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- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 1 week ago:
Immediately critising someone/a group for doing the right thing but not doing enough/quickly enough is probably one of the main reasons its so hard to get traction for progressive politics. It’s incredibly tiresome.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 3 weeks ago:
They propably would if a common topic of discussion was “this is how leggings have got worse today”
- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium. 3 weeks ago:
Is this particularly worse than when Medium was filled with artisinally hand crafted slop before AI was a thing?
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 4 weeks ago:
AI has been the name of the field for 70 years at this point, it isn’t something Sam Altman came up with as a marketing wheeze.
- Comment on UK experts warn against buying ‘XL bully cats’ 4 weeks ago:
People are being urged not to buy the feline equivalent of XL bully dogs, which have been created by breeders in the US.
- Comment on All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication 4 weeks ago:
It is, it confused me too. It is refering to an optical only on/off switch which can also be used as an xor gate. Many levels down froma network switch.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
Lots of people spout this conspiricy theory, but Ive yet to hear a good reason why he had to be sued into naking the purchace (after making price manipulating statements) if it was some sinister plan.
Far more likely hes just a fuck up.
- Comment on ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem. 1 month ago:
woah woah woah, lets have less of this looking at reality here. We all know generative AI is a fad that never works for anything and anyone using it is an idiot, we don’t need to have our prejudices challenged
- Comment on OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity 1 month ago:
They might not even make a profit, but Altman will be able to extract a lot of wealth by using 7% of a billions of dollars valuation. Even if he doesn’t sell any he can use it as collateral against loans to effectively turn them into cash.
- Comment on Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers. 1 month ago:
But there’s nothing to stop a stalker just making another account to follow you if they really want to. I dont see blocking doing much good there as there is no such thing as being able to stop your public posts being viewed, because they’re public.
I still think its a bad idea to remove blocking just becuase people want to remove things they dont want to see (like right wing billionaire arseholes) but I dont think giving people a false sense of security is a good reason against it.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
Feel free to enlighten me (and others who’ve said the same) with your superior knowledge of how timestamps of ads stay constant when they are of different lengths.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
I presumed you were refering to this which was quite high profile at the time.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
Thats was a. From years before proton, b. from a dev renowned for being linux hostile, c. ignores the fact that linux users are far more likely to be technical and likely to submit a proper bug report rather than shrugging and moving on.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
Adtech? Fuck no I have self respect.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
So then after one person has had 2 ads that last a total of 40 seconds and another has had 2 that lasted 70 the timing is completly off for how far into the videos the ads are
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
Right but the swedish pampers ad and the walmart as will be different lengths so the timings wont be the same
- Comment on OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning 1 month ago:
It was, originally. GPT-2 was eventually released after some push back from openAI and the models prior to that were fully released immediately. Its been apparent for quite a while that OpenAI have been transitioning from a non-profit org interested in pushing technology forward to a VC backed monopoly-seeking company. The big Altman putsch/counter putsch was just the solidfying of that.
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 1 month ago:
No, stick rod in / pull rod out doesn’t really need deep learning to make work well :p
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 1 month ago:
There actually has been good work on using AI to control fusion plasmas its at the point where it can keep them stable significantly better than any human or simple automated system.
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- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Where is the LLM that can reproduce specific whole copyrighted works on demand? All ive seen is reproductions of quotes of a few sentences (fair use) and hacks that can make it ocasionally vomit up random larger fragments of its training data, maybe up to a few paragraphs.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Yep, its definitely not possible that nice small businesses like universal and sony would sue without an actual case in order to try and crush competitors with costs.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
Estimates for chatgpt usage per query are on the order of 20-50 Wh, which is about the same as playing a demaging game on a gaming pc for a few minutes. Local models are significantly less.
- Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? 2 months ago:
The purpose of twitter like platforms is to have people to listen to and people to listen to you, so yes vastly lower user counts is a drawback.
- Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? 2 months ago:
Have you considered that maybe other people have different priorities, needs and desires to you, and that for people coming around to your point of view you should encourage them rather than castigate them for taking too long?
- Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? 2 months ago:
hmmm I wonder if that is considered in the thousands of words of this article…
It got more unpleasant after the blue-tick fiasco: identity verification became something you could buy, which destroyed the trust quotient. So I joined the rival platform Mastodon, but fast realised that I would never get 70,000 followers on there like I had on Twitter. It wasn’t that I wanted the attention per se, just that my gang wasn’t varied or noisy enough. There’s something eerie and a bit depressing about a social media feed that doesn’t refresh often enough, like walking into a shopping mall where half the shops have closed down and the rest are all selling the same thing.
- Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 48 comments
- Comment on US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps 2 months ago:
Further to this its not likely to result in less children being abused.
If you have the death penalty for even possessing CSAM as the parent suggests, then there is no incentive to get into distribution or even actively abusing children and producing CSAM once you posess some. The punishment isnt any worse so why not? Its the same reason for proportionality in other crimes, we dont punish robbing a bank with life in jail as then there would be no reason for anyone who robs a bank to not just murder everyone to leave no witnessess.
- Comment on Microsoft to host security summit after CrowdStrike disaster 2 months ago:
That seems a bit of a non-story given that its prefaced on “once the attacker has access to your work email”. Yes once they have that they can do very good spear phishing attacks using copilot, but they could easily do them without copilot too.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
They went public, simple as that.