Recently deepwiki links started popping up in my search results, when I wanted to research some software. They offered so much genenerated ‘documentation’ that it caused so much confusion and irritation to me, I installed an extension just to block this site from my search results.

Why do I ever need to read the ‘architecture’ or whatever from an ancient no longer maintained project. The deepwiki page didn’t mention that it isn’t maintained, but the readme.md in the repo states it clearly at the very top with big letters…

Any suggestion for a browser plugin that blocks AIslop pages from search results? I think we really need some kind of ad block for this, but differently. A well maintained list of pages containing AI slop and then filtering out those pages from search results instead. So that the internet becomes/remains usable and mostly unpoisend by this stuff.

AIslop should never outrank human created content.

I am not someone that cries about the end times much, but… If this issues isn’t addressed effectively and the internet becomes filled with aislop that outrank and thus hide human content… it becomes useless… We might really have to look for a new one…

The internet is for connecting humans through their machines. If it starts to exist without requiring humans, then it can be its own thing and humans have to find something else then.

/rant

“They dream …” means they dream at this moment.

“They are dreaming …” means they started to dream in the past and are still dreaming now.

“They dreamt …” means they were dreaming in the past, but are not dreaming now.

“They were dreaming …” means they started dreaming in the past, and might still be dreaming now.

If generative machine learning would be what they where dreaming about, then they would have finished dreaming, so you’d say dreamt.

If they were dreaming about full general AI, which doesn’t exist yet, they would still have to dream about it, hence they would be dreaming or just currently dream.

If you don’t know exactly what they were dreaming about and if they are still dreaming or not, you’d can only say they were dreaming about whatever they thought AI is in the past.

Tons of people in STEM fields dreamt about it for years.

Not a native English speaker but “dreamt” is past tense, so they stopped dreaming, implying they stopped because now we have “AI”.

Prediction and pattern recognition is not general AI. This is just what LLMs and image generators do. They find plausible continuations starting from a noise to better fit the disired outcome. They don’t have real contextual knowledge about a domain. To them everything is just numbers that can be manipulated until they fit better. They don’t just instantly know the correct or incorrect answer because of a deeper understanding on the matter.

Well… We still don’t have AI. We got language and picture generators…

This is what Anubis is for. Bots started ignoring robots.txt so now we have to set up that for everything.

That really depends on your definition of ‘left-wing’.

Because I would argue that ‘left-wing’ is not only a descriptor for a political agenda. It also that includes economic issues. To me an economic system is pretty important part of a political system.

For instance, I would say that ‘free market communism’ doesn’t exist. I would also say that ‘authoritarian communism’ doesn’t exist. To me authoritarian and socialistic ideas are not compatible, because power is in the hands of an elite, and control mechanisms of that power were never strong enough. Control mechanisms of democracies worked generally better, but democracies also need to be properly defended and maintained.

IronFox

There are two versions of the bangle.js watch. The second version looks pretty similar to the pinetime.

I used to use the pinetime for a while and now have the bangle.js 2 watch.

Pinetime is cheaper in DE than the bangle.js (40€ vs 90€ IIRC).

Both are nice watches and integrate well with gadgetbridge and have a couple of weeks battery. Which is much more then what you get from a Android watch.

Basically, I couldn’t claim capitalism is perfect, but whether replacing the system or not, you need to address the greedy human culture beneath it.

Chicken, egg.

System changes leads to cultural change leads to system change.

You cannot just change the culture, but you can change the system.

No. There are no perfect systems. Every system will require constant vigilance and adaption to work. The point is that the goal of disincentivizing greedy behavior is actually clearly stated and done.

I really don’t think it’s just “economic culture” as you’ve described.

I didn’t say it is just economic culture that is the issue here…

I really don’t think people are accurate about the feeling that “Obtaining and hoarding valuable things” is an act borne out of the laws of our current society.

Also true, but what is? Is your point that it is human nature? I would disagree there, humans have the capacity of acting against greed and selfishness. Question is why they are so often acting greedy and selfish then?

My answer would be two options with both apply to some degree, and there might be more:

1. Resources are scarce and distributed non equally. So hoarding gives power over others
2. The system incentivizes greedy behavior, by it’s structure and rules. Either by actively, by giving greedy people direct rewards, or passively by not punishing greedy behavior.

Other ideas?

Destinction without difference. Government and economic culture is part of the economic system.

Z should be inverted in the top picture.

SELinux protects systems from bugs in software. Not against users with full root privileges using their own hardware.

True. But most good stuff isn’t a solution for everyone. It takes real effort to escape vendor-lockin. Bigtech made sure of that.

If something is too simple to set up or requires no set up, or comes from a for-profit company, but doesn’t cost anything, then it always suspicious.

I am just saying that the issue is not with passkey itself, but the individual implementations and that google/twitter/etc. is pushed towards regular users.

Critiquing passkey because vendor-lockin is like critiquing HTML for allowing ads.

True. But I would say that this isn’t an issue intrinsic with passkey. Many people don’t have time/energy or the attitude to think critically about technology and are herded towards Google/X-corp/etc with offers of convenience and because they are often the only offered choice on the web sites. But from the POV of passkey they just act as a password manager.

I use them with bitwarden and a self hosted vaultwarden. If my phone breaks, no issue. If my server breaks, I got local backups… Keys are stored encrypted in a postgres database for which I have access, if I need to restore it. No lock-in issue or risk of loosing access when one or two devices break.

A better, well defined API for password managers to insert login information to the site compared to text boxes.

I self host vaultwarden, and use bitwarden clients everywhere. Passkeys are stored there

Passkeys to me, are a better way to insert login information. Some developers don’t think of passwords getting automatically filled in, so this autofill sometimes breaks. Passkeys might be a improved interface to integrate password managers. Also, sometimes 2FA keys from my bitwarden client gets copied into the clipboard, which sometimes overwrites the stuff I wanted to preserve in there. This does not happen with passkeys.