Mastodawn

My favorite argument showing that LLMs aren’t like brains is that babies start talking at 1-2 years old and they didn’t need to steal all published books ever written to do it

CaveDave 15h ago

Eugen Rochko 15h ago

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/116827981116605348

This is the future those who push for age verification want for us.

CaveDave 15h ago

lizzy مثلية الله ☭

15h ago

guy in front of me in the train is playing on a steam deck. haha. he has no idea my code is running on his device

CaveDave 16h ago

Jan Wildeboer 😷

17h ago

Moving back from digital kitchen scales to mechanical ones. They always work, don't need batteries or electronics, look better and are cheaper. What's not to like? I have one for up to 500g with 5g precision and one that goes up to 5kg with 20g precision. I like!

CaveDave 16h ago

Matt Blaze 21h ago

One of the problems with the current AI mania is that products now eagerly claim to use “AI” whenever they can. But you have no way to tell whether this means it incorporates a few benign heuristics that might make it work a bit better or that it’s programmed to quietly learn as much as it can about you so that when the time comes, it can more efficiently harvest your organs.

CaveDave 17h ago

Chris Oliver 1d ago

This is why @pluralistic is always preaching about #DRM-free digital media and software. Sony is deleting over 500 movies customers paid for through the PlayStation Store because they don’t want to renew their license with Studio Canal. #enshittification

CaveDave 17h ago

Mati | The Autistic Coach 18h ago

You’re not a burden when you melt down.

You’re a disabled person whose nervous system is doing exactly what a nervous system does when its needs go unmet for too long.

The shame isn’t yours.

The shame belongs to a world that calls it a « tantrum »

CaveDave 17h ago

Martin Rundkvist 18h ago

They told us in school in the mid-80s that we were heading towards trouble with the "greenhouse effect". This turned out to be correct and nobody should act surprised.

#climate #heat

CaveDave 18h ago

MissConstrue 1d ago

Did y'all know that 70% of the funding for the Swedish Neo-nazi party Örebro, the funding that allowed them to go national, is all coming from the CEO of of #Mullvad VPN?

Here's a sample of the politician you're supporting by using Mullvad products:

Allard asked: "why won't the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?" and in the same debate said that "Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense. [...] In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish."'

There's a few ways to stop racists and fascists. The easiest one is to stop giving them money.

https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

Techprofil ger miljoner till Örebropartiet

It-bolaget Mullvads grundare donerade fem miljoner – till parti som vill se ”storskalig återvandring”

Flamman

CaveDave 18h ago

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦18h ago

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822264297340100

This is immensely disappointing, @mullvadnet.

Your co-CEO is funding far-right authoritarians. Authoritarianism is not compatible with free speech – anyone who claims to be fighting for free speech has to be aware of this. In fact, the reason we need free speech is to fend of authoritarianism!

You used "free speech" to defend anti-free-speech views. This is the "paradox of tolerance". Only, it is not a paradox. Allowing intolerance erodes a tolerant society:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

#Mullvad