goobatrooba (u/goobatrooba)

goobatrooba commented on GPT-5.2 openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/atgctg

I feel there is a point when all these benchmarks are meaningless. What I care about beyond decent performance is the user experience. There I have grudges with every single platform and the one thing keeping me as a paid ChatGPT subscriber is the ability to sort chats in "projects" with associated files (hello Google, please wake up to basic user-friendly organisation!)

But all of them * Lie far too often with confidence * Refuse to stick to prompts (e.g. ChatGPT to the request to number each reply for easy cross-referencing; Gemini to basic request to respond in a specific language) * Refuse to express uncertainty or nuance (i asked ChatGPT to give me certainty %s which it did for a while but then just forgot...?) * Refuse to give me short answers without fluff or follow up questions * Refuse to stop complimenting my questions or disagreements with wrong/incomplete answers * Don't quote sources consistently so I can check facts, even when I ask for it * Refuse to make clear whether they rely on original documents or an internal summary of the document, until I point out errors * ...

I also have substance gripes, but for me such basic usability points are really something all of the chatbots fail on abysmally. Stick to instructions! Stop creating walls of text for simple queries! Tell me when something is uncertain! Tell me if there's no data or info rather than making something up!

goobatrooba commented on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA heise.de/en/news/How-a-Fr... · Posted by u/i-con

rzerowan · 23 days ago

Im going to go ahead and predict that the EU will not risk it.If it were China ? maybe they would pull the lever to activate this counter.

Previously when the US reneged on the JCPOA viz Iran , they had a similar law/faclity that theoreticall could have been used but never was.

As an addition the EU Commission is currently imposing pretty similar sanction on a Journalist [1] so yeah i dont see much movement on that law being used.Most likely they will try to wait it out.

[1] https://www.public.news/p/eu-travel-ban-on-three-journalists

goobatrooba · 22 days ago

Thanks for promoting russian propaganda (I mean the framing and source). Unfortunately tolerance has to stop with the intolerant. For anyone actually interested in the substance of why she is banned it seems rather clear and reasonable from the official EU Council decision. These decisions always end in front of the courts, so they only can list things for which they have direct evidence; presumably there is this much more - e.g. a good chance that in the background she is being funded by Russia for this work:

> Alina Lipp runs the blog “Neues aus Russland”, in which she systematically disseminates misinformation about Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, and delegitimises the Ukrainian government, especially with a view to manipulating German public sentiment as regards support for Ukraine.

> Furthermore, she is using her role as a war correspondent with the Russian armed forces in eastern Ukraine to spread Russian war propaganda. She regularly appears in troop entertainment and propaganda shows on the Russian military TV channel Zvezda.

> Thus, Alina Lipp is engaging in and supporting actions by the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten security and stability in the Union and in a third country (Ukraine) through the use of coordinated information manipulation and interference, and through facilitating an armed conflict in a third country.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202...

goobatrooba commented on Kagi Assistants blog.kagi.com/kagi-assist... · Posted by u/ingve

aitchnyu · 23 days ago

I use regular Kagi assistant for most of my questions. I use Openrouter chat to chat with Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT 5 at the same time and continue only the productive conversation. My OR account is for my coding agent and its completely pay as you go, no fixed monthly costs.

goobatrooba · 23 days ago

Do you use it regularly (20 min a day or so)? If so, how is your monthly consumption - does it beat the subscription costs for either service?

goobatrooba commented on Netherlands returns control of Nexperia to Chinese owner bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/boovic

mainecoder · 25 days ago

Well the Chinese are powerful and without the help of the US the Netherlands can't do much. Additionally, the process of moving discrete semiconductor production to China is already underway. Production in Hamburg will stop sometime in late 2029 and the R&D center in Nijmegen, Delft will close done late 2028. The US should have helped the Netherlands but now it is over the Chinese won this battle and fairly easily they did not need to use much of the leverage that they had. The commentary by EU officials shows that they used a top down approach using the EU to pressure the Dutch.

goobatrooba · 25 days ago

They didn't use the EU, they put pressure on companies in other countries, notably Germany, which then did the rest.

goobatrooba commented on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws theverge.com/news/823750/... · Posted by u/ksec

schnitzelstoat · 25 days ago

> One change that’s likely to please almost everyone is a reduction in Europe’s ubiquitous cookie banners and pop-ups. Under the new proposal, some “non-risk” cookies won’t trigger pop-ups at all, and users would be able to control others from central browser controls that apply to websites broadly.

Finally!

goobatrooba · 25 days ago

The funny part is that many banners are already now not required. But there has been much propaganda by adtech around it, to rule people up against tracking protections and promote their own "solutions". That's the reason you see the same 3-5 cookie banners all around the web. Already today websites that use purely technical cookies would not actually not need any banners at all.

goobatrooba commented on Possession of porn featuring strangling to become a crime in the UK theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/GaryBluto

GaryBluto · a month ago

We even count domestic violence against men under the umbrella of "violence against women and girls" - men don't matter here.

It's unsurprising. GB has an unholy trinity of excuses for authoritarian laws:

1. "Think of the women and girls!"

2. "Think of the children!"

3. "This is a sacrifice we have to make to stop terrorism!" (which has taken a backseat to the first two)

goobatrooba · a month ago

Just reacting to your first sentence: as a man I find it understandable that the protective laws are focused on protecting women and children as it's a simple fact of our reality that the vast majority of violent crime is committed by men, and that women and children have less physical ability to defend themselves. Yes I also want men protected (though that means mostly again from other men) but as a societal aim the women and children part clearly is a higher priority and need.

goobatrooba commented on US probes Waymo robotaxis over school bus safety yahoo.com/news/articles/u... · Posted by u/gmays

heavyset_go · 2 months ago

Unless there is one car that everyone drives, it will never be this easy.

And if there is one car that everyone drives, it's equally easy for a single bug to harm people on a scale that's inconceivable to me.

goobatrooba · 2 months ago

Maps and routing errors would likely lead to masses of deaths, an entire motorway population rather than individuals not paying attention..

Like the various "unfinished/broken bridge" deaths that have happened with Google maps involved (not saying to blame.. but certainly not innocent either) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66873982 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly23yknjy9o

goobatrooba commented on Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch... · Posted by u/piskov

singularity2001 · 2 months ago

Can we take back Kuka and Abb as well please?

goobatrooba · 2 months ago

Kuka must be one of the three biggest strategic mistake the German governments made in 30 years (the other being gas dependence/NorthStream and keeping coal running rather than investing the same funds in renewables). Really sad but irreversible as they are now fundamental to the Chinese economy and any knowledge and parents are long gone to China.

goobatrooba commented on Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch... · Posted by u/piskov

nikolay · 2 months ago

The writings on the wall: no sane person should put money in European banks or invest in Europe.

goobatrooba · 2 months ago

Government intervenes to stop parent company from milking and killing this local subsidiary. Does seem like a consistent and sound decision that every government (should/would) have taken.

For me a clear YES this means a sound regulatory environment that will protect my company and me from abuse.