kogasa

joined 2 years ago
[–] kogasa@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

Shouldn't'a been bitin' ma horsey, boi

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A Riemannian manifold isn't necessarily non-Euclidean, it's just a smooth manifold with a Riemannian metric, which is just sort of a way of defining local geometry in a coherent way. Namely it's a smooth family of inner products on the tangent spaces at each point, where an inner product on the tangent space is sort of a way of comparing any two directions at a point and the smoothly varying part means that for sufficiently close points, the comparison function on their respective tangent spaces is similar.

Anyway, like "manifold" is a formalism intended to capture the idea of a "shape or space," a "Riemannian manifold" is just "a shape or space we can do geometry on."

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

Feeling the pain for a bit will quickly make you comfortable with the numbness

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IT WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 54 points 1 week ago

People are using LLMs to diagnose disease, write prescriptions, deny health care claims, deny loans and grants, write scientific papers, review scientific papers, draft engineering and architectural documents, and talk to their loved ones

Despair

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

It's possible that whatever prompt enhancement and processing happens around the LLM part of the application addresses this somewhat.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev -1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't support the change. That's not my point. My point is that if we're going to argue the dev being threatened isn't a victim because he's actively harming privacy, we should be aware that the changes he proposed are not actually harming privacy at all.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Age verification laws: slippery slope. Sure. I agree.

Adding optional age field to systemd userdb: not slippery. Systemd isn't being weaponized as an age verification suite. It's just not happening.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't, and you don't have to fill them in with accurate information, so it isn't.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's mostly not going to be used at all.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As I said, I also object, but you have to realize you're literally just doing the slippery slope meme unironically. The part that makes it a fallacy is the unjustified assertion that more egregious changes are the inevitable result of the first one, except the first one is materially harmless and in line with existing PII fields in userdb. It's completely reasonable to expect systemd to go no further than it already has.

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