Hehe. I don’t think there’s many alternatives… Every hype will flood public discourse. That’s the nature of it (and the reason why we call something a hype, in the first place). You can mitigate a bit for this with subscribing and unsubscribing to communities. But trends will reach even the remote corners of the internet. And unsubscribing from daily news does a bit of that as well. The less social-media aspects a platform has and the more focused it is, the less random hypes we’ll get… But I’m afraid this place is modeled more with social media in mind. And the userbase reflects what’s going on in society. So we’ll get these things in most mainstream communities.

I think two vowels is a bit too common of a combination of letters to filter by that. Maybe filter for all the company and product names? Anthropic, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Palantir…
That’s probably not going to get you all the way, but that’s going to suppress some of the news articles.

Naja, als Studi hat man schoneinmal ziemlich direkten Zugriff auf Freizeitangebote. Uni-Sport ist manchmal ganz nett. Da kann man Karate ausprobieren, oder Segeln lernen oder wasauchimmer. Wenn man Nerd ist kann man in der Fachschaft rumhängen und gucken was die anderen Leute so machen… Vielleicht gibt es einen Makerspace/Elektroniklabor, Linux-Stammtisch…
Ich denke ich bin immer gut damit gefahren, meine Augen offen zu halten, zufällig den richtigen Leuten über den Weg zu laufen, und einfach mal mitgehen und Dinge ausprobieren.
Es ist aber sehr individuell. Einige Leute haben auch Saufen als Hobby. Oder suchen sich 'nen Proberaum und eine Band. Oder bleiben Zuhause und gucken gerne Filme. Wir hatten an der Uni auch einen Film-Club der das etwas professioneller gemacht hat. Oder man lernt 'ne neue Sprache, macht ehrenamtliche Arbeit… Also in einer größeren Stadt sollte das alles möglich sein. Es gibt ein bisschen eine Einstiegshürde, klar. Und man muss ersteinmal herausfinden was es gibt und was man davon möchte. Das ist nicht ganz einfach.

I think they’re way ahead of you. Why wait for some point of failure? They can get taxpayer money right now. Just buy the corrupt president and have him funnel half a trillion dollar towards you, and you won’t ever fail?! And taxpayer money is reliable income… Speaking of that. What’s the current state of Project Stargate? I rarely see it on the news, because there’s just so much other stuff going on and wasting $500 bn is probably not newsworthy compared to that?!

Sure. I’m not entirely sure how PCIE works these days. But in it good old days we had methods to read pretty much arbitrary memory regions via PCIE or early Thunderbolt(?).

I just figured it’d be massively complicated to wait for the user to pull something on the screen, do computationally expensive OCR, some AI image detection to puzzle documents back together, and then you’d only get a fraction of what’s really stored on the computer and you’d still need a way to send that information home… When you could just pick a plethora of easy options like read all the files from the harddisk and send just them somewhere. I think it’s far more likely they do some easy and straightforward solution. And it’d be more effective as well.

Open-weight AND Open-Source??

And why the Chinese ones? Are the Americans losing the AI race?

So… They’re “investing” in clean energy means they hold some equity in clean energy company stocks? Or what is that supposed to mean? They surely don’t run on clean energy… Or they would have said so in the advertisement?

Thx 🍻

Idk. The internet is a tool, I guess? I use forums to get my computer problems solved. Help other people with their woes… I talk to random strangers and learn something about their perspective on the world. Or what it’s like in a remote place… Talk about relationship issues. In the old days I’d use them to coordinate activities, projects. Sell used stuff or buy old hardware…

I mean you’re probably right, With social media, a lot of places lost meaning and it’s more memes and random noise. But I’d argue that’s not what the internet is about. Specifically internet forums.

But we’re all free to use them however we like. I’m not the Grinch, having fun is a perfectly valid thing to do, and should be part of the equation 😉

Ultimately I like to think I’m not just confined to armchair activism. I’ll mix online activities, real-world activism. I’ll do projects. Our hacker groups helped avoid Chatcontrol and their online actividies have an impact on people’s lives… Stallman changed the world… It’s a thing people can do if they like.

I guess sometimes I’m wrong here. I’ll usually try to have a positive effect on the world. And do something about the things I perceive as wrong. Also it’s not really “fun” to me to discuss ludicrous RAM prices, burning of money, bad effects on the environment… I think that’s more a serious matter.

I get what you’re saying, though.

I support Stallman’s take. I think just saying “Fuck AI” is going to have almost zero effect on the world. I think we need to add nuance, reasoning, be accurate… Tell people WHY that is, so we can educate them. Or convince them to do something… Understand how these things work and why that’s good or bad to form an opinion… “Fuck AI” alone isn’t going to do any of that.

Yes. I wouldn’t focus too much on someone being able to tell which map you’re playing, and which color your car has in Need For Speed. It’s way more unsettling what’s in networking equipment. Or inside an Intel Management Engine, and the firmware blobs of all the computer chips. Or the software running on it.

Huh, is the cloud really just someone else’s computer?

And yes, I’ve managed to cut out Microsoft of my personal life entirely. I mean what would I need them for? I’ll click on a Teams invitation… But I don’t really rely on that, or send them out myself. Other than that I have enough other operating systems, storage devices, Office suites…

Isn’t violence to protect yourself and freedom in your country also supported by the Second Amendment to the Constitution? I don’t see how this would be too controversial. Also the USA has a long tradition of fighting nazis, central government, and bring guns everywhere?!

Huh, Israel so tiny? Didn’t they demonstrate in 1967 already, how they can fight Jordan, Syria, Egypt all at the same time and it doesn’t take them more than 6 days? Also they bombed quite some things in Iran last year, despite that country being way more powerful? I don’t think this index is accurate.

Yes. And places like North Korea do have a lot of soldiers. Because every male gets to waste a substantial amount of their lives on military service… But reportedly, most of these soldiers don’t get handed any bullets. Because a) The country can’t afford munition. And b) they could do a coup against the leader with working weapons.
So I don’t know whether they should get any representation in a chart. These soldiers will just yell “bang, bang” in a war. Maybe they’ll yell it loudly and in a “powerful” way. But that’d hardly kill any enemies.

Yes, I heard we’re way better at diagnosing adult ADHD these days. People just had to somehow cope on their own, two decades ago. They didn’t get a diagnose, let alone medication, back then…

(It’s just scientific progress, though. And attention to detail, like how things affect different groups of people differently (ie. different symptoms for men/women). I don’t see how it’s “Not the Onion”?!)

Sure. You write numbers with the most significant digit to the left, and least significant one to the right. That’s kind of how we all write all numbers, so it should be the same with dates 😉 Though we have all kinds of crazy people and they’ll say it’s “dreiviertel fünf” and nobody has any clue what time that’s supposed to be… I’d argue it should not be that weird, though 😅

Sorry, not an answer to the question, but 2024-08-30 is an ISO 8601 date format. Endorsed in Europe (part of our norms) and everyone should write dates like that because it’s the most clever way. US would be something like 08/30/2024 or Aug 30, 2024.

Aren’t the rules fixed since 2022? As far as I know the way it works is, legislation / the EU comes up with rules. It’s the companies job to make their products abide by law. And then it’s down to lawyers / jurists to determine if they comply by law? I don’t see how they as a company need to wait for the European Commission to do something… Seems the commission sent them a notice a year ago, how their lawyers don’t think the fee models conforms to law. But that’d be Apple’s job to fix. Or have their legal team come up with something?!