Yeah… I’m currently really shocked and afraid of the ongoing push of chat control on Europe as well
That will be a major impact on privacy and without reason
And they just try again and again - they don’t even have a pause, they just start again and hope, that it will go through one time

Not sure how to escape it, and if, you are already labelled a terrorist
Like Spanish police looks if you have a pixel with GrapheneOS, because then they think you’re a drug dealer

Or years ago the apartment of a guy in Vienna got raided and all his work IT devices confiscated, just because he ran a remote VPS as Tor exit node

Not sure what we can do

I grew up in the internet and it was a great place.
Now people without any knowledge want to take this all away…

Yeah, because the EU doesn’t exist as THE trading partner

That’s why we have it in the first place, to not be able to be blackmailed by such idiots

I was more thinking about 3rd parties using Microsoft, Google, Facebook logins for their shit, so can get tracked even better

But, yes, you’re right

…or a Google, Facebook, or… account

But yes

I didn’t say it’s happening - as you said, it sadly isn’t on the scale needed.

I just said, we need to do that.

Just a short comment on the energy crisis in Europe:

Yeah, that hit us. No doubt.
But we couldn’t go on like that anyway. We need to decentralise energy and if possible focus on renewables instead of oil/gas - doesn’t matter where it’s from

For example, I do like the idea to take green hydrogen, that’s hard to store and transport, and take CO2 from the atmosphere to produce methan.
We could be gathering at least some independence that way and it would be better for all of us, because we won’t produce that much CO2

At least theoretically, those are mostly loans to Ukraine and not gifted money, isn’t it?

I know, it’s hard now, some people even in Austria are complaining, but we’re keeping the war away with that

Cocaine gives you a short burst, Adderall gives gives some longer lasting wakeness

Every pomodoro break a line…sounds actually sustainable to get through the day

I understand that

The right wing idiots will think though “haha, those idiots can’t flee anymore and be on our pocket”

Edit: And I personally just don’t feel well, with forcing people into the military, when they try to flee the war
Doesn’t matter who it benefits

Oh come on…

Chat control, pesticides and now this

EU is getting worse and worse - and I’m a fucking proponent of a strong European alliance
But I’m having a harder time by now explaining to right wing idiots, why this alliance is good, despite all the problems, we should work on

At least this time, those right wing idiots are still desperately sucking up russian propaganda, so they probably see this as a good move

But everything really starts to suck…

It’s a compromise.
It supports modern hardware well enough and the environment is good enough.
I do like the cleaned up state of BSD better, but the missing hardware support is pretty much killing that.

Also, all the machines I’m developing for and controlling are running some kind of RT Linux.
So I don’t have that much friction between systems.

wE aLsO haD hOT daYs, wHen i WaS yOunG!

So, you were putting down fences?
I guess, that’s good. Why did you stop?

Good that the US has free speech and such

I once wanted to show my wife what sound our (now sadly deceased) cat was doing in a fight
He was already sick at the time, but came immediately running, standing by my side against everything I was seemingly fighting against

He was pissed at me for the rest of the day to do such a thing without cause, but I knew, he would be there for me

That one looks, as if he would actually protect you

That’s all correct and true

I was on a business trip, very sleep deprived and needed a fast solution

So, I guess, this was the tool for the job

Probably it got lucky, because with other things it just fucked up after that
So, my trust into it is nil
But for quick scripts, that would take me much longer to build, it’s working

But I’m also usually using local models

I’m aware of their power and water consumption, and you’re right in that

Edit: and besides the environmental impact, which I don’t use them often or only locally, I’m still a tech guy and want to know, what they’re actually capable of
Which still isn’t much and I don’t see LLMs getting better with more complexity

There are to many problems
We have programming languages for reason, because they’re mathematically sound and not ambiguous
Human speech just isn’t and that’s already the point, why LLMs can never really work for that

But I was surprised, that it once came up with a solution to filter my log files and calculate some statistics out of it
And I have to give it that

I just fell for the Fizzy clean toilet stuff
Had pictures of pouring one spoon of powder in and it will foam up and clean the whole toilet

It’s… it’s shit.

There are some bubbles and foam, but they don’t really get further than water level
Complete snake oil - and I should’ve known…but it just was too tempting

Yeah, same here

I needed to calculate some statistics from log files and that would have taken me ages - mostly because my sed-/awk-fu is lacking

But with AI I got a script in half an hour - after correcting it a few times - and it is reasonable ok enough for the job

I tried to refactor a really large spaghetti state machine with AI, but they’re all failing, because it’s too large

It’s nice to get boiler plate code written, but when it comes to overview of logic on a large project, they obviously can’t keep up

As you said, it’s a tool. But just like with any tool, you shouldn’t use it for every use case