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I’m so sick of the humanising language used in these articles.

An LLM doesn’t “decide to cheat”.

If you instruct a model to try everything, then inevitably, after n million iterations it will do something you didn’t expect.

If you train a model to copy code bases and augment them, then when you instruct that model to develop a bot to do whatever thing, is it really that fucking surprising when it does exactly what it has been created for?

Astonishing really.

This is the guy running the US like a business.

Don’t worry about debt, just stoke up inflation so it does t seem like so much money.

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan.

I often get a message that it isn’t supported.

Sure.

Indeed

Keep huffing your own farts mate.

That’s just because Brave tells websites that you’re using Chrome.

All http requests include a “user agent” where the requester tells the server what agent the user is using. requesters can specify whatever they want - it’s not complex to tell the server you’re using tea leaves to render the server’s response.

Some web pages are designed to tell the user that their browser is not compatible, if it doesn’t match a set of compatible browsers. So if you say you’re rendering the page with “tea leaves” it will tell you it’s not compatible because it doesn’t match “chrome” or “edge” or whatever.

The outcome is - these alerts are rudimentary and not actually considering the capabilities of your browser.

I generally use librewolf but as you say some pages are just broken, so I use ungoogled chromium for those pages.

Brave does this by randomization instead, which is far more effective.

Randomisation isn’t necessarily more effective, it’s just a different strategy.

Orion claims to this day that fingerprinting resistance is impossible, which is preposterous because Brave is doing it today.

I think you mean Orion is saying RFP is ineffective, and whether Brave’s implementation is or is not is a question of semantics.

Like most security measures, each decision is a trade off between security and usability. The Firefox / LibreWolf / TOR implementation is fine for most users:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting#Terse_List

Doesn’t Firefox have fingerprinting protections which are disabled by default? LibreWolf enables them by default.

Ungoogled chromium

Oh you’re referring to a mythical super intelligence which will surely emerge after the next round of funding?

Because it’s really daft on a number of levels.

Firstly there’s no evidence what so ever that the current generation of AI is a pathway to a general intelligence or anything god like.

Secondly it seems to me that most decisions are about preserving money and traditions and positions of power - faith in “God” is a different thing entirely and maybe the church wouldn’t be so awful if they were focused on that.

Finally I don’t really think the emergence of a man made god-tier intelligence would really challenge believers in “God”. As in, I can see the connection logically but any Christian will tell you their belief is based on faith - it’s not logical.

Do you really, honestly believe that’s pope Leo XIV’s underlying reasoning here?

Exactly. This type of thing is such obvious low hanging fruit quick win for any government.

Imagine thinking that a super intelligence is going to emerge from reading reddit comments.

Probably. I mis-spoke.

I’ll believe that these things are possible when there’s some empirical evidence that they are.

Why don’t you buy my amazing car. Yes it looks like that car that your nan drives to the shops but actually it can fly and time travel as well.

Exactly, there’s a few specific use cases that the current generative AI is good at. Reading medical imagingand medication development are things I’d add to your list.

However, outside of those specific tasks AI is not particularly useful. An incremental improvement in productivity in some cases.

This might just be the best thing that happens in tech (for me) all year.

I daily drive debian just because boring and reliable. However, fancy package managers like flatpak and appimages and nix have made debian much more vibrant - it’s easy to install new versions of things now.

That said, nix package manager on debian is just freakin amazing. Being able to just nix-shell -p <obscure cli tool> and exit when I’m done with it is magnificent.

That’s the gateway drug anyway. The nix based home-manager is pretty cool.

While I’ve been tempted to jump in with NixOS my experience with nix packages and home-manager has felt kind of bleeding edge or experimental. Loads of things that don’t work as intended on debian.

A sophisticated well funded user base like a federal government has really good implications for the stability of the project in the future. I’m really stoked about this.

Firstly, I abhor rowling.

However, I don’t agree that piracy demonstrates potential earnings to producers.

Yeah but one of the guys that owns it is the primary funder of that nutty far right political group.