Maybe it’s time to think about taking the website and all software offline.

This will open the gates of hell, allowing lawyers to harass free software developers. Not because of the actual content of those proposed laws, because there is supposed to be an exemption for free software – but because there is a great tradition here in germany, where lawyers just make false claims and try to extort money from you. Can you safely ignore them? Should you seek legal council immediately? You never know. It’s best to avoid becoming a target in the first place.

Besides, the current wording is just an EU thing. It will have to be transformed into german law (and french law and spanish law …), which means our legislative bodies can screw up things big time. It’s quite possible that they won’t include that exemption or include it in a very vague and ambiguous way.

I’m really angry right now and hopefully I’ll think differently tomorrow.

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In-reply-to » @prologic what do we make of Labor's proposed social media minimum age ban, I.e ID verification, and the likes of Yarn? I haven't been able to find out exactly how far the legislation goes, but some have said it's broad enough to include any site that even has a comment section 🤔 but that could be FUD.

@prologic@twtxt.net All good mate.

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In-reply-to » @prologic what do we make of Labor's proposed social media minimum age ban, I.e ID verification, and the likes of Yarn? I haven't been able to find out exactly how far the legislation goes, but some have said it's broad enough to include any site that even has a comment section 🤔 but that could be FUD.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club sorry I meant to get to this today, please remind me to elaborate on this position a bit more later but I think it’s otherwise pretty rubbish

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In-reply-to » Lol. "Lighty Encrypted" https://www.pcmag.com/news/hot-topic-breach-confirmed-millions-of-credit-cards-email-addresses-exposed

LOL what does “lightly encrypted” mean?! 🤣

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In-reply-to » Numbers are hard. I just almost accidentally sent 33k€ to someone via bank transfer, because the banking website interpreted 334.90 as 33490,00. 😬 This is germany, so it wants a comma, not a dot …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de that would have never worked for me. I don’t have that kind of money in a bank account. 😂

We should standardise numerical notations, at least the nations using the Arabic numerals. Spain also uses the period as the thousands separator. For legibility sake, commas and periods make sense, like €3,500.25, for example. That’s three thousand five hundred Euros, and 25 Euro cents. But this should also work: €3500.25.

It makes little sense that €334.90 gets interpreted as €33490 (or €33,490). 🤯

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In-reply-to » Lol. "Lighty Encrypted" https://www.pcmag.com/news/hot-topic-breach-confirmed-millions-of-credit-cards-email-addresses-exposed

Oof, is it any wonder some of us don’t want to just give out our info online willy-nilly.

Also that credit card ‘encryption’ will likely land that company in very hot water, no doubt far away from PCI DSS requirements.

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@prologic@twtxt.net what do we make of Labor’s proposed social media minimum age ban, I.e ID verification, and the likes of Yarn? I haven’t been able to find out exactly how far the legislation goes, but some have said it’s broad enough to include any site that even has a comment section 🤔 but that could be FUD.

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In-reply-to » Numbers are hard. I just almost accidentally sent 33k€ to someone via bank transfer, because the banking website interpreted 334.90 as 33490,00. 😬 This is germany, so it wants a comma, not a dot …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The dot is the thousands separator, so I’m surprised that it did not interpret it as €334,900.00. Luckily, you caught it in time! :-)

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Numbers are hard. I just almost accidentally sent 33k€ to someone via bank transfer, because the banking website interpreted 334.90 as 33490,00. 😬 This is germany, so it wants a comma, not a dot …

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In-reply-to » OpenAI and Others Seek New Path To Smarter AI as Current Methods Hit Limitations AI companies like OpenAI are seeking to overcome unexpected delays and challenges in the pursuit of ever-large language models by developing training techniques that use more human-like ways for algorithms to "think." From a report: A dozenAI scientists, researchers and investors told Reuters they believe that these ... ⌘ Read more

You need to figure out what it means to have “free thought”, “to reason”, “have deep understanding” and be able to apply knowledge in unfamiliar environments or scenarios. You have to figure out what it means to “dream”. You have to figure out what it means to hold “ethics”, “morals” and even “beleifs”.

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In-reply-to » OpenAI and Others Seek New Path To Smarter AI as Current Methods Hit Limitations AI companies like OpenAI are seeking to overcome unexpected delays and challenges in the pursuit of ever-large language models by developing training techniques that use more human-like ways for algorithms to "think." From a report: A dozenAI scientists, researchers and investors told Reuters they believe that these ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net When are we going to resign ourselves to a position of not achieving AGI and so-called AI in the first place? Hmmm 🧐 Fundamentally I don’t think we understand how the human brain works or what it means to be a “conscious free thinking being” – I’m not convinced we’ll figure this out to be honest.

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OpenAI and Others Seek New Path To Smarter AI as Current Methods Hit Limitations
AI companies like OpenAI are seeking to overcome unexpected delays and challenges in the pursuit of ever-large language models by developing training techniques that use more human-like ways for algorithms to “think.” From a report: A dozenAI scientists, researchers and investors told Reuters they believe that these … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Jack Dorsey's Block Scraps 'Web5' Project Block will abandon development of its Web5 decentralized internet project and reduce investment in music streaming service Tidal to focus on bitcoin mining hardware and self-custody wallets, the payments company announced in its third-quarter letter to shareholders. The Jack Dorsey-led firm cited strong market demand for its bitcoin mining products and Bitkey wallet as key drivers behind the st ... ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is must be extremely unlucky, as it picks a random pod in the peering list 🤣 – Oh but wait… @xuu@txt.sour.is have you updated recently? @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org did add some new feature that means you have to go to Settings -> Poderator settings and trust the peers you have there, including my pod 😅

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In-reply-to » Jack Dorsey's Block Scraps 'Web5' Project Block will abandon development of its Web5 decentralized internet project and reduce investment in music streaming service Tidal to focus on bitcoin mining hardware and self-custody wallets, the payments company announced in its third-quarter letter to shareholders. The Jack Dorsey-led firm cited strong market demand for its bitcoin mining products and Bitkey wallet as key drivers behind the st ... ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net True I just wanted to make sure 👍

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In-reply-to » Jack Dorsey's Block Scraps 'Web5' Project Block will abandon development of its Web5 decentralized internet project and reduce investment in music streaming service Tidal to focus on bitcoin mining hardware and self-custody wallets, the payments company announced in its third-quarter letter to shareholders. The Jack Dorsey-led firm cited strong market demand for its bitcoin mining products and Bitkey wallet as key drivers behind the st ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net using Yarn he isn’t supposed to follow it, it should show as context, no?

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In-reply-to » Generative AI Doesn't Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabilities that make it seem like the models are implicitly learn ... ⌘ Read more

They are however pretty good at auto-complete though. If you wire up Continue.dev with VSCode and a local Ollama powered codeastral model, it’s pretty decent. Or if you use the open source friendly Codeium.

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In-reply-to » Generative AI Doesn't Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabilities that make it seem like the models are implicitly learn ... ⌘ Read more

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club With enough data and enough computing power you can simulate anything right or create grand illusions that appear to real they’re hard to tell 😅 – But yes, at the end of the day LLM(s) today are just large probabilistic models, stochastic parrots.

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In-reply-to » Jack Dorsey's Block Scraps 'Web5' Project Block will abandon development of its Web5 decentralized internet project and reduce investment in music streaming service Tidal to focus on bitcoin mining hardware and self-custody wallets, the payments company announced in its third-quarter letter to shareholders. The Jack Dorsey-led firm cited strong market demand for its bitcoin mining products and Bitkey wallet as key drivers behind the st ... ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is You don’t follow the Slashdot feed? 🤔

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In-reply-to » Jack Dorsey's Block Scraps 'Web5' Project Block will abandon development of its Web5 decentralized internet project and reduce investment in music streaming service Tidal to focus on bitcoin mining hardware and self-custody wallets, the payments company announced in its third-quarter letter to shareholders. The Jack Dorsey-led firm cited strong market demand for its bitcoin mining products and Bitkey wallet as key drivers behind the st ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I never got the root for this

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In-reply-to » Generative AI Doesn't Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabilities that make it seem like the models are implicitly learn ... ⌘ Read more

I like this comment on Slashdot in the above link:

LLMs don’t have an understanding of anything. They can only regurgitate derivations of what they’ve been trained on and can’t apply that to something new in the same ways that humans or even other animals can. The models are just so large that the illusion is impressive.

So true.

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Generative AI Doesn’t Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find
Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabilities that make it seem like the models are implicitly learn … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » @sorenpeter Section 7 on emojis: Exactly that, it's an avatar for text interfaces. The metadata name needs tweaking, but that's a cool idea. If I implemented this in my client, I'd make the text avatar overridable by the user, though. Otherwise I'd probably only see boxes for everbody in my terminal. :-D

@bender@twtxt.net Fair point, could be. I probably have to implement it first or create some kind of a mockup to spare me the effort of some feature that I rip out again. :-)

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In-reply-to » Thank you, @eapl.me! No need to apologize in the introduction, all good. :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

Regarding section 4 about feed discovery: Yeah, non-HTTP transport protocols are an issue as they do not have User-Agent headers. How exactly do you envision the discovery_url to work, though?

This is from a twt of mine from January 2022:

https://www.uninformativ.de/files/twtxt/2022%2D01%2D22%2D%2Dfollow%2Dendpoint.md

(This idea gets lost all the time, so I put it into a file now. 😅)

Not sure if this is what @eapl.me@eapl.me had in mind, obviously.

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In-reply-to » I need money for my mother's heart surgery, there is a shortfall of about 2 million rupiah from a total of 40 million, can you help me with any amount?

@prologic@twtxt.net lies, and scams aside, there is plenty of need in the world. Yet, you can’t help everyone. Best way to do it is to donate to a worthy cause, and ignore one offs.

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In-reply-to » I need money for my mother's heart surgery, there is a shortfall of about 2 million rupiah from a total of 40 million, can you help me with any amount?

@bender@twtxt.net I’ve worked with this guy before. Paid him to do some freelance work. Not very good IMO. So haven’t hired him ever again. But he keeps saying hi every now and then on Signal. And then every few months or so asking stuff like this ☝️ – Last time it was money for private school fees for his child.

How am I suppose to know whether stuff like this (sound serious) is for realz or not? 😅

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I need money for my mother’s heart surgery, there is a shortfall of about 2 million rupiah from a total of 40 million, can you help me with any amount?

Hmmm 🧐

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