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  • oh, sry, i read that wrong!

    yes, that’s a voyager link, although that should probably open in the browser version by default, since voyager, afaik, does have a web version…

    fyi: it’s not malice, there’s actually a good reason for generating these links!

    it’s so different instances can be shared through the same home instance, i.e.: so i can share a link from feddit.org with someone on lemmy.world, and they can still access it within the same client, through their own home instance without requiring a new login, etc.

    it’s a limitation of lemmy and voyager offers a workaround ¯\_(ツ)_/¯







  • overall good points, but I’d like to expand on the one about forbidding languages at educational institutions:

    a ban isn’t even necessary to expediate the decline of a language; it’s often enough to simply defund it.

    teachers need funding, and simply not giving any to other languages or other cultural curriculum is effectively the same as a ban.

    few schools and administrations would shoulder the costs of “extra” curriculum, because few have the funds to do so, particularly when it comes to minorities…

    source: am part of such a minority (in central europe though) and our state actually sponsors extra language classes, courses, and cultural clubs, activities, and events in order to preserve our unique identity and culture.

    it’s still trending towards extinction though, as such minorities tend to do…

    tl;dr: no need for a ban, just withhold a bit of funding and it will die out within a few generations…


  • i mean, seems you’re also conveniently skipping over the part that says:

    as long as we can counter them by rational argument

    it’s right there in the text:

    popper states outright, that there are some ideologies and by extension people, that straight-up cannot be argued with. these, therefore, must be excluded from the community, and thereby form the limit to tolerance that must be enforced.

    people really love to misinterpret popper…

    what goes along nicely with the tolerance of paradox is the quote about anti-semites being entirely aware of how absurd their position truly are:

    “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

    take both popper and sartre together into consideration of a larger context and it becomes abundantly obvious that a certain minimum of intolerance is strictly necessary for a functional society.

    what happens when all checks on speech are removed can be clearly seen in the rotting corpses of facebook and twitter… it’s disastrous.




  • yes, that’s why it’s called fingerprinting:

    it’s a kind of mathematical function that takes the entire code as input and outputs a unique result.

    the result is just some string of symbols (which really just represent a unique string of 1’s and 0’s).

    this unique string of characters is, as mentioned, unique for any given input.

    this string can then be compared to any arbitrary other string, and if they match, then you know it’s the same code.

    so in the case of signal anybody can download the source, compile it, and verify that it matches the fingerprint of the compiled code on their own device.

    that’s why it can’t be faked: you compare the already compiled code.

    if even a single digit of the code is out of place, it’s not going to result in the same string, and thus immediately get flagged as a mismatch.

    it’s mathematically impossible to fake.




  • sure, and that works at small scales and as long as no change is required.

    when either of those two change (large projects where interdependent components become inevitable and frequent updates are necessary) it becomes impossible to use AI for basically anything.

    any change you make then has to be carefully considered and weighed against it’s consequences, which AIs can’t do, because they can’t absorb the context of the entire project.

    look, I’m not saying you can’t use AI, or that AI is entirely useless.

    I’m saying that using AI is the same as any other tool; use it deliberately and for the right job at the right time.

    the big problem, especially in commercial contexts, is people using AI without realizing these limitations, thinking it’s some magical genie that can everything.



  • yeah, no… that’s not at all what i said.

    i didn’t say “AI doesn’t work”, i said it works exactly as expected: producing bullshit.

    i understand perfectly well how to get it to spit out useful information, because i know what i can and cannot ask it about.

    I’d much rather not use it, but it’s pretty much unavoidable now, because of how trash search results have become, specifically for technical subjects.

    what absolutely doesn’t work is asking AI to perform highly specific, production critical configurations on live systems.

    you CAN use it to get general answers to general questions.

    “what’s a common way to do this configuration?” works well enough.

    “fix this config file for me!” doesn’t work, because it has no concept of what that means in your specific context. and no amount of increasingly specific prompts will ever get you there. …unless “there” is an utter clusterfuck, see the OP top of chain (should have been more specific here…) for proof…


  • no, AI just sucks ass with any highly customized environment, like network infrastructure, because it has exactly ZERO capacity for on-the-fly learning.

    it can somewhat pretend to remember something, but most of the time it doesn’t work, and then people are so, so surprised when it spits out the most ridiculous config for a router, because all it did was string together the top answers on stack overflow from a decade ago, stripping out any and all context that makes it make sense, and presents it as a solution that seems plausible, but absolutely isn’t.

    LLMs are literally design to trick people into thinking what they write makes sense.

    they have no concept of actually making sense.

    this is not am exception, or an improper use of the tech.

    it’s an inherent, fundamental flaw.