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Karunamon commented on It's not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world   economist.com/leaders/202... · Posted by u/Anon84
ajhurliman · 10 months ago
GLP1s have been on the market for at least a decade, they’re pretty well studied at this point. Their sudden popularity is due to the FDA allowing it to be prescribed for obesity (instead of diabetes), not the discovery of a new drug.
Karunamon · 10 months ago
Wait a sec. Something which provides such an unambiguous quality of life upgrade by addressing one of the biggest health problems in the country, is only now available because of regulations?

Surely it's not that simple.

Karunamon commented on OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look   techcrunch.com/2024/09/24... · Posted by u/XavierShaw
zurfer · a year ago
I understand how (a) discoverability and (c) recoverability are a problem, but what do you mean with (b) efficiency?

Most people talk faster than they can type.

Karunamon · a year ago
That assumes perfect accuracy. If a command is misheard then you probably need to correct whatever is now in the wrong state, and then definitely reissue the original command. If its text input then you have to do some select/correct dance. Both of these things take a lot of time.
Karunamon commented on Mozilla exits the Fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December   techcrunch.com/2024/09/17... · Posted by u/rglullis
mempko · a year ago
I read the article. It frames "left-of-center" organizations as bad an inappropriate for a tech company. It criticizes Mozilla of supporting social justice causes. It questions why is Mozilla spending money on anything other than it's product.

Absolutely nothing about this reporting is unbiased. He even goes into race and looks into Action Research Collaborative about how the founder has "problems with white people".

Anyone reading this will clearly read the article as right-wing, and maybe even far right-wing biased.

Karunamon · a year ago
Asking why a tech company whose only product of note is slowly dying, why they are spending money on unrelated advocacy, is entirely reasonable though?

All you have done is convict him conclusively of having an opinion while not liberal. Guilty as charged. I am unclear why that is such a problem.

Theres no such thing as unbiased, so lets set that impossible-to-meet standard aside.

Anytime Mozilla comes up here, the question comes up about supporting Firefox development without the pile of other stuff they do. There is no way to do so. Perhaps their lack of focus is a concern that crosses partisan lines, and ignoring those concerns simply because of tribalism is unwise?

Karunamon commented on Mozilla exits the Fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December   techcrunch.com/2024/09/17... · Posted by u/rglullis
Karunamon · a year ago
Thats all well and good, but you said nothing of substance about the link. The fact you dislike his political stances tells us nothing.
Karunamon commented on Radar Detector Legend Michael Valentine Has Died   roadandtrack.com/news/a62... · Posted by u/peutetre
Karunamon · a year ago
Its strange to see so much moralizing in this thread about a device which only receives signals and can't harm another being unless maybe thrown hard enough.

Most speed limits are artificially low to the point where slavish adherence makes them the safety issue, rather than everyone else breaking the law.

Karunamon commented on FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies   ftc.gov/news-events/news/... · Posted by u/nabla9
whimsicalism · a year ago
this view presupposes the state as “just another actor” as opposed to a privileged one that can take actions that private actors can’t
Karunamon · a year ago
Those privileged actions are mostly irrelevant when discussing mass surveillance. Doubly so since they can just buy or acquire the data from corps.
Karunamon commented on For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default   heise.de/en/news/For-adve... · Posted by u/firebaze
Klonoar · a year ago
Even if it was a credible idea, how exactly do you think that Firefox - the browser that the minute anything changes, the internet blows up over - would significantly alter their product in a way to differentiate themselves from Chrome?

This isn’t even getting into base level stuff like available engineering resources, or the scenarios where the other vendors often control or have deals to give them favorable distribution on platforms.

This isn’t the IE6 era. It’s a significantly different and harder problem.

Karunamon · a year ago
For one, not throwing out their only differentiated advantage versus Chrome. For two, not taking the option that removes user control and customization whenever there is an option to do so. They could have been the privacy-focused browser, but it is still full of crap like this and various bits of undisclosed telemetry.

There would be value in being the only browser to actually stop when users tell them no. But they seem incapable of listening.

Karunamon commented on What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days   blog.sofiane.cc/ssh_honey... · Posted by u/SofianeHamlaoui
BrandoElFollito · a year ago
> If you don't know how to harden SSH

then you do not open it to Internet. Otherwise you patch aggressively, you use ssh keys and not passwords and you move it to some random port to hide it a bit (it actually helps)

> logspam

you can filter this out in your log management tool

> CPU burn

if this is your concern, then you have a hep of issues you need to address. I have never seen a CPU perf hit because of such behaviour (there are cases where it happens, butthis is due to a vulnerability of the service)

> network traffic

the packet is here already, there is nothing to reduce

Karunamon · a year ago
Moving ssh off of port 22 makes it a pain in the ass to work with. Ports are standardized for a reason.

Authentication attempts are a useful security signal; I don't want to filter them out. I want hosts running dictionary attacks to not be able to connect to my services in the first place. If you are running an SSH bot, then I don't want you on my website or anything else.

Karunamon commented on FDA denies petition against use of phthalates in food packaging   fda.gov/food/cfsan-consti... · Posted by u/DoubleDerper
Karunamon · a year ago
That is not the correct label for this argument. The argument is that there are a limited amount of hours in the day and that there are different amounts of risk. The optimal amount of risk is probably not zero.
Karunamon commented on Extracting concepts from GPT-4   openai.com/index/extracti... · Posted by u/davidbarker
immibis · a year ago
Copyright violation isn't just when you can output 100% exact copies of books. And don't forget, they also violated copyright internally billions of times during training. If any of us had been caught making copies of corporate-owned content for AI training use five years ago, we'd be in for zillion-dollar lawsuits that would make any grandma who downloaded a song from Napster blush.
Karunamon · a year ago
There is a very good argument to be made that training AI is fair use, as it is both transformative and does not compete with the original work. This has yet to be tested in court.

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