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  • Most people use whatever is the default, even if that default doesn’t perfectly is to their needs/wants.

    That applies even to people that changed their search engine form Google to Duckduckgo.

    Every decisions takes some energy to think about, and the human brain wants to avoid spending energy as much as possible.

    That is why LLMs should be opt-in/by-request instead of opt-out. If people want to occasionally use them, they can decide themselves if spending that additional electricity is worth it.

    Search engines and LLMs are different things, one is for finding content written by humans, the other is for getting a plausible answer to a inquiry.




  • It really depends on the purpose. Sometimes you can hide stuff in unexpected places when there isn’t much interest for other people to find it, or if they don’t even know about it’s existence.

    Also sometimes it is good enough to just delay the discovery of something for a while, because its value after a certain time diminished completely.

    So, I would argue that sometimes security by obscurity can be useful. But I agree that it generally shouldn’t replace proper encryption.





  • More like disassociation. They just don’t connect killing animals to eating meat. So they don’t feel a cognitive dissonance.

    Like… People living comfortable in captialistic countries/societies, don’t think they personally kill all victims of capitalism. They just don’t connect these things. They disassociate their life and living standards from the ‘others’.





  • Internet ist klar kein Neuland, aber ich finde es trotzdem wichtig sich als Gesellschaft nicht abhängig von privat betriebener Infrastruktur zu machen.

    Wenn Internet für Bürger erwartet wird, soll die Infrastruktur selbst in öffentlicher oder non-profit Hand sein.

    Außerdem muss es auch immer Zugänglich für Personen mit Körperlichen, finanziellen oder Bildungs Einschränkungen sein, also sollte Software um das Internet zu Nutzen entsprechend entwickelt und offen der Gesellschaft zur Verfügung gestellt werden, d.h. Deutsche bzw. EU Förderungen bzw. Projekte für open source Browser, Betriebssysteme, PC Hardware, sowie Smartphones, etc. Kostenlose Internetkiosks und Flächendeckendes WiFi/Mobiles Netzwerk auch.

    Man sollte nicht von Bürgern für alltägliche Geschäfte mit dem Staat, erwarten Dienstleistungen von privaten profit-orientierten Unternehmen in Anspruch zu nehmen und damit persönliche Daten an diese zu übergeben.

    Das Gerichtsgebäude, Rathaus oder öffentliche Fußwege gehört ja auch keinem privatem Unternehmen, welche hier selber Überwachungskameras aufstellen darf um bei allen Vorgängen etwas mitzubekommen, und sei es nur Metadaten.



  • No, it isn’t part of the EU.

    It is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, which isn’t in the EU. Only Denmark, a country within the Kingdom is in the EU.

    However, the citizen of Greenland are citizen of Denmark, thus EU citizen.

    But you are right that Greenland has a closer relationship with the EU, then Ukraine. And the EU and allies want to protect its citizens at least. And via its member state Denmark, the constituents of Kingdom of Denmark as well.

    Edit: To be honest, I have no clue what happens to citizen of Greenland, if US would take over… Would they be EU and US citizen? Would they have to leave? Well… Let’s hope that doesn’t get answered anytime.




  • Recently deepwiki links started popping up in my search results, when I wanted to research some software. They offered so much genenerated ‘documentation’ that it caused so much confusion and irritation to me, I installed an extension just to block this site from my search results.

    Why do I ever need to read the ‘architecture’ or whatever from an ancient no longer maintained project. The deepwiki page didn’t mention that it isn’t maintained, but the readme.md in the repo states it clearly at the very top with big letters…

    Any suggestion for a browser plugin that blocks AIslop pages from search results? I think we really need some kind of ad block for this, but differently. A well maintained list of pages containing AI slop and then filtering out those pages from search results instead. So that the internet becomes/remains usable and mostly unpoisend by this stuff.

    AIslop should never outrank human created content.

    I am not someone that cries about the end times much, but… If this issues isn’t addressed effectively and the internet becomes filled with aislop that outrank and thus hide human content… it becomes useless… We might really have to look for a new one…

    The internet is for connecting humans through their machines. If it starts to exist without requiring humans, then it can be its own thing and humans have to find something else then.

    /rant




  • Prediction and pattern recognition is not general AI. This is just what LLMs and image generators do. They find plausible continuations starting from a noise to better fit the disired outcome. They don’t have real contextual knowledge about a domain. To them everything is just numbers that can be manipulated until they fit better. They don’t just instantly know the correct or incorrect answer because of a deeper understanding on the matter.