Gabriele Svelto

Alright, let's do it.

Let's get Canada in the EU.

The whole "Roman salute" thing needs some clarification. There's no such thing as a "Roman salute". It was made up by fascists in Italy and then copied by the nazi regime. Only fascists use it. End of story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute

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It's great to see that some Firefox users are now self-diagnosing hardware issues on their machines thanks to the tools we've implemented to detect faulty memory: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1i0xtkg/comment/m78k4ta/

I hope that this year we'll be able to make this type of information accessible to more users and especially non-technical users. Plenty of them are affected by hardware faults that they aren't aware of, if not for general instability. We're the only project doing work in this area to the best of my knowledge.

Chances are that you might have heard about #Firefox "Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising". I've been working for Mozilla for 12 years and I've learned about it here on the fediverse, not only because I haven't been paying much attention, but because internal comms have been occupied with other stuff. So let's talk about something I feel Mozilla desperately needs: transparency. 🧵 1/11

Never thought I'd agree with someone from GS

> AI technology is exceptionally expensive, and to justify those costs, the technology must be able to solve complex problems, which it isn't designed to do," [...] The starting point for costs is also so high that even if costs decline, they would have to do so dramatically to make automating tasks with AI affordable [...] In our experience, even basic summarization tasks often yield illegible and nonsensical results.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-return-investment-disappointing-goldman-sachs-report-2024-6

This is gonna be fun: OpenAI runs afoul of the GDPR because it generates false information about individuals and they don't have full access to the data that pertains to them.

From the article:

> Maartje de Graaf, data protection lawyer at noyb: “The obligation to comply with access requests applies to all companies. [...] It seems that with each ‘innovation’, another group of companies thinks that its products don’t have to comply with the law.”

https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

What sound does a tech bubble make when it bursts?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/stability_ai_bills/