alightsoul

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by alightsoul 4d ago
Yeah it's a relic from when computers booted off floppy and hard disks were rare and expensive
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by alightsoul 6d ago
And of course this mostly only happened and is far more noticeable in the us than elsewhere when measured in car size and people were convinced to buy the larger cars aka turned SUVs and pick up trucks by marketing. This started to happen i
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by alightsoul 6d ago
The honor 400 used to be sold for 300 dollars with 12 gb of ram. Now the replacement the honor 600 comes with 8 GB at twice the price.
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by alightsoul 7d ago
And cars started getting bigger because, it was a way to legally classify them as trucks thus saving money for the manufacturer. And then everyone had to follow just to feel safe
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by alightsoul 7d ago
So it's the us wanting to control their backyard. UPI is halfway across the globe so it would be harder to mess with Indians
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by alightsoul 7d ago
UPI in India too. Why are they targeting pix specifically? Yappy in Panama and alipay in China but those are privately owned, as the us wants.
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by alightsoul 7d ago
Banning drugs like alcohol imo is not a solution for any drug, people have their own reasons to consume them and the underlying cause should be resolved first
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by alightsoul 8d ago
That implies running a model on a third party cloud like azure or AWS or local models. All this comes at a premium. Do you know of any companies doing this? Most companies I have seen don't due to cost and simply log conversations and
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by alightsoul 8d ago
LLM generated content is not the user's, it's the company's, licensed to the user under ToS, not copyright. Even more so with the raw proprietary reasoning traces, which most users never see and are only available as summarie
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by alightsoul 8d ago
They are very popular in china, such as the Wuling ev. In America, they are afraid of them because they are small. They want big cars to have a large crumple area in a crash.
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by alightsoul 8d ago
With wasm, I see a future where the browser and thus web technologies are a UI toolkit for a Linux desktop environment. It already is, people hardly use GTK and qt anymore except for desktop environments or embedded like on cars due to perf
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by alightsoul 8d ago
I think people actually expect it so they are not impressed when it happens
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by alightsoul 8d ago
Many companies are choosing not to send any sensitive data to any ai vendor. They don't really trust they won't train on user data.
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by alightsoul 8d ago
Not storing prompts but they absolutely can store reasoning traces, summarized or sanitized reasoning traces and the whole LLM output as well.
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by alightsoul 8d ago
Zero data retention commitments? Technically generating synthetic data off of user data on the fly, counts as zero retention of user data! And it technically means they didn't lie either, because they didn't keep user data, they k
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by alightsoul 8d ago
Anti distillation is just American nationalistic marketing, the amount of data they have "distilled" makes no difference. Deepseek "distilled" like 10000 messages? That's clearly not enough. You gain a lot more doin
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by alightsoul 8d ago
Anthropic does the same thing but it's not problem
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by alightsoul 8d ago
How is climate change not the most dangerous activity right now? Why are we talking about nuclear weapons?
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by alightsoul 8d ago
Yeah, wealth inequality rests solely on each individual that experiences it. Humans should do nothing but give me money and if you can't that's your problem.
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by alightsoul 9d ago
In Latin America people have fewer unions, usually centered around construction because it is very easy to die on a construction site. Latin American countries are among those least friendly to unions and there have been anti union crackdow
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by alightsoul 9d ago
But it's paid. Some people use brave because it's free and not google. More than duckduckgo
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by alightsoul 9d ago
There's some sort of reranking, maybe this is how they measure site reputation now? By linking from a large website and people in that website like it? Or SEO?
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by alightsoul 9d ago
This is all news to me. Like these news outside mexico are quite rare
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by alightsoul 9d ago
I forgot i don't live in the us. So in Latin America people just call it a day and survive and try to get another job, they don't even know companies lay off or move operations during mergers
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by alightsoul 9d ago
Why, what the hell is the point? Why would the average person care about a merger?
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by alightsoul 9d ago
Another reason why it might be hitting records is many companies getting rid of Microsoft 365 downloads for desktop and only allowing use of the web version. And apparently it's the first thing that comes up when you try to download Mi
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by alightsoul 11d ago
That's bluesky and mastodon working as intended. Easy like a centralized platform for everyone, while staying decentralized for nerds.
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by alightsoul 11d ago
Apparently the only exception is, if your website is only used for piracy and you can see it and you do nothing about it when asked to. That's why mega, megaupload's successor, has encryption, so that the company can plausibly den
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by alightsoul 11d ago
I have never seen trash on a sidewalk. I have seen them in bus stops though
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by alightsoul 11d ago
Simple, create a company that becomes large enough to justify an IPO. Then stonks go up.

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