ranandtoldthat

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GPT 1 and 2 were both more open than later releases. However I’m not sure any are fully FOSS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just a standard prompt hack. This will always exist with llms. They don’t have any real understanding of language so safety protocols can’t actually ban topics, only sets of words and phrases.

  There was an extensive set of prompts working toward elder abuse before the result in question.

  My guess is that the redditor who discovered it disguised it to look like homework and reproduced the hack, and added the “brother” to create more authentic rage bait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 'bias machine': Undecided voters in the US who turn to Google may see dramatically different views of the world – even when they're asking the exact same question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but this issue is not one we should want Google solving. We need better media literacy education throughout life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was trying out passkeys, things allowed either passkey or password still. But yes, I think this need partially reduces the security benefit of passkeys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just answered in a different comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just answered in a reply to a different comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a combination of issues. First is compatibility issues. Like logging in on mobile web or app with a passkey doesn’t reliably work for me. It might have been due to the password manager, but for some things the option wasn’t even there afaict. If I’m going to really switch to passkeys, I want it to work more reliably.

  The second is usability. Passwords in a password manager are a 2 click entry on the username or password form field. Password managers have streamlined this system over the past decade.

  Passkeys, ironically, required more steps when pulling from the password manager, including required clicks in less convenient places. I hope these types of issues get ironed out eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use a password manager with passkey support mi still disabled all my passkeys. The user experience for passkeys is so much worse even when support exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to consider USB-C as charging standard • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pea mushers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than a dozen states in the US have sued TikTok, accusing the social media platform of helping to drive a mental health crisis among teenagers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The effect (purpose?) of moral panics is to maintain the status quo, scapegoating age old problems as new because there’s a new aspect.

  Anyone focusing on social media or phones as the main problem kids and teens are facing today is part of the problem, whether or not it’s intentional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PoE 2, lets goo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Grim Dawn has a new expansion coming next year too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Albion can’t be copyrighted’ - Peter Molyneux explains how his new game is set in the same world as Fable [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Godus had real promise, I played the early release. Absolutely never delivered on what it promised, implicitly or explicitly, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This piece was written by a highly-regarded scifi author a year and a half ago. I say that not to complain about the age but rather to marvel at the authors ability to describe so well something that is only becoming clear to many a year and half later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  BBQ sauce works with pineapple pizza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Activity Pub is much more flexible, the tradeoff being that it’s more complex. ActivityPub is basically a flexible CRUD API specifically designed for social networking, with support for federation.

  You could fulfill the purpose of RSS with ActivityPub. But, it doesn’t supercede RSS/atom, because the simplicity is valuable for the cases those protocols handle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open world games, need recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not precisely open world but has the same feeling of exploration, discovery and unlocking, Supraland. Harder puzzles, unlock things that make combat easier. Combat is pretty similar to botw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is another sign of what’s already going on. It’s getting into backlash territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the mid aughts every time Google updated their ranking, and results shuffled it was called the “Google dance”. We sorely need a major Google dance.