Notices by Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)

That story about an AI startup collapsing after it turned out to be 700 Indian developers in a Trenchcoat? It was a made up story by a crypto guy that became clickbait, published unchecked by tech media everywhere. Read the real story behind Builder.ai here: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/builder-ai-did-not-fake-ai/

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Whenever I post anything that remotely expresses support for Palestinian history and culture or when I mention the suffering of Palestinian people, my instance admin immediately gets reports from German users, accusing me of blatant antisemitism and Hamas support. My instance admin typically reacts with suspending these users from interacting with my instance.

I admit that I am missing strong voices from Europe in the discussions around the CRA (Cyber Resilience Act) and DMA (Digital Markets Act). I see a lot of workshops and mini conferences in Brussels, filled with lawyers and other experts from the US and UK, telling us Europeans what it all means. Le sigh.

Counterproductive infighting that delays the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community from reaching World Domination while alienating progress: BSD v Linux, KDE v Gnome, Emacs v vim, systemd v SysV init, GPL v MIT/BSD 2/3 clause, X11 v Wayland. And that's just part of the list. If we could finally move from ego driven being "against" to a cooperative "what next?" — that would be nice. #GoodNight

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Among the 8 crew member of the Madleen still held in custody by Israel is a member of the European parliament, Rima Hassan. Although the crew was detained in international waters, Israel accuses them of illegal entry on Israel territory. When they sign a document to accept that accusation, they will be deported. The 8 refused to sign said document, for obvious reasons.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/politics/1619643/calls-for-release-of-mep-detained-aboard-of-gaza-bound-aid-boat

Megawatt chargers now exist that can add 400km of range in 5 minutes to an electric car's battery. Demonstrated by BYD, the Chinese EV (Electric Vehicle) manufacturer that plans to produce 5 million TVs this year. https://spectrum.ieee.org/byd-megawatt-charging

@dnkboston I don’t. I’m just saying they grew out of that phase. That doesn’t mean they became „good“ people.

@dnkboston Absolutely. His foundation demanded that hospitals in Africa switched to Windows from their Linux based systems to be eligible to get funded.

@etchedpixels Maybe I should start to read Pratchett. I admit I never did.

Addendum: Now there is a way to take their power away. But that’s a very long term game. One that needs a generation to become common sense. That’s the project I’m working on since 15+ years and which will take another 5 years to be accepted and not fringe. But that’s a story for another thread.

This separates them from the „old“ gang of Techbros. Steve Jobs (Apple), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Andy von Bechtolsheim (SUN Microsystems). They grew out of that phase. Larry Ellison (Oracle) being the exception, but he also knew his limits. Peter Thiel is, IMHO (In My Humble Opinion), the executioner of what Ellison dreamed of. Total control, total surveillance, total obedience.

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Now in this also lies the recipe for their grand downfall. They think transactional, using (less powerful) others to advance their goals. This ultimately leads to the clash of titans and not the global conspiracy of the powerful. The Musk/Trump fallout is a first sign. Thiel will burn Musk because he doesn’t see him as equal. The obvious risk is that we all will suffer from that clash. And names are interchangeable. There are more, currently unknown, players in the billionaire club.

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Think of India, China and the cryptocurrency world. PayPal (where Musk and Thiel started) was just the beginning. And these new evil robber barons are getting better at staying in the background. Le sigh.

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Listening to a 6 part (German) podcast on Peter Thiel. And something dawns on me. The „new“ Techbros seemingly all never switched to critical thinking but are stuck in their 14-18 year old thinking when they were impressed with Ayn Rand, Carl Schmitt, René Girard and buried themselves in the lonesome hero narrative. That they and only they can save the world. That states, taxes and compromises are evil. And they never grew out of that. Because they got rich, young.

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Further proof that "AI" behaves just like a sealioning reply guy ;) Even if told what the working solution is, it simply ignores it.

"We uncover surprising limitations in LRMs’ ability to perform exact computation, including their failure to benefit from explicit algorithms and their inconsistent reasoning across puzzle types."

Idem, Page 3

On the limits of LLMs (Large Language models) and LRMs (Large Reasoning Models). The TL;DR: "Our findings reveal fundamental limitations in current models: despite sophisticated self-reflection mechanisms, these models fail to develop generalizable reasoning capabilities beyond certain complexity thresholds." Meaning: accuracy collapse.

Interesting paper from Apple. https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf

#AI #LLM #LRM

When you’re a Dutchie living in another country, you sometimes get the overwhelming desire to eat a kroket, frikandel speciaal or bitterballen. This is one of these moments. Damn :)

Ich möchte mich bei den Hardlinern der CDU/CSU und der EU bedanken.

Dafür, dass es wieder Grenzkontrollen gibt.

Denn damit kann ich meinen Kindern endlich zeigen wie schrecklich das alles früher war und wieviel besser es danach wurde mit Schengen und wie wir jetzt alle zusammen dafür kämpfen müssen das wir das so schnell wie es nur geht wieder zurück bekommen.

Wer Anzeichen von Sarkasmus findet darf sich gesegnet fühlen ;)

Reality check. While the people in San Diego’s South Park neighborhood managed to force Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to withdraw, I want to focus your attention on how they look. Like soldiers invading their own country. That is why I use the term #Brownshirts, a reference to the violent Nazi thugs, roaming the streets in Germany in the 1920/30s. Some people say that's too harsh, I say I studied history for reasons

https://mstdn.social/@990000/114612073593359023

Scheinbar hat Putin die CDU/CSU ziemlich erfolgreich unterwandert. Es ist schon erstaunlich, wie man dort vereint daran arbeitet den Habeck'schen Kraftakt um unabhängig vom russischen Gas und Öl zu werden so schnell wie möglich wieder rückgängig machen will. Kretschmer, Reiche und der allgemeine Hass auf alles was grün ist. Krass.