Notices by Moritz Negwer (moritz_negwer@mstdn.science)

@dalias Nice summary. This is far outside my expertise, so I only have to offer a crude analogy:

The trope used to be that data is the new oil, so by that analogy LLMs would be the distilled gasoline?

(Note how this analogy implies that the result powers a huge speedup in e.g. commerce and warfare. Plus brutal battles over control of the oil fields / data warehouses, often ending with autocrats in charge.)

@dalias TIL that mobile Firefox indeed does not display about:config. Tried your method and found that the value is set to "false" for me by default (Firefox on Android, from the google play store). Not sure why, but I figure that's good news.

20k people protesting against the draconian > 1 billion € cuts to the dutch education system, filling the Malieveld in The Hague.
You know that the right-wing government messed up when this is opposed by students, university boards, the heads of the opposition, *and a majority of their own voters*!

#WOinActie #doehetniet #stopdebezuiningen

@timcoffman @cstross
That was my first association too. For context: Sci-Fi/Horror author Charles Stross' hacker conference keynote about how Corporations are just very slow AIs, running on people and paperwork. Well worth a listen.

Video: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future
Transcript: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html

@futurebird: My takeaway: If not for the ants, corporations might be considered the dominant species on the planet already (and with insecticides and climate change, corporations might yet win).