jarfil

@jarfil@beehaw.org

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.

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jarfil,

Mentions “OTT” a total of 28 times, doesn’t say what it stands for.

Is this AI spam?

jarfil,

With a strong enough rumble feature, that looks plausible…

jarfil,

That video can be divided into two parts:

  • AR glasses: hopefully… but based on previous experiences, fat chance they’ll get that high-res, compact, and slim in the next 10 years. Still wish them luck at trying.
  • Projected holograms, VR interaction, etc: …sure, once you get those AR glasses figured out. IRL, it’s not gonna happen.

Controllers for AR, rendered in AR… that’s anyone’s guess. Lot of creative space in there.

jarfil, (edited )

Link?

The basic physics is, there is no known way to project a hologram pixel (as in, a point that looks different from different angles) in mid air without some solid substrate.

Closest approach so far has been projecting voxels on smoke or water mist, that look the same from all angles.

Both of these approaches have been integrated with touch response, yet they still fail the fundamental part of “free standing hologram”.

It gets even more pathetic when someone calls “hologram” a 3D model projected onto a 2D display (cough EuroVision 2024 cough).

jarfil,

And with good reason, seeing how the Chinese economy is leaving millions in the curb, to realize the stark difference between the ideals of the regime vs reality, and more and more dissatisfied.

jarfil,

From the photos, it was a very crudely taped iPhone to a toilet seat, maybe enough to fool a 9 year old, but clearly not to fool anyone with more critical thinking, like the 14 year old who reported it.

What you should worry about, are the well disguised hidden cameras installed by professionals…

jarfil,

It’s lawyers being lawyers, they throw all the 💩 they can and see what sticks ,particularly when paid for the hour, or on a hefty retainer they need to justify.

That BS “defense” should get thrown out of court in no time.

jarfil,

Not at all: any company that wants to operate in a given country, has to follow that country’s laws, whether they like them or not.

Whichever company were to disobey the Kremlin, would lose all Russian market share… and perhaps more importantly, all ability to offer Russian citizens access to non-Russian news and points of view.

jarfil,

The choice is not between blocking or not “some videos”, it’s between blocking some videos, or getting ALL videos blocked.

Think twice before you decide whether a Russian-only clone of YouTube is the better alternative.

jarfil, (edited )

On Android, most apps depend on the keyboard.

  • Gboard has a configurable suggestions bar where you can pick words, or not.
  • Microsoft SwiftKey works similarly, but it underlines the word you’re typing.
  • AnySoftKeyboard works like Swiftkey.

Only exception I’ve seen, is Copilot, which shows the suggested word directly, to be selected with [tab], but you can still type a different one.

I’ve noticed no such behavior on Facebook. Have you checked your keyboard settings?

jarfil,

Could also stake the directors of those banks for not leaving sooner.

Does anyone else ever just realize that you're not even sure why you want a relationship at all?

As I’ve gained more and more close friends, more than I’ve ever had in my life, and some closer than I’ve ever had in my life, I’ve come to realize something recently. Despite the prevailing feeling like I want a relationship, I don’t actually know why it is I want one, nor what I have to gain from one....

jarfil,

As far as I’ve gathered, relationships are great for:

  • Naked cuddling
  • Deeper interdependence
  • Guaranteed emergency contact

If you can get that without commiting to a relationship, then you probably don’t need one, but usually it’s easier to say “this is my SO” than start picking which friend might help you in each case.

jarfil,

People change and get into different places over time, there is no reason you couldn’t revisit some ex or friend at some future point in time if you feel comfortable with them.

Anyway, you shouldn’t think of a relationship as keeping someone to stay forever. It might happen, or it might not, you can’t predict the future. Pick a relationship if you think you can grow together at a given point in time, but remember that growing apart is also a possibility.

jarfil,

Romance is basically your first point, when done with someone you like and are willing to offer them the same in return 😉

Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men (www.researchgate.net)

Our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

jarfil,

Through gender stereotypes. The observer’s perception is all that counts in this case anyways.

jarfil, (edited )

We ass-u-me too much based on people’s genders/photographs/ideas/etc., which taints our objectivity when assessing the quality of their code.

For a close example on Lemmy: people refusing to collaborate with “tankie” devs, with no further insight on whether the code is good or not.

There also used to be code licensed “not to be used for right wing purposes”, and similar.

jarfil,

Their objectivity is preempted by a subjective evaluation, just like it would be by someone’s appearance or any other perception other than the code itself.

jarfil,

News at 10: Shit happened! If only someone warned us.

You can only pick to live either in the future, or in the past. One is uncertain, the other is unchangeable, and the “present” is an illusion where one turns into the other. Choose wisely.

jarfil,

The discussion is about 💵💵, not about people.

If tariffs were a response to human rights violations, check the UN’s list of HR violations, there should be thousands, or millions, of tariffs everywhere. But, there aren’t, because the HR are just an excuse that 💵💵 uses whenever it suits it.

jarfil,

For decades China had a “3rd world country discount” on international transport, meaning:

  • send from China = almost free
  • sent to China = normal cost + extra fee

Not just the US, but every “1st world country” has been helping China, in the hopes of integrating it into a capitalist system and disrupting whatever is going on in there.

…and it would have worked, if it wasn’t for China not just doubling down, but going bananas on authoritarian interventionism.

jarfil,

“AI” used to mean “whatever we don’t fully understand yet”. A lot of processes have walked the path from “fantasy” to “AI” to “algorithm”. Doesn’t need to be non-deterministic, the original tic-tac-toe playing software was “AI” at the time.

Until we get some AGI, the term “AI” will remain a moving technological target, and a static marketing target.

jarfil,

AI can also understand extra weights for hand picked sources of truth. Whether you then agree with the choices of whoever is doing the hand picking, is a separate matter.

jarfil,

Is coming, and more. Very good video, with good points. Slightly outdated already, with AutGPT being a thing. What’s coming, is going to be orders of magnitude more than what they predicted in that video.

jarfil,

Yup.

They also correctly identify the function of LLMs as a glue between siloed AIs. We have barely seen the beginning of that, but as the AI race continues, it seems likely that some LLM models will be created that will have less human language, and more “interop language”. Where nowadays LLMs can be somewhat probed for words and relationships, we’ll have zero chance to probe an LLM using tokens that are part of some made up (by the AIs) interop language. Black boxes inside black boxes.

A naive approach will be to “democratize AI”, and that will surely be better than centralized AIs responding to every query… but won’t solve the deepening of inscrutability.

One point made me chuckle: when they showed the graphs for cualitative jumps above certain network size. Recently someone commented about the “diminishing returns” and “asymptotic growth” of making a LLM larger and larger… but also so it was in these models: diminishing returns all the way up to a point… followed by a sudden exponential jump until the next asymptote. The truth is we don’t know where the asymptotes and exponential jumps lie, we don’t even have a remote hypothesis about it.

jarfil,

Yeah, they call it A-Z testing, because A/B wasn’t enough, and AIs can fill A to Z cases with ease.

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