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mint_tamas , to technology in VPN by Google One shuts down

These days you don’t get much extra benefit on a VPN over TLS which you get on 99% of websites.

mint_tamas , to technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

It really isn’t superior. It’s just the hivemind that gets annoyed with Plex being stagnant, not open source etc. that claims it is. At best it has feature parity for some use-cases. Don’t get me wrong, it’s neat, but it’s not as polished as Plex.

mint_tamas , to news in Texas megachurch pastor resigns after admitting to molestation claims in 1980s

Are you also a “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” kinda person?

mint_tamas , to technology in YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers

Firefox also implements manifest v3, just without the user-hostile restrictions.

mint_tamas , to technology in Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms

The entire macromedia suite was so good. I had so much fun and learned so much as a teen.

mint_tamas , to technology in Google AI making up recalls that didn’t happen

Theoretically, what would the utility of AI summaries in Google Search if not getting exact information?

mint_tamas , to technology in Manifest V2 phase-out begins

So what, you keep an ungoogled-chromium around and use it occasionally for compatibility, if you really need to. Doesn’t mean you are obligated to use it as your daily driver.

mint_tamas , to technology in Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

FWIW they are cannibalizing ads right now with AI summaries, since people will navigate less to websites (in the world where they are useful, which they don’t seem to be at the moment).

mint_tamas , to news in Four US daycare workers charged with spiking children’s food with melatonin

It works if you take it for its function: to signal the body that night is starting in 1-2 hours, and take it in a small dose (1-2mg). It’s not a sedative, like many seem to assume. It’s best to take it when you start your night routine.

mint_tamas , to technology in OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts

Peer review, for all its flaws is a good minimum before a paper is worth taking seriously.

In your original comment you said tha model collapse can be easily avoided with this technique, which is notably different from it being mitigated. I’m not saying that these findings are not useful, just that you are overselling them a bit with this wording.

mint_tamas , to technology in OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts

That paper is yet to be peer reviewed or released. I think you are jumping into conclusion with that statement. How much can you dilute the data until it breaks again?

mint_tamas , to news in Raw-milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus

Handful of cases only in the US. Globally there were around 900 cases to date (starting 2003).

mint_tamas , to news in Raw milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus

The problem is that idiots drinking H5N1 milk might bring about human-to-human transmission of it which will be a dire situation. To date, around 50% of the 200-something human cases resulted in death. For comparison, the worst mortality rates of covid were around 20-25% in the very beginning.

mint_tamas , to news in Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Gaza, Calls Hiroshima ‘the Right Decision’

Is your argument for bombing being the right decision the same (that it resulted in less bloodshed overall)? If so, how can you estimate the body count of the alternative (a prolonged conventional war, I assume)?

mint_tamas , to technology in Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

OpenAI clearly already scraped the pre-LLM (aka actually useful) content from SO, this entire deal is happening after the fact to avoid litigation.

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