TheOctonaut
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- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 3 days ago:
No but it isn’t wise to generalise two of Europe’s less… regulated countries to just “Europe”. Pretty much every European country north of the Alps and west of the Vistula have mandatory smoke alarms/fire detection. It’s not a mystery why. 5000 Europeans a year die in residential fires and social housing, ie paid for by the tax payers, is disproportionately damaged by fire every year.
You can say where you’re from. Nobody’s coming to find you.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 3 days ago:
They are mandatory in Ireland, so please stop the “Europe” stuff.
House fires were a huge cause of death and in apartment blocks they also can let one person’s mistake kill hundreds of others.
- Comment on Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers 1 week ago:
Instantly?
Hospitals, telecoms, schools, universities, research labs the world over would be left without security updates or tech support. Businesses would crash out, access to everything from Sharepoint to Outlook to Entra ID SSO cut off rendering tens of millions unable to work and likely furloughed or redundant.
Enjoy your accelerationist fantasies if you like, daring to assume that the void would be filled by fucking Linux Mint or something and not literally just Apple. But the idea that it would be instant is even more unhinged than the average .ml stammering about the misunderstood virtues of Russian anti-Imperialism.
- Comment on Humans' behavior about LLMs is the same as animals with a mirror: they believe there is "another" in there. It's just their reflexion 1 week ago:
It’s just a leading question.
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 1 week ago:
If you’re trying to prove that I can indeed feel cringe, keep going, you’re almost there
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 1 week ago:
All code uploaded to Github is scraped
This is the very simple statement that I was responding to, along with the next line about how using Github is implicit consent to feeding your data to an LLM. If the poster wants nuance, they are free to provide it themselves. You can see in subsequent responses there is none.
Of course them being different matters. That’s my point. Not all code uploaded to Github is being fed into an LLM. It is not consent if you are signing a contract demanding that something not be done. It’s preposterous even at a surface level.
Github Enterprise Server is different from Github Enterprise Cloud, which is what I was talking about, and which is explicitly not used for training LLMs, and if it were, would absolutely kill Github as a product and likely mire Microsoft in years of litigation.
Frankly I don’t know of any software company using Github Enterprise on-prem but I suppose there are probably some CEOs out there who haven’t taken the OpEx pill. Maybe deep in the rainforest with Mokele-Mbembe. Certainly in my sliver of the tech industry, telecoms, the idea of owning a server is akin to having a deskphone and an outgoing mail room.
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 1 week ago:
Sure. Any day now.
Being embarrassed by association with people who say things like “all code uploaded to Github is subject to being scraped” might be childish. Not sure it’s as childish as being embarrassed by “cringe” though. That would imply I care about your opinion on my communication. I don’t.
I do care that you understand that a half dozen people in this thread are actively outing themselves as completely ignorant about the real world of software development and the software industry in general. Probably not surprising given the words “Gentoo” and “Codeberg” in the title of the post.
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 1 week ago:
A company that pays Microsoft to host code and would join the suit that would bury them if they used proprietary code to train models in breach of paid contracts?
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 1 week ago:
All of the responses are saying that Github reads all code. Github public and Github enterprise are products of the same organisation. Many are even saying they will consume enterprise data anyway despite contracts not to. As I said in my first response, there aren’t many things that would ruin Microsoft’s ability to operate but this is one.
What vibes do you think I’m going off?
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 1 week ago:
Source: I’m employed
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 1 week ago:
“Gullible” is not a thing you can be when somehow has signed a contract with you… that’s why contracts exist.
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 1 week ago:
You aren’t paying enterprise subscriptions to use Facebook, and as bad as they are, Microsoft are not Meta.
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 1 week ago:
It’s in every enterprise and business contract signed with them. The FAQ was just the first result on Google. Its obviousness shouldn’t even require that much. It’s extremely clear how few of Lemmy’s “technology” crowd have any contact with adult life.
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 1 week ago:
No, it isn’t.
“Basically” your vibes aren’t an actual answer. Businesses are not forking over millions to give away their code.
You can have conspiracy theories about it using the code anyway (I’m particularly confused about your use of the word “scrape” which tells me you don’t know how AI training works, how hosting a website works, or how scraping works - maybe all three?) but surreptitiously using its competitors’ code to train CoPilot would be a rare existential threat to Microsoft itself.
Does GitHub use Copilot Business or Enterprise data to train GitHub’s model?
No. GitHub does not use either Copilot Business or Enterprise data to train its models.
- Comment on 'The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:' Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans 2 weeks ago:
The people - very, very many of them literal school children - doing this are not training image AI models or even LoRAs or whatever on their home servers by feeding them images of a person from multiple angles and different parts exlosed. They’re just taking a single image and uploading it to some dodgy Android store app or, y’know, Grok. Which then colours in the part it identifies as clothes with a perfectly average image from the Internet (read: heavily modified in the first place and skewed towards unrealistic perfection). The process is called in-painting. The same models use the same technique if you just want to change the clothes, and people find that a brief amusement. If you want to replace your bro’s soccer jersey with a jersey of a team he hates to wind him up, you are not carefully training the AI to understand what he’d look like in that jersey. You just ask the in-painter to do it and assuming it already has been fed what the statistical average combination of pixels for “nude girl” or “Rangers jersey” are, it applies a random seed and starts drawing, immediately and quickly.
That’s the problem. It has always been possible to make a convincing fake nude of someone. But there was a barrier to entry - Photoshop skills, or paying someone for photoshop skills, time, footprint (you’re not going to be doing this on dad’s PC).
Today that barrier to entry is reduced massively which has put this means of abuse in the hands of every preteen with a smartphone, and in a matter of seconds. And then shared with all your peer group, in a matter of seconds.
It’s the exact same logic which means that occasionally I find a use for image generation tools. Yes I can probably draw an Orc with a caltrop stuck up his nose, but I can’t do that mid-session of D&D and if it’s for a 10 second bit, why bother. Being able to create and share it within seconds is a large part of the selling point of these tools. Did I just steal from an artist? Maybe. Was I going to hire an artist to do it for me? No. Was I going to Google the words “orc” and “caltrop” and overlay the results for a cheap laugh? Maybe. Is that less stealing? Maybe. Am I getting way off the point that these people aren’t training image generation AIs with fragments of photos in order to make a convincing fake? Yes.
- Comment on 'The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:' Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans 2 weeks ago:
Why is fuck_ai so full of people who genuinely have no idea how AI works or what it does?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There is only strength in numbers (as a defence, which is what you’re positing) if everyone is informed of the consequences of their actions. If they are not, they can blame you for misleading them.
People aren’t doubting the virtue of your intent but you are speaking very confidently incorrectly about legal matters which doesn’t help your overall appeal.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 weeks ago:
Because I typed it.
I don’t need to prove anything, but mostly, your issue seems to be that you think a shitty in-painting image model has anything to do with the usefulness of something like Github Co-Pilot.
If you don’t understand something it’s ok not to have the edgy opinion on it by default.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 weeks ago:
trust thsir own feelings over facts
Can I take a guess that you are not currently employed in the software development industry?
- Comment on Just the Browser: tools to remove AI and other bloatware from Chrome, Edge and Firefox 5 weeks ago:
it’s got settings
Well yeah, Librewolf is basically nothing but settings.
Firefox settings.
Confuses me no end when people rage against Mozilla and then recommend a product that cannot exist without Mozilla.
- Comment on ‘Maduro Venezuela’s only president; no empire will rule us’: Caracas vows resistance after US kidnapping 1 month ago:
Kidnapping is not the napping of a kid. There’s no age profile implied.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 months ago:
Floorp
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
Nice religion.
It’s a tool. You’re attaching far too much moral virtue to something that in another breath you will describe as an autocomplete tool.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
You are all over this thread repeating variations of the same comment which, despite wildly different responses from voters, mostly show you do not at all understand how image model training and generation work.
This sort of absolutism is dead. Do you think they should be disqualified if they Google something and the answer is in Google’s AI summary?
- No? Great, now we understand your line is subjective and you get to decide what is or isn’t acceptable use of AI.
- Yes? Cool. Describe how the you police this and how do you choose between fhe three games made next year that will qualify, of which 2 are furry Visual Novels made entirely of RPG maker assets and 1 is the fifty-seventh Pokemon entry.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 2 months ago:
Assuming the cutout feature works by AI and requires you send your photo to their server, it makes a lot of sense that Apple don’t want you sending your nads to their server.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 months ago:
Is “the vast majority of your users” your display name or something? I have those turned off in my client settings
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 months ago:
Vast yes. Deep, no. That’s what you’re experiencing; the actual game loop is about as complex as Farmville
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 2 months ago:
I swear to god if this is Schleiswig Holstein again I’m giving it back to Denmark
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 2 months ago:
Everything else is “a hack” in the sense that it is literally just the way to get Jellyfin working outside your network too.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 2 months ago:
Remote access via their servers.