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- Comment on Dangerous? Signal Blasts Google Effort to Use AI to Scan for Scam Phone Calls 1 month ago:
Oh, that makes more sense!
- Comment on NYT's new TOS binds you to forced arbitration; opt out within 30 days 1 month ago:
You don’t have to be a registered client of a corporation to be harmed by the corporation.
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 1 month ago:
They could host themselves in a different place with better privacy laws. I’ve always wondered why, for example, don’t privacy services establish themselves in international waters or in micronations such as Sealand.
- Comment on Dangerous? Signal Blasts Google Effort to Use AI to Scan for Scam Phone Calls 1 month ago:
Complete tangent but what is two-party consent even for? I can imagine it gets in the way of getting a lot of evidence in cases of domestic abuse or organized crime.
Caller: [threatens me for 45 seconds] Me: “Could you call me again and repeat all that, for the recording?” Caller: [hangs]
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Bets are strong such tos are not legally enforceable.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’d be interesting to see this in the courts. Would lemm.ee stand as accused, facilitator, or witness?
- Comment on tremendous 2 months ago:
I did say “coherent message”.
- Comment on tremendous 2 months ago:
Other than “manufacturing them releases fumes”, I don’t see how any of these forms a coherent message.
- Comment on Please contribute your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late! 2 months ago:
Would love to contribute, but I won’t have access to my 3DSes until around the 22nd.
Also would love to try and know why the data can’t be sent after the deadline (it’s just data, should not be “time-encoded”) but unfortunately the link to the image with the explanation says the image can’t be loaded because it has errors. Does anyone have the actual text explanation?
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 3 months ago:
Interesting. You could setup something like a linux VM (or an rPi) running a distro with privoxy to filter out mentions of Linux per domain(s)!
- Comment on Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software 3 months ago:
So, lemme get this straight: allowing remote parties to install malware (DRM) on your system results in allowing remote parties to install malware on your system? Wow, who could have known! Certainly not the distributors of the step-one malware, am I right?
I’m certain there’s a couple of lessons to be learned here (install and run games as normal, non-elevated users, people! It’s easy to do on Linux) but I’m also somehow certain Big Corpos are going to stick their heads into the sand regarding such lessons.
Oh well, the pirate way it is.
- Comment on Someone help me make a 'transition metals' joke here... 3 months ago:
omg the cringe that was “Tony is female coded” / “Tony vs Cap is domestic violence”.
- Comment on Spotify just changed TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks 4 months ago:
Spotify wants to generate translations for these audiobooks in the original voices.
Would an author be able to claim trademark infringement? Not to mention libel or slander, if the translation says something the author definitively wouldn’t (and obviously hasn’t)? Such as, say, AI inserting slurs.
- Comment on Spotify just changed TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks 4 months ago:
Ah yes the “labour should be free” / “but if we have to get permits from every artist we won’t be able to feed our AIs!” argument.
Listen, I’m not gonna lie. it’d be wonderful if we lived in the utopia where everything is autotranslated for us (not to mention it’s done correctly, no “Brock’s jelly donuts”). But there’s 123456 ways to get it done with human labour properly paid and the corporations are in the position where they have the power and the responsibility to do it. Else authors are going to end up with automated translations which are sold as “official” but over which they don’t have control, in particular if the AI translation misrepresents them (using language the author wouldn’t changing concepts, or even - imagine - adding slurs).
Like, sure, maybe these corpos don’t want to pay for someone to do the translation from scratch… but have they thought of looking for fandom translations and sourcing and paying for those? That’s work already done, and has the advantage that someone cared enough about the “niche work”, kinda like with anime fansubs. Or they could also, you know, novel idea and all, pay people a wage to translate this. I know. The horror. How dare I suggest that a company doesn’t divert wages and income to the CEOs!
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
Oh, are your gaming statistics hurt?
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 4 months ago:
There’s a core disagreement about whether making a public post means consenting to it being used for all purposes without consent
Wouldn’t this better be served by implementing per-post licensing, rather than mixing federation into it? After all, most of the real issue is people not accepting the fact that, regardless of federation, bad actors can do bad things with their content. Federation is not gonna change that, but at least licensing posts would allow you a legal avenue to pursue, which currently doesn’t seem to exist.
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- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
Are you ok?
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
Care to cite sources for that? Haven’t seen people playing “competitive multiplayer games” from most people in a while, now.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
Lol you wish Linux was an equivalent to an iPhone in this analogy. Pretty analogy from you.
- Comment on Attacking the big problems 4 months ago:
The Help: namespace is not articles tho.
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 4 months ago:
Youtube vids doesn’t use DRM, at least not for the free offerings.
In fact, via yt-dlp you can download Youtube stuff in a variety of free formats.
Cope.
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 4 months ago:
Welcome to language. It evolves.
Or perhaps, from your point of view, it’s getting enshittified. Even if you don’t like it.
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 4 months ago:
Or we can just drop DRM from the Standard. It’s honestly about 15 years past about time.
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 4 months ago:
Some of these people even say that Firefox needs to get rid of Google funding immediately to get rid of Google’s influence.
Which is an importnt factor, because Mozilla is currently being kept alive specifcally to lose.
To be fair, those people (and lots others too) watch everyday some millionaires or billionaires just up and throwing money. Under that premise, it “should be as easy” as just convincing a random capitalist with narcissist complex to fund Mozilla. The problem with that is, people’s memory on the internet tends to not be retrospeculative, so they don’t notice if Mozilla did that they’d be in just about the same position eg.: Reddit was 5 years before 2023.
- Comment on Is there a way to protect data/user contents in Lemmy/Mastodon against now rapidly rising AI s? 5 months ago:
Is there a way to protect data/user contents in Lemmy/Mastodon against now rapidly rising AI s?
yes:
Don’t publish it there. It’s that simple.
- Comment on The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances 5 months ago:
No its the greatest weakness of the Fediverse.
By grouping them you could be on multiple
And sure, we can group them, link them, publish them in podcasts, whatever; but you specifically said merging them which involves only letting one of them exist. I’ve seen a couple good analyses on the issues with trying to artificially merge communities or limit creation of them, such as the points from this.
- Comment on The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances 5 months ago:
The fact that we don’t merge them is one of the great benefits of the Fediverse, actually.
- Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. 5 months ago:
I like how you think!
- Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. 5 months ago:
Please, that’s rookie terms.
Set it to 98, you won’t have to worry about it again for like, a century.
- Comment on Firefish has been abandoned. 5 months ago:
Yeah like we could have a shared legal entity, say a corporation,
You mispelt coöperative.