Had to use gett when I visited Tel Aviv a few years back. That’s about it

The non-technical public is scared of the word “AI”. When it has a whole spectrum of meanings and implications.

AI has been in use in medicine, engineering, municipal infrastructure…etc long before LLMs/GenAI.

Even new products today (Like those assistive exoskeleton legs) use (non LLM) AI to interpret and extrapolate bodily functions l. And wouldn’t work without it.

It’s closed source, and the build and publishing pipeline isn’t transparent.

For me that makes this no different than a potential ICE honey pot

Only if you don’t have the critical thinking to understand how information management is a significant problem and barrier to medical care.

Being able to research and find material relevant to a patient’s problem is an arduous task that often is too high a barrier for doctors to invest in given their regular workloads.

Which leads to a reduction in effective care.

By providing a more efficient and effective way to dig up information that saves a ton of time and improves care.

It’s still up to the doctor to evaluate that information, but now they’re not slogging away trying to find it.

And it won’t scale at all!

Congratulations, you made more AI slop, and the problem is still unsolved 🤣

Current AI solves 0% of difficult programming problems, 0%, it’s good at producing the lowest common denominator, protocols are sitting at 99th percentile here. You’re not going to be developing anything remotely close to a new, scale able, secure, federated protocol with it.

Nevermind the interoperability, client libraries…etc Or the proofs and protocol documentation. Which exist before the actual code.

Wayyyyyy less than 20%.

Even removing, incredibly liberal, bot percentages from reddit Lemmy is still < 0.001% of the audience

It’s a solution to a problem Lemmy will soon have in that case.

Which is bots.

Lemmy isn’t flooded with bots and astroturfing because it’s essentially too small to matter. The audience is something like < 0.001% that of reddit.

Once it grows the problem comes here as well, and we have no answers for it.

It’s a shitty situation for the internet as a whole, and the only solution is verifying humans. And corporations CANNOT be trusted with that kind of access/power

2 years ago I talked about the core problem with federated services was the abismal scale ability.

I essentially got ridiculed.

And here we are, with incredibly predictable scaling problems.

If we refuse to acknowledge problems till they become critical, we will never grow past a blip on the corner of the internet. Protocol development is HARD and expensive.

You can’t really host your own AWS, You can self-host various amalgamations of services that imitate some of the features of AWS, but you can’t really self-host your own AWS by any stretch of the imagination.

And if you’re thinking with something like localstack, that’s not what it’s for, and it has huge gaps that make it unfit for live deployment (It is after all meant for test and local environments)

No, most definitely not, and it… Sucks.

I just wanna sit down and play Minecraft or something again.

I mean at this point you’re just being intentionally obtuse no? You are correct of course, volatile memory if you consider it from a system point of view would be pretty asinine to try and store.

However, we’re not really looking at this from a system’s view are we? Clearly you ignored all the other examples I provided just to latch on to the memory argument. There are many other ways that this data could be stored in a transient fashion.

I mean, it’s more complicated than that.

Of course, data is persisted somewhere, in a transient fashion, for the purpose of computation. Especially when using event based or asynchronous architectures.

And then promptly deleted or otherwise garbage collected in some manner (either actively or passively, usually passively). It could be in transitory memory, or it could be on high speed SSDs during any number of steps.

It’s also extremely common for data storage to happen on a caching layer level and not violate requirements that data not be retained since those caches are transitive. Let’s not mention the reduced rate “bulk” non-syncronous APIs, Which will use idle, cheap, computational power to do work in a non-guaranteed amount of time. Which require some level of storage until the data can be processed.

A court order forcing them to start storing this data is a problem. It doesn’t mean they already had it stored in an archival format somewhere, it means they now have to store it somewhere for long term retention.

Well yeah!

That’s the CD part :)

We’re rolling the same thing, except with all our cloud infrastructure, our code, and various integrations.

Automatic deployments are so great, as long as you trust your integration process and test suites.

There’s a reason we value the local development environment.

You can run everything locally, the only use for the cloud environment is for CD.

The sad part is is that you’re right.

And the reason that it’s sad is that most of the individual veneers on proprietary projects deeply about a project itself and have the same goals as they do with open source software, which is just to make something that’s useful and do cool shit.

Yep, the business itself can force them not take care of problems or force them to go in directions that are counter to their core motivations.

Ever is this data dump so I can mirror it?

Did I say that it did?

No?

Then why the rhetorical question for something that I never stated?

Now that we’re past that, I’m not sure if I think it’s okay, but I at least recognize that it’s normalized within society. And has been for like 70+ years now. The problem happens with how the data is used, and particularly abused.

If you walk into my store, you expect that I am monitoring you. You expect that you are on camera and that your shopping patterns, like all foot traffic, are probably being analyzed and aggregated. What you buy is tracked, at least in aggregate, by default really, that’s just volume tracking and prediction.

Suffice to say that broad customer behavior analysis has been a thing for a couple generations now, at least.

When you go to a website, why would you think that it is not keeping track of where you go and what you click on in the same manner?

Now that I’ve stated that I do want to say that the real problems that we experience come in with how this data is misused out of what it’s scope should be. And that we should have strong regulatory agencies forcing compliance of how this data is used and enforcing the right to privacy for people that want it removed.

Oh, you get the benefit of explicit scanning?

We get the beauty of every file that’s modified being scanned before the write “completes”. It’s an absolute joy starting a build and watching ~80% of the available compute be consumed by antivirus software.

Or, you know, normal filesystem caching as part of your tool’s workflow.

Or dependency installing and unpacking…

Or anything actually that touches a lot of files.

No, no they are not.

Bad ones? Yeah, just like that.

I build software and can confirm this.

This is pretty run-of-the-mill analytics and user session recording. There’s nothing surprising here.

Usually it’s not actual screen recording but rather user action diff recording (Which effectively acts like recording the application except that it only records things that changed so that the recording is much cheaper to store)

This is extremely effective for tracking down bugs, solving user support issues with software, or watching session recordings to figure out if users are using the software in unexpected ways.