pbasista

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by pbasista 8d ago
> CDU has been trying to adopt more AfD positions > this keeps only strengthening the AfD I am unfamiliar with the details of German politics but if what you say is true, I am not surprised at all. I do not think that one can "wi
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by pbasista 8d ago
> that makes the far-right parties grow stronger That issue is just one of many that they use and abuse to gain popularity. They have also spread lies about vaccines. They promote antisemitism, xenophobia, hate against the LGBTI people,
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by pbasista 8d ago
I assume that these populist, extremist or dictator-willing-to-be politicians, not only in Germany but also in other European countries, in Russia, in the US, in Canada, as well as in China and elsewhere, are now all spending countless AI t
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by pbasista 10d ago
> Now its likely soiled and I have to throw it away. Could you explain why you think so?
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by pbasista 10d ago
> X got a letter saying they should stop. I am unfamiliar with these matters and I am also unsure what specifically you are referring to. But in general, if big companies get away with wrongdoings by receiving a gentle slap on their fing
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by pbasista 13d ago
Maybe all of them use the same datacenter. Which has just experienced issues.
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by pbasista 15d ago
I think that it would be sufficient to realize that no one is forced to use a specific AI model or model harness that has anti-consumer features built in. People should just walk away if they see something like that. This is where the act
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by pbasista 15d ago
If you just say that you run out of tokens, it does not mean anything about the token quotas themselves being reasonable or not. That depends on how much you use it. For instance, if you had 10s of agents running all the time, it is not t
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by pbasista 16d ago
> Spotify is in the process of killing the librespot project How could they possibly do that? They cannot prevent people or AI from reverse engineering their APIs.
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by pbasista 28d ago
> Are you absolutely sure you would catch any malicious payload in some obscure single-purpose Python script? Of course not. But I can at least fairly easily review it. And that is the point. A review cannot be done as easily with a mini
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by pbasista 29d ago
WebUSB is deliberately unsupported on Firefox due to potential for abuse, which seems reasonable to me. Therefore, delivering updates to USB devices likes that is, in my opinion, suboptimal because it requires a specific browser feature whi
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by pbasista 1mo ago
I use Linux Containers managed by Incus for working with Claude. I have a dedicated container for that. It can run its own Docker daemon and other system services if needed. Apart from the Claude login token, it has no SSH keys or other cre
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by pbasista 1mo ago
> I'd not accept to be treated like children. What is your expectation from such a class? What are you hoping to get out of it? If you merely want a tutor that will help you out navigate a topic you are interested in, with no string
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by pbasista 1mo ago
EU does not want that. Only a few politicians, some of whom happen to be currently in power, in the EU or elsewhere, are pushing for those agendas. But fortunately, they do not represent the majority.
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by pbasista 2mo ago
> what should be done about open weight bioweapon and cyber-offense capabilities? In my opinion, the governments should deploy open-weight AI countermeasures. Because it seems to me that it is impossible to efficiently fight AI-powered c
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by pbasista 2mo ago
No. No restrictions should be put on downloads. The main point is that the distribution channels should always be free. What should be gated and limited is the commercial use: reselling, relicensing, using for business, etc. > the option
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by pbasista 2mo ago
Of course, the music should still be protected against the commercial use or reselling.
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by pbasista 2mo ago
The users usually not paying is a problem introduced by those platforms, in my opinion. They make the entire experience too generic for the regular users to care. It seems to me that the bands or musicians should distribute their music via
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by pbasista 2mo ago
If I was a musician and produced music nowadays, I would not induce regular copyright rights on it. Because, in my opinion, it makes no practical sense. It mostly alienates the users. I would put the uncompressed flac files of my music dire
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by pbasista 2mo ago
> do you ever go over 1gbit No. None of the local ISPs offer speeds above 1 Gbps. However, I use FriendlyElec NanoPi R5C as the main entrypoint router. It has two 2.5G ethernet ports. It costs less than 100 euros. And it runs OpenWRT. It
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by pbasista 2mo ago
> The associated username is not validated, so any provided username will succeed when paired with the backdoor password. Great. I am really wondering why should the customers trust these manufacturers. At this point I would not use any
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by pbasista 2mo ago
> if you couldn't do long division by hand But the people studying math and the related fields are able to do division by hand on paper. They are just slow when doing it. I believe that the calculator was meant to solve the slowness
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by pbasista 3mo ago
> Public Money, Public Code This seems like a very good principle to adhere to in general. Anything that is funded by the public needs to serve the public interest, in my opinion. Putting public money into e.g. proprietary software and p
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by pbasista 3mo ago
> Models that you can run at home (Like Qwen 35B) aren't remotely close to Opus or GPT 5.5. Is that characterization based on some objective facts or benchmarks?
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by pbasista 3mo ago
> they inserted themselves I am unaware of such a capability of Cloudflare. I believe it is the site administrators who have inserted Cloudflare in between their sites and their users. Usually it is done for rational reasons of establish
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by pbasista 4mo ago
> full on communist Please do not use the term communist lightly, i.e. as an umbrella term for people who express ideas that e.g. more government control or regulation is in some circumstances reasonable. The only forms of communism that
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by pbasista 4mo ago
In general, it seems to me that an abstract resource like AI cannot possibly be regulated. Even if US forced their hand and took ownership of the controlling stakes in the current major AI companies, what stops the other AI companies from r
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by pbasista 4mo ago
> pretending everything else is fine No one pretends that everything else is fine. It is in my opinion reasonable to call out any violations of any law or any violations of the users' or companies' privacy as they are spotted.
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by pbasista 4mo ago
> time spent on reducing memory footprints is seen as wasteful by the business I think that there is a way to change that. If an application runs significantly better on lower end hardware while delivering the same results, the customer
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by pbasista 4mo ago
> if they are part of the training That would be an intentional poisoning of the models with biased or outright untruthful data. I believe that many people would be unwilling to use such models.

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