isVeryLoud
@isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca
He / They
Software Developer
- Comment on Scientists Can Tell How Fast You’re Aging From a Single Brain Scan | Duke Today 14 hours ago:
Fitting username
- Comment on Connor Myers: As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI 17 hours ago:
I don’t have a degree, so I never peaked 🥳
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 1 day ago:
That sounds so pleasant! Here, you go to Rona / Lowe’s, you ask them a question and you’re met with an “iunnodude”. Maybe home hardware is comparable.
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 1 day ago:
Story time?
- Comment on Millions of websites to get 'game-changing' AI bot blocker 4 days ago:
So… Proprietary Anubis?
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 1 week ago:
Honestly I’d be happy with a phone sporting two USB C ports, one centered and one off to the side where the headphone jack used to be, both fully functional.
- Comment on Disney's AI Paradox: Pursues OpenAI Deal While Suing Rival Firms 1 week ago:
*hippopotamus
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 1 week ago:
Thanks, I had copy-pasted it from the website :)
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 1 week ago:
My interpretation was that AI companies can train on material they are licensed to use, but the courts have deemed that Anthropic pirated this material as they were not licensed to use it.
In other words, if Anthropic bought the physical or digital books, it would be fine so long as their AI couldn’t spit it out verbatim, but they didn’t even do that, i.e. the AI crawler pirated the book.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 1 week ago:
Gist:
What’s new: The Northern District of California has granted a summary judgment for Anthropic that the training use of the copyrighted books and the print-to-digital format change were both “fair use” (full order below box). However, the court also found that the pirated library copies that Anthropic collected could not be deemed as training copies, and therefore, the use of this material was not “fair”. The court also announced that it will have a trial on the pirated copies and any resulting damages, adding:
“That Anthropic later bought a copy of a book it earlier stole off the internet will not absolve it of liability for the theft but it may affect the extent of statutory damages.”
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts 1 week ago:
I will shart a little
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- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 week ago:
“accidentally” leaving an anchor dragging across an intercontinental internet cable would do it
- Comment on Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task 2 weeks ago:
Fingers and toes
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 2 weeks ago:
It’s a loaded term that should be replaced with a more nimble definition.
A dog whistle is the name for a loaded term that is used to tag a specific target with a large baggage of information, but in a way where only people who are part of the “in group” can understand the baggage of the word, hence “dog whistle”, only heard by dogs.
In the case of the word “degeneracy”, it’s a vague word that has been often used to attack, among other things, LGBTQ and their allies as well as non-religious people. The term is vague enough that the user can easily weasel their way out of criticism for its usage, but the target audience gets the message loud and clear.
Another example of such a word would be “woke”.
- Comment on For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source 2 weeks ago:
Eh I’ll stay away from Xitter.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 3 weeks ago:
You will have your tor-connected 1024x768 anonymous window and you will like it!
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 3 weeks ago:
SOAD’s “Deer Dance” plays in my head a little too often these days.
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 4 weeks ago:
Gotta preach where the choir is.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 4 weeks ago:
“Oil tanker spills 60,000 tons of crude into the Pacific after hull biodegrades, more at 6”
- Comment on Consumer groups file complaint against SHEIN for dark patterns fuelling over-consumption 4 weeks ago:
Honestly this would most likely work very well as advertising, and generate a lot of free publicity around the unconventionality of it all.
- Comment on Consumer groups file complaint against SHEIN for dark patterns fuelling over-consumption 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely, and being repeatedly reminded to get your COVID or measles shots is “positive” propaganda. Herd immunity is objectively a good thing, but any sort of PSA is propaganda. (please get your shots)
It’s like the word “consequence”, people always think consequences are always bad, when you could say “I got rich as a consequence of winning the lottery”, or, re-worded, “I won the lottery, and consequently, I became rich”.
- Comment on Consumer groups file complaint against SHEIN for dark patterns fuelling over-consumption 4 weeks ago:
It is definitely propaganda against propaganda, everything is propaganda.
There’s “good” propaganda and “bad” propaganda, and whether you think any propaganda is “good” or "bad’ is propaganda in itself just by sharing such an opinion.
- Comment on Consumer groups file complaint against SHEIN for dark patterns fuelling over-consumption 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'm making a guide to Pocket alternatives: getoffpocket.com 4 weeks ago:
I want my get-off pocket >:(
- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 4 weeks ago:
Aux to FM signal adapter, powered by the USB port.
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans 5 weeks ago:
Projection in action. Mostly everything they accuse the other side of, that are guilty of.
- Comment on Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors 5 weeks ago:
Is the RT-AX58U affected?
- Comment on TIL: UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive” 5 weeks ago:
Well yeah, obviously. They get sued by BlackRock if they don’t do that.
- Comment on UN expresses alarm over Israeli law allowing life sentences for 12-year-olds 5 weeks ago:
Ah, yes. The alarm, it has been “expressed”.
IDF doesn’t care.