Babadofar

@Babadofar@snabelen.no

Occasional rock star in Turbo Remastered, always pondering the universe, daily coder of bits.

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forteller, to norge Norwegian
@forteller@tutoteket.no avatar

Ok, så det er relativt stor debatt om hvor nøyaktige tallene til Statcounter er. Men de blir ihvertfall sett på, og jeg vet ikke om det finnes noe alternativ som er noe særlig bedre.

Ifølge deres nyeste tall har nå Linux 14,5 % markedsandel på desktop (PCer, laptoper) i Norge!

Dette virker ganske usannsynlig. Men på verdensnivå sier de rett over 4 %, og det virker ikke helt galt, så hvorfor skulle de ha totalt feil tall for Norge?

IDK, men interessant er det nå åkke som!

Babadofar,

@forteller merkelig. Jeg forsøkte å finne ut hvordan få kjøpt en Linux laptop, i Norge, for ikke så lenge siden og må innrømme at jeg feilet. Fant det ikke!! Hvor finner man det?

Babadofar,

@forteller takk for tips! Jeg har installert Linux på Windows maskiner før, første gang kanskje 20 år siden så ikke helt ukjent med det. Men man kunne jo håpet at Linux nå endelig var blitt allemannseie. Erindrer mye slit med å finne rett driver til grafikkort osv. 💻

pluralistic, to random
@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar

Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

1/

Babadofar,

@pluralistic thanks for sharing. That's a very good summary explanation of the challenges of AI /Llm.
It's going back to the question of what is truth. Can we trust AI with important decisions.

ninokadic, to philosophy
@ninokadic@mastodon.social avatar

Am I the only one who unequivocally thinks that philosophy has made progress? Perhaps I have a different definition of what progress means, but surely I can't be the only one?

The number of theories and arguments that philosophers uncovered, as well as the clarity and breadth of their analyses, is certainly progress.

@philosophy @academicchatter

Babadofar,

@slowenough @ninokadic @DominikDammer @philosophy @academicchatter philosophy of course made progress, in giving birth to all the rest of science. On the other hand, certain things will always be true, and on those questions there has been no progress.

geirertzgaard, to random
@geirertzgaard@snabelen.no avatar

Er vi mot lobbyregister på Stortinget? Jeg har vært, er og vil forbli sterk forkjemper for en langt sterkere kontroll over lobbyistene, som først og fremst tjener de som har økonomisk makt.

https://www.morgenbladet.no/aktuelt/kommentar/2023/12/22/ntnu-saken-viser-hvor-mektige-lobbyistene-er-blitt-i-norge/

Babadofar,

@geirertzgaard så, Venstre og Rødt er for lobbyregister? Noen andre? Dette er ikke akkurat tillitvekkende. Her er lenke til artikkel i Aftenposten om forsøket på å innføre lobbyregister i 2022 https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/politikk/i/v5Bza5/i-2014-ble-norge-advart-om-manglende-lobbykontroll-torsdag-sa-stortinget-igjen-nei-til-lobbyregister

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

I'm basically working under the assumption that any AI legislation that does not begin by banning commercial use of the misleading term "AI" is going to be fatally flawed

Babadofar,

@mcc Yes I agree! One day somebody will figure that intelligence is more than a statistical probability. 👼

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

René Descartes walks into a bar. Bartender asks if he wants anything.

René says, “I think not,” then disappears.

Babadofar,

@dgar that's the best joke Descartes never heard

glynmoody, to privacy
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

, EU’s Plan for Real-Time Mass , Takes a Dramatic Turn - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/chat-control-eus-plan-for-real-time-mass-surveillance-takes-a-dramatic-turn/ amazing revelations another reason why this must be stopped

Babadofar,

@glynmoody this reads like a sci-fi horror story "While ineffective, European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson’s proposal does mean an end to private digital conversations for everyone and, for obvious reasons, is incompatible with the right to privacy and freedom of communication..."
"(the eu commissioner) commissioned a paid advertising campaign on X (formerly Twitter) targeting countries that did not want to vote for the current proposal"

mmasnick, (edited ) to random
@mmasnick@mastodon.social avatar

Good morning folks... today we're launching our new (free, browser-based) game Trust & Safety Tycoon. Please go check it out. Everyone thinks they know how trust & safety should work, but very few have actually done the job. Now's your chance! https://trustandsafety.fun/

Babadofar,

@mmasnick very cool game!

Private
Babadofar,

@lupposofi @krishnadeltoso @philosophy @startupnews @cogsci well if you consider how present day AI works, it feeds upon existing texts made by humans. If anything it would increase the anthropomorphic focus. But it's a very interesting thought. How can we feed animal thought process into AI?

Babadofar, to random Norwegian

Anyone else seeing how Google search is getting worse? Cory Doctorow has an insightful analysis on it https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/paid-medical-disinformation/#crisis-pregnancy-centers

masukomi, to random
@masukomi@connectified.com avatar

Had a sad realization the other day.

I love occasionally explaining repeating tasks in pseudo . E.g.

  1. do x.
  2. do y
  3. GOTO 1

No-one learns basic anymore. Most folks can follow what i've said but they don't actually know why i said GOTO. and they don't know why that really would have been written 10, 20, 30 instead of 1, 2, 3.

1/?

Babadofar,

@masukomi https://www.hedycode.com/ this looks like a nice way for kids to learn coding, gradually introducing the complexiy

Babadofar,

@masukomi IMHO knowing just a little bit about programming is a must to survive in this digital world. I'd say also knowing how machine learning and Llm work but that's a bit of a stretch, and in many cases people know it and still mistake it for the same thinking process us humans use, so. That's another discussion:).

Babadofar,

@masukomi exactly!

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