I love boring-that-works but that's just me. Right about brand preception, it made me move to jolla, lots of suffering and a sense of acomplishment because fewer cents of my money going to far right pockets.

> it made me move to jolla

Where's Jolla? I did a quick place search (explicitly excluding La Jolla) but nothing turns up.

It's a place like Apple is a place !

Maybe you were "tricked into", but probably not forced. We are free to refuse, at cost, but free.

They used dark patterns to trick me into signing up. I do not know how anyone can trust them, at all, ever.

The cost is that you can never play Minecraft again

It might be small cost in retrospect.

Nah I sunk many thousands of hours into these accounts; definitely not a small cost. Sure I could get a new account and pay twice for the game I already purchased multiple times - that would’ve ground my gears too

I think the new account would have to be a Microsoft account also, so you wouldn't have even gained anything by not migrating.

Some servers allow joining without a Microsoft account even these days, but probably can't play on any of the servers you regularly play on, if you don't have a Microsoft account.

Including old pre-enshittified versions.

Never play online

That's half the game.

And the reason why it refuses to print this B&W document when yellow is empty.

We take everything we have, freedom, privacy, free speech, for granted. The reality seems to be that these concepts are fungible and that we have to be ready to fight for them. Instead we trade these for convenience, and it's very very sad.

It's artificial?

Humans are able to identify a person just with general dimensions and how they move. It's probably within the reach of today's machine learning techniques...

Direct classification as bad actor with bad intentions.

More like an automatic green pass looking at the historical treatment of some criminals with such background.

For one of the three yup

Brazil was so right. We're just an inference away from being jailed. I'm not from UK but it shows how we are all helpless and see in plain conciousness what is coming. When did we lost the grip?

Note to readers: Brazil the Terry Gilliam Kafkaesque movie, not the country.

Thanks, in my view this is a masterpiece, but it might not be obvious to everyone. That you got the reference makes my day.

Brazil was also right about the levels of competence within the bureaucracy.

Need to rewatch with the kids

The 1960's was about the time in history when investment went in to surveillance programs.

Computer recognition has been around for a very long time, and has always been on the edge for spying on citizens.

It's accelerated now because we have future technology that they didn't have back then.

But stemming from which need? Cold war?

There's never just one. Mainly political.

Those who in power of the state don't want to loose power. A protest, revolt is the best way to overthrow that. So to eliminate that threat is to survey. Install fear and you have control.

> The idea that emerged around the time of the French Revolution that the political spectrum can be divided into a right- and left wing in the first place – it becomes clear that the Left, in its essence, is a critique of bureaucracy, even if it’s one that has, again and again, been forced to accommodate itself in practice to the very bureaucratic structures and mindset it originally arose to oppose. [1]

[1] Computers and Surveillance Scandals in the 1960s-70s - https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03952774v1/document

Class war.

Unlike Brazil the movie it's quite hard to actually end up in jail in the UK. The courts lean more towards letting criminals walk.

You’ve been drinking the propaganda again. Most cases don’t make it to court. The courts lean towards trusting the police. The police lean towards perjury.

Dunno. I've lived in England sixty years and don't know anyone who went to jail apart from one who was the getaway driver for a robbery. I know a few who have done crimes but gotten away with it. Do you live there and know anyone unfairly banged up? Not sure which propaganda I should have seen? I see a lot of MAGA types who haven't been here determined to make out it's some sort of hell hole.

I was chatting to friends last week and one of the has a friend who knows a friendly drug addict who nicks meat to order - they say what they want and he goes to Tesco and walks out with it. That's the more common problem - under enforcement rather than overdoing it.

Good friend is a criminal defense barrister in London.

You can have non enforcement and stitch-ups in the same system. On the one hand, they just don’t care about regular policing. On the other, if you cross their path, or you “fit the description”, they’ll do anything, including perjury, to convict.

They aren’t here to protect you or your property. They are here to protect the system.

They are useful as a deterrence system, can't decline in one click? I'm out thanks.

I'm not fully understanding this business of MoE so please forgive me if this is a dumb question, but would it be possible to use MPI with a small cluster to distribute the load?

It’s a good question.

In theory MPI could distribute experts across nodes. In practice, for small clusters the added network latency usually hurts more than it helps.

Better suited for big clusters with fast interconnects. For now we're focusing on single-machine speed (caching, GPU hybrid, etc.).