ViatorOmnium

If you work in tech in Europe, lots of people are already on mastodon.

I wish more CEOs would pick up more buzzwords like “Blameless Post Mortems” and SRE, and less buzzwords like “AI” or “web 3.0”.

You are thinking about dignity and imagining a British aristocrat drinking tea from a fine porcelain cup with the pinky held up while plotting world domination. That’s the vernacular meaning of dignity.

In the context of human rights, dignity is the natural right of every single person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically.

You don’t infringe it by saying that your government is being managed by incompetent or immoral people. You infringe it when you say women belong in the kitchen and not in the office, or that black people are naturally inferior to white people, or that gay people don’t have right to love who they love, etc.

The same way your right to wave your hands ends before they reach other people’s faces, free speech can’t include speech infringing on other people’s dignity (in the legal/philosophical sense).

Regulating speech within this frame is as bad as stopping a bar fight by dragging the instigator away.

I’m on page 12 and I already saw a false equivalence between human learning and AI training.

Because neural networks aren’t known to suffer from model collapse when using their output as training data. /s

Most billionaires are mediocre sociopaths but Elon Musk takes it to the “Emperors New Clothes” levels of intellectual destitution.

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You don’t even need to go at a low level. Lots of programmers forget that their applications are not running in a piece of paper in general.

My team at work once had an app running Kubernetes and it had a memory leak, so its pod would get terminated every few hours. Since there were multiple pods, this had effectively no effect on the clients.

The app in question was otherwise “done”, there were no new features needed, and we hadn’t seen another bug in years.

When we transferred the ownership of the app to another team, they insisted on finding and fixing the memory leak. They spent almost one month to find the leak and refactor the app. The practical effect was none - in fact due to the normal pod scheduling they didn’t even buy that much lifetime to each individual pod.

The same legal terms might mean vastly different things in Germany and the US. This is often the case in arbitration and warranty clauses.

EFF’s lawyers don’t have the legal expertise to help a company based in Germany.

I’m betting on Google destroying Google instead.

The main limitation is the VRAM, but I doubt any model is going to be particularly fast.

I think phi3:mini on ollama might be an okish fit for python, since it’s a small model, but was trained on python codebases.

Paraphrasing Churchill, if AI companies were plagiarizing hell’s works I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil.

In this case that’s exactly what we need, someone with more money than god that can set precedents to protect the authors and artists that need it the most.

For English yes, but there’s no equivalent in other languages.

People are mentioning drip, and that’s on the Play Store. It’s literally the same amount of effort as installing a surveillance app.