* Posts by dsch

6 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jan 2025

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

dsch

There's a story here about social workers and agencies not being funded enough to have a real human helping victims. If LLMs continued to be used, it would be worthwhile to have a "stable branch" for these apps. Perhaps there room for a non-profit to step in and host LLMs specifically for these use cases.

Tech suppliers await final grade as Trump prepares to flunk Department of Education

dsch

Every time I read about this, I still can't get over how mindblowingly dumb and malicious this is.

FCC on the prowl for Huawei and other blocked Chinese makers in America

dsch

> "... pose an unacceptable risk to America's national security, *including by doing Communist China's bidding*"

On a side note, it's interesting how the Trump regime is always dropping propagandistic editorialising like this into their official documents. It's an imitation of the Orange-in-Chief's off the wall social media posts, of course, but it's also a constant reinforcement of the party line that is strongly reminiscent of other authoritarian governments (which I guess no one is surprised about).

Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un

dsch

Seems like a terrible scheme. Okay, just giving people local IPs might stay under the radar, but you're also going to do identity theft? And have the earnings delivered to your bank account?!

US senator wants to slap prison term, $1M fine on anyone aiding Chinese AI with ... downloads?

dsch

Hawley has no policy ideas, only bandwagons-of-the-week. Sometimes it makes him look like a sane Republican senator, but that is only by coincidence.

China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run

dsch

Re: Sounds really good...

It's almost as if the scientists doing nuclear fusion research in Russia are *different people* from the fossil fuel CEOs.