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- Submitted 2 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on do you think more reddit users will move to lemmy eventually? 2 days ago:
I certainly hope so. I hope eventually federated discussion groups become the default way for the general public to communicate about any topic that interests them.
But with how governments around the world are going after the Internet, especially the parts of it that aren’t profitable… I just hope some good parts of it survive at all. :(
- Comment on Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ? 4 days ago:
The question is confusing, what exactly do you mean by “directly from online”? Just click a button in a web browser and it will install the entire distro? If so, pretty sure the answer is no; if you imagine something else, please clarify.
- Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phoneswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 13 comments
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 6 days ago:
When western governments don’t give a fuck about human rights anymore, they have no standing to criticize China over it.
I would expand this idea further… since all governments occasionally violate human rights, they shouldn’t be very much in the business of calling out human rights violations by other governments. That should mainly be the role of citizens or private organizations, not governments.
- Comment on What does the word data mean per se ? 1 week ago:
The etymology is that a “datum” (the plural of which is data) is something that is “given”.
So data is information that has been given.
In computers, data (information) is stored in bits (zeroes and ones). Eight bits are a byte, a billion bytes are a gigabyte, so the plan you describe allows you to download (or transmit overall?) 281000000000 = 16000000000 ones or zeroes that are used to encode data for computers (which they will decode into text, images, videos, whatever).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s the same for me honestly. Reading fiction isn’t enjoyable for me most of the time, though reading nonfiction (ie learning about the world) absolutely is.
I remember this being somewhat different in my childhood, and my hypothesis is that the fact we got somewhat uninteresting fiction reading assignments in school killed my interest in it.
It’s not screens vs books because I have tried reading fiction on my phone or tablet too, no difference.
- Comment on How do you explain protocol to a 5 year old ? 1 week ago:
It is a computer. Computer is a very general term.
- Submitted 1 week ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 4 comments
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- Comment on However you say it, youre wrong. 2 weeks ago:
Jes, kaj mi supozas, ke tiu chi parto de la fadeno estas nun proprajho de la Universala Esperanto-Asocio.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I fail to see the relevance because both AI companies and other Internet users certainly sometimes (arguably) infringe copyrights held by rich people and sometimes those held by poor people.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
People don’t like that generative AI is based on stolen content.
Long before AI, people on the Internet were fairly likely to dislike copyright and correctly insist that copying is not theft.
How the times have changed.
- Stop Killing Games Gets Its First American Legislative Effort Out Of Committee in Californiawww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
More generally I think this astralcodexten.com/…/moderation-is-different-from… is a good way to think about things like this.
- Comment on 5 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 5 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? 5 weeks ago:
I
use Archspeak Esperanto btw - Comment on What if programmers rewrote the English language? 5 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? 5 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.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on 5 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