Capricorn_Geriatric

@Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing with “this one” is he was president for 2 terms, unlike the previous one. The others before him in this millenium were a bit less off the rails, hence less ridicule.

  Bots do sway the results towards every current president, but this one is a bit… Specific.

  But whatever the next one may be, short of insane choices like Kim K, Elon, Kanye, MTG, etc. The ridicule will be much less than for Trump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  When you can’t decide between Hertha Sponer and Marie Curie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality vs Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And please show me where I didn’t say that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality vs Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then treat your employees like humans, not human resources. That means sick days at the very least. If you want to be respected more, then start respecting your employees more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lucky for you, you can get around with English in most places.

  Ireland didn’t leave the EU, so that’s an option.

  In most big cities you can get around just fine. In some you can actually live very comfortably.

  As far as laws go, as an EU citizen one is entitled to communication with any public institutions one may come across in their preferred “official language”. Stuff like paying your utility bills, registering health insurance, similar bureaucratic stuff, as well as getting stopped by the police. You can insist on doing it in any one of 28 languages, including English.

  Usually that’s a bit overkill, and whoever you’re dealing with will be happy to speak to you in English or find someone else who does if they don’t. I assume the same goes for non-citizens. German and French are also quite popular, but English is by far the most ubiquitous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are still confused, here is the simple explanation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is to show that I suffered with you for a bit. Only one third of me, to be fair, which I created specifically for that little exercise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rightwing campaigners claim there is covert deal to return Parthenon marbles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re right. They are the ‘Right’, after all.

  The conspiracy is called ‘rising levels of decency’.

  More like a disease than a conspiracy, really.

  And unlike actual diseases, I assume they’re well-vaccinated against this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨blursed⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Curse of No Cancer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exclusive BREAKING NEWS: After careful cobsideration by the World’s top scientists from 1000+ top Universities, it turns out that WATER, H2O, the Wet Wet is, in fact, wet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course they would. Not only would they get their hands on data users fully voluntarily give them by using their platform, but they’d get their hands on verified IDs and quite reliable family tie information. The potential loss of users is definately worth it for them (from their perspective).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$219 Springer Nature book on machine learning was written with a chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that illegal?

  The content (i.e. text, tables, images, etc. ) of the book is under copyleft, while the only thing the publisher can argue that’s theirs is the design (cover, font, copyright claim text, etc.) There are things like page layout and stuff that may’ve been created by the author or the publishers so it’s in a grey area.

  All in all, I think scanning the book and OCRing it, removing stuff like page numbers and those first few pages of junk would remove all “infringing” elements.

  Or, as always, you can email tye author and they’re 99% sure to give you their manuscript directly if they didn’t publish it somewhere else already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No it doesn’t because all mastodon data is public and does not require ToS agreement to be collected.

  ToS are legalese bullshit. They mean next to nothing since most stuff if it comes to court, gets annuled.

  ToS kind of does protect you, but holding tge service hostage or not (as in you can’t watch one little youtube video without selling your soul to Google) doesn’t make a big difference - rrasonable expectations are that users own their content (as is the case in youtube’s case - youtube doesn’t ponce on your videos afaik), although they do own rights to distributing it (obviously), and using sane technological measures to prevent what they don’t want. In youtube’s case that’s watching e.g. privated videos, and in another case it can be AI scrapers.

  Robots.txt is, just like a ToS, a contract. It just isn’t legalese as it isn’t meant to scare people, but be useful to programmers making the site and those using the scraper. They’re programmers, not marketers or lawyers, of course they won’t deal with legalese if they csn avoid it.

  Again, law is not leagese.

  A robots.txt file is a contract by use,like when you park in a charge zone - entering the zone, you accept the obigation to pay.

  When you scrape a site you first check for robots.txt in all the reasonable places it should be, look for its terms, and follow them… If you don’t want to riskgetting sued.

  Similarily, entering a store, you are expected to pay for what you take. There is no entry machine like on a metro where you, instead if swiping a card, read the store’s T&C’s, but know that it’s common sense security will come after you, if not the police. Yet you clicked no “I agree”? How come you don’t just take what you want?

  And robots.txt is a mature technology and easily a “standard”. Any competent lawyer will point that out to the jury and judge, who will most likely rule appropristely. The Internet is not the Wild West anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe it’s trained on some SF. Any agents like ScubaGPT are always self-preserving in such stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've achieved comedy!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Press the Start button. The React Native app doesn’t… React.

  The ship’s main computer and all its systems crash - every single fancy monitor shows the same BSoD.

  Since the doors are all electronic, due to safety concerns on Earth that have gotten overlooked while making the craft, all the doors release and open.

  You see the smiley faces and QR codes dissapearing as the monitors get yanked out into the void.

  You soon follow.

  The end.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inappropriate Ads on Child-Directed Websites: Weight Loss Pills and Depression Tests for Kids.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The child having no money is not a problem.

  Children are easily influenced and gullible.

  A child will pester their parents to buy what they want, potentially for weeks.

  Bombarding children with some product, even if for “grown-ups” can make them like it in the future when they’re grown up themselves. It is a very long-term strategy, but it does work since people tend to associate brands from their childhood with quality.

  But I agree. Ads directed at kids always seemed distasteful to me, vut it was usually mixed in with “normal” TV or even YouTube ads. But now, when you can’t open a video on YouTube and have it play minimized because it’s “for kids”, you’d expect Google’d also make the ads at least less distasteful than on TV or “grownup” YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going back in time to see how the fishes and loaves trick was done⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, it got the concept very right. Do you think (most) Christians care about things such as historical accuracy or logic?

  They believe unironically in a benevelent-omnipotent-omnipresent Sky-Daddy. Their Bible has way more passages about stuff like hating the poor or not being a dick than the opposite. They’re in the cult that’s as old as time, since the modern calendar is based on Jesus’ (alleged) birthyear.

  Facts don’t care about their feelings. But more importantly, neither do their feelings care about the facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skype was shut down for good today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot all the Bing Chats in between.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Short answer: the bank won’t give your shiny new tree-planting business a loan as easily as it will to a “liquid tank tree replacement” one.

  Long answer:

  • Trees take time to grow
  • Trees need to be planted
  • Trees make shade
  • Animals like birds and insects like bees and mosquitos like to live next to them
  • Trees don’t need electricity
  • Trees take in heat radiated from the pavement
  • Trees don’t look cool

  While algae are more efficient at turning CO2 into oxygen in theory, in practice algae don’t have a good climate in such a tank (no oxygen without ventilation, i.e. constant electricity and they get cooked through the glass).

  All in all, more of a gimmick than anything.