Vodulas
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- Comment on Organic Maps fork CoMaps launches on major app stores for iOS and Android 9 hours ago:
I use magic earth, and it is inaccurate with traffic most of the time. Still, it is accurate sometimes, and most of the time I just need the turn by turn because I already know where there will be traffic on most days.
- Comment on Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads? 5 days ago:
You could get a phone mount for a PS controller. Just a warning though, my phone was way heavier than my Dualsense controller, so it was not comfortable to play lying down. Another benefit of using the Playstation controller is you can stream your Playstation games.
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 1 week ago:
Oh, copyright is for sure fucked, but until we have UBI it is about all we have to potentially protect small artists
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 1 week ago:
That is true, and they may have been doing to cover their asses, but I would bet they did the destructive method because it was faster or cheaper (or both). We will probably never know the minutia of that decision though
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 1 week ago:
I would hazard a guess that the eBook did not exist for the physical books they bought. Still, that doesn’t excuse their actions, nor the bigger issues with training LLMs
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 1 week ago:
Totally fair.
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 1 week ago:
Paper is a natural resource, and this literally just wasted a fuck ton. There are non-destructive scanning methods.
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 1 week ago:
The books were destroyed because duplicating a work without permission is illegal
It is not illegal if you don’t distribute, which the judge ruled meant this was fair use. They destroyed the books as part of the digitizing project because it is likely faster and cheaper than non-destructive methods.
but destroying the original means that there is only one copy in the end still.
That is not how this works at all. As long as you aren’t distributing, you are well within your rights to make copies of a book you purchase.
- Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models 1 week ago:
people got really upset with them throwing away books that had multiple reprintings and were in awful condition.
That is not what is going on here, though. They bought millions of dollars of new books in order to train AI and used destructive scanning instead of non-destructive methods. It is a huge waste of resources. They could have used a non-destructive method then donated the books. But like everything involved in current AI, they chose the most wasteful method
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 22nd 1 week ago:
Oh, don’t retract it. It is a bad way to indicate the solution since it requires the Foyer and to have finished the grid message accurately. IMO anything that can be foiled by RNG is a bad way to do it.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 1 week ago:
lol, true. That is a rounding error though
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 1 week ago:
It is only “hit” if you mean hit by a police car or bullet. There is zero accountability
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 1 week ago:
Still very US centric, but guns are incredibly easy to get here. I live in a “progressive” state and I don’t even have to take a single class to get one, or get a concealed carry permit
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 22nd 1 week ago:
Oh, I know that one. Infuriating
Grid message spoiler
The hint is the count’s last name is Gates, and the grid says to count small gates, so only the little statues count.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 1 week ago:
But an article about how guns are used and that they exist is not the same as selling them. I can see the argument that you should not even report on them because it makes them more popular, but at least in the US, guns are pretty permeated through society
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 1 week ago:
A. No, this is an article talking about the tool. B. Cops are public figures. Name and badge number are public information. Hence why the first sentence in the article states it uses public records. It does not give their address and phone number. It is not doxxing
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 22nd 1 week ago:
I’m right there with ya on Blue Prince. The late game seems more like tricks than actual puzzles. That being said, it also makes it so I feel less bad about looking things up.
- Comment on Another Dumb Electrical Code Change Could Ban DIY EV Charger Installs 1 week ago:
Oh for sure that too. Also that was a great video.
- Comment on Another Dumb Electrical Code Change Could Ban DIY EV Charger Installs 1 week ago:
On the other hand, browsing ev charging forums reveals one melted socket after another
Often this is due to using portable chargers that someone is frequently plugging/unplugging in a socket designed for appliances that stay plugged in. You can’t cheap out on the 14-50 socket and sadly people often do
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I have a 2080 and have been running Pop_OS as my only OS for about 6 months now. It has been incredibly solid. I have also heard Bazzite is good, but have only tried it on an old MacBook with dual GPUs. It did not do great there, but I think that is an issue with the laptop, not bazzite
- Comment on How Relooted, A Game About Reclaiming African Artifacts From Western Museums, Ended Up Being Shown By A White Guy At Summer Game Fest 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t dirty laundry, this is current events. This event happened last week.
If you are referring to the game, the article calls out the US and UK, but the game description itself just says western, which probably means several locations. But even if it is just the US and UK, who cares? The US and UK have a fuckton of dirty laundry that is still being aired out, and this South African dev has the right to address concerns with those two countries that have had direct harm to their culture
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, getting angry over someone appealing to fascists is just tribalism. My bad
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN 3 weeks ago:
You mean in 2017 like the article pointed out. And maybe there should have been backlash for it. It was a shitty thing to do then, and an even worse thing to do now
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN 3 weeks ago:
Shit take. There is a difference between seeing something out on the street and choosing not to support a developer because of their shitty behavior
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN 3 weeks ago:
The political implications were the point though. Or do you think he had no idea what he was doing? The “We didn’t know it would be taken as a political statement” BS is just damage control
- Comment on Some people defended Ars Technica in my previous post, here is a proof about how Ars Technica parent company secretly manipulate Reddit for their own benefit. 4 weeks ago:
lol, fair, but I thought it was a smaller part of your post and figured that if it was coming from someone who did not have a dog in the fight it might hammer it home
- Comment on Some people defended Ars Technica in my previous post, here is a proof about how Ars Technica parent company secretly manipulate Reddit for their own benefit. 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much everyone here knows Reddit and Conde Nast are bad for a multitude of reasons, but that does not mean the journalists at Ars are bad at their jobs. They also have nothing to do with any alleged anti-not Conde Nast bias of Reddit mods (I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, but the evidence you posted here is a lot of nothing). People can do good work at shitty companies, and a lot of shitty companies don’t have a hand in day to day operations in companies. Hell, in the US, that is becoming the rule and not the exception. Again, I am not saying Conde Nast doesn’t necessarily have a thumb on the scales at Ars, but you have provided no evidence of that.
And once again, even if we take everything you say as true, the fact remains that the journalists at Ars have absolutely nothing to do with Reddit. The heads of Conde Nast might, and for sure read articles from their outlets with a critical eye, but those are two different things.
Finally, bringing your problems with Reddit to a completely different platform is just silly, especially on Lemmy, and especially especially to Beehaw. If you want to have a bitchfest, that is fine. This just isn’t the place to do it.
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 4 weeks ago:
It is super tough to get more than a ballpark for sure. The 1.4 million players from average daily players over the past year. 30 million is the all time peak, I believe.
As far as how much Epic/Disney is willing to spend, that is another grey area. Do they consider this marketing? Do they consider this a test bed for AI generated actors for shows and movies? The motivation and how much they are willing to spend is even more opaque than the energy use numbers
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, I said “no” because it is clearly not just 6 year olds playing fortnite and interacting with the bots, but did not elaborate at all. Brain fart on my part
If the number of video cards running Fortnite weren’t cause for worry 3 years ago, why would this use of AI be concerning today?
Because it has the potential to be way worse, but it depends heavily on actual energy usage, which we don’t have in this case. What we do have is estimates on ChatGPT, and the estimates are pretty bad
web.archive.org/…/energy-ai-use-electricity-water…
We can only speculate, but if 100 words of text takes .14kWh we can assume 100 words of voice production is worse.
And maybe if the novelty does not stick it is not something to be concerned about, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be asking about the energy cost
- Comment on Epic’s AI Darth Vader tech is about to be all over Fortnite 4 weeks ago:
No, my point is one player on a single video card is going to interact with the bots multiple times to try and get it to say something funny (or racist as real life played out). That takes more than a single interaction