@SpaceLifeForm you're not the only person who's been saying this for years
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As of Q2 2024 almost half of all US VC investment is going into #AI hypehttps://sherwood.news/business/venture-capital-funding-ai-companies-investments/ -
As of Q2 2024 almost half of all US VC investment is going into #AI hypehttps://sherwood.news/business/venture-capital-funding-ai-companies-investments/As of Q2 2024 almost half of all US VC investment is going into #AI hype
https://sherwood.news/business/venture-capital-funding-ai-companies-investments/That's $27.1B. Twenty-seven point one billion dollars.
[dr Evil's pinky-to-corner-of-mouth intensifies]
What I'm saying is: they are running out of marks to scam out of investment money, folks.
And as much as there is talk about OpenAI's revenue, I have seen nothing about OpenAI or anyone in this space actually making a *profit*.
Apart from shovel-and-pickaxe vendors like #Nvidia, of course.
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Can someone please build an independent, relatively full-featured web browser based on @servo?Can someone please build an independent, relatively full-featured web browser based on @servo?
It's long past due for @mozilla to have some real competition that is not Chrome in a trench coat.
Edit: looks like someone started doing just that!
https://github.com/versotile-org/verso -
This is how user-friendly #Matrix experience is. I am using Firefox ESR.This is how user-friendly #Matrix experience is. I am using Firefox ESR.
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I said it before and I'll say it again:I said it before and I'll say it again:
"AI model learns, therefore it is intelligent" is like saying "computer programs run, therefore they have legs."
Metaphors like "program runs" or "model learns" are useful, but are just that: metaphors.
Drawing conclusions on their basis is folly.
Keep that in mind next time AI-hypers try to draw equivalences between a child going to a museum and then making their own art, and a LLM gobbling up terabytes of text and then generating word salad.
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Oh hey the CEO of the shovel-and-pick company is selling company stock in the middle of a gold rush:https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-sold-580-million-of-stock-how-much-more-he-can-sell/ar-AA1pAfK2In the middle of a goldrush the main shovel-and-pick company stock drops 9% overnight, meaning $279B (yes, that's 279 billion dollars) was wiped off of its value:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/04/asian-chip-stocks-fall-after-nvidia-sell-off-on-wall-street-overnight.htmlEyes on the prize though! There is no way this AI thing is a hyped up bubble. Keep investing! To the moon! WAGMI!!
(h/t @anthropy)
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> #Microsoft confirms that #Windows 11 Recall #AI is not optional — a glitch made it appear so in the Windows 11 24H2 KB5041865 updatehttps://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-confirms-that-windows-11-recall-ai-is-not-optional-a-glitch-ma...> #Microsoft confirms that #Windows 11 Recall #AI is not optional — a glitch made it appear so in the Windows 11 24H2 KB5041865 update
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-confirms-that-windows-11-recall-ai-is-not-optional-a-glitch-made-it-appear-so-in-the-windows-11-24h2-kb5041865-updateBut don't worry, the company that is unable to correctly implement a toggle switch assures us that they definitely implemented this new immensely complex piece of technology nobody asked for directly in the operating system in a way that is secure and under no circumstances puts anyone in danger in ways security researchers said it will.
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Ok, here's the deal on the "YubiKey cloning attack" stuff:Ok, here's the deal on the "YubiKey cloning attack" stuff:
:eyes_opposite: yes, a way to recover private keys from #YubiKey 5 has been found by researchers.
But the attack *requires*:
*physically opening the YubiKey enclosure*
physical access to the YubiKey *while it is authenticating*
non-trivial electronics lab equipment
I cannot stress this enough:
In basically every possible scenario you are safer using a YubiKey or a similar device, than not using one.
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Oh ffs, we're now going to have to deal with a deluge of "YuBiKeYs ArE nOt sAfe" bullcrap, aren't we.Oh ffs, we're now going to have to deal with a deluge of "YuBiKeYs ArE nOt sAfe" bullcrap, aren't we.
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When I started applying for professional jobs, it was an email cover letter with your resume attached, and nearly always you'd get a confirmation of receipt and then at least a form letter if you didn't get an interview.@sennoma I will continue to claim that all this bullshit is creating an opening for ethical coops that don't chase the hype du jour, don't treat people working for them like trash, and don't consider their customers marks to be swindled.
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Oh hey the CEO of the shovel-and-pick company is selling company stock in the middle of a gold rush:https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-sold-580-million-of-stock-how-much-more-he-can-sell/ar-AA1pAfK2Oh hey the CEO of the shovel-and-pick company is selling company stock in the middle of a gold rush:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-sold-580-million-of-stock-how-much-more-he-can-sell/ar-AA1pAfK2But don't worry, the gold rush is going strong! No bubble there, no sirree.
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Whenever Meta opens its PR mouth about anything "AI" related (or whatever hype they'll be pushing next year), journalists should respond with:Whenever Meta opens its PR mouth about anything "AI" related (or whatever hype they'll be pushing next year), journalists should respond with:
"That's great. How's the Metaverse going though?"
:blobcatcoffee:
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I am liking how this time around a lot of people are outright calling the media out on their parroting Telegram's PR bullshit about how "encrypted, secure, private" the service is.Yesterday I shared my own write-up on Telegram's failings, today I came across Matthew Green's stellar blogpost:
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-app/And this blogpost *starts* with calling the media out on this.
Fantastic.
At this point it's clear Telegram has no interest in fixing their stuff. We should not be talking to them, we should be talking about them to the media so that they stop promoting it.
Because as I said yesterday: that constitutes journalistic malpractice.
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I am liking how this time around a lot of people are outright calling the media out on their parroting Telegram's PR bullshit about how "encrypted, secure, private" the service is.I am liking how this time around a lot of people are outright calling the media out on their parroting Telegram's PR bullshit about how "encrypted, secure, private" the service is.
(it is not.)
As in, not just writing about how Telegram is neither of these things, but very clearly pointing a finger at the media and going: "stop spreading this misinformation, you are putting people in danger."
Keep this pressure on!
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At the recent XOXO conference, I spoke about that burning feeling I get right in my upper abdomen when I’m overwhelmed with excitement or inspiration or drive to do something.@molly0xfff I am so excited we get to be excited again!
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#Telegram and #Durov are once again in the media, so I translated my May piece about the service to English:@m you might want to double check on Matrix though:
https://soatok.blog/2024/08/14/security-issues-in-matrixs-olm-library/Matrix is a decent IRC replacement, but a secure messenger it is not. I've always felt that encryption was bolted-on as an afterthought in it and that that will lead to tears, and as time goes by I get more and more proof of this.
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#Telegram and #Durov are once again in the media, so I translated my May piece about the service to English:#Telegram and #Durov are once again in the media, so I translated my May piece about the service to English:
Telegram is neither "secure" nor "encrypted"
https://rys.io/en/171.htmlCalling Telegram "secure" or "encrypted" is misleading, and is journalistic malpractice.
Telegram itself seems to mislead about it on purpose.
Telegram's encryption protocol is suspicious and transmits cleartext device identifiers with every message.
They have been called out for it many times, and refuse to change.
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Is it just me or is "AI" becoming cringe?@datarama @dfirnotes any far-enough-future robot is indistinguishable from alien?
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Is it just me or is "AI" becoming cringe?@vwbusguy I mean at this point the very term became meaningless.
Or, perhaps, it started to mean (as you kind of alluded to) "that weird crap that got shoehorned into an otherwise useful product or service in a completely un-useful (or outright detrimental) way."
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Is it just me or is "AI" becoming cringe?Is it just me or is "AI" becoming cringe?