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- Comment on Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google AI overviews; Similar command phrases, including "ignore," "quit," "skip," and "stop,"; "look" and "forget" are also prompting chatbot-like responses. 1 day ago:
IRC prank from the 2000s: if you type
/quit playing games with my heartyou’ll hear a cool pop song.2020s: if you type
quitinto Google it will understand this as an AI prompt. - Comment on Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google AI overviews; Similar command phrases, including "ignore," "quit," "skip," and "stop,"; "look" and "forget" are also prompting chatbot-like responses. 1 day ago:
It just has more of the web in its index than competitors do, so there are good practical reasons on occasion.
- Comment on How come people get fined for breaking the law and it goes to the state or county? Why doesn't the fine go to the victim or victims? Instead of having to pay restitution just fine them. 3 days ago:
In many cases it’s both.
Most western legal systems work in this way: there are two separate domains of law: criminal law and civil law. Explained in a very simplified way:
Criminal law is about people having done wrong things to society as a whole. Prosecuting crimes is the job of the state (prosecutor) and not (usually) of the victim. People who do things that are defined as crimes may be imprisoned, or they may be fined (forced to pay money to the state). There are also crimes that do not directly have victims, but you can still be fined or imprisoned for committing them. Most offenses against traffic law are like that, e.g. who is the victim of someone driving too fast…?
Civil law is about how people treat each other. More specifically, tort law is about people doing wrong things to each other. If a person has harmed another person (even if it wasn’t a criminal offense, which may have higher standards of proof or intention), the victim can sue the offender in a civil court in order to collect damages. But that requires the victim taking action; neither you nor the state can usually take civil action against someone who didn’t harm you, only someone else.
In some legal systems it’s possible that those things can be combined to some extent, for example someone convicted of a crime may also be ordered to pay damages to the victim at the same time. In others they are completely separate.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 4 days ago:
I was thinking of geizhals.at which is usually where I go first when I need to buy anything online. Sometimes Amazon is the cheapest option, and then I buy from Amazon, but many times something else is!
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 4 days ago:
Amazon’s monopoly has made it so hard to find alternative online stores to buy a lot of stuff
Where in the world do you live? Don’t you have price comparison websites with a lot of different online stores? We do for my country.
- UK’s Education Committee: Social media ban a must to save children’s mental healthwww.theregister.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
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- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 5 days ago:
I think most children aren’t very interested in most art that isn’t made specifically for children.
Science meanwhile, there are a lot of ways to make that interesting to many children, with interactive elements and such.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 1 week ago:
More generally I think this astralcodexten.com/…/moderation-is-different-from… is a good way to think about things like this.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Well, ok, if all OP wanted to know is what a copyright license is:
By default, copyright law in most countries prohibits anyone except the author or other copyright holder from distributing creative works, including software, even in modified form. There are a few exceptions to this, but this is the general rule.
A license is a document that the copyright holder agreed to that grants someone permission to do so anyway.
In the context of open source, such a license needs to meet certain conditions to be considered open source. Among other things it needs to allow anyone (not just specific licensees) to distribute the software for any purpose, even in modified form.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The sub is called “no stupid questions”, not “completely unclear questions”. I genuinely have no idea what you want to know. 🤨
- Comment on What if programmers rewrote the English language? 2 weeks ago:
I
use Archspeak Esperanto btw - Comment on What if programmers rewrote the English language? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, of course I’m talking about spoken language. Of course if English were written in kanji we would need fewer characters to express the same information, but it wouldn’t change the spoken language at all.
(I remember learning the following graphical user interface design rule: switch your application to Spanish or Portuguese to check whether UI messages still fit in the boxes you’ve put them in. Spanish and Portuguese are the common languages that need the most characters per unit of information.)
- Comment on What if programmers rewrote the English language? 2 weeks ago:
There already are plenty of conlangs (constructed languages). The main thing that differentiates them from natural languages is the fact that their grammar generally doesn’t have any exceptions (irregular verbs or nouns). It would be possible to create such a language based on the grammar and vocabulary of English.
The only conlang I’m proficient in is Esperanto, which definitely works very well for practical communication. One cool feature about Esperanto is the system of prefixes and suffixes that acts as a vocabulary shortcut, for example the word for “cold” is just “un-warm” (varma / malvarma), or the word for “school” is just “learning-place” (lerni / lernejo). The language you’re imagining would likely also consist of words like “unwarm” and “learnery”.
Meanwhile I don’t think the length of (root) words needs to be especially short. Studies have found that all languages transmit information at approximately the same rate, which is why Spanish with its relatively long words seems to be spoken so fast. Human brain capacity is a limiting factor for things like that.
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- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Entering “artificial intelligence” in my instance’s community search gave me a few like: !ai_@lemmy.world !machinelearning@lemmy.world !gai@sopuli.xyz !artificialintelligence@lemmy.sdf.org !Aii@programming.dev !artificial_intelligence@lemmy.world
There is also one in German: !kintelligenz@feddit.org
- Comment on Banning from social media 4 weeks ago:
We shouldn’t do either nor do we need to. Billionaire-owned social media can continue to exist if people want it. The important thing is that there must be alternatives to it.
And the result of literally any new government regulation of “social media” (I still don’t like that term, but if everyone is using it, so am I) at all, including but not limited to age verification, is to make that harder.
- Comment on Banning from social media 4 weeks ago:
because they made friends through social media and have no other communication channels with those friends?
- Comment on Banning from social media 4 weeks ago:
That is the central problem with all of this.
Oh, you want the government to regulate “social media”, like requiring age verification and such things? Because you are noticing young people being “addicted” (what you mean is having a habit, or hobby, that you don’t like) to TikTok or Instagram or what?
OK, have fun without wikis, public git repos, public tech support forums that aren’t financially able to comply with any of these regulations. What do you mean that’s not what you meant! You said social media, social media is any website that allows the general public to publish information and read information published on it, so clearly that’s exactly what you meant!
This www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence needs to be widely remembered again, and quickly before it’s too late to undo the damage.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 4 weeks ago:
holy shit not Canada too >:(
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 4 weeks ago:
The point of democratic elections is, in my mind, to somewhat tame the natural tendency of government to work against the interest of the people. We still need to remember that even a democratic government isn’t the same thing as the people themselves (who for the most part want to live a life where they can do what they like as long as they aren’t harming anyone else), and has its own interests that may be quite different from that of the people… it’s better than a dictatorship, no doubt!
We currently have a very good example of this: a lot of governments around the world are currently passing laws requiring age verification on social media. Did the people ever ask for this? Is it in the interest of the people to have that? Is it harmful to anyone if young people are using social media? No: it’s in the interest of governments to be able to identify people posting on the Internet, it’s in the interest of governments if there aren’t too many different social media sites operating so that they have an easier time monitoring what’s going on on them… it is, I guess, also in the interest of governments that young people aren’t having too much fun and don’t hear too many diverse voices so that school is the main source of information for them and they don’t get distracted too much? Nobody can tell me that any government that’s doing this is acting in the interest of the general population, especially not the ones affected!
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 4 weeks ago:
Lula was championed for not being Bolsonaro
At least Bolsonaro didn’t break the Internet with an “online safety” law that includes age verification. So much for authoritarianism being a trait of conservatism…
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 4 weeks ago:
The countries that were ruled as single-party states by communist parties in the 20th century, including those that survive until today, called themselves “socialist” and called the goal they were supposedly working towards “communism”.
Of course all of this ideology was always nonsense. The liberal revolutions of the centuries before that were all about taking power away from the (monarchical/aristocratic) government in order to establish a society in which the government was elected by, and served, the people, and there were no longer any formally defined classes and all inequalities that remained were about income and property, which were (at least ideally) possible to overcome through one’s own achievements… why did communists ever think that the next step after that might be to once again establish a powerful government that serves as the only (or only major) employer, that’s a movement precisely in the other direction, not the natural next step…
So as much as communists may mock the idea that “socialism is when the government does stuff, the more stuff it does the more socialist it is, and when the government does everything it’s communism”, I think that (while very simplified) is certainly a more accurate description of things than what communists claim their movement is about. Government and people are never going to have the same interests and it’s generally a good thing to take power away from the government and let the people handle things through free association; it’s a bad thing to do it the opposite.
- Comment on Is it possible to not know who a famous person is? 4 weeks ago:
At some point in your life, you didn’t know who any famous people were.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 4 weeks ago:
Probably not a lot. I remember 2009 well enough that if the events of that year are any indication, the next US president will just get a Nobel Peace Price for the achievement of not being Donald Trump.
- Comment on Even if we found a feasible way through physics to travel through time, wouldn't it still be impossible due to the evolution of bacteria and our immune systems? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, I mean that is basically what everyone was joking about during the pandemic… “Marty, whatever happens, do not EVER travel to 2020 or 2021”…
- Comment on How do I drink more water? 4 weeks ago:
What I do (assuming I am at home all day) is a cycle of this:
- before going to bed, put a fresh full glass of water beside my bed
- after waking up, first thing I do is drink from it
- most likely I will now need to pee, so do that, and after washing hands, immediately refill my glass
- drink from that glass of water throughout the day when I am even slightly thirsty
- usually when I have finished a glass of water, I need to pee again; if that happens, again refill my glass after doing so
- if I’ve finished a glass of water but do not need to pee, I usually refill it with another drink (e.g. fruit juice) instead
- keep that cycle of refilling after using the toilet going
If I’m spending my day at the office, the first thing I do after arriving is grab a glass of water, but otherwise, same cycle.
- Comment on Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted? 4 weeks ago:
Of course, there are many countries in the world with not much history of engaging in conflict at all. Many of them are very small or located in places that have no strategic or economic value to anyone.
The first country I thought of is Liechtenstein.
- Comment on Why will a cop arrest you if your in a ridable mower going down the street drunk? How is that a DWI when while you may be drunk you will not hurt anyone? 4 weeks ago:
You may be thinking of xkcd.com/1720/ but it’s not the exact same thing.
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 4 weeks ago:
not what the article says, the article specifically says:
The age-verification process will be implemented globally,