If money counts as a freedom unit then yes, probably (maybe)

What’s it called if you’ve done all of these?

And here I thought that was a photo of Mike Tyson punching a biblically accurate angel.

As much as I hate the thought of Apple being even bigger and more pervasive than they are, if satellite cellular is inevitable and unavoidable I’d vastly prefer an Apple service to MuskNet.

I am torn. On the one hand, the SGI Indigo is an absolute masterpiece of product design, and cannibalizing one of the few remaining ones to make an espresso machine housing makes me tingle in a bad way. On the other hand, though, that is some damn clean-looking work… how much ya want for it?

I’m with you 100% from the privacy and cybersecurity perspectives. That said, if they can be solved (e.g. at some point there will simply be no need for any more training data, and computers will be fast enough to do all the fancy stuff locally), I’d vastly prefer having an appliance do my housekeeping chores than a cleaning service.

Use the Meta defense: as long as you don’t seed then it’s fine.

Mattia Astorino’s ‘Material Theme – Free’ and  'Material Theme Icons – Free‘ plugins for anyone curious.

Have you had any luck importing even a medium-sized codebase and doing reasoning on it? All of my experiments start to show subtle errors past 2k tokens, and at 5k tokens the errors become significant. Any attempt to ingest and process a decent-sized project (say 20k SLOC plus tooling/overhead/config) has been useless, even on models that “should” have a good-enough sized context window.

Yes, that’s a valid distinction. Though practically speaking, I don’t really know how different it is from anthropic sharing with Amazon, for example

Gee I wonder if grok shares data with the rest of twitter, Gemini shares with the rest of google or llama… actually I haven’t used Facebook in ages, I don’t even know if there’s a ChatGPT equivalent service on Facebook.

I do actually wonder if Anthropic shares data with Amazon, or OpenAI with Microsoft (their majority shareholders). That would be a direct 1:1 comparison with what’s happening between deepseek and bytedance (though at least in the latter case you can host-your-own since the model is open source).

This gives me Old Internet vibes. Glorious.

In Florida it’s about 50-50

Lots of sites offload payment directly to stripe, PayPal, etc. many even let you choose the provider. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work the same way.

Yes! Slip the sound board guy your discman and $20 and get a perfect recording. I remember a few times where there were a stack of discmans and walkmans (Walkman?) recording.

The main findings from the Economic Index’s first paper are:

• Today, usage is concentrated in software development and technical writing tasks. Over one-third of occupations (roughly 36%) see AI use in at least a quarter of their associated tasks, while approximately 4% of occupations use it across three-quarters of their associated tasks.
• AI use leans more toward augmentation (57%), where AI collaborates with and enhances human capabilities, compared to automation (43%), where AI directly performs tasks.
• AI use is more prevalent for tasks associated with mid-to-high wage occupations like computer programmers and data scientists, but is lower for both the lowest- and highest-paid roles. This likely reflects both the limits of current AI capabilities, as well as practical barriers to using the technology.

Interesting, not really surprising, and nowhere near as entertaining as when Pornhub does it’s annual introspection.

The “innovation” in the article is passive tech for fiber to the room (FTTR), specifically made to be low cost and easier to implement. It’s also how your computer might get that 50Gbit - it’ll have to be wired in with a fiber connection. It’s not happening over WiFi (or even Ethernet)

Neat. AI slop about AI slop.

Kinda funny how when mega corps can benefit from the millions upon millions of developer hours that they’re not paying for they’re all for open source. But when the mega corps have to ante up (with massive hardware purchases out of reach of any of said developers) they’re suddenly less excited about sharing their work.

No need to limit it to only people on social media…