Kapok

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Vous en avez marre des GAFAM et de l’ultra dépendance aux services US ? Voici des solutions, toutes présentes dans notre fiction en accès libre « GAFAM : 24h dans la peau d’un repenti ».

Si vous avez des suggestions, n’hésitez pas à en donner en commentaires 🙏🏼

Scott Adams, renowned cartoonist and American neo-nazi, announced he has terminal cancer and, while I know the easy thing is to point out his many failings, I just want to remind everyone, if you can't find something nice to say about a horrible dying piece of shit who used his massive platform to validate the worst people alive and help make the world a materially shittier place, you are welcome to say appropriately bad things about him in my replies.
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By popular demand, a single post to boost global switch day across multiple platforms on February 1st 2025.


For those who can no longer get behind Musk or Meta's new policies and feel like switching (e.g. from #Whatsapp to #Signal, from #Instagram to #Pixelfed or from #X to #Mastodon) I made you some graphics to use freely in communicating with your contacts.

Let’s lead by example 🙂

J'avais déjà parlé des coûts de #Signal par le passé en étudiant leur déclaration fiscale.

Cette fois, c'est la fondation elle-même qui en parle : https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

En résumé :
– D'ici 2025, coût de fonctionnement estimé à $50 millions/an
– Charges salariales : $19M/an
– Coûts d'infrastructure actuels (en novembre 2023) : ~$14M/an, répartis comme suit :
• Stockage : $1.3M
• Serveurs : $2.9M
• Frais d'inscription : $6M
• Bande-passante : $2.8M
• Services supplémentaires : $700k

Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive

Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...

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The history of electromagnetism is truly bizarre when you think about it. The theory was essentially 100% complete in 1873 in A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Well, supposedly complete - as nobody could really understand its content fully, not even the author. Maxwell introduced the displacement current as a small technical fix, but failed to realize it could generate E&M waves. The reanalysis of the book took physicists 10 to 20 years. Pupin traveled from US to Cambridge because he wanted to ask the question "WTF is the book?" personally to Maxwell. The young Heaviside said understanding this book was his life goal (realized during 1880-1890). During this period, nobody really knew for sure that E&M waves exist. Even after Hertz demostrated E&M waves, physicists all believed it was a short-range effect like light. Then in 1895 Marconi discovered a practical longwave ratio transmitter by random tinkering. After he heard telegraph transmitters are grounded, he tried it too, accidentally inventing the monopole antenna by sheer luck (and also made it the first case of "cargo cult grounding" in RF electronics, today still practiced by many technicians that should know better). Except that it actually worked for him spectacularly because of a quirk of the Earth's atmosphere. Physicists had absolutely no idea about it and the explanation at that time by physics guru Sommerfeld (the Zenneck surface wave solution to Maxwell's equation) was completely wrong. In 1905, there was already special relativity but still little understanding about antennas and waveguides in general. Some people actually argued that special relativity made E&M simpler... #electronics
I have been using #Firefox since 2004 and do not intend to stop anytime soon. You need to take it out of my dead hands. What about you? #chrome #opensource #linux #unix #macos

It is depressing how often Bender & Koller 2020 is cited incorrectly. My best guess as to why this is is that people writing about whether or not LLMs 'understand' or 'are agents' have such strongly held beliefs about what they want to be true that this impedes their ability to understand what we wrote.

Or maybe they aren't actually reading the paper --- just summarizing based on what other people (with similar beliefs) have mistakenly said about the paper.

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