Please please I really hope they will force US companies to start calling their chatbots SI instead of AI, and forbid them from using the term AI.

That would be such a funny PR/marketing nightmare. It’s such a cringe term :D

I’m pretty sad that people have to be perverts and glasses with cameras got such a bad rep.

It is deserved and not surprising, and I’m not trying to defend them, but I was so looking forward to AR glasses with cameras, so I could finally get a working ad-block IRL, which should be easily possible with the tech.

But, that requires a camera. It’s a shame, and I’ll definitely rather continue dealing with ads than support enabling perverts (or Meta, anyway), but it sounded like such a cool use-case.

I hate how there are always groups who have to ruin everything for others :(

That is pretty cool!

I had no idea you could get such a long range contacts, that’s cool. It does sound like a nice community.

Also, it sounds pretty impressive to me, even though I’ve never experienced lack of internet/mobile phones. While I had it granted for basically all my life, I have a respect for analog things, and have been a fan of sending letters. I have the luxury that I can romanticize the slower/analog way of living, without actually having to live through it to ruin my experiences, hah!

Thanks, this post has inspired me, while it’s not exactly HAM, I was considering getting Meshcore/Meshtastic relays, which I assume is kind of similar but chat instead of voice, so I might look into it some more. I assume the communities might be similar, and it sounds like a nice hobby.

Thank you, that makes sense. I’ve always been a fan of analog technology (although I never really got the motivation to actually look into it seriously), so I can imagine that being fun.

It does sound pretty interesting, I didn’t know you can get such a long range contacts. I can imagine it is a pretty nice community!

I’ve been wondering, what is amateur radio hobby about? I’m guessing I’m too young to understand it, since when I was growing up we already had a dial-up and then internet and mobile phones became common as I was starting highschool, but it sounds interesting.

I see a lot of notepads next to the radios in the article, is it about just catching and monitoring the traffic for fun, kinda similar to i.e birdwatching but with radio waves? Or do you talk to other radio operators around you and hang out?

I’m honestly curious what do people generally do, when they become amateur radio operators.

Exactly this, especially the last sentence.

I only have pretty basic machine learning knowledge, based on a few Master’s classes at college while I was doing gamedev, and even with that I can tell that the way they are expecting to get AGI by just feeding more data into a language model is simply not happening.

I remember a comparison from one of the AI-pilled tech-bros when AI was starting to get attention, and his metaphor about AGI was something along the lines of “Imagine a difference between a medieval commoner and Albert Einstein, that’s the difference in inteligence AI will soon have to the smartest people we know now”.

But that doesn’t make sense with the current approach. Imagine Einstein writing his cutting-edge theories, and the commoner is watching him behind his shoulder and vetting anything he does. Scratching his ideas, forcing him to redo it, if he doesn’t like it, pointing to a reddit thread about why. There’s no way he would ever finish anything new.

Unless they figure out a completely new way how to do AI reasoning, there is no way we’re getting anywhere near AGI. And that is also becoming more unlikely the longer we go with this approach, because every AI-pilled company is heavily outsourcing all of development to the current models, reducing their employee (and the whole worlds) innovation potential and skill. This is probably the last generation that can do serious academia, unless there are drastic measures done to limit access to AI in education. It’s fucked.

I’m kind of looking forward to this, in a way? I’ve been struggling with social network addiction, while I was fortunate enough to skip on doomscrolling FB, Instagram, TikTok and all that bullshit, I was always mostly just on Reddit, now Lemmy (but I’ve also been getting back to Reddit more than I should), or watching youtube.

Over the past 15 years I’ve been more or less (usually less) successful in cutting off that habit, but I’ve unfortunately always fallen back into it.

My utmost hate for fingerprinting and any kind of verification will make me finally cold turkey that shit. I’ve already seen it with youtube - every time it forces me to sign in to prove I’m not a bot, I fuck off and go do something else. Same with Reddit.

So, yeah.

You have to time it right, there is a sweet spot when it’s just warm enough for a while.

My bachelor’s was actually called Software Engineering (it was 10 years ago, so it migh’ve changed a lot), on Faculty of IT. It was mostly just applied programming (but also indepth - from assembly through smalltalk, to bash, C and Prolog), with a lot of courses about SDLC, UML, DevOps, and all that.

We also had a lot of advanced math, from integrals to logic, and some CS like data structures, algorithms and all that jazz.

It was not as theoretical as actual Computer Science on other faculties, and was more devops oriented, but I did learn a lot of fundamentals about every language I can imagine, including lambda calcul, and also all the math I could ever need. And I’m pretty glad I was forced to learn about proper processes, am able to read and correctly design an UML, and have some insight into various types of the SDLC - which apparently isn’t that common, judging by my experience when actually working. Not that it ever matters - all it ever got me was being internally annoyed that people are using/doing it wrong, but it’s not a big deal because everyone understands eachother, and there’s no reason to point it out and be smug about it.

But yeah, CS was mentioned a lot, but the difference was mostly that CS is theoretical and way more math heavy, while SWI is pretty similar in most of the circulum, but instead of obscure theoretical proofs about big O of algorithms, you are learning about UML and SDLC.

Also, I got to do an Ethical Hacking optional course, which landed me a job in cybersec and started my carrier (before I moved to gamedev), so that’s also nice.

In general, it gave me a lot of “technical soft skills”, it was also team project oriented and asked us to have all the requirements and documentations and architecture designs 100% formally written, and that is a really good skill to have.

That is admitting to a crime. I hope the organizations will sue.

I’m now imagining a professional-level FPV drone racing controller/pilot just blasting it at 100mph (which iirc is about the speed they race at in corridors) through the shool to drive by pepper-spray someone.

I mean, I’m sure whoever came up with this idea imagined it exactly like that, and ngl it would look pretty cool :D

That’s why I went with editing them to something random, unrelated to the thread, but still a feasible paragraph, in hope that this won’t trigger this mechanism.

I’ve been slowly replacing, by hand so it doesn’t trigger their detection alerts, all of my 15 years of comments on Reddit, a lot of it valuable answers to tech questions or programming problems, with a randomly prompted unrelated paragraph of ChatGPT whatever.

When one of the first exodi(?) came, a lot people replaced their comments with random words through scripts, back then it was not as detected and prevented (which Reddit promptly scrambled to prevent), and thanks to people doing that I’ve eventually blocked Reddit from my Kagi altogether, simply because 90% of what I found was either questions with scrambled answers, comments that are just ads from bots, or just unrelated bullshit. So, it does have an actual impact.

Have fun selling that to AI companies.

JDK is the greatest scam ever.

When something needs JDK, most people usually just download the first one they find without much thought, just like with any dependency, which is Oracle’s, instead of OpenJDK.

Oracle will go after companies where their employees unknowlingly installed their JDK for some minor thing, and hit them with multimillion fine for breaking their license after a while. Or at least I remember hearing they used to.

Blocking anything Oracle company-wide, especially JDK, is the first thing an IT admin should do.

Oooh

lol, “Flock Safety CEO” sounds the same as “Meta’s Chief Privacy Officer”.

It’s hard to not be sceptical about all the companies suddenly having time to work on this thing they’ve prommised or wanted to work on for years at this point.

Not aimed at Proton, just in general. Yeah, I wonder why they have time now.

I case anyone is also wondering that bombs measured in tons of explosives sounds pretty close to nuclear, where I vaguely remembered the number 15 tons - in case of nuclear weapons, it was kilotons, so thousand times as much.

My partner works in HR, and from what I’ve heard about her stories from her job, this is nowhere near true. Anecdotal evidence, though.

There is a lot of paperwork that needs to be done. If everyone could follow simple, written and documented directions that have actual pictures about how to fill the form you have to fill, you could have a lot less HR people.

But majority of employees are not able to. They have to remind them dozens of times and chase people who didn’t do it unless personally threatened. They have to constantly answer questions that are very well documented. They have to parse out information that finances should be able to access, but they need it directly copied from the systems.

It sounds like hell of a job, that would’ve been so much easier if people were able to follow simple instructions. And the kind of people that can’t follow a step-by-step guide that had 5 notifications about needing to be done in a Slack channel won’t do it if some AI is telling them to.

From what I’ve heard, she is just managing disasters that could be a legal problem, always chasing people who don’t care about their annoying beraucracy that could cause a lot of trouble.

I have a lot more respect for HR after seeing it from the other side.