Great points. With Meta glasses and other similar gadgets I think manual consent is not enough. There should be a 'protocol' to announce that you don't allow your images to be included in social media. I propose a QR code that would signify that you don't want to filmed. We need to push for legislation allowing (returning) such liberty. After such automated consent is legal it will be up to social media platforms to blur and anonymize individuals with such preferences. Finally we will have a job where AI could be put to good use!
Readit Newsbrisky commented on What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world? neilzone.co.uk/2025/09/wh... · Posted by u/speckx
Something I don’t quite get about these new social networks that are clearly aimed at technical people: my model of a truly decentralized social network is more like a network of privately hosted personal websites, à la the original web. Not yet another platform I need to make an account to interact on separately.
Have there been any attempts to make more of a “network” that incentivizes operating personal websites but adds a mechanism for typical social media features like chat, a feed, etc. in a centralized way? The only thing I can think of is RSS, and that is only a way to follow content publication.
You might want to check out Really Simple Decentralized Syndication (RSDS) https://writer.did-1.com/
brisky commented on Nano Banana image examples github.com/PicoTrex/Aweso... · Posted by u/SweetSoftPillow
When reading "picture an apple with three blue dots on it", I have an abstract concept of an apple and three dots. There's really no geometry there, without follow on questions, or some priming in the question.
In my conscious experience I pretty much imagine {apple, dot, dot, dot}. I don't "see" blue, the dots are tagged with dot.color == blue.
When you ask about the arrangement of the dots, I'll THEN think about it, and then says "arranged in a triangle." But that's because you've probed with your question. Before you probed, there's no concept in my mind of any geometric arrangement.
If I hadn't been prompted to think / naturally thought about the color of the apple, and you asked me "what color is the apple." Only then would I say "green" or "red."
If you asked me to describe my office (for example) my brain can't really imagine it "holistically." I can think of the desk and then enumerate it's properties: white legs, wooden top, rug on ground. But, essentially, I'm running a geometric iterator over the scene, starting from some anchor object, jumping to nearby objects, and then enumerating their properties.
I have glimpses of what it's like to "see" in my minds eye. At night, in bed, just before sleep, if I concentrate really hard, I can sometimes see fleeting images. I liken it to looking at one of those eye puzzles where you have to relax your eyes to "see it." I almost have to focus on "seeing" without looking into the blackness of my closed eyes.
I think I have it as well. But my theory is that we might have imagination but it is only accessible to subconscious. It is as if it is blocked from consciousness. I have ADHD as well, might be that this is protection mechanism that allows my kind of brain to survive in the world better (otherwise it would be too entertaining to get lost in your own imagination). As a kid I used to daydream a lot.
brisky commented on Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference thinkingmachines.ai/blog/... · Posted by u/jxmorris12
Why do you care about determinism in a probabilistic system? What difference does it make to the end user if the input "How do I X?" always produces the same deterministic output when semantically equivalent inputs "how do i x?", "how do I x", and "how do I X??" are bound to produce different answers that often won't even be semantically equivalent.
What LLMs need is the ability to guarantee semantically-equivalent outputs for all semantically-equivalent inputs, but that's very different from "determinism" as we understand it from other algorithms.
It would be very useful for AI platform customers. You could run prompts with 0 temperature and check if the results are the same making sure that AI provider is not switching the PRO model in the background for a cheap one and ripping you off.
Google published my private cell phone number in the play store as after spending over a month trying to get my business number verified under the threat of account termination I ran out of options.
Similar situation - I was an independent app publisher on app store, but I don't feel comfortable publishing my phone number next to my apps. I don't do customer support. This punishes indie app devs. After I saw this requirement I decided to remove my app from the app store.
I rooted for Uber to smash the Taxi cartels. Let us not forget that Taxi Cartels were also insidious beasts. Taxi drivers abused their walled garden with their price gouging by taking longer routes, refusal to take a credit card, and extremely poorly maintained fleets of vehicles. I have had mostly good experiences with Uber, whereas I had experiences that mostly bordered on general condescension toward me whenever I took a ride in a Taxi. I am glad the political will to block Uber never materialized.
It is possible that digitization and improvement of taxi services was inevitable anyway
brisky commented on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new... · Posted by u/Leary
Trump and team may be the biggest public relations masterminds of all time. They realize that the populous is fickle and easily won over with obvious stunts. Define the villains and play the hero. It keeps working for him over and over and over. Truly incredible.
It is easy to confuse a mastermind with somebody who is simply willing to break the law.
1. Getting access to geolocked data
2. Torrenting "Linux ISOs"
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