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  • While I’m interested to see the proof, it’s more of a formality. It doesn’t take a PhD to ask what happens when the “AGI” LLM is trained on out of date information. They don’t learn over time, and they have a limited context buffer. At the very minimum, it would run out of context just keeping up with changes to spoken language over 30 years, let alone advancements in fields, new fields, and so on.





  • Also,i’m sure you know this, but security through obscurity is a poor systems design choice in almost all scenarios.

    The only time I can think of from the top of my head where obscurity aids security is when secret keys are kept obscure. This isn’t even what people mean by “security through obscurity” though, so I’d actually beg someone to give an example where obscurity is actually beneficial to security and doesn’t just give a false sense of security instead.

    That’s not to say everything can or should be open source, of course, just that relying on it being closed source for your application to be secure is a good way to open yourself up to attacks.




  • If you’re referring to GPL variants, that depends. You can absolutely use GPL software and libraries with closed source software. You just need to separate the GPL portions from the closed source portions with some sort of boundary, like running it as a service of some sort or turning it into a CLI tool. You’re just not allowed to create derivative works of GPL software that isn’t also GPL.

    Also, there should be nothing dangerous about open sourcing code (unless you’re referring to financial risk to the business I guess). Secrets should never live in code, and obscurity is never secure.


  • In good news, we got a summary of his 9950x3d2 review, which was basically that it’s a ripoff at $900. Unironically, if you’re somehow in the market for a CPU like that, consider either the 9950x3d for productivity and core count, or the 9800x3d for gaming. The 9950x3d2 brings nothing to the table for anyone outside of maybe some niche applications which need both core count and cache size and can afford the latency for data transfers between CCDs.

    Or, I guess, don’t buy anything because all the companies suck and everything is unbelievably expensive. Who needs a computer anyway?











  • For roughly the price of a single 9800x3d*, you can buy a complete laptop with a long lasting battery and decent enough specs for web browsing, video playback, and basic office work. It’s unfortunately one of the better devices on the market at that price, especially accounting for the battery life.

    *Edit: okay the processors came down in price. Fine, the cost of a kit of decent DDR5 memory, then.

    Apple selling a ‘repairable’ and low-end device just looks like a recession indicator to me.

    One of the few, I take it?