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- Comment on Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. 3 days ago:
Is it hypocrisy to be for EULA enforcement on reading when it’s machines, but no when it’s humans? Crawlers “read” on a massive scale that doesn’t compare to humans.
- Comment on Roblox continues efforts for child safety by expanding age estimation to all users by end of the year 1 week ago:
I estimate that won’t do much.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 1 week ago:
Nothing stopped someone writing a bogus paper claiming an MMR vaccine causes autism. It being a paper likely gave it undue credit to people who were convinced by it, not that they read it…
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 1 week ago:
I’m not writing a paper or essay… so my standards are different.
Conversely I’ve tried following a paper to implement an algorithm and suddenly found it used math terns that I couldn’t find an explanation for and unlike the rest of the paper it didn’t explain shit.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 1 week ago:
That sounds like a generic issue, one should expect. I wouldn’t consider this a specific party’s talking point until they suggest a solution that isn’t just more reason, more logic, more evidence.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 1 week ago:
How often?
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 1 week ago:
The answer to any bias in Wikipedia is to cite more verifiable sources, use better sound reasoning and update when newer evidence is found.
The answer is probably not the wishful thinking of one of USA’s unrepresentative main parties. To learn about public misrepresentation in government check out a page from Wikipedia.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
I doubt the concept of anonymised data. Companies and governments have bad incentives to know who you are, and collect data from brokers to make correlations and educated guesses.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
If we’re talking about a hard copy ID (passport, drivers license) that’s one thing. A digital ID over the internet is asking for trouble.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
I’d rather not have the law, or if law then big business pay but exclusions for smaller businesses/hobbyist.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
That means being paid by the tax payers.
The free option is to trust your children.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Age check happens via trustest entity (your government)
Bold of you to assume a government entity is trusted. In the UK we have a large misrepresentative error due to our voting system.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 2 weeks ago:
Verify my balls, Google.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 weeks ago:
Obligatory Steam Deck runs Linux BTW.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 weeks ago:
If BSD had a the same software license as Linux then I would celebrate it running on PlayStation hardware as users would be more free. Instead PS consoles are locked-down, preventing you running software unless daddy Sony says you can. It’s a battle between consumer rights, including software freedom.
- Comment on AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event(Gamescom) Booked Random Meetings for Attendees 3 weeks ago:
It looks like you’re organizing a meeting, would you like with that?
Yes / No
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 3 weeks ago:
Waiting on a software freedom-respecting headset.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Does “relatively easy” mean in comparison to modern cars, and not easily repairable older cars? I don’t follow cars but if it’s anything like other tech then it’s soon to be crippled by part tying.
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 4 weeks ago:
Open source can refer to MIT licensed code/projects where it can be taken, modified and redistributed as proprietary software without giving back. You can’t contribute without wondering if you’re doing work for a mega corp.
I would be temped to argue that doesn’t go far enough. If copyleft wasn’t circumvented by AI I’d argue for that.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 4 weeks ago:
Mull has stopped develop? 🥺
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 4 weeks ago:
I started using tab groups when they released vertical tabs.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 4 weeks ago:
Based on this patterns you have an idea, where you need to focus in the physical theory for understanding and optimizing it.
How do you tell what the patterns are, or how to interpret them?
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 5 weeks ago:
EU have slapped their shit a few times but I suppose it’s their game to lose.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 5 weeks ago:
Only when it’s accepted by the people. If law dismantled the company then it’s very bad for business.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 5 weeks ago:
The shareholders should be ashamed… That’s not good business, that’s evil.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 5 weeks ago:
Do stocks go up from such a cringe-move?
- Comment on It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots 5 weeks ago:
Your toasters do it well? Mine required trial an error to determine what number it should be set to, and the result is uneven.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 1 month ago:
Like how the cellular module is proprietary and locked down, even on something like a Librem phone. Or like how DVD players had use proprietary software to comply with DRM.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 month ago:
“It’s impossible” is often used not to literally describe a logically impossible event but instead as an exaggeration. “I can’t possibly fathom why” is also not literal, it means under regular circumstances.
I cannot imagine why anyone would prefer grass that cuts your skin over regular grassmeans for typical people using grass in typical garden/field situations. That could be someone’s person preference but that it’s not typical, it’s unexpected. - Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 month ago:
There’s a GPL compliance lawsuit where they’re suing NOT as a copyright holder of contrubtor’s code but as a user of the software (a 3rd party beneficiary, under contract law). The GPL was intended to give standing to users of the software, so hopeful this makes presidence.