubidubiduba 6d ago
I'm sure Microsoft and Apple could have been able to afford a cheap office given their parents' generous financing. And, regarding the original topic, we wouldn't have many of these privacy issues if the US had not strategica
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by schubidubiduba 13d ago
I'm sure the employees are (rightfully) worried. However, that does not at all preclude hidden motivations of the CEO behind acquiescing such worries.
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by schubidubiduba 14d ago
It should be noted that GrapheneOS had similar criticisms about almost every smartphone vendor, including Motorola before their upcoming cooperation IIRC. Most of their criticisms are valid, but they seem to be absolutely unwilling to make
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by schubidubiduba 16d ago
I am running that on a single 6000 96GB with 4-bit quants for both weights and PLE table. Needs just 32GB RAM and fits snugly into the 96GB VRAM with KV cache equalling ~300k context tokens. Not sure if I quantized the KV
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by schubidubiduba 20d ago
They are certainly trying to
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by schubidubiduba 23d ago
These laws apply to US companies in a more limited way because if we fine them too much they complain to US government that other countries have laws they have to follow. And then the US government intervenes to protect their money and data
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by schubidubiduba 23d ago
That just sounds like exactly the same as the US companies are doing with their government (trying to get a lot of money out of them)
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by schubidubiduba 23d ago
Corporations being only "groups of people" is kind of wishful thinking. They are one cog in a large machinery that is steered by a few very rich people. Corporations should not be absolved of criticism. But at the same time it mak
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by schubidubiduba 24d ago
That's because browsers should be free. They are infrastructure, just like bridges. And nobody wants a bridge troll sitting on the single bridge crossing the internet river, demanding money from everyone.
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by schubidubiduba 24d ago
Google is making it much more difficult and annoying to install F-Droid and any apps from there RIGHT NOW. To the point where it will cease to be a viable way of distribution for any app that wants to attract an audience larger than the han
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by schubidubiduba 24d ago
Not really. Google sets strict boundaries for smartphone brands on what they can do software-wise. For instance, iirc, shipping the phone primarily with a non-Google alternative ROM means you won't get any play services on them, even i
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by schubidubiduba 27d ago
The system in which those companies exist is explicitly designed though to strip away any humanity or moral qualms as much as possible. Dividing it on the shoulders of many people, making nobody in particular feel responsible for the damage
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by schubidubiduba 1mo ago
I wish we had a system where companies are incentivized to enable interoperability
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by schubidubiduba 1mo ago
Do you really believe that there is no racism involved?
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by schubidubiduba 1mo ago
Unnecessarily euphemistic descriptions of cruelty should be rightfully called out
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by schubidubiduba 1mo ago
Pretty sure the stretview part is still WIP
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by schubidubiduba 1mo ago
That has been possible for a long time, by pressing the location button to toggle it. And recently some more edge cases regarding this were fixed.
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by schubidubiduba 1mo ago
There is actually work being done to integrate exactly this API into Comaps! Although it will certainly take some more time, especially until these more niche routing features are available
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by schubidubiduba 1mo ago
Economics only make the country work when societal costs are not externalised by those that cause them. Which they have been, always, by fossil fuel companies.
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by schubidubiduba 1mo ago
It's comforting to believe that actual voters have that kind of political influence over these things, but really it's about a million little talls, primarily driven by lobbyists commanded by big companies
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by schubidubiduba 1mo ago
At this point it is neither
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by schubidubiduba 1mo ago
Instagram does, in fact, have such a dialog in the EU. Because they are legally required to, like everybody else.
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by schubidubiduba 1mo ago
Not sure what is more appalling. Silently injecting javascript tracking, or writing a marketing-speech response like this without any substance at all
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by schubidubiduba 2mo ago
You need to differentiate between citing everything, and citing a select few prior works which are integral to your own. For the latter, it is very natural to mention and cite them, unless you have motive not to do so.
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by schubidubiduba 2mo ago
Having your public administration be dependent on the whims of a foreign government (and yes, Microsoft is subject to whims of the US government if it comes down to it) is just a bad idea in general. And in particular since 2 years ago. The
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by schubidubiduba 2mo ago
Even with a spec on github, a protocol can still be proprietary, e.g. if companies have to pay to use it legally in products
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by schubidubiduba 2mo ago
How does any government make decisions? The workings of the EU are maybe a tad more complex than most nation governments, but it largely functions the same with parliament etc. (because why wouldn't it) Maybe a special case is the Euro
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by schubidubiduba 3mo ago
CoMaps does have this exact UX flow actually. Unfortunately it is somewhat flaky and frequently falls back to not doing it.
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by schubidubiduba 4mo ago
Big tech companies have gotten used to laws not applying to them.
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by schubidubiduba 4mo ago
Those requirements are explicitly on the outcomes because companies like Apple used to abuse loopholes in previous, non-outcome defined laws. They, as always, have no one to blame but themselves.

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