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@idunnololz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is something you like to tell people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Computer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shed Sheeran⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Get out of my shed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As you are doing it you never realize⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Am i really going to go buy a dvd burner and a stack of blanks out of spite?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨testing how this site handles videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yay it works on Summit :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can call it an LLM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ULPT: The Math Department does Not have Ethical Review⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  N > 1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are just objective master pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think Return of the Obra Dinn would belong alongside these or is that game too flawed by comparison?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to get downvoted to oblivion.

  I see a lot of people questioning why Google would do this and the answer is pretty simple.

  Google created a tool a long, long time ago which was meant to make sure traffic from a device was “legit”. This tool is 100% optional and app developers can use it if they would like. However, the tool was easy to bypass, so over the years Google has been making the tool harder and harder to bypass.

  So why is Google doing this? They are doing this because they don’t want their tool to be bypassable. Their tool is worthless if it can be bypassed.

  The tool in question here is the Play Integrity API (previously known as the SafetyNet Attestation API). This is a tool that is offered to app developers that app developers can take advantage of if they want. The selling point of the tool is if you have operation in your app that is critical, you can try to prevent some abuse by verifying that the app is running on a “trusted build of Android” and that the app itself has not been modified from the original. That’s all the tool does.

  This isn’t a new API. This isn’t something Google is trying to force app developers to use. No. From Google’s point of view, they are just making sure their tool does it’s job properly.

  As for why companies might choose to use this tool, a big reason is because Android is a huge target for fraud. Apple has locked all their stuff down so it is much harder to commit fraud on iOS (not impossible though). Although Apple offers something similar, there is generally less fraud coming from iOS devices vs Android. It’s the double-edged sword of having a more open platform.

  Companies are obviously not going to be happy to be the target of fraud so they have to weigh their options. Either they block a small percentage of their users that are possibly legit by implementing Play Integrity API or they risk losing a % of their income to fraud.

  Now you can disagree with the tool’s job, I’m not trying to argue whether the tool is good or bad. That is extremely subjective, but hopefully this answers why Google is making this change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse Social Media Guide⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  According to this I should join GNUSocial.

  But that sounds like a site for opinionated prick who can’t keep your mouth shut.

  No thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course being verbose doesnt mean your writing is good. It’s just that you need to deliberately choose when to be more verbose and when to give no description at all. It’s all about the experience you want to craft. If you write about home mundane a character’s life is, you can write out their day in detail and give your readers the experience of having such a life, that is if that was your goal. It all depends on the experience you want to craft and the story you want to tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not. I just wrote the comment because it was relevant to recent events for me.

  I started practicing writing non-fiction recently as a hobby. While writing non-fiction, I noticed that a lot of times I specifically did not want to write concisely. Sometimes I did want to write concisely, other times I did not. When I was reading my writing back, I realized how deliberate you had to be about how much or how little detail you gave. It felt like a lot of rules of English went out the window. 100% grammatical correctness was not necessary if it meant better flow or pacing. Unnecessary details and repetition became tools instead of taboo.

  It really highlighted the contrast between fiction and non-fiction writing. It was an eye opening experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I write concise until i started giving fiction writing a try. Suddenly writing concise was a negative :x (not always obviously but a lot of times I found that I wrote too concise).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What does it mean to “waffle”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beat down with the sickness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Man. I was home, sick, that day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one did you choose????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. Please choose one from the following list:

  • rectal cancer
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In my case, the repository does not allow pull requests so it’s fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  From what i understand if you wrote it you can just license the public version via GPL and license the private version what ever you want since you own it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punctuation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “dog pussy is the best, i swear man that shit changes your mood” /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very sick - I am bedridden. I’m sick as fuck - I am amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time Stop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Evil guy ruins isekai. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What could go wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that this like everything else is nuanced. For instance, I think if people who use gen AI as a tool to help with their mental health are knowledgeable about the limitations, then they can craft some ways to use it while minimizing the negative sides. Eg. Maybe you can set some boundaries like you talk to the AI chat bot but you never take any advice from it. However, i think in the average case it’s going to make things worse.

  I’ve talked to a lot of people around me about gen AI recently and I think the vast majority of people are misinformed about how it works, what it does, and what the limitations are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What could go wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is terrible. I’m going to ignore the issues concerning privacy since that’s already been brought up here and highlight another major issue.

  I did a deep dive with gen AI for a month a few weeks ago.

  It taught me that gen AI is actually brilliant at certain things. One thing that gen AI does is it learns what you want and makes you believe it’s giving you exactly what you want. In a sense it’s actually incredibly manipulative and one of the things gen AI is brilliant at. As you interact with gen AI within the same context window, it quickly picks up on who you are, then subtly tailors its responses to you.

  I also noticed that as gen AI’s context grew, it became less “objective”. This makes sense since gen AI is likely tailoring the responses for me specifically. However, when this happens, the responses also end up being wrong more often. This also tracks, since correct answers are usually objective.

  If people started to use gen AI for therapy, it’s very likely they will converse within one context window. In addition, they will also likely ask gen AI for advice (or gen AI may even offer advice unprompted because it loves doing that). However, this is where things can go really wrong.

  Gen AI cannot “think” of a solution, evaluate the downsides of the solution, and then offer it to you because gen AI can’t “think” period. What gen AI will do is it will offer you what sounds like solutions and reasons. And because gen AI is so good at understanding who you are and what you want, it will frame the solutions and reasons in a way that appeals to you. On top of all of this, due to the long-running context window, it’s very likely the advice gen AI gives will be bad advice. For someone who is in a vulnerable and emotional state, the advice may seem reasonable, good even.

  If people then act on this advice, the consequences can be disastrous. I’ve read enough horror stories about this.

  Anyway, I think therapy might be one of the worst uses for gen AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Off topic: the onion needs to resume making videos again. Their fake news videos were amazing and most of them are still relevant today even though most of them are 12 years old. Also sex house was hilarious. Please bring these gems back 🙏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Id say atleast 4-5 more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite part of that movie was when they assembled and started yelling “SEVEN SAMURAI” at the top of their lungs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did I get so old⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's the scoop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lolllll I use the em dash trick too, but some people do just love using them—I definitely went through a phase myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds similar to the OG chinese classic: Tomato and Egg. You literally dice a tomato, stir fry a bit to soften it then scramble an egg in the same pan. Salt and you are done. There are many many minor variations including adding sugar or msg. Topping with scallions or even adding ketchup, sesame oil or pepper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give me your company⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently I saw this in 2016.

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As an app dev im pretty sure you cannot actually compile an iOS app on let’s say windows. Although you are free to use things like flutter or KMP and yes you your code can be built for iOS, the compiler (the thing that turns code into binary to run on the platform) only exists on MacOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hellfire” in my ass