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sab ,

Oh up yours, with your clickbait title. A DDOS is not a hack.

sab ,

I could, but I don’t think they’re going to edit your post. They’re responsible for their headline, you are responsible for yours.

sab ,

Ip address is only sent to a users home server though.

sab ,

I wouldn’t put it past them to put tracking images into posts though. Either way… I wouldn’t be happy on a server that is connected to threads.

Speaking of which… I see lemmy world see still hasn’t defederated from Threads. I guess it’s time for me to kill my account here.

sab ,

I might end up using a personal instance as well. But in that case I’ll probably end up with an instance whitelist, rather than defederating from disliked ones.

sab ,

Ah, bummer. I thought I’d be in the clear because we’re having this conversation on Lemmy.ml. Thanks for straightening me out.

sab ,

Does that mean that the only way of stopping my data from reaching Threads would be for them to defederate from my instance?

sab ,

Recently, I used it for book/Author recommendations. At first I also used it for coding, but now I just ask it to explain concepts to me (what’s the difference between… / what are some ways to approach…)

Basically how non-tech people thought search engines worked at the beginning of this century.

sab ,

Regardless of what tool OP ends up using, this is the most straightforward way.

sab ,

I’ll give you one reason where Firefox blows chrome out of the water: multi account containers:

Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple accounts

That way you can seamlessly have multiple accounts for a specific site open side by side (for example, your work and your personal mail with the same mail provider). Especially amazing if you’re an IT contractor who works for multiple clients.

sab ,

I use the tree style tab extension for that.

Fedi-fanfiction: How would a society look like in which the fediverse is established as THE social media platform?

Please be creative! Will there be more communities? Will we refer to each other based on the instances we belong to? Will there be beefs between instances? Will there be doomed romances of two peoples meeting from different places of the fediverse?

sab ,

Hopefully: more gradual exposure to contrary opinions, allowing to decrease the amount of polarisation. Less filter bubbles, and more cooperation.

sab , (edited )

I couldn’t help but note the lack of figures of how unsafe driverless cars are, versus a regular car, per distance driven. And for that matter - how much that number had changed over recent years - because that’s the entire point of these tests, to make traffic safer.

And when scooter companies flooded the sidewalks with electric scooters, people threw them into San Francisco Bay.

Ah, that happened here as well. But we just call it vandalism.

sab ,

The way they explain themselves sounds like NIMBY. I doubt it’s about safety.

sab ,

You forgot to put “temporarily” in your headline.

sab ,

Infinity love for tiny voids.

sab ,

Humans with imperfect memories being influenced by a work <> AI language models being trained on a work.

sab , (edited )

Nah.

By default an AI will draw from its entire memory, and so will have lots of different influences. But by tuning your prompt (or restricting your input dataset) you can make it so specific, it’s basically creating near perfect clones. And contrary to a human, it can then produce similar works hundreds of times per minute.

But even that is beside the point. Those works were sold under the presumption that people will read them. Not to ingest them into a LLM or text-to-image model. And now, companies like openai and others profit from the models they trained without permission from the original author. That’s just wrong.

Edit: As several people mentioned, I exaggerated when I said near perfect clones, I’ll admit that. But just because it doesn’t violate copyright (IANAL), doesn’t mean it’s ethical to take a work and make derivatives of it on an unlimited scale.

sab ,

But you can easily fit all of Kings work in a 4gb model. Just because it isn’t done in the most popular models, doesn’t make it ethical to do it in the first place.

In my opinion, you should only be able to use a work to train an AI model, if the work is public domain or if you have explicit permission to do so by the license holder. Especially if you then use that model for profit or charge orders to use ie.

sab , (edited )

I didn’t claim it was.

We can discuss technicalities all day long, but that’s so beside the point. Thread OP claimed that creating an LLM based on a copyrighted work is okay, because humans are influenced by other works as well. But a human can’t crank out hundreds of Stephen King-like chapters per hour. Or hundreds of Dali-like paintings pretty minute.

If King or Dali had given permission for their works to be used in this way, it might have been a different story, but as it is, AI models are being trained on (and profit from) huge amounts of data that they did not have permission for.

Edit: nevermind, I think trying to discuss AI ethics with you is pointless. Have a nice weekend!

sab ,

The problem with that is that you lose out on part of the comments.

sab ,

That would still create a fragmented comment situation. Ideally, the server should be aware of “sister communities”, so it could merge the comment threads, or at least tell the client to do so. But that has all kinds of moderation implications, as noted elsewhere.

In the end you’re either doing federation on community level (which would require another level of federation administration - you can’t just merge like-named communities from Any instance), or you’d have to convince 1 community to go read only and refer to the “defacto” community.

The first one has a lot of technical hurdles (servers and clients would have to adapt, and then community admins would be responsible for deciding who to federate their communities with). The second depends on mods giving up their community, which is unlikely and undesirable in case of defederation. Or option 3: keep the status quo, of course.

sab ,

Why would these people blocking each other have any influence on whether you stay on or leave twitter?

Is this /c/technology or /c/circlejerk?

Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate (www.cnbc.com)

Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate::As Amazon tries to get employees back to the office, some staffers are being told to relocate to hubs in different states if they want to keep their jobs

sab ,

Depending on the jobs, also Google, Microsoft, etc…

Why do people still recommend Thinkpads for Linux when there are Linux-oriented manufacturers now?

I’ve noticed in the Linux community whenever someone asks for a recommendation on a laptop that runs Linux the answer is always “Get a Thinkpad” yet Lenovo doesn’t seem to be a big Linux contributor or ally. There’s also at least six Linux/FOSS-oriented computer manufacturers now:...

sab ,

Bought my last few laptops from Tuxedo. Their 13" infinibook can be quite noisy, but I’m having a blast with the Polaris I bought last year.

sab ,

First off all, the components are selected for the Linux compatibility, so it’s guaranteed to work. But they also provide some tools to make sure you use the preferred drivers, a control center tool for customising fan speeds, etc. All of which are open source. They even provide the windows drivers for all configs for when you want to dusk boot (and those are even fairly up to date).

sab ,

I don’t think an AI or indeed most writers could mimic anything like the frantic ad-libbing he was known and loved for.

I’m not convinced. If you trained a model on all of his performances and scripts, I think it could generate something that could fool most people. Not everything it generates would be terrific, but even if only 1% is good, you just cut out all the rest.

And that’s at the current state of tech.

‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones / A recent survey of teens found that 87% have iPhones, and don’t plan to switch (archive.ph)

‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones / A recent survey of teens found that 87% have iPhones, and don’t plan to switch::undefined

sab ,

But the article just keeps asking if I’m a robot

At some point you’ll just have to come to terms with it.

sab ,

Overexaggerating headlines online? I thought that trend was as old as news sites itself.

sab ,

Damn it, uwe. This is why we can’t have nice things.

sab , (edited )

This is going to get buried, but I think it’s important to note that block on twitter (unlike on most platforms) works both ways. You can still mute an account, and you won’t see any of their content or mentions.

By removing block, it means you can no longer block a person from following you, but you can still prevent seeing their stuff. After all - all that person has to do see your public tweets is open an incognito browser window, and view your profile. If you have a private profile, none of this applies to begin with. So in that sense, I agree with Elon - block in its current form on twitter makes no sense.

Edit: Responding directly onto your posts - good point, I hadn’t considered that. It’s partially circumvented by changing the setting so can comment on your posts, but I agree that’s more effort. For all the other things though - if you block someone now they can just take a screenshot of your tweet and comment on that.

sab ,

Fair enough. I never used the algorithm timeline that inserts strangers into your stream so that was never an issue for me. Just the people I follow, chronologically, for me. Whether I block them or not, people who really want to would still be able to read my tweets. Blocking them just gives them more acknowledgement than they deserve.

I haven’t deleted mine yet, but I only seldom check it. Left this video as a pinned post though, it might inspire some people to quit as well.

sab ,

Without the Block feature spammers, scammers, and crazies can destroy anyones posts by filling it with dick pics, scams, gore, anything.

Pretty sure they’d only destroy their own account with that - they’d be 1 report away from being banned. If none of your followers were to report it, it’s probably time to cancel your account.

sab , (edited )

Are there any practical (non-theoretical) uses for NFTs that couldn’t be done otherwise easier/better without them though?

Edited to make it easier for NFTs to show their worth.

sab ,

If we’re just going for semantics, don’t you mean more than 1 for them to qualify as “people”?

sab ,

You’re right. I’ve edited my question to make it easier for NFTs to qualify. After all, cars do the same as horses, but a whole lot better.

So what is a practical application of NFTs that, now that it’s implemented, makes someone’s life so much better?

sab ,

Can you give a real life example of that being applied?

sab ,

Have a good weekend ;)

sab ,

Ah, probably my filter bubble then.

I’d like to read more about this, do you know of any specific cases?

sab ,

So… Just theoretical applications so far?

sab ,

These are the same promises the emergence of the blockchain gave us. We’re now nearly a decade later, and the most useful application has been get-rich-quick schemes. Yet, all these listed applications are still not in use, and/or better than their non-blockchain counterparts.

Hell, if you know why electronic voting is not, and will never be a good idea, you definitely wouldn’t want them as an NFT.

sab ,

Yeah, that about sums it up.

sab ,

I had to get a Facebook account in order to get an api token (for work). So I used a fake name. That apparently triggered something, because I then also had to supply legal id. What’s a guy to do in that case?

Well, obviously the only sensible thing you can do under those circumstances. I just grabbed an example drivers license for my country online, photo shopped my fake name into it, changed since serial numbers, and pasted another face over the black and white photo. The original used a woman’s face with curly hair - turns out that if you neatly paste a man’s eyes, nose and mouth in there, he looks like a hardrocker. Next step: print it out on paper, take a picture of that from some distance, and submit it to Facebook as proof. Funnily enough, they approved it.

Since I didn’t really need to use the account itself, I set it to only accept friend requests from Friends of Friends. But still, whenever I logged in with it, I got a popup that my account was showing “suspicious behaviour”. And that’s how you submit your id to social media.

sab ,

Show, yes. Take a picture of, no.

sab ,

Ha.

Not one capable of registering all the minute details of my ID, no.

sab ,

Very.

sab ,

Absolutely. Like I said, I needed it for work, but there’s nothing Facebook could give me that would be worth their spying.

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