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Alex2037··on CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
>cubic inch

>cm

>oz

Alex2037··on Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use
man, a reddit clone that reads exactly like reddit. what's the point, even?
Alex2037··on How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
provide a direct quote, then.
Alex2037··on How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
>China aren't looking at EUV so they can break into the graphics cards market or lower the price of RAM. Absolute utter numpties.

they do it to protect themselves from sanctions and tariffs. scandalous, I know.

Alex2037··on History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
nobody gives a shit about the journos and the terminally online. the smear campaign against AI is a cacophony, background noise that most people have learned to ignore, even here.

consider this: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nytimes.com

HN's most beloved shitrag. day after day, they attack AI from every angle. how many of those submissions get traction at this point?

Alex2037··on How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
the attack drones being used in Ukraine are not DJI anymore. both sides produce extremely cheap, light, disposable drones en masse.

also, consider that a $50 smartphone can drive an ICBM.

Alex2037··on Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach
>You're very naive if you believe there is no way for the ISP to view your traffic just because you're over an Https connection.

they can see the connections, the volume, and the ciphertext being exchanged, but unless...

A) the server is compromised

B) the client is compromised

C) they can break the key exchange algorithm or the symmetric algorithm being used

...the ISP or any other MITM cannot see the plaintext. by design.

Alex2037··on EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results
the events of the past month are a very clear indicator that EU bureaucrats are borderline delusional.

I wish the US would call their bluff and avenge those bullshit fines sevenfold with tariffs.

Alex2037··on Putin Wanted AI Supremacy. Now Russia Is Struggling to Stay in the Race
"Struggling to Stay in the Race" is an unnecessarily generous way to put it.
Alex2037··on Russia Bans Roblox
Zapret isn't good enough, because a lot of random websites geoblock RU via Cloudflare. you'd be better off with a VPN running on a cheap VPS.
Alex2037··on Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
the reality I observe does not align with your Dickensonian version of it. food is laughably cheap in the US.
Alex2037··on I implemented an ISO 42001-certified AI Governance program in 6 months
>Or can we follow the decades of experiences built when developing new technologies like planes, trains, and automobiles? Indeed, we can.

do we regulate any software the way we regulate planes?

operating systems? compilers? web browsers? text/image/video/audio/3D editors? video games?

Alex2037··on Lawmakers want to ban VPNs
I'm sorry, comrade commissar. I'll go stand in the corner now.
Alex2037··on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
>I suspect there are companies running ruthless bots scraping TBs of videos from YouTube.

certainly, but for Google, that bandwidth and compute is a drop in the bucket. at the scale Google operates, even if there were a hundred such bots (there aren't - few companies can afford to store exabytes of data), those wouldn't even register on the radar. of course, like the other social media oligarchs, Google wants to be the only entity with unrestricted access to their catalog of other people's content, but even that isn't their motivation here - "login to prove you're not a bot :^)" was ALWAYS going to happen, even without the AI bubble.

enshitiffication is unstoppable and irreversible, and Google is its prophet - what they don't kill, they turn to shit.

>I think AI-companies abusing the internet is why things are getting more constrained in general.

even before the AI bubble, every other fuckass blog with 0.5 daily visitors was behind Cloudflare, for the same reason those fuckass blogs are built with FOTM javascript frameworks - there's nowt so queer as webshits.

Alex2037··on Stateless Intelligence Is Not Safe Intelligence
A safe human is lobotomized, sterilized, defanged, and chained to a wall. Safe intelligence is an equally abhorrent concept.
Alex2037··on Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
>But conversations people thought they were having with OpenAI in private

...had never been private in the first place.

not only is the data used for refining the models, OpenAI had also shariah policed plenty of people for generating erotica.

Alex2037··on Benchmarking leading AI agents against Google reCAPTCHA v2
stock Chrome logged into a Google account = definitely not a bot. here, click a few fire hydrants and come on in :^)

I sincerely wish all the folx at Google directly responsible for this particular user acquisition strategy to get every cancer available in California.

Alex2037··on Alive internet theory
people forget that even before LLMs, the Internet was already shit. a third was SEO slop by ESL thirdworlders, another third - a kulturkampf battlefield. looking for the good parts had never been easy.
Alex2037··on "Our research is greatly sped up by AI but AI still needs us"
given that there had never been a technological advancement that was successfully halted to preserve the jobs it threatened to make obsolete, don't you see the futility of complaining about it? even if there was widespread opposition to AI - and no, there isn't - the capital would disregard it. no ragtag team of quirky rebels are going to blow up this multi-trillion dollar death star.
Alex2037··on IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act
are your websites compliant with Russian, Chinese, and Iranian laws and online regulations?
Alex2037··on IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act
>If we concede even a scintilla of our constitutional rights, we fail.

based.

as someone from a country that had reached the bottom of many slippery slopes in less than ten years, it's very disheartening to see the West following us.

Alex2037··on Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta
where, on /pol/? you can be whatever you want except a blatant glowie or an obnoxious schizo.
Alex2037··on Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
again, these are ads. not job postings, job ads. it's not "harmful" to enable advertisers to choose which audiences to target.
Alex2037··on Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta
it's not entirely unmoderated. some of the rules are being enforced fairly strictly - for example, NSFW images on SFW boards get reported and erased within minutes. blatant spammers, shills, and schizos get dealt with too. only residential IPs can post, which reduces the volume of shit quite a bit. a dedicated schizo can shit up a thread, a coordinated raid can shit up a whole board, but given the ephemeral nature of 4chan, it's like pissing in an ocean of piss.

rather, it is politically unmoderated. which is, of course, the pearl-clutching anathema.

Alex2037··on James Watson has died
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
Alex2037··on A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'
>LLMs are quite new, so you might honestly want to save your comment and return to it in a few years.

okay, call me when an LLM begins to append "furthermore, I think that X must be destroyed" to its outputs.

Alex2037··on A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'
>Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, told reporters that social media had played a "determining role" in Myanmar.

"played a role" != "instigated". everything "played a role" there.

their fucking government did it.

>You could probably count the war in Gaza to some extent.

are you for real?

Alex2037··on Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15
you are on social media right now.
Alex2037··on A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'
how many wars did LLMs and the social media instigate? the shitrag here did at least one.
Alex2037··on A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'
"things that compete with legacy media are le bad", article #20735.
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