Hirom
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- Comment on ‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected 6 days ago:
They are loosing billions… of investor money.
This may include people investing in index funds, now that Musk’s Space/AI company is publicly listed. Maybe a piece of people’s pension fund as well, if NVIDIA’s wish comes true. fortune.com/…/nvidia-wants-your-pension-fund-in-t…
The layman with money in index or pension fund probably don’t intend to invest in AI, but here we are.
- Comment on Burnham to consider ban on disposable barbecues as wildfires rage in UK 6 days ago:
Who came up with that terrible idea!?
- Comment on Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment 1 week ago:
Give the list of every children enrolled at school. Everyone is at risk of unemployment if governments keep focus on people being at fault for being unemployed, rather than ensuring proper conditions and training are available to avoid unemployment.
- Comment on Skill Issue 😓 2 weeks ago:
“If you need extra hire, a friend is looking for a job, I could get you in touch”
- Comment on Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie. 3 weeks ago:
It might be possible to fool it.
More important, it’s normalizing use of facial recognition in everyday situations. This is a very invasive tech and prime for abuse by increasingly autoratarian governments.
- Comment on Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch 4 weeks ago:
I guess developers working on AWS are increasingly vibe coding.
Or maybe the invoive are accurate, and LLMs continue to increase memory and hosing cost for everyone.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 2 months ago:
But who knows
Apparently not the public. Lack of transparency makes it hard for citizens and lawmakers to make informed policy decisions.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 2 months ago:
Thanks for the background, I’m not familiar with UK’s regulation on telcos.
I stand corrected, this isn’t like wiretap as the article mention Communication Data (CD) is metadata rather than content. It’s still very intrusive as it show who is talking to who, when, and possibily where (location is metadata).
The scale is still surprising, what kind of crime is London police investigating at a scale of 700k (or even 100k) a year ? It still beaches privacy so it should be proportional. It make sense to make access to metadata a bit easier than metadata+content. That’s food for thought for citizens and lawmakers.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 2 months ago:
Requesting communications data from an ISP isn’t any of those things though.
What do you mean? It’s not a wiretap? Not about serious crime? Not an abuse of police power? None of the above?
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 2 months ago:
Where the warrant comes in is if you need to search a house and seize things.
A warrant is absolutely proportional for accessing private communications or searching private devices.
Privacy is a human right. It must be protected even if it’s not absolute. Having a judge approuve the equivalent of a wiretap is the right thing to do.
Abuse and disproportionate breach of privacy would certainly grind to a halt. It’s worth bothering a judge to wiretap a crime suspects, nor for minor offense or to harrass activists.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 2 months ago:
The ability for police to request information is not controversial for crimes and online threats, given independant oversight, ideally a judge auhorizing a warrant.
What’s controversial is the scale, which suggest this power may be abuser and/or used disproportionately.
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- Comment on Windows BitLocker 0-Day Vulnerability Enables Access to Encrypted Drives 2 months ago:
Windows is a toy OS, good enough to play video games. But many confused people think it’s okay to use for critical or sensitive operations.
- Comment on New Mexico proposes $3.7bn fine for Meta and sweeping changes to its social platforms 3 months ago:
They’re requesting mostly wrong solutions for real problems.
Age verification doesn’t address social media’s problems, but does increase data collection and decrease privacy. Same for decrypting private messages.
A guardian account does seem reasonable.
They could also completely turn off user seach for minors, so they would have to add contacts by username or email, and couldn’t reach or be reached easily by online strangers.
- Comment on Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated 3 months ago:
And I guess engineers would be held responsible for the code produced by the AI agent’s they’re pressured to use.
So they can blame and fire more engineers when things go wrong.
- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Tighten Rate Limits 3 months ago:
Good. This may result the amount of sloppy code. And prevent prices from increading for everyone.
- Comment on Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day 4 months ago:
Oracle needs a good dose of adversarial interoperability.
- Comment on A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta 4 months ago:
That’s a good way to reprennent LLMs. Very bad and very prolific consultants.
- Comment on A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta 4 months ago:
It shows LLM can do significant harm without the capabilities if an AGI.
- Comment on A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta 4 months ago:
According to Clayton, the AI agent involved didn’t take any technical action itself, beyond posting inaccurate technical advice, something a human could have also done.
Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tons, at scale.
If it were an employee it would get a formal blame, and then demoted or fired as it continues.
- Comment on NHS ordered to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm 4 months ago:
This undermine trust in the health care system. Some may be more reluctant to go to the hospital.
- Comment on Great Tits 4 months ago:
Source?
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 5 months ago:
Using an ultrasonic dog trainer in public may piss off dogs, and other domesticated or wild animals in the vicinity. I woudln’t recommend this, except maybe as a last resort on rare occasions.
Kindly ask the person to use a headphone or earpiece may be more effective in many case.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power 5 months ago:
The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it. And we will be subject to their rule of law.…
Quick, undermine democratic values and rule of law before someone else does!
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 5 months ago:
I seached the answer online to better understand the meme, and that’s one of the first results.
Sorry if that’s AI generated, I didn’t searched for AI generated answer and didn’t ask ChatGPT, this is sadly what seach results looks nowadays.
Will gladly edit the top comment if you can suggest a better article.
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- Comment on A new homelessness law in Wales is being called 'world-leading' 5 months ago:
Putting less restriction on social workers seems like a step in the right direction.
The Welsh government isn’t the only one in Europe focusing on tweaking rules and on reorganisations, rather than putting resources where most needed.
Let’s hope there’s more to come to make housing more afforable, eg better regulation of airbnb-style rentals, making housing less attractive to speculators but more accessible to residents.
- Comment on Hail our new robot overlords! Amazon warehouse tour offers glimpse of future 6 months ago:
Yes, this is fuck.
I doubt a sane society would seek to replace as many jobs as possible with automation as a goal, ie intentionally. Making this a goa’ mean trying to remove humans and unions out of the equations.
A sane society may seek to decrease workplace injuries and be more efficient, ie wasting less resources while producing stuff. That coule involved better workplace conditions, better product design, and potentially automation. Automation may incidentally replace some tasks, even though it’s not the end goal.
- Comment on Epstein files photos appear to show Andrew on all fours over female 6 months ago:
BBC publishes a photo yet appears unable to describe photo with confidence, inserts “appears to” into headline.