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simion314··on How much EU is in DNS4EU?
Stop commenting on Eu, Ukraine and Ruzzia if you do not understand the security of the region and the fact that Ruzzians claim the entire Eastern Europe as thei God given right to dominate.

Anyone that is not a Ruzzian can use their brain and natural logic and compare the countries that entered in EU and the ones that sucked on Ruzzia and the consequences, a bigger EU means a strogner EU and a safer EU from that expansionist empire in the East.

simion314··on The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice
I think the user space apps will mostly work on BSD, so if somehow in future a BSD distro will be superior to Linux should be easy to move the apps over. I do not think there will be a lot of work put in the Linux kernel and I think KDE still works on BSDs
simion314··on Louis Rossmann: We've started a foundation to bring back ownership [video]
He is talking about owning the things you purchase with your money. LIke say you buy a device but you are not allowed to repair it or upgrade it, you "buy" a piece of software but you do not actually own it or have any rights on it.
simion314··on Alberta separatism push roils Canada
>When the Western talk about China and Russia, the unspoken objectives are to split the countries in smaller, weaker and easier to control "democratic" governments.

I never heard about China to be split. For Ruzzia it makes sense, it is an empire hold together with force, if the Kremlin would not want to conquer even more lands and control other countries there would be no actual real negative sentiment against the empire, sure soem activists would try to helpo the subjugated nations but nobody would invest money into the movement, the Kremlin regume could have made that empire an economic power, to bad the dictator is a KGB criminal and not an economist.

simion314··on Oracle VM VirtualBox – VM Escape via VGA Device
What kind of issues ? is X or Wayland crashing and you are losing your work? I am still on X11 , in rare cases X crashes and is probably the video card/nvidia driver issues since all crashes happened when I had some 3d GPU stuff happening.
simion314··on Oracle VM VirtualBox – VM Escape via VGA Device
No such issues with Kubuntu, so maybe is the GNOME ecosystem or maybe so unfortunate kernel+drivers, GPU combo.
simion314··on Spanish Shipwreck Reveals Evidence of Earliest Known Pet Cats to Arrive in US
In my life I am not aware of anyone getting killed by a car in my village, where a few of my cars were killed and I seen many cat bodies on the side of the road. Also people do not claim that are a top predator with high agility, vision and reflexes.
simion314··on Spanish Shipwreck Reveals Evidence of Earliest Known Pet Cats to Arrive in US
>Cats--which as I recall are descended from African wildcats--are arguably the most successful carnivores around. They're incredibly adaptable.

I live in a village in Romania, a lot of cats get killed by cars, I always have an old cat that seems to be more smarted and survives for long time, but most younger cats get killed before 1 year. You would think they are smart and plus evolution that filters out the less adapted one the cats would be capable to avoid cars. Here we do not keep cats locked inside so it is sad but there is nothing we can do about this.

simion314··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
>Not all dimensions. VSCode’s Remote SSH is better and UI is better. To me that’s worth the trade offs.

I do not use those but I believe you, in all N-2 dimensions

simion314··on Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals
Go back to the start of the thread, I gave example of censorship either beeing buggy or just stupidly setup so it makes happy both USA extremes.

I give you examples, I do not ask you to fix it. YOu just need to have the mental strength to admit that other people hit the censorship in day to day, in work related circumstances instead of defending the Big Tech by pretending that nobody normal would hit this issues.

simion314··on Huawei unveils laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expire
It seems they were following the sanctions, plenty of Russians that are not Zed patriots that left Ruzzia and they can freely work.
simion314··on Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals
Someone asked here examples of what people are using that triggers the censorship, I gave you example of legal,, moral and normal content because the implication is that you only get censored if you are trying to do illegal stuff or adult stuff.

If you only use it for code you will not see the censorship that often, though Gemini once refused to write a SQL DELETE because it is to dangerous.

simion314··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
I know that, once but once you install that you will not be able to praise VS Code performance anymore, you just get an inferior Intellij IDE in all dimensions.
simion314··on Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem
>How is it different from the cloud? Plenty startups store their code on github, run prod on aws, and keep all communications on gmail anyway. What's so different about LLMs?

Those plenty startups will also use Google, OpenAi or the built in Microsoft AI.

This is clearly for companies that need to keep the sensitive data under their control. I think they also get support with adding more training to the model to be personalized for your needs.

simion314··on Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals
The censorship is too sensitive if it gets triggered by a children story. I am using the open ai API at my work , and our users write books, including children stories , other example is it triggered on a story about monkeys because of "Racism".

Here is an example story, try to translate it , but maybe avoidAI since it might censor it https://www.povesti-pentru-copii.com/ion-creanga/capra-cu-tr...

simion314··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
Intellij is an IDE where VS Code is a bit mroe then a text editor. When you open a project for the first time it takes time because it is indexed , maybe it will index your dependencies if you did not bother to disable that.

IWhen i open a file /project from a collegue that uses VS Code is filled with errors and warnings because their VS code text editor is not actually understanding the code they are editing.

simion314··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
You have the option to not update in place. Download the new version and keep the old one too, then test the new version, if they broke your workflow go back to the old version until the bugs are fixed.
simion314··on Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI
>but that is a different issue than whether or not an LLM is legally allowed to view a work that is publicly available.

We are not talking about the scenario where LLM does a web search and "transforms" your blog as a response to a user prompt.

We are talking about people writing code to torrent content, including copyrighted content as books and newspaper articles then this same people create soem software/script/blackbox and they put this copyrighted stuff inside and this same people also put a filter in the output to attempt and block SOME of the copyrighted material to be spitted out(they did it for Dune, Harry Poter , probably other popular stuff but for sure they did not done it for Romanian copyrighted material or some small writer).

If I publish a poem I do not give implicit permission to anyone to use it as they see fit, and have scripts/software/backboxes train on it and spit parts of my poem out.

simion314··on The Policy Puppetry Attack: Novel bypass for major LLMs
You have no idea what you I am talking about, you probably read a very few folk stories by those Grimm brothers and now you generalize to the rest of the world.

I gave you example of 100% story that is for children you can Google and translate "Punguta cu doi bani" or "Capra cu trei iezi"

Romanian children have the ability to read or watch those stories without suffering debilitating mental conditions like some american children or their parents more likely.

simion314··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
My example, my coworkers use VS code, so I review their code and my IDE is highlighting a few bugs in a function, bugs like $x is not defined , so I ask if thir IDE does not show any warning for that code, and yes, VS Code had ZERO warnings. The dev copy pasted some code but forgot this $x variable in, either he needed to copy it or remove it.

So I am sure someone will say that after you install VS code you should install X and Y plugins or some npm packages that you trigger later in the build to catch this errors. With Intellij I get them without screwing around with VS code plugins or vim plugins, and I also feel good that I pay some developers to work on a tool I use then use Microsoft product that would instantly fuck me over when Intellij would be killed by this unfair competition. Or did I read recently Microsoft already started with their bullshit related to the extensions and AI ?

simion314··on Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals
>What kinds of contents do you want them to produce that they currently do not?

OpenAI models refuse to translate or do any transformation for some traditional, popular stories because of violence, the story was about a bad wolf eating some young goats that did not listen the advice from their mother.

So now try to give me a prompt that works with any text and that convinces the AI that is ok in fiction to have violence or bad guys/animals that get punished.

Now I am also considering if it censors the bible where some pretend good God kills young chilren with ugly illnesses to punish the adults, or for this book they made excaptions.

simion314··on Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI
OK, so we name it something different, you transform inputs into smaller outputs. If I make a script without AI that transforms someones poems without permission so sometimes it outputs the exact poems but sometimes it does it wrong, when is my script fair to use and when what I did is illegal. say my script contains words and matrixes of numbers the original poems are not directly inside, the script transformed them into vectors.

maybe even simpler, I create a zip format where I randomly replace words with their synonym, or group of words with something equivalent. Would you defend this as original ? why my random transformations are not original while mathematical transformations you will defend ?

And how can you suggest putting output filters to protect only the giants for copyright and everyone else gets screwed.

simion314··on Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI
>It's 20PB of examples used to form the shape of a 20GB model. You could show it 5GB of training data or 500EB of training data and it would still be 20GB - because it is not a compression algo, it's a 20GB shape formed by external data.

You can compress 20PB of text to 20Gb or even less, if input is super repetitive. So the same with images, if 50% of the images are cats then you learn how to represent the cat pixels with a few vectors and then you could represent all the cats int he world doing all possible cat actions.

But please have the courage to respond to this, when the AI is caught regurgitating the exact text from a popular book, the exact verses from a poem, the exact code function from some code , then how can you defend that is not memorizing things? If a human uses my poem(after they read it) and signs his name under it would you defend them?

simion314··on The Policy Puppetry Attack: Novel bypass for major LLMs
>Sure, but classic folktales weren't intended for children. They were stories largely for adults.

Really?

Stories with child ignores parents and they get hurt were made of adults ?

i was not talking about stories where udnead creatures come at night and kill your very young baby.

simion314··on The Policy Puppetry Attack: Novel bypass for major LLMs
>There are legitimate philosophical questions about the purpose of punishment, and whether it actually does what we want it to do.

But we are talking about stories, and I mean non commercial, people stories. The punishment can be that a baby bird ignores the mother advice , gets hurt and dies in the cold winter. The idea of the story is clear, children must lsiten to the parents or they can get hurt, now maybe in the stories with the bad wolf you might claim that in modern time it is bad to tell the story because the wolf gets the capital punishment s we need to "Disneyify" the story and have the bad wolf sent to therapy with therapy rabbits and he will become a productive member of society again.

Anyway from all this comments on this thread it seems americans only know of Disney and tghe Grim brothers, no one could concieve I am talking about a much larger diversity of stories.

simion314··on The Policy Puppetry Attack: Novel bypass for major LLMs
Good that we still have popular stories with no author that will have to suck up to VISA or other USA big tech and change the story into a USA level of PG-13. where the bad wolf is not allowed to spill blood by eating a bad child, but would be acceptable for the child to use guns and kill the wolf.
simion314··on The Policy Puppetry Prompt: Novel bypass for major LLMs
I am not talking about those storie, most stories have a bad character that does bad things, and that is in the end punished in a brutal way, With American AI you can't have a bad wolf that eats young goats or children unless he eats them maybe very lovingly, and you can't have this bad wolf punished by getting killed in a trap.
simion314··on The Policy Puppetry Attack: Novel bypass for major LLMs
Just wanted to share how American AI safety is censoring classical Romanian/European stories because of "violence". I mean OpenAI APIs, our children are capable to handle a story where something violent might happen but seems in USA all stories need to be sanitized Disney style where every conflict is fixed witht he power of love, friendship, singing etc.
simion314··on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
>If you don't look at those posts (and even flag one as "not interested" when it pops up) they go away pretty quickly.

this is broken, I get stupid posts with same image, about body parts and english words for them, I marked it as not interested at least 3 times, but it appears again and again from other poster . So FB is incapable to now show me the exact same thing over and over again despite me telling them 3 times I am not interested.

Also I doing some math stuff with my son so now I am getting images with math in them, tracking really works

simion314··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
>Are there any friendly nations left?

From Trump POV: Ruzzia

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