qyron
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- Comment on Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government? 6 hours ago:
In a democratic country, you can think and say whatever you want from its government. At best, being there, you should expect some side eyeing: you’re there; if you don’t like it, go your own way.
In countries where you know such criticism can bring harm your way, just avoid going there altogether.
- Comment on Does it make sense to persue higher education after 40 years ood? 13 hours ago:
Intriguing, isn’t it?
- Comment on Does it make sense to persue higher education after 40 years ood? 14 hours ago:
Probably marked it as such inadvertently. Thank you for the warning.
- Comment on Does it make sense to persue higher education after 40 years ood? 1 day ago:
I can do one class per semester and pay less than 100€ of tuition. I have a paid house and a source of income besides my salary.
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- Comment on What is it about humans when society rewards individuals with the power of millions they want to use it to fuck up society? 1 day ago:
Greed, plain and simple, and a complete absence of checks and balances.
There is no problem in creating an endeavour to achieve some goal and make money from it in the process but it is a problem when making a better life for oneself becomes a trip to hoard as much riches as possible just for the sake of it.
I’ve been lucky enough to know people with a lot of money, both old money and new money. Old money were down to earth people, still working on their family business, leading a very discreet life, with no show off. Polite, well spoken. New money - I prefer the french nouvelle riche - were insuferable twits, that liked to throw around their money as if it meant anything.
The old money people paid whoever worked for them well; I was told, in no uncertain terms, trust is a very high value commodity. They wanted to keep people around them loyal and reliable. The other lot paid pittance salaries.
There is only so much money needed and spendable. I don’t mind paying taxes, although I do say there is a lot of misuse of all the money collect from it, but I consider it the price of civilization. I have an NHS, good roads and somewhat well taken care infrastructure, free public education, subsidized medication, unemployement by the state, paid sick days, paid parental leave, etc. That is money well spent.
Meanwhile, I see companies paying pittances. Tax the blood out of them. Force them to pay higher salaries in order to have higher tax deductions. Throw out deductions for charity; that is white washing greed. Increase paid vacation days (we get paid 14 months here and only work 11, as we have 22 days of paid vacation, plus an extra month salary for holiday “bonus” and another for christmas) and pay higher per diem values.
A company can work to only break even and still produce a lot.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 3 days ago:
Don’t like the price, don’t buy it. Don’t feed the hype. Play through your games. Mod it. Try a diferent path, a new class, a diferent character. Try indie games.
Corporations feed on the needs they create on you. Starve them.
- Comment on Gimli Giblets 3 days ago:
Amazing how a simple request can be ill-interpreted.
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 4 days ago:
Predator is from 1987; that’s a classic.
- Comment on >:3 5 days ago:
Being grown doesn’t imply we can’t be silly. Or that we are implicitly serious just because we’re grown.
- Comment on We must conserve 6 days ago:
Conservationist.
- Comment on Have you said Thank You once? 1 week ago:
Highly influential culture? It’s a fantasy work, not the cure to cancer. But I’ll agree on one thing: corporations are not people; they should be paying to the original creator(s) an efty cut of their profits, from their derivative works.
- Comment on Have you said Thank You once? 1 week ago:
So you create whatever work. You have exclusive rights to it, let’s say for the sake of the argument, 10 years. During that time you never get any return from your work. But after you can no longer claim your rights, someone, perhaps even a company, stumbles on it - or perhaps they just carefully and patiently waited for it - takes it and capitalizes off it, with you watching and sucking your thumb.
No.
If you, an individual, creates something, you have the right to hold your intelectual property. What should be repelled is how easy it is to exploit artists, of any medium.
- Comment on Have you said Thank You once? 1 week ago:
I’m very critic of the AI craze. Too much hype, money, time,energy and effort put in to get very little from it. And considering most LLMs are trained on stolen intelectual property, that makes it even worse.
LLMs are tools. The people using such tools give it personality, a semblance of agency, see what is not there and start to consider a tool a form of life.
I’ve seen people pour so much of them into a local model, the bot develops a quasi clone of their personality. But the program is not the program is not the person.
Please, stop making bots what they are not.
- Comment on Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos. 1 week ago:
Large Language Model
To the extent of my understanding, it is a form of slightly more sophisticated bot, as in an automated response algorithm, that is developed over a set of data, in order to have it “understand” the mechanics that make such set cohesive to us humans.
With such background, it is supposed to produce new outputs if given new data sets to run though the mechanics it acquired during development.
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 1 week ago:
Nice.
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 1 week ago:
This reminds me: weren’t pet rocks a thing at a certain time?
- Comment on If these mother fuckers are trying to make me pay for Healthcare to talk to fucking ChatGPT I swear to god ChatGPT is going to write me so many scripts for opioids its won't be funny. 1 week ago:
You’re describing me but I am not autistic. Can we again just say it is just a bad idea all together.
- Comment on If these mother fuckers are trying to make me pay for Healthcare to talk to fucking ChatGPT I swear to god ChatGPT is going to write me so many scripts for opioids its won't be funny. 1 week ago:
How come?
- Comment on If these mother fuckers are trying to make me pay for Healthcare to talk to fucking ChatGPT I swear to god ChatGPT is going to write me so many scripts for opioids its won't be funny. 1 week ago:
AI models to “aid” in court, listening to witnesses in order to assert if said person is telling the truth or lying are being proposed in my country.
Argument: it will speed up trials, declogging the justice system by extension.
Most lawyers are horrified, as well some judges.
Meanwhile, a judge as been suspended and reprimanded for using AI tools to write his decisions for him.
Yes, the bot did allucinate arguments and used argumentation in common law style, while my country is civil law model.
- Comment on Trump threatens 'far larger' tariffs if EU and Canada unite to do 'economic harm' to the U.S. 1 week ago:
I’ve seen a person demonstrate how you can dig yourself out of hole. It takes hard work and ingenuity but it is possible.
- Comment on Never send a text message when drunk 1 week ago:
The dude is drunk. To the point he forgets when he is.
I’m going to risk his then hot girlfriend/now wife read that message and got a pinch of miffed just by knowing he was drunk.
I still say it’s a sweet thing to read. Drunk and nonetheless still in love for his signficant other? Precious.
- Comment on Never send a text message when drunk 1 week ago:
That’s sweet. If the guy still sees her as his girlfriend, when drunk, the right feeling is still there. And if he get’s excited for knowing she’s his wife presently, that’s even better.
But I’m going to risk things a bit off between them. That reply sounded a bit miffed, from the wife.
- Comment on Fast boi 1 week ago:
Depends on the dog, the available space and how their are cared for.
I take care of two shepperd dogs and they just love to spend their day sleeping and lazying around. Morning walk I almost need to beg them to get out of bed. End of the day walk, they’re fine. But these are two lazy ladies. My partner, their godfather, was always up for a long walk, come sun or rain.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 2 weeks ago:
No fountain pens?
- Comment on If we give human names to dogs, do they give dog names to us humans? 2 weeks ago:
I have two dogs and they bark at me in an unique way when requesting my attention or when I’m arriving home, so I expect that to be my “name” to them.
- Comment on I'm sure dolphins will fuck it up in their own special way. 2 weeks ago:
There is a sciemce fiction book on that, from Ray Bradbury.
- Comment on I'm sure dolphins will fuck it up in their own special way. 2 weeks ago:
Cuttlefish? And crabs!
- Comment on I'm sure dolphins will fuck it up in their own special way. 2 weeks ago:
You’re forgetting octopi, otters, squids, and maybe ants or other social insect.
- Comment on Po-tay-toes 2 weeks ago:
Sadness and potatoes do not combine.