manueljlin

webdev (derogatory), designer. kde stuff sometimes

[Seres István András @Istvan_A_Seres]

As of now, the European Digital Identity system is a farce.

Credentials are salted hashes of attributes satisfying minimal privacy requirements.

Issuers can subvert the system undetectably to trace users. One disclosed attribute is enough entropy to tag every person on Earth.

[Michael Becker @michaelybecker]

this right here is the biggest personal case for open sourcing your work. While at Disney I wasn't able to get my own (mostly OS-indebted!) work to Open Source Valhalla, which resulted in a LOT of wheel-reinventing after leaving.

Get your work in the open if you can, not just for everyone else, but also for future you!

[manueljlin @manueljlin]

@benjitaylor phasing out chirp? 👀

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Exactly. I've been disseminating a similar message for years.

The concentration of power in AI and the desire for control is by far the biggest danger of AI. It could lead to a few private companies and/or countries being in control of access to information, access to knowledge, and access to the tools of economic expansion.
It's a kind of medieval obscurantism akin to the Ottoman empire banning the use of the printing press for 200 years, in part to keep control of the dogma, but also to protect the corporation of the calligraphers and scribes.

Relevant historical bits about the Internet:
1. It took a deliberate decision by Al Gore and Bill Clinton to open up access of what was then ARPAnet to commercial entities and to the public, against the desires of the entrenched telecom industry. During a public roundtable about the "information superhighway" in 1993, the CEO of AT&T told Gore and Clinton "leave it to us". Gore said no.
2. In the late 1980s, setting up an Internet presence required buying proprietary hardware with proprietary OS and software stack from Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, or Dell. By the 2000s, all of this was wiped out by commodity hardware, Linux, Apache, and an entirely free/open software stack. This migration to open platforms was the result of market forces.

Infrastructure wants to be open.
Foundation models are becoming an infrastructure and will inevitably become commoditized.
Long term, the money is in the application layer, which is what I, Arthur Mensch, Alex Karp, and others have been saying.

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

the second hand embarrassment i feel literally makes my stomach hurt

[manueljlin @manueljlin]

@0xSero that's like the first clearly ai gen'd webpage i've seen that actually looks decent design wise, even if it still has the same leitmotifs as usual. still impressed

[kasra @kasratweets]

oh wow I guess they literally just did it

[Tristan Cunha @cunha_tristan]

@juliaioffe Daimler in Germany has an out of office option that just tell people they email is going to be deleted, please send it again when I get back from vacation.

[manueljlin @manueljlin]

@aaronburnett @Beowulf345 I think it has real potential particularly when combined with 3D stacking like what Huawei Tau scaling does. Heat in 3D stacking is the main concern. And it might be more resilient to bit flips from solar flares (?)

[manueljlin @manueljlin]

@JasonBotterill that has to be some side effect of the cybersec and bio ablation fiesta bc that's just crazy

[Volodymyr Agafonkin 🇺🇦 @mourner]

One of my proudest open source libraries, Earcut, just got a big refresh — now 55% faster on average (and up to 3x faster on complex polygons with many holes), and comes with a new refine function that updates any triangulation to Delaunay quality. Also got open issues to zero ✨

[manueljlin @manueljlin]

@Beowulf345 @aaronburnett does https://t.co/G77xrrhHad style wafers and chips change the equation somewhat in the space hpc picture? maybe smaller radiators since it can work at higher temps?

[manueljlin @manueljlin]

@HakureiRyan @f4micom There's a couple others like Deezer and Revolut but yeah...

[manueljlin @manueljlin]

@aramh Do you know about https://t.co/KcPmRdowQp? Looks pretty interesting

[Diego @1000kilobytes]

same icons, 1 year later

[manueljlin @manueljlin]

@1000kilobytes @oxfus that notes icon looks insane 👏

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

eduroam is the perfect metaphor for academia – a globe spanning wonder of connectedness that’s almost impossible to permanently join.

[Thorne 🌸 @ExistentialEnso]

When you try to ostracize anyone who touches the "forbidden machina," you just cede power to the people who want to use it to exploit you.

[Thorne 🌸 @ExistentialEnso]

It’s very hard to uninvent a technology

However, it’s very practical to democratize and decentralize tech in ways that transform it from a tool of control to one of empowerment