atrielienz
@atrielienz@lemmy.world
- Comment on Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools 22 hours ago:
So, let me get this straight. Spotify uses AI, is developing AI and is allowing (and possibly seeding the platform with) AI generated music.
And the company [Spotify] is upset that the users are downloading their own data and putting in it trust in a collective for the purposes of selling it to an AI company to analyze?
And Spotify made it part of their TOS that you have the right to download your own data as a user, but also made it part of the TOS that you can’t use the data you own to train AI (which only makes sense if you don’t own your data).
Have I got this is right?
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 2 days ago:
His statements on reddit were also edited after the fact after several people in the comments came with receipts and he doubled down.
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 3 days ago:
The birds in greymoor.
- Comment on Big Tech: Convenience is a Trap 3 days ago:
And that is why I don’t click on or watch YouTube videos from here. Either I’ve seen the video already (as is the case with a lot of gamers nexxus vids), or I am not willing to give the amount of time it takes to watch the video when I could read a distilled version of it in a minute or so. I don’t care about your greeting (hey, this is [channel] here, back with another video. Today we’ll be talking about [insert topic], but first …[mindless garbage]).
I know that newer gems love video format and want it for all the things but I do not.
- Comment on State consider monitoring parolees with artificial intelligence: program would track people on parole and probation using AI to find patterns in where they go and how often they charge their devices. 3 days ago:
Absolutely not. If you want to track them that badly then put an ankle monitor on them as part of their parole conditions.
Please note I don’t agree with the ankle monitor either but at least it can’t make up data about these people. If you’re paroling them and they have paid their debt to society, I think it’s fair to have them check in with a human parole officer at intervals and leave them alone.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
As someone who just got a verbal reprimand at work for “language” due to having an outburst of irritation where an explosive was used (which is a common enough occurrence in the hangar where I work), I’m seriously about to start auto censoring everything in the most gen Alpha way possible just to annoy the others.
- Comment on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban 3 days ago:
I grew up in the American public school system during pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards peak popularity. There were a whole lot of people who had card decks confiscated under such rules. I’ve lived in several states and while I don’t know the policies for everyone state I’ve lived in’s public schools, I do know that the school’s my son has attended also have such rules.
So I guess YMMV.
- Comment on U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren Questions Pentagon Awarding $200 Million Contract to Integrate Elon Musk’s “Grok” Into Military Systems Following the Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts 3 days ago:
Wishful thinking. I want you to go have a look at DTS and then tell me you think having to use a racist chatbot to access some information is going to collapse the system.
- Comment on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban 3 days ago:
Decks of cards are usually banned in schools. The schools consider. Card games to be gambling (even if there are no stakes) and that’s not permitted on school premesis.
- Comment on I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games. [Alanah Pearce] 1 week ago:
He also sells a lot of his “good side” via short form videos on Tik Tok and YouTube etc. So when you only get a snippet or two of him talking or answering questions, and he seems like he’s encouraging people to learn to code or do game dev etc it sounds nice. It sounds like he’s being supportive of his audience. It seems like he’s just a dude. But when you get right down to it, that doesn’t bear out who he is, even his actual online persona in his long form content or streams.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 2 weeks ago:
s3nd.pics is also a possible successor.
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 2 weeks ago:
I suggested “Fedlings” in the main thread and I think that could work for the fediverse at large.
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 2 weeks ago:
I really like it too. If it takes off, no need to attribute it to me. I’m sure other people have also thought of it.
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 2 weeks ago:
I like “Feelings” personally.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 2 weeks ago:
www.imgcat.io is being built by an imgur user but it’s not ready yet.
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 2 weeks ago:
Lol. Send me the email. I’m not just going to filter it. Y’all are so bad at email I could reply all and tank your email chain with an all hands message of my asshole. Seriously, Republicans what even is this? If you don’t want it marked as spam don’t send it to people who don’t want and didn’t ask for it.
- Comment on Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline 3 weeks ago:
And the people who use Tik Tok don’t see this as a red flag.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
After a couple of years? No. But 25 years isn’t an unreasonable amount of time to want to own a vehicle if you take care of it. We treat vehicles these days like they’re disposable and honestly I don’t think a 25 year old battery pack is going to be particularly desirable.
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 3 weeks ago:
On thing that worked for me was recording the lesson so that I didn’t necessarily have to take notes right away and could absorb more information being told to me, have time to think about that information and ask questions in the moment. Then I could go home, re-listen to the lecture, write out some notes, and then fine tune those notes by reading the source material and other learning aids. This worked better for me especially having ADHD than trying to write notes and missing parts of the lecture as a result. Being able to take photos of the board was also useful, especially when diagrams and or visual information was being relayed.
I do think it’s important to experiment with what you have available and find strategies that work for you. Not everyone learns the same way.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 3 weeks ago:
It’s stupid from a comsec perspective even if it wasn’t stupid for any other reasons. Compartmentalization is a good strategy as we continue to upgrade outdated and vulnerable systems. But of course, this “leader” is an idiot. So he wouldn’t know that.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
I would argue that even if you did get a used one with new batteries, you’d still face degradation down the line and additional problems that would or could be mitigated in older ice cars which are much more likely to have replacement parts available (even if those replacement parts don’t come from the same type or brand of vehicle). For instance. I know for a fact that there’s a trend of using Honda engines in older first Gen mini coopers. Buying a rebuilt engine has the potential to be pretty cheap.
- Comment on Meta is going to stuff Midjourney AI images into your feed 3 weeks ago:
What feed. Mm y Facebook exists to face tank all the photos my MIL shares. That’s it. I don’t like… Use it. Open it? Scroll the feed? Absolutely not. Don’t have insta. Don’t have messenger.
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t care. Mostly because WWE already have examples of what classes were like without them and the people who are reliant on them now will adapt and learn to cope if they’re taken away.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
The average car in the US is 12 years old. That average is higher in other countries. But regardless, that’s not because cars are unfixable. It’s because most people opt to buy a new or newer car when they feel like the vehicle they currently own is more expensive to fix than they’d like and a lot of that has nothing to do with the longevity of the vehicle and everything to do with how vehicle purchase can be financed vs how car repair can be financed.
It also has a lot to do with people who don’t or won’t fix things before they snowball, and or become astronomically expensive problems. Taking care of a vehicle is about doing regular maintenance (which most people don’t do), and getting at the very least an annual inspection (which most people also don’t do unless they’re forced to).
I won’t be buying a new car ever. I can say that with absolute certainty. I have rehabbed my current car in just about every way I can. Machined/honed block, new valves, new piston/lan rings, new head gasket, new water pump, new thermostat housing, new valve cover, new injectors, rebuilt transmission with new clutch, all new hoses, all new gaskets, new HP fuel pump. I will continue to do so because to me it’s worth it. Doner cars are readily available, but I probably won’t need one specifically because my car is considered and enthusiast car. I have walked into a dealer and ordered parts and my car is 15 years old. I also owned a 20 year old version of this car with the same ability to order parts directly from the dealer.
Most people aren’t buying used unless they have no choice. They will continue to buy new cars regardless of the controversy surrounding them.
I think it’s a bit disingenuous assume that older cars will not be available. Especially considering that the EV’s that are new right now aren’t going to survive 25 years without costly repairs of their own. I’d salvage an engine from an older car. I wouldn’t salvage a battery pack from an older car.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
Not worth the cost of admission. The amount of money it costs to refurb that battery pack is still too high.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
It is a reason to not buy a new car which means people who aren’t buying new cars won’t be buying EV’s.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy should steal piedays.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 4 weeks ago:
I have fiber internet. I don’t understand this question. Are you suggesting that nowhere in the US has this technology? Like. This situation (where a private company sues a state, county, municipality etc to stop the rollout of fiber internet (or even another private company) happens so frequently that it’s unreal.
There’s plenty of places that already have fiber. And those private companies for the most part want to continue growing that user base by rolling out fiber in new markets.
And if it’s the state actually controlling the rollout that’s better than them just paying a private company to do it? If this weren’t a threat to Musk and Starlink he would t be suing.
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. GROK and Twitter have entered the chat. Seriously though, we’ve regressed pretty far in what the general. Public deems acceptable.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 5 weeks ago:
I feel like porn websites have money and lots of reasons to want to burn Florida.