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Exactly, my vaccine against GenAI chatbots is to not use them, which is the equivalent of masking when covid vaccines were not available. I am just waiting for the GenAI vaccines (…

Indeed. It's a step forward and two backwards, personally I don't have payment cards on the phone wallet because one company surveilling my purchases is enough. Hopefully there wil…

How many devs would be able to keep working if GitHub disappeared tomorrow? You can do inference on SOME laptops, but the current shape of GenAI need massive data centers to be use…

You don't need to have a "good knowledge" of a misused technology to hate it when it's used by malevolent people. In the same way I don't need to be a virologist to know that is be…

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The idea is that merchants will ditch the card-pos in the long run. You scan a QR-code or send money through some app. Satispay does that in Italy and got massive rollout from stor…

Google started to crap on search six years ago. At this point anyone choosing to use google search (I am excluding here all the people that are not aware other search engines exist…

Samsung is making heaps of money thanks to AI-induced RAM shortages, workers rightfully want a piece of that cake too.

No, simply 95% of games don't have copy and anti cheat, and some anti cheats run ok on Linux

It's almost as if putting competent people in the right place and with the right budget is the best way to achieve government/public-funded results...

With the (somehow sadly) added value that the TV broadcast algorithm is kinda known by everyone (morning programs, prime time etc), and that if there wasn't nothing interesting to …

Honestly surprised that Italian municipalities are doing relatively well compared to other countries. Maybe it helped a push from the government to have a shared design for municip…

And then Google is moving at full speed to lock-up the whole Android experience (bootloaders, OS, app store, etc.) so that even tech-savvy consumers are forced to get new, crappier…

It's a quid pro quo from Valve. They are investing profusely in Linux ecosystems, and the distro-devs are following that. Meanwhile Epic Games still lacks a first-party app on linu…

It seems that Zig people are following the path of ZeroMQ [1]: "To enforce collective ownership of the project, which increases economic incentive to Contributors and reduces the r…

If you see them, why don't you help squash them?

Not at all, if you have a lot of data coming from imperfect hardware (which can mean both a fixed bias and unknown variance), and you don't know the variance for plenty of practica…

On other news, the AI company recently found to have poor cybersecurity posture, still has poor cybersecurity.

If this was a peer-reviewed paper, it won't pass. - Is the wearable accurate enough to be sure that 3bpm is not a measurement fluke? - Why did you use the minimum heart rate value …

Honestly impressed! While humanoid legs are an interesting challenge from a technical point of view, there are plenty of examples in nature (roadrunners) and tech (anything with wh…

Fair, I forgot about aphantasia! The whole plan for AGI is still built on creaky eugenic foundations: measuring intelligence to distinguish who is "intelligent" and who is not. The…

Every week we are 50% closer to shifting the goalpost... from the paper "AI systems already possess some capabilities not found in humans, such as LiDAR perception and native image…

Except now we get websites that need to download 20-25MB of "latest cool framework" to show you a blurb of text because programmers before you created unnecessary complexity that n…

Dijkstra understood it 50 years ago, and again 26 years ago [1]. Nothing changes. Malpractice just propagate and there are zero incentives to build simple, small, and maintainable …