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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Depends on the country though. In France you must be registered to vote (you’re assigned a specific voting office). It’s a single registration foe everything, not for each vote

    Although the process is online, and takes like 5mins.

    You also get a voting card, but it’s technically optional, it just speeds up the process in the voting office.






  • Yeah but people don’t buy cars that often, and when they do it’s usually a used car. So you might need to wait a few more years to see that change in dynamic towards automatic (especially with electric).

    I’m French and I’ve been driving for almost 14 years, and I’ve never used an automatic car, and my current car isn’t that old. So yeah it won’t be tha majority until a few years



  • Oh yeah I’m not arguing with you on that. AI has become synonymous with LLM, and doing the most generic models possible, which means syphoning (well stealing actually) stupid amounts of data, and wasting a quantity of energy second only to cryptocurrencies.

    Simpler models that are specialized in one domain instead do not cost as much, and are more reliable. Hell, spam filters have been partially based on some ML for years.

    But all of that is irrelevant at the moment, because IA/ML is not one possible solution among other solutions that are not based on ML. Currently they are something that must be pushed as much as possible because it’s a bubble that gets investors, and I’m so waiting forward for it to burst.


  • No, what I’m saying is that if I had vision issues and had to use a screen reader to use my computer, if I had to choose between

    • the person who did that website didn’t think about accessibility, so sucks to be you, you’re not gonna know what’s on those pictures
    • there’s no alt, but your screen reader tries to describe the picture, you know it’s not perfect, but at least you probably know it’s not a dog.

    I’d take the latter. Obviously the true solution would be to make sure everyone thinks about accessibility, but come on… Even here it’s not always the case and the fediverse is the place where I’ve seen the most focus on accessibility.

    Another domain I’d see is preprocessing (a human will do the actual work) to make some tasks a bit easier or quicker and less repetitive.