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gedaliyah , 2 months ago

But this is actually a good thing? They will be targeting wealthy enterprises to pay what they owe.

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

I think that’s’ one of those “Mandela effect” things. It never happened, but a lot of people believe it did. Our brains take a lot of shortcuts.

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

Not according to the book of Mormon.

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

Oh really? Well, I’m sure they’ll get around to baptizing them all posthumously if they haven’t already.

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

Any word yet on who bought all those matching tents and construction materials for the pro-Palestine encampments?

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

Now multiply that by 50-60 and someone donated a few grand per campus just for the tents. Who was it?

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

I think it’s unlikely that dozens and kids bought the exact same tent in the exact same color at the exact same time without coordination. I’ll let someone more capable than myself calculate the statistics on that.

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

This is a discussion about who is funding campus protests. Why would you think it’s unusual that ask a question like this?

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

Trying to distract people from the fact that Colombia is in shambles due to poor leadership?

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

Samesies.

gedaliyah , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

MS is doing their level best

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

Is this going to turn out to be one of those "last starfighter” situations, except it’s about arranging lists of words rather than fighting aliens?

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

Check out !lemmyapps, which has information about recent releases, features, etc.

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

Why didn’t they just start with Metapedia? It would have been a shorter walk.

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

In Soviet Russia, Wikipedia searches you!

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

All of these things are examples of skills that must be learned, not things that are innate, and particularly for neurodivergent folks.

gedaliyah OP , 2 months ago

Or on the other hand, maybe we have to admit that these technologies were released before they were finished, and that was a dangerous decision. It’s now been well documented that chat gpt and similar technologies were rushed to the public against the advice of some of their developers.

The developers will need to devise ways for the LLMs to understand their own training data.

gedaliyah OP , 2 months ago

Yet, LLMs are trained on data - an information repository. They are capable of accessing and recalling the contents of that information repository, and relaying information from that repository to an end user. It may not be an information repository functionally, but it legally seems to have the capabilities to be classified as one. (I am neither a lawyer nor a programmer, and I am not in the EU.)

The software breaks the law, and the people who built it knew that this was likely the case. It was developed as a research project, which has very different legal requirements from a consumer product. They might not outright ban the software, but they might issue some hefty fines, etc. Banning a product is not the only recourse of the courts.

gedaliyah OP , 2 months ago

To me that sounds like a distinction without a difference. A jpeg is not an image, but a set of data that can be algorithmically processed and rendered as an image - which is why it can fit in a smaller space than a bmp. Despite the technical differences, a jpg and a bmp are legally equivalent. If something is illegal in a bmp, it’s also illegal in a jpg. The same laws apply to EVs and gas vehicles. The same laws apply to vinyl records and cassette tapes. The law does not care about the mechanism.*

*for the most part

gedaliyah OP , 2 months ago

Yeah, Vine (now defunct) is probably the originator. YouTube has Shorts, Instagram has Stories, and it’s the same in WhatsApp. Snapchat has one, Facebook has one, X has one (or used to? I’m not sure)… They are a part of most social media at this point, almost as ubiquitous as posts, shares, and links. Of course, TikTok is king right now their main innovation is inclusion of licensed music and removing most of the interface so that one video just flows into the next.

gedaliyah OP , 2 months ago

It’s easy to forget that algorithms were originally added to social media as a benefit to the user. It’s easy to miss the content you want to see when you follow lots of accounts.

I would love to see an algorithm that allows for manual adjustment. Kagi search allows a user to raise or lower the priority of individual results. I can’t think of another platform or service that does this explicitly. Most do it implicitly through various forms of engagement.

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

This site reads like a creepy Ayn Rand fesish tribute page:

As mentioned previously, railroads were the first large scale industry. The railroad revolution brought with it tremendous improvements in standard of living and a fall in the cost of transportation of goods and people. However, as is the case with most revolutions of industry, the government intervened heavily with subsidy and regulation.

Some railroads (for example The Great Northern) were indeed built in this Libertarian fashion, as purely free market enterprises which competed on the marketplace of transportation (coincidentally these were usually the few that did not go bankrupt) and productive land ownership.

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

This community does not have any rule prohibiting cross-posting.

gedaliyah OP , 2 months ago

I don’t really understand why a computer is necessary at all, is the thing. I know that it’s possible to use wifi network to send a signal between two devices. I have a sound board that works this way, and manages to communicate precise multichannel instructions directly over the network without an internet connection.

If I want to turn on a light switch, it seems like all I should need to send is the location of the light switch on the network and the on/off command. I know that there is not the computing power in the light switch itself to process much more than that.

Do these devices all connect to a remote server to switch on and off??

gedaliyah OP , 2 months ago

This is really amazing to me. I had no idea that it was using the internet to send the on/off signal from my phone, up to a server (multiple servers), just to send the command back to my home network, and to the device. That seems like an absolutely bonkers system to turn on a switch. I would be better off to repurpose an old RC toy to control the switch!

gedaliyah OP , 2 months ago

Thanks. That helps.

gedaliyah OP , 2 months ago

That’s helpful. It seems like a system an insane person would come up with, but I understand it.

gedaliyah OP , 2 months ago

In my case it was a specific use case in that I have a number of outdoor lights that I want to control without needing to go back in the house every time. Folks here have given a few options that would work well for this without relying on the internet, but I already have the setup installed at this point

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

"Architects hate this one weird trick”

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

Someone didn’t understand the message of House of Cards

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

It seems like messaging services are particularly prone the misinformation campaigns, since it is much more difficult to audit what is happening on the platform. How is a service like messenger or WhatsApp (both meta)going to monitor the content of messeges in a way that is safe to users? How would researchers identity and track information?

I know that the most outlandish content I see as a highly connected individual tends to come from these platforms. I do my best to educate when I see it, but I doubt it has much of a lasting impact.

It’s depressing and a little frightening to know how easily and cheaply our electorate is manipulated, and to see it happening in real time.

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

I’m currently viewing this on tesseract…

gedaliyah OP , 3 months ago

From the article:

The accusation of Jews as ‘killers of prophets’ is a well-known antisemitic trope made in several Islamic texts, which is understood by many, including Al-Nassr himself, as a charge against the entire Jewish people valid for eternity.

This allegation is reminiscent and perhaps reflective of the charge of deicide by which Jews were accused in classical Christian texts.

gedaliyah OP , 3 months ago

It may have been edited, or you could be seeing another comment. Trust me, it was pretty disgusting on a number of levels, including homophobia and Islamophobia at least.

gedaliyah OP , 3 months ago

I’m not sure what you hope to gain here. I have seen the comment, in fact can still see the comment due to my notifications. No one who saw the vile comment is going to repeat it for your benefit - there is a reason that it was removed. I have no idea what you are seeing, or the context. I’m not sure why it would look different. If you are concerned, PM a mod of the community to fill you in.

Edit: I just saw that someone did in fact repeat it for your benefit. So never mind. I hope you thank them for taking the risk of repeating it.

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

He is extremely unpopular in Israel, but with a coalition government, one only needs to have a strong base and be effective at political maneuvering to hold power.

As an aside, people criticize the two party system in the USA, but there is really no system that’s impervious to manipulation.