RedstoneValley

RedstoneValley , 16 days ago to world in Did Donald Trump Jr just break the law by meeting with Viktor Orban?

From the article: “It is unlikely the Department would ever pursue action against anyone using the Logan Act, given no one has been convicted of violating the 1799 law”

End of story.

RedstoneValley , 18 days ago to technology in Raspberry Pi becomes a public company

I’m using a lepotato for Home Assistant. Works very well for months now, but I’m a bit worried about long term distro support

RedstoneValley , 1 month ago to technology in Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

Did you know you can edit your posts? Could be helpful for other readers since you were incorrectly posting in several messages that wine needs root access.

RedstoneValley , 2 months ago to technology in Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days

The video’s title “worst car ever reviewed” was not as balanced though :D

RedstoneValley , 2 months ago to linux in What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

This happened just this morning. Probably not the dumbest thing ever, and I blame Snap for putting things where they don’t belong: I deleted stuff from the /run/user/1000/doc directory. Turns out the files there are in fact hard links to files which actually reside somewhere else. Well, they were, until I deleted them forever.

Background: Firefox (as an Ubuntu snap package) downloads files in some kind of sandbox mode and references stuff there for some obscure reason. That was my weekly reminder to get rid of snap packages because snap sucks in a myriad of ways.

RedstoneValley , 3 months ago to world in Russia publishes German army meeting on Ukraine

There are some media reports claiming that there was simply another unidentified participant in the conference call and they didn’t notice. 🤷

RedstoneValley , 4 months ago to coffee in Should you invest in a better grinder?

I don’t agree to starting with cheap gear as always being a good choice. If you already know what good coffee tastes like and you like to get into the coffee game then buying a cheap (non burr) grinder is just a waste of money.

RedstoneValley , 4 months ago to piracy in Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy

Media Corporations should not have a say in disconnecting users from the internet based on copyright infringement. The right to social participation is part of a basic human right - self-determination. Today, the majority of interactions with society involve communication via internet in one way or another, so that access to the internet is vital for enabling social participation.

RedstoneValley , 4 months ago to lemmyshitpost in English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense

It’s a little bit worse than that in fact. “Programmiererinnen und Programmierer” or “Programmierer:innen” or “Programmierende”. And if you get it wrong you are not a grammar nazi but more of a regular nazi.

/s just in case

RedstoneValley , 4 months ago to programmerhumor in Firewall

I know this is posted in funny, but whatever. You could still login locally using keyboard and monitor. Uncool, but it works

RedstoneValley , 4 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Looks at the ad in my Gmail

Technically it’s not the same, in case of IMAP they would need to literally put spam mails into your account. As opposed to having visual elements in the UI that pretend to be an email. Might not feel like a big difference but actively poisoning the users inbox is pretty bad.

RedstoneValley , 4 months ago to technology in Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed'

Having a dedicated technical architect who hovers above the dev team handing architectural decisions down is also not always seen as an ideal construct in software development.

RedstoneValley , 4 months ago to news in McDonald's is promising 'attention to affordability' after the price of Big Mac meals hits $18

If you tell your kid McD is something special then whenever you pass a McD it will feel a craving and want it. This is how brand obedient consumers are made. If instead you let them have McD for a week or two they will see the food for what it is.

Fsst food chains hate this simple trick

RedstoneValley , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to nottheonion in AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames

Ok, maybe it helps to be more specific. We have an LLM which is based on a broad range of human data input, like news, internet chatter, stories but also books of all kinds including those about philosophy, diplomacy, altruism etc. But if the topic at hand is “conflict resolution” the overwhelming data will be about violent solutions. It’s true that humans have developed means for peaceful conflict resolution. But at the same time they also have a natural tendency to focus on “bad news” so there is much more data available on the shitty things that happen in the world which is then fed to the chatbot.

To fix this, you would have to train an LLM specifically to have a bias towards educational resources and a moral code based on established principles.

But current implementations (like ChatGPT) don’t work that way. Quite the opposite, in fact: In training, first we ingest all the data that we can get our hands on (including all the atrocities in the world) and then in a second step we fine-tune the LLM to make it “better”.

RedstoneValley , 4 months ago to nottheonion in AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames

Don’t want to spoil your little circlejerk here, but that should not surprise anyone, considering chatbots are trained on vast amounts of human data input. Humans have a rich history of violence with only brief excursions into “collaborating for the good of mankind and the planet we live on”. So unless you build a chatbot that focuses on those values the result will inevitably be a mirror image of us human shitbags.