pbasista

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by pbasista 5d ago
> I cancelled my YouTube Premium plan because of ads. That would make a great title for a write-up of your experience.
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by pbasista 5d ago
There is no "panic". It is more a realization that it is becoming difficult to notice recording devices. I assume the most problematic scenarios are private. Private meetings. Private conversations. Private encounters of every kin
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by pbasista 8d ago
> are you going to tell me “well you made it public access, they have a right to it same as everyone”? Yes. You can of course always close it to the public if the public usage bothers you. Or require those using it to agree to your terms
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by pbasista 8d ago
> Public availability doesn't give you a license to use it however you want. Of course. You listed complex examples from the real world. A park where walking is allowed but damaging the plants is not, for instance. There it makes se
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by pbasista 8d ago
> A lot of sites have terms and conditions which explicitly disallow the use of site content as a part of another service. Having terms and conditions in itself is irrelevant. Because in order for them to have any legal meaning, it is ne
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by pbasista 8d ago
I do not understand what "theft" they are talking about. Those AI bots were scraping publicly accessible internet. Publicly. Accessible. Of course there are some parts of the publicly accessible internet which host content that ma
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by pbasista 10d ago
Exactly. The person holding the camera is the author. Even if they just point the camera and press the record button. In a similar way, I would not consider AI to be the "author" of the output they produce. Rather, the person prom
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by pbasista 10d ago
The sad part is that the US could very well have had made such a trade and companionship deal with Canada themselves. Or even a better one, should they wanted to. They used to have an excellent relationship with Canada, the UK, with the EU
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by pbasista 10d ago
> Source for this claim? For example this article: https://www.propublica.org/article/billionaires-net-investme... The specific mechanism may vary by country. It often involves personal service companies through whi
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by pbasista 11d ago
The Disney World visitors are a specific group of people. The vast majority of them do not go there every week, nor every month. So the behavior you observe in there is not representative of the routine behavior of those people. In other wo
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by pbasista 11d ago
What does not help, in my opinion, is that the wealthy people often have enough resources to optimize their taxes to a point where they pay much lower rate than their fair share. While the others cannot afford to do that and pay the full ra
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by pbasista 11d ago
Why do you believe that?
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by pbasista 11d ago
There is no "gymnastics" needed. And those "middleware" layers are working just fine. A user just opens the original X link in xcancel or some of the similar web service. And it will display the actual content only. With
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by pbasista 11d ago
Well, I do not have an account and when I open any profile on it right now, I cannot read it properly. I cannot click on posts. I cannot read replies. I cannot open images. In my opinion, that is quite far from "functional". Such
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by pbasista 12d ago
> Your ability to continue to perform this work can be withdrawn at any time for any (or no) reason. Thanks to the fact that there are no widespread stories about this actually occurring in practice, at least not yet, people do not take
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by pbasista 18d ago
> CDU has been trying to adopt more AfD positions > this keeps only strengthening the AfD I am unfamiliar with the details of German politics but if what you say is true, I am not surprised at all. I do not think that one can "wi
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by pbasista 18d ago
> that makes the far-right parties grow stronger That issue is just one of many that they use and abuse to gain popularity. They have also spread lies about vaccines. They promote antisemitism, xenophobia, hate against the LGBTI people,
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by pbasista 18d ago
I assume that these populist, extremist or dictator-willing-to-be politicians, not only in Germany but also in other European countries, in Russia, in the US, in Canada, as well as in China and elsewhere, are now all spending countless AI t
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by pbasista 19d ago
> Now its likely soiled and I have to throw it away. Could you explain why you think so?
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by pbasista 19d ago
> X got a letter saying they should stop. I am unfamiliar with these matters and I am also unsure what specifically you are referring to. But in general, if big companies get away with wrongdoings by receiving a gentle slap on their fing
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by pbasista 23d ago
Maybe all of them use the same datacenter. Which has just experienced issues.
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by pbasista 24d ago
I think that it would be sufficient to realize that no one is forced to use a specific AI model or model harness that has anti-consumer features built in. People should just walk away if they see something like that. This is where the act
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by pbasista 24d ago
If you just say that you run out of tokens, it does not mean anything about the token quotas themselves being reasonable or not. That depends on how much you use it. For instance, if you had 10s of agents running all the time, it is not t
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by pbasista 25d ago
> Spotify is in the process of killing the librespot project How could they possibly do that? They cannot prevent people or AI from reverse engineering their APIs.
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by pbasista 1mo ago
> Are you absolutely sure you would catch any malicious payload in some obscure single-purpose Python script? Of course not. But I can at least fairly easily review it. And that is the point. A review cannot be done as easily with a mini
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by pbasista 1mo ago
WebUSB is deliberately unsupported on Firefox due to potential for abuse, which seems reasonable to me. Therefore, delivering updates to USB devices likes that is, in my opinion, suboptimal because it requires a specific browser feature whi
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by pbasista 2mo ago
I use Linux Containers managed by Incus for working with Claude. I have a dedicated container for that. It can run its own Docker daemon and other system services if needed. Apart from the Claude login token, it has no SSH keys or other cre
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by pbasista 2mo ago
> I'd not accept to be treated like children. What is your expectation from such a class? What are you hoping to get out of it? If you merely want a tutor that will help you out navigate a topic you are interested in, with no string
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by pbasista 2mo ago
EU does not want that. Only a few politicians, some of whom happen to be currently in power, in the EU or elsewhere, are pushing for those agendas. But fortunately, they do not represent the majority.
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by pbasista 2mo ago
> what should be done about open weight bioweapon and cyber-offense capabilities? In my opinion, the governments should deploy open-weight AI countermeasures. Because it seems to me that it is impossible to efficiently fight AI-powered c

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