Why are people hosting repos like this on GitHub of all places?

You should choose random parts, and add “I don’t think this makes sense, can you explain this part?” or “Why didn’t you use <something semi-related> instead?”, “I think you should have done <random similar pattern>” here." to random parts of the PR. No need for it to be true or read it, not like it matters. You can keep doing that for quite a long time :D Sure, they’ll just copy-paste it to their agent, but the longer you keep that going, the more unsure will they be, probably.

Or even better, just message him that you have questions about the PR, if they can come over because it’s more things, and ask these comments directly.

Please please I really hope they will force US companies to start calling their chatbots SI instead of AI, and forbid them from using the term AI.

That would be such a funny PR/marketing nightmare. It’s such a cringe term :D

I’m pretty sad that people have to be perverts and glasses with cameras got such a bad rep.

It is deserved and not surprising, and I’m not trying to defend them, but I was so looking forward to AR glasses with cameras, so I could finally get a working ad-block IRL, which should be easily possible with the tech.

But, that requires a camera. It’s a shame, and I’ll definitely rather continue dealing with ads than support enabling perverts (or Meta, anyway), but it sounded like such a cool use-case.

I hate how there are always groups who have to ruin everything for others :(

Exactly this, especially the last sentence.

I only have pretty basic machine learning knowledge, based on a few Master’s classes at college while I was doing gamedev, and even with that I can tell that the way they are expecting to get AGI by just feeding more data into a language model is simply not happening.

I remember a comparison from one of the AI-pilled tech-bros when AI was starting to get attention, and his metaphor about AGI was something along the lines of “Imagine a difference between a medieval commoner and Albert Einstein, that’s the difference in inteligence AI will soon have to the smartest people we know now”.

But that doesn’t make sense with the current approach. Imagine Einstein writing his cutting-edge theories, and the commoner is watching him behind his shoulder and vetting anything he does. Scratching his ideas, forcing him to redo it, if he doesn’t like it, pointing to a reddit thread about why. There’s no way he would ever finish anything new.

Unless they figure out a completely new way how to do AI reasoning, there is no way we’re getting anywhere near AGI. And that is also becoming more unlikely the longer we go with this approach, because every AI-pilled company is heavily outsourcing all of development to the current models, reducing their employee (and the whole worlds) innovation potential and skill. This is probably the last generation that can do serious academia, unless there are drastic measures done to limit access to AI in education. It’s fucked.

You have to time it right, there is a sweet spot when it’s just warm enough for a while.

While you’re technically right, I’d say that FOSS in general is more than just a tool, and Linux is The FOSS project.

Deciding to share your work freely and cooperate with strangers as a contributor is, especially in a world driven by profits, a pretty major lifestyle/philosophy and an act of resistance against capitalism.

Of course, you can just exploit the ecosystem and treat it as any other tool, that happens to be free, but I would say that that is the explanation about “people that worship the altar of Linus” that you’re looking for. Spending basically your entire life to help make something, especially as complex as an operating system, for others and for free is something that, at least in my eyes, is worthy of admiration and I have utmost repsect for people who contribute.

I’m now imagining a professional-level FPV drone racing controller/pilot just blasting it at 100mph (which iirc is about the speed they race at in corridors) through the shool to drive by pepper-spray someone.

I mean, I’m sure whoever came up with this idea imagined it exactly like that, and ngl it would look pretty cool :D

That’s why I went with editing them to something random, unrelated to the thread, but still a feasible paragraph, in hope that this won’t trigger this mechanism.

I’ve been slowly replacing, by hand so it doesn’t trigger their detection alerts, all of my 15 years of comments on Reddit, a lot of it valuable answers to tech questions or programming problems, with a randomly prompted unrelated paragraph of ChatGPT whatever.

When one of the first exodi(?) came, a lot people replaced their comments with random words through scripts, back then it was not as detected and prevented (which Reddit promptly scrambled to prevent), and thanks to people doing that I’ve eventually blocked Reddit from my Kagi altogether, simply because 90% of what I found was either questions with scrambled answers, comments that are just ads from bots, or just unrelated bullshit. So, it does have an actual impact.

Have fun selling that to AI companies.

JDK is the greatest scam ever.

When something needs JDK, most people usually just download the first one they find without much thought, just like with any dependency, which is Oracle’s, instead of OpenJDK.

Oracle will go after companies where their employees unknowlingly installed their JDK for some minor thing, and hit them with multimillion fine for breaking their license after a while. Or at least I remember hearing they used to.

Blocking anything Oracle company-wide, especially JDK, is the first thing an IT admin should do.

Oooh

lol, “Flock Safety CEO” sounds the same as “Meta’s Chief Privacy Officer”.

My partner works in HR, and from what I’ve heard about her stories from her job, this is nowhere near true. Anecdotal evidence, though.

There is a lot of paperwork that needs to be done. If everyone could follow simple, written and documented directions that have actual pictures about how to fill the form you have to fill, you could have a lot less HR people.

But majority of employees are not able to. They have to remind them dozens of times and chase people who didn’t do it unless personally threatened. They have to constantly answer questions that are very well documented. They have to parse out information that finances should be able to access, but they need it directly copied from the systems.

It sounds like hell of a job, that would’ve been so much easier if people were able to follow simple instructions. And the kind of people that can’t follow a step-by-step guide that had 5 notifications about needing to be done in a Slack channel won’t do it if some AI is telling them to.

From what I’ve heard, she is just managing disasters that could be a legal problem, always chasing people who don’t care about their annoying beraucracy that could cause a lot of trouble.

I have a lot more respect for HR after seeing it from the other side.

If you want the cheapest, go with Cloudfare. They guarantee to ask for the wholesale price, which is the price the registrar pays to the top level domain owner, so they can’t go lower without footing the bill.

What most of registrars do is foot the difference for the first year, so you get a domain for super cheap, then add 50%+ cut on top, so you pay i.e 5$ for the first year for a TLD that has wholesale cost of 10$, while they loose 5$ on that sale, and then you pay 25$ for the second, so they now gain 15$ on holding your domain hostage.

Cloudfare guarantees that they will sell you that domain for 10$, and only raise it when the TLD owner raises the price.

I’m not aware of any other registrar that guarantees wholesale prices, but LMK if anyone knows any.

If you want to get the best deal, buy your first year (or maybe 10 years, if they let you buy 10 for the sale price) with the scammy registrar, i.e get the 5$ sale on Namecheap, and before it expires transfer it to Cloudfare so you don’t pay extra for the second year and can continue with the (much lower now) wholesale price.

Each TLD has a different wholesale price, but every registrar pays the same to them for selling the domain to you. The differences you see is exactly in how much are they willing to foot the bill at first (most have a massive sale on first year, then huge markup on renewals), some just add a flat fee and have markup from the start.

Cloudfare just states “you will pay wholesale”, and don’t do any sheninegans. At least that’s how it was last time I checked.

I don’t believe they will. The can say and do whatever and nothing will probably happen. .

One of the things that surprised me the most when I started working on vishings for a Cybersecurity Red Team was how extremely easy it is to spoof any phone number.

It’s the nunber one tip I give to anyone who asks about security, a lot of people don’t know that, and spear-vishings are extremely effective.

People have learned to mostly not trust Microsoft Support numbers asking for your CC, but when an internal company number that your phone matches to your bosses boss calls you, a lot of people fall for that.

This is a valid point. If devs are releasing the game on GoG, they should keep people who don’t play with achivements in mind. That’s a game design failure I understand.

Achivements should be just a social layer, something you share about your progress, that was the point. If they are important for progression/gameplay, and you’re releasing on GoG, you should include it in game.

As a game developer, I kind of understand it. But, from desogn standpoint and if you’re releasing on GoG, you should keep people who play without galaxy in mind.

But in that case you don’t need the adittional layer of your platform supporting it, no?