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- Comment on How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant 1 week ago:
Your internet traffic is already encrypted in transit, that what the “s” in https means.
A VPN does exactly two things: Hides your traffic from your ISP (but shows it to the VPN provider instead) and masks your IP and physical location.
Everything else is advertising and marketing gimmicks
- Comment on Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown 1 week ago:
Those aren’t visa workers genius, those are outsourced foreign workers
- Comment on Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses 1 week ago:
They teach literal children to not judge a book by it’s cover, but I guess you must’ve been out sick that day in kindergarden…
- Comment on Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown 1 week ago:
Visa workers aren’t replacing American workers, they supplements them.
Countless studies have shown that immigrant labour is a boon to the economy, and immigrants statistically create demand for more jobs than they take.
Foreign workers are also a massive boon to tax income. Some other country spend 18 years paying for their income less childhood and education, and then they leave that country, and start paying taxes in America.
- Comment on How do we know that the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle is preserved across radius sizes? 1 week ago:
Because circle all have the same proportions. You can take any circle, and just evenly make it bigger or smaller to make it perfectly overlap with any other circle.
The ratios of shapes only ever change if their proportions change. That’s why every single square also always has the same ratio between it’s side and diagonal (√2).
And the ratio of a rectangles side to it’s diagonal will always be the same, regardless of size, as long as the aspect ratio is the same.
- Comment on Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown 1 week ago:
Ah yes. “Come work for us, also you never get to on holiday or visit your family ever again” is sure to be a big draw for foreign workers.
Trump sure knows what’s good for the economy…
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 week ago:
I’m not a fan of gen AI either, but this feels like taking it a bit far. Getting pissed over them using gen AI for placeholder art, that was then replaced by human art in the release feels utterly ridiculous.
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 2 weeks ago:
Click bait is anything that is designed to bait people into clicking a link. Virtually every headline and content title on the internet is click bait to some level.
Malicious click bait is when headlines either outright lie, or imply things that aren’t accurate to the content.
The phrasing of this title implies that the creation of a privacy tool is what the creator got arrested for, which is in fact inaccurate to the content, as the reason wasn’t creating the tool, the reason was using the tool for money laundering.
So imo it’s 100% fair to call this title malicious clickbait
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 2 weeks ago:
The title is click bait because it falsely implies that the privacy part of the tool is why the creator is being penalised, rather than the money laundering part.
It’s a bit like writing a headline about a drunk driver killing a family of four and making the headline “He bought a red car. Now he’s going to jail”
- Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 2 weeks ago:
It happened once, to one aircraft, and it’s solvable with a software update.
You’re more likely to be struck by lightning the next time you leave your house than to run into this problem on a flight, and that was before the software update.
- Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 2 weeks ago:
A bit IS represented by one or zero. A bit can take the state of charged or not charged. That’s what a bit physically is. In low level code, those states are represented by binary numbers.
Or do you think there’s a actual physical numbers 0 and 1 floating around in your RAM ?
- Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 2 weeks ago:
Read that sentence again. They didn’t say bits represent 0s and 1s, they said bits are represented BY 0s and 1s, which is entirely correct.
Physicsly speaking, in a modern silicon based PC, bits are the presence or absence of electrons in an electron well. That presence or absence is often represented by binary numbers, because it makes the math easy, though it can also be represented in other ways, such as “HI” and “LO”.
The statement from the article is entirely correct.
- Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t a scientific journal or news paper. It’s a main stream article by the BBC, intended to be consumed, and understood, by people who have zero knowledge of how computers, bits or binary numbers work, so I really don’t see the issue here.
- Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 2 weeks ago:
It’s not going to be become a major problem. We have radiation hardened computing hardware, and ways to deal with single event effects, we’ve in fact got a lot of practice doing these things, because guess what: Satellites also need working computing hardware, and they’re exposed to orders of magnitude more radiation than aircraft.
Manufacturers will just have to start taking it into consideration more in the future, and ensure that the flight computers have redundant ECC memory.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 3 weeks ago:
To address your two points, where did people get the idea that the word porn implies artistic merit or consent?
I didn’t say merit (or consent, though I assume that one’s a typo), I said artistic intent. Which every creative work by definition has.
There is nothing ethically wrong with porn in a vacuum, so categorising CSAM as a category of something that isn’t inherently ethically wrong in my opinion makes it a bad term. CSAM should clearly and strictly be delineated from consensual porn.
CP can stand for a lot of things but it’s common parlance now. CSAM just causes confusion.
Ah yes. The Acronym with MORE common definitions somehow causes less confusion. That makes perfect sense. Of course. That explains why so many people in this thread were confused by it. Oh no wait. They weren’t.
Also really? Now you’re stooping to the old “why so mad bro?”. You’re the one having a meltdown, I’m wasting time at work by sharing an opinion.
You’re the one who got upset enough about me using a common abbreviation, that no one in the thread was remotely confused by, to kick off this entire shit. You decided you needed to pedantically comment on this. I’m simply defending myself from your pedantic grammar nazi shit.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 3 weeks ago:
I’m not comparing you to Ben Shapiro, I’m comparing your grammar nazi pedantism to a single specific instance of someone else’s grammar nazi pedantism.
I also gave several explicit reasons why using CP over CSAM is idiotic, not just “my friends say so”
But hey, if you want to be like that sure.
You’re right, everyone else is wrong, you do you and keep using CP instead of CSAM, and keep getting irrationally upset and angry at people who think CSAM is a better term. Happy now ?
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 3 weeks ago:
Big “Ben Shapiro ranting about renewable energies because of the first law of thermodynamics” energy right here.
The majority of people can be wrong.
No they can’t, not with regards to linguistics. Words and language, by definition, and convention of every serious linguist in the world, mean what the majority of people think them to mean. That’s how language works.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 3 weeks ago:
Also, the data set wasn’t hosted, created, or explicitly used by Google in any way.
It was a common data set used in academic papers on training nudity detectors.
Did you seriously just read the headline, guess what happened, and are now arguing based on that guess that I, who actually read the article, am wrong about it’s content ? Because that’s sure what it feels like reading your comments…
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 3 weeks ago:
So you didn’t read my comment did you ?
He got banned because Google’s automated monitoring system, entirely correctly, detected that the content he unzipped contained CSAM. It wasn’t even a manual decision to ban him.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 3 weeks ago:
Material can be anything. It can be images, videos theoretically even audio recordings.
Images is a relevant and sensible distinction. And judging by the downvotes you’re collecting, the majority of people disagree with you.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 3 weeks ago:
Which of the letters in CSAM stand for images then ?
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 3 weeks ago:
They didn’t get mad. Did you even read my comment ?
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 3 weeks ago:
The article headline is wildly misleading, bordering on just a straight up lie.
Google didn’t ban the developer for reporting the material, they didn’t even know he reported it, because he did so anonymously, and to a child protection org, not Google.
Google’s automatic tools, correctly, flagged the CSAM when he unzipped the data and subsequently nuked his account.
Google’s only failure here was to not unban on his first or second appeal. And whilst that is absolutely a big failure on Google’s part, I find it very understandable that the appeals team generally speaking won’t accept “I didn’t know the folder I uploaded contained CSAM” as a valid ban appeal reason.
It’s also kind of insane how this article somehow makes a bigger deal out of this devolper being temporarily banned by Google, than it does of the fact that hundreds of CSAM images were freely available online and openly sharable by anyone, and to anyone, for god knows how long.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 3 weeks ago:
They reacted to the presence of CSAM. It had nothing whatsoever to do with it being contained in an AI training dataset, as the comment I originally replied to seeks to think.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 3 weeks ago:
They didn’t react to anything. The automated system (correctly) flagged and banned the account for CSAM, and as usual, the manual ban appeal sucked ass and didn’t do what it’s supposed to do. This is barely news worthy. The real headline should be about how hundreds of CSAM images were freely available and sharable from this data set.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 3 weeks ago:
Did you even read the article ? The dude reported it anonymously, to a child protection org, not google, and his account was nuked as soon as he unzipped the data, because the content was automatically flagged.
Google didn’t even know he reported this.
- Comment on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman 3 weeks ago:
Has this dude never heard of the tobacco, alcohol or gun Industry ?
He’s talking about commercial heroin like it’s some outlandish and unthinkable idea that a harmful thing would become a billion dollar industry
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 3 weeks ago:
Who is the target audience for that ? Who the fuck even neds instructions to verify a damn email address, much less a whole ass youtube video ?
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 4 weeks ago:
Because fat and sugar are drugs. People don’t usually think of them like drugs, because of the widely accepted, but very wrong, attitude that only illegal substances can be drugs. Sugar, fat, caffeine, alcohol or tobacco are all drugs. They all trigger a desirable chemical reaction in your brain, and all have addictive potential. At least 2 or 3 of them are also significantly more harmful to you several types of actually illegal drugs.
And in general, though perhaps most strongly for drugs, many people suffer from the cognitive bias of “illegal=bad & legal=good. Automatically and by default”
- Comment on Insulin 4 weeks ago:
That logic applies identically to an existing patent. For the issues you mention, there is no distinction between the patent being filed at the PTO and still valid, or being filled at the PTO and disclaimed. In terms of the enforcibility, and patentability of a ““new”” inventions with prior art, there is no legal distinction whatsoever between the prior art being a disclaimed and valid patent, so I don’t think that’s a valid reason to not disclaim it.