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- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 1 day ago:
Taylor swift
- Comment on Just one more 1 day ago:
Even if its not I know LA has crazy traffic from being in it
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 3 days ago:
- Comment on A story old as time 5 days ago:
“I wish both my arms were broken”
- Comment on Suggestion 6 days ago:
What’s wrong with lollies. I love sucking on them.
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 2 weeks ago:
I think hurting children is wrong.
I think hurting children is wrong, so children should be euthanized to ensure they experience as little pain as possible. /s
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 2 weeks ago:
Most of the produce bags here have handles. I found that the meeting place where the “handle” meets the “bag” to be the easiest spot to separate. I just rub the bag between my fingers in that area and usually it only takes a single rub for it to separate.
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- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 2 weeks ago:
Computer
- Comment on Shed Sheeran 2 weeks ago:
Get out of my shed
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks ago:
You can call it an LLM.
- Comment on ULPT: The Math Department does Not have Ethical Review 3 weeks ago:
N > 1
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
What does it mean to “waffle”?
- Comment on Beat down with the sickness 4 weeks ago:
Man. I was home, sick, that day.
- Comment on Which one did you choose???? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
“dog pussy is the best, i swear man that shit changes your mood” /s
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’m very sick - I am bedridden. I’m sick as fuck - I am amazing.
- Comment on Time Stop 4 weeks ago:
Evil guy ruins isekai. /s
- Comment on What could go wrong? 4 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? 5 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.
