recked_wralph
@recked_wralph@lemmy.world
- Comment on <3 <3 <3 1 week ago:
No
- Comment on Dear Faith VIII 1 week ago:
Thanks I figured that out lol. But still, why comment it here? 🙃
- Comment on Dear Faith VIII 1 week ago:
There’s a watermark on the page of a TikTok account… “heiress_ke”. Seems like a Kenyan account.
I suspect those are bots pulling in context from that username somehow?
Or folks who get off on providing zero context for their musings, who can say
- Comment on Dear Faith VIII 1 week ago:
Where do you see this in the post?
- Comment on Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators 1 week ago:
I know that bandwidth isn’t hardly the finite resource that it used to be, but I still can’t get over how amazingly wasteful it is to continuously stream live video halfway around the world just so you can… ask your glasses to describe what’s in front of you?
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
1000%
And TIL the phrase “violent agreement” 😆
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
Yeah I agree. And while the onus of that implementation is on developers to comply with the law, there is still negative impact on end users by creating those barriers.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
It isn’t mandating you affirm you’re older than 18. It’s asking explicitly for your age or your birthday.
While the API then would take that data to transmit your age bracket to other systems.
This might not be drastically burdensome on an individual workstation, I’ll stand corrected on that. And it’s not disclosing your actual birthdate to anyone either (though I still feel like it should be my choice whether or not to store that information on my personal device).
In either case, we started with this “affirm your age” kind of law on various kinds of restricted websites (pornography and alcohol) and it’s easy to just lie. So now that is now morphing into more invasive age verification strategies.
I view this law as easily circumvented theater that has the aside effect of being a slippery slope toward more aggressive anti-privacy systems in the future.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
Im not sure I understand your point about this law being for developers not users.
The fines may only be applied to operating system developers for failing to implement these systems… but having those systems at all still drastically impacts end users in a negative way.
- Comment on China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine 1 week ago:
Not once we get fusion reactors up and running, then we’ll be drowning in that sweet sweet helium-4
- Comment on Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN 5 weeks ago:
We all hate Trump but I’m pretty sure tech industry patents have been fucked for a while.
Like… Apple and Samsung sued each other over rounded corners nearly 10 years ago.
The system has been and remains broken was the point I was trying to make with my rhetorical question.
- Comment on Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN 5 weeks ago:
Disgust aside, how is this fucking patentable??
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 3 months ago:
I think the issue is that saying “sex is indeed binary” despite the presence of anomalies/mutations (no matter how uncommon) is in direct contradiction to the chemistry analogy being presented.
If you’re going to stand firm that “sex is indeed binary” you’re (in the context of this thread) also saying “chemical elements are binary just with some quirky occasional variations out there”
Which might statistically be the case across the entire universe… but also highly oversimplifies the wonders of the natural world. And maybe it’s pedantic but, binary can’t be simultaneously interpreted as both “exactly two states” and “well, mostly two states”. You gotta pick one, at which point the former is more correct.
So no I don’t think there’s negative connotation either just… a lack of connecting the dots with the analogy in the meme.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 3 months ago:
they exist. they’re real. they’re just not the majority. and that’s ok. they don’t have to be.
Exactly. Just like all of the other non-hydrogen and non-helium atoms in the universe.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 4 months ago:
I bet if they solicit crowd funding to replace this grant they’d easily surpass its dollar value.
Is there an existing way to donate to the Python Foundation?
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 4 months ago:
Certainly intersecting to have an algorithm that is extremely lossy (near totally) for the majority of inputs but lossless for some weird edge cases.
- Comment on OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT 4 months ago:
That’s a great point and well articulated! Let’s see if we can expand on this together
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 5 months ago:
What do you think AI voices were trained off of?
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 5 months ago:
15 years. 15 years. She got one of your kids got you for 15 years