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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I would harm the A.I. industry if Anthropic loses the next part of the trial on whether they pirated books — from what I’ve read, Anthropic and Meta are suspected of getting a lot off torrent sites and the like.

  It’s possible they all did some piracy in their mad dash to find training material but Amazon and Google have bookstores and Google even has a book text search engine, Google Scholar, and probably everything else already in its data centers. So, not sure why they’d have to resort to piracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds persistent spike in hate speech on X⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow, the most reasonable account on Vichy Twitter is Grok because it’s hard to train an LLM using only data only dumbasses wrote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub is Back in France.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They have to fight this battle. Traffic was probably down 80% due to one cabinet member not knowing VPNs exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess he is actually back in charge of his companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Department of Defense Efforts to Buy and Maintain IT Systems Are Billions Over Budget and Delayed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always wondered if the world’s major governments all have their own secret, bespoke operating systems for highly sensitive situations. Like, not Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, or anything even remotely known to the public. But then you see high-ranking admin officials using bootleg Signal on an off-the-shelf phone or whatever.

  I’d assume the actual intelligence agencies are more sophisticated. I doubt they’re running some “hardened” version of Windows or Android or whatever. But maybe I’m being naive and they all are just working with vendors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting Bill Gates’ dick in my mouth is far too high of a licensing fee. I’ll just play Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe instead. But no judgment. You live your best life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but I doubt they’re close to having the capacity to offer full 5G service like a traditional carrier. I have T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom‘s US subsidiary) and they have a deal with Starlink but it’s (a) in beta and (b) limited in what you can do. Unless things have changed, even when it launches, it’ll be just LTE text and voice and you need a pretty modern phone.

  So, it’s not like a drop in replacement for a land-based plan where you get internet and stuff. Plus, Trump and his kids aren’t going to do any of the hard work. Even before his presidency, “Trump” was just a licensing brand and now it’s a pretty shitty brand. It’s not like the family was running Trump Steaks and packing boxes for shipment or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If he actually launches a Trump phone service, it’s going to be a MVNO that just piggy backs off the main operators’ infrastructure. It’s not like he or his idiot sons are going to buy spectrum and build towers.

  He wouldn’t really be competing with T-Mobile, Verizon, or AT&T. He’d be competing with Boost Mobile and companies like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why so much hate toward AI?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, it should never be used for art. I don’t care if you need to make a logo for a company and A.I. spits out whatever. But real art is about humans expressing something. We don’t value cave paintings because they’re perfect. We value them because someone thousands of years ago made it.

  So, that’s something I hate about it. People think it can “democratize” art. Art is already democratized. I have a child’s drawing on my fridge that means more to me than anything at any museum. The beauty of some things is not that it was generated. It’s that someone cared enough to try. I’d rather a misspelled crayon card from my niece than some shit ChatGPT generated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why so much hate toward AI?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My skepticism is because it’s kind of trash for general use. I see great promise in specialized A.I. Stuff like Deepfold or astronomy situations where the telescope data is coming in hot and it would take years for humans to go through it all.

  But I don’t think it should be in everything. Google shouldn’t be sticking LLM summaries at the top. It hallucinates so I need to check the veracity anyway. In medicine, it can help double-check but it can’t be the doctor. It’s just not there yet and might never get there. Progress has kind of stalled.

  So, I don’t “hate” any technology. I hate when people misapply it. To me, it’s (at best) beta software and should not be in production anywhere important. If you want to use it for summarizing Scooby Doo episodes, fine. But it shouldn’t be part of anything we rely on yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TikTok shows me BBQ techniques, random models, and teenagers trying to be professional stuntmen and almost dying. And that one time sea shanties. You have to train the algorithm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google updated its ranking algorithms for explicit videos and explicit content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck yeah. Google is finally getting some hair on its peaches.

  *reads article*

  Oh, they meant the other direction. Well, that’s no fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I worked in IT, we only let people install every other version of Windows. Our Linux user policy was always “mainstream distro and the LTS version.” Mac users were strongly advised to wait 3 months to upgrade. One guy used FreeBSD and I just never questioned him because he was older and never filed one help desk request. He probably thought I was an idiot. (And I was.)

  Anyway, I say all that to say don’t use Windows 11 on anything important. It’s the equivalent of a beta. Windows 12 (or however they brand it) will probably be stable. I don’t use Windows much anymore and maybe things have changed but the concepts in the previous paragraph could be outdated. But it’s a good rule of thumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I apologize back. I didn’t mean to offend. You never know who you’re talking to on a message board and in rereading it, my comment could easily have been taken as hostile. It’s hard to get nuance across in this medium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know anything about you, obviously, but I suspect you should to take a more nuanced, historical view of Luddites. Writing someone off as a “Luddite” probably isn’t the burn you think it is.

  I’m all for technological progress. Who isn’t? It’s the politics and ownership that causes issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like a perfectly reasonable experiment and not something they’re going to release without extensive human and security review.

  Oauth libraries aren’t new and A.I. can probably generate adequate code. My main problem with A.I. for this purpose is that senior developers/experts don’t pop out of thin air. You need junior developers now if you want any real experts in the future. Maybe you need fewer and more specialized training. Maybe the goal is to offload the training cost to Universities and tech companies only want PhDs. Maybe someday LLMs will be good enough to not need much supervision. But that’s not where we are.

  We probably need a Level x capability scale like self-driving cars for this sort of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A UK government trial with 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shorten every meeting by 15 minutes and call as few as possible with as few people as possible. Get rid of TPS reports or whatever bullshit forms the English and Welsh government(s) require.

  I mean, fuck, reducing commute times would save people time. Spend the Copilot money on public infrastructure and you’ll increase productivity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Waymo is also trying to prioritize safety. I was in San Francisco recently and took one, just out of curiosity, from my hotel to a Giants game. It seemed to stop when pedestrian traffic got heavy instead of going all the way to the stadium. So, like three blocks from the stadium. No biggie. I might have told a human taxi driver I could walk from there.

  I’m not sure if it’s a California regulation or Waymo trying to play it safe but I will never get in a self-driving car regulated by Texas and designed to the specifications of one of history’s biggest dumbasses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I can tell, almost no one is a potential A.I. customer. Devs use GitHub Copilot but it’s not a game changer or anything.

  I’m not an A.I. hater. I think it’ll eventually bring great medical advancements and prove valuable. I just think it’s overhyped for average consumers. I don’t think it’s going to be something as revolutionary as smartphones or even Snake on Nokia phones. To me, it feels like a “nice to have” tech more than “essential” tech. And the downsides are considerable. I don’t suspect any Sci Fi shit will happen but making spammers more efficient isn’t worth the carbon footprint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I try to support Mozilla (and more obscure open source projects we take for granted) through donations and subscriptions. But I never used Pocket or Fakespot.

  I don’t think it should be a forced payment but I’d pay a few bucks a month for a true developer edition. The current one is essentially just the early beta for extension developers but something really developer focused with no bullshit and developer tools at the forefront. I don’t know if that’s something other people would pay for but I feel like it’s easier to shell out cash when I’m using it for work. A lot of people could probably expense it.

  It likely wouldn’t replace the Google money but it’d be a start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Orleans used Minority Report-like facial recognition software to monitor citizens for crime suspects: Report⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The key scandal to me — I live in NOLA — is that the city council had tons of debates and put in place a process and limitations on facial recognition to limit false positives. But the new cameras aren’t city owned. A private company sells the cameras to businesses. Then, if a crime happens, the police call the company and ask if they “witnessed” anything. Then, the company basically texts officers a location if they think their facial recognition software spots the suspect.

  And since we’re apparently the demonstration city (again) for a company, it’s no cost to taxpayers. Maybe that makes it no different from typical police work to you. But even if the product worked perfectly, and it likely doesn’t, I don’t like the idea of the NOPD secretly working overtime to find loopholes around laws and regulations.

  And that’s before you get to collecting evidence for trial. Defense attorneys probably won’t have a hard time getting these cases dismissed unless there’s tons of other evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Later in the article, it talks specifically about the server-side archives being stored in plain text. That’s why the hacker was able to access messages. This isn’t about the local copies on phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We might need a few reforms to our economic model where the stupidest sociopaths alive get lots of money and teachers and nurses do not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max pivots back to HBO Max as WBD rethinks ability to compete with Netflix⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how he’s pissed off every major and micro-demographic. Prestige TV fans. Sports fans. Comic book fans. People who watch reruns of Bones at 2am to help them fall asleep. Old men watching Shawshank Redemption for the 300th time because they’d rather die than pay money for digital media. Probably horse girls, somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max pivots back to HBO Max as WBD rethinks ability to compete with Netflix⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The app I sometimes have to use to watch a basketball game really shouldn’t rebrand as much as it does. I’m starting to think the CEO might be the dumbest fuck alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who will fuck up the settings, control panel, registry, etc. interfaces now? The person who keeps putting Candy Crush on the start menu like it’s their life mission?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off 3% of workforce in biggest round of cuts since 2023 - report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s it. The last straw. I’m putting my Zune on eBay and investing in a Creative ZEN X-Fi2 64 bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The scandalous story of Fred Trump: how Donald Trump's father made his millions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Saved you a click: he was the top performer at the dick sucking factory and ge got away with more overtime fraud than the NYPD so he made like $300,000 a year. His son grew up to have an even sadder life where he had to pay others just to be within 20 meters of him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you borrowing like $3,000 a credit hour to use ChatGPT? Take some fucking humanities courses so you don’t grow up to be like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk challenging each other to an MMA match. This might be your last chance in life to be surrounded by experts and hot people having discussions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Wind theft': The mysterious effect plaguing wind farms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That smells like oil lobby horseshit. It’s probably a real, but extremely minor phenomenon that we’re going to have to hear about it for fucking ever.