VonReposti
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- Comment on PSA: This Futurama episode will be banned in the UK starting today 4 days ago:
No it’s anecdotal. Someone told me they discovered CSAM on second hand hardware and that was what they were told when they reported it. Umbrella just shows the incompetence of the police, this case shows the incompetence of the law. Doesn’t matter if anyone got jailed because of it, the fear is enough to not report CSAM.
- Comment on PSA: This Futurama episode will be banned in the UK starting today 4 days ago:
The vagueness is absolutely a problem and in morality laws might even be an intended side effect.
This source though interprets it differently saying that having a hand at the throat without actual choking isn’t covered but do note the keyword seems to be is splattered all over the page. (PS. The page is SFW but I don’t know about the rest of the site).
No matter what this is an inch away from being a straight up though police law.
- Comment on PSA: This Futurama episode will be banned in the UK starting today 4 days ago:
The way I read it is that possession of the material is illegal, not sharing or recording. Possession. In Denmark possession of CSAM was made illegal and it lead to police being forced to prosecute people who accidentally uncovered CSAM and wanted to report it. I haven’t heard of specific cases, but if you want to report existence of CSAM on a CD that is in your hands which you found in the attic of a home you just moved into the police will tell you to destroy it immediately and forget about it because the law can’t distinguish between the owner of the CSAM and the current temporary person that possesses it and reports it. The UK law sounds like it will create the same issue (not that I am arguing that consensual BDSM = CSAM. Far from it. I just fear the consequences could be transferrable to this law and outlawing bits and bytes is always a problem).
I btw couldn’t find face sitting on the list of outlawed kinks, so those who are into that are safe for now.
- Comment on I made a post poking fun at how bad a Pro-AI image was, and naturally people crashed out at the sight of AI 5 days ago:
And plastered absolutely everywhere, even on posts where it isn’t obvious it’s AI. Saw one where I decided to do a reverse image search and saw results from 2018.
- Comment on POV: you're Sam Altman 1 week ago:
I rarely laugh out loud when seeing a picture on the internet. This one somehow succeeded. Well done sir.
- Comment on tip on how to deal with a dirty camera lens 3 weeks ago:
This is not AI
- Comment on Young, Dumb, and Full of Press Releases 3 weeks ago:
Maybe he’s secretly a trans-white-blonde-girl-with-a-boob-job
- Comment on Check carefully 4 weeks ago:
What’s the difference?
- Comment on A variation of "does this dress make me look fat?" 4 weeks ago:
I remember seeing this image a decade or so ago, so no AI. But no idea about the story behind it.
- Comment on It took a lot more effort and dedication back then 5 weeks ago:
The dark ages were from the 5th century to the 10th century while the first mention of the guillotine is from 1210 (as a hypothetical device)
- Comment on flat housing 1 month ago:
- Comment on Joke's on you I'm into that shit 1 month ago:
You can edit the post. Notice that the screenshot doesn’t have a thumbnail for the screenshot.
- Comment on Tomorrow... 1 month ago:
Yeah, significant bit in my explanation shouldn’t be confused for endianness, that works like you explained. But I’m still of the opinion that iso8601 is best saved for when you need to save dates/datetimes or when confusion can occur. Human-to-human communication is more often than not informal and redundant information can be left out more often and that is where the significance of the bits comes in. Maybe I should have called it the importance of the parts to avoid confusion.
But save to say, I use iso8601 most often anyway. Who is communicating with other humans nowadays?
- Comment on Tomorrow... 1 month ago:
The sane ordering outside iso8601 revolves around the most significant bit. When you ask for the time, 34 minutes is usually not significant in any matter in written contexts since you could be reading it more than an hour later. Hence hours are more significant than minutes (verbal can often be an exception, “20 minutes past” can be enough context if someone asks for the time). But the “time” part of datetime is always more significant than the “date” part. The year is least significant since that one changes the least, then comes month, and lastly year. In many contexts knowing it is 14th of September is enough. In chats it might even be enough to say “14th” if you’re talking about a date in this very month. But due to the timespan between writing and reading, minutes more often than not is meaningless without hours, hence hours become more significant.
Of course HH:mm dd/mm/yyyy is inferior when it comes to computer parsing due to iso8601 being the easiest to sort. (And because of Americans it is the only format to cause no confusion). But it is going least significant first in the sense that you are presented with year first, something that is often redundant in human-to-human interaction (depending on context you might say year is more significant than time in the case of wanting to know when an article was released, but you know, there’s always more exceptions than rules).
So to sum it up: Use whatever date time format you want as long as you use a format fit for the context it is used in. Unless you’re saving it to a database/directory/etc. Then use iso8601 so I can easily sort it.
- Comment on Time keeps marching forward 1 month ago:
No it isn’t. Can’t be more than 5 years old.
- Comment on OpenAI chief scientist warns no-one is prepared for consequences of AI 2 months ago:
threaten to take down the American stock market if we don’t get our way.
Why stop at threats?
- Comment on Bunnies are metal 2 months ago:
I share your sentiment but I’d rather go back and see for myself. The future is completely unknown, who knows if you’d land right on the front line in WWIII. At least in the past I have a vague idea of what parts of time to avoid landing in.
- Comment on What shall I watch next? 2 months ago:
The “Warzone” text is also clipping over the header.
- Comment on Reddit advertising "Real people" 2 months ago:
PipePipe if you want SponsorBlock too.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 2 months ago:
I actually had a job shelving books as a teenager. It is to date the best job I ever had. No one bothered me. I just took books from the return slots at the library and put them back for a few hours after school. Sometimes I even dared to get a list of reservations to find and shelve elsewhere.
- Comment on Is Old or New Call of Duty better? 2 months ago:
I don’t remember ever using knife in the og MW
- Comment on Is Old or New Call of Duty better? 2 months ago:
CoD: MW for multiplayer, CoD: WaW for singleplayer
- Comment on 'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam 2 months ago:
Almost makes you think that the bible might have been written by humans and is just as flawed in its text as humanity itself.
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 2 months ago:
You could even get a full refund for your purchase. I did with 100s of hours and the original purchase being years ago.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
Difference is that vibe coding doesn’t create 20% more CPU usage or 30% more RAM usage because it doesn’t understand the underlying mechanics (or, it could but that is not the important part). LLMs will happily provide you with solutions that consists of plain text password storage, leaking personal information through open APIs, and business crushing vulnerabilities. A sharp developer should ve able to catch that, but if you’re reviewing 5000+ line PRs daily that’s been spat out by LLMs it’ll be impossible to catch all failures. And for someone who doesn’t know all those nonfunctional requirements that a business absolutely must have it’ll become a nightmare for the receiver of the code.
So to be clear: For functional requirements LLMs are a bit better but still needs hand holding. For nonfunctional requirements they’re dog shit as that’s the part that more often has to explicitly be mentioned. And being able to identify nonfunctional requirements and when they’re not met is the difference between a junior dev and a 10+ year lead.
- Comment on When God Sings, We All Sing 3 months ago:
Christians haven’t exactly been saints either. Let’s not forget the thirty year war, the European wars of religion, or the crusades just to name a few.
- Comment on For Us ADHDers (When You Don't Have Our Attention) 3 months ago:
- Comment on How I, a bike rider, look when my coworkers complain about gas prices 3 months ago:
In Denmark all the gas stations started to panic during the last gas shortage because the signs only went up to 19.99, so they had to replace them with ones that could show 20 (DKK 20 = €2.67 = $3.07). We’re just about up there again.
- Comment on Cheap and fun 3 months ago:
Oh no that boy’s ball fell down from the paddle!
- Comment on Choices 3 months ago:
I see she already went with free McDonald’s for a year. And haven’t had time to clean it up.
