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raverbashing··on I resigned from Anthropic today
> that might also be driven by the huge ego (or really rather the very small ego)

100%

The hubris is immense

There are plenty of offline things that are more dangerous than AI

Is this Blake Lemoine 2.0?

raverbashing··on Asahi Linux on M3
Yes I understand, it does seem like it's one of the most rounded ones
raverbashing··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
It's hard to beat the "free DDoS" protection of CF. Could even be considered dumping in a way
raverbashing··on Mistral raises €3B
If the choice is between Mistral and no AI, I'll take Mistral any day

Even those old llama models were ok for coding

Yes yes they won't be like Claude's fire and forget (until you see how many tokens you burned to write "Hello World")

raverbashing··on It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta
He's not going to

He went out of the way to make his company structure prevent that (also Elon)

raverbashing··on Asahi Linux on M3
Good to know, but even in a well rounded Linux it seems you hit several mini-annoyances every day

Case in point, any form of package management. Or then you have Flatpack, with its own list of issues

raverbashing··on Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI
Well it's certainly informed, as he has information on behind-the-screnes data we don't have about OpenAI

But certainly it is not unbiased

raverbashing··on Asahi Linux on M3
Honestly I wouldn't waste any of my time trying to run a worse OS than MacOS in a hardware that wasn't completely supported by the sw

As much as I like Linux this kind of tinkering is only for people with more time and less expectations about the experience

If I need Linux I can always go for UTM or something similar

raverbashing··on You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules
Guarantee of safe water is a right (as given by EPA regulations, etc)

But it is not a constitutional right

Because putting it where it doesn't belong, without any quantification, is meaningless

raverbashing··on You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules
100% this

These headlines is just press fodder for the grievances-industrial-complex to cry about how the gov is incompetent

Of course drinking water is important - I'm not questioning that

But there's a difference between a meaningless statement of "everybody should have the right to cleaning water" which is a vapid statement and actually building towards it (with regulation on the quality of water, EPA, working on water treatment, etc)

"Right to cleaning water" is like saying "you should move more" to a fat person

raverbashing··on AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
100%

It is my pet peeve with Claude and why I don't prefer it for most stuff

(also the comment spam - but that's a all of them in a way or another)

raverbashing··on RSA-260 Factorized
Honestly BigInts are not a big deal, they're pretty mature at this day and age (and I mean, 20 yrs ago)
raverbashing··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
Yes. FLT follows from the fact that you can't build the equivalent representation of n-simplex turning into a hypercube in dimensions higher than 2

/s

raverbashing··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
100% It is a very insightful book
raverbashing··on Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
Why wouldn't I agree

You might be confusing me with your friends that failed HS biology

raverbashing··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
It would be fun if the GDPR naysayers end up coming up to the same conclusion
raverbashing··on EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709
> These so-called "addictive features," are in reality the basic tools that online services use to identify what other user-generated content a particular user might want to see.

Are they for real?

Maybe underage kids can use, I dunno, a search box. Looks hard I know, but maybe it will help grow one or two neurons in their head

raverbashing··on Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs
Yes they haven't shipped keyboards that break after a while for being too thin

Ive has been working at other stuff, like building a Ferrari that looks more like a giant RC car

raverbashing··on Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)
Agree

If anything he was one of the few hard a-holes that managed to channel that to productive purposes

Being a jerk is easy. Being a jerk that still keeps people motivated it really hard.

Kubrick was known for that as well.

raverbashing··on Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
Yup

Motte-and-bailey fallacy abound

Nature (not the magazine) doesn't care if you published a peer-reviewed paper in a high-impact journal.

It doesn't care if reviewer 2 thinks you need to quote his friend

It also doesn't care that you think a dewormer works against a virus because it doesn't

> What exactly is the scientific method?

Trying and seeing what sticks. That's literally it.

Of course publishing (and publicity) forces like to jiggle that one way or another

raverbashing··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
Wow two wires? Sometimes people could make do with only one!
raverbashing··on Bug Blindness
> Designers shouldn't force their own preferences on third parties.

Fallback to the default is a design choice, even if it doesn't look like it

raverbashing··on Bug Blindness
Does having a website with no set-width and unusable without reader mode counts as bug blindness?
raverbashing··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
It's ok, the most dangerous thing a Debian AI would do is want to rewrite itself in M4 and enter an infinite recursion on non-binding votes on allowing votes of whether to use long flags on aptitude
raverbashing··on Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity
Other countries outside of the US have different rules regarding multi-logement buildings and how they are organized

Not everything is a HOA

raverbashing··on The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement
Cool, did you let China know about it?

Other "fun fact" it seems the Netherlands uses gas cooktops much more than other European countries.

raverbashing··on The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement
Until the "absurdly rich" (read: this starts barely above middle class) start going away
raverbashing··on Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
"Fun" fact, they were also used by psychology/etc students when they need to do 'research' with X amount of people
raverbashing··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
You're right

I'd say Mastodon at this point is mostly people talking in a vacuum (even more than BlueSky)

No mainstream discussion or debate comes from Mastodon, you don't see screenshots around (and you do see skeets around)

As much as SpaceXAi lost audience, there's a lot of discussion still going around there

raverbashing··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
Not in the amount I see there

And yes while I got more favourable to Systemd I cannot say bash is all you need, no

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