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  • There should be, that’s just how fiber works. If they lay a 10 Gb line in the street, they’ll probably sell a 1 Gb connection to a 100 households. (Margins depend per provider and location)

    If they give you an uncapped connection to the entire wire, you’ll DoS the rest of the neighborhood

    That’s why people are complaining “I bought 1Gb internet, but I’m only getting 100Mb!” - They oversold bandwidth in a busy area. 1Gb would probably be the max speed if everyone else was idle. If they gave everyone uncapped connections the problem would get even worse


  • I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy’s GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what’s truly important to users.

    Github issues are annoying that way. You could solve it by closing down “issues” and using discussions instead. People can up and downvote discussions, and you can see that from the listview, unlike with issues.

    And you can have threaded conversations in discussions.





  • What benefits to “AI supremacy” are there?

    I wasn’t saying there was any, I was saying there are benefits to the race towards it.

    In the sense of - If you could pick any subject that world governments would be in a war about - “the first to the moon”, “the first nuclear” or “first hydrogen bomb”, or “the best tank” - or “the fastest stealth air-bomber”

    I think if you picked a “tech war” (AI in this case) - Practically a race of who could build the lowest nm fabs, fastest hardware, and best algorithms - at least you end up with innovations that are useful


  • For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it

    It doesn’t really go into why not.

    If governments are going to be pouring money into something, I’d prefer it to be in the tech industry.

    Imagine a cold-war / Oppenheimer situation where all the governments are scared that America / Russia / UAE will reach AI supremacy before {{we}} do? Instead of dumping all the moneyz into Lockheed Martin or Raytheon for better pew pew machines - we dump it into better semiconductor machinery, hardware advancements, and other stuff we need for this AI craze.

    In the end we might not have a useful AI, but at least we’ve made progression in other things that are useful


  • Well @ @TheGrandNagus and @SSUPII - I think a lot of Firefox users are power users. And a lot of the non-power Firefox users, like my friends and family, they’re only using Firefox because I recommended them to use it, and I installed all the appropriate extensions to optimize their browser experience.

    So if Firefox alienates the power users - who are left? I’m gonna move on to Waterfox or Librewolf, but they are even more next-level obscure browsers. My non-tech friends know about Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, so I can convince them to use one of those… But I kinda doubt I can get them to use Librewolf. If I tell them Firefox sucks now too, they’ll probably default to chrome


  • If AI integration is to happen […], then this to me seems to be the best way to do it.

    Well, to me the best way to do it would be for Mozilla to focus on being the best bare-bone, extendable browser.

    Then - if people want an AI in their browser - people should be able to install an AI extension that does these things. It’s a bit annoying they’re putting random stuff like Pocket, and now an AI in the core of the browser, instead of just making it an option to install extendable



  • What we have is machine learning, just an algorithm that takes input and gives you output. It can’t act on its own.

    Isn’t that basically what “real learning” is as well? Basically you’re born as a baby, and you take input, and eventually you can replicate it, and eventually you can “talk” for example?

    But in the training data something was off, suddenly your AI is racist and gives every black person a lesser amount.

    Same here, how is that different from “real learning”? You’re born into a racist family, in a racist village where everyone is racist. What is the end-result; you’re probably somewhat racist due to racist input - until you might unlearn that, if you’re exposed to other data that proves your racist ideas were wrong

    If a human brain is basically a big learning computer, why wouldn’t AI eventually reach singularity and emulate a brain and beyond? All the examples you mentioned of what it can’t do, is just stuff it can’t do yet


  • [From the github comment]

    The issue I see with the RFC is not wanting to allow users to add tags to ease the burden on moderators. This comes from a lack of users with privileges, so moderators are overworked and need to rely on bots.

    If the tags are just kinda “plain old hashtags” - and not something cool like I mentioned in the previous post 😉 -

    Possibly you could have a look at how Gazelle handles tags, where it’s just a voting system. For example, this is “Kanye West” https://i.imgur.com/adTe4t8.png - then tags are no longer a boolean yes/no system, but a user-voted system. And then it’s no longer a moderation concern to have to correct tags, and you don’t need “User privileges” to manage the tags either.

    It’s just a pretty chaotic system though - you might still want moderators to remove bad tags and/or ban users from creating tags if they’re always adding nonsense.

    Could be some point based system like Stackoverflow - users with n points can vote on existing tags, users with n+ points can add their own new tags



  • Personally I don’t have any problems with it (if that was directed at me) - I’ve added 418 as “unhandled exception code” response to a bunch of applications, so I can easily differentiate whether my application is throwing an error, or whether it’s some middleware gateway AWS io-thing

    I was just curious what OP thought about it, since in the early days it wasn’t uncommon to add goofs or easter-eggs into software, but nowadays not done so much… and apparently the “HTTP Working Group” doesn’t like it either… So I was curious whether OP though in hindsight whether it should’ve been added or not



  • RonSijm@programming.devOPtoReddit@lemmy.worldBanned from Reddit for posting John Olver
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    1 year ago

    If this is true it’s insane.

    It’s true. Since my account is suspended, I’m unable to delete or edit any post or comment. So anyone is completely free to Doxx my account, find it on a waybackmachine or any another other reddit archive and see if I posted anything even mildly problematic, or prove that I’m lying or leaving out details for no apparent reason or whatever

    If it was ambiguous whether it did, a warning would be more fitting.

    When something is ambiguous whether it fits a specific subreddit or not - is up to the mods to decide, and they deemed it ok. Sub-offtopic stuff just gets your posts removed by the mods, and normally wouldn’t get you side-wide ban