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AwesomeLowlander

@ AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works

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  • authenticity problem

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  • Weird — I just see a double dash

  • authenticity problem

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  • It's one click away on my android keyboard.

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • Great, Linux is an algorithm.

    It might be accurate, but it's also vague enough that it's a pretty useless definition.

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • Doesn't matter what the goal is, the context of this particular discussion is that AI is benefiting at least some people by making their lives easier. And one guy who's trying to argue 'so what, it only matters if productivity goes up'.

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • However they like, are you their mum?

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • ... What.

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • AI has automated some mundane task that wasn't particularly important, and now they can spend their time doing something more interesting.

    That absolutely sounds like a win to me. Why is productivity gains the only thing that's important? QoL is what matters. Unless you're a capitalist overlord.

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • Not quite. Algorithms are definite, you get the same guaranteed output if you give the same input every time. AI is generally more fuzzy logic.

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  • You're getting direct examples of people its helped, and you keep brushing it off and asking what about everybody else. You're obviously not going to get a single answer that affects everybody, and why do small successes not matter?

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • His analogy about turning off AI is bloody weird. Pick almost any technology from history. Chances are if you had turned it off a few short years after it was first introduced, it wouldn't have had any major impact. Why would AI be any different?

  • An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it

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  • You realise that it is a statistical impossibility that there were absolutely no mistakes?

  • YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use

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  • But now both SO and Google are shit...

  • Found in HomeGoods. Are these photos AI? It looks normal for the most part, but the two pictures where the flower pattern dress that is not quite matching is tripping me up.

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  • Goddamn I need to steal this

  • Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users' internet connections with strangers

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  • Oh yeah I'm not trying to accuse you of anything, don't worry. Just throwing out some info a lot of people aren't aware of to contribute to the conversation.

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  • Bad assumption on my part. Anyway yeah. Just an FYI since you were recommending it as a security practice. I have actually contacted European companies and had them remove geoblocks in the past by pointing out they were (probably unknowingly) breaking the law.

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  • Btw I'm not sure if you're aware, but this behaviour (blocking based on geographic ip) is literally illegal in the EU. I'm aware it's not applicable to you since you're in the states, just an FYI.

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  • As this is an NA based publication, "overseas" would likely be Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania.

    Unless they're intending that their audience is only from the Americas, then no, overseas is based entirely on where their individual readers are.

    Anyway, I feel like you may have misunderstood me a little. I'm not annoyed from a security perspective, I just found that to be superbly bad writing.

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  • You do understand that 'overseas' means 'anywhere not in my country', correct? Not a few specific countries, but literally 90+% of the world, with the exact makeup of that 90% depending on where the company is.

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  • Cybersecurity companies find resproxies challenging to tackle because the network traffic looks like it’s coming from an ordinary household, rather than a malicious hacker located overseas, as they might expect.

    Ah, yes. Overseas, that wretched hive of scum and villainy, home of all malicious hackers and utterly devoid of any ordinary households.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    In addition to hardcoded blocklist, Tesseract downloads secret censorship list at runtime without telling anybody

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Why hasn't bamboo taken over the world?

  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Which reasonably sized instance to recommend newcomers?