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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook PiracyEnglish
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    2 days ago

    But nobody’s suing the schools for their textbooks-with-needless-“updates” extortion-rings?

    OPEN TEXTBOOKS EXIST, & school-systems ought be legally-obliged to either use those, XOR justify coercing students into economic-abuse for sake of fancier ones.

    OpenStax.org

    LibreTexts.org

    etc.

    This SHOULD be cutting both-ways: lawsuits going up AND lawsuits going down.

    Since it’s only axe-chopping-down, then … obviously, then the people doing the “representing” are NOT representing the citizens in their ridings, but rather the established-special-interest-groups who’re profiting from the extortion students are currently subject-to.

    Fundamentally, beyond all copyright-law, platform-exclusivity, etc, fundamentally, IF G-D put immense LivingPotential in a life, THEN it’s our obligation to be honoring that LivingPotential.

    NOT to be snuffing it unless money is concentrated to a particular class, or pseudoperson, or cartel, or institution:

    It isn’t that “information wants to be free”, rather, it is that LEARNING ought be free, for upright, proper, honest learning ( not evil/abuse/similar ).

    The Scandinavian system whereby nobody can buy their way into higher-education: it’s merit-ONLY, & the public-education-system cannot be bypassed by money/status, THAT is more right, but I’ve no idea how they do learning-materials/textbooks.

    Further, it ought be that learning & certification are decoupled: one ought be able to get learning at any institution, or even on one’s own, & then get certification independently of that-school’s-institution.

    “Conflict-of-interest is the root of corruption” is a good rule for understanding why learning & certification need to be segregated, to break the cartel-system from education.

    ( that does, of course, require standardization of required-learning-for-specific-certifications, & many might balk at that, but if driver’s-licenses & pilot’s-licenses can be standardized, then I’m willing to bet that degrees can be standardized, in many subjects, too. )

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open SourceEnglish
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    2 days ago

    ttbomk, emojis are legal function-names in both Swift & Julia…

    The Swift example was damned incomprehensible, & … well, it was Apple stuff, so making it look idiotic might have been some kind of cultural-exclusivity intention…

    The Julia stuff, though, means that you can use Greek symbols, etc, for functions, & get things looking more like what they should…

    Also, I think emojis are actually better than my all-text style, for communicating intonation/emotion ( I’m old: learned last century ), & maybe us old geezers ought to adapt a bit, to such things…

    That does NOT mean that cartoon “code” is good-enough, whether it’s cartoonish in plaintext or in emojis, though…

    I’m just trying to keep the cultural-prejudice & the code-quality being distinct-categories of judgement, you know?

    ( & cultural-prejudice is an actual thing, though it’s usually called “religious wars”, isn’t it, in geekdom? )

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open SourceEnglish
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    2 days ago

    TheRegister had an article, a year or 2 ago, about using AI in the opposite way: instead of creating the code, someone was using it to discover security-problems in it, & they said it was really useful for that, & most of its identified things, including some codebase which was sending private information off to some internet-server, which really are problems.

    I wonder if using LLM’s as editors, instead of writers, would be better-use for the things?

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Dog-like robot jams home networks and disables devices during police raids — DHS develops NEO robot for walking denial of service attacksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Isn’t that interesting…

    The anbility to prevent the getting-out of evidence of what the authorities do to the locals…

    Just like the unconstitutional state-laws which criminalize capturing-of-video-evidene of police executing people…

    “I wonder” if this would ever be abused by anti-accountability authorities…

    ( remember that the whole Christian religion is founded on a guy who was a kind of whistleblower, & had spikes hammered through his wrists, in his crucifixion, for his calling the legalists “hypocrites”…

    I wonder how “Christian” he’d find them to be, if he returned, & saw what they’re doing? )

    Human nature & demon nature seem … related?

    or is that too harsh?

    … perhaps … but wasn’t the Inquisition demon-law in the name of benJoseph?

    hmm…

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing BillionsEnglish
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    2 years ago

    IF you are in accounting, especially if you are in regulatory compliance accounting, or going into it, you NEED to know about a book named “Financial Shenanigans”.

    I’m not intellectually-equal to it ( or to accounting, for that matter: psychology’s much easier to crack, for me ), but it is THE most important book for forensic-accountants to know.

    The bullshit that they’ve been pulling, where “Between 2017 and 2021, Amazon had more than $25 billion in losses from its devices business, according to the documents. The losses for the years before and after that period couldn’t be determined.” didn’t produce criminal consequences…

    You’ve got to be kidding, right?

    Individual human goes to jail or prison for $2k tax fraud, but … big tech gets a free pass on that kind of “accounting”??

    couldn’t be determined??

    Either run a tight-ship or don’t be surprised when it sinks.

    Economies are the “ships” that carry our countries, & have to be properly regulated, exactly as a tightly-regulated ship has to be, to keep it afloat longer.

    It isn’t the sloppy mechanic-racers who win NASCAR, it is the ones who control everything correctly, with total right-regulation.

    I remember when I’d read that Cisco switched to closing their books out daily, so as to always know the exact position of the company…

    what an incredible degree of financial-operations integrity that was…

    Anyways, “Financial Shenanigans” is THE book to dig into, if you want to know if the business you’re considering investing in is cooking the books… and you’re capable of understanding that stuff at the level it’s speaking…

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPREnglish
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    2 years ago

    This escalation will continue,

    until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:

    They will simply say something like:

    "Either your government removes laws, regulations, accountability, etc, from us,

    XOR we are hamstringing your country: we OWN you, we POSSESS you, & you will obey OUR rule."

    I guarantee this will be happening between now & 2036.

    Remember how they can ratchet-up a genocide, anywhere??

    They’ve already done so, in some places…

    ( Facebook & … was it Myanmar? as 1 example )

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users reportEnglish
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    2 years ago

    This is inevitable:

    Once the people in China can only see the CCP’s version of everything,

    & ALL stuff has been adulterated, either by AI or by some agency-or-other,

    THEN dissent should die-down in the Chinese population:

    Read Lanier’s “Foreign to Familiar” to understand how Tropical-Culture vs Nordic-Culture shapes people, & how old-cultures vs new-cultures shape people,

    then read Hofstede’s “Exploring Culture” to understand the dimensions of culture that his Cultural Dimensions Theory digs into ( power-distance, uncertainty-avoidance, “success”-orientation, & other dimensions )…

    & when you understand how we’re kind of “template” people, before being born into culture,

    but once born into it, our entire meaning gets framed within whatever culture we were born into…

    therefore, the CCP can simply remove most diversity-of-meaning from their completely-possessed-population, through a generation or 2 of that.

    Tibetan, Uyghur, Hongkonger, Taiwanese, Indian, South-Korean, Japanese, the intent is consistent: "the destruction of " … others … “is the midwife of Chinese supremacy”.

    I expect a similar kind of program to exist in all right-possessed countries, as the right is doing in the US, right now, with burning or banning books, eradicating proper education, suppressing libraries, etc, they’re just doing the same thing as what the CCP’s doing, only less-skillfully, is all.

    No real difference in their deeper heart/motivation/intent, though: supremacism, crushing/destroying all “other” kinds.

    Russia’s big on it, too, isn’t it?

    Islamism…

    The “Crusades” were good examples of this kind of idiocy?

    The “Inquisition”?

    The “Buddhist” genociding of Tamils?

    So long as the “home” story is … “coherent”, & “justifies” all, then … kids grow up … believing, right?

    There’s a book, & a Big Think yt video, on “Collective Illusions”, which is important!

    Please invest in seeing that video, & see how it’s actually a delusion-mechanism in our minds…

    …used by political-forces, yes, but they couldn’t use it if it didn’t exist, could they?

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•CUDIMM Standard Set to Make Desktop Memory a Bit Smarter and a Lot More RobustEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Computational-Fluid-Dynamics simulations are RAM-limited, iirc.

    I’m presuming many AI models are, too, since some of them require stupendous amounts of RAM, which no non-server machine would have.

    “diminishing returns” is what Intel’s “beloved” Celeron garbage was pushing.

    When I ran Memtest86+ ( or the other version, don’t remember ), & saw how insanely slow RAM was, compared with L2 or L3 cache, & then discovered how incredible the machine-upgrade going from SATA to NVMe was…

    Get the fastest NVMe & RAM you can: it puts your CPU where it should have been, all along, and that difference between a “normal” build vs an effective build is the misframing the whole industry has been establishing, for decades.

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