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Comment Re:Bye bye Wikipedia (Score 3, Insightful) 12

Wikipedia is choosing to die. There is a lot wrong with a lot of what people are doing with GenAI but it is also super useful.

Unfortunately, even the best LLMs sometimes make up information ("hallucinate"), and the stuff they make up is deliberately crafted to appear exactly like real information. This is simply unacceptable for an encyclopedia.

If Wikipedia were written by paid professionals, you could plausibly put in place protocols to check and verify, and fire the ones who fail to check properly, but even paid professionals have been seen to let hallucinations through. As it is, as an encyclopedia that it is put together by volunteers, forbidding AI is pretty much a forced choice.

https://www.evidentlyai.com/bl...
  https://arize.com/llm-hallucin...
  https://thisweekinsciencenews....

Comment Re:So this is about AI slop spam from clankers (Score 1) 67

You aren't that interesting either and yet you found a way to look interesting with sock puppet accounts, maybe they'll just do the same.

The problem is that a sock puppet uses an actual human to operate it, while bots run with little or no need for human effort. So a human can turn out a handful of posts with sock puppets, while bots can be churn out thousands and thousands of posts, swamping any system with slop.

Comment Re:Delaying the inevitable. (Score 2) 31

IMHO they bet on keeping really big customers that are kind of locked-in by using all the vmware goodies although even those customers protest.

I have used vmware starting in 1999 and stopped using it around 2011 to switch to plain qemu/kvm scripts I wrote myself to run my vms.

Nowadays I use proxmox to run about 100 vms now. I might not have all the vmware goodies but if you are able to write your own scripts, it's easy to implement the missing parts you want although things like cluster management, snapshots, live migration and replication come with proxmox out of the box.

Porting a vm from vmware to proxmox is really easy and you can try it for free by simply changing the update repository from the production one to the dev one which has all the same functionality provided:
deb [arch=amd64] http://download.proxmox.com/de... bookworm pve-no-subscription

All updates make it to the pve-no-subscription first then are graduated to the production one after a while and if you want to run the production version, it's way cheaper than vmware.

Proxmox uses qemu/kvm and most cloud vm providers use something based on qemu/kvm nowadays.

I found that running vmware was only worth when the CPUs didn't have any hypervisor flags back in the days. vmware had a custom linux kernel module you needed to rebuild on every kernel update which was the fastest thing around back then.

Comment By 2027??? (Score 4, Informative) 51

"Online Bot Traffic Will Exceed Human Traffic By 2027"

If you consider all kind of bots and search engines, this happened quite a while ago IMHO.

I host many websites, some with considerable real human traffic and my experience is that there is much more traffic that isn't human to the point I need to block some IP, use geo blocking and make custom mod_security rules at the reverse-proxy level to detect non-human traffic in order to not waste too much bandwidth and protect against attack bots and bots scanning for vulnerabilities.

Comment Re:Hey Canada, here's a hint (Score 4, Informative) 108

As I posted above, Quebec uses 99% hydro and renewable and still has plenty to export. They sell some to Ontario and the maritime provinces but it's more a matter of transmission lines. Selling it to British Columbia or Alberta would be harder at the moment due to the lack of transmission lines as well as transmission losses if there were any. So, there is still some available to sell to the near states in United States at market price there or a bit lower.

By the way, Hydro-Quebec is owned by the government and all the profits go to the government and helps paying the cost of running the government like education, roads and social programs etc. Citizens in Quebec pay around 7 cents a KWh at that's Canadian money where 1 $CAN == 0.70 $US

Comment Re:People always forget about basic things (Score 1) 53

they get to control the ad infrastructure and the data that comes from the full Google suite,

Well I want at least a free phone and $50 per hour for the ads they force on me.

I no longer use my Samsung phone for the Internet - the experience is horrendous. If I don't have access to a Linux/BSD machine, I don't use the internet. I am not going to upgrade my phone till it breaks. Probably then I will use a dumb phone.

Please EU, lets have an EUtube!

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