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by phatfish 5mo ago
I don't think the bake-off to decide which superpower has the worst human rights record is going to land where you want it to. Hint, they both suck. FWIW, I'll take the one not dropping bombs to keep their BFF happy, boosting righ
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by phatfish 5mo ago
Peak HN childless digital nomad comment.
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by phatfish 5mo ago
> I’m sure what replaces it will be even worse though. :/ Hopefully not, it feels like regulation is catching up with the child exploitation. Once the giant platforms are dismantled and can no longer bully governments it will be eas
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by phatfish 5mo ago
If i remember chrome:// used to have special meaning in Firefox (and probably well before that), and was used to tweak UI settings. I always assumed this was where Google took the name from.
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by phatfish 5mo ago
This is a valid approach, and one i use as well. My wife likes flute/meditation music to help her sleep sometimes. Spotify is full AI generated covers in that genre, always at the top of the search results somehow, maybe because it is
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by phatfish 5mo ago
I know AI has it's sights on artists as it seems like the low hanging fruit (anything can be art!). But for music especially there is a very deliberate process a human uses. Musicians looking to create something original are not pumpin
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by phatfish 6mo ago
Are you upset that Russia's attempt at occupying Kyiv was hilarious bad (from a military point of view, obviously not as far as the Ukrainians are concerned), and Russia has lost any chance of retaking Poland for generations?
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by phatfish 6mo ago
Corporations already have a "digital ID" for everyone. As we know from WW2 (and more recent conflicts) private corporations would be lining up to work with the next Nazi regime if the price was right.
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by phatfish 6mo ago
The article is actually one of the better ones I've read. The technical analysis is somewhat above my head, but appears reasonable, and it is suggesting solutions in some cases rather than just dismissing the concerns of parents, and g
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by phatfish 6mo ago
At the moment in the UK (where any mention of digital ID sends half the population mental) you have to email a whole raft of ID docs and personal data to estate agents, mortgage brokers, solicitors etc. to get an ID check done. Or use a pri
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by phatfish 6mo ago
I will agree that governments are happy to bend the knee to corporations. But corporations control social media, so why would the corporations themselves not further their agenda using the platforms they control? Be that simply letting chao
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by phatfish 6mo ago
How we measure things in the UK has been dragged into political debates (Boris floated the idea of forcing supermarkets to list weights in pounds and ounces "again"). So critical thinking or sane decisions are out the window on th
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by phatfish 6mo ago
The US supports the genocide in Gaza, it supports the bombing of Lebanon. The US itself has now started (another) war and bombed Iran. China is repressing the Uyghur and threatening Taiwan. I don't agree with these actions but is reall
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by phatfish 6mo ago
You let Trump and all the tech-bro shitheads win with that attitude unfortunately. Democracy is an ongoing battle.
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by phatfish 6mo ago
Surely he just waits for the Trump pardon in 2028? Or is this something he can't be pardoned for?
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by phatfish 6mo ago
That is great for core principles. But languages and development environments have since assumed everyone has access to then internet. Meaning more "stuff" is the solution to problems (massive standard libraries or community creat
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by phatfish 6mo ago
Age restrictions are popular. Billion dollar corporations won't protect their users well-being if it means even a small drop in share price and exec bonuses, we know this from past behaviour. I don't want my children's attent
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by phatfish 6mo ago
Google and other search engines link (after the AI response and ads) to information hosted somewhere created/published by someone who is usually not Google. OpenAI et al are creating the information and publishing/delivering it to
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by phatfish 6mo ago
What does democracy have to do with electronic encryption? Democracy existed before computers. There are legitimate reasons for governments to intercept information, with the correct oversight -- enforced legally in an "checks and bala
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by phatfish 6mo ago
I'm not. Parents are very much in favour of restrictions on what can be accessed online. Parents can't control what their children are doing 24/7, and neither should they. But they should expect a society where children are p
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by phatfish 6mo ago
You call 111 if you don't want to bother the 999 guys. 111 will tell you what you need to do, including "go to A&E". What is wrong with going to A&E for an (as you said yourself) emergency? A pharmacist dispenses medi
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by phatfish 7mo ago
It's the ONLY thing that Russia has the resources to do. Apart from fighting their smaller neighbour to a standstill.
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by phatfish 7mo ago
Or maybe 1900+ years of acting a certain way?
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by phatfish 7mo ago
It depends how it is used. If it is an assist which generates sounds/samples that a musician can edit themselves, that seems fine. But spewing out a final form track from a prompt would just be slop. Integrating AI with existing tools
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by phatfish 7mo ago
Isn't the non-LLM generated text becoming more valuable for training as the web at large is flooded with slop? Preventing new human generated text from being used by AI firms (without consent) seems like a valid strategy.
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by phatfish 7mo ago
Maybe, but BMW are at least trying. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/electric-cars/electric-3-... At least the Chinese tech will be available to European consumers, nothing says insecure like pretending a compet
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by phatfish 7mo ago
External factors can be a quick recovery. Internal factors are often a long road. Accounting and corruption failures sounds internal to me.
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by phatfish 7mo ago
Badly behaved kids I am more understanding of now (at least the younger ones). But there are defintely easy ways out of problems some parents take that are not good for children.
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by phatfish 7mo ago
The reason isn't because it is more difficult or people enjoy having kids less (like the parent). Its because children used to be a way to provide security for your family and community. More hands to help or sent off to earn money you
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by phatfish 7mo ago
Pretty sure this would be the only way the rest of the world (except China) dumps US tech services, so it sounds great.

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