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- Comment on Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package 1 week ago:
Firefox lets you change your search provider, and it works on both PCs and Android.
- Comment on Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases 1 week ago:
Yes, the Russian government is probably happy to share these images with the Iranian government, but my understanding is that the military units who are firing missiles are acting independently after our decapitation strike took out the Supreme Leader, which was the one to whom they had pledged their allegiance. (There is a moral here: taking out the leader does not necessarily get rid of the organization, it just means you no longer have a single person you can negotiate with to in order to get it to back down.) Thus, the people firing missiles might not actually be able to benefit from images provided by the Russian government.
- Comment on Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases 2 weeks ago:
The incredibly selective quote makes it sound like the imagery is being held indefinitely, but according to the article it is only being held for 4 days before becoming publicly available as normal. Furthermore, the hold does not apply to imagery inside Iran.
To quote more from the article:
“In response to the conflict in the Middle East, Planet is implementing temporary restrictions on data access within specific areas of the affected region,” Planet said in a statement emailed to Ars. “Effective immediately, all new imagery collected over the Gulf States, Iraq, Kuwait, and adjacent conflict zones will be subject to a mandatory 96-hour delay before it is made available in our archive.”
Imagery over Iran will remain available as soon as it is acquired, the company said. “This change applies to all users except authorized government users who maintain immediate access for mission-critical operations.”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
A secret underground space program!
- Comment on Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI 2 weeks ago:
Hey, maybe Musk is even right that this will lead to the death of xAI; I do not see a downside in this.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 weeks ago:
In fairness, at some point we all have to learn the hard way that no amount of evidence will convince some people to change their mind about their deeply held beliefs.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 weeks ago:
I like my moons like I like my plans: in concept form only.
- Comment on How we are brought into this world 2 weeks ago:
Of course it is accurate—the baby just opens the door at the front of the demon and steps out, easy-peasy!
(Honestly, the hard part is getting the baby back in afterward!)
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 2 weeks ago:
I agree, that is a better way of putting it.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 2 weeks ago:
Actually, he completely admitted to and took full responsibility for his mistake; at no point did he offer an excuse, only an explanation.
To the extent I was defending him, it was because people insisted on painting him in the worst possible light, and on misinterpreting his explanation as an excuse, not because I think that everything that he did was okay.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 2 weeks ago:
I agree that these things do not excuse his actions, but there was a tendency in that thread to paint him in the worst possible light, which I felt was uncalled for.
I am said to have seen him be fired from Ars because I think there were mitigating circumstances—it is troubling that he felt the need to work while sick!—but on the other hand, given how badly he violated the trust placed in him, it is hard to see how Ars could have made any other choice.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 2 weeks ago:
I did not downvote you—my instance does not allow or show downvotes, which is really nice!—but he was sick, and he did make a mistake, and him being fired does not make either of those things false.
Also, a ton of people were piling on him in that thread, so you had plenty of company in calling him to be fired.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 2 weeks ago:
I was the one who wrote that comment, and it was not an attempt to excuse all of his actions but a response to the following comment:
Someone deserves to be fired. Just imagine you’re paying someone to do a job and they just 100% completely outsource it to a machine in 5 seconds and then goes home.
Here is the full comment that I wrote, including the part you snipped off at the end:
He wrote the article himself, he just got mixed up when experimenting with using an AI tool to help him extract quotes from a blog entry. (He is the head AI writer, so learning about these tools is his job.) It was nonetheless his failure to check the quotes he was copying from his note to make sure that he got them right… but an important bit of context is that he had COVID while doing all this. Now, arguably he should have taken sick time off instead of trying to work through it (as he admits), but this would have cost him vacation time, and the fact that he even was forced into making this choice is a systemic problem that is not being sufficiently acknowledged.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
!politicalmemes@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If only there were a community dedicated to political memes where people could post this kind of thing… maybe a community named something like !politicalmemes@lemmy.world ?
- Comment on A modest proposal 2 weeks ago:
Is this community no longer going to be about posting shitposts? Because if I want political posts then I can get that from the many politics communities that already exist, or by reading newspapers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If this community is just going to be about blatantly political posts from now on rather than shitposts, then I don’t really have a need to be subscribed to it since I can already get that from the politics communities that already exist, on top of reading newspapers.
- Comment on ..? 2 weeks ago:
Just to be clear, are you calling for all communities to become politics communities, so that there are no spaces about anything else?
- Comment on ..? 2 weeks ago:
Lovely rhetoric there, but I regularly read newspapers, so I am “avoiding” nothing. It is just nice to have spaces which are about something other than politics.
- Comment on ..? 2 weeks ago:
All communities become politics communities over time…
- Comment on bold words 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, I am already my own worst enemy!
- Comment on bold words 2 weeks ago:
Quick! You must—
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 3 weeks ago:
Only Congress can change the name of the Department of Defense, and not only has it not passed any legislation to do so, but the most National Defense Authorization Act, which was passed after Trump’s executive order, only mentions the “Department of Defense” and never the “Department of War”.
So, no, there is not officially a Department of War, there continues to only officially be a Department of Defense.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 3 weeks ago:
I would.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 3 weeks ago:
The fact that the Trump administration can create web sites saying whatever it pleases does not make the name change legitimate.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there are all sorts of ways in which standing up to the administration is hard, but calling something by its actual name should be a relatively easy thing to do!
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 3 weeks ago:
I am a simple man: I see a fascist attempt to impose his will on the rest of us, I oppose it.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 3 weeks ago:
In fact, for this reason DOGE was not a brand new department but the result of Trump taking over the United States Digital Service, hollowing it out, and turning the shell into the United States DOGE Service. This was a tragedy because the USDS was doing genuinely useful work by bringing in people from the industry to use their experience to improve the incredibly crappy government digital services that exist. I was fortunate enough to see a talk by one of the founding people of the USDS (before it had official existence), and it was inspiring hearing how much of a difference he was able to make and how it made a real impact on the lives of veterans who were dependent on the service that was collapsing.
Additionally, this was also a tragedy because other departments had essentially been gradually coaxed into granting the USDS access to their data so that USDS could make improvements to their systems, which DOGE immediately took advantage of to get direct access to all of this data after it took over the USDS.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 3 weeks ago:
Be that as it may, its name is the Department of Defense, and Trump does not have the legal authority to change that name. Calling it the Department of War, like calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, is a form of giving in to the administration. That is what I am objecting to.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 3 weeks ago:
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