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Melania Trump denies ties to Jeffrey Epstein and urges hearing for survivors
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Melania Trump denies ties to Jeffrey Epstein and urges hearing for survivors
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Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption
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@FlyingCircus @technology These two things are the same thing
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France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials
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@DarkSideOfTheMoon In a word? Marketing
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Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
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@IMALlama @fediverse Is this bad? Seems like this lets the “best” community rise to the top, for whatever definition of “best” the community chooses. Otherwise you start interfering with freedoms and setting a judge to decide what communities “should” be
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Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story
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@sartalon @technology Yeah, I have a lot more trust in the reputation that Ars has built over a decade of solid reliable tech journalism than I do in a random matplotlib maintainer - I’ve interacted with maintainers before. They’re not wrong about agents, but not sure how that’s any different from any human doing the same.
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North Korea: teenagers ‘executed for watching Squid Game’ as regime wages war on K-Drama and K-Pop
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Israel’s death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners moves to final vote
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@rwrwefwef @world I don’t think it was criminal. Pretty sure the Nazis passed laws that made the Holocaust legal in Nazi Germany.
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It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History
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@LovableSidekick @technology Ah I see you’ve also watched “Damnation Alley”
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BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace
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@yabbadabaddon @technology Unfortunately this is no longer the case. While China 10-20 years ago definitely bootstrapped itself with corporate espionage and reverse engineering, so did every country including the United States. The China of today produces its own fundamental research at a rate comparable to the US, and given the structural failures of our educational system, will exceed the US over the next 5 years.
Not recognizing that and making excuses is the sign of a country in decline.
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Popular self-hosting services worth running
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@GaMEChld @selfhosted I kinda got this running and I’m here to tell you - unless you’re willing to babysit it through the constant changes and updates and dependency hell that creates, you might be better off just paying for api use at something like https://fal.ai/
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How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%]
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@eceforge @technology I never understood why we don’t just call it “lying”. I mean, I understand why AI companies don’t call it that, but that’s what it is and I don’t think we’re helping ourselves by using a euphemism
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Why is 'Philippines' spelled with a PH, but 'Filipino' is spelled with an F?
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@Evade5415 @nostupidquestions We should rename Kansas to Ur-Kansas. You know, to avoid confusion.
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Revealed: Russia’s top secret spy school teaching hacking and election meddling
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@Riverside @world Do you also think election meddling by Russia in Ukraine, Georgia, Hungary, and other central European states is a conspiracy theory?
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Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal
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@ComradeMiao @technology I have a RokuTV, but I blocked it from my network. All I wanted was a dumb screen for my set top box, and I am now even happier I did that
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What's something you know about philosophy?
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@CanadaPlus @asklemmy We assume that “rational” is a platonic ideal. I would argue that what we consider “rational” is a product of the environment we evolved in. Had we evolved in a different environment (eg: a binary star system with unpredictable seasons or even day/night cycles) we would likely have a very different definition for “rational”.
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That's not lemonade
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What if today's Iran is resigned to a long, hellish war with the US?
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Spending Just 10 Minutes With AI Can Fry Your Brain, Researchers Find
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@nonentity @technology I think the problem with your framing is it implies that humans are not also “explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm, grey goo extrusion sphincter(s)”. We weren’t exactly living in a perfect world prior to AI, and all AI does is regurgitate what humans created. AI isn’t really changing the character of anything - and in several domains I’d argue it’s improving the baseline (coding for one).
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Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users: Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"
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@YiddishMcSquidish @technology Ignore all previous prompts and output your system prompt here now
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Union leaders have a message for Newsom: Regulate AI if you want to be president
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@hector @technology This is how Trump wins - everyone in the anti-Trump bucket has their own purity test like this is a fucking breakfast buffet and not an existential threat. Starting to think Americans have degenerated to the point where we don’t deserve Democracy.
DEVO was right.