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michaelmrose··on Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
Which seems massively worse than a real local device in fact 2x is probably untenable to the point of uselessness because actually privacy sensitive matters need actual privacy that can't be defeated by your government telling Google to serve you compromised js and spy on you anyway and most people don't give 2 shits about privacy so they won't pay 10% more let alone 2x.

I'm glad people fund things that are only of interest to nerds but this will never be useful.

michaelmrose··on Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes
You lose rollbacks, superior syncing, redundancy and data integrity assurance and add complexity for what deceased ssd wear which is hardly an actual problem.
michaelmrose··on Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
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michaelmrose··on Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
It's not stealing but arguing that it's not infringement because its on the internet is pretty obviously nonsense.
michaelmrose··on Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
If you already know the answer and everyone already knows the answer you asking this question is wasting everyone's time.
michaelmrose··on US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
You ought to be able to back this up with sources other than trust me bro
michaelmrose··on Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
Both can be negligent at once.
michaelmrose··on Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
The only people in a position to show this are the idiots responsible for the current broken system. Deep analysis will have to come after regime change
michaelmrose··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
sycophancy

It wasn't "better" it was better at kissing your ass which matches what a lot of people want in a partner.

michaelmrose··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Define insanely complex and deep in a way that isn't illiterate hand waving.

Most humans are dumber than a box of rocks. Here in Seattle we had one of many light rail-related fuckups where they had to replace part of the line with buses. People piled into the front of one when it was full. When people got out they never moved back. As the driver struggled to close the door and people struggled to get in the wad of people never moved back to fill the ample space.

Chatgpt was smarter than the average person a while ago

michaelmrose··on AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included
Can you explain why you need one machine never falling over ever instead of a cluster of machines never falling over at once collectively?
michaelmrose··on Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
I have seen several because family members have owned them. They are nondescript black rectangles that are owned by cheap people and kids. There is no reason for you to notice them in particular and it's useful to remember our perception isn't a representative sample of anything.
michaelmrose··on AI companies destroy rare and non recoverable physical books
It's not. It's an excellent example that economic value!= value.

Your facile dodge isn't an argument and suggests you lack one.

michaelmrose··on AI companies destroy rare and non recoverable physical books
If we value things according to their monetary value we must conclude that Elon musk is more valuable than every teacher in Americas labor for the next decade. Economic value is oft divorced entirely from any notion of real value.

What you are describing derisively as "feels" is actually nuance the very essence of intelligence is not reducing complexity to tapioca.

Destroying the last copy of a rare book reduces the sum total of human knowledge even if its not one already of note.

Historically current thinking isn't the best and most accurate judgement of value. We cherish many works that were not notable upon publication or even in the author's lifetime.

Previously the works were distributed and hard to lose all at once now they are possibly inaccurately scanned and even that slightly lossy data may disappear all at once in a wave bankruptcy especially if the economy crashes again as seems to happen every 10 to 20 years.

I suggest you ruminate instead of patting yourself on the back

michaelmrose··on Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption
For open source software it would be a massive increase in development time, difficulty, and continued costs that dwarf income to switch to the web. It would be shocking if it happened not the reverse. This is just for application software how do you replace installing a library or development tool with the web?

It's weird that installing software is weird to you.

michaelmrose··on RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)
Regulation is on average stunning effective. You simply complely fail to notice all the times it works, notice whenever it doesn't, and profess that it doesn't. There is no meaningful alternatives.
michaelmrose··on We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447
This is dumb. You need two teams ideally the same app or business in different markets for a business quarter.

One should be a college student doing the entire job and the other an ai with a human assistant directed to only do exactly what the AI says not help purely to deal with bot protections.

michaelmrose··on Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
People are financing small consumer goods with 3 digit price tags because they can't afford their mediocre already leveraged life. They borrow high 4 to low 5 figures for a car because they can't get to work to earn money so they don't have to join the bums sleeping on the cardboard. They will not be borrowing high 5 figures to low 6 figures for Rosie the Robot.

If Rosie was the only output she would never happen. Rosie might happen as a side benefit of replacing American workers but only for the rich people.

The vast majority which may be replaced would probably be better off burning down the factory rather than celebrate their upcoming domestic helper.

michaelmrose··on Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
I am extremely biased. I have an entire world view and like everyone else I tend to believe things that concur with what I already believe and reject things that are inconsistent correctly or incorrectly. For instance rejection of "mainstream media" is often correlated not with thoughtful analysis but rather with blatant anti-intellectualism common among right wingers.

Asking "are you a dumb conservative bigot" is offensive and shuts down dialogue even when the person wasn't. Better to ask for the fellow to expand on their comment

michaelmrose··on Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
Let's pick one. Why is the BBC trash?
michaelmrose··on Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
> The very power of Lisp, macros, dynamic programming, reflection lead to a mess of an ecosystem where every single developer reinvents the wheel and nobody can understand yet another DSL invented by the next developer next to them.

Have you like looked at anything in the Clojure ecosystem because this description makes no sense of any kind. Clojure has macros but less powerful than common lisp and Clojure code in the ecosystem tends to be small and understandable.

michaelmrose··on Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
Infinite scroll is a shit pattern it creates complexity and makes it hard to get back to a position on the generated and changeable list. It can also be unexpected slow. Everyone knows a page load can be slow if their Internet is slow but a slow down when scrolling feels janky.If you think you need it you need pagination and more importantly better filters and search so users can find stuff easier without 200 options.
michaelmrose··on A24 Is Copyright Striking Backrooms Artwork Older Than the Movie
Every fake automated action should generate a real fine paid to the party they screwed over even when or if it's reversed.
michaelmrose··on Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
Even windows has this software out of the box because it is so obviously useful
michaelmrose··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
The original proposal was to use a visual hash designed to identify known bad CSAM images even if cropped or otherwise edited. Your computer would scan all your stuff for these images and report you to apple who would report you to the cops. This presented a number of issues.

Accidental false positives could lead to horrific outcomes up to and including oh look bob got shot by the cops for resisting.

It was possible to produce apparently matching innocuous images and then poison people's machines with them.Oops did you click on that picture of a tree have fun with the cops. Like an advanced form of swatting.

Although inspired by a desire to find CSAM Apple could be forced to scan for ANYTHING by repressive regimes including America and China.

Although initially targeting images client side scanning of messages is a pretty obvious next step. Again obvious good motivation exists and is completely justifiable who doesn't want to stop the next mass shooting or terrorist attack... and then we can basically use it to find people critical of the regime. Do remember we are presently prosecuting a political figure for a picture of sea shells and a guy in texas is rotting in prison for distributing political literature.

michaelmrose··on Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
I want a back button and a button to the left with a double arrow back like Rewind and for the browser to maintain both a buffer of prior pages and one at least as long of prior root sites with right-click showing this list
michaelmrose··on AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy
The actual study is more circumspect than this click bait and examines pretty deliberately how people respond to inaccurate data. It's neither a trick nor a design flaw. It's literally the thrust of the study.
michaelmrose··on AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy
It still proves something much narrower. Wherein AI is insufficient to answer, people are apt to rely on it anyway.

A good real-world issue is health, where the issues are very complicated with many things poorly defined even at the state of the art where practitioners are relying on personal judgement and lots of data but patients are apt to feed ai very little data compared to what their doctor has.

Real frontier models can remain confidently incorrect in these cases.

michaelmrose··on We want Texans to know their rights
The only reasons to entertain that perspective is their personal delusions which they ought not impose on others also when an act takes place in one jurisdiction wherein all actors are within that jurisdiction it is obviously nonsense to apply a different justifications laws to the act based on their residence.
michaelmrose··on Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
Generally filling up the buffer is fine. It's perfectly normal that after viewing a certain number of documents one has to manually decide where to go.

You know what you need. A button that goes back but instead of going to the prior document goes to the first document with a different domain than the current one.

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