phil

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AI is perfect for fueling a financial boom: great narrative, incredible promises in short and long term, huge needs and potential, and high risk that it will go terribly wrong. Bankers love that and can create unlimited credit to fuel the fire. But since they constantly create new gambling products, one can also bet that it's not fueled enough and is about to crash. Total schizophrenia.

3? I understand it's a start, but it's not so impressive.

I'm more interested in actual user feedback because a product like that is quite an ambitious use case and advertised as ready to use with tons of features.

on Rent is theft · c/aboringdystopia · 1 pts · 215d

Rent isn't theft. It's payment for a service

Sure there's a service and the owner has costs, but it's actually quite unrelated to the rental price in most places. I think the question is about the regulation of markets for basic life requirements. Alternatives aren't very appealing IMHO: social aids (taxes on the rich), charity (by the rich), or persistent homelessness.

Open source is not only about publishing code: it's about quality, verifiable, reproducible code at work. If LLMs can't do that, those "vibe coding" projects will hit a hard wall. Still, it's quite clear they badly impact the FOSS ecosystem.

No such issue with end-to-end encryption, as only the end user devices have the keys. It's used by Apple (that was the main argument in the FBI wanting to unlock iPhones), some messaging services like Signal and Whatsapp, only mentioning big tech. Of course, you have to trust them when it's closed source. Here the story is that Microslop chose from the beginning centralized keys that they own and can share. It' s all well known, but the news is that they really did it.

on It's not a bubble! · c/fuck_ai · 0 pts · 226d

Nadella keeps on talking of "tokens" generated by the data centers that must be infused everywhere. Surely a new BS buzzword but what is it? Since the target of such talk is finance executives, is it about the merge of crypto-currencies and AI, i.e. how to make out of gigantic investments?

Not sure i understand the idea taking over an open source project when one can contribute or even fork it.

Anyway, it looks like France is quite Open Source friendly. For ex. the "DINUM" (gov. IT agency) has quite a few FOSS projects, finally could support financially Matrix, and there's also quite a push for open data (https://www.data.gouv.fr/). About surveillance i suppose it's quite bad indeed, but i don't think it matters if the software has a licence like AGPL.

Finally, i doubt there's a safe haven for privacy nowadays, but please prove me wrong :)