julkali

What kind of arm-chair, ultra-utilitarist thought experiment ist this

Please stop pushing your slop to profit off the situation.

It's apparently a fork (Github Readme)

Please support your claim about (networking) performance of BSD-based systems and Linux with some source(s). It surprised me. Thank you.

nimby

no

i felt that.

because you start internalizing costs

Source?

I also tried setting my phone to grayscale, but it takes me significantly longer to do useful things, as some UIs are harder to distinguish without color. Have you found a workaround for this?

Yes, but only 15-20 years later in the extent expected for 2000. The technology wasn't there yet, just like with LLMs.

The issue is that the examples you listed mostly rely on very specific machine learning tools (which are very much relevant and good use of this tech), while the term "AI" in layman terms is usually synonymous for LLMs.

Mentioning the mid-1990s' internet boom is somewhat ironic imo, given what happened next. The question is whether "business models mature" with or without a market crash, given that the vast majority of ML money is provided for LLM efforts.

Do not conflate your own experience with everyone else's.

This kind of legislation has been proposed so many times at EU and national level, and will fail like always, at the lates at the European Court of Justice for violating human rights.

That is the silicon valley cryptoscam version.

This concept has been studied already extensively, e.g [1] (in 2000!) by people like Rivest and Chaum, who have actual decade-old competence in that field.

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/pubs/LRSW99.pdf

How would "tech companies and data centres" alleviate the situation? Tech companies typically employ highly specialized staff that are often not even local to the community. The result of inviting tech companies to your country can be seen in Ireland (/Dublin).

Data centres are even worse - they need only a handful of staff members while draining incredible amounts of energy and water.

You live in Spain - why not advocate for boosting the energy sector, better grid infrastructure, more renewables, etc.? This would harness a tangible, sustainable strength of your country within the EU and, considering the blackout last month, is definitely something to work on before any tech company or datacentre can settle in Spain ...

I think there is a fundamental misconception of the benefit / performance-improvement of LLM-aided programming:

Without sacrificing code quality, it only makes coding more productive _if you already know_ what you're doing.

This means that while it has a big potential for experienced programmers (making them push out more good code), you cannot replace them by an army of code monkeys with LLMs and expect good software.

That's why central bank digital currencies are the way to go - same amount of trust as the (real) base currency and near-cash-level privacy (modulo implementation details)

I always wonder how much (relevant) sigcom satellites can nowadays collect given the ever-growing increase in encrypted traffic, especially from the most interesting targets like foreign militaries.

As a non-American, my personal concern for Democracy in regards to the USA is the questionable system of the electoral college which, in my opinion, is one of the worst forms of representative democracy on the planet and certainly not apt for a country so proud of its democratic values.

This also goes hand-in-hand with the black-white thinking of a two-party-system.

Shows that things are not as black and white :)

Yes, I do believe that in the general debate, too little focus is given on the fact that also adults are affected negatively by social media

Yes, money is also a factor. You can see some data in https://substack.com/home/post/p-140838494 by the same guys.

They conduct(ed) a quite extensive collaborative meta-study about the broader subject [0]. Maybe you can find your points adressed there.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w-HOfseF2wF9YIpXwUUtP65-...

How would you then argue against the points listed in the article?

While that may be legally the case right now, the EU explicitly intends to limit this practice. E.g. in the proposal on the legal tender of cash published last year by the Commission [0], which will also apply to the digital euro, it mandates:

"To ensure the effectiveness of the legal tender of cash, this Regulation applies also to ex ante unilateral exclusion of payments in cash and to the access to cash", where ex ante unilateral exclusion of payments is defined as "a situation when a retailer or service provider unilaterally excludes cash as a payment method for example by introducing a ‘no cash’ sign. In this case, the payer and payee do not freely agree to a means of payment for a purchase;"

In Article 7, the regulation requires that member states monitor this practice and, if it undermines the intention of the legal tender (i.e. merchants must sell you goods for cash), they shall apply "remedial measures".

Also: IANAL, but at least in Germany, implied-in-fact contracts render the contract of purchase "signed" the moment you receive the good over the counter from the merchant. If you haven't payed by then, you are in debt to the merchant and from what I would say, the legal tender rules apply.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A20...

I wonder how central bank digital currencies will play into this. E.g. for the digital Euro, the ECB intends it to be included under legal tender [0] laws making acceptance of digital cash mandatory wherever you can pay in cash (i.e. every physical POS).

I expect most digital wallets to be made obsolete by such a measure, because most of the use of a digital wallet as described by the post is easy, nearly free digital transactions by end-users. Everything else can be done using your regular bank account. An ECB-backed alternative to Paypal, Venmo, Cash App et al. would certainly be more trustworthy to citizens and the compulsory acceptance by merchants will artifically solve the chicken-egg problem that most such private companies have.

Ditto for debit cards, which would pose a threat to Visa and Mastercard.

I'm curious what kind of ecosystem will exist around CBDCs.

[0]: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/digital-finance/digital-euro/fr...

I tried the same thing, and while I managed to patch the application and intercept the requests, I gave up when trying to RE the shared object responsible for request signing. I couldn't even find the entry point. For a relatively small social media app they had insane security already back in 2015.

The key here is "proportionate". Notarization surely adds to the security of the platform, but it may be misused by Apple easily ...