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- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 25 minutes ago:
The other side is that the mass layoffs of the last year mean that there are plenty of experienced people to hire over new grads. I can’t imagine any company right now taking on the cost and risk of training up entry level folks when they can hire a 10+ yr senior in that position for the same or a little more than the entry level cost.
- Comment on OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ 34 minutes ago:
“Polly want a cracker” has been around since before anyone alive today was born, and that’s the same thing as what LLMs are doing, in essence, but no one was taking advice from parrots.
- Comment on OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ 2 days ago:
It’s a sad reflection of our current state when being able to string together coherent sentences is impressive enough to many as to be confused with truth.
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 3 days ago:
They’ve been a Murdoch-influenced cesspool politically for years now, this is par for the course for them; just more social control by the government under the guide of protecting kids.
Gotta stop kids from learning about the wider world until they’ve had their worldview shaped to their regressive government’s liking.
- Comment on Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content 6 days ago:
Literally all the time.
Every major piece of tech in use by police domestically was built originally for military use. Every large police department in the US operates fixed-wing surveillance drones, stingrays/imsi-catchers, camera-based tracking systems, etc. All but the smallest departments receive tons of milsurp vehicles, weapons, and gear. Night vision and thermal imaging systems were military tech, and now they’re standard for police. CS gas was military gear (until it was banned under the Geneva Convention), and now it’s used exclusively by police.
- Comment on Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material | RPS 1 week ago:
In the US, that is often true, but Australian Christian conservatism doesn’t have the same pro-gun culture as the US.
- Comment on Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content 1 week ago:
Weapons, but especially digital weapons, will always be turned upon their subordinate populace if it suits the oligarchy
- Comment on Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content 1 week ago:
Capitalism will never accept that privacy is the free market voting with it’s wallet, because capitalism is actually not pro-free market
- Comment on Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material | RPS 1 week ago:
This group in particular (Collective Shout) is Australian, and they’re anti-gun, it’s just not a key part of their advocacy. They have claimed that GTA is responsible for mass shootings.
- Comment on Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says 1 week ago:
ARS technica is not asserting that themselves, that’s the argument that Strike3 is making. Strike3 and other porn companies attack non-professional porn on these grounds as well, to try to kill their competition.
- Comment on Sony sues Tencent over Horizon Zero Dawn ‘rip-off’ 1 week ago:
Sony doesn’t own Konami or MGS at all, as far as I know?
- Comment on Sony sues Tencent over Horizon Zero Dawn ‘rip-off’ 1 week ago:
co-op, base-building, and mech combat
ah yes, just like Horizon Zero Dawn.
Or is it just the ‘humans fighting giant machines’ part that they’re likening to
Shadow of the ColossusMetal Gear SolidHorizon Zero Dawn? - Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 1 week ago:
You mean, like this app?
Founder Sean Cook launched Tea after witnessing his mother’s terrifying experience with online dating
- Comment on The Hype is the Product 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how much this is purely about shareholder primacy, and how much it’s about short-term investors being very dominant in the market, and executive compensation being tied to short-term performance, colliding?
If minimum holding times for a stock position were implemented (e.g. can’t sell for 2 years), or if executives were compensated based on e.g. 10 year performance of the company, I feel like this cycle of acquisitions and layoffs and trend/hype-humping would die quickly.
- Comment on AI Won't Solve Your Existential Crisis (And That's Perfectly Fine) 2 weeks ago:
LLMs, sure.
Neural Networks in general though are massively useful, and NNs being trained for e.g. medical diagnostics or scientific research are miniscule in their energy footprints compared to LLMs, can be incredibly accurate (even beyond people), and open up tons of avenues for research that the extant budgets just couldn’t support.
- Comment on AI Won't Solve Your Existential Crisis (And That's Perfectly Fine) 2 weeks ago:
People need to understand the difference between LLMs and Neural Networks.
LLM training is a massive energy hog that gives us nothing but the illusion of coherent human-made text.
Non-LLM Neural Networks are much broader in use, almost always massively less energy-intensive to train, and often incredibly accurate when finely-tuned for specific purposes.
LLMs can die in a fire, and nothing would be lost. NNs in general are incredibly useful and honestly a massive source of potential for bettering healthcare (and science research in general) globally.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan | 404 Media 2 weeks ago:
The reaction by skeevy guys to this is literally proving the need for an app that does this.
Sadly, the presence of selfies and IDs being stored rather than immediately discarded upon verification, is also why we can’t really ever trust tech companies to make this app.
- Comment on The Promised LAN 2 weeks ago:
Yep, the issue for me isn’t the technical aspect, it’s more convincing any friends to actually do this too. I’ve set up a bunch of different services over the years for my friends and family, and no one uses them for very long. My dad actually asked me to set up an rPi jellyfin server inside his home network rather than use the one I host remotely. :/
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- Comment on WhoFi: Unique 'fingerprint' based on Wi-Fi interactions 2 weeks ago:
I think they mean it’s similar to a one-way hash in that you can verify that the interference ‘fingerprint’ of someone when you see that pattern again, but you can’t identify a person from only the interference data, so for instance you could have a database of targets to locate, and share their wifi fingerprints with various other agencies to monitor for, without actually sharing their name, image, etc.
Obviously surveillance as a general concept is inimical to privacy, irrespective of how it’s done.
- Comment on Waypoint Writers Quit Over Removal Of Articles Related To New Steam Policy [Update] - Aftermath 2 weeks ago:
It goes well beyond the principle.
If this sticks, expect every conservative group in the US to start trying this. Pressure Visa/ MC/ PayPal not to accept charges from Planned Parenthood, or from LGBT-friendly bars, or from book publishers they don’t like, etc. This is just censorship by other means.
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
Haha, yeah I realized the start of my post was based on a misread. :P
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
“crashes into” as though this wasn’t the intent from the start…
- Comment on Travel reporter accuses Hyatt of $500 smoking fee scam 3 weeks ago:
Chargeback time! I would 1000% make them take this to court, and they’d lose.
- Comment on Internet regulation is entering its hall pass era 3 weeks ago:
Realistically, it’s all about who has jurisdiction over you, and who will assist the people with jurisdiction over you. I use countries that are less than chummy with the US for my VPN exit nodes, because they’re far less likely to issue any subpoenas or comply with data requests from US companies.
Just as I suspect that e.g. Canada may be less likely to assist China in unmasking internet users, and thus be safer for Chinese users as a VPN exit node, the inverse is also true.
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media 3 weeks ago:
Most concerts don’t have jumbotrons, though, and a jumbotron at a sporting event that is highlighting fans who are dressed in team colors is very different than just focusing on random people. There’s a lot of ink that’s been spilled on the creepiness of “kiss cams”.
It can be both wrong to cheat, and also wrong for us as a society to act as though being outside your home is consent for people to take videos of you as a subject. We should all have the right to exist without being someone else’s entertainment or content.
Was it dumb for them to be there together? Yeah, though mostly because it’s dumb to cheat.
I am not sure how much this incident has to do with facial recognition or media surveillance.
I think this situation is a horrifying lens into just how much surveillance and social media sharing of strangers people are accepting of.
You say, “you can reasonably expect hundreds of cameras owned by both individuals and the venue” as though there’s nothing wrong with just recording everyone that is in public. Incidentally catching someone in a crowd is one thing, but zooming in on and singling people out is another. I don’t think it’s a particularly long leap to get from your quote to, “it’s reasonable for police cameras to see you and know where you are if you’re out in public”.
- Comment on Internet regulation is entering its hall pass era 3 weeks ago:
I fully expect that just as citizens in China have had to VPN into other countries and use those countries’ services to avoid their government’s censorship, we’re going to start seeing the US and UK users doing this as well.
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad someone is saying this, because frankly this whole situation is nasty as shit.
Are cheaters bad? Yes. Should people have informed the spouses? Yes. But that’s not why people are posting memes about this non-stop, this is just schadenfreude.
There reasons beyond cheating why 2 people may not want to be broadcast to the world as a couple. If this was 2 men, we’d all understand the problems with this, but social media is not going to allow us the nuance to differentiate; social media’s desire to play righteous sleuth for its own entertainment and ego is not a good thing, and we can’t make it only do good.
Is no one even considering whether their spouses want this level of attention, rather than the entire Internet deciding to make it national news for a week?
- Comment on Nintendo’s Zelda movie has found its princess and hero of time [Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan] 3 weeks ago:
Is this a criticism of the quote, or a response to it?
Once again, you’re not actually just stating your issue, and your responses are ambiguous enough that they could be interpreted either as an objection to people treating Hunter Schafer in a way that you perceive as negative, or an objection to Hunter Schafer.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 3 weeks ago:
Again, the issue is this is an American company setting American content policy internationally.
That is not the issue. That may be the subset of the issue that you have a problem with, but the actual issue is a payment provider setting purchase restrictions period. That it is happening in the US is not uniquely bad; it would be equally bad happening anywhere else.
Storefronts and brands can set up local branches and sell through those using the local digital payment provider without getting in trouble with their headquarter’d country.
To set up and sell in that country, they then have to comply with the local payment providers. Which shouldn’t be deciding whether people can purchase something.
Censorship that happens via companies unilaterally acting on what they believe to be the government’s wishes is still censorship.