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by anonymousab 9mo ago
They are still potentially illegal in many jurisdictions.
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Outrage as X's Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content(cnbctv18.com)
59 points by anonymousab 9mo ago|9 comments
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by anonymousab 10mo ago
At one point, paying for Mozilla's mullvad rebadge would give money to the corp. If you were already going to pay for a VPN, then it's effectively a donation. Though, just because money goes to the corp, doesn't mean it will
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by anonymousab 10mo ago
They don't sell the Cargo version in North America, and the price is a good chunk more expensive than, say, a Ford Transit or similar cargo van.
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by anonymousab 11mo ago
I remember installing XBMC with a 360-style "blades" interface and being blown away by how much smoother and nicer it was then the blades interface on the Xbox 360 at the time. Obviously the OS wasn't doing as much as an Xbox
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by anonymousab 1y ago
Accessing a single website with adblock installed is, in and of itself, potentially thousands of CFAA violations if enforced to the letter.
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by anonymousab 1y ago
> goveenment paranoia This is just what you'd expect any government that is either competent or greedy to be doing, given the technologies at play. Calling it "thought crime" is, of course, a bit glib. But things like &quo
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by anonymousab 1y ago
One of the things that came out of several Blizzard anticheat/Warden lawsuits back in the day is that, technically, the act of running an executable is copyright infringement, because the data is being copied from disk into memory, int
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Waiting at Anchor (2024)(thebaffler.com)
2 points by anonymousab 1y ago|0 comments
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by anonymousab 1y ago
Whether it should be that way or not, the United States remains the primary global military, political and economic superpower. As such, US politics also kinda dictate what a "sane state" does; by nature of their stature, they set
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by anonymousab 1y ago
That is malicious compliance with the law, and more or less indicative of a failure of enforcement against offenders.
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by anonymousab 1y ago
> AFAIK, they don't spend any of their money on it anyway The glass-half-full take I heard a while back was: at least every dollar they take from the foundation donations for these causes is a dollar that they could have found a way
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by anonymousab 1y ago
I would wager that the average person against the resource usage of AI datacenters are also against the resource usage for golf courses. The difference being that those opposing view LLMs as an inherently negative technology, and thus it is
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by anonymousab 1y ago
> everything has to be telegraphed Or, in the case of recent Netflix executive missives, everything happening must be literally spoken and explained aloud, moment to moment.
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by anonymousab 1y ago
Don Mattrick isn't the reason that so many Microsoft studios have repeatedly shipped poor products or failed to ship at all over the past decade. Don Mattrick isn't the reason reason that Microsoft still seems to have the worst ta
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by anonymousab 1y ago
That's what a good-ol' Faraday cage is for.
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by anonymousab 1y ago
I remember going out to dinner, years ago, with a fairly senior AWS billing engineer. An acquaintance of a coworker. He looked completely surprised when I asked about runaway billing and why there wasn't any simple options to cap a giv
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by anonymousab 1y ago
Or they work with languages, libraries, systems or problem areas where the LLMs fail to perform anywhere near as well as they do for you and me.
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by anonymousab 1y ago
When the issues arise because of the tool being trained explicitly to respect/fire you, then that sounds like an apt and appropriate resulting level of job security.
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Jonathan Blow on Removing Dependencies(twitter.com)
21 points by anonymousab 1y ago|5 comments
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by anonymousab 1y ago
Though to be clear, "not as cheaply" can mean a difference of several orders of magnitude and many years of effort.
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by anonymousab 1y ago
It seems that these tests had a rule about not using generative AI from the start. So it would be more like someone entering a fingerpainting contest and using a paint brush. EDIT: Oh, I misread, that was the USACO competition which had the
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Publisher of PCMag and Mashable Sues OpenAI(nytimes.com)
6 points by anonymousab 1y ago|0 comments
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Columbia expels, suspends students after government threats(aljazeera.com)
7 points by anonymousab 2y ago|1 comments
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by anonymousab 2y ago
Non-voting representatives, possibly. "51st state" is just a marketing term, the reality would be a territory ala Puerto Rico or Guam, thought likely with more limited rights.
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ReCAPTCHA: 819M hours of wasted human time and billions in Google profits(boingboing.net)
9 points by anonymousab 2y ago|1 comments
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by anonymousab 2y ago
Expecting companies to actually license copyrighted material instead of mass infringement is fairly reasonable given they've demanded the same for decades from the populace. "China's not going to respect those laws" is k
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by anonymousab 2y ago
You severely underestimate Trump, the GOP and a tamed media and tech industry's ability to spin things as the Democrats' fault. They can also trivially rig elections by just organizing things to criminalize the majority of your op
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by anonymousab 2y ago
> Can you enumerate some of the things that they could do, Biden had a very long time to do a lot of things. You can get a lot done with a bit of creativity and a willingness to cause a few constitutional crisis'.
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3DBenchy starts enforcing its no derivatives license(hackaday.com)
3 points by anonymousab 2y ago|0 comments

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