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  • Recently deepwiki links started popping up in my search results, when I wanted to research some software. They offered so much genenerated 'documentation' that it caused so much confusion and irritation to me, I installed an extension just to block this site from my search results.

    Why do I ever need to read the 'architecture' or whatever from an ancient no longer maintained project. The deepwiki page didn't mention that it isn't maintained, but the readme.md in the repo states it clearly at the very top with big letters...

    Any suggestion for a browser plugin that blocks AIslop pages from search results? I think we really need some kind of ad block for this, but differently. A well maintained list of pages containing AI slop and then filtering out those pages from search results instead. So that the internet becomes/remains usable and mostly unpoisend by this stuff.

    AIslop should never outrank human created content.

    I am not someone that cries about the end times much, but... If this issues isn't addressed effectively and the internet becomes filled with aislop that outrank and thus hide human content... it becomes useless... We might really have to look for a new one....

    The internet is for connecting humans through their machines. If it starts to exist without requiring humans, then it can be its own thing and humans have to find something else then.

    /rant

  • Prediction and pattern recognition is not general AI. This is just what LLMs and image generators do. They find plausible continuations starting from a noise to better fit the disired outcome. They don't have real contextual knowledge about a domain. To them everything is just numbers that can be manipulated until they fit better. They don't just instantly know the correct or incorrect answer because of a deeper understanding on the matter.

  • That really depends on your definition of 'left-wing'.

    Because I would argue that 'left-wing' is not only a descriptor for a political agenda. It also that includes economic issues. To me an economic system is pretty important part of a political system.

    For instance, I would say that 'free market communism' doesn't exist. I would also say that 'authoritarian communism' doesn't exist. To me authoritarian and socialistic ideas are not compatible, because power is in the hands of an elite, and control mechanisms of that power were never strong enough. Control mechanisms of democracies worked generally better, but democracies also need to be properly defended and maintained.

  • There are two versions of the bangle.js watch. The second version looks pretty similar to the pinetime.

    I used to use the pinetime for a while and now have the bangle.js 2 watch.

    Pinetime is cheaper in DE than the bangle.js (40€ vs 90€ IIRC).

    Both are nice watches and integrate well with gadgetbridge and have a couple of weeks battery. Which is much more then what you get from a Android watch.

  • Maybe this is what has happened. Asus and Lenovo wanting to support both HorizonOS and SteamOS on their hardware, and Meta realizing that they cannot compete with an open Linux platform on a level playing field. So they returned to their walled garden software-hardware bundling.

  • I dunno

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  • In mathematics and computer programming, the order of operations is a collection of conventions about which arithmetic operations to perform first in order to evaluate a given mathematical expression.

    These conventions are formalized with a ranking of the operations. The rank of an operation is called its precedence, and an operation with a higher precedence is performed before operations with lower precedence. Calculators generally perform operations with the same precedence from left to right,[1] but some programming languages and calculators adopt different conventions.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations

    With math, you can invent your own notation if you like. If it makes it easier to describe certain problem. This is done often. And if it makes sense, you can also change the order of operation. You can even introduce new operations.

    The notation you learn in school is just a common one, but other notations are equally valid and can be useful.

    Therefore this kind of question is not a pure math question, but rather it depends on what kind of conventions or notations people want to use.

    The context is what allows the math question to have a single answer. The notation is just your chosen way towards that solution and to communicate the steps to that solution to others.

    The rules of math itself are much more fundamental and they don't care about how people decided to write formulas down.

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  • Those aren't 'rules of maths', because math would work with other orders of operations as well. They are conventions. Other cultures could have different conventions and it would work as well.

  • But you don't need to misuse language to assign responsibility.

    What? I am interested... How else would you assign the responsibility to people that designed something intentionally bad, if you cannot used language?

    "Misuse [of] language" is a concept I cannot even begin to wrap my head around...

    Do I loose the warranty if I use language in unintended ways?

    It is their responsibility for breaking the system.

    You just 'misused' language to assign responsibility to people for breaking the system.

    Saying the system was always designed for this removes responsibility.

    No? Responsibility is not a binary concept. Someone can kill someone else, and would be responsible for that death, and the people around that killer could also share responsibility for not noticeing their unusual behavior. And the system could also be responsible for not giving the killer the support they needed, which drove them to kill someone. And the people that designed or constructed that system could also be responsible for not caring enough about these kinds of deaths to prevent them systemically.

  • There is a difference is saying "I does what it does" and "what it does is per design". The latter assigns a responsibility.

    In OP Aziraphale gives socienty the responsibility to fix a broken system incrementally and Crowley gives the people in power the fault of intentionally creating a bad system and calls for revolution.

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  • I don't get why these kind of post crop up so often.

    The answer to them doesn't matter and these aren't really math questions, because there is no context given. This is just endless discussions about different people having different assumptions on notation used there...

    In real math, where the numbers mean something, good and consistent notation is important, but not necessary, because the order of operations or what those operations are exactly would be clear through the context of these formulas. Good notation just makes it easier to spot errors, work with formulas or to avoid confusion.

    Here is what I would assume this formula could mean. Someone has 2 apples and 5 bags of apples that initially came with 8 apples each inside, but someone else ate 5 apples from each of these bags.

    With this context it is pretty clear what the answer would be.

  • As long as Valve is committed to an open system, without locked down bootloader like on mobile phones, it is unlikely that kernel-level anti-cheat can be implemented.

    But that also means Steam Machines are unlikely to support 4K streaming from Nextflix and co. because also DRM will also only be on the level of other Linux systems.

  • True. But most good stuff isn't a solution for everyone. It takes real effort to escape vendor-lockin. Bigtech made sure of that.

    If something is too simple to set up or requires no set up, or comes from a for-profit company, but doesn't cost anything, then it always suspicious.

    I am just saying that the issue is not with passkey itself, but the individual implementations and that google/twitter/etc. is pushed towards regular users.

    Critiquing passkey because vendor-lockin is like critiquing HTML for allowing ads.