atrielienz

@atrielienz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a question. What if it’s not just at a parenting level. What if it’s also at a school in level? Because I think at least partially there is a disconnect between media and internet literacy and people of all ages including children and parents.

  I think we’re going to need such skills going forward and that there exist places in the world where students are being taught such things and are benefiting from them significantly.

  Yet the immediate knee jerk reactions seem to be blame the parents and blame the companies that facilitate the access to the content.

  It doesn’t have to be a parents by themselves against the world system. But it also can’t just be a “companies protecting the children” system because that’s not what companies do or are for? The need to maintain a profit margin flies directly in the face of the aim to hold companies responsible and the laws seem to be intent on capping the monetary consequences of a breach of the law.

  I do feel that the least a parent should be required to do before complaining to a governing body that they find someone else is “harming” their child is to show that they have done their due diligence to protect said child. We punish parents for willful negligence and child endangerment all the time. I don’t understand why this is different but I also wonder if there are other options for educating both children and adults that could help the situation significantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Union finds PornHub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act for allowing minors to access their services⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And we took up arms because they can pry my cat videos from my cold dead hands?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Union finds PornHub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act for allowing minors to access their services⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree that your situation isn’t an edge case (I found dads locked porn collection of VHS tapes and learned that that lock could be circumvented with a fridge magnet) at the age of 9?

  But on the other hand, let’s say you post something to the internet that may be considered not okay for children. And let’s say that thing is about gun powder (which you absolutely can make from foraging natural ingredients). It’s your personal website, it’s labeled as not intended for children and you aren’t a big company so you don’t have the ability to just hire another company for things like age verification.

  Then you get sued by a regulatory body in another country because you didn’t adhere to their laws? Does that sound reasonable to you?

  If a parent or guardian is taking every precaution to keep their kid safe that is reasonable within the law and that kid still gains access to something that can harm them that’s an accident. If the parent takes no precautions and allows their child that they are legally responsible for the well being and safety of to raw dog life with no precautions whatsoever because that’s too hard, or they don’t care or whatever, then it seems reasonable to me that they be held responsible under the law.

  Their right to have a third party protect their children ends at my right to privacy which to me extends to my right to anonymity specifically because it has already been shown that without anonymity privacy just doesn’t exist in this age of the internet.

  What does that mean? It means that companies that collect your data but promise “privacy” cannot be trusted to uphold that promise, which means the only option left is to be as anonymous as possible.

  I want you to understand that I do agree that when one kid figures out the loophole, that loophole spreads like wild fire.

  But on the other hand, if a child figured out how to turn off the security system to the family car, grabbed the keys and went for a joyride with their friends, is it the fault of the parents or the fault of the car manufacturer? Because one of them is legally liable under the law.

  Would it be acceptable to have to send your thumbprint to BMW every time you wanted to drive your car?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not understand. I’ll see myself out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Blacklisting it on your router would at least prevent it from trying to connect to an open WiFi network like your own guest network which some people just don’t turn off or password protect.

  If you are one of those people and you’re reading this turn that off. You can share your wifi via QR code these days from just about any smart phone. Turn it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think that only apple TVs have wifi chips?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t have the technical know how to physically lobotomize the TV’s wifi chip, simply blocking its mac address would suffice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart Glasses Companies Are Getting Shamed Into Covering Their Cameras⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies or users?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the simple fact is that some of the people in this thread don’t understand is that the people they’re asking to vet the code don’t know how.

  I haven’t coded anything since the 90’s. I know HTML and basic CSS and that’s it. I wouldn’t have known where to start without guides to explain what commands in Linux do and how they work together. Growing up with various versions of Windows and DOS, I’d still consider myself a novice computer user. I absolutely do know how to go into command line and make things happen. But I wouldn’t know where to start to make a program. It’s not part of my skill set.

  Most users are like that. They engage with only parts of a thing. It’s why so many people these days are computer illiterate due to the rise of smartphone usage and apps for everything.

  It’d be like me asking a frequent flyer to inspect a plane engine for damage or figure out why the landing gear doesn’t retract. A lot of people wouldn’t know where to start.

  I fully agree that other coders on the internet who frequent places like GitHub and make it a point to vet the code of other devs who provide their code for free probably should vet the code before they make assumptions about its quality. And I fully agree that deliberately stirring shit without actually contributing anything meaningful to the community or the project is really just messed up behavior.

  But the way I see it there’s two different groups and they have very different views of this situation.

  The people who can’t code are consumers. Their contribution is to use the software if they want, and if it works for them to spread by word of mouth what they like about it. Maybe to donate if they can and the dev accepts donations.

  If those people choose to boycott, it’ll be on the basis of their moral feelings about the use of AI or at the recommendation of the second group due to quality.

  The second group are the peer reviewers so to speak and they can and should both vet the code and sound the alarm if there’s something wrong.

  I suppose there’s a third subset of people in the case of FOSS work who can and often do help with projects and I wonder if that is better or worse for the reasons listed in the thread like poorly human written code and simple mistakes.

  Humans certainly aren’t infallible. But at least they can tell you how they got the output they got or the reason why they did x. You can have a rational conversation with a human being and for the most part they aren’t going to make something up unless they have an ulterior motive.

  Perhaps breaking things down into tiny chunks makes AI better or it’s outputs more usable. Maybe there’s a 'sweet spot".

  But I think people also get worried that what happens a lot is people who use AI often start to offload their own thinking onto it and that’s dangerous for many reasons.

  This person also admits to having depression. Depression can affect how you respond to information, how well you actually understand the information in front of you. It can make you forget things you know, or make things that much harder to recall.

  I know that from experience. So in this case does the AI have more potential to help or do harm?

  There’s a lot to this. I have not personally used Lutris, but before this happened I wouldn’t have thought twice about saying that I’ve heard good things about it if someone asked me for a Heroic launcher style software for Linux.

  But just like the Ladybird fork of Firefox I don’t know that I feel comfortable suggesting it if this is the state of things. For the same reason I don’t currently feel comfortable recommending Windows 11 or Chrome.

  There are so many sensitive things that OS’s, and web browsers handle that people take for granted. If nobody was sounding the alarm about those, I feel like nothing would get better. By contrast, Lutris isn’t swimming in a big pond of sensitive information but it is running on people’s hardware and they should have both the right to be informed and the right to choose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a problem with that. The vast majority of Linux users are probably more tech savvy than average but I’d wager not all of them or even the vast majority have the skills to vet the code.

  Lots of the people in the gaming space who are having Lutris suggested/recommended to them are not going in to check that code for problems. They install the flatpak on move on with their lives.

  It appears (from what I’ve read which isn’t necessarily the end all be all) that the people taking exception to the use of AI to code Lutris are doing so because they do decompile and vet code.

  My understanding is that it’s harder to get AI code in general because when it hallucinates it may do so in ways that appear correct on the surface, and or do so in ways that don’t even give a significant indication of what that code is attempting to do. This is the problem with vibe coding in general from my understanding and it becomes harder and harder even for senior code engineers to check the output because of the lack of a frame of reference.

  You’re asking people who don’t have the skills to ignore people who do have the skills who are sounding the alarm.

  I get that this person is a single person writing code and disseminating it for free. I get that we should be thankful for free and open software. I fully understand why this person might use AI to help with coding.

  I understand that they are upset about the backlash. But that was a very much foreseeable consequence of the credits they gave the AI (a choice they made), and honestly the use of AI (which might have been called out later on if they hadn’t credited it).

  They shot themselves in the foot with the part of their response that was flippant and a “fuck you” to anyone who might find the use of AI concerning.

  There’s also the fact that AI is something that a lot of people in the Linux community at large seem to already be boycotting and boycotting derivatives of it make sense.

  Just because you create something for free doesn’t mean people have to use it. Or that people aren’t free to boycott it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers in fatal Ford BlueCruise crashes were likely distracted before impact | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean. Ford’s blue cruise isn’t supposed to marketed as self driving and it gives active warnings, including when you take your hands off the wheel to prevent you from trying to use them as a self driving equivalent where you aren’t paying attention.

  I agree that these features that are ostensibly to make driving safer are invasive and that they are being abused by people who do not take the warnings into affect or use them the way they are intended to be used, and I personally hate blue cruise.

  I also agree that blue cruise enabled vehicles also have some pretty significant distractions included like giant touch screens and so on.

  But I don’t think it’s fair to lable them as self driving when the company doesn’t do that (looking at you Tesla who has repeatedly had to walk back such marketing claims).

  Do I think blue cruise is a good product? No. Do I think it makes driving safer? Debatable as I’m sure that in some cases it can do that. Do I think it’s a self driving system? No because it’s not. It’s basically just intelligent cruise control and lane keeping assist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI Use Among Game Developers Falls to 29% in 2026, Survey Shows | Outlook Respawn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because of the backlash from gamers/consumer/the general public, or because it was detrimental to the production of their product?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you so far, but I question how that’s still not the publisher’s fault and their liability.

  The main reason is because it seems that when the publisher puts the game up for sale on steam, that entity chooses whether or not to add game play data including music and trailers. So they are choosing to give that information to Valve and giving Valve permission to use it. Which means they are the ones who don’t have the legal ability per their license to do so but did so anyway.

  The best I could say for this lawsuit with those facts is that Valve is guilty of taking their word for it that they were legally allowed to use the posted video or audio in that way.

  If I license something and my license includes certain provisions for distribution but not other provisions for sale or advertisment, then I choose to advertise, then I should be liable for that breach not the venue that I used as the mode for advertisement.

  This is like suing a billboard company for posting an ad with artwork I didn’t properly license for the advertisment space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never thought of Roblox as being bad. I think if it as being dangerous (for the reasons you state), but I also think of it as a for us by us kind of deal. Meaning it’s a place and a game(s) for kids.

  My son isn’t allowed to play it in our house (if he goes to visit family or friends I don’t make restrictions on that), and I have the same rule for pretty much all online games including things like Fortnite. This is mostly because of voice chat.

  I do think the benefits you list are an important part of the conversation that don’t get brought up much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like people but I like them more than I like AI.

  I also grew up in the 80’s when you’d ask an older sibling to best the boss for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would rather pay another human being to TeamViewer in a d beat the boss.

  Good Lord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica Fires Reporter Over AI-Generated Quotes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t say something like that specifically because it isn’t an algorithm that receives x input and spits out Y. It’s an algorithm that receives x query and spits out the most common variant worf that comes after query. If there isn’t a most common word that makes sense to a human, the AI doesn’t know that and so it still gives the most common word in its training set.

  If the query is “Juicy” it may output melons. If melons were not available in its training set it might output grapes or cherries, but if those weren’t available it might output apple bottom jeans which would have made sense in 2003 but likely wouldn’t make sense to the average kid today who’s never heard of juicy couture.

  It doesn’t understand anything. It can’t reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think businesses are going to be getting any CPU’s to make new PC’s during this shortage either. The average budget laptop cost has skyrocketed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CPU upgrades? What CPU’s? Are the CPU’s in the Microcenter with us, Microsoft? Can you show us on the shelf where the mystical CPU’s are?

  Is the shortage a mirage? Our imagination?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America hasn’t won a war (or conflict even) since WW2.

  He’s a man shaped entity with the brain of a dementia riddled geriatric because that’s exactly what he is. That man has so many health conditions the only reason he’s not dead is they’re fighting over who gets to kill him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  1. This means they had to verify my teenager is a kid. I don’t want it collecting information on my child.
  2. This means that they also have verified I’m the parent or legal guardian of said child meaning whether I use Instagram or not they are collecting information on me, and I don’t want that either.
  3. The algorithm for Instagram is a major direct contributor to suicidal ideation and this does nothing to fix that.

  No thank you. Burn it with fire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean Xitter doesn’t hand over data without a warrant when it can harm their products?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just ignorant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID globally for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We both know that this isn’t about stopping criminals or underaged users. That’s just a pretext to conveniently use as cover for their real reason which is surveillance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S p i n o s a r u s⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t threaten him with a good time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S p i n o s a r u s⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He has no business being this creatively talented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'A Big F*ck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not exactly. Princeton NJ and the surrounding areas are quite wealthy. The wealthy/elites have decided they don’t want their places polluted or to subsidize the costs of these data centers. It certainly wasn’t Newark and Camden that fought and won this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before We Blame AI For Suicide, We Should Admit How Little We Know About Suicide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While I don’t agree that AI alone caused anything (because there had to be some instability there for the words of the AI to manipulate, I can absolutely agree that use of the AI is a very apparent contributing factor in the cause.

  With suicide you need some very specific circumstances.

  1. Opportunity. A time and place where the person can’t or won’t be stopped from the attempt.
  2. A feeling of pain or helplessness that eclipses that person’s ability to deal with or find and outlet for.
  3. Means/mode. A bus, a rope and anchor point, a weapon.
  4. Intent.

  I think the last one is where things get a bit murky from a legal standpoint.

  Barring accidental suicide, what can legally be considered as responsible for causing suicide is limited. If you encourage a suicidal person to kill themselves, you as the other person had intent to harm, even if you didn’t mean for them to actually follow through, or believe that they would.

  My fear is that these legal battles won’t result in the AI being held accountable because they’re not able to have intent.

  My bigger fear is that the companies who are responsible are not going to be held responsible for the same reason a fun manufacturer isn’t when someone sticks the barrel in their mouth and pulls the trigger. The argument that it’s a “tool” that’s been “misused” is gonna be thrown around a lot.

  I wish I could believe we’d get more stringent regulations out of such lawsuits. But I just don’t have that kind of hope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyberpunk platformer “Replaced”. . .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Saying Generative AI lies is attributing the ability to reason to it. That’s not what it’s doing. It can’t think. It doesn’t “understand”.

  So at best it can fabricate information by choosing the statistically best word that comes next based on its training set. That’s why there is a distinction between Generative AI hallucinations and actual lying. Humans lie. They tell untruths because they have a motive to. The Generative AI can’t have a motive.