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by gspr 7d ago
You know what they'll say in their defense. "This is an extremely complicated systems, and we apologize that a technical solution was broken in an intricate way. [Insert boilerplate about taking privacy seriously here]" These
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by gspr 8d ago
The fact that most people in the western world have two terrible companies to choose between in order to have normal life conveniences is outrageous. (Here in Europe we actually have no choices that operate under our laws!) We need laws
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by gspr 8d ago
Because only people who aren't actually sorry spend their time saying sorry instead of doing the one thing that would actually help people – provide detailed information on what the hell is going on.
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by gspr 10d ago
You are either very confused about timescales, or very dismissive of "just" a generation of suffering while unemployment and birthrates somewhat maybe compensate for eachother. This feels a bit like saying "global warming is
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by gspr 10d ago
We could mandate that any platform beyond a certain (huge) size must provide open interoperability APIs. Less radically, we can demand that any entity that takes any public money (and of course public entities themselves) avoid communicatin
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by gspr 11d ago
As a European, I'm glad functioning sewage systems took priority over an orbital launch capability.
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by gspr 11d ago
Ideally, yes. But when the baker is running around with a red hat renaming lakes, you have to start kneading if you have any sense.
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by gspr 12d ago
> BTW: with today’s LLMs, there’s really no excuse for badly-documented, or badly-formatted code. You can write a thousand lines of commercial-grade spaghetti, and tell the LLM to format and document it. And how do you know that the docu
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by gspr 12d ago
> At this point we can assume, it is better than 90% of engineers (including me). Hard disagree. We absolutely cannot assume that. You can posit it, and we can have an informed debate about it. This is what irks me the most about LLM fan
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by gspr 12d ago
That must be why von der Leyen renamed the Mediterranean to Lake Europe recently. Give me a break. In the present situation, the US is a lunatic asylum on fire, and the EU is a regular ol' boring place with boring problems.
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by gspr 12d ago
Code is precise. Human intent is anything but.
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by gspr 12d ago
> its not incredulity. i'm unfamiliar with what law this would be prosecuted under, so i asked. Fair enough. > i do not believe there is evidence that the agents were instructed to edit the wikis. Huh? These are machines, built b
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by gspr 12d ago
This kind of incredulity in the AI era hilariously reminds me of the naivete of the late 90s. All of us edgy teenagers would be like "an MP3 is like just a long number, man! You can't own numbers!" Of course we were morons. I
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by gspr 12d ago
I do think that regulations prevent some murders. I think lots of companies and some sociopathic individuals would be more likely to kill people, e.g. for profit, if it were legal. We need both regulations and technical solutions.
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by gspr 12d ago
> It's disproportional in that it's more than the swedish would want to give since they'd rather invest it domestically (in energy production and those prices). So what's stopping them from investing the energy locall
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by gspr 14d ago
> It appears to be higher electricity prices whilst the compensation given doesn't adequately match and goes disproportionally to what's essentially a middleman. Could you elaborate on this disproportionality? > Is it then n
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by gspr 14d ago
> In Europe, you can't get a regular ID without being a citizen. So having an ID automatically means you're eligible to vote. Nitpick: E.g. Norwegian ID cards can be had by any legal resident. The card will say that you're
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by gspr 14d ago
No, all people do not manage to do those things (even if they wanted to).
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by gspr 14d ago
Are people in your company moderately technical? If so, I highly recommend https://www.passwordstore.org/ coupled with a PGP key storage dongle (I personally use NitroKey). Then hosting is just a matter of hosting a minuscu
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by gspr 14d ago
The comparison to western European countries doesn't hold up. Speaking from Norway: yes, it's true you have to provide ID to vote, both in national and local elections. The difference is that obtaining ID is trivial , to the poin
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by gspr 15d ago
> Because those of high supply get barely anything for it and retain their high consumer prices. So if you're a swede you don't want this connection to even exist. As a Norwegian (very similar situation to the Swedes wrt power
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by gspr 15d ago
Resource is expensive in location A due to too low supply. Resource is cheap in location B due to higher supply. Moving resource from B to A is non-trivial. Why is it so crazy that the facilitators of getting the resource moved get compensa
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by gspr 17d ago
I, too, am very sensitive about cameras invading the privacy of neighbors. But to be fair, it is perfectly possible that the cameras in question don't view anything outside of the property in question.
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by gspr 17d ago
Have you ever visited the real world? You have to live with plenty of idiotic laws all the time. This does not mean you have to like them. Nor does it mean you can't welcome laws that remedy some of the downsides of the idiotic laws. I
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by gspr 17d ago
Of course the underlying law is idiotic. What I meant is that if we take the law as a given, then the exemption we are discussing here are very good and sensible . I wish they weren't needed, but given that they are, the language seem
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by gspr 18d ago
Rest of the headline: "software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt" And then further into the text it's clarified that there also isn't a specific list of open licenses, as the terrible h
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by gspr 21d ago
So much of present day feels like being back in middle school around the turn of the millenium, with classmates (and even some teachers!) new to the internet insisting that "source: internet" or "source: google" was tota
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by gspr 23d ago
Yeah that's what I was imagining. No idea how though, so this is just rambling on my part :)
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by gspr 24d ago
Backtracking, of sorts. The LLM descends a seemingly fruitful path, and all of a sudden that path seems less so. So you backtrack a few tokens ("erasing"/"undoing") and resample the probability distribution a bit ba
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by gspr 24d ago
> Very lazy headline. Which "Congo"? This is a ridiculous gripe. If you don't want to actually read, you can just assume the union of both possibilities, and absolutely nothing about the takeaway here changes unless you&

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