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criticalfault··on The AI bubble is 17 times bigger than the dot-com bust
Thanks for the explanation and the link. I learned something today.

I'm definitely not an expert, but to me, RL and other techniques looks like a guide or a constraint on the still 'next token prediction' concept. What I do not get is - is this all about training? Or is this about inference.

In any case, this is still an eye opener and I need to study this a bit more.

When talking inference, models from huggingface are composed of what then? Because they can do angentic stuff, no?

criticalfault··on The AI bubble is 17 times bigger than the dot-com bust
Can you explain a bit more on the topic of what happens after the base model?
criticalfault··on Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund
2 out of 3 points should not be in the list at this point of time.

There is no browser around servo that is usable and they start with accessibility?

The effort should go first to have it work as an everyday browser and get as much market share as possible. Then think of accessibility and WebView Integration.

This is a unique opportunity to have a browser engine not depending on Google, Microsoft or some of AI companies wanting to get into this field. By watering it down, you will just lose the market to the ladybird which is focused.

criticalfault··on China is run by engineers. America is run by lawyers
Aka mba
criticalfault··on Denmark wants to push through Chat Control
Poland is an example of rising economy in EU

I read somewhere that Italy is recovering and reducing its debt... But didn't really follow up on that.

criticalfault··on Denmark wants to push through Chat Control
I think this is naive thinking.

Do that and you will be ass raped by stronger powers in record time... if we don't start a war in eu amongst ourselves.

The eu was established as an economic union trying to prevent war in Europe and it has been very successful in that. Going the other way would probably cause havoc. Look at Hungary and Slovakia even with war on our doorstep.

I am of the opinion that the EU needs to federalize. It needs to look as one country from the outside, while having independent countries on the inside. The goal here is not to be overwhelmed by the economic and military might of china. Build up resiliency and self sufficiency and keep democracy alive, which seems to be on the decline everywhere.

The question is how not to end up in a totalitarian regime, which chat control is about. It doesn't and it never will be about the children.

The EU is necessary.

criticalfault··on Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used
Strong words for someone who never used lotus notes.

(Didn't read the article, basing this on the subject alone)

criticalfault··on AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86
Were they running windows or android?
criticalfault··on Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
Would be good to do the same to 'modernize' disassembled drivers for various devices in mobile phones.

Would give postmarketos a boost.

criticalfault··on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
How do you protect your server? Any guides there?
criticalfault··on Sequoia backs Zed
Latency, responsiveness...
criticalfault··on I tried Servo
Does it use Vulkan exclusively?
criticalfault··on I tried Servo
Is it possible to force iced to use vulkan exclusively?
criticalfault··on I tried Servo
If we take a look at the results, I'm not convinced she is a good guy just because she was there at the beginning. There is a chart with her salary going up and Firefox usage going down. Looks like an X.

If anything, how come she didn't make it a success on the very limited market?

Even if she wasn't a bad actor in the beginning, she could have changed her opinion and be seduced by the money.

Just for comparison: a few people made a completely new engine in a few years. Task often thought as impossible (they had 200k USD for the start). Mozilla started servo, then when they saw its going well, decided to abandon it?

So what was Mozilla spending the money on? Many have requested the ability to donate for Firefox development, but it was never allowed: they (she?) wanted to distribute the donation money on things they thought were important?

For years they made decisions that the uses hated. How else to explain this?

criticalfault··on We Replaced ETL with MCP
Can you give some more info on the results?

Meaning, correctness, completeness, etc...

Would you use it for e.g. tax information? Because if wrong, you could get fined.

criticalfault··on I tried Servo
This is only fair.

Mozilla doesn't deserve to survive. New players deserve our support, like servo and ladybird.

Even with an enormous budget from Google (500M, I think per year) they managed to ruin everything, including Firefox, the thing bringing them those 500M.

To me it looks as if Baker is an undercover person put there to sabotage Mozilla. Tldr: funded by Google, made absolutely everything in her power to run it into the ground

criticalfault··on XMPP: When a 25-Year-Old Protocol Becomes Strategic Again
Decentralized, ok.

Blockchain already gives me a dose of skepticism. Maybe unfounded.

Whichever protocol is going to be used in a decentralized world, be it matrix, xmpp or this third variant, will depend on simple deployment (single binary), resource use and performance (compiled language), federation support with public relays and extremely pleasant no-nonsense mobile app.

Does something like this exist?

criticalfault··on You can now disable all AI features in Zed
Push through it. You get used to it. Then start to like simplicity of it.

And then, due to speed, there is no going back to the lag infested chromium derivative made by Microsoft.

criticalfault··on When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?
But why would it need to interact with Js or having the same API?

Maybe I misunderstood, but isn't Dom access in essence an ability to change html tree? Since this is wasm, why would it need to reimplement js API and need type mappings? Couldn't it be something different?

criticalfault··on When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?
I've been reading about this for a while. Will it. Won't it.

Does anybody know why is it such a big problem to add dom access to wasm?

In worst case, we should have a second option to Js (which is not typescript - typescript is just a lipstick on a pig). If wasm is not it, why not something different? Having dart in would be great.

criticalfault··on XMLUI
Bye bye ad blocks?
criticalfault··on Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
This is for me unclear as well, but I'm saying I wouldn't hold it against Linus if he did this. And based on Kent's behavior he has full right to do so.

A way to handle this would be with one person (or more) in between Kent and Linus. And maybe a separate tree only for changes and fixes from bcachefs that those people in between would forward to Linus. A staging of sorts.

criticalfault··on Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
I've been following this for a while now.

Kent is in the wrong. Having a lead position in development I would kick Kent of the team.

One thing is to challenge things. What Kent is doing is something completely different. It is obvious he introduced a feature, not only a Bugfix.

If the rules are set in a way that rc1+ gets only Bugfixes, then this is absolutely clear what happens with the feature. Tolerating this once or twice is ok, but Kent is doing this all the time, testing Linus.

Linus is absolutely in the right to kick this out and it's Kent's fault if he does so.

criticalfault··on Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd
Every time there is an interview of some startup and they show the offices with a glimpse of a monitor, it's always Ubuntu. Running gnome.

Also a few people I know, if they used Linux on a desktop it was Ubuntu.

Don't know anyone using KDE, steam deck being the only exception.

So from a personal perspective, if it's Linux on the desktop, it's gnome.

criticalfault··on The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
You have just explained how enshitification works.
criticalfault··on OpenAI would buy Google's Chrome, exec testifies at trial
What about Oracle?
criticalfault··on Rust kernel policy
There were also a lot of times mentioned that current maintainers are getting old. Rust people might, with time, take over... being younger and all.
criticalfault··on ROCm Device Support Wishlist
A lot of people think rocm is basically a big pile of crap.

What are the chances for amd to consider alternatives: - adopt oneapi and try to fight Nvidia together with intel - Vulkan and implement pytorch backend - sycl

criticalfault··on Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge
The project is amazing

The name of the project is horrible

criticalfault··on Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
I think we can see the same thing happening today.

BYD+CATL are the new iphone and other manufacturers are Symbian, Motorola and Sony Ericsson

VW, Toyota and friends cannot change fast enough. They should have started with big battery investments 10-15y ago and RnDing then, not now when Market is flooded.

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