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_ink_··on Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings
If you feel comfortable with sharing, I'd be interested in what medis you are on / work for you best.
_ink_··on Dots: Always-on agents
I want that, but running on my own hardware with the models I choose. Does it exist?
_ink_··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
I agree platforms are not neutral anymore. They decide what people see. They are entirely responsible for the feed. They should be liable accordingly.
_ink_··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
The supreme court, I guess. What makes you think they would allow that as long as Trump cronies have the majority there?
_ink_··on Goodbye Google
Believing the message and being able to act on it are two pairs of shoes. There is nothing we can do. The box of pandora has been opened.

The companies have no tools for this, because there is a chance that the company who solves AI will eat the entire cake. And countries cannot do something about it, because clearly it gives an advantage in warfare. When it comes to weapons everything that is possible will be done, which means everybody needs to do it to not be defense less.

There is nothing we can do anymore. We can only hope that LeCun is right and that LLMs are a dead end and that everyone trying to solve AGI with then is essentially wasting money.

_ink_··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
So, make it a punishable offence? Maybe get a slap on the wrist the first time and go to jail the second time. That will get people thinking if it's worth it. And it will definitely stop the flood of weirdos that randomly film people to put them on their instatok.
_ink_··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
Are you filming? - Can't you see the light?

Case closed. People that are very familiar with these glasses need to ask. These devices need to get banned.

_ink_··on Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]
That feels unnecessary judgemental. If you enjoy a thing, I think that's a great way to spent your time.
_ink_··on Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]
I was surprised, too, and looked it up. WCA officially doesn't differentiate. The human World Record is 3.51 currently held by a Yiheng Wang (male). So there is quite a gap to the new record by Lian Yunzh. But if she continues like that, I think we will find out soon whether there are any biologic reasons for the gap or if it is just because there are many more males into that kind of thing.
_ink_··on Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton
Unless somebody steps in and prohibits it they will do it, because somehow that's most cost efficient.
_ink_··on How can this Amazon scammer keep going, not shipping any goods?
Can those not be bought?
_ink_··on How can this Amazon scammer keep going, not shipping any goods?
Interestingly the fake shop is blocked by my nextdns.io setup.
_ink_··on What to Know About JavaScript in 2026
So is Angular dead? Or why doesn't it deserve any mention?
_ink_··on What AI-Native Looks Like
> I've recently found tests written by Fable that don't actually do anything in a very large codebase.

tbf, I've seen these kind of tests as well at $dayjob, written by humans before gpt was a thing. That doesn't invalid your point. But it's still funny that we expect the machine to be perfect, before it can do something for us.

_ink_··on Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC
Yeah, it's good that it is progressing. But my hopes are really on the digital Euro. I hope the EU doesn't fall for the lobbying against it by the (Wero) banks.
_ink_··on Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC
Fully agree. EU needs to get their act together and start getting independent. It's absurd that I cannot pay cashless without using American companies. Or that people lose their bank account because someone in America does something.

Edit: They also need to force banks to make a decision. Do you want to do business in the EU? Then you must not close accounts bank accounts because someone in US puts someone on a list. If that means you lose business in the US, so be it. Make a decision which market you want to operate in. If you want to leave EU, do it. Others will take your place.

_ink_··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
Nevermind. I just need to remove my SIM card and use a VPN to Spain to get updates. wtf
_ink_··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
And here I am with my 26 Signature, still on Android 16 with Patch Level from January and the phone reporting happily, Looking Good! Everything up to date!

Get your update process working @Motorola!

_ink_··on Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B
Cloud Act: The CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act) is a U.S. federal law passed in 2018 that allows U.S. law enforcement to compel U.S.-based tech and cloud companies to hand over customer data, even if that data is stored on servers located outside the United States
_ink_··on Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative
How do you find events on instagram? I absolutely hate that everyone uses it to publish events. Even when you think, what's going on at location X, you get a feed of asorted photos and you need to doom scroll until you find what's on next weekend. Yeah, sure, the algo puts randomly events into your feed, but when you want to search for a specific type you just out of luck. I am seriously considering writing a scraper, that scrolls for me and just puts all events into a DB, so I can display the events in a sane way.
_ink_··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
Lies are for free, while the truth is behind paywalls. This is not going to end well.

Edit: why is it that Billionaires just fund fake news. Are there no "white hat" billionaires that could fund an opposition to that?

_ink_··on Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
That's what I meant with freedom of worker movement, not sure what's the correct term is.
_ink_··on Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
Man, I'd love if Canada became part of Schengen and had freedom of movement for workers as well.
_ink_··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
Not as much as 4°C temperature increase will do.
_ink_··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
> but it’s way too difficult to do business in the EU.

They are working in it: https://www.eu-inc.org/

I have no clue whether that will be a success, but at least they have recognised that problem as well.

_ink_··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
> The "value" of most knowledge workers -- based on what enterprises currently pay for them -- is $50 - 70 trillion annually. It's reasonable to assume that if AI drop-in-replaced all those knowledge workers, AI companies could credibly charge somewhere in that order of magnitude, because that's what the market is already bearing.

I don't think that AI companies can charge the same. The human workforce can charge these costs, because of scarcity. But AI systems won't be scarce, it's just a matter of who can run inference cheapest. Plus you still have the human workforce, which might be forced to offer their time for less money.

_ink_··on People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination
I am fully aphant and the only thing were this happens to me is highly stimulating content. I remember after endless counterstrike rounds on LAN parties, when I closed my eyes, I would still see images from the battles. Porn also does this. But normally that doesn't happen. When I close my eyes, I see the inner of my lids. And I could never control what I see.
_ink_··on People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination
Not GP, but fully aphant. No I can't do that. When I close my eyes, I see the inner of my eye lids (red / brownish). That's it. Nothing comes up, even if I try to remember the face of my mother.
_ink_··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
Not GP, but also fully aphant: yes, I have visual dreams. I is very hard for me, to tell whether I also hear things in my dreams, but I think yes. For other senses, I am quite sure that I don't experience them while dreaming.
_ink_··on People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination
Have you worked mostly as documentary photographer, or did you also do stages setups, like portraying people? I am only a photo enthusiast without any mental images and I struggle with portraits. Since I know about aphantasia I am wondering whether it has something to do with the absence of mental images.
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