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- Comment on Al Jazeera office raided as Israel takes channel off air 2 weeks ago:
I thought their website was (will be?) blocked in Israel too?
- Comment on Biden calls Japan and India xenophobic: ‘They don’t want immigrants’ 2 weeks ago:
Not sure why you felt the need to define both terms, but since you bring it up, note that refugees are a subset of immigrants.
But none of what you’ve said addresses the point I was making; the fact that Modi is deporting refugees (who are, by definition, a form of immigrant) doesn’t mean that nobody wants to migrate to India.
- Comment on Biden calls Japan and India xenophobic: ‘They don’t want immigrants’ 2 weeks ago:
The fact that modi’s government is trying to deport immigrants doesn’t mean that people don’t want to move there - in fact, the fact the gov is doing is the whole point of the article
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 3 weeks ago:
Twice. I did it twice.
- Comment on Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore 3 weeks ago:
Why not just use type c headphones?
The 3.5mm thing has always baffled me, it feels like complaining your pc doesn’t have a VGA port, except the thing you connect costs like a fiver
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 4 weeks ago:
I’m hoping that the sheer cost of executing that sort of war will continue to be a prohibiting factor like it is today
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 4 weeks ago:
Upvoted exclusively for that 10/10 pun
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 4 weeks ago:
I broadly agree, but that’s not what this is, right?
This is a demonstration of using AI to execute combat against an explicitly selected target.
So it still needs the human to pull the trigger, just the trigger does some sick plane stunts rather than just firing a bullet in a straight line.
- Comment on NASA 4 weeks ago:
I feel like “moves relative” also understates just how fast it moves: ~19,000mph
- Comment on You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on 2 months ago:
You’ll love crack houses!
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 3 months ago:
Oh no, not them removing a vague vibe in place of an explicit policy on transphobia.
What an absurd reason to defederate a server
- Comment on Childhood disrupted: is the internet damaging young people’s development? 3 months ago:
“no, I won’t provide a source for my claim, because my source is not good/non-existent”
FTFY
provide the reason you don’t like those studies
They didn’t say they don’t “like” the studies though, in fact they actively said they were interested in seeing them. What’s the point of asking someone to explain why they don’t like something that they haven’t even seen yet. Sure they could go find some random related studies and then critique those but that seems pretty pointless.
- Comment on WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps 3 months ago:
Yet another EU w
They’re really just regulating big tech on behalf of the rest of the planet right now
- Comment on Help me get started with VPN 3 months ago:
I’ve heard very good things about wireguard-easy to simplify the config and management, too
- Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism 3 months ago:
Dismissing sexism within a particular group because it is disproportionately prevalent in that group is, frankly, treating that sexism as acceptable.
You can just as easily extend this approach until you either reach a group where it’s evened out, or is the entirety of humanity.
“It’s more prevalent in stem? No, you have to look at university students overall”
“It’s prevalent in university students overall? No, you have to look at all students”
“It’s prevalent in students as a whole? No, you have to look at everyone involved in education”
“It’s prevalent in education in general? No, you have to look at public services as a whole”
“It’s prevalent in public services as a whole? No, you have to look at all non-private entities”
“It’s prevalent across non-private entities? No, you have to look at all forms of work”
- Comment on xkcd #173: Movie Seating (20 Oct 2006) 3 months ago:
Thanks for your input
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 5 months ago:
As far as I’m aware, twitter has actually been a lot smaller in terms of users than you might imagine from its influence.
It has a relatively low number of active users, but the fact it’s designed to be a centralised public forum (rather than users being selective who can follow them like Facebook) means it is/was very attractive for businesses, celebrities and politicians.
- Comment on Jailbroken AI Chatbots Can Jailbreak Other Chatbots 5 months ago:
I hate when I accidentally build a nuke, absolute nightmare to dispose of
- Comment on Jailbroken AI Chatbots Can Jailbreak Other Chatbots 5 months ago:
What possible legitimate reason is there for needing a napalm recipe?
- Comment on New report illuminates why OpenAI board said Altman “was not consistently candid” 5 months ago:
But the concern isn’t which was the first generative ai - their “idea” was that AIs - of all types, including generalised - should just be released as-is, with no further safeguards.
That doesn’t consider that OpenAI doesn’t only develop text generation AIs. Generalised AI can do horrifying things, even just by accidental misconfiguration (see the paperclip optimiser example).
But even a GANN like chatGPT can be coerced to generate non-text data with the right prompting.
Even in that example, one can’t just dig up those sorts of videos without, at minimum, leaving a trail. But an unresticted pretrained model can be distributed and run locally, and used without trace to generate any content whatsoever that it’s capable of generating.
And with a generalised AI, the only constraint to the prompt “kill everybody except me” becomes available compute.
- Comment on New report illuminates why OpenAI board said Altman “was not consistently candid” 5 months ago:
Okay, so let’s do a thought experiment, and take off all the safeguards.
Oops, you made:
- a bomb design generator
- an involuntary pornography generator
- a CP generator
Saying “don’t misuse it” isn’t enough to stop people misusing it
And that’s just with chatgpt - AI isn’t just a question and answer machine - I suggest you read about “the paperclip maximiser” as a very good example of how misalignment of general purpose AI can go horribly wrong
- Comment on New report illuminates why OpenAI board said Altman “was not consistently candid” 5 months ago:
But this isn’t an M rated game, it’s a transformative new technology with potentially horrifying consequences to misuse
- Comment on The UK tries, once again, to age-gate pornography 5 months ago:
Hey, you could make a
religionencoding out of this - Comment on Why the Internet and society itself is so divided nowadays ? 5 months ago:
Not divided as in literally separated, but divided as in highly polarised individuals interacting with each other
- Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 5 months ago:
But they can’t extend it longer than the shortest ads, since then it’ll affect users after they watch ads too, which kinda defeats the point
- Comment on A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school. 5 months ago:
Both of you are absolutely right - I think that the OP’s emphasis on romantic relations is actually a symptom of the fact that an excessive amount of emphasis is put on forming romantic relationships over platonic ones
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Startup Is Ready to Start Surgery 6 months ago:
My brain runs arch btw
- Comment on Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying 6 months ago:
Some of these are valid, especially #6 and #7
But a lot of them, frankly, just aren’t true:
- Can’t turn off album art or colorized elements changing bright colors while driving
You can turn off the flashy moving stuff entirely with one setting, if you get distracted by a static album art image while driving then you really should be using a hardware device to control playback instead tbh
1a. The last straw for me was when they deprecated car mode entirely
Car mode is still here, and works perfectly well - in fact they’ve improved the visual clarity recently to make it even clearer
- Can’t combine your own music
They won’t host it for you, but you can absolutely combine the music on your local device with your local library
- No normalization adjustments for songs that are too loud or too quiet
There is a setting for exactly this. I personally think there’s something to be said for not modifying songs in the background though
- No per-device (or at all iirc?) Equalization
Yes there is, afaik it’s per-device only
- Periodic check-in required
Ehh, this one’s kinda fair from a business perspective - it makes sense that the platform would need to verify your subscription occasionally for licensing reasons, but I can see why this would be mildly annoying if you use it very infrequently and are eg on a plane
- Constant background app openings
I’m not sure I can say I’ve seen any issue with this, but if you really don’t like it being active in the background, you can just turn off Spotify Connect in the background in settings
- Quality is terrible
If the audio quality is audibly bad then it’s likely due to not using the very high audio quality setting, or automatic quality adjustment due to network conditions (again, you can turn this off though it may result in buffering)
Honestly, I don’t think playing music through the worst speaker you can find is a reasonable way to assess the audio quality - like yeah, no shit it’s going to be bad. “Doctor doctor, it hurts when I do this”
Tldr: just look at settings lol
- Comment on Demand to reverse Brexit hits ‘highest ever level’ 6 months ago:
Breturn?