immibis

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by immibis 11mo ago
Chat Control did not pass, because it infringes upon their citizens privacy.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Also, signing in on multiple devices is the entire point of a file sync app .
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by immibis 11mo ago
I know it's a hot take, but I strongly believe that some things are good, and some things are bad. I don't think it's necessary to pick either "all things are good" or "all things are bad". Like, killing i
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by immibis 11mo ago
I meant to write that you probably DON'T want to load each texture from a separate file, but it would be fine to have them in blocks.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Stack Overflow famously ran on a half-rack of servers, duplicated in two locations for redundancy. This stopped when they got acquired by a cloud company - they were moved into the cloud. But it's clearly both possible and not too expe
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by immibis 11mo ago
Your attention is convertible into money through showing you which things you should spend money on. You can also convert your own attention into your own money by not spending money on those things. At least it was originally like that. No
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by immibis 11mo ago
Most ad-supported things also should not exist. Although Stack Overflow, terrible as it is, is not one of those.
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by immibis 11mo ago
The Australian law isn't vague in saying that it's illegal for websites to require you to upload your ID. The penalty for requiring users to upload their ID is the same as the penalty for deliberately allowing minors.
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by immibis 11mo ago
> I was worried this would go about as well as every other "roll your own" project does We as an industry need to get rid of this fear of creating stuff.
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by immibis 11mo ago
You may be confusing the UKOSA (which is about surveillance) with the concept of age verification more generally.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Parenting is, and always has been, a collective responsibility. We made it illegal to sell alcohol to kids, instead of just complaining that parents weren't teaching them not to drink it.
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by immibis 11mo ago
How about the majority of the recent thread about the Australian social media ban? BTW the Australian law says it's illegal for a platform to require government ID for age verification.
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by immibis 11mo ago
The sensible options were that either LLM outputs are derivative of all their training data, or they're new works produced by the machine, which is not a human, and therefore not copyrightable. Courts have decided they're new work
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by immibis 11mo ago
Because they don't have any reason to give any shits. 90% of their collected data is probably completely useless, but they don't have any incentive to stop collecting useless data, since their compute and bandwidth is completely f
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by immibis 11mo ago
No idea. There was once this German guy who planted flowers in front of factories. His name was Adolf Hitler and I'm not sure why everyone hates him so much. (This is sarcastic and do you see the problem with your comment now?)
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by immibis 11mo ago
ImmutableFoo can't be a subclass of Foo, since it loses the mutator methods. But nor can Foo be a subclass of ImmutableFoo, since it loses the axiom of immutability (e.g. thread-safety) that ImmutableFoo has. When you interpret Liskov
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by immibis 11mo ago
Are they using it to snoop on the traffic, or are they merely using it to block viruses? Lack of encryption is not a guarantee of snooping. I know in the USA it can be assumed that you can do whatever you want with unencrypted traffic, whic
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by immibis 11mo ago
I agree it would be more privacy-conscious to do the banning in the opposite way, by putting the banning logic on the end device, and mandating websites to send a signal that they are banned for minors. This header already exists (and for s
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by immibis 11mo ago
Works for me. If I search "restaurants", and I see a building full of pins. I can now go to that building and look at all the restaurants. You don't want to show every business as a default view, of course.
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by immibis 11mo ago
You just made me check a business where I left a negative review and was threatened with a lawsuit. I didn't remove it, but Google did automatically. Looks like I'm still algo-banned from leaving a review there (I even tried a 5-s
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by immibis 11mo ago
This idea of one continuous block per level dates back to the PS1 days. Hard drives are much, much faster than optical media - on the order of 80 seeks per second and 300 MB/s sequential versus, like, 4 seeks per second and 60 MB/
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by immibis 11mo ago
No, and your comment is ridiculously bad faith. Courts ruled that outputs of LLMs are not copyrightable. They did not rule that outputs of compilers are not copyrightable.
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by immibis 11mo ago
It seems my opinions are influenced by facts, and not by a parade of firstname lastnames. Thank you for testing this hypothesis.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Luckily, they aren't doing that - the Australian law actually bans them from demanding IDs, unless they provide an alternative as well. Here is the law: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display&#x2F
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by immibis 11mo ago
This pattern of thought is exactly the issue. Stop offloading the responsibility for creating a reasonable environment! That won't end well for neither children nor adults. It's an extremely American religious belief that everyt
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by immibis 11mo ago
It actually doesn't say they must verify ID. It says "reasonable steps". Actually, it says they must NOT verify ID unless they also have a way to do it without verifying ID. The fine for requiring an ID upload is the same a
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by immibis 11mo ago
This appears to be a slippery slope argument: if they ban specific algorithmic social media platforms that have a verified extremely negative effect on children, soon they'll ban all communications. It could happen that they ban all co
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by immibis 11mo ago
I think you both may have misunderstood my comment. It's not about history. It's simply a rebuttal to the idea that something which "only convinces" is less influential than a state. States themselves also fall into that
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by immibis 11mo ago
They actually did the experiment . While we're over here thinking social media is probably bad for kids and wondering what would happen if they weren't allowed to use it., Australia actually did that. Soon we'll actually kn
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by immibis 11mo ago
Okay? You might as well not make it easy for them by letting them copy your software verbatim? What's this argument that since life isn't fair you might as well just give up and help the evil people? People following this argument

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