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keimevo 11 points 2 days ago

But Windows is doing the enshittification thing since the nineties, generally every other release:

  • Windows 95: Good
  • Windows 98: Bad
  • Windows 98 SE: Good
  • Windows ME: Bad
  • Windows XP: Good
  • Windows Vista: Bad
  • Windows 7: Good
  • Windows 8: Bad
  • Windows 8.1: Bad
  • Windows 10: Good
  • Windows 11: Bad

8.1 is the outlier, but otherwise this thing works like a clock. You could argue that 11 is enshittifying more than the rest, but that's probably because LLMs are enshittifying everything, I think.

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keimevo 22 points 2 days ago

I know your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but I'll say it anyway: wisdom is not the same as intelligence, and though they are probably very smart individuals (most of them), they are terribly unwise.

Foolish, not dumb.

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keimevo 13 points 6 days ago

For many years I have thought that elementary schools should be free of any modern electronic tech. In middle school it should be introduced but not connected to internet (word processors, interactive encyclopedias or coding like we used to learn it in the '80s or '90s, BASIC, Logo, that kind of stuff).

Finally, introduce internet in high school, in a controlled way, focusing primarily on knowledge and research sites. No LLMs included.

Of course you can't control what happens in the students' homes, but that should not affect what happens at school, specially if you replace homework with schoolwork, which I also think it's better in the long run.

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keimevo 115 points 14 days ago

I think the author is mostly right about the current state of AI, but his future predictions (or worries) are based on a false premise: that the massive LLMs will keep improving in the future.

As far as I have seen the improvements have clearly slowed down, while the energy consumption is rising linearly (or worse). It's like the energy (money) vs. performance graph is logarithmic, and the companies are expending double the energy to get a 10% improvement. Something like that is not sustainable, and the money seems to indicate so.

I really think that LLMs are a dead-end for AI. A really useful dead-end, once the bubble pops and with time, we get a useful working model for them, probably based mostly on local LLMs, maybe using specialized training data.

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keimevo 47 points 10 months ago

Control and censorship. Imagine a developer distributing an apk that Google doesn't like, let's say, emulators, ad-blockers, VPNs (if they become illegal in some places), piracy apps or many others. Just remove their verified status and voilà.

This is awful. Google is quickly becoming a new walled garden, Apple-style.

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keimevo 37 points 2 months ago

I don't think Firefox is immune to this, just that because its architecture is different, Anthropic didn't bother coding a bridge for it (given its market share).

The main issue here is that Anthropic violated one of the most important (implicit) tenets of applications in a computer: don't touch other people's shit. Claude.app modified Brave (and others) configuration, adding an extension without user consent. An extension that, by the way, gives full control of the browser to Claude, including reading the DOM for browser tabs unrelated to Claude (for example, the one where you just entered your credit card details).

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keimevo 35 points 14 days ago

I think they're a dead-end mostly because of the exponential cost vs. performance. The decreasing returns are obvious, and the companies are trying to adapt by raising token prices, but that will not be enough with the current user numbers (or even double or triple, if we believe the analysts). I think that, at least with these large LLM companies, we're actually beyond the point of economic equilibrium with this technology, at current energy and water prices.

And yes, training is more expensive than usage. That's probably the reason why Anthropic suggested a pause in LLM development (training), supposedly because of the fear that AI could become Skynet, but really because they are getting an IPO soon and if people see their current balance numbers, the IPO would fail and the bubble would probably pop. Which really proves my point a little: the economics of these companies "improving their LLMs" (training) don't make sense at current energy prices.

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keimevo 31 points 22 days ago

I don't know if it's my favorite, but Prototype (and its sequel) comes to my mind. It wasn't that badly received, but most people liked Infamous more, in the same generation.

And a game that I really love, my personal best SNES game ever (yes, even beyond Chrono Trigger and Tales of Phantasia, my numbers 2 and 3), is Terranigma, which is a game that many people who've played it don't like (because they get stuck at the beginning in the Underworld or at the fight with Bloody Mary).

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keimevo 27 points a month ago

At least the AMD system management requires physical access (the AMD PSP does not have a network stack). Intel ME / AMT does have a network stack, and it hides its packets inside the host traffic. That's the reason of the black holes on many Intel CPUs when listening on ports 16992-16995 (the host does not see incoming traffic to those ports because the AMT intercepts it).

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keimevo 27 points 3 months ago

I would amend that to "since WWII", and the answer would still be no.

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keimevo 27 points 2 years ago

One could accuse Elden Ring of many things, but clunky controls is definitively not one of them.

It's probably one of the best combat systems I've ever played. When you die, you know it's your fault (usually because of greed), not the system cheating you. It's very fair, unlike many others.

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keimevo 21 points 2 months ago

Stallman was right: https://www.gnu.org/...

This is from 1997, mainly about books but it mentions debuggers and "free kernels" (linux and... hurd?). Considering that they also want to force OSs to require their users' age and some Linux distros won't do it... illegal Linux distros may be in our future.

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keimevo 21 points 2 months ago

That doesn't solve the problem: it only disables the duck.ai assistant, but doesn't disable the search results that are normal websites generated with AI (the real issue here). To be fair, that's not DDG problem specifically but every search engine problem.

The web is now full of these fake websites, which is a real problem because on the search results they look legit and only when visiting them you realize it's AI crap.

And the funny (or sad) thing is that current AIs are being trained on these fake hallucinating sites, so even they are suffering from false information, which in turn is given to humans and used to make more fake websites and... the result is up to your imagination.

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keimevo 18 points 14 days ago

This. Pre-2010 social media, which basically showed a feed with the posts of the people you followed, had a lot less negative impact on people. The engagement maximization strategy multiplies "negative" news, because outrage apparently engages more than good news. And current algorithmic feeds like TikTok destroy attention span and make people dumber.

And while we're at it, ban (or at least heavily regulate) dating apps, the only business where the companies sell the opposite product of what they supposedly offer. If people find long-term partners through the apps they would stop using them, so the companies are incentivized to help you not find love and real relationships.

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keimevo 17 points 2 months ago

Not anymore. After public outcry, Google established 2 alternatives:

  1. Through developer mode, you will be able to "forego security" (according to Google) and do a lengthy and obnoxious procedure to unlock your phone for installing any app.
  2. They're defining a way for official (sanctioned by Google) 3rd party app stores to work, and you will be able to install apps verified by them, instead of Google.
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keimevo 17 points 2 years ago

Though they're a mix of sandstorm/thunderstorm (like in the movie), the Mad Max game from Avalanche.

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keimevo 16 points a year ago

And additionally, China takes advantage and the EU starts doing more business with them.

China tried to keep itself very neutral in the Ukraine/Russia war (at least on the outside), and it even distanced itself from Putin in the last months. It would be a perfect chance for them to strengthen their economic ties with the EU.

Trump has really freaked up the soft power balance of the world. It was slowly decaying before, but he really pushed the Turbo button.

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keimevo 14 points a month ago

Stalin suing Hitler. I'm rooting for both of them to lose.

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keimevo 14 points 21 days ago

That's for other sites that sell Steam keys, which obviously use Steam infrastructure hence the limitation. If you sell your game on Steam and other real platforms, like GOG, Epic or Uplay (or whatever it's called these days), you can set the price you want.

Of course Steam offers a lot more functionality, and many devs choose to tie their games to Steam because of that, not because Steam forces them to do it.

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