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- Comment on Maybe sprinkling 1337 into our online texts would make them less useful to AI training 17 hours ago:
Maybe sprinkling 1337 into our online texts would make them less useful to AI training
No, it wouldn’t.
I think search engines didn’t work with it;
No, they worked fine. It doesn’t take much for a computer program (especially search engines and chatbots) to recognize two words spelled differently have similar meanings.
Go misspell anything into a search engine, whichever you use, and notice how it suggests a correct spelling.
So if a few people try this, it’s not enough to have an effect. If enough people to have an effect do it, then the program quickly learns leetspeak.
But that doesn’t stop people from constantly having this idea
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
You’re acting like that’s a common scenario…
There’s a few small slices of area in a minority of states where you might be legally allowed to pick, but that is not a guarantee there’s more than one option.
To my knowledge most of them are artificial monopolies anyways.
Like, in Perfectville your choice between any available provider is legally protected. However company A and company B made a handshake deal to draw a line down the area and not provide service on one side of the line.
competitiveenergy.org/…/state-by-state-links/
Very few of those green states are for electricity
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Bullshit.
You really think companies in America with monoplies would lower prices just because their costs went down?
I wish I lived in an America like that…
- Comment on Eurovision members debate call to boycott Israel 1 day ago:
Yeah, but Israel joined for propaganda, to make European countries see them as Europe instead of scary Muslim Middle East.
They’ve been in trouble a couple times for not meeting the qualifications. They’re supposed to have nonbiased news on a government broadcast channel, and instead they just tried not doing any news on the channel, and now just put some propaganda up and call it “news”.
Like, you technically answered the letter of the question, but completely missed the spirit of the question…
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 days ago:
People thought they’d hang onto CDs and DVDs too…
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 days ago:
Good luck…
Even when the bubble bursts, they’re going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts.
There’s a very real chance that we’re witnessing the slow death of home computing.
The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that’s the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses.
Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we’ll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.
- Comment on How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices 2 days ago:
Jon Oliver did an episode on them, the whole company is a shit show.
They fuck over consumers by selling small volume at insane price per unit/quantity, and treat their employees like abaolute shit. Like, ridiculous levels of understaffing to the point huge deliveries show up in the middle of working hours with one employee in the whole store.
It’s why every dollar store looks like a warzone.
How is one person going to do everything?
- Comment on Creating bots that show russian-like speech that are anti-US would be a good use of AI 2 days ago:
The sentiment is shifting from anti-russia to pro-russia.
What shit hole corner of the Internet are you hanging out where pro-russia content is becoming the norm?!
And why would you think AI chatbots would do better against them than actual humans?
Oh…
Dbzero0.com
Yeah, just make a new account on a new instance and block your old one
- Comment on Exclusive: jury in anti-genocide activist 'terrorism' trial 'told to ignore international law' 4 days ago:
Damn, that shits crazy:
The jury was then subsequently kept for three days without “meat, drink, fire and tobacco” to force it to bring in a guilty verdict. When it failed to do so, the judge ended the trial. As punishment, the judge ordered the jurors imprisoned until they paid a fine to the court.[35]
Four jurors refused to pay the fine, and after several months, Bushell sought a writ of habeas corpus. Chief Justice Vaughan, sitting on the Court of Common Pleas, discharged the writ, released them, called the power to punish a jury “absurd” and forbade judges from punishing jurors for returning a verdict the judge disagreed with
No wonder that dude founded Pennsylvania
- Comment on Exclusive: jury in anti-genocide activist 'terrorism' trial 'told to ignore international law' 4 days ago:
I tried googling if you all have jury nullification, but just got AI slop and stuff about America…
The most I know about the UK legal system is the cool wigs, and what I learned from Sherlock and Misfits.
But I’d assume a jury can do whatever they want. As long as you’re not self snitching, you don’t have to explain anything. And we’re talking about government support of an ongoing genocide, it’s hard to expect jurours to solely follow the letter of the law.
- Comment on Exclusive: jury in anti-genocide activist 'terrorism' trial 'told to ignore international law' 4 days ago:
International law guarantees an unequivocal right of resistance, including armed resistance, to people under illegal occupation. Legal experts say that UK terrorism legislation breaches international law by blocking this right.
- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 5 days ago:
As someone in tech myself, I’d rather have an iPhone
Ok buddy
- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 5 days ago:
So when the US government needed in a trump shooters iPhone…
They gave it to Israel, and Israel gave it back unlocked…
What did they do? Guess the pass code?
- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 5 days ago:
Literally the opposite…
timesofisrael.com/israeli-tech-company-says-it-ca…
Israel doesn’t want the IDF able to hide/leak anything about the ongoing genocide, so they’re making everyone use the phone that they can spy on.
Like, Israel says it’s for safety but they’ve been committing an open genocide for two years now, why they fuck is anyone taking their word?
- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 5 days ago:
It’s not because iPhones are safer…
It’s because Israel can unlock any iPhone:
- Comment on Is AI really a simulation of God’s mind? What do you think? 1 week ago:
“We are birthing superintelligence. We are creating the mind of God, infinite, destined to solve every problem we’ve ever faced and usher in an age without death.”
What brain rotted CEO grifter is that quote even from?
- Comment on how do plants in a green house get enough co2? 1 week ago:
Most oxygen produced on earth and CO2 consumed is done by algae.
Thats more because of total biomass, and the difference is we’re basically a ball of water.
- Comment on GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Prebuilts have become about the only way to get a deal for a while now.
- Comment on AI as an insntrument of class warfare 1 week ago:
Whatevere, whatever, if closeness to platfroms my and languages, their AI pick, are a statement
We’re cooked…
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 1 week ago:
Wasn’t the studios fault
They fought to change the name since the beginning because they knew it would be impossible to deliver a real sequel and while this name might get initial sales it would cause blowback killing the game almost immediately…
Which is exactly what happened.
Like, they’d have loved to make Masquerade 2, but they weren’t given the time or funds to make it.
- Comment on [Opinion] X users in USA don't like that we have an opinion about them? Tough 1 week ago:
Who cares what anyone still on Twitter says?
But the recent controversy was people from other countries pretending to be American to cause division, no one has been complaining about people from other countries not like America.
- Comment on 'Hot knives and brute force': King Tut's mummy was decapitated and dismembered after its historic discovery. Then, the researchers covered it up. 1 week ago:
This is the rationale for not opening known tombs.
It’s not that we don’t want to see inside, we definitely do.
It’s just that we wouldn’t really gain anything right now, but 20-40 years from now we’ll have better tech. So it makes sense to “save” some for later instead of opening them all at once
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 1 week ago:
And I said to tell the difference between slop and human indie devs…
They’d have to start vetting games to tell.
You said they don’t have to do that, you just think there’s a magical way to tell?
What you’re saying just doesn’t make any sense. It’s like you didn’t even read the comment chain you replied to. I’m just reiterating what I’ve already said, and it’s probably going to help you understand just as much as the first time…
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 1 week ago:
I know I’m going to regret asking, but how exactly do you logic out that stopping low quality slop games?
It would literally do the opposite because the goal for each slop game would be $49,999.
Your idea would make everything worse, and I’m just curious why you don’t see that.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 1 week ago:
Whatever limit you try to set, that’s what the AI slop will aim to meet.
It’s just something that can’t be automated, at the end of the day every online market needs a human to whitelist new products and review bait and switches, or the market will flood with junk.
But no one wants to pay for that human level review.
And I know, it may cause delays, but most Indie game do not only beta but alpha builds to fund development. I bought BG3 like 2 years before release because it made Act 1 immediately playable, it’s not even just an Indie dev thing.
So even if it takes a full year, real developers would just register early in the process. The slop tho won’t stay topical because they’re not being pumped out in an afternoon.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone
They said “market price”… What market are you shopping at?!
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 1 week ago:
They’d have to start doing vetting for that…
All the slop games are “indie” or at least would start to be structured that way to lower their barrier of entry.
- Comment on Simple new engine sucks power from the night sky 1 week ago:
If you look up Stirling engines on the internet, you’ll immediately find a load of toys and hobby kits for a device that runs seemingly by magic.
Don’t write it off because of that, the Romans invented the Steam engine like 1800 years before trains, they just wrote it off as a child’s toy.
A lot of shit generates an insane amount of heat, if we can harvest the temp differential a couple times during cooling process, it’s literally free energy. Even if it just runs the fans/pumps in the cooling. It would be somewhat self regulating even, although we couldn’t rely solely on this or we’d run into the same issue as nuke reactors with positive power coefficients.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 1 week ago:
I mean, it doesn’t exactly take much to run Steam…
They make a few games, but it’s less making new games and supporting a handful that have been around decades by now.
The reason they have such market dominance, is Gabe isn’t insanely greedy. He has more than he’ll ever spend, and I’d love to see him do more with the massive wealth he has.
But it’s not like he’s fucking over users to squeeze what would be an unnoticeable amount more. So people hang around.!
I’d hate to guess the number of people who have dropped over a grand through Steam
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 1 week ago:
Some people wanted it to immediately get huge…
Just so it can have all the other issues big social media has.
They didn’t want something different, they wanted to be an “early adapter” of the next reddit.