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Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems (heise.de)
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Germany is becoming more and more like North Korea.
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Except protection = control.
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One way to bring in the year of the Linux desktop
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is this Lawful Interception?
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Totally unrelated movie tip: The lives of others (Das Leben der Anderen) has 8.4 on IMDB.
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> Manufacturers of operating systems, tech associations, and the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) sharply criticize the draft law. They consider the filtering requirement, in particular, to be technically and practically unfeasible, as well as legally questionable.
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State parliaments pass controversial Youth Media Protection Act amendment. Parents can now "secure" devices for children with one click.
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Finally, the hard power switch makes a come back??!
FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter (martin.janiczek.cz)
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Commendable effort, but I expected at least a demo, which would showcase working code (even if it’s hacky). It’s like someone talking about a sheet music without playing it once.
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Yes! I'm currently using copilot + antigravity to implement a language with ergonomic syntax and semantics that lowers cleanly to machine code targeting multiple platforms, with a focus on safety, determinism, auditability and fail-fast bugs. It's more work than I thought but the LLMs are very capable. I was dreaming of a JS to machine code, but then thought, why not just start from scratch and have what I want? It's a lot of fun.
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I've been trying to get LLMs to make Racket "hashlangs"† for years now, both for simple almost-lisps and for honest-to-god different languages, like C. It's definitely possible, raco has packages‡ for C, Python, J, Lua, etc. Anyway so far I haven't been able to get any nice result from any of the obvious models, hopefully they're finally smart enough. † https://williamjbowman.com/tmp/how-to-hashlang/ ‡ https://pkgd.racket-lang.org/pkgn/search?tags=language
HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops' CPUs (arstechnica.com)
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Would be more acceptable if it was possible to pay $0.24 to enable it.
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The article is a bit light on technical details. Can someone shed a light on how hardware decoding is disabled? Do they blow an efuse, disable it in the firmware or in the OS?
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The problem is double dipping. If Intel and AMD represent 100% of all x86 Laptop. In theory Intel and AMD would pay the HEVC fees once, which is capped IRRC at $100M from all patent pool together. And all x86 devices would have HEVC licenses. HP and Dell shouldn't have to pay for it. In practice it seems everyone in the value chain are forced to pay, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, HP, Dell and then even browser and software. Luckily H.264 High Profile is already patent free in many countries and soon to be patent free in US too. Let's hope AV2 really get its act together this time around. Then the world would just be H.264 as baseline and AV2 for high quality.
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> For example, no background blurring in conference programs, significantly degraded system performance So HP and Dell, two companies well knows for business laptops, sell some laptops with degraded video conferencing, all to save $0.24 per laptop? And Dell doesn't even mention this in the spec sheet or give you a straight list which models are affected? I can't help but think that the reputational damage from "my new Dell laptop sucks with Teams, the previous one with worse specs was fine" is going to be a lot more expensive long-term than those $0.24
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That will be someone elses area Boss 1 saved 0.02% of the cost of the laptop, but thanks to scale works out to be $2.4m. He walks away with his $240k bonus. Boss 2 sees increased complaints about Teams and blames Microsoft.
Maybe I'm reading between lines, but isn't it ridiculous to talk about license prices when the affected machines are $900 pro laptops? I mean, I understand that in a cheap single board computer, but this is nonsense.
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Someone buying one doesn't care if it's $898.54 or $898.84. However the price point is set to $899 regardless Then if someone can save just 10 cents each on 10 million units, that's $1m in "savings". Despite making it a $5 worse experience, they will do this, because the majority of buyers won't be swayed by this type of choice. "Value engineering", it's how good things get bad, and eventually new products enter the market which have consistent quality. It's one of the many problems of scale. No small company with a CEO who cares about his product is going to devalue it to save 0.1% of the cost. Once you get large though, nobody personally cares about the product, only the financials, because the financials if they do lag the product will do so after years.
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Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects (cnn.com)
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this is such an amazing discovery, with hundreds of thousands of insect species left to determine there time processing abilities, which of course could never be atributed to the basic ability to navigate, it is the work for so many indispensible scientific institutions to take on this essential groundbreaking work
We are learning so many wonderful things about Bees! They can count https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21222227 Bees play https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33369572 https://www.science.org/content/article/are-these-bumble-bees-playing-toys All of this reinforces my belief that nearly everything is conscious and aware, we differ in a capabilities and resolution but we are all more similar than we are different. Spider Cognition: How Tiny Brains Do Mighty Things https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46003146
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Growing up on a farm taught me that animals are absolutely able to think and learn. Not in the same way as humans, but I'm fully convinced there are degrees of consciousness. Watching new calves play in spring meadows is one of the most purely joyful things you can ever see. They have best friends and will avoid playing with other calves until their friend comes to play with them.
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I promise this isn’t a trap, it’s just my curiosity as a “flexitarian”. What (mostly) keeps me from eating animals is my mind wandering sometimes when making a protein choice about how they ended up there, wherever I am, not by choice. Are you vegan?
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I love bees and ants, but I love bees the most. I would recommend people to study the behavior of bees and ants. Additionally, honey, propolis, etc. are super healthy, and we can thank bees for that.
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Not that I want to curb your enthusiasm for bees, but… I recently read that honey bees in particular get the most attention from humans lately, so they are kept in high numbers. This has some adversarial effect on other pollinators, which hurts ecosystems more than it helps.
Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being Unimpressed by AI (80.lv)
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Because people have developed "AI blindness" by now much like they learnt to ignore ad banners 20 years ago and then learned to ignore ANY images on sites when they all got to be AI-generated 2-3 years ago. "AI" is now just a bullshit, meaningless term squeezed in everywhere merely to ask for money for nothing. This wave of idiocy is going to abate soon. Hopefully.
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Windows has basically gone from a. Click on a directory in my File Explorer and it opens immediately, it always shows the correct headers, sorting on any column is nearly instant (up until somewhere in XP probably) b. Where I am now in Windows 10 sorting can take forever and because I haven't re-installed in ages it refuses to remember folder views and will constantly change them to whatever it wants c. In the future saying - "Winny, open folder ABC and sort it by DEF please" - "Folder ABC deleted, except for def.txt" - "NO, I said open it, not delete it! Get it back!" - "Error, folder isn't recoverable"
I am still puzzled by how you can be a human being in this world and not be impressed by people . The more we study AI, the more we discover one fundamental truth above an the others: people are really, really, really, really impressive. A human being still absolutely melts an LLM like a Salvador Dali clock if the challenge is to innovate. In the race between human potential and LLM potential it isn't even close. Not a little close. Not remotely close. About as close as we are to each other compared to how close we each are to the sun. And yet somehow there's always some fucking moron who apparently never considered this for a fraction of a second and runs around screaming that a fucking program will replace a fucking person
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Yes people are amazing but they are also tedious, annoying, frustrating, unpredictable and undependable. Finding someone that will flow and synergize with you on a project is like winning the lottery. People love to talk the talk but when it’s time to walk the walk the reality and disappointment sets in. Work with enough people and this painful reality sets in very quickly. However I don’t want an agentic or “A.I.” operating system.
I am impressed by AI. I just don't want to use it. "Look at how realistic this extruded text looks from a distance!" is definitely an achievement. It just doesn't add to my life in any useful way.
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Real question for me is how often do I want to generate a image, video or have a conversation with computer. For me really quite rarely. And no replacing your customer support with chat bot does not make it better. Just make a damm website with everything I need. Lot less errors, lot simpler for me to do what I want.
> A computer software generally unreliable and unable to accomplish basic tasks Yeah specifically to your quote: it's very easy to create some images and video. It's very hard to create exactly what you need if you have specific needs. It's almost as if content creation is hard! Well that's because it is. You need to know the client, understand their needs, make the content in line with their other visual language etc. What AI makes easier if for things to look professional. But a real professional doesn't just make it look good but also makes it what you need. Where AI comes in is as a helper, and for those situations where "good enough" suffices. And there are many of those situations. Many of which would not have had the budget for a real pro to do it anyway.
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> Where AI comes in is as a helper This is where things stop translating well to the real world. Imagine a pocket calculator: 10 + 33 = 44 Clearly incorrect, then someone tells you “this one is different, it “helps” you, like 44 is in the ballpark. The real work is now the actual answer”
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WebAssembly from the Ground Up (wasmgroundup.com)
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Just went and bought it! I'm in a process where application-level programming isn't cutting it anymore (I still have a lot to learn, but it's in the diminishing returns). I've been looking to understand the entire stack at a deeper level (from how requests are made to how they're parsed), and this seems like the next natural step! Thanks a bunch!
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Awesome! You're exactly the kind of person we were thinking of when we wrote the book…experienced programmers who are interested in understanding things at a lower level. Let us know how it goes! You can find us in the book Discord, or email us at hello@wasmgroundup.com.
most of that is happening above the WebAssembly spec: https://wasi.dev/ More specifically for command line tools: - https://wasi.dev/interfaces#presentation - https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-cli
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Is wasi .3 still planned to finish soon like the roadmap said? so wasi 1.0 is the the next goal? wasi 1.0 feels like when it will take off after all these years of dev timeline at the bottom of this page: https://wasi.dev/roadmap
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