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by openrisk 2y ago
Collapse or no collapse I just hope that somebody sets up a HN equivalent in Europe. Discussing technology in a meaningful and fun way becomes impossible when moral values diverge beyond recognition and this is now becoming our reality.
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by openrisk 2y ago
Conflating bureaucratic red tape with regulations that actually protect citizens is the deceitful, immoral strategy, by people who are basically... evil. Simplifying bureaucratic rules can be beneficial and can take countless forms (digitiz
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by openrisk 2y ago
Libreoffice features prominently in the "eurostack" initiative/proposal that was launched today. If there will be ever mainstream self-sovereign compute, it will almost certainly include this incredible project. The nag I wil
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Eurostack proposal – a European alternative for digital sovereignty(euro-stack.info)
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You are probably right. I would not discount the importance of many open source tools for making viz more widely available (and far more powerful than excel graphs) but its indeed tooling, not conceptual and in any case already available fo
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by openrisk 2y ago
Visualization seems to have stagnated in the AI craze era. Lots of androids touching holographic screens and what not, as metaphors for the almighty "AGI" coming any day now, but cant recall a major new development in the last fiv
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by openrisk 2y ago
Hard to know how significant this is because its impossible to know what the political class (and many others) mean by "AI" (and thus its potential risks). This is not new, similar charades a few years ago around "blockchain&
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by openrisk 2y ago
In the longer term various alternatives are conceivable if people put their minds to it. Politically, economically, technically this is very much like the energy transition: There is immense current dependency that cant be just switched off
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by openrisk 2y ago
Remarkable story and a glimpse at how nasty vested interests can become as the world starts to second guess the sustainability of an entire century's worth of "growth" at all costs. Its not black and white, without pesticides
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by openrisk 2y ago
Well, now that Wall Street offloaded the X debt they were stuck with for some time they can support great new ventures. It does all have a bit of Wile E Coyote feel to it. Keep gesticulating wildy to propel forwards before inevitably plungi
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by openrisk 2y ago
On mastodon I noticed an interesting approach: to warn in a visible manner that a topic is "sensitive". Not sure if that triggers less aggressive behavior, maybe its even the opposite? But just as there are instinctive red dots th
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by openrisk 2y ago
Most science papers are only read by a tiny circle of experts, maybe a dozen or so. The process still works out. The critical challenge is to have some quality human readership (instead of the AI bot brigade and random zero second clicks)
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by openrisk 2y ago
There is a certain amount of "convergence" of good practices thats happening despite the exhausting trend following. E.g. people happily(?) wrote c++ code for decades but today there is strong pressure from the success of ecosyste
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by openrisk 2y ago
Software is a cultural artifact. It reflects the society and economy that produces it, just as much as music, literature, urban design, or cuisine. So you cannot "destroy" software. But you can have fast food versus slow food, y
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by openrisk 2y ago
Not sure its my filters working to remove nuisance news but the "singularity" plot and "AI safety" seem a bit less prevalent these days? Maybe the nature of these algorithms is finally diffusing to wider audiences?
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by openrisk 2y ago
> Folk music is enmeshed in a particular culture. It is knowledge transmitted across generations, but which evolves to meet the challenges of the times and changing sensibilities. This is a beautiful and unexpected connection. Drawing an
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by openrisk 2y ago
Just the extensive list of academic partners is a major difference with any existing effort on LLM's.
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Imagine if the amount of ingenuity that went into building the elaborate speculative digital game that is crypto was actually used to lift underdeveloped countries from their misery. Fighting corruption, enabling healthier local economies,
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by openrisk 2y ago
Who knows. But the hoopla seems to have created a nice Streisand effect :-)
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KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) Open Sources Mobile Apps(gitlab.com)
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by openrisk 2y ago
The problem is that whatever esoteric motivations technical people have to join the FOSS movement (scratching an itch, seeking fame, saving the world, doing what everybody else is doing etc.), does not translate well to the domain of design
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by openrisk 2y ago
> Then the upswing, when even the most fashionable users realised that desktop office suites would never die and would coexist with the cloud. Libreoffice in combination with local ML/AI owns the future. Whats missing is to orchestr
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by openrisk 2y ago
Knowing humanity and its ability for planetary level solidarity, its more likely that the most powerful nations would simply displace the weaker ones. "No offence bro, but we are the salt of the Earth, so get out of here and good l
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by openrisk 2y ago
The decline in support for RSS is more visible on the client side. Sure there are reader options for the determined, especially if technically minded, but that's a marginal population. In today's hyperconcentrated digital landscap
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Because the data is mine and the model is yours?
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by openrisk 2y ago
> they'll likely demand that the big future discoveries remain closed-sourced Depends on whether they want these tools to be adopted in the wider world. Rightly or wrongly there is a lot of suspicion in the West and an open source a
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by openrisk 2y ago
Habitable exomoons is a cool idea [1]. "Scientists estimate that there are as many habitable exomoons as habitable exoplanets" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitability_of_natural_satell...
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by openrisk 2y ago
How different is it? > While this has resulted in some incompatibilities between Macsyma and Maxima, programs written in the Macsyma algebraic language can often be run, with only minor changes, in either system. Symbolic tensor manipula
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by openrisk 2y ago
omg, macsyma is still alive and I can now manipulate real tensors in the browser?
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by openrisk 2y ago
Anything that works as money is bootstraped as a value token within society. "Serious" money simply reflects a serious society: transparent books, reliable social contracts, diversified undertakings, resilient people and nature, t

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