fonix232
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- Comment on Literally though 5 hours ago:
Plagiarism should only ever be counted for explicitly unique sentences that provide actual value.
It's actually an ongoing debate in software engineering, due to licensing, as to what you can consider "stolen code" - i.e. plagiarism.
In fact things went as far as to some companies employing AI-aided automatic cease-and-desist deliveries on GitHub, but the system was so badly configured, it detected even the most basic logic bits as license infringement. Things that are standardised in software development - like, for example, for loops, that happened to have generic parameter names (e.g if you were to create a graphic subsystem for displaying Views, whatever the primary implementation may be, you'd iterate through all views with a for loop, making it a generic call such as
for(val view in views) { [do something here] }).Well this AI aided detector was so brilliant that it detected such minute coincidences of codebases as legitimate violations (as if any company could copyright generics), and sent these spurious C&Ds to dozens of git repos. What's even worse is that the initial company's codebase used some open source libraries that were directly attacked... for being 100% copies of their own codebase.
IMO as long as the code/sentence isn't a provably unique statement, plagiarism shouldn't apply. A whole paragraph having 80%+ similarity to something unique? Now that's worrying enough to investigate.
- Comment on My Religion 1 day ago:
Given they're all made up... at this point we're better off making up a religion that enforces actually good behaviour like taking vaccines and not bothering people with different sexualities/gender identities/etc.
- Comment on I think it's really neat! 1 day ago:
- Comment on Shut up science!! 3 days ago:
Source: I pulled it out of me unwashed arse
- Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 3 days ago:
Of course it ain't real users.
Reddit has had a major bot problem a decade ago and little has been done to mitigate it - beyond banning legitimate users who dared to be too loud about it.
I've moderated a relatively small sub, and pretty much for every legitimate post a day, you'd get 6 to 10 bot posts literally pulling an older post verbatim word for word, or maybe introducing a typo just to make detection harder...
Reddit's response to the issue? "Hey, why don't you pay us ~$25 a month just so you can continue using that open source automatic bot detection system we refuse to build into the site itself?".
- Comment on Truth in advertising 3 days ago:
If this was a unique instance of a potential Nazi dogwhistle I'd say let's give them the benefit of the doubt, and consider it a mistake. After all, who of us has never ever fat-fingered some typing and accidentally pressed a letter twice?
But the thing is, this is like, the hundredth Nazi dogwhistle around the orange turdsack to happen "accidentally" in the past few years. From the MyPillow 14.88 pricing, Kegbreath's very obvious negative space 88 tattoo, to multiple people close to the admin just randomly throwing Nazi salutes, etc., and that's not even counting the literal Nazi marches waving Nazi and MAGA flags together...
- Comment on Questions about EU meat import ban due to FMD 4 days ago:
Or enjoy a nice hefty fine for badly declared goods when it goes through a scanner and the "clothes and stuff" gets flagged for being meat products.
Oh and also get the meat confiscated and destroyed.
Brilliant plan, genius.
- Comment on Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse 5 days ago:
I see Baszucki borrowed a few pages from the Trump handbook on how to bullshit until you've derailed the question so much, nobody even remembers what was asked.
- Comment on Questions about EU meat import ban due to FMD 5 days ago:
I don't see how that would get around the issue of properly identifying the meat. Any kind of import, regardless of its form, is subject to these bans.
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- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 5 days ago:
Given that Reddit started banning people left and right, I don't think the "banned from Reddit" bagde is one of shame.
- Comment on 18 days til the deadline btw 5 days ago:
mind you, any and all democrats will be un-redacted.
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 6 days ago:
There's a very simple explanation to every "how is (niche technological thing) not more popular?" questions, and that is simply... Most people are perfectly happy with the defaults.
Don't take this Fediverse instance and the people who interact with it as an example. Even Reddit's tech subs are very niche serving, most of the responders will be people who live and die with tech... which does NOT represent the great majority of people.
Said great majority is perfectly happy with their phones as is. The default keyboard is 99% of the time perfectly usable. So people don't even feel a need to change. Therefore niche keyboards will have very little popularity. Even big ones like SwiftKey.
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 1 week ago:
Plot twist: Jerome is with his wife at the "cinema"
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Based on this, Trump was old by the time he turned 20
- Comment on idk 1 week ago:
I'm generally pro-AI but I still think the disclosure is nice to have and should not be removed.
People have a right to informed decisions. If they want a product that had "no AI" in its making (although let's be honest, a game might not contain AI generated audiovisual assets, but a form of AI, even generative AI, is almost guaranteed to have been used during the creation of the game), they can vote with their wallets.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 week ago:
And more and more engineers use genAI to generate code. Hell, even I do, because it's superb at getting the boilerplate ready from standard definitions, allowing me to focus on the important bits.
LLMs are also pretty great at extrapolating a good working document from basic requirements.
They're really just a quite knowledgeable but inexperienced intern, and any software engineer that refuses to utilise them to some extent will be left behind - just like those who refused to move to IDEs with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and other helper tools.
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 1 week ago:
I have already done so. We're now going door to door, showing the picture and ensuring that all drinks are covered. It's turning into the weirdest date of my life. Not complaining tho. Just didn't expect Kegbreath, Couchfucker and Temu Dracula to get me laid.
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 1 week ago:
If you went back ~10 years and said this image from the next Austin Powers movie, depicting the new villains, people would believe you.
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 1 week ago:
I instinctively went to cover the nearest drink. Now my neighbour thinks I'm a creep for busting her door down in a bathrobe.
- Comment on It came out dry. What did I do wrong? 1 week ago:
Yep, some Tsoukal-sauce should fix it right up
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week 1 week ago:
Centralised Auth stack for all your services.
I for example just put together a neat pocketID+Crowdsec+Caddy stack, and via OAuth I can easily manage everything. Every service that integrates with OAuth makes it super simple to create new users automatically with limited scopes, all directly fed by PocketID, allowing me to expose my services to the open web without fear of being hacked (crodsec being the fallback if shit would hit the fan, blocking all the community-sourced known threat actors and suspicious behaviour like port probing, login stuffing, etc.).
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week 1 week ago:
Given the prevalence of one click install NASes (and by that I mean that Plex is a one click install, or even the whole *arr stack), I wouldn't be sure.
Also that doesn't account for people who are limited by available ISPs - some of us only have the choice of a single ISP, who might not be offering static IP, and CG-NAT makes port forwarding impossible. IPv6 would fix that but given we're not much better off than we were ten years ago... I don't have high hopes.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week 1 week ago:
Streaming traffic has to go through the Plex proxies if your server isn't exposed to the internet (meaning proper port forwarding, no CG-NAT and no other ISP fuckery that would prevent such functionality).
Of the 25 million users of Plex, how many do you think have the setup (either the ability or availability) that supports direct playback remotely?
Ideally yes, only basic things like authentication and server mapping should go through the main Plex servers but sadly this isn't the case. And Plex has provided that service for years, for free. Them asking money for a service that isn't free to run, is fair game.
What isn't fair is how they've been doing it.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week 1 week ago:
Okay, let's clarify something.
Plex has been essentially "giving away" a service for the better part of what, 20 years?
And that service is the remote proxying of your server and its access. Basically, you didn't need to open a port, expose your server to the public, Plex provided a proxy through which you could stream to your heart's content, knowing that your server is both accessible and (more or less, more than if you managed it yourself in most cases) secure.
Now obviously, they are a company and thus need to make revenue to continue developing the server, clients, and maintaining the infrastructure. Mind you, Plex has 25 million active monthly users... Even if just 10% of that is active at any given moment, streaming at 10Mbps... that's 25 MILLION megabits per sec. 25 thousand gigabits. 25 terabits. PER. SECOND. Being proxied through infra Plex has to pay for. Your average proxy/CDN dataserver unit can do usually around 100 gigabit, meaning Plex needs 250 of those. Just to serve 10% of the userbase.
And don't forget that, unlike "traditional streaming platforms" where CDNs can greatly amplify bandwidth (due to repeating same content to thousands/millions of people), Plex can't easily utilise this infrastructure approach, AND they have to constantly stream INTO the proxy as well as outwards (a CDN pulls in the source file once and then distributes it, Plex literally needs to pull the data stream on-demand, without storing it).
I don't like these restrictions they're putting in, "enshittifying" the service - e.g. if I have my server forwarded properly and don't need to go through their proxy, I should be given a free pass (albeit I already have that since I bought lifetime Plex Pass), but I do get how it would be annoying for the average user to not realise why they're asked to pay when their friend isn't.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
Joshuah the Messiah/Anointed, yes.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
See that wouldn't really work. The modern "Jesus" is actually quite far from the original old Hebrew/Aramaic name he would've used.
No, it would've been Yeshua or Yehoshua (the Bible has some shifting references as to when the longer form of the name might've gotten shortened to Yeshua).
Similarly, "Christ" isn't something used in Aramaic. It's not even technically his name, it's more of a title, from the Greek Χριστός (Christos, translating as "anointed), which in Hebrew would be mashiakh - or in direct English translation... Messiah.
Furthermore Yeshua was a quite common name at the time, in Nazareth alone you would've found a handful, even though the village was maybe a thousand people at the time.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 1 week ago:
The context doesn't matter. The bottom line is that FPGAs provide flexibility, not improved performance. Period.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
Imagine how shocked the world would be if it turns out the Arabic word for God comes from a black box recording that got swung back in time after a plane crash, with the last bit of the recording being stuck...
that last bit of recording? copilot waking up right before the crash, calling out to the pilot called Allan, but halfway through the word it turns into a scream. All-AAAAAAAH! BOOM.
And the whole world is just stuck on this otherwise insignificant fact. Never mind that someone just dug up carbon-dated 2000-ish year old (carbon-dated) contemporary technology, proving time travel is possible, or that people 2000-ish years ago managed to somehow make that tech work enough to influence the third largest language in a very significant manner... No, it's the fact that the Arabic word for God came from a guy named Allan.
- Comment on Don't act confused. Just say it 1 week ago:
Would you look at my peonies! They've grown MASSIVE this year.
