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diffeomorphism··on 10 out of 12 people cured in Type 1 Diabetes Study
The point is that the reporting has financial ties to the entity funding the studies. Looking at the disclosures form, this seems unproblematic in this case.

In general: funding for studies and funding for critical review should overlap as little as possible.

diffeomorphism··on Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp
> I checked Signal's Privacy Policy and there are no details data sharing

Okay, so they are not sharing data and your whole premise was wrong. That happens. But now how do you change your mind?

diffeomorphism··on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
You may want to adjust your LLM settings. Your post seemingly dropped everything but the first sentence from the context window and then wrote vapid fluff that makes no sense in context.
diffeomorphism··on Android 16 is here
No, they provide them in addition but not as replacements/defaults. That is what the discussion was about.
diffeomorphism··on Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination
For the translate part let me just point out the offensively bad translations that reddit (sites with an additional ?tl=foo) and YouTube automatic dubbing force upon users.

These are immediately, negatively obvious as AI content.

For the other questions the consensus of many publications/journals has been to treat grammar/spellcheck just like non-AI but require that other uses have to be declared. So for most of your questions the answer is a firm "yes".

diffeomorphism··on Android 16 is here
Wasn't that what all the 2015 antitrust stuff was about?

Manufacturers were contractually forbidden from doing that.

diffeomorphism··on What happens when people don't understand how AI works
Which the LLM then does not do and instead makes up likely text.

As prominent examples look at the news stories about lawyers citing nonexistent cases or publications.

People think that LLMs do information retrieval, but they don't. That is what makes them harmful in education contexts.

diffeomorphism··on A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce
https://www.seriouseats.com/do-you-know-your-soy-sauces-japa...

There are lots of different types of soy sauce catering to different uses.

diffeomorphism··on By default, Signal doesn't recall
Working offline such as on a train. This includes having all emails and attachments saved locally. Also useful for backups. E.g. suppose you get locked out of your email account because "AI says you look suspicious". How ruined is your day?

Managing multiple email accounts in a single interface.

Easily moving emails between different accounts and from online to offline.

Relatedly, storing years of emails with attachments on a local drive is cheap. Storing them in webmail is a hefty subscription fee. I have no issue with one time payments, but I like to minimize subscriptions.

diffeomorphism··on AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western
Correct but besides the point. The question of the study is "how much and how do you quantify this?".

There are lots of blindingly obvious qualitative statements, where the quantitative parts is far from obvious. That makes them a good starting point for research.

This is like writing about Newton's theory of gravity as "scientist finds out apples fall downwards. Wasn't that already obvious?".

diffeomorphism··on Dropbox will require App Indicator support on Linux
ELI5: There were two standards how to implement a system tray: an old one and a new one. Dropbox is dropping support for the old standard.
diffeomorphism··on Encryption Is Not a Crime
You apparently do.
diffeomorphism··on Encryption Is Not a Crime
And no service offering encryption has existed since 1755? Because that is required for your argument. Otherwise you simply send unimportant stuff via USPS and sensitive/secret/important stuff via non-USPS.
diffeomorphism··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
You ordered the package, so you have to pay the fees. If you gift the package to someone, that is nice of you but they do not become involved in your purchase by that.
diffeomorphism··on Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
Different notions of reproducible. This project cares specifically about bit-for-bit identical builds (e.g. no time stamps, parallel compile artifacts etc). Nix is more about being declarative and "repeatable" or whatever a good name for that would be.

Both notions are useful for different purposes and nix is not particularly good at the first one.

https://reproducible-builds.org/citests/

diffeomorphism··on GIMP 3.0
This hammer is really bad for working with screws.

If you need something like

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinta_(software)

use that. If you want something like krita, use that. And if you need something like gimp, paint.net is not even in consideration because it is decidedly something else

diffeomorphism··on Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
Really? The malware went from your computer to someone else's and your defense is that it was not "distributed" but just magically moved from A to B?

If you argued that it was clearly labeled as malware for educational purposes, that seems fine. It was distributed, but then distribution is allowed. But this is very clearly not the case here.

diffeomorphism··on OpenBSD Innovations
No, you just make that a prerequisite for the software copyright. If you don't submit the code, you don't get the protection.

Same idea as for patents vs trade secrets.

diffeomorphism··on Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?
> 5. There are far more records in the database than people in America.

Isn't that entirely expected? Someone coming to the US on a work visa gets assigned an SSN, works for some time and then leaves.

diffeomorphism··on Voters were right about the economy
https://www.statista.com/statistics/187867/public-debt-of-th...

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/12/thom-hartmann-how-the-gop-u...

In brief: It worked very badly the first time and the only reason you were conned into thinking differently was massive debt.

diffeomorphism··on How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server
Not adjusting at all, this is not "entry level" but rather "enthusiast"

https://www.logicalincrements.com/

Still accessible but only for dedicated hobbyists with deeper pockets.

diffeomorphism··on How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server
The webpage does not say $3000 but starting at $3000. I am not so optimistic that the base model will actually be capable of this.
diffeomorphism··on Running DeepSeek R1 on Your Own (cheap) Hardware – The fast and easy way
That seems false?

https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1

This includes the full model and additionally several distills.

diffeomorphism··on How I Use Home Assistant in 2025
Can you do that yourself or would you need an electrician to sign off? What about your landlord?

I agree in principle that this is much nicer in theory. Just like wired is more reliable than wireless. However, retrofitting all that is also much more difficult.

diffeomorphism··on Dell will no longer make XPS computers
> Which is better, the Dell Pro or the Dell Pro Max?

Neither. The precision lines are workstations addressed at a very different audience. So for the average customer the "better" ranking is non-pro, then pro and only in exceptional cases pro max. The actual differentiator is the blank, plus, premium afterwards.

Bonus questions: which models have ECC ram and quadro cards available? Which ones have the best displays? My guess would be pro max premium and non-pro premium, but that is far from obvious.

diffeomorphism··on Dell will no longer make XPS computers
Their consumer fashion line.
diffeomorphism··on Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
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diffeomorphism··on Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
And you would be wrong. You somehow jumped from "in practical terms" to "literally equivalent".
diffeomorphism··on I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop
The title says "my laptop". A Mac mini is not a laptop.
diffeomorphism··on I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop
Not just "an" apple laptop but one with 64GB of ram. From a quick look at Apple's website the cheapest option among the current models is 4600€ for the 14 inch macbook pro.

So, neat, I guess, but not convinced I would pay four macbook airs for that.

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