hendrik

I feel psychologists aren't really in the loop when people make decisions about AI or most of the newer tech. Sure, they ask the right questions. And all of this is a big, unanswered question. Plus how a modern society works with loneliness, skewed perspectives by social media... But does anyone really care? Isn't all of this shaped by some tech people in Silicon Valley and a few other places? And the only question is how to attract investor money?

And I think people really should avoid marrying commercial services. That doesn't end well. If you want to marry an AI, make sure it is it's own entity and not just a cloud service.

I mean I don't know anything about him, or you. So I don't know what to recommend. Usually, a good strategy is to talk to each other. Say what you were trying to achieve, what you thought would happen and how you felt. How you feel now. I mean the thing with mistakes is, we all make mistakes. And you can't turn back time... You can just try to own your mistakes. Make it clear to your boyfriend whether you learned something... Yeah, and when talking, you both need to listen to each other's feelings. Doesn't really work unless both sides open up.

No matter how you tackle the issue with your boyfriend, I think you should alao stop DMing strangers on the internet if they say they're going to send you money for something. They probably want something in return. And what you seem to be doing seems to end in sexting every time... So either this is what you want, or you need to change strategies. What are you looking for, with that, anyways?

I haven't checked, but ffmpeg is super versatile. It does a lot of stuff, even esoteric and niche things... Sometimes depends on what flags are set when compiling it, so the Linux distros don't always include everything ffmpeg is capable of.

I don't think there is a way to forward cellular phone calls. You'd need a phone provider which provides that feature, like a Voice-over-IP provider. Or a SIM card in your computer. Plus the right phone contract.

Kdeconnect can forward a lot of other things though, like SMS, files...

I wish there was a way to hook into calls. But as far as I know they're deliberately keeping that closed.

Probably not entirely secure. We had things like this happening: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/leaked-data-exposes-a-chinese-ai-censorship-machine/

But they're not stupid. They have scientists, IT experts... And I'd think twice before going head-to-head with the Chinese authorities.

Einen schicken Fernseher aus genau der Zeit wo sie cool waren, aber noch keine Massen an Webung im Hauptmenü hatten und ständig nach Hause telefonieren. Außerdem ist die Youtube-App gepatched, so dass sie keinerlei Werbung mehr anzeigt.

8FE62A

Naja, so funktioniert Handel eigentlich immer. Solange man Nachfrage erwartet, Sachen einkaufen und teurer wieder weiterverkaufen. So wird man (erfolgeicher) Handelsmensch.

Würd aber abraten einfach die eigene Garage mit Ramsch vollzumachen. Erstens sind die Preise aktuell unverändert. Und Zweitens muss man da ein paar Sachen für lernen und beachten.

Some people do it. For example we have this solar-powered website: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

You'd need an energy source like a solar panel, a battery and some computing device. Like a single board computer (Raspberry Pi) you can also run webservers on smartphones, or even a microcontroller. The server part works without an internet connection. But you obviously need some way to connect to it. A wifi (router) or a computer connected via an ethernet cable.

The tech isn't too complicated. Just install nginx if you have a raspberry pi, open a wifi and put your website on it. If you choose a phone, try Termux and a supported webserver. Both Linux and smartphones are designed to even work without an internet connection ;-)

Not really. I could use some good selfhosted search engine. I mean all the existing projects (which is just YaCy, to my knowledge) are a bit dated. Nowadays we only got metasearch engines and we're relying on Google, Bing etc.

But I don't need any chatbot enhancements. That's usually something I skip when using Google or Bing because it doesn't work well. The AI summaries tend to be wrong, and it's bad at looking up niche information, which is something I need a search engine to be able to find. The AI just cites the most common slop, or at best the Wikipedia article. But I don't really need any fancy software to get there... So for me, we don't need any AI augmentation.

And I think the old way of googling was fine. Just teach people to put in the words that are likely to be in the article they want to find. That'd be something like "Rust new features 2023" or "homelab backup blog". Sure you can strap on a chatbot and put in entire natural language questions. But I think that's completely unnecessary. We have brains and we're perfectly able to translate our questions into search queries with little effort... If somebody teches us what to type into the search bar, and why.

Yes. Plus the turing machine has an infinite memory tape to write and read. Something that is in scope of mathematics, but we don't have any infinite tapes in reality. That's why we call it a mathematical model and imaginary... and it's a useful model. But not a real machine. Whereas an abacus can actually be built. But an Abacus or a real-world "Turing machine" with a finite tape doesn't teach us a lot about the halting problem and the important theoretical concepts. It wouldn't be such a useful model without those imaginary definitions.

(And I don't really see how someone would confuse that. Knowing what models are, what we use them for, and what maths is, is kind of high-school level science education...)

Sure. I think you're right. I myself want an AI maid loading the dishwasher and doing the laundry and dusting the shelves. A robot vacuum is nice, but that's just a tiny amount of the tedious every-day chores. Plus an AI assistant on my computer, cleaning up the harddrive, sorting my gigabytes of photos...

And I don't think we're there yet. It's maybe the right amount of billions of dollars to pump into that hype if we anticipate all of this happening. But for a lame assistant that can answer questions and get the facts right 90% of the times, and whose attempts to 'improve' my emails are contraproductive lots of the times, isn't really that helpful to me.

And with that it's just an overinflated bubble that is based on expectations, not actual usefulness or yield with the current state of technology.

Personally, I think it's not going to happen soon. I think it'll take another 5-10 years of scientific advancements until we tackle issues like the limited intelligence and that it likes to make up things which aren't really true. And we kind if need that for proper applications. I've tried generative AI for writing and computer coding. But I still have to spend a lot of time to fact-check and rewrite its output. As is, I think AI is limited to some specific tasks.

At the current state of things, AI just feels like being forced on people. There isn't much transparency and a lot happens without people's consent. Training data is taken without consent, and they display AI-written text, often riddled with misinformation to me, without being upfront. I also stop reading most of the times, unless there is a comment section beneath, for me to complain 😉

I'd say just ban them. Doesn't look like a healthy relationship for either side. Worst thing that can happen is they complain and you get to know the reason for their behaviour... And if they're under the impression it will get rid of the posts, banning them will accomplish that, so win-win.

Uh. What do they say to an AI shill, rewriting their social system with AI code? Or a president writing the countries economic strategy with AI? I also believe that's going to have... consequences...

It's a long article. But I'm not sure about the claims. Will we get more efficient computers that work like a brain? I'd say that's scifi. Will we get artificial general intelligence? Current LLMs don't look like they're able to fully achieve that. And how would AI continuously learn? That's an entirely unsolved problem at the scale of LLMs. And if we ask if computer science is science... Why compare it to engineering? I found it's much more aligned with maths at university level...

I'm not sure. I didn't read the entire essay. It sounds to me like it isn't really based on reality. But LLMs are certainly challenging our definition of intelligence.

Edit: And are the history lessons in the text correct? Why do they say a Turing machine is a imaginary concept (which is correct), then say ENIAC became the first one, but then maybe not? Did we invent the binary computation because of reliability issues with vacuum tubes? This is the first time I read that and I highly doubt it. The entire text just looks like a fever dream to me.

I have it role-play for my amusement, bounce ideas and regularly ask it to give me 5 ideas about something, if I'm not creative myself. I also use it for translation. Either copy-paste an entire text or help me phrase things.

I've also fooled around with image generation, music, tried to program a website, had it rephrase my emails... But all of that wasn't super useful to me. At lest not for my everyday tasks.

Other AI things I use (occasionally) are: Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text and text recognition.

Yea, I dunno. Seems investors like buzzwords more than anything else. I'm not really keeping track, but I remember all the crypto hype and then NFTs. I believe that has toned down a bit.

I didn't quote it since it seemed low quality to me. And since OP never engaged, I figured they're not interested in a conversation. Here is ChatGPT:

Chinese text:

用户最后提到智能的诞生，可能认为通过这种全局规则提取和对齐，能够产生更高级的智能系统。这让我想到 AGI（通用人工智能）的追求，即具备广泛适应性和理解能力的 AI。

Translation:

The user finally mentioned the emergence of intelligence, possibly believing that through such global rule extraction and alignment, more advanced intelligent systems could be created. This reminds me of the pursuit of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), that is, AI with broad adaptability and understanding capabilities.

WhatsApp, I don't think anyone. It's pretty much inevitable here in Germany. But I've had several friends delete their Facebook and old Twitter accounts during the past months. I don't really know what Apple users do. I wouldn't be surprised if they just keep using iMessage and whatever services are part of Apple's ecosystem. I mean that's kind of why people buy Apple products in the first place.

I think the mechanism behind that is fairly simple. AI is a massive hype, and companies could attract lots of investor money by slapping the word "AI" on things. And group dynamics makes the rest of the companies to want in, too.

Tja, hier gab es genug gute Frittenbuden für die ganzen Niederländer, die hier zum Einkaufen vorbeikommen. Kein Problem eine Bamischijf oder Erdnusssauce auf die Pommes zu bekommen... Leider hat die beste davon zugemacht und dann ist dort ein Lukas Podolski Döner in das Ladenlokal gekommen 😑

Yeah, seeking support is notoriously difficult. Everyone working in IT knows this. I feel with open-source, it's more the projects which aren't in a classic Free Software domain, who attract beggars. For example the atmosphere of a Github page of a Linux tool will have a completely different atmosphere than a fancy AI tool or addon to some consumer device or service. I see a lot of spam there and demanding tone. While with a lot of more niche projects, people are patient, ask good questions and in return the devs are nice. And people use the thumbsup emoji instead of pinging everyone with a comment...

I feel, though... I you're part of an open source project which doesn't welcome contributions and doesn't want to discuss arbitrary user needs and wants, you should make that clear. I mean Free Software is kind of the default in some domains. If you don't want that as a developer, just add a paragraph of text somewhere prominently, detailing how questions and requests are or aren't welcome. I as a user can't always tell if discussing my questions is a welcome thing and whether this software is supposed to cater for my needs. Unless the project tells me somehow. That also doesn't help with the beggars... But it will help people like me not to waste everyone's time.

I get what you say. I'm still not convinced. With something like like SQL, my query is an exact order. Fetch me these rows, do these operations on those fields and return that. And it does exactly that. While with LLMs, I put in human language, it translates that into some unknown representation and does autocomplete. Which I think is a different mechanism. And also in consequence, it's a different thing that gets returned. I'm thinking of something like asking a database an exact question. Like count the number of users and answer me which servers have the most users. You get the answer to that question. While if I query an AI, that also gives me an answer. And it may be deterministic once I set the temperature to zero. But I found LLMs tend to "augment" their answer with arbitrary "facts". Once it knows that Reddit for example is a big platform, it won't really look at the news article I gave and the numbers in it. If it's a counter-intuitive finding, it'll rather base its answer on its background knowledge and disregard the other numbers, leading to an incorrect answer. And that tends to happen to me with more complex things. So I think it isn't the correct tool for things like summarizations, or half the things databases are concerned with.

With simpler things, I'm completely on your side. It'll almost every time get simple questions right. And it has an astounding pile of knowledge available. It seems to be able to connect information, apply it to other things. I'm always amazed by what it can do. And its shortcomings. I think a lot of those aren't very obvious. I'm a bit curious whether we're one day able to improve LLMs to a state where we can steer AI into being truthful (or creative), control what it bases its responses on...

I mean we kind of want that. I frequently see some Github bot or help bot return incorrect answers. At the same time we want things like Retrieval Augmented Generation, AI assistants helping workers to be more efficient. Or doctors to avoid mistreatment, look through the patient's medical records... But I think these people often confuse AI with a database that gives a summary. And I don't think it is. It will do for the normal case. But you really have to pay attention to what current AI really is, if you use it for critical applications, because it's knowledgeable, but at the same time not super smart. And it tends to be weird with all edge-cases.

And I think that's kind of the difference. "Traditional" computing will handle edge-cases just as well as the regular stuff. It'll look up information and it will match the query or won't return anything. And it can't answer a lot of questions unles you tell the computer exactly what steps to do.

I don't think I'd support that parallel. With SQL, I always get the correct result back (as long as the DB keeps running). And I've tried a bit of programming and asking questions lately, and I must say AI isn't really 100% accurate. And it really depends on the complexity of the query and whether there are any traps on the way. Because in contrast to databases, AI will make up an answer to most questions. Even if it's wrong. And it'll also go ahead and sprinkle in some inaccuracies here and there. I personally struggle a bit with that kind of behaviour. It's super useful to be able to ask expert questions. But I think I like traditional databases, knowledge-bases and documentation better. Becuase with that it's super clear to me whether I get 100% accurate information. Or if I'm reading random answers from Stack Overflow... And AI is often not alike a knowledge database, but one that also rolls dice and decides to fool me every now and then.

I've also printed a few thingies for the car and my experience is, PLA deforms on the first hot day and you can throw it out. PETG lasted 2-3 years for me until it became brittle and broke.

I think on Lemmy, you can't follow people. You can just follow topics (communities, maybe hashtags).

I think that's just another showcase on why we should regulate X-AI, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic and force them to implement watermarking, so we can easily tell which texts and papers were fabricated by their services.

I think that's already happening. The Schwarz Group (Lidl) has invested in cloud computing for business demand, long before Trump got elected again. A few other companies are on track as well. We have SAP and local computing providers. And currently the French are programming a cloud office alternative for government etc. Plus we have some EU funds for those projects. Hopefully these get adopted. And the funds won't be taken away by newer AI strategies.

Ja, die Rechtssysteme sind schon unterschiedlich. Also sowohl in der Auslegung als auch in der Durchführung nachher.

Wann ist denn sowas mal passiert?

Naja, die Geschichte hin zur Machtergreifung und Hindenburg ist schon kompliziert. Ich möchte hier auch nicht zu viel spekulieren was wäre wenn... Aber zumindest der Umgang mit dem ausbrechenden Zweiten Weltkrieg, den Polenfeldzug etc wurde ja nachher anders bewertet und die "Toleranz" z.B. von Churchill als Fehler(?) gesehen. Wenn man Parallelen zu den heutigen rechten Parteien sehen will, sollte man sich meiner Meinung nach vielleicht eher fragen, was die Zivilbevölkerung so zwischen '30 und '45 getan hat. Ich denke da mussten sich auch ein paar Leute fragen wie sie so mit der allgemeinen Situation umgehen möchten. Soweit ich weiß haben Menschen dort auch unterschiedliche Positionen gegenüber den Nazis gehabt und sind unterschiedliche Wege gegangen.

Ich meine wir haben ja viele Optionen. Man kann alles über sich ergehen lassen, man kann so wie die Franzosen ein paar Teslas anzünden. Man kann Leute aus seiner Nachbarschaft herausekeln oder sie willkommen heißen. Man kann sich überlegen ob man die AfD verbietet oder nicht... Ich denke das hat alles Auswirkungen. Wir sehen ja auch aktuell wie sich gesellschaftliche Stimmungen recht schnell verändern. Von Leuten geformt werden... Das sind ja alles Auswirkungen von etwas und ich denke das ist überhaupt nicht in Stein gemeißelt.

Das klingt für mich nach Sozialstaat oder Ordoliberalismus und nicht nach irgendwelchen Lehren aus dem Toleranz-Paradoxon.

Naja, ich finde schon, dass wir uns als Bürger fragen sollten wen wir hier was gestalten lassen wollen. In diesem Kommentarfaden geht es ja eigentlich nicht um staatliche Zensur, sondern um Social Media und Privatkonzerne, die diese "Zensur" oder Moderationsfunktion übernehmen. Und sie haben ja die absolute Kontrolle über den Raum in dem der Großteil unserer Mitmenschen ihr digitales Leben verbringen, kommunizieren, diskutieren, ihre Informationen über die Welt beziehen... Den Rahmen geben die Tech-Konzerne aus Silicon-Valley an. Ihre "Algorithmen" diktieren unsere Weltsicht. Ich denke das hat ganz viel mit dem Toleranz-Paradoxon zu tun. Also entweder finden wir Filterblasen und ungesunde Einflußnahme auf die Gesellschaft gut, oder es gibt ungefähr zwei Möglichkeiten dagegen vorzugehen. Entweder stimmen die Leute mit den Füßen ab, oder der Staat oder die EU reguliert. Und "Regulation" ist ja so ziemlich per definition die Schranke, die gesetzt wird im Kontrast zu Toleranz Großkonzerne machen zu lassen, wasauchimmer sie möchten. Das Andere ist meine individuelle Toleranz gegebüber solchen Geschäftspraktiken. Mittelbar geht es dann auch um Privatsphäre, ob wir unsere Gewerkschaften behalten möchten oder das so machen wie Amazon es möchte... Meines Erachtens ist das alles eine Frage der Toleranz unserer Gesellschaft. Und ziemlich direkte Fragestellung von dem Thema über das wir gerade reden.

Zu Islamfeindlichkeit habe ich nicht viel beizutragen. Ich komme aus dem Ruhrpott. Hier ist das ziemlich normal, dass man eine handvoll Mitschüler, Kommilitonen oder Kollegen hat, die einem von den Problemen mit den (streng) gläubigen Eltern erzählen, oder was sie so zu Ramadan machen oder nicht. Also meine Perspektive wäre da sicherlich anders als die eines AfD-Wählers vom Dorf in den Bundesländern mit mehr Bio-Deutschen-Anteil. Ich kann mich da schlecht hineinversetzen. Ich persönlich habe dem Islam gegenüber dieselbe Toleranz wie gegenüber dem Christentum. Ich finde, die haben sich alle an unsere Rechtsordnung zu halten, und sollen andere Leute bitte nicht mit ihren vor-mittelalterlichen Weltvorstellungen belästigen. Feiern und anbeten darf jede*r wen und was er oder sie will. Aber das ist ja auch der Unterschied zwischen ich mag die Leute wegen Kultur/Religion nicht, oder wegen ihres Aussehens.

Naja, soweit ich weiß gibt es hier Verleumdung, diverse Delikte mit persönlicher Ehre, dank Böhmermann hat man mal an die speziellen alten Paragraphen für Staatsoberhäupter und den Papst gedacht... Man darf den Holocaust nicht leugnen. Und bei der Verleumdung liegt die Beweislast oft bei demjenigen, der/die die Behauptungen aufstellt. Die müssen dann beweisen, dass das Fakt ist. Was so ziemlich entgegengesetzt zum Konzept "Free Speech" ist.

Was ist denn das Problem mit dem Toleranzparadoxon? Ich denke die Geschichte hat doch recht eindrücklich gezeigt, dass Toleranz z.B. gegenüber Faschisten letztendlich zu Problemen führt, weil sie dann doch so schlimm sind wie befürchtet, wenn nicht noch schlimmer. Ich finde es immer sehr okay denen keinen Raum zu geben. Also sowohl im echten Leben als auch hier im Internet dulde ich sowas kaum, spreche die Probleme deutlich an, und ich verlasse auch Plattformen wie X ratz fatz, wenn die von Faschisten übernommen werden. Und wenn ich mir mein direktes Umfeld anschaue, scheint das auch ganz gut zu funktionieren?

Und ein anderes Thema was ich wichtig finde ist die Toleranz gegenüber Großkonzernen. In Amerika ist ja uneingeschränkter Kapitalismus angesagt. Und hier gibt es ja doch Bestrebungen das zu regulieren. Z.B. darf mein Internetprovider nicht jedes meiner privaten Worte weiterverkaufen. Der Arbeitgeber darf mich nicht mit ein paar Dollar fünfzig pro Stunde über den Tisch ziehen und Arbeitssicherheit abschaffen. Ich finde das schon ganz gut, dass wir dem Turbo-Kapitalismus gegenüber nicht ganz so tolerant sind, wie die Amerikaner... Also auch wenn wir nicht perfekt sind, "nutzlos" finde ich das nicht.

Yeah, good choices. I believe for IT infrastructure there isn't really a reason to outsource that to a different country. I live in Germany and we have a plethora of webhosters, domain registrars... I pay less than 5 bucks a year for a .de domain and the hosting is like 6 to 7 a month. Powered all by Free Software. And I got enough memory on the VPS to host Fediverse stuff, a website, mail, chat, cloud sync... Downside is, you need the technical knowledge to maintain it properly.

Ich glaube viel von der Kontroverse ist auch importiert aus den USA. Dort wird immer als erstes Zensur geschrien. Aber eigentlich ist das nicht so ganz unser Kulturkreis. Wir haben keine absolute Redefreiheit. Und eigentlich ist hier auch das Toleranzparadoxon bekannt. Von daher ist nach unseren Maßstäben auch nicht immer jeder entfernte Beitrag Zensur.

If that's true, is there any cheap compute provider leveraging the low cost and providing service to customers abroad?

Uh wow. Last time I traveled outside of Europe, it was still pretty safe. Seems one good option would be to make a cloud backup, wipe the phone before the flight and restore everything using the first hotel wifi. I wonder if creating a second (empty) user account on the phone and unlocking that one at the border is enough to comply with the law.

Try SepiaSearch

There are no tags as of now. Everyone is running the main branch from Git. I suppose that's going to change at some point when PieFed deems itself ready.

I don't think those municipality officials speak for Germany as a whole. I've discussed this on a different platform with some strange people... Generally speaking, we're fine. I've been to protests and they generally work out fine. Most protests for Palestine, too. Sometimes the police or government overstep. I think especially governments are well known for making mistakes. That's what we have a justice system and separation of powers for.

Maybe also consider bribery convictions and we might get rid of a few CDU/CSU politicians as well 🙃

I feel that's a lot more common in the USA than in other countries. Google says in Germany where I live it's 10%. And worldwide it's 30% and in the USA it is 70%. I mean there are worse things out there but to me it is just weird to mess with infants like that.

Tja, vor allem geht sowieso mehr und mehr auf Abonnements, weniger Medienkompetenz. Und heutzutage diktieren ja auch proprietäre "Algorithmen" was wir von der Welt mitbekommen und was nicht. Zudem hat sich Werbung und Tracking als primäres Geschäftsmodell im Internet so ziemlich durchgesetzt. Das alles war damals noch nicht so. Also ich finde Freie Software und die größere Kultur darumherum jedenfalls wichtiger denn je. Und Bildung der Menschen. Aber auch das hat RMS erkannt und tingelt seit Jahrzehnten durch die Welt um den Menschen davon zu predigen...

Huh, we're talking about Germany here. Probably needs several forms, a fax machine ...

Well, Germany has a bit of a special relationship with Jews and Israel, since we killed a few million Jews some 80 years ago. There are special laws in place since after WW2. Spreading misinformation or hate speech concerning that will get you in a lot more trouble than in other countries. I mean other countries also shifted lately. I heard in the USA, the current government loves to take protests including for Palestine as an opportunity to oppress people. I'm not sure if Germany shifted or anything. This has always been a delicate topic. Usually, these protests have been handled kinda okay. With a few bad exceptions. Like when a protest turns violent, which this one seems to have.

I believe technically it's not a deportation. Their stay has been terminated and at this point they've just been asked to leave, not taken into prison. That seems to be an administrative act only. So no process before a judge/court. Objecting to that is the correct first step. The whole act smells like it's unlawful.

Uh, thanks. That really doesn't look good. Usually copyright infringement is a civil matter. And I believe we had sufficient laws to handle that in European countries. I haven't read the cited new law, but I guess that "shortcut" just does away with everyone's privacy. Plus it's going to swamp the courts with cases. I'm not sure if they're bored or anything.... But either they just hand out fines without checking properly... Or, if done properly, this is just a lot of additional work for the justice system. To the benefit of the copyright industry. And either way, it's just bad for the people.

Edit: I believe this is the mentioned government gazette. The copyright changes are in Chapter 2: https://www.e-nomothesia.gr/kat-arxaiotites/n-5179-2025.html

Do you have some source for this IP thing in the EU? I wasn't aware of any new privacy laws.

Not sure if that will happen. Usually you have to commit pretty serious crimes to be deported as a EU citizen. What this article leaves out... Other sources accuse these protesters of being masked and storming the university with clubs and axes, intimidating staff and destroying property. I'm not sure what happened, I wasn't there. Depending on how overexaggerated that axe thing is, it could warrant a deportation. Wearing an illegal t-shirt or insulting someone should not be a reason to get someone deported who lives and works here for some time already. But the justice system is now going to handle it.

Rnote, Skype, Teams and Televido (Live TV stream). Since they're not in the repo or I needed sandboxing. I mean I don't need any help or anything. That laptop has enough storage and a beginner distro on it.

Interesting. I have 4 tools installed as Flatpaks and that makes 4.4 GB