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It highly depends on country, region, socioeconomic factors etc.

Unfortunately, unless it is a moderators’ rule, this just won’t happen.

Cancel or allow??

Google wants to force Gemini on my Pixel. So I nuked Android.

And what do you use now?

We are fine. The next generations are doomed with the tech we created.

I think the actual problem here is that if the product people can’t learn such a simple thing by themselves, they also won’t be able to correctly prompt the LLM to their use case.

They said, I do think LLMs can boost productivity a lot. I’m learning a new framework and since there’s so much details to learn about it, it’s fast to ask ChatGPT what’s the proper way to do X on this framework etc. Although that only works because I already studied the foundation concepts of that framework first.

The problem is experts in AI are biased towards AI (it pays their salaries).

Ah, the eagerness to publish some “news” based on a Tweet or a Reddit post from a random person with no confirmation at all.

I don’t trust my mobile - they’re much harder to make private and “yours” than a desktop.

Still mobile phones are designed with much more security in mind than desktop environments, and basically everybody has a device.

I always felt like I was alone in this thinking. I think anyone with a bit of a security mindset don’t want everything connected, besides it makes them more expensive and easier to break.

It’s more that there is a vocal minority against it. I’d guess most of us are mostly neutral about it, we see the problems and the benefits but don’t see the need to comment everywhere about our feelings towards it.

They’re saying Windows will lock away some customization, but you don’t need a key to use it nowadays.

To be fair, it seems that even Windows ARM machines will have soldered RAMs.

I was gonna say that. Imagine trusting some weapon instructed by a fine-tuned LLM that has no logic embedded in it.

I don’t currently use a VPN but my impression is that nowadays I’d be greeted with captchas everywhere, is that wrong?

YouTube hasn’t gone down that route yet.

And if they ever do, I’m sure at least 90% of premium users will cancel immediately. I like the quality of the curated channels I subscribe, but I won’t die if I don’t watch YouTube anymore. In the end it’s just the same type of content that could be a blog just as well, but unfortunately most people nowadays don’t read anymore.

It’s just how machine learning has been since ever.

We only know the model’s behavior by testing, hence we only know more or less the behavior in relation to the amount of testing that was done. But the model internals has always been a black box of numbers that individually mean nothing and if tracked which neurons fire here and there it’ll appear just random, because it probably is.

Remember the machine learning models aren’t carefully designed, they’re just brute-force trained for a long time and have the numbers adjusted again and again whenever the results look closer or further away from the desired output.

So how come so many websites simply block VPNs with captchas? There seems to be a range of IPs that popular VPNs use and are widely known.

But the thing with users is that their learning depends on their motivation. Just like we all, they don’t care about something until it becomes an inconvenience and then there’s a reason to learn.

So as long as there are resources to learn when you need it, I don’t think that’s a problem.

But it is unreasonable to expect the average users to care about what the file structure should be when current computers can search through anything in 1 second and they think it’s good enough.

I’ve been reading the book “A Small Matter of Programming” which discusses a bit end users relationships with computers.

I think people who are into computers get surprised to know most people just don’t care about how computers work and they shouldn’t have to. They want software that is easy to use and allows them to complete their task. Ex: a spreadsheet is an incredibly powerful software that hides anything about how computers work but still allow users to create multiple different “apps” by effectively programming.

Most of the “decaying” tech skills people say are actually stuff people don’t need to know nowadays. Everything is an abstraction anyway, and most people using even desktop computers aren’t aware of how the graphics software is rendering the screen, for example.