T156

@T156@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[US Politics] How much can Mamdani even do as Mayor? Couldn't the NYC City Coucil just block every progressive thing he tries to do?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Socialism as in Norway, not Stalin.

  It should be pointed out that Norway is not socialist. It’s a social democracy/capitalist country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube also defaults to it, so if you open it, and the video you want is already there, no need to jump to another page to load the exact same video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arts & STEM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  G - gumanities

  Or as we like to call it, GNU/Gumanities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Other animals get zoomies too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not okay.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can get them fresh from the factory. Sure, they need 96 batteries each, but beats all that nasty wood and bugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes anyone think that the West is immune to it?

  Especially when we had something like that happen a few short years ago. Did people just forget about the pandemic and lockdowns?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How exactly does one suck a fuck?

  With consent, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it matter if it is weird? Everyone is weird in some way.

  There’s no weirdness warden who will whack you into gaol for being weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe if you gave him a wet food diet, like a cat or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eventually we’ll hit it with phones, and then it’s just a matter of time till a solid “base” with swapable components come out. There’s been a couple already, but they still require a sacrifice of size or speed/power.

  I’d honestly argue that we’ve more or less hit it already, since a lot of phones over the past few years haven’t really changed from the template of being a black glass rectangle with some buttons on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More like a bacterial infection imo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That implies that Britain didn’t intend those consequences. But Britain has mastered using starvation as a weapon of genocide, in particular by masking it as an “unfortunate” result of taxes and tariffs.

  We do know that the British did try and get the Irish to renounce their heritage to receive aid during the famine as well. Some families had to renounce their Irish name and Catholicism before they would be given food during the famine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  for being violet

  But what if it was chartreuse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would AI replacing humans in every workplace eventually make it easier for an advanced civilization from outer space to colonize us?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Because any advanced civilisation capable of sending a colony ship across light-years to another planet is already so far outside of our current technological ability that it matters precious little.

  We would be easy to colonise either way. Doubly so if they have some form of FTL technology to make that trip in reasonable time.

  But there’s also an argument that anyone who can do so would have a much easier time not dealing with all of that and just colonising an uninhabited planet, or outright using materials for the task.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New fuel cell could enable electric aviation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on how they do it, not having to deal with hydrogen infrastructure might be nice, if they keep along with the plan to use refillable cartridges. Hydrogen is a bit more fiddly.

  Although this seems much more reliant on humidity compared to a hydrogen fuel cell, which seems like a huge hole if the thing just won’t work if it’s a dry day/environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made this instead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only sometimes. Other times, you want to add extra entropy, so you can have a nice hot dinner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek's distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The censorship only exists on the version they host, which is fair enough. If they’re running it themselves in China, they can’t just break the law.

  If you run it yourself, the censorship isn’t there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. Why censor more than you have to? That takes time and effort, and it’s almost certainly easier to do it using something else. The law isn’t that particular, as long as you follow it.

  You also don’t risk causing the model to go wrong, like trying to censor bits of the model has a habit of doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s not a small thing to change. You’re basically overhauling everything if you wish to transition from a monarchy to a republic, because it’s rooted in everything.

  The names of the governmental positions, and possibly their responsibilities would need to change, as would official documentation, the money, the flag, the national anthem…

  You could hardly call yourself a republic if your passports are still carry the authority of the monarch, and your national anthem prominently features the King.

  It only gets more complicated if you’re a former colonial power, since they may also be affected, and have to change everything as well. If the UK decides to ditch the Monarchy and become a Republic, Australia and Canada would need to follow suit, since it would be silly for them to have references to a monarch that no longer exists, or a GG who’s meant to be representative for a position that no longer exists.

  Either that, or there will be a political/legal headache deciding whether they become the new inheritors of the monarchy, since the parent is gone, or would they be also need to make the same changes (see above).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only for some things, though. If you host your own e-mail these days, chances are, you’re going to have a very difficult time sending them anywhere without risking them being deleted, or automatically thrown into spam folders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Remind me in 3 days.

  Although poison pills are only so effective since it’s a cat and mouse game, and they only really work for a specific version of a model, with other models working around it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People have just been doing dumb things for reputation since forever. We had the cinnamon challenge back in our day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘How come I can’t breathe?': Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, the technocratic solution. “We’re fine leaving things as-is, because someone will invent a thing to fix it soon”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘How come I can’t breathe?': Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why there are so many stories about planes being grounded because someone tossed a coin in, according to superstition, or a nut or something fell into the compressor.

  The whole turbine has to be taken apart to get the coin or it might dent something, and the whole engine then does something most exciting when the pilot tries to run it up to service speeds, as a result of the imbalance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Conversely, while the research is good in theory, the data isn’t that reliable.

  The subreddit has rules requiring users engage with everything as though it was written by real people in good faith. Users aren’t likely to point out a bot when the rules explicitly prevent them from doing that.

  There wasn’t much of a good control either. The researchers were comparing themselves to the bots, so it could easily be that they themselves were less convincing, since they were acting outside of their area of expertise.

  And that’s even before the whole ethical mess that is experimenting on people without their consent. Post-hoc consent is not informed consent, and that is the crux of human experimentation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever a beast is shown on screen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They are getting quieter though, and there’s concern that they may evolve to lose the rattle entirely, as the loudly rattling ones get sought out and killed off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying to monetize the piracy of your users. That’s a bold business strategy.

  Some time ago, never mind how long precisely, Plex were trying to legitimise themselves, by adding streaming from official sources, etc.

  I would be curious if this is meant to be a deterrent, or just to look like one by making piracy expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus I can’t imagine that a company who is adulterating their milk with chalk dust is going to stop to find and choose a food-safe chalk dust and supplier. They’d just scoop a bunch from whoever’s cheapest, and if they adulterate their chalk dust with bleach or something, that’ll be going straight into the milk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A free market is one that is free of corruption and unfair business practices. Which cannot exist without regulations and the enforcement of those regulations.

  We’ve had numerous laws precisely because companies couldn’t play fair, and made things worse for all involved. The government didn’t pass laws against company towns, scrip, and predatory pricing because they decided to ban things for fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe people should do research on the available milk brands before giving it to their children if they didn’t want them to drink bleach.

  Without regulation, the company could also just lie. Nothing would dictate that they would have to tell the truth about their product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FTC cracks down on an AI content detector that promised 98% accuracy but was only right 53% of the time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if they did, they would jsut be used to train a new generation of AI that could defeat the detector, and we’d be back round to square 1.