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- on A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet: How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab, and more. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
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on A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet: How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab, and more. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
I find this deeply unethical.
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on World-first biological data center packs 16 mn living human neurons in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
So deeply unethical it’s unreal.
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on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
In sane countries the government has a neutral service, backed by laws securing anonymity of verification, for this kind of shit. Only in commercial, dystopian, kleptocracies does it seem reasonable to have a company doing this.
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on QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Even better: Your advancement is critical to ensure the American intelligence industry doesn’t fall behind.
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on QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
I mean it’s OK - you’re not copying it, you’re using it to train an intelligence.
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on Intent to Ship: JPEG XL – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
Looking at the article it seems AVIF is better in almost every way except progressive rendering.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
If you can’t see the difference between a compiler and a large language model, may I propose you read more about both and then return to this debate.
And if the entirety of your argument is a mystic “and all that stuff”, I am finding it hard to generate a convincing counter-argument.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Again, we are stuck in a semantics debate. What I call reasoning you don’t, it seems.
But all I know, as someone that has worked in software engineering for 25+ years, is that the output of whatever it does, and whatever you call it, is incredibly useful.
Saying “it just generates text” is a reflexive reaction that attempts to flatten the nuance.
All Columbus did was sail west.
All America did was throw some fuel into a tube and put Neil Armstrong on the top.
All Picasso did was to throw some paint onto a cloth.
All this PhD student did was generate text.
Surely we’ve got to have some more nuance in there. If there’s a difference between 10000 monkeys hacking on a typewriter and a human writing their doctoral thesis, the quality of their act isn’t in whether text was generated but WHAT text was generated.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Yes AI is definitely a topic that seems to have a fairly united front. I’ve worked in software engineering for 25+ years and I can see the impact AI has on our discipline. So it’s not like I’m hailing it to be an all-positive force - I just think “all it does is generate text” is a weird, flat form of criticism.
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on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
But it isn’t really. The forks rely on the majority effort of Mozilla and they would never be able to maintain Firefox on their own.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
I’m just a movement generator.
Saying “it’s a text generator” cannot be the full force of your criticism, if the text it generates is incredibly useful. What could AI be on a screen if not a text generator?
Your views have got to be formed by WHAT text is generated given that AI cannot express itself through any other channel than text.
If you can give AI a deeply complex code base and ask it to find the likely cause of an obscure bug, and the solution is right, then you’ll have to acknowledge that some form of reasoning is going on, no?
And given that no other system has previously enabled this form of reasoning, it seems a shame to judge AI on semantics, rather than usefulness.
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on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Just a crying shame Mozilla has turned into a commercial nightmare making them relatively poor custodians of the only free choice we have left.
Mozilla needs to die so Firefox can live.
The income stream from Firefox is plenty for a highly technical, deeply competent, widely dispersed team could work full time on the product using something like OpenCollective.
Instead what we get is prime SF real estate offices, “competitive” SF salaries and a commercial organisation that seeks weird and increasingly desperate income streams to justify looking like “real company”.
I want an actual non-profit governing Firefox.
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on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
We’ve been doing it for a long time. Linus is from Finland.
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on EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants" in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
I’m going to get downvoted to oblivion, I’m fully aware.
There are many things I don’t know anything about. But I do know a fair bit about this area.
And with great respect to the worriers, this just will not happen.
The investment team that’s bought EA have many other “western” investments they’ve never interfered with, even though they do a great deal of things that the orthodoxy in Saudi Arabia would disagree with. The layers between “what I [claim] to believe” and “make me the most amount of money” are many and includes people from all over the world. If anyone thinks Saudi royalty will sit and make determinations about what games EA will ship they can stop worrying right now. The Saudi monarchy is worrying about two things only: As much money as possible and staying in power.
This is an investments like so many others. It will be ordered to profit-maximise - and if that requires one-upping Doom in gore, and shipping a new edition of Gay Paradise 2000 every 6 months - they will do exactly that.
This is a complete storm in a tea cup.
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on Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
The function is deterministic, agreed. The implementation is almost always not. Hardware floating point addition is not associative. So a GPU kernel that splits a reduction differently (ie interleaving it with anything else, like running your graphics, or sharing your work with other users on the same hardware) will produce different results over different runs even at temperature 0.0.
Determinism is almost always impossible when dealing with floating point on a multi-process/multi-user system.
There are attempts to create batch invariant language models (github.com/…/batch_invariant_ops) but all the major ones are not.
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on Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
No. Floating point arithmetic and ordering of operations won’t make 0.0 deterministic.
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on Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
Exactly this. If you made an LLM that had deterministic code output then I’m all up for saying “AI is a compiler for human language”. But until then AI is most definitely not a compiler.
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on How AI text watermarking works: a visual guide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
95% AI text agree. It reeks.
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on France's Power Prices Jump 22% as Heatwave Trims Nuclear Output in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
Guys, guys, it’s not an OR, it’s an AND.
We need both nuclear AND renewables.
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on Why nano gets used in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 10 Aug 2026
mcedit is fine. I personally find micro the perfect blend of features and simplicity.
Eventually we can reduce the human brain down to this. Is it ethical to use that blueprint for experiments? We’ve got to be better than this, I hope. And it has to start before we get there.