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by vrganj 5mo ago
Interoperability is what enables consumer choice and the best product winning in the first place. Theres no choice if all your friends are on a network that's not interoperable.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
You mean the guys that invented MP3s and were major contributors to h264?
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by vrganj 5mo ago
To quote the article: > Take copywriting. It was a profession that took years to master and paid well. This changed slowly as more professionals joined the market, even after the demand spike driven by ecommerce and adtech. Now, LLMs hav
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by vrganj 5mo ago
> Nobody is suggesting we "replace labor" with LLMs. I take it you haven't been listening to what the guys at the AI labs have been saying? Plus that's what the whole article is about. I'm not sure how you could&
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by vrganj 5mo ago
The outside world itself will stop working if we replace labor with LLMs. Mass unemployment equals riots equals an end to the status quo.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
I like the thing the French have been cooking up, La Suite Numerique : https://github.com/suitenumerique#%E2%84%B9%EF%B8%8F-about-l... It looks much more polished than a lot of the existing open source tooling, they'v
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by vrganj 5mo ago
How would one position one's portfolio if one was worried things are about to start crashing hard?
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The EU Open Source Strategy(digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)
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by vrganj 5mo ago
I beg to differ. Look at our overlords today. Musk. Zuck. Bezos. All three are buddying up with government officials, all three routinely embarrass themselves when they try to talk shop. Only difference is they're much more socially aw
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Nah, it's the technology's fault for enabling it.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
I had Zuck once create a ticket against me on the padding of a button because it was on one of his pet projects. In the middle of the night. During peak Cambridge Analytica scandal times. I question his priorities.
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Nintendo Switch 2 with user-replaceable batteries coming to the EU(tomshardware.com)
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by vrganj 5mo ago
I don't care why you pay for LLM access, it's still spamming my online forums and codebases.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
LLMs are killing open source just like they're killing online discussion forums. It's heartbreaking, my two favorite things about the internet are dying off because human interaction can't outscale AI slop.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Great knot and amazing site. It has a distinct "old internet" feel to it, and I mean that as nothing but a compliment. I miss those days, pre platforms capturing everything and making us angry at each other for their engagement me
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Half of Belgium sees the US as a bigger adversary than China(euronews.com)
7 points by vrganj 5mo ago|1 comments
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by vrganj 5mo ago
But if you eat food, I don't risk choking. They want us to take the risk for their reward.
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Thanks to robots, Ukraine is now talking about winning, not just surviving(defenseone.com)
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by vrganj 5mo ago
This is risk to us and reward for them though.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
The sovereign entity granting said private ownership is the state. It is privately owned only insofar as the state wills it.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
... or force.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
> The oil is on Alaska/Norway's land These AI companies are on American land.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Who said anything about the government shoveling in money?
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Now if only somebody involved in DOGE had all sorts of connections to people highly experienced with cars... maybe even by running a major carmaker himself?
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St Petersburg Burns as Drones Hit Oil Terminal During Russias Economic Showcase(united24media.com)
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376245
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Uber caps staff use of AI coding tools after blowing its budget(latimes.com)
5 points by vrganj 5mo ago|2 comments
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by vrganj 5mo ago
I am also considering leaving Gmail over the blue squiggly lines trying to tell me how to "improve" my phrasing. I like the nuance my words convey, Google. I don't need to sound like an LLM with no sense of personality. My ph
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by vrganj 5mo ago
So your definition of "taking back our country" is... Americans telling us what we can and can't do in the best interest of their owners? Should the EU actually overstep, tech companies can take it to the open, public court
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by vrganj 5mo ago
If removing CSAM is good, then there is clearly a line somewhere. The only question is "who gets to draw it"? Why should it be foreign oligarchs and not our own democratic representatives? To do so, ironically, constitutes &qu

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