CosmicCleric
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world
- Comment on Activision User Research Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA 1 week ago:
That question is answered in the link that I supplied.
There also a comment from a mod in there that you should read.
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- Comment on Activision User Research Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA 1 week ago:
Activision User Research Union-CWA is the first group of video game user researchers to form a union
So what exactly about their users do they research?
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- Comment on Skill issue 1 week ago:
- Comment on Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries 1 week ago:
Some info about that …
lemmy.world/post/26711096/15639879
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- Comment on Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries 1 week ago:
Man, this current age of AI really sucks.
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- Comment on Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries 1 week ago:
From the article …
GNOME sysadmin Bart Piotrowski shared on Mastodon that only about 3.2 percent of requests (2,690 out of 84,056) passed their challenge system, suggesting the vast majority of traffic was automated.
- Comment on Video Game Workers Launch Industry-Wide Union with Communications Workers of America 2 weeks ago:
Great to hear! Way overdue. That industry really needs some of those protections.
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- Comment on US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator 2 weeks ago:
Based on an analysis of copyright law and policy, informed by the many thoughtful comments in response to our NOI, the Office makes the following conclusions and recommendations:
• Questions of copyrightability and AI can be resolved pursuant to existing law, without the need for legislative change.
• The use of AI tools to assist rather than stand in for human creativity does not affect the availability of copyright protection for the output.
• Copyright protects the original expression in a work created by a human author, even if the work also includes AI-generated material.
• Copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material, or material where there is insufficient human control over the expressive elements.
• Whether human contributions to AI-generated outputs are sufficient to constitute authorship must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.
• Based on the functioning of current generally available technology, prompts do not alone provide sufficient control.
• Human authors are entitled to copyright in their works of authorship that are perceptible in AI-generated outputs, as well as the creative selection, coordination, or arrangement of material in the outputs, or creative modifications of the outputs.
• The case has not been made for additional copyright or sui generis protection for AI- generated content.
The Office will continue to monitor technological and legal developments to determine whether any of these conclusions should be revisited. It will also provide ongoing assistance to the public, including through additional registration guidance and an update to the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices.
- Comment on Bluesky does federation-washing 2 weeks ago:
From the article …
This effectively means that, if you get banned by the Bluesky company, you’re out. Sure, you could still host your own Personal Data Server, wait for a non-existent independent Relay to fetch your data and interact with users of third-party Bluesky applications. But you won’t: you’re effectively at the mercy of the Bluesky company.
Point two, and more importantly: this approach provides an “exit strategy” in the event that Bluesky “goes evil”. Right now, that’s false: parts of the social network are still centralized and it’s impossible to avoid that. But even if we limit ourselves to PDSs and Relay, the current situation is that federation is only achievable in theory and no one has done it in practice yet.
- Comment on xkcd #3064: Lungfish 2 weeks ago:
Could someone throw the link my way that explains what that comic is saying, and why it’s funny or not?
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- Comment on Removing Watermarks From Images With Gemini Is Now Way Too Easy 2 weeks ago:
From the article…
Other AI tools are really good at filling in the blanks in images, too, but Gemini Flash is particularly good at it
Other AI models can do this too, but you have to be a bit smarter about how you ask about it. As Verge highlights, Anthropic’s latest Claude model, and OpenAI’s GPT 4o will refuse to alter watermarked images. We can confirm that when you add copyright-protected images to Microsoft Office applications, its Copilot and Design tools will refuse to modify them directly.
- Comment on The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket 3 weeks ago:
Are your hands horribly mangled or something? Am I bringing up something hard for you to deal with?
Hands? It’s horribly hard to fit my trunk into my pockets.
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- Comment on The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket 3 weeks ago:
A nickel is smaller and thicker, and has a smooth edge compared to the quarter. Can you not tell the difference?
When you’re jiggling around in your pocket for it and there’s other coins in there too, it becomes harder to do.
I’m not saying there’s a 0% chance of figuring it out by touch alone, just that by touch identifying a coin (vs a not-coin) is a lot easier to do than by touch identifying what amount an individual coin is worth. (In the U.S. at least.)
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- Comment on The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket 3 weeks ago:
Then picking the exact correct thing
It can easily tell what item is a coin, but how much that coin is worth is hard for it to do. (Trying to grab a nickel vs a quarter, etc.)
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- Comment on Upgrading router, suggestions? 3 weeks ago:
Was quick browsing for openwrt and found the banana pi r3.
One thing that surprised me when I was looking to upgrade my old router ith OpenWRT is if a firmware for your router supports ALL of the features/hardware of that router. In my case, Wifi support was not supported, so I had to disregard using OpenWRT as a choice.
So be sure to look carefully at the firmware that you find. I personally had just thought that if a firmware exists for your hardware that all of the major (but maybe not minor) features would be supported, and that is not always the case.
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- Comment on Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices 3 weeks ago:
I’d kind of like to know whether these can be used against an unpaired device or not. That’d seem to have a pretty dramatic impact on the scope of the vulnerability.
Don’t see how that would matter much. The “scope of the vulnerability” is sufficiently large enough that it should not be partially or otherwise discredited as a risk.
If someone owns a Bluetooth device, then its fair to think that at some point they’d actually use it, being vulnerable to the backdoor access. That’s billions of uses right there, on a regular basis.
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- Comment on Opinions Wanted: Creeky Floors 4 weeks ago:
In a ‘Dad’ joke sort of way, sure, I’ll give you that.
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- Comment on Opinions Wanted: Creeky Floors 4 weeks ago:
Its also a typo for wood that makes squeaking sounds.
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- Comment on Opinions Wanted: Creeky Floors 4 weeks ago:
Do you have access to the floorboards from below (cellar access)?
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- Comment on Opinions Wanted: Creeky Floors 4 weeks ago:
Is this a bot or joke (or ‘yes’) response?
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- Comment on What would happen if Punxsutawney Phil comes out, and immediately dies? 4 weeks ago:
A fur/stump time paradox would occur.
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- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 weeks ago:
Wauve a wice way.
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- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 weeks ago:
Brodie thinks that they still let themselves some wiggle room for ““selling”” user data.
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- Comment on Is it OK for a baby's head to be rolled all the way back on its neck? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never heard that one before. /s
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- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 4 weeks ago:
Dreamcast and the first Playstation.
For pure old school retro it would be the old Compaq suitcase-sized laptop PCs.
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- Comment on Is it OK for a baby's head to be rolled all the way back on its neck? 4 weeks ago:
I know the movie, I saw it a long long time ago. I just didn’t catch that reference, didn’t remember that being said in that scene. Creepy scene btw.
Thanks!
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- Comment on Is it OK for a baby's head to be rolled all the way back on its neck? 4 weeks ago:
Elaborate? Your comment seems nonsensical?
- Comment on No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the code 5 weeks ago:
In my case you had to scroll down a bit before the paywall popped up, it didn’t show immediately.
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- Comment on No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the code 5 weeks ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on No one knows what this ancient script says. Now there’s a $1 million prize to crack the code 5 weeks ago:
Paywalled. Asks for a sub.