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- Comment on X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum 2 months ago:
Honestly, between these obsession posts and all the other non-tech news that gets posted here, I just unsubscribed this morning. The signal to noise ratio in this community is just not worth it to me.
- Comment on X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum 2 months ago:
I prefer the latter, because it’s so much easier to filter out posts about Elon than it is to filter out posts about X (without creating a ton of false positives).
- Comment on Disney argues it was legal to kill a doctor because she had a Disney+ trial once 2 months ago:
Can you take your unopinionated headlines somewhere else? This is a technology community.
- Comment on The many, many signs that Kamala Harris’ rally crowds aren’t AI creations 2 months ago:
The sad state of political campaigning in 2024.
- Comment on Google's monopoly case builds pressure on tech giants. 2 months ago:
As long as ads and analytics are separate from each other and the rest.
- Comment on The many, many signs that Kamala Harris’ rally crowds aren’t AI creations 2 months ago:
Good question. The answer is: for a significant amount of people, politics is emotional - so what makes sense isn’t necessarily relevant.
- Comment on The many, many signs that Kamala Harris’ rally crowds aren’t AI creations 2 months ago:
Before welcoming this as good news, be aware that democrats might also start thinking this misinformation is real, and decide to stay home and “not vote for a losing team”.
- Comment on Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say | Reuters 2 months ago:
I guess responses like yours is the reason the headline didn’t mention the actual party gitlab it’s in talks with. People just love to have their villain.
- Comment on Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say | Reuters 2 months ago:
But they have been partially owned by Google for the past time, and the product has been great.
Google’s involvement is only going to lessen, so the only reason to put so much emphasis on that in the headline would be to get those rage clicks.
- Comment on Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say | Reuters 2 months ago:
Typical that the title does mention Google (who currently has a minority stake) but not Datadog, who would become the new owner.
But yeah, I don’t foresee a new owner making things better for gitlab.
- Comment on OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content 2 months ago:
They could, but adding random zero width characters into words would also destroy ever spell checker, giving it away immediately and making sure that even unaware people would filter it. Doing it outside the words would leave them with too few spots to use for proper watermarking.
I think it’s far more likely they’ll use some kind of pattern in the tokens - that way the watermark will remain even when you don’t copypaste it.
But yeah, as said, they will never tell how it’s implemented, but it can still be simply subverted.
- Comment on OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content 2 months ago:
Yeah, no chance they’d rely on something that would be so easy to defeat. Watermarking by using word patterns is far more likely.
Still easy to defeat by just using another LLM to rephrase it though.
- Comment on Designing Friction 2 months ago:
By that logic every news website is spam, because those also contain ads.
I agree the article is without much merit. But calling it spam because it also appears in a book and it mentions that source, is just diluting the term.
- Comment on Designing Friction 2 months ago:
This article could do with a Bottom Line Up Front. I got halfway through the page and I still had no idea what problem it was trying to solve by adding new problems.
- Comment on Susan Wojcicki, Former Chief of YouTube, Dies at 56 3 months ago:
Looked up her name on Twitter to see what people were saying about this
I’m seriously wondering what your intentions were when you did that.
- Comment on X to pause using European user data to train AI systems 3 months ago:
Better yet, just spin up your own instance, subscribe to all major communities, and have the servers push the comments to yours. No scraping required, and nobody will ever find out it was you.
Statistically it’s likely to have happened already.
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 3 months ago:
My brother worked for such a Dutch company (ASM) and often got sent overseas to supervise the setting up of the production lines with these machines.
He mentioned when he’d get sent to Asia, the workers would make sure to get it done over a weekend, while implementing the same setup would take 2 to 3 weeks in the US. In part that was due to the working conditions mentioned, but also simple lack of planning in case of the latter (things would grind down to a haalt because certain changes would need to be made, and the person responsible for the decision wouldn’t respond for hours or days, etc).
Side note: while 36 hour work weeks are common in the Netherlands, 40 hours is still the norm in my experience.
- Comment on X to pause using European user data to train AI systems 3 months ago:
Legally? No idea. What might be adequate protection in the country your instance is hosted, is probably unenforceable in another country where a federated instance might be.
Technically, you could try by using your own, self hosted instance, and not federating with others, so they won’t be able to scrape your content as easily.
But realistically speaking, your comments are possibly more likely to be scraped on Lemmy, since it’s so much more open for bots, and your content is replicated to much more servers, not all of which may have noble intents.
- Comment on X to pause using European user data to train AI systems 3 months ago:
I stopped using twitter a couple of years ago, so I fully agree that one is better off without it
But when you reduce it to a nazi echochamber, don’t you feel at least a teensy sense of irony?
- Comment on A US judge just called Google the ‘highest quality search engine’. But how do we determine ‘quality’? 3 months ago:
I wonder which others he has tried to get to that conclusion, and how recently.
- Comment on Device fingerprinting that stops fraud, builds trust, and drives growth. 3 months ago:
Yups. Report and move on.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
They already are. They put all nsfw content behind a privacy paywall (pay with email and browsing habits). Luckily it can still be subverted through old.reddit.com - but the question is for how long.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Report these articles with “Business news, not tech news”, and there’s a high chance it’ll be removed.
- Comment on The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for - The Verge 3 months ago:
I’m probably a minority in this (although probably not so much here on Lemmy), but if anything, I’d want my TV to be less smart, and less personalised. I don’t want Google to know what my favourite TV shows and movies are. I don’t want “suggestions” on which streaming platforms I could also install (often before the content I would actually want to see). And I most definitely don’t want my TV to be monitoring the rest of my “smart” home.
For the people who are part of this articles titular “we”, I seriously wonder: why would you have been waiting for this?
- Comment on AI Music Generator Suno Admits It Was Trained on ‘Essentially All Music Files on the Internet’ 3 months ago:
One could also say that building a camera from first principles is a lot more work than entering a prompt in DALL-E, but using false equivalents isn’t going up get us very far.
- Comment on AI Music Generator Suno Admits It Was Trained on ‘Essentially All Music Files on the Internet’ 3 months ago:
Also policing training would be completely unenforcable
That’s where laws would come in. Obviously it would have civil law, not criminal law, but making sure it would be enforceable would have to be part of such laws. For example, forcing model makers to disclose their training dataset in one way or another.
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 3 months ago:
I’m not being facetious though. Off-site backups of a digital password collection are easy to setup and maintain. But when you change your password or add a new entry, it’s going to be a pain in the ass to have to drive over and update a physical copy.
If you can live with those downsides, that’s fine. But in my opinion it would be facetious to pretend a physical backup is “just as good/usable” as a digital one.
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 3 months ago:
If getting a Dropbox account is too difficult for you, I seriously wonder why you’re subscribed here, or reading articles about password management in browsers.
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 3 months ago:
If you never, ever need your passwords outside of your home, that’s great advice - it’s as secure as can be against digital theft. Less so against fire though, and backups are out of the question.
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 3 months ago:
I guess now is as good a time as any for them to start using a proper password manager.
Personally, I recommend Keepass - it has multiple clients for all platforms, and you can keep the file in sync with a program of your own choosing, like Dropbox, syncthing or whatever you like.