I think for the big apps like Whatsapp and Facebook it makes sense that the companies want to hide the features that give users control beyond the “standard” way of using the app in places where they cannot find it.

The article criticized the closing of the Internet by Tehran, but the Internet is clear vulnerability that can be exploited in times of war.

That guy (Rich) got a big piece of shit up his ass. He goes all the way to quote Socrates. It’s funny.

This is just trolling, at this point.

https://zenodo.org/records/15170676

Creating unbiased public, open-source alternatives to corporate-controlled models.

Unbiased? I don’t think that’s possible, sir.

I personally find weird the read on web mechanism.

I think many people wouldn’t like to live under a “Nerd Reich”, so it’s only natural that there is a mainstream article against that. I’m assuming people who don’t understand anything about the technology that keeps their attention most of the time are concerned about the possibility. Society losing grip over itself, that is, language (social skills) not being the primary characteristic of the successful anymore. That is a blow conventional people won’t take easily.

Awesome discussion.

People not accepting that other people got a easier time doing certain things than others is certainly a problem, but too much blaming isn’t good as well.

It doesn’t matter if they’re nerds or not. What matters is where society is swaying to.

The Court doesn’t even hide its unfairness. This isn’t good.

I think that if the algorithm is so broken to the point of only listing things that are interesting to Google, the search is beyond redemption.

Crawling the web is an important right for access of information. I think big crawlers shouldn’t dominate the market. Especially since Google isn’t up to par to find anything that is wanted anymore.

You see this on GitHub already. People publish paper results and manuals, along with a few files, and treat that as if it were open source. And this isn’t limited to LLMs, people with CNN papers or crawlers and other results publish a few files and the results on GitHub as if it were open source. I think this is a clash between current scientific community thinking + Big Tech vs Free Software + Free Culture initiatives.

Additionally, you can’t expect something Microsoft/Meta touches to remain untainted for long.

#ebooks is composed of datahoarders that have a lot of stuff available. You declare the data source you’re getting the book from (e.g. Oatmeal) and then the name of the book.

That was kind of expected, but Claude isn’t that good either.

I firmly believe that connecting people to their IRL friends is an important part of the potential of the Internet, as it is shown by Facebook, for example.

But I also believe there are people looking to connect with new people and finding a community where they can express themselves wholly. I think the current Internet is weak in this regard, weaker than it has been before, but I think it’s possible to build a place where people can connect.

Sometimes Claude Haiku (which has few billion parameters) knows things that ChatGPT doesn’t.