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jarfil

@ jarfil @beehaw.org

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Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.

  • Macron to Seek Use of EU Anti-Coercion Instrument Against US

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  • The Bots That Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men

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  • Women using sycophantic chatbots that they 100% control, is stil about power and control. One is about bodies, the other is about minds, that's the only difference.

  • Most chatbot servers don't have video outputs

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  • Depending on how much is "too much power", people might still want to purchase them at a discount for self-hosting purposes. The future is most likely to go through a decentralization of AI services, with spme higher efficiency large providers, combined with lower efficiency edge nodes for less demanding usage... at least, until the next order of magnitude technological shift.

  • Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.

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  • NSFW

    No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them.

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  • Check the history of ReCaptcha: it started by helping digitize booksxfir the Gutenberg Project, then once it got acquired by Google, it switched to house numbers, street signs (auto driving?), and is now helping with object identification.

  • Why are most machine learning models (not frameworks) written in Python? Even through almost any programming language can be used for machine learning?

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  • Strictly speaking, math gets proven from scratch by every math student. Software is slightly different, since most of it never gets a formal proof at all.

  • Surgeons remove up to 100 magnets from New Zealand teenager’s intestines

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  • Me. Tiny strong magnets, are good for reasonably strong attraction at short distances. Uses so far:

    • Magnetic latches for small parts drawers (2 per drawer, 50 drawers)
    • Press-fitting a bunch, into molten plastic holes on the back of a digital thermometer (heat makes them lose strength, so the stronger they start, the better)
    • Signal for a hall effect sensor (1 sensor, n magnets)

    They should always be securely glued in place, though.

    I've seen people use thinner ones, inside the lid of a gift box, as a latch. Also as a magnet for a LED throwie.

    The problem, is stupidity like this:

    Science for Kids: DIY Magnetic LED Lights

    Don't let dumb kids anywhere near them! 🤦

  • Surgeons remove up to 100 magnets from New Zealand teenager’s intestines

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  • I can answer the "let alone 100" part: they get sold as cubes of 216, 512, 1000 tiny magnet balls, or as packs of 80, 100, 200, etc. tiny magnets.

    Why would anyone swallow them... the sale is restricted to 13+ or 18+ in most places, but some (including parents) are unaware of the dangers, and they go for like $2 for 100pcs.

  • Surgeons remove up to 100 magnets from New Zealand teenager’s intestines

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  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • No... Google's 😆

    This is what I get:

  • Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”

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  • Using a complex GPT-4o prompt, they sought to pull out tweets that focused on "superficial topics"

    Wait a moment... They asked an LLM, to tell them what was "junk", and another LLM, trained on what an LLM marked as junk, turned out to be a junk LLM?

    It talks about model collapse, but this smells like research collapse.

  • Is AI’s Circular Financing Inflating a Bubble? [YT | 25'13"]

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  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • scientific fields such as space exploration

    I'm having a weird experience with Google's "Discovery" feed. Apparently, I've blocked enough keywords and sources (~100), that all it shows now, is science, tech, and space. Makes me... want to check it from time to time? 😅

  • Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?

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  • The problem comes from people responding to them, in communities that are text-first. You can flag a person as a troll... but unless you ban them, then eventually the discussions spill over.

    Overwatch doesn't have that same issue, because text is not at its core; you can mute people, and keep playing the game. Game-disrupting players though, still get banned.

  • Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?

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  • That would work, if it wasn't individuals who don't see others as people. The moment someone dehumanizes others, there are dedicated professional who can babysit them back to sanity.

  • Google’s Requirement For All Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down Open Source App Store F-Droid

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  • My bad, Kiwix is on IzzyOnDroid. You're right, F-Droid itself might have a tougher time.

  • Google’s Requirement For All Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down Open Source App Store F-Droid

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  • F-Droid does automated patching already, they often remove "anti-features". The migration is a PITA, but not the end of the world, Kiwix did that recently (split into Play Store and F-Droid versions).

  • People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

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  • No matter how much epoxy you put on a broken condom, it's not going to work. The moment ads get sent via the same encrypted "tunnel"/connection as the service, you can no longer separate them at the network level.

  • Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

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  • I downloaded Sora.

    Not Sora, Sora's app. Sora is a cloud service.

    And if the business model of open AI is advertising

    It's not, it's to sell AI services to other businesses.

    Cuz the business model was supposed to be 40% of people lose their jobs

    Was not, it was always to sell AI services to other businesses. Marketing hyperbole... that's marketing for you.

    in that world, maybe maybe it's worth half a trillion dollars. In that world, maybe Nvidia is worth the entire pharmaceutical industry combined.

    The largest breakthrough in AI so far, is precisely its use in the pharmaceutical industry.

    But Nvidia is definitely not worth the entire pharmaceutical industry combined

    No, it's worth more.

    if the business model is making slop talk worse by putting slop advertisements into it.

    It's not. Not to say there won't be advertisements, and propaganda, and manipulation... that's just an extra, not the business model.

    I'm scrolling Martin Luther King Jr. going 67. Like, that's got to be illegal somehow. Like, I'm pretty sure that you can't just do that.

    It was not, is not, and public domain is public domain for a reason.Asking for something else, is censorship, like what Trump is asking for right now.

    The friction matters. How easy it is to do this stuff matters.

    Censorship talk again.

    And then they put like a little watermark here that's like extraordinarily easy to crop out. It's never in the middle. It's always at the top or the bottom.

    Plenty of videos out there with the watermark right in the middle.

    They shouldn't be in charge of the kind of thing that could literally by their own admission destroy humanity.

    Hook, line, and sinker. More marketing hype.

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    Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’

    www.theguardian.com /education/2025/apr/17/nearly-300-applications-to-french-university-offer-to-take-in-us-academics
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    Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

    arstechnica.com /ai/2025/03/cloudflare-turns-ai-against-itself-with-endless-maze-of-irrelevant-facts/
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    Popular Chrome extensions hijacked by hackers in widespread cyberattack

    www.tomsguide.com /computing/online-security/3-2-million-chrome-users-at-risk-from-malicious-extensions-delete-them-right-now
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    Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing

    www.bleepingcomputer.com /news/google/google-gmail-continuously-nagging-to-enable-enhanced-safe-browsing/