irotsoma

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC to rescind ruling that said ISPs are required to secure their networks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That goes for most industries. No need to protect your reputation or be ethical in a monopoly or even really in a duopoly. End-stage capitalism consolidation at its finest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it is a similar intent to a warrant canary, though more active. What they should have done is make sure all of the data is stored in their country if it’s that sensitive or use only products that allow full encryption and don’t store much metadata. There are ways to do these things if you aren’t lazy and actually hire an experienced architect (I’m one for example).

  This was definitely much more of a legal overstep with explicit intent to subvert court orders than a warrant canary, though, and this unethical in it’s implementation if only questionable in its intent. However, the fact that the secretive orders exist in the first place and are not done just in cases where lives or true national security are at stake and only for limited amounts of time before being disclosed or something like that as most were originally intended outside of nations with fascist-leaning administrations like the US, China, India, etc., is the real issue and the reason for both this and warrant canaries to be necessary even if it wasn’t a fascist leaning administration doing it for possibly malicious reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d hope so considering the current administration is friendly with multiple people they have charged and issued warrants for such things as crimes against humanity and genocide. And the US has access to Microsoft data which likely includes all documents stored in any Office cloud products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean probably true, but that shouldn’t stop them from being liable if ordinary individuals are liable for the same actions. Sure, punish your employees, but if a parent is responsible to pay for a child’s pirating then an employer should be just as responsible for paying for an employee’s pirating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but this will not require any people to add content since it’s all stollen and simply manipulated which is easier to automate than producing original content which AI can’t be trusted not to hallucinate about quite yet. The idea is to then get the search engine AIs to point there as much as possible as it will likely be optimized for AI scraping rather than human browsing. Then since the AI results are prioritized more and more, they can get their truthiness to be what people see over actual reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, the only thing the old analog 625-line resolutions looked OK on were things like my small bedroom TV in the 90s (though the refresh rates are major improvements in some media). The smaller living room TVs look way better with 720p and regular sized modern living room TVs are significantly better at 1080p. (Note that 4:3 ratio TVs had smaller advertised inch sizes than similarly sized 16:9 ratio TVs since they’re measured diagonally so I’ll avoid using actual sizes since they aren’t comparable.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the physical size of the screen. Which is why mostly only wealthy people with 90-inch+ screens really have ever cared about 8K. 4K is a noticeable improvement on a 60 or 70 inch screen, but the extra cost of content isn’t anywhere near being worth it for most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a good way to impersonate and use the reputation of someone who’s active on other platforms. Just like the “verified” stuff mostly just means you paid, not that your identity was verified which is always confusing people who aren’t careful, often used/confused by right-wing “news”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but this will make it much easier and using much better algorithms to make it more realistic because OpenAI will start profiting off of it and devoting resources to it which they have way more of than the existing systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s going to be a disaster. It’s going to overly reinforce toxic sex understanding due to lack of sexual education. Most porn already does that, but is limited by what a human body can actually perform. AI will be able to make what is essentially sexual torture look like it’s what someone should normally expect sex to be like and make it look like the recipient is enjoying it…among many other issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI couldn't create an image of a woman like me - until now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite living with one arm, Jess doesn’t see herself as disabled, saying the barriers she faces are societal.

  Actually, this is what disability is all about. It’s not that people can’t complete tasks or take care of themselves, it’s that society doesn’t provide the same tools to disabled people that they provide to so called “able bodied” people to allow them to complete those tasks.

  It’s the trope of the single grocery store that everyone goes to, but the person in a wheelchair, but otherwise able, can’t use because there’s a curb. So, suddenly they can’t feed themselves. It’s not that they are unable to feed themselves, it’s that they can’t access the food without assistance and thus are “disabled”. As soon as a ramp is installed they are no longer “disabled”, just differently abled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why industry-standard labels for AI in music could change how we listen: "new industry standard for AI disclosures in music credits"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the way to the world of “Carole and Tuesday” where all music is composed by AI and owned by big corporations, so it becomes nearly impossible for a small artist to enter the market. And that show didn’t even really cover how now literally every chord that is pleasant to human ears can be not only copyrighted, but they’ll know exactly what dongs and how to sue every single independent artist for copyright infringement and it will be totally legal if not very ethical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All valuable data should be backed up off site in “cold storage” type places. It’s not that expensive compared to the production storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been used as an excuse to lay off people, but not the real reason. They were looking at ways to short term boost stock prices since stock buy backs caused their stock prices to increase, but that boost is fading, they needed another artificial boost to profit to maintain those stock prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean that applies yo a lot large corporations. They’ve mostly stopped innovating and started cutting costs in order to squeeze out some money from the company before it dies. And I’m sure she knows that. It’s likely that she’s there specifically to destroy the remainder of the company. After all, true information is bad for fascism. Gotta keep the people in a constant state of poverty and lack of services, and then blame all of that on some other small, vulnerable group, so their followers will stay distracted and one-issue voters will vote for things that are bad for them as long as were torturing ,murdering, and/or deporting the people they think are the cause of their problems rather than the ones they voted for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When they absorbed their only real competition and instead of using their advantages, just got rid of them, I knew it was the end of good subs and dubs very soon. I don’t want literal translations I’m subs without explanations or AI voiced dubs with poor acting ability or plain monotonous speech like they used to be a few decades ago. I want people to be there translating more than just j individual words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strava sues Garmin over alleged patent infringement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably just to try to make Garmin’s product less useful in the short term while the case drags out. Or as a way to get Garmin to acquire them. Strava basically seems to have bought up some competitors that were failing and they have been on the way downhill. So at this stage usually these companies start cost cutting and using any means necessary to increase their perceived value for sale. This gives Garmin an incentive to buy them as that would end the lawsuit and they’d then acquire some additional defensive patents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strava sues Garmin over alleged patent infringement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, software patents in the US especially, have become a way for companies to either kill competition, or make buying up ridiculous patents and suing for infringement their primary source of income.

  Primary issue is the patent office has few officers that are technical enough to understand the overlap of the specific industry and software. So, they tend to just allow anything, especially from larger companies that they’re told to assume have the expertise if they don’t since their load is too large to have time to learn new stuff and truly research if something is obvious or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  X is a right-wing propaganda platform now. Bluesky is not a good alternative though. It’s just as controlled and toxic as X was just before Elan bought it and will eventually become what X is now when a major corporation or rich person decides to grab it or it goes public. The federation functionality is just for show and marketing. I wish people would stop just jumping when platforms become truly horrible and then jumping to something that will be made as horrible very easily after it becomes popular enough.