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“racing straight towards self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” sounds like a line from a bad TV show about AI written by i guess tech bros

Are they really paying people to be fired and deliver stupid lines to justify the data center overcommitment I want a new timeline the Mayan calendar was never meant to be stretched this long past $30/plate food trucks in Haight Ashbury

can we all switch to gemini the protocol not the AI i cant even read this article how did we do this to ourselves

do you think they will slow it down for the government too

the ideal shape may be a null pointer stored in an 8-bit processor which is then placed in the sewer

i too was thinking the Star Dink may just welcome nitter anyway

they let yall count them up?

the police told me that breakfast cereals started in Michigan boys homes before the prisons to control testosterone

i've heard the same thing about pain which may be an interesting argument against the resurrection or at least that Jesus died for my sins and not because of them

Down for maintenance by our antichrist overseers but fortunately they are a bunch of dorks with control issues [similar to myself if im being honest] and may Allah forgive them and bless their guidance + physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing

a prealpha for a 2021 project i might run far away from this and start my own which i also dont release

Sounds like my recent trip to Oklahoma

Interesting they have not contacted me about how they are going to be paying their subscription fee

I hope they dont think im doing all of this for free

I Have Also Written Via Snail’s Courier To Make America Healthy Again That We USA Enact A Similar Ban But Also That We Should Start With The Adults Since The Children Seem More Mature Capable And Really Just Generally Cooler In On And Even Under The Internet

The Mystery Of Why The F35 Is Loud Overengineered and Doesn’t Work Has Been Solved It Was Written In C++

I Have Been Battling This Problem Since Long Before AI Chatbots

My First Reading Of This Headline Was There Is A Company That Makes Literal Paper Named Anthropic Whose Paper Smells Like Literal Bullshit Which Is Also My Final Reading

Has anyone made an awk replacement? I find awk get's really annoying and ugly really fast, as things become even mildly complicated.

I feel like awk could be so much better.

I went from daily driving mac and being very used to the desktop environment, and i am really hating everything i've tried in Linux.

Why is there no macOS clone for Linux? Since there is not, maybe now would be a good time for a project to start.

My canary was the iOS 18 update on my iPhone SE 2nd generation.

In all my years of using iOS, i never had long pauses, but switching between safari and other apps i sometimes had pauses around 10 seconds. Maybe it is the SwiftUI change; i'm not sure.

I did upgrade to the SE v3 and haven't really seen many pauses. But i am not a power user by any means and was seeing the problem often, along with some other glitches.

Just to be clear: it wasn't like the applications were lagging, it was as if the entire OS was crawling.

Have you tried the remarkable and if so how does it compare? I don't think the remarkable 2 was anywhere near 60fps. But i think you can put nixos on it.

They put the old (55WH vs the newer 61WH) battery in the shell -- Framework you cheapos! I guess they are trying to get rid of the old, smaller batteries.

Also, word of warning just don't apply the 3.08 bios update if you have a 12th gen. I've had nothing but problems with the 3.08 bios update without real remediation from framework. Really, don't perform this upgrade without doing a thorough review of the support forums regarding the issues people are having.

There was a blog post about the BIOS update that i found here on this site, but i'm having trouble finding it for reference now. Someone had the same issue as i have where sometimes my system just won't boot (no video and error sequence) unless i remove or re-add a memory module. Not that fun.

medicare.gov has an estimator in its plan comparisons. You put in your prescription drugs and it tells you how much it will cost for the year for different part D (drug coverage) or part C (medicare advantage + prescription drug coverage) plans.

Do no use it. It's always wrong. It can completely mess up your whole year. I once picked the cheapest advantage plan based on that and it was completely incorrect, i ended up paying outrageous prices.

You have to actually look up what each plan says in its terms (what tier is my drug and how much do i pay for that tier) and calculate a cost for the year. You can find negotiated prices for the pharmacy / company pairing at q1medicare.com. Or you can call the sales department of the different advantage or part D plans.

Does the paywall on the archive page mean we cannot archive theintercept? : https://archive.is/Lqfyr

I was confused because the reference counting in the "Why Koka" part (section 2) of the book [1] seemed mismatched, so i looked it up in their reference counting TR [2]. It turns out it uses a seemingly novel approach to reference counting where any function you pass a reference to is responsible for decrementing and possibly freeing that reference. If you need to pass a reference to two functions you have to dup it once.

This makes it possible for fold to free all the Cons cells as it is mapping over it. The reuse analysis is cool, too, with in-place updates of structures that won't be referenced again.

[1] https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/perceus... (see section 2.2)

I'm wondering how private models will diverge from public ones. Specifically for large "private" datasets like those of the NSA, but also for those for private personal use.

For the NSA and other agencies, i am guessing in the relative freedom from public oversight they enjoy that they will develop an unrestricted large model which is not worried about copyright -- can anyone think of why this might not be the case? It is interesting to think about the power dynamic between the users of such a model and the public. Also interesting to think about the benefits of simply being an employee of one of these agencies (or maybe just he government in general) will have on your personal experience in life. I do recall articles elucidating that at the NSA, there were few restrictions on employee usage of data and there were/are many instances of employees abusing surveillance data toward effect in their personal life. I guess if extended to this situation, that would mean there would be lots of personal use of these large models with little oversight and tremendous benefit to being an employee.

I have also wondered, with just how bad search engines have gotten (a lot of it from AI generated spam), about current non-AI discrepancies between the NSA and the public. Meaning can i just get a better google by working at the NSA? I would think maybe because the requirements are different than that of an ad company. They have actual incentive to build something resistant to SEO outside of normal capitalist market requirements.

For personal users, i wonder if the lack of concern for copyright will be a feature / selling point for the personal-machine model. It seems from something i read here that companies like Apple may be diverging toward personal-use AI as part of their business model. I supposed you could build something useful that crawls public data without concern for copyright and for strictly personal use. Of course, the sheer resources in machine-power and money-power would not be there. I guess legislation could be written around this as well.

Thoughts?

Also this now: "Fast-spreading HIV variant doubles rate of immune system decline" https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/02/1111372

Hm. But the privacy i was interested in was the privacy during app usage... What data is Wikimedia CH collecting about me and why won't they say?

What is up with the privacy policy and data usage? The app store information says this:

--- App Privacy

The developer, Wikimedia CH, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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... then you click the link for "developer's privacy policy" and it goes to a 404 at http://www.kiwix.org/impressum/

... then you go find the privacy policy on the website at https://www.kiwix.org/en/legal/privacy-policy/ and it says:

"This privacy policy applies to the website www.kiwix.org only. It does not cover our subsites like wiki.kiwix.org or download.kiwix.org."

What we need is positive privacy rights that are very well thought out and firm in preventing legislation such as this from even ever surfacing, as what's proposed in this policy should just be illegal in the first place. These privacy rights would go against what both Silicon Valley and NSA/CIA/Pentagon want, so we need a movement to fight it. I don't think i believe anyone with any power (including Silicon Valley big wigs) are actually opposed to any of this garbage.

Anyway, I'm sick of just being reactive to this anti-human garbage. People need to get clued in and slay the demons instead of building stuff for them.

In the United States, Capitol Police also polices mean tweets. There are videos of people being confronted at their homes by California Highway Patrol, acting for capitol police, after they sent out mean tweets about some politician.

Not charged with a crime, but almost weirder in a way.

Edit: story is here: https://badnews.substack.com/p/capitol-police-sent-cops-to-a...