ZickZack

@ZickZack@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US is investigating if Boeing ensured a part that blew off a jet was made to design standards⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is the more burning question: What is worse?
  Case "It was not made to design standards":
  Then boing might have a problem in their manufacturing processes, which is going to have ramifications on the entire fleet. This would be bad, but fixable.

  Case "It was made to design standards":
  In that case you only have a problem with this one type of jet, but you have a problem in your fundamental design, which might ground the entire fleet (again).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Suspends ByteDance's Account After It Used GPT To Train Its Own AI Model⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily: there have been recent works that indicate that filtering effects of fine tuned LLMs greatly improves the data efficiency (e.g phi-1).
  Further, if you have e.g. human selection on top of LLM generated content you can get great results as the LLM generation can be used as a soft curriculum, with the human selection biasing towards higher quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X sues Media Matters to silence moderation criticism⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Essentially the same argument: Due to the fact the HBO show was syndicated throughout the united states, he can file in the federal courts in e.g. Texas (usually the argument is something like "They damaged business relations/contracts in XYZ state, therefore we file in XYZ state").

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X sues Media Matters to silence moderation criticism⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I answered a little more in detail in a different comment (https://fedia.io/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/411563/-/comment/2556033) but to address the last point: They did file in federal court (specifically the federal district court in north texas).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X sues Media Matters to silence moderation criticism⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue with the internet is that it did take place in texas as well: The news article was available in texas, so the news corp can be sued there. Basically the argument is: "Media Matters harmed X's brand in texas using misleading information" (you can read their arguments for filing in texas under the "Jurisdiction and Venue" section of their filing).

  Also remember that this is currently X's wish list: Media Matters can file for a change in venue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X sues Media Matters to silence moderation criticism⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely a company should be governed by the laws of the state in which they are based

  This is not true and wouldn't make why sense: let's say you are a delivery company and one of your drivers runs over a dog in Texas. The lawsuit can be filed in Texas, regardless of whether your company is in Texas, California, or even outside the united states. The place you are incorporated in doesn't change the damages or laws you violated when running over the dog. Of course you can also move the venue to the state the company is based in.

  You cannot (generally) move it to another state, since that state doesn't even have jurisdiction over any part of the incident.

  The internet is just special in the sense that really something that happened on the internet happened everywhere on earth at the same time, meaning any venue is a place where potential damages were accrued.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Do Not Track" is a legally binding order, German Court tells LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are certain things you are allowed to use cookies for even without asking for permission (i.e. they wouldn't even need to tell you about them). These are effectively the kinds of things that are necessary for your website to work in the first place: For instance if you have a dark and a light mode and you want people to change this even without logging in, another example is language settings (this is why sites like e.g. duckduckgo can have a "settings" tab despite the fact you are not logged into anything).

  The rule-of-thumb is that everything that is directly related to the functionality of your website is fair even without asking (they are "essential").
  Of course the specifics are a little more tricky: For instance you could have a shop in which you can put things into your "shopping basket" without being logged in. This is fine since it's core functionality. However, if you use that same cookie to also inform your recommendation algorithm, you could get into trouble. Another aspect is 3rd party cookies: These, while not theoretically always requiring permissions, in practice do need expressed permission since you, as the website host, cannot guarantee what happens with these cookies (and 3rd party cookies are, in general, an easy way to track users, which isn't core functionality for most websites).