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I’ve been in fediverse since API debacle, I feel the same vibes as I do on Reddit, both the good parts and bad.

For example, same controversies on Reddit also exist here, and have the same talking points and flamewar nature. I had an opinion about Pitbulls (that an owner should be far more responsible than the average owner - I know, controversial take), which got me banned from that sub and several other furry related subs. Which is something that also happens on Reddit when you tick off a moderator of several subs

So for the most part, I’m just a lurker that comes here to get some memes. Sometimes I share my opinion if I feel like it. But I don’t necessarily feel that it’s an upgrade from Reddit in terms of communities.

Apathy is a powerful tool for fascist regimes. The same happened in Italy and Germany back in the day

Yeah that was a weird chapter in the bible

In their observations and interviews with employees of the 200-person company, the researchers found that generative AI didn’t free up time—it expanded what workers felt capable of, and willing, to take on.

The title is either poorly thought out, or bait lol

TL;DR: the study says that AI doesn’t save time, but it intensifies work because the people using it feel more confident in tackling more things (that’s my interpretation after skimming it)

Better specs sure, but I would sooner cut my wrists than to try to work on an iOS device

Copy pasting a comment that I saw on Reddit

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Link to the original study (with a less sensationalized title):

https://zkae.io/

A few important notes:

• the study is about Bitwarden, LastPass, Dashlane and 1Password. Proton Pass isn’t mentioned.

• the study presumes that they’re working with a malicious server (read this as compromised server, controlled by an attacker). The attacks they talk about in the article would not work on a normal server. Here’s their quote:

No need to panic: all of our attacks presume a malicious server. We have no reason to believe that the password manager vendors are currently malicious or compromised, and as long as things stay that way, your passwords are safe. That said, password managers are high-value targets, and breaches do happen.

• Here’s another quote, about other password managers:

You can ask your provider the following questions:

1. ⁠Do you offer end-to-end encryption? What security do you provide in case your server infrastructure were to be compromised?

2. How do you check that public keys and public-key ciphertexts are authentic?

3. How do you authenticate security-critical settings, such as the KDF type and the iteration count?

4. Do you provide integrity guarantees for a user’s vault as a whole? Can a malicious server add items to your vault?

You can also ask your favourite password manager to commission an audit checking for our attacks in their products.

• If you still feel unsure/unsafe, then adopt an offline password manager (I highly recommend keepassXC).

Latin. For no specific reason, it would just be cool

Yeah you’re right, I was just making a joke.

But it does create some silly situations like you said

I could’ve told you that for free, no need for a study

My company forced us to use only Chrome on our PC’s and one of the things I was worried about was the ads. I put youtube in the background while I work.

And I was surprised by how… My experience was exactly the same as Firefox and Brave. Ok, actually, one or two ads managed to slip through and appeared in the front page - albeit rarely and randomly - but I never got those ads at the beginning of the video. On other websites, I never got ads.

I was wondering, then, if there was some catch. Maybe the trackers would still get through or something. But according to that link, not even that? lol

Probably Kagi. Everyone that uses it swears by it, in my experience.

I tried it for a bit (until the free searches ran out), and it’s genuinely good. But I don’t use search engines enough to justify paying subscription.

That’s pretty much it. I don’t think there are other ways.

Sorry for the tangent, but your post reminded me of Herodotus and his book “Histories”. If anyone reading this don’t know who that is, he’s called “The Father of History” for being the first (known) historian writing down events and history.

If you read his book, it’s full of “he said that, she mentioned this, I heard about, etc”. It’s an interesting experience compared to reading modern books, because modern books reference each other and won’t bother you with where they got that info in the text itself, they’ll just give you the sources at the bottom of the page or at the end of the book. Herodotus didn’t have that, he had to rely on what people said.

This resulted in some interesting accounts. For example, he talks about enormous “ants” that were about the size of foxes, lived in the hills, and carried away piles of sand that contained gold dust, which the locals collected and turned into wealth.

There’s some theories that he was likely talking about marmots, but we’ll never know for certainty. It may have been him just misinterpreting accounts, or maybe it was just someone who pulled his leg and he believed them.

Where I’m getting at, every book/article/etc we have is actually just writing down what someone else said/wrote with new insights. It’s easy to forget that nowadays with modern books and articles, “Histories” is a reminder of that fact.

I would love to read an independent study on this, but this is from Anthropic (the guys that make Claude) so it’s definitely biased.

Speaking for myself, I’ve been using LLM’s to help out with jumps in small gaps of knowledge. Like for example, I know what I need to do, I just don’t know/remember the specific functions or libraries that I need to do that in Python. LLM is extremely useful for these moments; and it’s faster than searching and asking on forums. And to be transparent, I did learn a few tricks here and there.

But if someone lets the LLM do most of the work - like vibe coders - I doubt they will learn anything.

but they’re easily outnumbered by the console market

I don’t think this is the case nowadays. I remember reading an article that PC market was outselling the console market.

But yes, the mobile market is a giant

edit: found it: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/new-report-says-pc-games-are-outselling-console-games-calling-pc-gaming-a-bright-spot-in-a-troubled-industry/

PC’s consumer spending in 2024 was ~$30B, while consoles was $18B (including the Switch)

Anyone managed to download the report? Here it just says “form submitted” and then nothing happens. No emails no nothing.

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