In France at least internships are nearly 6 months long. It’s nowhere near as long as a normal project length but still, it’s quite a bit.

On the project aspect, it doesn’t have to be done this way. Contributing to existing project is totally feasible. One could contribute a plugin to PeerTube, a patch to the Linux kernel, etc. Sure one can start from scratch, and maybe in some cases it’s better (maybe less fear) but I think it’s rare to be an actual requirement from teachers.

even if i cant escape them i will try to give the minimum data possible.

Yep, one has to be pragmatic. We all wish our behavior was perfect at all time but sadly we must compromise and come to term with it.

Accepting that is important. I believe what can also help is to :

• avoid is possible
• if not, not provide unnecessary information (maybe the real name is NOT actually needed)
• delete what can be deleted locally (short history) and remotely (e.g. GDPR request)
• to data takeout regularly to be ready to move away any time
• isolate the problematic app (container, other device, emulator, etc)

… and finally, most importantly, minimize the actual negative impact. For example if one does provide data to Google or Meta then at least while blocking ads then their actual business model, namely selling your profile to advertising company, is lost.

i ask people to be aware that for some of us, our situations makes impossible to remove some of the meta, microsoft or google services.

Right, I’m not saying it’s necessarily bullying by people, it can be precisely by those companies. They make themselves as hard as possible to ignore.

Or worst because Meta itself make such plan cheaper, or even free, when data is used on their platforms.

3 years of just theory is going to produce decent software engineers

Eh… isn’t everybody encouraged to do projects? Like isn’t every single class doing that? If so then it’s not just theory, it’s actual practice.

Also universities and engineering schools to suggest (some make it mandatory) to have internships. That’s also practice.

I think only CS graduates who plan to become professors are perfectly fine with “just” theory but everybody else has actual opportunities to go being that.

almost mandatory

That’s bullying talk. It’s the same everywhere… and what matters is the “almost” part. If people need you, they find a way. It might be SMS, it might be email, you might be left out from groupchat but you can still be reached.

Sad but unsurprising.

I did read quite a lot on the topic, including “Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass.” (2019) and saw numerous documentaries e.g. “Invisibles - Les travailleurs du clic” (2020).

What I find interesting here is that it seems the tasks go beyond dataset annotation. In a way it is still annotation (as in you take a data in, e.g. a photo, and your circle part of it to label i.e. e.g “cat”) but here it seems to be 2nd order, i.e. what are the blind spots in how this dataset is handled. It still doesn’t mean anything produced is more valuable or that the expected outcome is feasible with solely larger datasets and more compute yet maybe it does show a change in the quality of tasks to be done.

some people experience crash on linux where stable on windows.

FUD much? I’m not saying it’s not true… but like the opposite has to be true too. So without actual data to say it’s significant it’s really just not help much in any way, just creating doubt.

very few games represent the majority of gametime, and a lot of them do not run on linux.

Same, which ones? What’s your dataset?

Nice, the hinge always stressed me a bit but for GBA looks perfect.

Well my use is mostly tinkering :P but the realization that on top of being a neat little handheld it’s also a proper computer… I just can’t help myself and want to get “more” out of it. Silly habit!

ANBERNIC rg28xx and I mostly use MuOS for PortMaster to get RockBox.

In fact I’m trying to write a RockBox plugin to support Lunii stories but for now I just have some basic JSON parsing (thanks to cJSON).

What device do you have and what do you use it for?

FWIW MSN is from Microsoft so IMHO might be better to link to the original source and, if need be, remind people they can either pay for journalist content or use services like archive.is which will bypass paywalls.

Funny to read this right after finishing an Elden Ring : Shadow of the Erdtree gaming session.

Yes, so it should. In fact I’m gaming on Linux on :

• desktop with gamepad
• desktop with VR
• handheld with SteamDeck
• handheld with MuOS or ANBERNIC

…and I don’t even think about it. I just play regarding of the game being AAA or indie, VR or “flat”. It just works.

Sure, but please we mindful that if you do that it implies there are no more non proprietary options, which is just not true (even though the constraints are different I admit).

Let’s help each other find, or even build if nothing else is available, the lesser evil ;)

Brand new example : “Skills” by Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/skills even though here the audience is technical it is still a marketing term. Why? Because the entire phrasing implies agency. There is no “one” getting new skills here. It’s as if I was adding bash scripts to my ~/bin directory but instead of saying “The first script will use regex to start the appropriate script” I named my process “Theodore” and that I was “teaching” it new “abilities”. It would be literally the same thing, it would be functionally equivalent and the implement would be actually identical… but users, specifically non technical users, would assume that there is more than just branching options. They would also assume errors are just “it” in the process of “learning”.

It’s really a brilliant marketing trick, but it’s nothing more.

I’d rather use proprietary products.

Where did that come from? How about the Ender 3 or a UltiMaker or a Lite3DP Gen 2 or even a DIY one?

To be clear, I’m not saying the word itself shouldn’t be used but I bet that 99% of the time if it’s not used by someone with a degree in AI or CS it’s going to be used incorrectly.

The word “hallucination” itself is a marketing term. It’s not because it’s been frequently used in the technical literature that it is free of any problem. It’s used because it highlights a problem (namely that some of the output of LLM are not factually correct) but the very name is wrong. Hallucination implies there is someone, perceiving and with a world model, who typically via heuristics (for efficient interfaces like Donald Hoffman suggests) do so incorrectly leading to bad decision regarding the current problem to solve.

So… sure, “it” (trying not to use the term) is structural but it is simply because LLM have no notion of veracity or truth (or anything else, to be clear). They have no simulation to verify from if the output they propose (the tokens out, the sentence the user gets) is correct or not, it is solely highly probably based on their training data.

What’s your ramp up prediction. I tinkered with a Banana Pi last year but don’t know about the broader implementation and production process so I’m curious, when do you expect performance parity for say <10x price (meaning performance of RPi for less than 500e) with e.g. RPi4, RPi5, Core i9, etc?

Original article https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/30/tp-link-proposed-ban-commerce-department/ rather than MSN aggregator. No idea why people link to such places.

Still watching it but this shouldn’t be surprising.

The whole point of US politics was to isolate China out of the “AI revolution” by depriving it to top of the line chip.

Meanwhile China has been building the entire World electronic ecosystem bar few very specific high end components, leaving these to TSMC, ASML, etc or design mostly to the US.

Even before tariffs and sale bans (due to dual use concerns) China already had a chip independence plan dating back from at least 2000. Since then close to the entire World move production there, at least assembly, and most deals to do so included, or tried to, include IP transfer and at the very least learning with the partner, if not more but that’d be just speculation, to add industrial espionage on top (even though plenty of news on the topic).

So… sure, it’s happening. Now the question though I asked on such thread countless time is basically : what’s the yield?

Because producing 1 board to send to a tester is already an incredible feat but that doesn’t mean thousands or even millions can be produced. If they can, that also doesn’t mean they can be produced economically efficiently, regardless of subsidies.

PS: most interesting book on the topic IMHO : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_War

common intelligence at scale

I mean not even… sure it can surprise you on some stuff you know little, sure it can regurgitate random parts from an encyclopedia and might even not be wrong about it… but it can easily be “outsmarted” by a 5yo on some of the most basic and random questions, it only has to be outside if its dataset. That’s not intelligence.

Thanks but doesn’t seem to work, 1st link 403, 2nd link no play button (and download is audio only), 3rd link loads but never plays, 4th link doesn’t play at all and download doesn’t work. Again I appreciate alternatives but IMHO sharing YouTube links, so BigTech links, on Lemmy isn’t great. We should rely on federated alternatives for videos too.

Edit: I did disable JS Shelter just for this (because of Anubis, ironically enough based on the video content!) but it still didn’t work. So to be honest even if it did work (which it didn’t) it would still not be great.

I typically use yt-dlp youtube-local and it usually works… but that is not the point. The point is that it is not sustainable to rely on platforms we do not want to support. I’m glad it works for you though, feel free to share a mirror if you can.

Please provide a non BigTech alternative, ideally with a way to donate to the content creator.

I’m interested but I literally can’t watch it. I don’t have a YouTube account, nor a Google one, and the video is not viewable without.

Humanoid robots are only hyped because GenAI is hyped and GenAI is hyped because Altman and his other conmen are scamming the World out of resources on the promise of AGI because “Scale Is All You Need”, a very convenient trope for VCs as they have no other idea beside dominating a market by scaling.

So… if the GenAI bubble does pop (and the HBR article on workslop lets me hope that it has started) then I don’t see how humanoid robot would not. I also imagine manufacturers are less prone to hype because they have been robots already for decades. Even some services like hospitals do have robots for cleaning, delivery, etc. Sure they don’t look humanoid but it’s still a baseline to compare with in terms of performance and price.

Edit: if you want to explore the OSHW FLOSS side of this check https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot but my own understanding is that there is no radical progress. Sure we might be inching away at “solving” robotics but nothing changed except few components getting a bit cheaper thanks to smartphone then in turn drone or obviously GPUs.

Edit2: if you don’t feel like reading the article just watch the 2 videos by Roland Johansson on normal hand vs hand without touch, it’s fascinating.

FWIW could be done via https://github.com/openfoodfacts

Going to play devil’s advocate here but in theory, it’s not necessarily bad, namely it could display

• what’s in stock (assuming RFID or being patient enough to scan barcode of each item or data from online order)
• recipes matching what’s in stock,
• statistics of usage e.g. when it’s most used, how much electricity consumed, etc
• contextual information e.g. calendar items overlapping with meal time (thus expecting food to take away)
• what’s in stock that could go bad soon and thus potential recipes

so … honestly the “smart” can be potentially useful to the user.

The problem is not really the why IMHO but rather the how because sadly I have 0 trust that it will be done solely for the benefit of the user. Which is why I will not buy a proprietary version. If I could get a OSHW one with e.g. eInk and HomeAssistant and/or GadgetBridge support, I just might, until then I’m in no rush.

Prodigy Corp. is pretty trendy at the moment. /s

hard data

Have you ever met management? /s

FWIW it’s basically peanuts for this kind of industry. Even $1 would be too much though.

Can’t wait for this to be generalized so that Easy Anti-Cheat or PunkBuster tell EA or Bethesda to lock your GPU because their faulty launcher detected you tried to play offline twice.

Initially preventing “bad guys” (really big quotes here) to do “bag things” (AFAICT it’s mostly lame LLMs, not actual dangerous military stuff, which for those they actually already have supercomputers allocated) sounds like a good idea… until it inexorably tricky down (unlike money and power) to citizens worldwide.

I don’t think remotely control CPUs or GPUs can end well for citizens. It won’t be PC as in Personal Computer, rather remotely controlled terminals for whomever is in power.

why cell phones don’t authenticate the towers they connect to.

I believe it’s because they assume it’s not necessary because it was until now

• prohibitively expensive, but now a “tower” is less than 2k EUR e.g. https://www.crowdsupply.com/ukama/ukama
• prohibitively complex, see above, namely you don’t need to be a TelCo engineer to get it going
• probably illegal, namely you needed (and I bet still need in most places) wireless band allocation before you could deploy anything

… so I imagine there was no authentication because there was no practical threat beside few “fun” examples in CCC or DEF Con.

Who in the EU wants a US car

Bunch of people according to most EU capitals where one can see, sadly, plenty of Swatzicars.

move somewhere I can get around with just a bicycle.

So… FWIW that’d be Brussels and I bet most European cities. By bike you can get your food in, get to the nearby Brico to fix pretty much anything in your house, get deliveries with national post service, but you can cycle all the way to the airport (if somehow you don’t want to use the train), park there and get… well pretty much anywhere else in the World.

There were and still are into quantum computing.

They are absolute champions of tech-washing and green-washing.

It’s literally anything to say, do and spending money on to make people forget that their core business is actually advertising.

Precisely https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jun/27/tony-cox-epidemiology-risk-assessment-chatgpt-ai

Starting to look like the biggest f*cking corner humanity ever faced.

conjure up an email summary within seconds that can shave off up to 5 whole minutes

… but can it? Like actually, can one do that?

Sure an LLM can generate something akin to a summary. It will look like it’s getting some of the points in a different form… but did it get the actual gist of it? Did it skip anything meaningful that once ignore will have far reaching consequences?

So yes sure an LLM can generate shorter text related to what was said during the meeting but if there is limited confidence in the accuracy and no responsibility, unlike somebody who would take notes and summarize potentially facing negative consequences, then wouldn’t the reliance on such a tool create more risk?

Well this next example isn’t about phones but e-bikes. Unfortunately unwise me bought a fancy designer bike made by a national startup (CowBoy, to name and shame them) and I’m now stuck with a fancy metal frame on wheels because the belt is not in stock. Ordered in February, supposed to arrive 60 days later, I’m still waiting, not even an email received, nothing in now late June.

So… yes my next e-bike will be very VERY boring, in the sense of relying on built that have easy to source replacement part.

Yes, it did take few a first relatively large mistake (even though I did use that bike daily for years already) but that’s what I meant by “only work once”. You try, make painful mistake, don’t repeat.

you might be able to get a replacement battery for your 200€ phone, but having to pay 200€ for it.

On the assumption that consumers are somehow rational and have some memory, that “trick” only work once.

Next time a consumer get stuck with a practically irreplaceable battery because it’s too expensive from a company, they will look at other companies selling equivalent products, AND how much they are charging for batteries. I also imagine a business of spare parts because just having to give the right data, e.g. specifications like cell, module, pack, C-rate, E-rate, SOC, DOD, voltage, capacity, energy, cycle life, but also connectors and just size, will probably open up dedicated spare part vendors.