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mcv commented on Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty   digitaljournal.com/tech-s... · Posted by u/speckx
mcv · 14 hours ago
This sounds to me like Microsoft is saying they cannot legally do business in the EU.

And there are a lot of companies and other organizations that use cloud services from American companies. All of them have to migrate away, because American companies will be unable to fulfill their contract and obey EU law.

That's got to be devastating.

mcv commented on Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back   promptql.io/blog/being-co... · Posted by u/tango12
ninetyninenine · 2 days ago
No. The experts in the field are past this argument. People have moved on. It is clear to everyone who builds LLMs that the AI is intelligent. The algorithm was autocomplete, but we are finding as an autocomplete bot is basically autocompleting things with humanity changing intelligent content. Your opinion is a minority now and not shared by people on the forefront of building these things. Your holding onto the initial fever pitched alarmist reaction people had to LLMs when it first came out.

Like you realize humans hallucinate too right? And that there are humans that have a disease that makes them hallucinate constantly.

Hallucinations don’t preclude humans from being “intelligent”. It also doesn’t preclude the LLM from being intelligent.

mcv · a day ago
Yeah, but how much of that is wishful thinking? If your job depends on believing this is real intelligence, you're more likely to believe that.
mcv commented on 'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court   torrentfreak.com/ad-block... · Posted by u/gslin
ponector · 5 days ago
>> criticizing a minister

But using memes with real Nazi for this, in Germany, is too much. And they got a fine, not a prison term. Fair enough.

mcv · 5 days ago
I guess the article conveniently skipped over that detail.
mcv commented on 'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court   torrentfreak.com/ad-block... · Posted by u/gslin
immibis · 5 days ago
We've seen what happens if you have completely unlimited speech. One time last century in Germany, and one time in the USA right now.

Germany's going too far in the opposite direction now, though. I'm actually okay with the rule against insulting people as long as everyone knows that's the rule (note that you can't insult anyone, not just politicians) since it doesn't affect quality discourse yet it keeps low-quality discourse (the kind that dragged the USA into the mud) down. The way they're applying it to discussion about Israel is currently a problem. That's a separate law from the insult one. They're claiming that any criticism of Israel's actions is antisemitic hate speech, which is of course illegal.

Note that supporting the principle doesn't mean I support the implementation. If it were up to me it would be only a slap on the wrist fine except in very severe cases (like organizing a hate protest) and I don't know what level of checks and balances would be enough to ensure the classification of "hate" doesn't devolve into what it has become.

mcv · 5 days ago
There's a big difference between creating an atmosphere of hate against vulnerable minorities, and and criticizing a minister of economics.

Criticism of the government is absolutely vital. It's the very reason why free speech is so important. And that seems to be what the article is addressing.

Using "free speech" to silence and persecute minorities, and create a hostile atmosphere for them, is the opposite of free speech, abusing the space it was granted by free speech, and inevitably leads to serious restrictions on free speech, as we're currently seeing in the US.

These two things are not the same.

mcv commented on LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare   garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/flail
kriops · 6 days ago
I, too, own a Tesla. And granted, analogous to the way we can achieve fusion today.

Edit: Don’t get me wrong btw. I love autopilot. It’s just completely incapable of handling a large number of very common scenarios.

mcv · 5 days ago
Yeah, there's a massive difference between a system that can handle a specific number of well-defined situations, and a system that can handle everything.

I don't know what the current state of self-driving cars is. Do they already understand the difference between a plastic bag blowing onto the street, and a football rolling onto the street? Because that's a massive difference, and understanding that is surprisingly hard. And even if you program them to recognize the ball, what if it's a different toy?

mcv commented on 'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court   torrentfreak.com/ad-block... · Posted by u/gslin
delichon · 5 days ago
This URL used to host an FBI recommendation to use ad blockers for personal security.

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624

It's gone now. I wonder if that's a policy choice.

Edit: It just moved to https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2022/PSA221221

  The FBI recommends individuals take the following precautions...

  Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches. Most internet browsers allow a user to add extensions, including extensions that block advertisements. These ad blockers can be turned on and off within a browser to permit advertisements on certain websites while blocking advertisements on others.

mcv · 5 days ago
The FBI caring more about people's rights than the German justice system? That would be an interesting twist.
mcv commented on Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy   polygon.com/steam-paypal-... · Posted by u/SilverElfin
immibis · 7 days ago
GOG will sell you Linux versions of games. In fact it doesn't care - once you own it you can download all of the game files for all the platforms it was released for. However, it only sells you what actually exists. It doesn't take the Windows version and run it in a Windows emulation layer like Steam has. If you want to run the Windows version emulated on Linux, you're on your own.
mcv · 6 days ago
Not on your own; you're with a community that supports running GOG games on that Windows emulation layer. Heroic can run most GOG games very well. Steam is more reliable because it's Valve itself that's behind it, but Heroic is not that far behind.
mcv commented on BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM   retrogamecoders.com/bbc-m... · Posted by u/ingve
sys_64738 · 7 days ago
The BBCs were niche products in Britain where they were mostly used in education. They were too expensive so parents bought Sinclair Spectrums and Commodore 64s. Even the cheap BBC Model B, the Electron, was a poor seller.
mcv · 6 days ago
We had an Electron. It was a fun little machine, that you could expand to a fun big machine. Originally 32kB RAM and 32kB ROM, ours eventually ended up with 224kB ROM due to all the expansions you could hook on the back of that thing. Didn't really help its stability, though.
mcv commented on BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM   retrogamecoders.com/bbc-m... · Posted by u/ingve
DrBazza · 7 days ago
For whatever reason, Acorn dropped the ball.

At the time the Archimedes blew the nascent PC and every other machine out of the water, and yet couldn't get a toe-hold in the US market for reasons I've never quite understood. At the same point MS Windows looked shoddy at best in comparison to RiscOS.

mcv · 6 days ago
I don't think Acorn "dropped the ball". They were doing amazing things, but they simply weren't IBM, and their PC wasn't an IBM PC. The corporate world was rapidly standardizing on PCs and MS DOS, and that it was crap didn't really matter; it was more powerful than what the corporate world before, and it had all the support it needed for business applications. Superior architecture didn't matter; killers apps did. I wish it was different and really hoped the Archimedes would be the new standard. Well, decades later the ARM would finally become the new standard.
mcv commented on BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM   retrogamecoders.com/bbc-m... · Posted by u/ingve
taylorius · 7 days ago
The Archimedes was called a "BBC Micro" because it was part of the BBC's home computing initiative, but architecturally, it had nothing to do with the original BBC Micro.
mcv · 6 days ago
I don't recall the Archimedes ever getting called a "BBC Micro". I remember the introduction of the Archimedes. We had an Acorn Electron, and we'd seen the introduction of various "BBC Masters"; BBCs with more memory, more powerful hardware, but still a BBC. The Archimedes, was always marketed as something completely new, as far as I recall.

My brother had one. Really cool machine, and as far as I remember, on a completely different level than anything that had existed before it. Soon succeeded by the Risc PC, which I mostly remember for being able to accept various configurations of additional processors (it could get either an x86 as co-processor, or several additional ARMs).

u/mcv

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