LarmyOfLone

@LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, blowing up satellites and cutting undersea internet cables would be (a short) prelude to world war III.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Discord can create FAQ and “threads” now that I believe work better for this. You can take some question and the answer and discussion and put it in a threat in some channel for issues. Presumably once you have a quality chat server, it is easier to add threads / articles / issues to it than starting from a forum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A good quality open source “federated discord” would be as important as lemmy or mastadon. But there isn’t much hype around it. Afaik matrix is still far behind discord quality wise and the architecture has limitations for anonymity and encryption.

  Discord is just high quality and so easy to use because making a server is so easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's coming! :(⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious, how is copyleft license supposed to improve the quality of browser development?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the Olympics and presidential elections only happen once every 4 years, why the hell are we not doing them on February 29th????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The USA was designed for minority rule since forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile, in Springfield Ohio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I never realized until now why they use the “45” so much. Just move one of the black bars and it’s a fucking swastika… And Haitians are really a stand-in for black people.

  The real problem is that we allowed the plutocrats to control both the news and social media and the government. Basically the US doesn’t have a free press any more but a quasi-government controlled oligarch media. As long as these neoliberal policies continue the degradation of institutions and politics continues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me at 'em!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm this made me wonder why something like this wouldn’t melt the rock and then sink into the crust and then into the planet. Probably not hot enough.
  And that made me think if we could build something like a big pellet of fissile material, encase it in tungsten or something so that it is hot enough to do so but remains stable, and then let it sink into the earth. Maybe that could be tracked? Then we could learn something about how it moves and where it ends up. But probably can’t be tracked since this isn’t star trek 🖖

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They stole my voice with AI | Jeff Geerling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well in this case they used his likeness and brand to appear more legitimate and make money. So I’d argue this is trademark (even if not registered) so a legitimate complaint.

  I don’t believe in “copyright” for a voice. See for example impersonators. But in this case it’s a deliberate deception which is pretty simple.

  I don’t believe in intellectual property at all and think it is a form of theft, to deprive others from common knowledge or information just to seek rent. In case of patents I equate it even to aiding in genocide, since most advances in more energy efficiency use are patented and exploited for profit and slowing down adaptation. Without exhaustive attempts to try other systems to pay creators, copyright law is a moral abomination. That is a philosophical or ethical argument, not a legal one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IMDB used to be independent and have a pretty amazing forum for movies. Like people would have lots of debate and discussion and insight. I loved going there after watching a movie. It was sort of “secondary literature” and nothing like this existed before. Then they just decided to delete countless contributions and shut it down. Instead of paying for moderation for the few trolls.

  Of course there are plenty of other movie forums, some even copies the old posts and there is r/movies, but it’s much more fractured now. There are certain network effects for social media that need to reach a critical size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Peaceful contact with aliens would tell us something fundamental about the nature of ethics and the universe.

  Advanced aliens do not need any material resources or real estate from humanity. We can already interpolate that from existing science. So that is not the reason why there are here. And we know they haven’t exterminated us already centuries ago.

  Instead it would tell that we share some fundamental values like curiosity and diversity with alien species - as long as they evolved through natural selection and had to raise and teach and love their children. As long as they had to find productive ways to work together as a people.

  We would realize that we are not alone and that we are being judged. That we can’t just endlessly bulldoze the galaxy and that there are limits to acceptable behavior. Because there is always someone more powerful that could smash us, but they already didn’t. That certain ethical ideals are fundamental properties emerging from the universe itself.

  It would be a powerful counter to the current nihilistic materialism, that we need to start working to improve our culture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the book has an amazing depiction of a truly alien mind that is fundamentally different because of how it functions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And then amazon, a book seller, bought IMDB and eventually burned down the discussion section - which contained so much “secondary literature” about films. I’ll never forgive them for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They stole my voice with AI | Jeff Geerling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok this is a problem of trademark not copyright, or impersonation and fraud by pretending to be him. It’s about his name, not really about his voice. His voice is pretty generic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just tech, all over the product spectrum. They started by selling books.

  A large problem is payment system and accounts. I hate going to a new shop and create a new account, a new password, bla bla bla. I hate it. And wiring with online banking is still a pain the ass, you have to enter some password into your shitty phone keyboard and then wait for an SMS… paypal and amazon payment make shopping convenient.

  So part of the problem is banks who have been sleeping on the job for decades. At least here in Europe. You finally can wire money so it arrives immediately from your bank account at a shop! (without having to waste some tax on a payment provider either). But 2 factor authentication is still a pita. Where is my online bank with easy to use FIDO2?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American Pro-Kremlin Fighter Russell Bentley Tortured to Death by Russian Soldiers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently they thought he was a spy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now make a square out of squiggly yarn

  String theorists claim this is the true shape of spacetime!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyborg: A Documentary – new film about first upgraded human asks whether we should just because we can.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that electronics make you dependent on a expensive, long and fragile and closed source technology. This is the opposite of liberation. Except for prosthesis of course.

  Ideally we’d rather have 3D printed sensory and internal organs to augment ourselves. Things that don’t wear out but can repair themselves and grow to become truly part of our body. Augments that last a lifetime and ideally extend our lifetime.

  The ultimate would be a type of biocomputer that we directly control with our brain and that can alter our body. Which is science fiction of course, but imagine meditating to reconfigure your body in some internal space, like changing your sex from male to female and then slowly growing towards that over a few months. That is far off obviously, but it marks the goal we should move towards. Not electronics or mechanics as a foreign object, but biological systems that become part of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zynga owes IBM $45M after using 1980s patented technology for hit games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Patents aid in genocide.

  There are hundreds of thousands of industrial processes that we need to change and innovate to combat climate change. Any small innovation will be patented and then potentially exploited to extract the maximum amount of profit. This reduces the pace of innovation generally, and makes greener more energy efficient solutions slower to be adopted.

  Similar can be argued about advertising in general of course, they lead to more consumerism and more resource and energy use and why first world has such insane GHG per capita.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[rant] I want computers to become personal again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst part is the banks. You have to get lucky to be allowed to use online banking without agreeing to some sucky TOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never ask⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For communication? Does Lebanon have a right to defend itself?

  This is like asking why Biden has a phone line to the fascists in charge of Israel. Does that make Biden a legitimate target?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want a holodeck future without having to pay by the hour to DisneComBroSonyFlixMount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've got some dank memes ready to go⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to say that I’d absolutely love a dog that is genetically engineered to eat vegan food. Not just be able to survive off it but actually like it. But still retain it’s instinct as a guard dog / social hunter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lets say you want to train a (future) AI to spot and tag disinformation and misinformation. You’d need to use and curate actual data from social media sites and articles.

  If copyright is extended to learning from and analyzing publicly available data, such an AI will only be possible by licensing that data. Which will be monetize to maximize profit, first some lump sum, then later “per gb” and then later “per use”.

  I’m sure open source AI will make due and for many applications there is enough free data, but I can imagine a lot of cases where there wont. Anything that requires “commercially successful” media, articles, newspapers, screenplays, movies, books, social media posts and comments, images, photos, video clips…

  We’re basically setting up a world where the intellectual wealth of our civilization is being transformed into a commodity and then will be transferred into the hands of a few rich capitalists.

  And even if there is acceptable amount of free data, if the principle is that data needs to be specifically licensed to learn and train and derive AI works from it - that makes free data use expensive too. It needs to be specifically vetted and is still vulnerable to be sued for mistakes or outrageous claims of copyright. Similar to patents, the uncertainty requires higher capitalization for any startup to defend against lawsuits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The joke is of course that “paying for copyright” is impossible in this case. ONLY the large social media companies that own all the comments and content that has accumulated by the community have enough data to train AI models. Or sites like stock photo libraries or deviantart who own the distribution rights for the content. That means all copyright arguments practically argue that AI should be owned by big corporations and should be inaccessible to normal people.

  Basically the “means of generation” will be owned by the capitalists, since they are the only ones with the economic power to license these things.

  That is basically the worst case scenario. Not only will the value of work diminish greatly, the advances in productivity will also be only accessible to big capitalists.

  Of course, that is basically inevitable anyway. Why wouldn’t they want this? It’s just sad seeing the stupid morons arguing for this as if they had anything to gain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah well lol, it’s sort of like a “roast me” sub for liberals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your mistake was posting in the dunk tank. That is literally a “vent” sub where they vent their frustrations against stupid US empire propaganda takes.

  It’s the dunk tank.

  This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

  If you go there expecting reasonable treatment for your opinions, you misunderstood the assignment. That is a shitpost sub where only one side is right.

  How do I know this? Because I went there once and got dunked on too! But that does not represent the entirety of hexbear. I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also haven’t seen this but it seems to make fun of the authoritarian excesses in Mao’s China (struggle session).

  The Three Body Problem show features this, leading a character to go mad and wanting to destroy humanity.

  The funny thing is that this post is sort of a struggle session, an attempt to build consensus against socialists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no socialism on social media

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like something like a ring or wristwatch that unlocks my PC when I’m close enough to the keyboard, and locks it again when I go away. For that tracking would be pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well even if you’d keep advertising if you turn YT into a public utility or non-profit, MUCH more of that money would go to creators. And/or much less advertising. Or less annoying or more discerning ads. And of course no demonetization because you talk about problematic issues.

  Without advertising you’d need some kind of revenue. I imagine something like e.g. a EU wide “universal content subscription” or something like that. So if you create good content the various distribution channels simply track what you watch, anonymize it (firefox has this new system that got them in hot waters) and distribute the money from the giant pool to the creators.

  Maybe start with a universal newspaper subscription so we’d have a free press again, new newspapers or channels that produce independent news with only the viewer as a customer, without ads.

  For music in the EU / Germany there are collection agencies that already do this sort of thing. So it’s not even without precedent.

  Obviously there are tons of issues to work out, but the biggest is simply that the elite do everything to gain and maintain power or wealth and this would go contrary to that.