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Comment #49241876
I use Linux Containers managed by Incus for working with Claude. I have a dedicated container for that. It can run its own Docker daemon and other system services if needed. Apart …
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Comment #49224709
> I'd not accept to be treated like children. What is your expectation from such a class? What are you hoping to get out of it? If you merely want a tutor that will help you out na…
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Comment #49196981
EU does not want that. Only a few politicians, some of whom happen to be currently in power, in the EU or elsewhere, are pushing for those agendas. But fortunately, they do not rep…
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Comment #49082468
> what should be done about open weight bioweapon and cyber-offense capabilities? In my opinion, the governments should deploy open-weight AI countermeasures. Because it seems to m…
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Comment #48933118
No. No restrictions should be put on downloads. The main point is that the distribution channels should always be free. What should be gated and limited is the commercial use: rese…
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Comment #48933055
Of course, the music should still be protected against the commercial use or reselling.
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Comment #48933048
The users usually not paying is a problem introduced by those platforms, in my opinion. They make the entire experience too generic for the regular users to care. It seems to me th…
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Comment #48931805
If I was a musician and produced music nowadays, I would not induce regular copyright rights on it. Because, in my opinion, it makes no practical sense. It mostly alienates the use…
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Comment #48832711
> do you ever go over 1gbit No. None of the local ISPs offer speeds above 1 Gbps. However, I use FriendlyElec NanoPi R5C as the main entrypoint router. It has two 2.5G ethernet por…
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Comment #48829230
> The associated username is not validated, so any provided username will succeed when paired with the backdoor password. Great. I am really wondering why should the customers trus…
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Comment #48804838
> if you couldn't do long division by hand But the people studying math and the related fields are able to do division by hand on paper. They are just slow when doing it. I believe…
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Comment #48730255
> Public Money, Public Code This seems like a very good principle to adhere to in general. Anything that is funded by the public needs to serve the public interest, in my opinion. …
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Comment #48545509
> Models that you can run at home (Like Qwen 35B) aren't remotely close to Opus or GPT 5.5. Is that characterization based on some objective facts or benchmarks?
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Comment #48417135
> they inserted themselves I am unaware of such a capability of Cloudflare. I believe it is the site administrators who have inserted Cloudflare in between their sites and their us…
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Comment #48389127
> full on communist Please do not use the term communist lightly, i.e. as an umbrella term for people who express ideas that e.g. more government control or regulation is in some c…
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Comment #48387981
In general, it seems to me that an abstract resource like AI cannot possibly be regulated. Even if US forced their hand and took ownership of the controlling stakes in the current …
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Comment #48247105
> pretending everything else is fine No one pretends that everything else is fine. It is in my opinion reasonable to call out any violations of any law or any violations of the use…
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Comment #48232867
> time spent on reducing memory footprints is seen as wasteful by the business I think that there is a way to change that. If an application runs significantly better on lower end …
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Comment #48221112
> if they are part of the training That would be an intentional poisoning of the models with biased or outright untruthful data. I believe that many people would be unwilling to us…
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Comment #48220919
> but virtually impossible to block the text itself Why do you believe so? As long as there is a clear indication somewhere on the webpage (in the metadata or in the text itself) t…
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Comment #48220839
That is how I understand it as well. Enshittification of the AI tools has officially begun. Maybe we will soon find e.g. AI-generated pictures of ourselves in branded clothes or us…
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Comment #48157673
> How good are you at writing assembly? How is that relevant to the topic of this discussion? Compilation from higher order languages to the machine code is deterministic . It is s…
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Comment #48157616
> hoping the agents will get so good in near future, that there won't be the need for understanding the codebase Agents might get better. But who will own the code and take respons…
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Comment #48157441
> And I haven't written a single line of code myself since what - February maybe? Have you measured the impact of that on your ability to create good code? From my experience, rely…
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Comment #48014438
I see. Then I would ask a follow-up question: "Why is that a problem?"