Jayjader

@Jayjader@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what other applications this might have outside of machine learning. I don’t know if, for example, intensive 3d games absolutely need 16bit floats (or larger), or if it would make sense to try using this “additive implementation” for their floating point multiplicative as well. Modern desktop gaming PCs can easily slurp up to 800W.

• DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorowyoutu.be ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩ | ⁨2⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thieves snatched his phone in London, UK - it was in China a month later⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the police say they are targeting the criminals responsible but cannot “arrest their way out of the problem”. They also say manufacturers and tech firms have a bigger role to play.

  Even though I fully expect the police here aren’t doing as much as they could (I mean come on, are they expecting phones to come with wiimote hand straps?) , I’m at least glad their public rhetoric is that they can’t “arrest their way out of the problem”.

  I imagine that’s poor compensation when you’ve just had your phone snatched, however.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy world mods still power creeping⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Get off of .world if you want to see a difference.

  The size of that instance almost guarantees these kinds of dynamics will emerge, especially on a website run by volunteers and paid for by donations.

  Stop complaining to other users; go be the change you wish to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's cadmium-enriched!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This cannot be tolerated, even under Eisenhower.

  I suddenly want to insert this into my everyday life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warnings meant to last 10,000 years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the proposal to GMO our companion animals like dogs and cats so that they can serve as Geiger-counter + canary-in-the-coal-mine for future humans, right? I don’t remember ever hearing a rendition of it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critics of Putin and his allies targeted inside the EU with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right?

  “Protect vulnerable individuals” - they must mean Putin and Bibbi, not actual victims of political intimidation, sabotage, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Normalize it!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, this post was highly confusing at first 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Art might not be about thinking while you are experiencing it, but it most definitely is about thinking about the experience afterwards, as much as experiencing it in the first place.

  Not to mention that books are often art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Square Enix exec on why Final Fantasy sales don’t meet expectations and chances of recouping insane AAA budgets | Game World Observer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s such a destructive mindset, and it seems to me like indie games are hopefully on the cusp of re-demonstrating to the rest of the industry why it is so.

  Art/luxury products depend on catering to subjective tastes to turn a profit. You need to speak to someone’s perspective or interests, and are competing for their disposable income against all other forms of entertainment. Thus the wider the targeted audience, the harder it is to outcompete the rest of the market on “consumer interest” (no idea if that’s the proper use of the term but it sounds correct for the context), the harder it is to even turn a profit.

  Simultaneously, these corporations want an ever-greater magnitude of profit (aka growth). So they decide to target the widest audience possible, while investing as much capital as they can.

  That’s already an unstable balance of priorities. As soon as you start conceiving yourself as competing with almost every single other market on the basis of shareholder speculation, in terms of ROI, it’s doomed.

  You’re not just shooting yourself in the foot, you’re trying to do a Paul Muad’hib Atreides except because this is reality, not sci-fi, instead of drinking the Water of Life you mixed 10 grams of ketamine, 5 tabs of acid, and a fistful of meth into a blue Gatorade and chugged it in one go. All you end up doing is vibrating in place so hard you begin to slough off flesh and erratically disintegrate, like some sort of sad eldritch horror.

  God do I hate corpos sick with capitalism.

  To continue the Dune analogy, they really could use some ecology-derived thinking: specialize and find your niche (or help it emerge), and give back to the rest of the ecosystem so that it continues to flourish with you. Monoculture has a negative correlation between scale and sustainability, let alone ROI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In light of the recent forays by AI projects/products into the reason of coding assistants, from copilot to Devin, this reads to me as a sign that they’ve finally accepted that you can’t make an ai assistant that provides actual value from an LLM purely trained on text.

  This is Microsoft copying Google’s captcha homework. We trained their OCR for gBooks, we trained their image recognition on traffic lights and buses and so signs.

  Now we get to train their ai assistant on how to click around a windows OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point is to scold Google for the harm they cause or fail to prevent. When the law is written so as to genuinely prevent harm (data protection, for ex) then I will scold those who don’t follow it. When the law is written so as to be ineffective at best and harmful at worst, I will scold those who do follow it.

  The point isn’t to be consistent with regards to the law, as the law itself is not always either consistent nor “good”.

  … unless it is me that isn’t understanding your own comment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True quality⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a big storm around 2009 in the south west of France (where there are a lot of pine tree plantations); an entire generation of trees ended up looking like this.

  Basically, strong continuous winds flatten very young trees without killing them. They then keep growing, with a permanent kink in trunk, near the base such as these. Not great for sawing into planks, but they work just fine to make paper and agglomerate.

  It’s incredible how resilient trees are!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a good (albeit short) conference at FOSDEM2020 that gave an overview of a bunch of different “prior work” with regards to government using open source: archive.fosdem.org/2020/…/municipal_government/

  With regards to other comments about Munich, the speaker touches on that case starting at 7 minutes into the conf, and highlights how it differs/differed from other, more successful, cases.