Yep, using ChatGPT is a way to increase one’s environmental footprint.

And the energy cost doesn’t appear to be fully passed to users yet, as OpenAI isn’t profitable yet. There are even free LLM services. So users don’t have an insentive to prefer less polluting alternatives, such as classic search engines.

Please don’t give Loeb more attention. He’s fantasizing about aliens every time a comet enter the solar system.

I quikly gave up on correting those bots. Either you’re lucky and made a prompt that induced it to generate a decent answer. Or you’re not, and there’s no point in correcting it. In that case you’re better off doing whatever you were going to do without a LLM.

I wasn’t familiar with Drop Site News and had a quick look, seems legit:

• Jeremy Scahill is co-founder of this outlet. He’s a well known investigative journalist. Also co-founder of The Intercept. Author of Dirty Wars.
• Lee Fang is co-author. He’s also investigative journalist, formerly at The Intercept.
• Media Bias / Fact check assessment rate the outlet Mostly factual, with a Left bias.

A well informed, technicality litterate, reasonable person wouldn’t.

Many reasonable people start/keep using those products. All of this is somewhat obvious for tech hobbyist. Others may not be fully aware or the risk, or don’t consider they’re particularily at risk. The norm is to use those services and apps. There is strong peer pressure to use those service to stay connected with people and organisations.

There’s a need for more or at least better education around being safe online, and protecting personal data. An education that’s free of big tech influence/sponsoring.

This is an interesting example of narrow-AI working well on a problem it was specifically trained for.

Too bad people are going on wild goose chase trying to build AGI using LLM, creating more problems than they’re solving. Narrow AI are easier to build, people know how to build them, and they typically give better results, but they don’t get as much attention or money. It’d be willing to pay a subscription to access a collection of decent narrow AIs that works well for specific tasks, but not LLM that do many thing poorly.

Is it producing steam?

Reunification in our lifetime would be nice, if that happen through diplomacy and referendum rather than force.

I don’t know about a PRK-like state, but anyway my opinion shouldn’t matter, it should be Koreans who decide.

Which Debian distribution are you using, stable, testing, unstable?

I take care of a couple machines for family members. Those have Debian stable with automatic update (unattended-upgrade). I can’t recall the system or packages ever breaking. At most users are a bit confused when an update change the UI a bit.

Sticking to stable and avoiding third party repos gives a pretty solid system. Only developers or sysadmins might consider Debian testing. Only people working on Debian itself should use unstable.

How soon can those help cleanup Fukushima and Tchernobyl?

I assume the high price and limitations would make them a hard sell for a typical factory. But those could be handy in places where humans can’t go safely.

To give a sense of the phenomenon’s speed, it’s shrinking almost as fast as NASA’s earth science budget.

Hey, I can see my home here

In Tiktok’s case, it has been shady for years.

There were already reports Tiktok censoring dissent in 2019 when it started gaining popularity internatinally:

• Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
• TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience

And even before that, Tiktok’s parent company always operated and had its headquarter in China, so it’s forced to comply with the Great Firewall of China, and participate though their own moderation/algorithm.

Relying on a media that operate (in part) in a totalitarian state with heavy handed censorship is foolish. Even if they have some infrastructure elsewhere, it’s sowned by and answering to ByteDance management. Like all media companies from that country, it’s under pressure from the local and/or central government.

How about not using a platform that supress information about dissent?

This is super shady, how can people trust this app?

Soon, fans will be able to check out in a single transaction, even when buying from multiple artists or labels, reducing friction and helping more purchases go through.

Neat. My bank currently charge an international payment fee per transaction with Bandcamp, so I avoid small purchases from different artists, and wait until an artist release multiple albums/EPs to purchase from them.

And it downloads Tor to connect to C2. So it’s a machine with Internet access AND without security mesures.

So it might be a target with poor IT. A windows machine shouldn’t be left without AV, especially if it has Internet access.

I have mixed feeling about this.

Phoronix is further fueling this, sneaking bcachefs references in kernel related articles even though there’s nothing new to report on the matter.

He might as well have a bot watching commits and posting an article every hours that reads “New commits pushed to kernel, but nothing still for bcachefs”

Unfortunately it’s not a single tiktok video from one random guy.

There’s a fairly large amount of disinformation out there, in a few cases spread by scientists who don’t specialize in climate. I know a climate change denier who spent some time reading on the topic, including a scientist’s blog (not a climatologist) who regularly instill doubt on the latest findings on climate change. He could genuinely say he read a lot on this topic, but it was in large part from crappy sources.

20% would definitely be justified for having to take care of bad quality spaghetti code that is the result of vibe coding.