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- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 4 hours ago:
“but reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks by me. I created comparison documents, went through all queries multiple times and reviewed the logic over and over again. I also did load tests and manual regression tests, which took lots of evenings.”
This is the way.
- Comment on Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package 16 hours ago:
A creature of McKinsey.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 1 day ago:
Section 230 of the dmca is designed to allow platforms to exist because people can say whatever the fuck they want. But nobody should make a machine that says things they can’t control, and if you do you need to be disciplined for such irresponsibility.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 1 day ago:
Name checks out.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 1 day ago:
If implemented, that would just ban chatbots that use large language models. It’s not a terrible idea.
What would actually happen is that so-called AI chatbot systems would try to detect if someone is from New York and then try to exclude them from receiving medical or legal advice, fail, and then get sued and then pay a small fine, over and over again forever.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 day ago:
I didn’t think the next-token guess machine would guess “delete my database”!
- Comment on Step-government, what are you doing?! 5 days ago:
Adds a dash of transgression to an otherwise vanilla scene I guess.
- Comment on We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch 5 days ago:
It looks like the code is mostly under GPL. Has anyone tried forking it?
- Comment on Not Found 1 week ago:
It’s pretty galling watching the US government retaliate against a company for not wanting to create Terminators or that surveillance thing from The Dark Knight for them.
It’s blatantly retaliatory and a violation of the spirit of the law that allows that designation, and if the law is written well and the courts are honest then it would be illegal too. You shouldn’t be able to lie and call a company an enemy of the state because they won’t build you a Torment Nexus.
And I don’t even want AI being used for half the things they already do.
- Comment on ISIS teaching recruits how to use AI ‘responsibly’ 1 week ago:
Not The Onion?
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 1 week ago:
I think it’s likely sincere. Lots of space between apologies for “the inconvenience” and the more traditional “any inconvenience.”
The bureaucrat who had to write up this letter letting people know their IDs were going to be insta-invalidated was not a party to passing the law, and probably doesn’t like telling people things like this.
- Comment on Attorney General James Sues Game Developer for Promoting Illegal Gambling Through Video Games 1 week ago:
Oh no Valve made popular things that third parties can sell for crazy prices. Let’s sue --those third party platforms-- Valve.
Next do WotC.
- Comment on Judge doesn't trust DOJ with search of devices seized from Wash. Post reporter 1 week ago:
LUKS is your friend.
- Comment on New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries 1 week ago:
And still I’m told to be afraid of China.
- Comment on Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World 2 weeks ago:
Actually a pretty good idea.
- Comment on Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, ESH. His response of editing an archive showed the site to be unreliable as an archive. DDOSing from the site as a counter to the dox attempt caused the site serious reputational harm as well.
It sucks because his site was actually more reliable than The Internet Archive.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 2 weeks ago:
They know they can’t take the gun industry head on, so they chip at the margins. They figure hobbyists aren’t numerous enough to fight back, while the real gun owners shrug.
I honestly wonder if this might be held unconstitutional if challenged.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 2 weeks ago:
Well the answer is banning Arduinos, obviously 🧐
- Comment on Trump touts bill that could make voting harder for married women 2 weeks ago:
All married women, regardless of race.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony. 2 weeks ago:
Probably so. You take what you can get.
- Comment on Trump touts bill that could make voting harder for married women 2 weeks ago:
This has been said before, but I am skeptical that this is a realistic risk.
Married women vote R over D by about 15-20 points according to most polls, and I kinda trust Republicans to not shoot themselves in the dick.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony. 2 weeks ago:
What an interesting organization: www.influencewatch.org/…/tech-oversight-project/
- Comment on Brave CEO claims news about Brave Browser tracking its users is “fake news” 2 weeks ago:
Some of y’all hate Brave so much you’ll trust Cambridge Analytica’s assessments over what is actually described.
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I download the files right away. It creates something of an Odysseus Pact I think. The second they stop offering me the downloads DRM free, I download the files DRM free elsewhere.
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 3 weeks ago:
Find a musician you like. Buy their music on Bandcamp. Download as FLAC.
- Comment on Wall Street Journal Gets DRAGGED Online For 'Rotisserie Chicken' Social Media Post 3 weeks ago:
WSJ article about [current generation] eating [food] in 2040: “Gen Alpha can’t afford studio apartments with less than 2 roommates, splurging on canned beans.” In my day we bought dried beans and boiled them with the scrap potato skins we saved, but this generation…
Written by a man that has never cooked his own food.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 3 weeks ago:
It sounds cheesy but you’re not wrong.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 3 weeks ago:
Idk, I deny push notifications for most apps anyway.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 3 weeks ago:
Idk, it depends on what they’re trying to do.
Austerity, ignorance, and scarcity breed fascists, not a SaaS TOS.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 3 weeks ago:
It seems like the restriction should be lifted for accounts without verification after 5 years. After all, you’re not even allowed to sign up if you’re under 13, so by 5 years you have to be at least 18.