After seeing that the public was willing to call DeepSeek “open source” for releasing 800 lines of Python, an opaque model, and a PDF vaguely describing (or just praising) the proprietary training framework… Yeah, I imagine he feels like he missed an opportunity.

Another day, another speculative execution attack

The Doomsday Clock is turning into a real life exercise of Zeno’s Paradox.

Overkill.

She only needed to beat him four in a row.

Or diagonally.

Also, half of the gains in recent years have been in energy efficiency, not just speed.

So if the idea is to do more with less, you don’t wanna rely on old power-hungry designs.

Did not expect “Linux users” to be this early in the stanzas of “First they came for the […]”

I hate this kind of doomerism so much.

I know it’s just a shower thought, which are meant to be kinda flawed and reductive, but it’s just such a reckless dismissal of everything we’ve accomplished as a species.

I think Hank Green says it best: https://youtu.be/FcbtkVTAyqM

Edit: On Lemmy, if you just link to a video people will say “Can’t you provide a tl;dw?” but it you do provide a tl;dw, they’ll respond with stuff that’s covered in the video.

Also, destroying a satellite can deal a ton of collateral damage. Starlink isn’t high enough to create a true Kessler Syndrome, but it could still cause big problems.

“Odd-looking salute” ain’t no country I ever heard. They speak English in “odd-looking salute”?

my dad posted porn

daughter swap

😶

And one gun

One where you can use any server and client you wish, as long as it implements the same freely-available spec. You can probably access the source code of the server and client you’re using.

As with many things: the problem is not the technology itself, but the terms that capital owners demand we accept in order to use it.

Yup. They’re all dangerous monsters.

IMO, it doesn’t even matter who’s worse, cuz they’re all bad enough they should all be subject to aggressive regulation with the goal of establishing safe interop off-ramps for people to stop using the services or at least use more trustworthy clients.

In my estimation, TikTok is worse, but that’s not even what the ban is about. It’s because China is spying instead of the US. That’s not a reason to defend TikTok though, or to oppose the government’s decision — cuz they were accidentally right, for the wrong reason.

I mean, if that’s the question you want answered…

X uses a native browser controller when you open a link, so the app can’t see what you do in there.

Whereas TikTok uses a managed webview… which they have been caught injecting keyloggers into.

Back in the olden days, we called this a cross-site scripting attack.

Oh boy. Don’t look too deep into philosophy of language, or you might become convinced that “the iris” is just as nonexistent — or that all nouns are really about a symbolic existence as a relationship, for which measurable physical matter is inconsequential.

We saw even with something as simple as putting a piece of cloth over your dirty germ-filled mouth, people would rather be “normal” than safe.

As the sociologist Brooke Harrington puts it, if there was an E = mc² of social science, it would be SD > PD, “social death is more frightening than physical death.”

Oh hey, this same quote is relevant yet again:

In other words, an AI-supported radiologist should spend exactly the same amount of time considering your X-ray, and then see if the AI agrees with their judgment, and, if not, they should take a closer look. AI should make radiology more expensive, in order to make it more accurate.

But that’s not the AI business model. AI pitchmen are explicit on this score: The purpose of AI, the source of its value, is its capacity to increase productivity, which is to say, it should allow workers to do more, which will allow their bosses to fire some of them, or get each one to do more work in the same time, or both. The entire investor case for AI is “companies will buy our products so they can do more with less.” It’s not “business custom­ers will buy our products so their products will cost more to make, but will be of higher quality.”

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?