Feyd

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In the context that running an ad blocker is a responsible action for security, it’s ridiculous to even be having this discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe I made this without ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No to the first part, but we should still do the second part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  🌏👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀🌌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is A Money Trap⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A transformer model isn’t an llm, nor does a type of algorithm/data model/whatever being useful for one purpose mean it is equally useful for all other purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is A Money Trap⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For business use, laptops without powerful graphics cards have been the norm for quite some time. Do you see businesses deciding to change to desktops to accommodate the power for local models? I think it’s pretty optimistic to think that laptops are going to be that powerful in the next 5 years. The advancement in chip capability has dramatically slowed, and to put them in laptops they’d need to be incredibly more power efficient as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is A Money Trap⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re only a few years off from platform-agnostic local inference at mass-market prices.

  What makes you confident in that? What will change?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is A Money Trap⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m unaware of machine learning being used in all kinds of science, but it is not llms and therefore not the topic of discussion here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is A Money Trap⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen this argument way to often and it is completely pointless. The argument that this will succeed because something in the past succeeded is exactly the same as arguing it will fail because something in the past failed.

  If you want to draw the conclusion that they’re similar enough to use history in prediction, you’ll have to show that they’re similar and make a case for why those similarities are relevant.

  I haven’t seen anyone making this argument bother with this exercise, but I have seen people that actually look at the economics discuss why they’re different animals.

  There is also the enterprise itself.

  1. internet - connect everything together across vast distances. Obvious limitless possibilities.

  2. smart phones (you didn’t mention here but this is the other one people use for this argument most frequently) - Anything a computer can do in the palm of your hand.

  3. llms - can do some powerful stuff like rifle through and summarize text, or generate text, or generate code… Except you can’t really trust it to do any of these things accurately, and that is a fundamental aspect of how the technology works rather than something that can be fixed, so it can’t be used responsibly for anything critical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is A Money Trap⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fang companies that are in on the llm hype are still lighting money on fire in their llm endeavors so I feel to see how the point that they may be otherwise profitable is relevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI's 'Jailbreak-Proof' New Models? Hacked on Day One⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “AI” has a massive inability (or is purposefully deceptive) to distinguish the difference between bugs, which can be fixed, and fundamental aspects of the technology that disqualify it from various applications.

  I think the more likely story is that they know this can be done, know about this particular jailbreak person, can replicate their work (because they didn’t so anything they hadn’t done with previous models in the first place), and are straight up lying and betting the people that matter to their next investment round (scam continuation) won’t catch wind.

  You’re giving these grifters way too much credit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI's 'Jailbreak-Proof' New Models? Hacked on Day One⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok? Either openai knows that and lies about their capabilities, or they don’t know it and are incompetent. That’s the real story here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any “experienced” developer that says these AI tools have drastically increased their productivity is full of shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, I could just write it myself, instead of ending up like these guys sketch.dev/…/our-first-outage-from-llm-written-co…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like ORMs, but I’d rather use a battle tested ORM than some vibe coded data layer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen a lot of stupid shit over my career but this AI zealotry just takes the cake.

  Everyone is so convinced these tools will make software get made faster, but I’m not even convinced that it gives even a modest benefit. For me personally they definitely don’t, and it seems to lead junior devs horribly astray as often as it helps speed them up.

  It feels like I’m not even looking at the same reality as everyone else at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s relatively little debate among developers that the tools are or ought to be useful,

  Yes there is. No one wants to listen to us. I’ve had 3 levels of people above me ask me how I’ve incorporated AI into my workflow. I don’t get any pushback because my effectiveness is well known, yet the top down edict that everyone else use these shitty tools continues unabated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think steam is perfect, but they have shown over the years they will go above and beyond to make a good experience for the consumer, including tagging all kinds of negative things on games such as specific DRMs and drastically advancing the ability to run windows games on Linux

  No publicly traded company will ever develop that kind of track record even if you give it a chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And why should anyone care what he says?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cool and all, but the plan is to buy their way in by running at a massive loss then enshittify. Rather, even if that is not the current plan (it probably is), it will inevitably become the plan because it is a publicly traded company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster Hunter Wilds Endgame Expansion Moved Up as Game Suffers From 'Soft' Sales⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even outside of the performance problems, it’s become clear the pattern is to release the base game which is ok, then eventually release an expansion that makes it feel like a complete experience. A lot of people that started with world or rise are just going to hold off for the expansion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if I ignored everything about the entire ecosystem, just the fact I can use ublock origin in firefox mobile is reason enough to choose it over chrome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of internet denizens go out of their way to highlight every misstep firefox has like it is fatal and downplay all of it’s positives, even to the point of suggesting the usage of chromium derivitives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will we have reached enough productivity?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t matter how much more efficient we get. We already have the bandwidth to do everything we need to do but if gets vacuumed up into whatever rich people want it to. That will continue no matter how efficient we get unless society completely changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will we have reached enough productivity?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re wrong though. Things aren’t being prioritized in order of urgency. If they were, everyone in the planet would be focused on climate change. Instead, we have some places actively fighting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will we have reached enough productivity?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is completely incorrect. We’re ignoring preventative medical care and other urgent stuff to make rich people rich because we have a stupid economic system where rich people decide what is important

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are password managers secure to use?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t trust SaaS ones not because I don’t think they’re not doing all due diligence, but because a SaaS password manager is the juiciest of juicy targets and eventually someone will succeed in cracking one.

  I personally use KeepassXC, which is a local password manager. Most of the benefits of a SaaS one with some extra work handling sync and backup yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One user, who asked not to be identified, said it has been impossible to advance his project since the usage limits came into effect. “It just stopped the ability to make progress,” the user told TechCrunch. “I tried Gemini and Kimi, but there’s really nothing else that’s competitive with the capability set of Claude Code right now.”

  Lolz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re looking for is the history of “computer vision”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah there’s the difference. I’m not convinced there is a robust poison but I’d love to be wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re completely talking past me. Everyone knew it was a flimsy baracade and that if the LLM companies hadn’t circumvented it they would soon. That doesn’t stop people from continuing to innovate. Publishing the results mean there is a public solution anyone can use.

  Do I think it’s the worst thing that could happen? Not really, but your security through obscurity argument makes no sense in this context and it would probably be better if it wasn’t done and published so every bad actor can use it with minimal effort.