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barbazoo··on Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief
If that means you need to at least be physically present then I'd say that's a lot of protection already. Means someone in a foreign country can't simply get lucky fuzzing.
barbazoo··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
Right, instead of just having more LLM conversations as they get faster and cheaper we'll find products having AI that never had it before.

How about an actually smart thermostat that checks the weather and possibly makes decisions more like a human would i.e. tool calling, judgement, preference, history, personal plans.

Sure we have thermostats and you can configure rules and data sources, hook up Google calendar, etc but it has to be all predetermined and breaks as soon as anything stops working. AI could make this less brittle. AI agents are more flexible.

barbazoo··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
Some are, and some aren't.
barbazoo··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
Are both optional in the same way? Where I live a child has a much harder time getting cigarettes than getting access to Facebook. What's the regulation here that applies to Meta you're thinking of?
barbazoo··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
> The judge found that Meta’s operation of Facebook and Instagram created a public nuisance which injured public health, safety, and welfare; and burdened public schools, hospitals, and law enforcement.

Hopefully one day this is what people think of when they hear people say "I work for Meta".

barbazoo··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
Still better than Meta having the money imo
barbazoo··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
With more wealth concentrates at the top, yes.
barbazoo··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567M over harms to children's mental health
> “We work hard to keep people safe on our platforms and have been transparent about the challenges of identifying and removing bad actors and harmful content. We remain confident in our record of protecting teens online and will continue to defend ourselves against claims that misrepresent the facts,”

Laughable for anyone who's actually been on their platforms. There's been harmful stuff forever in ads, posts, marketplace, comments. It's so disingenuous, those people should be ashamed of themselves.

barbazoo··on Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
I love it. It makes me feel like I have super powers. I wish it wasn't so resource intensive.
barbazoo··on I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me
What I mean is that I get the purpose of chat when the target audience is a small group of people that might have a reason to talk to each other.
barbazoo··on I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me
Neuralink will hopefully filter that out client side /s

If your audience is more than a handful of people, what's the purpose of chat?

barbazoo··on Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
I can imagine that this will lead to an explosion in software where we didn't see software before. Much smaller business now have the ability to build something themselves, not with a team of highly paid software developers but a single programmer maune.

Big business is going to struggle with building software for a while. Writing code is often not the hard part there already, coordination, larger understanding of the system is I think.

barbazoo··on Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
Could you elaborate?

I thought Meta wants to put the burden onto the platform, i.e. Apple and Google, is what they are lobbying for.

https://pluribusnews.com/news-and-events/meta-lobbies-for-ap...

What is the institutional moat?

barbazoo··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
> As a result of today’s discussion, no UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have been given that FIFA will never again open its governance or competitions to private ownership.

This seems to have actual teeth. What's Infantino going to do to save face? No one cares about a world cup without the Europeans.

barbazoo··on So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂
We'll have to do both I imagine by the time we realize it's too late.
barbazoo··on A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
On top of that, direct electrification, what I'm thinking of for example is the electrification of how work is performed. A lot of oil and gas is used to spin a machine. Those use cases have to be electrified. That involves industry, commercial, infrastructure. That's where a lot of the energy savings will come from. From not having losses due to combustion.

I'm thinking learning something in that field might be an option.

barbazoo··on Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5
That's a feature for me, not a bug. Not everything has to be everything-friendly all the time, especially if it makes it easier to consume content or stuff.

Edit: I'm forgetting about certain accessibility issues, although I'm not sure this plain page isn't a good fit for accessibility tools.

barbazoo··on Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5
And it's so fast even with pictures. I miss the old internet.
barbazoo··on Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
Doesn't that depend on the sources of energy though? Pretty much constant short and mid term supply like geothermal, hydro, tides, etc vs unpredictable or variable in the short term like wind and solar.

As a society relying on solar, I'd want to have more of a buffer than one that relies on hydro.

barbazoo··on A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
I feel like we're entering an age of electrification so having training/education in a field related to electrics/electronics seems like a reasonable path for someone to take.
barbazoo··on Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
Right, as long as you can still get out.
barbazoo··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
I find such beauty in the fact that the robbers are getting robbed but it's all part of progress overall. It's not that China won't come up with what the US are coming up with. Just a matter of when it would happen.
barbazoo··on How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use?
> The people that... are the same people that...

Just stop. If you fund yourself starting a sentence that way, just close the browser.

barbazoo··on How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use?
> the two camps are

Or are those just the two ends of the spectrum? I don't know anyone on either extreme of the spectrum.

barbazoo··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
What's a good example you would say?
barbazoo··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Maybe break down those numbers by income and you'll see that rich people are doing fine, everyone else not so much.
barbazoo··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
This is proof the US propaganda is working. How much damage has China done recently militarily?
barbazoo··on Fable is now included on Max plans (up to 50% of weekly limit)
Why so snarky? They included it in my plan "for free", I tried it, felt that it isn't worth the price at this point.
barbazoo··on I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25
I'd expect the amount of money paid for exploits to go down then. It's inefficient to pay >$25 for an exploit that took $25 to make.
barbazoo··on Fable is now included on Max plans (up to 50% of weekly limit)
Max would be a 7x cost increase for me, I think it'd have to do a bit more than it does to justify that.
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