Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • The thing about free speech is that there’s a whole lot of legislation surrounding it. At the moment, every single fediverse instance is run by( a small group of) people, many of them are run by individuals who are legally responsible for the content that’s posted on their site.

    In addition, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, better known as the DMCA and the General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, have requirements for people who own and publish data, like the people who run instances, not to mention privacy acts and myriad other provisions and laws.

    Non compliance is very easy and costly, so instances who are aware of this are cautious in what they allow on their instance.

    Finally, many instances want to create a community with a social cohesion and associated standards that they, depending on the level, encourage or enforce.

    Why any instance bans something at any one time can generally be traced back to these reasons.

    Of course there are also instances where it’s completely open season. Don’t expect these to stick around once lawyers get involved.



  • No, you didn’t “edit” your mistake, you completely changed the meaning of your response which makes anything after it look absurd.

    You originally stated that an algorithm was intelligence, the implication being that using your logic, you thought that a calculator was intelligent.

    As far as the meaning of AI, you clearly don’t understand the landscape surrounding the hyperbolic assertions made by ignorant journalism about the topic.

    Machine learning is one aspect of the landscape, useful as it is, intelligence it is not.

    LLM emissions on the other hand appear to emulate enough grammatically correct language to fool many people some of the time, leading to their mistaken belief that what is happening is intelligence rather than, at least from their perspective, magic.

    (Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke)

    So, intelligence it is not, Assumed Intelligence is what it is, or autocorrect gone uppity if you prefer, an algorithm either way.









  • Seriously? From the README:

    I would like to first fix the kernel headers issues that break the UAPI for C++ compilers (because they use C++ keywords that break C++ code) and the Windows filesystem (Windows filesystem is case-insensitive, so some headers cannot be stored on Windows filesystems).

    I can’t wait to see this kernel become dependent on .NET

    If you’re wondering, this is what embrace, extend and extinguish looks like.