Give me a deadline in six months and I'll procrastinate for at least five of them, feeling terrible about it throughout. Give me an impossible deadline tomorrow and I become a productivity machine, with no time for anxious overthinking.
This is also a result of different dopamine and other neurotransmitter function in folks with ADHD, not just anxious overthinking. With a deadline 6 months away, the dopamine reward to work on it doesn't work like in normal people. While, say doing something in a video game that triggers dopamine release reward which motivates action.
That's like how LLMs help me with software development. I don't work less, instead I produce more and what I produce is of greater benefit to my clients.
Recently I was starting to think I imagined that. Back then they gave me the impression it would be released within week or so of the announcement. Have they explained the delay?
When you go into the regular, slow, audio mode there's a little info circle in the top right corner. Over time that circle has been giving periodic updates. At one point the message was that it would be delayed, and now it's saying it's "on it's way" by the end of fall.
Not perfect but they've been putting their communications in there.
The text-to-text model is available. And you can use it with the old voice interface that does Whipser+GPT+TTS. But what was advertised is a model capable of direct audio-to-audio. That’s not available.
Interestingly, the New York Times mistakenly reported on and reviewed the old features as if they were the new ones. So lots of confusion to go around.
Why are so many people taking this at face value? There's a war going on and the man in charge of the communications system for one side flew to try to meet his leader and then flew to an enemy country where there was a warrant for his arrest.
I'm not saying the French aren't serious about the charges they've published but they're hardly the main point.
Yes, the situation is strange. According to many sources the following is true:
1) Russia uses Telegram for military communications.
2) Russian military bloggers use Telegram for detailed updates, including graphic pictures.
3) Ukrainian military bloggers do the same.
4) Russian mercenaries use Telegram in former French colonies in Africa.
France may want to shut down 4), but I would think that Western intelligence services would not want to shut down the uses in the Ukraine conflict because they can track everything. So maybe they just want a better tracking API.
They would want to shut it down in preparation for a large Middle East war though. In that case, they'd prefer hand picked CNN embedded journalists and not have graphic pictures appear freely.
Lavabit was mentioned here. Perhaps Durov should just announce to shut down Telegram and find out if certain forces beg him to continue the service.
Ukrainian military bloggers use it, their public persons use it and while there is probably an an order that dictates not to use it - I really doubt it is being followed completely considering the vast majority of Ukrainian military are yesterdays conscripts and not professional soldiers. Some of them drink, some of them sell their equipment, some of them gamble.
I really doubt they don't use telegram. Maybe it is not systemic but neither this is for Russia.
Our military's comms are over Matrix/Element, Whatsapp, Signal (in the descending order of significance.) Officers are trained to avoid Telegram just like the other known-to-be-compromised communication channels.
I see this argument a lot, but it falls apart when you realise Ukraine also extensively uses Telegram. Maybe not for official state business (Zelenskyy chatting with his intelligence chief), but many times officials communicate with civilians via Telegram channels.
That's just wrong. Telegram is trusted by both Ukraine and Russia. That tells a lot. Also I am living near Russian border and remember well how Durov left Russia and I am quite sure he is not puppet of Putin...
Imagine that Ukraine used a US messaging system for military comms. The head of that company visits Serbia (a country friendly to Russia) and is arrested on some charges that you don't agree with. Will you debate the charges or the consequences for Ukraine?
Maybe it's because I live very close to Russia and most of the people here probably don't think about the war every day, but the strategic reality of this situation makes all these privacy arguments so trivial.
I need to see this happen to someone other than Durov to consider that it's not about the war. While it's only Durov then I really don't think he's discussing privacy issues with the French - they are discussing his access to Telegram's systems and his ability and willingness to give that to the allies of Ukraine. Likewise in Russia they are not discussing the privacy issues, they are trying to lock Durov out Telegram's systems and the military and intelligence services are working on alternative ways to communicate, and meanwhile the effectiveness on the battlefield of the Russian army is compromised.
Speaking of Serbia, it's interesting that Macron is about to spend 2 days there, officially for the matters of selling fighter aircraft, nuclear reactors, and something about «AI»...
Now, of course that this happens just after the arrest of Durov might just be a coincidence, but you would also think that Macron might want to try to postpone that visit, especially considering the heating up political situation at home :
After Macron dissolved the assembly after very bad for his party European elections, the Left bloc won the legislative elections... but then Macron, after nearly 2 months, just declared that he refused the prime minister they selected, leading to an obviously pissed off Left bloc, most of which is calling for manifestations, and its leading party - basically starting an impeachment procedure against Macron !
We had a client who wanted us to do a security audit and communicate the results—unpatched vulnerabilities mind you—via Discord. They could not be dissuaded.
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