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  • There’s no reason for software to be blazing fast under late stage capitalism dominated by monopolies.

    Not saying that it’s right and I hate it, but optimizing for performance doesn’t make economical sense.

    At it will get so, so much worse with AI coding. I’m kinda looking forward to it, the extremely absurd rise of hardware pricing, combined with unmaintainable slopinness of code made by AI, I’m pretty certain we will start hitting the performance frustration tolerance limit of people for major commonly used software. It was already before AI, stuff like Azure od Dynamics was attrocious to use, and it’s going to be extremely funny watchich the trainwreck. And with 80% of code being written by AI, fixing that mess will be almpst impossible, haha.

    Get fucked.







  • I’m pretty sad that people have to be perverts and glasses with cameras got such a bad rep.

    It is deserved and not surprising, and I’m not trying to defend them, but I was so looking forward to AR glasses with cameras, so I could finally get a working ad-block IRL, which should be easily possible with the tech.

    But, that requires a camera. It’s a shame, and I’ll definitely rather continue dealing with ads than support enabling perverts (or Meta, anyway), but it sounded like such a cool use-case.

    I hate how there are always groups who have to ruin everything for others :(


  • Not trying to defend them, and I haven’t looked at the feature set of the new Discord integration, but I can imagine a reason for most of those - assuming, of course, that you can basically chat in through WoW on discord.

    Afaik it links channels, but to know if your profile is in the server the channel is on, or join you there, it would need to manage and read servers, no? Of course, there are probably better ways how to do that, that respect your privacy a little bit more.

    The friendlist I’m having a hard time justifying, can you send DMs from WoW?

    But I do honestly wonder how would a MVP permission set looked like if you tried implementing the same integration they are doing, whatever it is.

    But yeah, Microslop hoarding data is probably the reason for most of those.


  • Exactly this, especially the last sentence.

    I only have pretty basic machine learning knowledge, based on a few Master’s classes at college while I was doing gamedev, and even with that I can tell that the way they are expecting to get AGI by just feeding more data into a language model is simply not happening.

    I remember a comparison from one of the AI-pilled tech-bros when AI was starting to get attention, and his metaphor about AGI was something along the lines of “Imagine a difference between a medieval commoner and Albert Einstein, that’s the difference in inteligence AI will soon have to the smartest people we know now”.

    But that doesn’t make sense with the current approach. Imagine Einstein writing his cutting-edge theories, and the commoner is watching him behind his shoulder and vetting anything he does. Scratching his ideas, forcing him to redo it, if he doesn’t like it, pointing to a reddit thread about why. There’s no way he would ever finish anything new.

    Unless they figure out a completely new way how to do AI reasoning, there is no way we’re getting anywhere near AGI. And that is also becoming more unlikely the longer we go with this approach, because every AI-pilled company is heavily outsourcing all of development to the current models, reducing their employee (and the whole worlds) innovation potential and skill. This is probably the last generation that can do serious academia, unless there are drastic measures done to limit access to AI in education. It’s fucked.


  • I don’t think that’s technically possible, at least without it being easy to catch.

    If they can’t read a license plate, that’s also a reading - and one they probably flag and send a police car after you immediately.

    And especially if they are pairing it with car model/make/scratches recognition, and secondary trackers like phone/rfid/bluetooth devices, even if you managed to keep changing the license plate, so it reads a different valid value every scan, since they are mapping the cars across positions, it would probably get flagged as an anomaly pretty quickly.

    Speeding cameras were there for decades at this point, and as far as I know every time someone tried something to avoid them, it didn’t last long. And that was just a single camera. All the cops had to do was stand nearby and stop any anomalies.


  • I’m kind of looking forward to this, in a way? I’ve been struggling with social network addiction, while I was fortunate enough to skip on doomscrolling FB, Instagram, TikTok and all that bullshit, I was always mostly just on Reddit, now Lemmy (but I’ve also been getting back to Reddit more than I should), or watching youtube.

    Over the past 15 years I’ve been more or less (usually less) successful in cutting off that habit, but I’ve unfortunately always fallen back into it.

    My utmost hate for fingerprinting and any kind of verification will make me finally cold turkey that shit. I’ve already seen it with youtube - every time it forces me to sign in to prove I’m not a bot, I fuck off and go do something else. Same with Reddit.

    So, yeah.



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    Couldn’t you argue that 0% is correct?

    It’s a paradox, no of the answers can be correct, so the chance that you pick the correct one is 0%.

    Sure, by picking it, it makes it wrong, but you don’t care about that.

    If you ran a infite monte carlo test on it, you’d end up with 0% correct answers.

    Sure, picking the zero makes it not true again, but you don’t care about that - it prooves that the statistical test holds.



  • While you’re technically right, I’d say that FOSS in general is more than just a tool, and Linux is The FOSS project.

    Deciding to share your work freely and cooperate with strangers as a contributor is, especially in a world driven by profits, a pretty major lifestyle/philosophy and an act of resistance against capitalism.

    Of course, you can just exploit the ecosystem and treat it as any other tool, that happens to be free, but I would say that that is the explanation about “people that worship the altar of Linus” that you’re looking for. Spending basically your entire life to help make something, especially as complex as an operating system, for others and for free is something that, at least in my eyes, is worthy of admiration and I have utmost repsect for people who contribute.