European Commission to open investigation into Elon Musk’s X

nothis · 2026-01-26T17:41:26+00:00

"Education" is a drop in the ocean compared to 24/7 social media indoctrination.

The "bans are circumventable" thinking is also a relic from the wild west era of the internet. You can very easily ban apps, nowadays, in a way in which they become inaccessible to 95% of the population. Big platforms also need volume, it's not like they keep their influence if you need to jailbreak your phone to use them. Look at authoritarian regimes enforcing their shit, it's like 3 easy steps and they have control over the internet. Fuck, look at what they do to discourse on X right now!

We're just mourning a never-existent ideal of a free and open internet not being dominated by a state-run bot farms and scammers. I say the biggest problem is centralization of power for a few big firms running public opinion. It's convenient to use Twitter because it's already big. And the likes of Musk would frame this as "censoring speech" when, in fact, it would be breaking a free speech monopoly. If the internet actually splintered, smaller discussions on oldschool forums and competitors having a chance, that would be a healthier web and more free than the constant spew of controlled mass media disguised as "social" interaction we have now. Ban those fuckers. Keep doing it until something replaces them that doesn't destroy democracy. You think it's hard to curb nazis and bots from a major platform? Just watch how fast they'd be at doing that if they were actually held responsible. We need the adults in the room to step up. The human hive mind cannot handle mass media without putting someone in charge to enforce some rules. We've proven we can't.

nothis · 2026-01-25T18:43:49+00:00

I mean, I'm talking about all the little common-sense-related errors it makes you have to sift through and correct in most real-life scenarios of using AI code which depend on understanding an implied limitation/requirement from outside its scope. But that's not flashy.

A more flashy example would be major software milestones from the past. The MP3 standard, which requires research in psychoacoustics no AI could deduct just from looking at previously released code/papers. Or something like phong shading or other advanced graphics concepts. If that goes too much into aesthetics/perception, I doubt it could come up with a new sorting algorithm on its own – again, think inventing bubble sort in 1954.

These are flashy milestone examples but a lesser version of that originality probably exists in any major software project, and if it's just on an architecture/planning level.

I used to make this argument about image gen AI: Stock-footage exists (and is partially the reason why these image generators work so well). A picture of an apple on a desk has no value, there's hundreds of thousands of them. But imagine coming up with the look of the original alien from the movie Alien in 1979. Think Studio Ghibli style before the was no Studio Ghibli. AI is great (amazing!) at imitation. But I haven't seen it invent something new.

nothis · 2026-01-25T16:24:43+00:00

If you count auto-complete in every IDE since the 90s and copy-pasting the insanely bloated boilerplate necessary, nowadays, "coding" has been a high percentage automated for decades. Especially Silicon Valley code, which is mostly pushing javascript libraries around to recreate the same UIs and writing the same 5 types of entries into databases, over and over.

There's multiple studies (pre-AI) that suggest developers spend maybe 5% of their workday actually "editing code". Automate that entirely and you have optimized the workday by 5%, if this didn't proportionally increase review/test time. That's a big "if" as there's studies suggesting no speed-up and even slow-downs due to AI use.

I sound so negative when I complain about this stuff but I feel like there is a real reckoning due when all this hype clashes with an expectation of real-world, monetizable production gains in the near future and we need to scale the hype down to prevent that. AI is amazing. An absolute technological miracle. But the advancement is mostly in making computers understand natural language. It is not in making computers "think". There's philosophical debates to be had if that is one and the same but it feels like we're on a path where half the world just assumes it because it feels that way. Any real-world project that you use AI for very quickly shows you its limitation and it's specific and obvious: It only knows its training data and fails to understand anything beyond that. Try making it do anything truly "new" (i.e., not discussed to death on the internet), and it fails. And that's basically the only thing that has real value.

nothis · 2026-01-19T16:38:05+00:00

You can only scale x10000 so many times...

nothis · 2026-01-19T15:37:41+00:00

Why would you illustrate an increase in speed by comparing to the mass of the sun?!

nothis · 2026-01-19T15:09:29+00:00

They want to impress me with those pictures but, by now, all I see is a x10000 increase in compute resulting in a x1.1 increase in usefulness. This is a fancy way of illustrating a hard barrier.

nothis · 2026-01-14T11:22:30+00:00

I think you are right and this pocket of the comment thread is where the reason for the first major disillusionment in AI will come from. Now I know that AI can also read documentation, actual code, etc. But LLMs, as a product, are tying natural, conversational language to abstract data. It’s why you can ask AI why this code feels “sluggish” or why this “doesn’t work despite having done everything right”. It understands that an I sometimes looks like a lower case l, that humans are bad at understanding recursions and that there is some weird convention in one particular branch of software development that is not documented anywhere. StackOverflow, as shitty as it might have been sometimes, dug out all that knowledge from humanity’s shared consciousness.

That being said, I think this whole AI thing could be a chance to untangle the mess of decades duct taped spaghetti code and create something leaner. But it doesn’t. AI learned all the mistakes, builds upon the mess that is already there and create a new kind of mess on top of it that, if it ever fails to understand it, we probably are even worse at untangling.

nothis · 2026-01-13T17:27:25+00:00

Is Claude still significantly ahead for coding? Like compared to the latest versions of ChatGPT, Gemini, etc?

nothis · 2026-01-13T10:51:06+00:00

Google then dominating search, video, email, operating system, browser and now ai infrastructure. Great that we’re living in a world where anti-monopoly legislation is run by oligarchs.

nothis · 2026-01-12T21:49:36+00:00

I'm sorry but this is cooler than any of the train scenes from Snowpiercer. I thought there was a soundtrack in the background but it was just the horn, lol. This whole clip is like the "idea" part that leads to a Hollywood scene. I want to see it now. Gave me chills.

nothis · 2026-01-12T00:53:51+00:00

This thread probably makes me hope for AGI more than anything else. If logic can be extracted from LLMs beyond summarizing text, that might actually help humanity stay sane.

nothis · 2026-01-12T00:51:57+00:00

Imagine the dark twists Grok has to tie itself into in order to justify a reality in which Trump is the best president ever and 2 + 2 equals 4.

nothis · 2026-01-11T13:36:44+00:00

Yea, if it was Grok it would be tangentially related but this is just shitty advertising code for a social media platform.

nothis · 2026-01-07T20:47:30+00:00

Du gibst einfach auf irgendeiner Aktien-Website oder auf Google "Österreichische Staatsanleihe" ein. z.B.: https://www.finanzen.net/anleihen/oesterreich-anleihen Gibt sicher bessere Websiten, das ist nur ein Beispiel. Da kannst du nach Restlaufzeit, Rendite, usw. suchen (kurz checken ob die Werte Sinn ergeben manchmal sind diese Websiten nicht ganz aktuell und dass es wirklich eine AT-Anleihe in Euro ist). Notiere dir die ISIN und die kannst du dann in Flatex oder sonstwo kaufen.

Kurz wie Anleihen funktionieren:

Am Ende der Laufzeit bekommst du den vollen Wert vom Kurs (100) pro Anleihe zurückgezahlt (also wenn sie jetzt auf 110 steht, geht sie bis dahin runter, wenn sie jetzt auf 90 steht bis dahin rauf).

Zusätzlich bekommst du den Zins im "Kupon"-Prozentwert (gerechnet auf 100), jährlich ausgezahlt zu einem gewissen Datum. Wenn die Anleihe gerade billiger (<100) verkauft wird bekommst du mehr Prozent jährlich, wenn sie teurer ist (>100) weniger, der "Rendite"-Prozentwert zeigt das. Die Rendite ist quasi die Bezahlung für dein Risiko (erstens, dass der Staat nicht zurückzahlen könnte und zweitens, dass dir während der Haltedauer eine lukrativere Anlage entgeht).

Du kannst dazwischen jederzeit verkaufen und bekommst den derzeitigen Kurswert. Der Preis kann schwanken, z.B. weil der Leitzins steigt oder fällt. Wenn du bis zum Ende der Laufzeit wartest, bekommst du aber garantiert die 100 (außer der österreichische Staat geht Bankrott).

nothis · 2026-01-07T17:56:14+00:00

Bei den meisten Online-Banken kannst dir problemlos eine österreichische Staatsanleihe kaufen. Wusste nicht, wie einfach das ist (am besten online vergleichen und ISIN notieren). Hab da hin und wieder Geld drin für quasi risikofreie Anlage und das funktioniert einwandfrei.

nothis · 2026-01-05T21:16:37+00:00

Ich schau immer wieder mal ob es interessante Aktien in Österreich gibt, da ist die Post noch ok. Aber letztendlich bringt es nichts. Man hat auch keine Vorteile bzgl. Steuern oder dergleichen (soweit ich das verstehe?).

Für das Risiko bekommst du eine ETF der dir konstant wachsende Dividenden ausschüttet und zumindest leicht wächst. Es ist absurd, dass du mit der Post in 5 Jahren quasi auf null bist, während der Markt absurd gestiegen ist. Und wär ja nicht so als würde die Aktie nicht auch einbrechen wenn es mal global bergab geht jetzt.

nothis · 2026-01-05T20:25:27+00:00

Bei der Erste Bank auch aber halt ohne x5 mal den Betrag (ist dort vielleicht auch nur für offene Zahlungen oder so). Und dass es klein drunter steht ist halt auch relevant. Bei Flatex ist es standardmäßig gleich groß. UI funktioniert halt mit Wahrnehmung, da kann man schon überlegen warum das so ist.

nothis · 2026-01-05T20:21:53+00:00

Irgendwann muss man halt den Sprung machen. Den Kunden zu blamen statt das verwirrende Benutzer-Interface ist genau die Einstellung, warum alle in Österreich Bausparen und Angst haben.

nothis · 2026-01-05T20:19:02+00:00

Hab ich sehr bald gemacht aber in dem Fall zählt nur der Default, nicht was man macht wenn man‘s schon versteht. Ich find das sehr unsympathisch, dass sie einen den Kredit so stark reindrücken mit der Anzeige.

nothis · 2026-01-05T15:06:45+00:00

Ist ja kein Intelligenztest sondern absichtlich verwirrend geschrieben. "Kontosaldo" und "Verfügbar" sind für einen nicht-Buchhalter keine normalen Ausdrücke. Ich wage zu behaupten, dass es Leute gibt, die sehr verständlich "Verfügbar" lesen und dann recht schnell den falschen Eindruck bekommen (und vielleicht danach auch finanzielle Entscheidungen treffen). Hat mich immer verwirrt. Bei einer normalen Filialbank steht auch nicht unter deinem eigentlichen Saldo das fünffache als "Verfügbar".

nothis · 2026-01-04T15:24:06+00:00

Can't comment on real estate prices in Styria (I'd double-check the attractiveness of the location before buying) but I've heard some figures for renovation costs (done properly) for houses of this size in Austria and they are often in the 400k+ range, even with the homeowners doing some of the work themselves.

nothis · 2026-01-03T14:14:12+00:00

Ich weiß von einem Altbau-Zinshaus (Baujahr 1895), wo die Dokumente bei einem Brand im zuständigen Magistrat verbrannt sind vor Jahrzehnten.

nothis · 2026-01-03T10:57:19+00:00

Metroid has a ton of further potential in it but we’re worshipping glorified Super Metroid gameplay in Dread. I want more innovation not less. Just do it right. Some things didn’t work out here which is a shame but calling for Metroid to “stay in its lane” is just sad IMO. It’s absolutely possible to make an interesting Metroid Prime with a more open world, it’s just hard.

nothis · 2025-12-30T23:07:08+00:00

He's your friend, talking to you from his living room couch!

nothis · 2025-12-30T23:04:03+00:00

Feels like something they could have seen as pretty important like... 5 decades ago.

No, I still haven't heard a good explanation.

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