Lfrith
@Lfrith@lemmy.ca
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 15 hours ago:
I find it okay for writing programs since you can verify it to see if the output is correct.
But, actual analysis not so much, since when verifying what comes out that its not completely reliable even for things it should be like numbers. Now numbers might be close, but still off
Abstract stuff might be fine. But, its still not something to entirely trust on analysis because of errors. There’s a lot of double checking that needs to be going on.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 16 hours ago:
Yes, and by turning it on you are opting in to allowing your ISP to decide what information you get access to. Making that the default is a TERRIBLE idea.
So turn it off.
Yes! What I’m trying to describe is that process, but in a digital space. Swap the store with a LOCAL app (ie: one that doesn’t phone home, and can generate the tokens on your device), and swap the ID with the cert file, and you’ve got the same process in the digital space, with all the same benefits
I dont trust the digital space version because you’d have to trust the code and to be approved as an approved verification system would require the government to sign off on it. Third party doesn’t exist in a independent space for something like this when government oversight is required.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 16 hours ago:
Your idea LITERALLY lets those in charge decide what information you get access to, so maybe you should be a little more skeptical.
My idea is already in place. When you log into your ISP to pay bills or manage your plan you can already toggle on or off parental control. Its just changing it so its enabled by default since so many parents seem clueless it even exists.
Turn it off and its just the way it already is now.
I trust neither. That’s why I like the system I’m describing. It puts ME in charge of MY data, and gives me controll over who gets to use it, and exactly what they’re allowed to do with it
Your new additional system puts trust that those who wrote the system will not end up exposing which tokens were used for your accounts by your ID that is linked to it. Either because the program was written for the government or corporations to do so, or eventually incompetence leading to exploit that exposes it.
Only proposal I’ve liked is being able to buy tokens at a store without any ID being logged and buying new ones when it expires. Like the mullvad VPN gift cards.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 17 hours ago:
People will find a way around verification. I definitely would when I was little. To have a perfect system you’d need an authoritarian approach of complete surveillance.
You either accept that system isn’t perfect or push for complete surveillance.
You seem willing to risk what will turn out to be surveillance in hopes of a perfect verification system. While I’m more skeptical and not trusting of those in charge that trying to protect people is even the goal.
Maybe it’s the difference between how much someone trusts their government and corporations.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 18 hours ago:
Just starting it at the ISP level than a site by site basis handing over info for every site seems better to me. Its already a utility to begin with where people have to give their info, address, and payment method when they sign up. Its already a verification system to begin with.
Let households themselves decide if they want parental lock or not, and ISPs already offer parental block.
And I dont care about the social media justifications for verification anymore. You, me, and many other people accessed the Internet at a young age and turned out fine.
This hysteria of parents not wanting to take responsibility for raising and monitoring their own kids and demanding the government remove everything seems like boomers back in the day wanting games banned.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 18 hours ago:
I think easiest method is one that has already existed before. Just do a blanket parental internet block for ISPs and mobile providers.
Account holders who want it lifted can contact the company providing them their Internet access to do it. Or leave it in place and use a login whenever they attempt to access blocked sites.
But, there’s a reason that’s not the method proposed or used as an example with it already existing. Government wants surveillance like 1984 over their citizens and companies want to collect and sell data like Meta.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 18 hours ago:
Law…politicians don’t seem to be following them these days. They seem more like Judge Dredd finding out the law is more a suggestion when it comes to themselves. Being able to even start wars without calling it one.
Past year has seemed more like people going, but that’s against the law you can’t do that. And them going okay who’s going to stop us?
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 18 hours ago:
Now that we see groups pushing for age verification are third parties like Palantir and the US government having demanded account info on those who were critical of ICE I don’t think third party entities going forward can be trusted anymore to be unaffiliated with the state.
Maybe when Estonia got their program implemented. But, now such a system being put in place for other countries is going to be untrustworthy in their motives and methods.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 22 hours ago:
Problem is people treat it as reliable when AI itself isn’t able to verify or know if what it is generating is correct.
Would be better if it provided direct links for people to go to and read. A list of citations if you will than the proclamations it makes know. Its too “opinionated” making it give advice when it would ideally be neutral just providing links for people to read further from sources that hopefully isn’t AI.
AI has even gotten sports trivia I know incorrect. I don’t think people realize AI is just generation. Not as reliable or trustworthy authority just because it strings together sentences.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 23 hours ago:
Funny thing is LLMs are bad as calculators too, since I’ve seen it get simple multiplication wrong.
It’s capable of generating content, but unable to verify or know itself if it is correct. But, lot of people don’t realize that because the less they know about a subject matter the smarter it will seem to them not knowing its well…a language model. As in just outputting what can be complete gibberish.
- Comment on Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub 2 days ago:
When I tried it on my switch, gyro was broken when playing with a controller with no way to turn it off. So if emulator doesn’t have bugs then it’d be better for that reason too.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 days ago:
I haven’t kept up, since the exclusives I wanted to play worked on the low firmware and new ones stopped coming out and later ones like Ghost of Tsushima endsd up coming to PC.
Last I remember is higher ones than mine requiring a usb stick.
I guess higher firmware requiring bluray now isn’t any more strange than the RCM jig method on older Nintendo Switches.
- Comment on Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub 2 days ago:
I think the Bayonetta games are really fun and closer to the old school God of War trilogy than the new God of War games. Its a fun hack and slash that you can button mash your way through, but is a lot more fun if at the very least you learn how to dodge offset. www.youtube.com/watch?v=subkGpouSeo
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 2 days ago:
You seem to be taking your position based on how you’d like to see ID verification implementand using that as an argument for it. While I see your argument and it doesn’t make sense because it doesn’t reflect the reality of how governments or corporationare using it.
It’s like you just assume governments and corporations will do what you hope and making statements off that. Its like you think you are the supreme ruler or something where they are going to be guided by your vision.
That’s the impression I’m getting from what I’ve read. Since you have failed to convince me that what you wish will happen will be to the benefit you hope it will be.
- Comment on Xbox Project Helix may cost $1,200 with massive performance upgrades 2 days ago:
Is this locked down hardware that is priced like a PC or a PC with a console/PC OS that can be reinstalled with another OS?
Because if its locked down then for PC gaming I don’t see the appeal of paying PC prices for a neutered PC that won’t let me install another OS. And for console gaming I don’t see the appeal of paying PC hardware prices to play games.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 days ago:
Why disc? Been few years since I used my PS4, but I remember jailbreaking it as long as you are on the correct firmware was as simple as caching a website offline and bookmarking it to run the exploit whenever you turned on the PS4.
- Comment on We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened 2 days ago:
It seems crazy to me for journalists to trust machine/AI translated articles enough to use as a source in their own articles.
I’ve always seen them as things to treat as unreliable, but something to use when there’s no other options available and to get a gist of what it might be about.
If using them as citation I’d need a native speaker to confirm content before being confident enough to include it if I were a journalist.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 2 days ago:
The US government asked for subpoenas of users from reddit, discord, etc. You really trust that ID verification is being pushed is to help combat misinformation campaigns? Have you looked at the tech bros that were right next to the US president and all the stock manipulation and financial deals being done? A billionaire created their own private agency with doge with zero consequences.
You seem to be operating on the logic of completely ignoring what is going on in the world to still believe any of these changes are for the good of the people as opposed to control. And to be asking for it when you see who is in charge of the US is really wild.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 3 days ago:
Yep, I have a T480s and been happy with it. My next laptop upgrade will be a T14 amd variant.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 3 days ago:
When something used to not be required shifts to now being asked of by even nonessential sites to more easily link to an actual ID I’m not as open to just handing it over as you are.
Your line of thinking falls along the lines of people who chose to verify with discord, so nothing is really an issue to you. So trying to convince people like me to fall into your line of thinking is going to take more effort.
Palantir is a corporation and independent entity after all. And non profit isn’t some bullet proof protection.
- Comment on Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong? AI is teaching teenagers about love now. 3 days ago:
I don’t understand either. Part of it is because I grew up playing games so the fascade of intelligenc and self awareness fell apart for me quickly.
You’d think newer generations would be less fooled by it, but maybe it is due to a shift from story driven games to more live service sandboxes that led to less encounters with NPCs and their scripted conversations.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 4 days ago:
So being able to get a token without even the government knowing?
Because if it’s the alternative of the government itself issuing the token and it being only the receiving site not knowing, but the government being able to link it back to you I wouldn’t be happy with that either.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 4 days ago:
Age verification if intent was to make it not tied to real ID would be a system where you could go into any store and buy a card you can scratch off for a code to put in.
But, governments want to track and get rid of anonymous accounts. They don’t actually care about age requirements. They want a 1984 type control of citizens to know what they are thinking or at the very least scare off people from expressing thoughts like politicians should be held accountable for fear of current or future consequences from a government that may decide it is treasonous.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 4 days ago:
You need to trust your government or trust it to not turn evil to be willing to see them take on the task of knowing every single online account you use. And hope whoever comes into power doesn’t find comments you made in a past a threat that it wasn’t before. Like something as benign as the belief politicians should be held accountable could be flagged as treasonous for daring to question the government’s credibility.
Which is the real goal of online verification. Police citizens and eventually kill off or curb sharing of thoughts and ideas for fear of current or future retaliation depending on who comes into power. Automated flagging of potential abnormals based on profiles generated from linked citizen online accounts is the end game.
The idea that this would help stop malicious foreign actors itself seems like yet another false belief that this type of system would be used for the good of citizens as opposed to tracking and move towards Big Brother.
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 5 days ago:
Yeah, Sony is baffled why the people willing to wait over 2 years for the game to come to PC are choosing to wait some more to get it cheaper instead of buying it at full price.
Then scratch their heads when Helldivers 2 releases at the same time as the PS5 and PC outsells the PS5
Helldivers 2 has sold 12 million copies on Steam alone, while PlayStation 5 sales are estimated at 5 million units.
tech4gamers.com/helldivers-2-sold-more-on-pc-than…
And Sony’s response is to continue to delay for years before releasing to PC expecting PC gamers to have the same enthusiasm for a release years later as they would a day 1 launch.
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 5 days ago:
I also had the 10 exclusive too for consoles, which is why I got the PS3 and PS4 Pro. PS5 doesn’t meet it because they blew it on their live service attempts and it is crazy Naughty Dog has released nothing new that isn’t a remake this gen.
I don’t think I’ll get another Sony console again even if they never port to PC except for jailbroken ones going forward.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 5 days ago:
Yep, and used in this case is much better than the new cheap laptops with crappy specs.
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 5 days ago:
Better to get a used Thinkpad with how well those hold up being over thousand dollars, but get discounted steeply to hundreds with companies offloading them once warranty is up. Can get actual nice Ryzen CPUs and have a proper storage.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 1 week ago:
Another scary thing is Palantir who’d be all for the push for verification with them positioning themselves to make money off of it, and wanting to be responsible for collecting data on everyone. They already turned out to be a partner of Discord through Persona.
They’ve already pushed for government contracts even in Europe. And with how things look like with the US government how much confidence is there in the US government.
I’m not sure government involvement will lead to the type of outcome people think it will.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 1 week ago:
It isn’t always that simple. It could lead to age verification requirements which might be the goal as opposed to banning loot boxes. Then what has people upset about discord wanting face scans or IDs could end up becoming a legal requirement for online gaming accounts that want to play games rated T and higher.
And this age verification thing has been getting pushed throughout the world with attempts at chat control in the EU and what’s already happened in the UK.