Dojan
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- Comment on Musk threatens 'immediate' legal action against Apple over alleged antitrust violations 2 hours ago:
And maybe apple isn’t promoting Grok because they don’t want to promote mechahitler and it’s deepfake Taylor Swift nudes…
I hate Apple, but this would be an entirely reasonable stance.
- Comment on HBO Max’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Will Start in Earnest in September 1 day ago:
I actually agree with HBO. Password sharing isn’t great because it means that you’re giving them money. It’s time to get started with file sharing instead.
- Comment on Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice? 3 days ago:
This is how I ended up with an orchidectomy of my sixth distal phalange. :(
- Comment on More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org 3 days ago:
Seems a bit like a waste of storage space.
- Comment on California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries 3 days ago:
May? That already sounds like it’s illegal.
- Comment on Same pimple for a year 4 days ago:
For me it’s because I like it and that makes me feel good. I don’t really care what others think.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 6 days ago:
Without it, people living in sparsely populated areas would effectively have their unique needs unmet.
Why? That’s why you have different tiers of government. Parliament shouldn’t have to worry about the state of the water in a particular municipality, that’s a local government issue. Similarly, the state sets the budget for healthcare, but the regions allocate those resources based on the needs of the municipalities.
- Comment on AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn 1 week ago:
LLMs are not effective therapists, because they’re not therapists. They cannot treat anyone.
- Comment on AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn 1 week ago:
Honestly, attempting something impossible might be a better use of one’s time than feeding into the AI hysteria. LLMs don’t think, they don’t know, or understand. They just match patterns, and that’s the one thing they’re good for.
If you need human connection, you won’t get that with an LLM. If you need a therapist, you certainly won’t get that with an LLM.
- Comment on AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn 1 week ago:
If all you need is a chat, then go find someone flesh and blood to talk to.
- Comment on AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn 1 week ago:
Quite effective at what? Because it certainly isn’t therapy.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 1 week ago:
Evil people doing evil things because they’re evil. They want more than they have any right to and are willing to throw everyone else under the bus.
- Comment on German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software 1 week ago:
I can’t help but laugh at the names they’ve chosen. They know that they’re the bad guys and embrace it.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 1 week ago:
Authoritarianism, duh. It’s a global thing.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 1 week ago:
I am in favour of this proposal.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 1 week ago:
She was the founding director of Women’s Forum Australia, […] It also promotes a trans-exclusionary ideology and campaigns against transgender rights.
Right so assuming she’s not Lesbian she’s going to be anti-LGBTQ+, and if she somehow is Lesbian, she’s going to be anti-BTQ+.
- Comment on Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears 2 weeks ago:
This is how I feel. I’m not really okay with the money I pay getting used to develop ML and crypto BS.
- Comment on introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server 2 weeks ago:
I bumped into copyparty the other month when looking for a software that could let me transfer files to a friend with the ability to pause/resume. Didn’t bother with it, tried another software instead. Never really got it to work so I gave up on it.
Bumped into the YouTube video today, decided to give copyparty a shot, damn sir you’ve written a fine piece of software. It’s so easy to get up and configure. The UI is a bit janky, but charming at the same time. Thanks for all the hard work!
- Comment on On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists 2 weeks ago:
I dont think you understand how many mentally unstable people out there are using LLMs as therapists.
I do understand. I know there are people out there thinking that LLMs are literally Jesus returning. But in that case, write about that.
There are a lot more reasonable critiques of LLMs to be had.
- Comment on Mole or cancer? The algorithm that gets one in three melanomas wrong and erases patients with dark skin 2 weeks ago:
Don’t assume evil when stupidity
I didn’t, though? I think that perhaps you missed the “I don’t think necessarily that people who perpetuate this problem are doing so out of malice” part.
Scream racism all you want but you’re cheapening the meaning of the word and you’re not doing anyone a favor.
Darker patches on darker skin are harder to detect, just as facial features in the dark, on dark skin are garder to detect because there is literally less light to work with
Computers don’t see things the way we do. That’s why steganography can be imperceptible to the human eye, and why adversarial examples work when the differences cannot be seen by humans.
If a model is struggling at doing its job it’s because the data is bad, be it the input data, or the training data. Historically one significant contributor has been that the datasets aren’t particularly diverse, and white men end up as the default. It’s why all the “AI” companies popped in “ethnically ambiguous” and other words into their prompts to coax their image generators into generating people that weren’t white, and subsequently why these image generators gave us ethnically ambigaus memes and German nazi soldiers that were black.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, absolutely. There are no good options for a truly libre web, unfortunately. :(
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s a compounding issue, primarily of Google products just kind of being the “default.”
Google pays to be the primary search engine in Firefox, on iOS, and sets themselves as the default on their operating systems. They, wherever possible also set their browser as default. Yes, Chromium is open source, but they have the ultimate final say, and no one seems to have the interest in forking it. This puts Google in a similar position that Microsoft was in in the 90s and early 00s, where they can essentially hijack the web and force their ideas through whether others want to or not.
We saw this with Google forcing Manifest v3, all Chromium-based browsers essentially just had to follow suit. That was just Manifest v3 however, who’s to say what else they’ll do?
Then there’s my tinfoil hat worry that Google essentially being the window to the web for so many people, on an OS, browser, and discoverability level is just overall a cause for worry. That’s not even considering their communications and media platforms.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 weeks ago:
Just don’t use Chromium unless you for some reason absolutely have to. Mozilla is just another corporation, but they’re not exactly threatening to monopolise the internet. Google is, and using Chromium directly aids in their effort to do so.
- Comment on Introducing Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential | Proton 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I swapped over to Proton in my degoogling process sometime in April last year. Not thrilled about their crypto/AI/Trumpy BS since.
- Comment on Introducing Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential | Proton 2 weeks ago:
Proton keeps doing the wrong things. Ugh.
- Comment on Meta snubs the EU’s voluntary AI guidelines 3 weeks ago:
PleasedontadaptandGTFOinsteadpleasedontadaptjustGTFOpleasepleasejustGTFOrotinhell.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 3 weeks ago:
I use Mullvad’s VPN and DNS on a router level. Every device on my network is blanketed by it. Some services don’t work, but I am willing to sacrifice their profits for my integrity. Thus, to them I say 然らば fuckmothers.
- Comment on TIL about Fedi-Search, an open sourced frontend to easily search the Fediverse with a lot of mainstream engines 3 weeks ago:
Wow. It even supports Kagi. That’s neat!
- Comment on LibreOffice calls out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users 3 weeks ago:
I remember working with a library called HSSF to read excel files some years ago. It’s an acronym meaning Horrible SpreadSheet Format.
I echo the devs sentiment.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 3 weeks ago:
They did! I’m curious about the overlap between retro-gaming enthusiasts and fascists though. Do fascists really care about art and its preservation?