I love product updates as part of my technology feed…

I miss old technology feeds in the classic internet days. That actually posted and listed out cool stuff with technology

Seriously, is there an actual technology community that posts about technology and not just drama that is tangentially related to technology?

Honestly at this point if it’s source available it’s almost faster to dig through and find the affected module on source to determine behavior.

Unless of course it’s just crazy abstracted, which can be an unintentional form of obfuscation when applied poorly.

Counter argument is that error codes and problem details can be used by attackers to reverse engineer and find exploitable parts of a system.

Within reason anyways

I mean they practically encourage it

Which is both an incompetence and a facility problem in this case.

Systems like fans when an incinerator is active shouldn’t rely on a human to flip switch. This should be automatic or there should be a lockout system that prevents the incinerator from operating if certain conditions are not first met.

Damnnnnnn critical thinking really is dead.

The universe around us isn’t black and white. Have you considered that two things could be wrong instead of one? 😲

Generally though, a facility that operates in a particular manner that is used in the manner in which it is supposed to operate and it fails to operate in the expected manner. That’s a facility problem.

Human error included.

Not exactly ideal archival software…

It doesn’t store files in a human readable way and requires a separate DB and application to interpret your stored data. Without controls over how it stores that data.

Prioritization probably.

They are busy keeping up with engineering teams 4x their size for their browser competition… (~500 engineers building Firefox vs ~2000 building chrome)

Of a million potential features, you can only choose a subset to work on. This one was likely low impact and a low enough use case priority that it got regularly bumped under higher priority work.

This is just the way… Well… Anything with limited resources works.

Happy they finally got around for this.

A fucking prayer on the floor?

Wtf

And pretty soon many of those laws are going to exist only to benefit corporations on the rich and to harm everyone else.

The people in power are going to continue making laws that pushback against the fabric of society.

I mean look at Nazi Germany. It was legal to imprison Jews and it was illegal to protect them. The law is not moral and it’s only going to get worse.

Yeah but how many devs and studios can take Nintendo to court to prove that and win?

Most cannot afford to play in our legal system, so Nintendo wins here.

I just set the desktop app up a week ago on a new computer. I am most definitely not mistaken.

Yeah, the current backups are pretty dumb in the sense that it writes a new file everyday and you have no control over retention, history or deletion.

I just want to be able to backup all my media history and chat in a securely encrypted file to a location of my choosing with a retention period of my choosing.

Except it won’t. The desktop app specifically states that it will not transfer history when you activate it…

I mean that’s essentially the same thing I said just with more words.

Meta has money. Which makes them immune to consequences.

In this case, by way of bribes.

You didn’t counter my statement. You just added to it.

I very specifically did not mention LLMs, I even called out that our current technology is not there yet. And llms are current technology.

The argument in thread was about AGI being impossible or possible. Not necessarily about the articles. Statement of llm-based agis not being possible, which is a pretty obvious and almost unnecessary statement.

It’s like saying cars with tires and no airfoil surfaces aren’t going to fly. Yeah no shit.

A fancy text prediction and marginal reasoning engine isn’t going to make AGI. By no means does that make AGI impossible though, since the concept of AGI is not tied to LLMs capabilities

This is the kind of intelligent conversation I left Reddit for lack of. Happy to see that Lemmy is picking up the slack.

The only reason we wouldn’t get to AGI is point number two.

Point number one doesn’t make much sense given that all we are are bags of small complex molecular machines that operate synergistically with each other under extremely delicate balance. Which if humanity does not kill ourselves first, we will eventually be able to create small molecular machines that work together synergistically. Which is really all that life is. Except it’s quite likely that it would be made simpler without all of the complexities much of biology requires to survive harsh conditions and decades of abuse.

It seems quite likely that we will be able to synthesize AGI far before we will be able to synthesize life. As the conditions for intelligence by all accounts seem to be simpler than the conditions for the living creature that maintains the delicate ecosystem of molecular machines necessary for that intelligence to exist.

It’s not because people really cannot critically think anymore.