RAG is Retrieval Augmented Generation. It is a fancy way of saying “we’ve tacked a search engine onto the LLM so that it can query for and use the text of actual documents when generating text, so that the output is more likely to be correct and grounded in reality.”

And yeah, MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, and is essentially an API format optimized for LLMs, as you’ve said, to defer to something else to do the work. This can be a (RAG like) search engine lookup, using a calculator, or something else entirely.

LLMs suck at doing a lot of stuff reliably (like calculations, making statements relating to recent events, …), but they turn out to be quite a useful tool for translating between human and machine, and reasonably capable of stringing things together to get an answer.

That seems vague though: when is something synthetic? If I use something like Context Free to create something, would that count? If you paint or take a picture, but apply some filters / effects? It, to me, feels too general to differentiate between tools that “fill in based on training data, and statistics thereof” and those that do not.

While AI/GenAI is used for marketing, it does draw a clear boundary as to what necessitates the annotation, yet is general enough to include any future changes, while being widely recognized.

And it still cleans up once the ownership model indicates it can be cleaned up. That does not ensure memory is never leaked, but it is equivalent to destructors running automatically when using unique ptr or shared ptr without cycles in C++, which avoids at least a portion of possible memory leaks.

The weird thing is also what happens to taste of you lose your sense of smell. You can still feel the texture of the food, but it doesn’t taste like much. One of the weirdest things I have experienced as a result of a virus.

And even that would be similar to someone cycling uphill, supported by the wind. Using air currents is efficient, but requires there to be air currents to use.

Gliding is really efficient for the distance covered, however: rolling resistance of wheels and the air resistance of a (not as aerodynamic) person is higher (and hence less efficient) than birds.

Instead the rule is: must be a member of the European Broadcasting Union, which is notably different from Europe or EU: some African countries are members too.

That difference is so large, they must be quoting different numbers. Something like DOJ is looking at Advertising providers or search providers alone, while Google quotes a number for percentage of all websites visited or something.

Yeah, even if it is the law, companies do tend to fall short of adhering to said law. For example, a lab that does cancer screening got hacked and pretty much messed up their entire response.

I recognize that issue. Firefox doesn’t forward to an app by default, prompting you instead. However, they often immediately forward you to the play store instead when it does not work immediately (not letting you accept the prompt).

Settings > (Advanced) > Open Links in App (set to always), would make it work (at the cost of every other website also doing so…)

As someone who uses iDEAL with Firefox all the time, I have never had it break. You might need to check whether there isn’t an extension that causes issues or looking into disabling Enhanced privacy mode for iDEAL.

Beyond trying a different browser: try the chrome mask extension for Firefox, some websites that refuse to work only do so because they are hardcoded to.

• wasnt broke dont fix

Sadly, security issues are still being found in sudo, so wasn’t broke isn’t entirely true. Though, whether or not Rust prevents a given security issue is strongly dependent on the kind of issue. Security issues arising from logical errors usually don’t get caught, there is only a guarantee for memory management issues.

• missing some configuration features of base sudo

One of the things sudo-rs does is implement only a subset of features to decrease the attack surface. A recent security issue did not affect sudo-rs because they simply did not implement the feature that had the (logic) bug. As with many things this is a trade-off.

I doubt the IEC accelerator will fund IBM, as it only funds start-ups and SMEs (small businesses?). They might have gotten Horizon Europe funding, but that generally comes with very strict reporting requirements. You should be able to find the project here if that were the case.

That said, we don’t have much business funding IBM, they have sufficient money from their previous ‘ventures’.

That is different than ‘funding genocidal technologies’ that you previously stated though: the grants specifically target civilian (not military) applications, albeit, some technologies may be dual use. It is not like the money is used for murder machines. Nevertheless, disassociating may be a good idea due to these dual use applications.

I would love if things weren’t as bad as they looked, but…

Most of the destruction of buildings in Gaza is of empty buildings with no inhabitants. The IDF blows up or bulldozes buildings when they find booby traps in them, have tunnel entrances, provide military advantage, were used for weapons storage or command, were used as sniper or RPG nests, block lines of sight, to clear security corridors, space for military camps and operations, and so on. The list of reasons is long and liberally applied by the bulldozer operators and sappers on the ground.

(emphasis mine) While destroying military targets is fair, pretty much every building blocks line of sight, including civilian housing, shops, hospitals, and so on. If applied liberally, this essentially amounts to destroy all buildings. Having your house (and nearby facilities, like shops, schools, hospitals) bulldozed will have a severe negative impact on your ability to live, even if you don’t die in the bulldozing or destruction of your house.

The IDF warns before major operations and then almost all civilians leave the area. The evacuation of Rafah is a good example for this. There are also targeted attacks, usually by air, in non evacuated areas, but these are only responsible for a small fraction of the destruction.

(emphasis mine) While the IDF does do this, and this avoids immediate death for many, it still deprives people of human right to housing. Furthermore, a warning does not provide those who evacuate / flee with housing, food and water - for these there are currently significant shortages, while acting on the warning will have a severe negative impact on being able to provide for oneself - one can only carry so much. A disregard for innocent human lives isn’t just civilian deaths, it is also the deprivation of resources that one needs to live.

It says ‘a neighborhood’ not 'one neighborhood '. Furthermore, in the article, it specifically mentions it represents other neighborhoods in Gaza.

A neighborhood provides an example of the disregard for innocent human lives behind the Israeli attacks, with visual proof provided by satellite imagery, even if it is one of many.

Stating one neighborhood would imply it is the only one. While the NY Times does not have the best track record, it is needlessly reductive for an article that shows what is happening in Gaza. Especially as a picture of a neighborhood can actually be more impactful than the whole: close enough that you can see individual places where people leave, far enough to see the extent of destruction.

Also ImageTragick was a thing, there are definitely security implications to adding dependencies to implement a feature in this way (especially on a shared instance). The API at the very least needs to handle auth, so that your images and videos don’t get rotated by others.

Then you have UX, you may want to show to the user that things have rotated (otherwise button will be deemed non-functional, even if it uses this one-liner behind the scenes), but probably don’t want to transfer the entire video multiple times to show this (too slow, costs data).

Yeah, it is one thing to add a one liner, but another to make a well implemented feature.

Thanks for the clarification, I don’t disagree, I just couldn’t completely follow the argument being made.

NSC to me is an odd party. NSC, or their programme (in so far that existed), is and has been incompatible with this entire government from the get-go. The fact that they have essentially disappeared is due to this, and the fact they essentially did not have any power to change this government whatsoever. Even small steps based on their moral compass were met with hostility from the other parties. I agree that this isn’t NSC’s responsibility: this latter part is the other parties doing. NSC’s biggest failure lies in working together in the first place.

Not this guy, don’t get it mixed up.

I might be missing something, I am unsure how your comment about the VVD relates to this minister, as he is part of NSC, not VVD.

For clarity: I interpret your comment as a statement that this minister (who has stepped down) to not have integrity.

It does have a dictionary entry though, e.g. "the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively”, and I would argue that this definition fits.

The definition “something that lets a computer perform tasks that are thought to require intelligence” depends on the person, and whether they think something required a form of intelligence. Accounting for all variables over a large distance so you hit your target seems like it requires a reasonable amount of intelligence to me.

It is a extremely generic term though, almost like using ‘software package’. It is more often used as a buzzword than something that provides significant clarification about how it works.