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EldritchFemininity

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  • Do you feel that use of generative AI and LLMs is ever justifiable? If so, when and where? If not, why not?

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  • Just my personal take, but my opinion basically boils down to "they can be."

    It's all about how ethically they're handled, and that can be good or bad at any scale. Take your very own instance, for example. Not that it's hosting a local LLM (maybe they are, IDK), but the instance openly supports GenAI and has instances for all the major GenAI companies/models. GenAI without ethical sourcing - which none of these companies do - is one of the most blatant examples of a corporation using technology to steal the skilled labor of workers to avoid having to pay them what they're owed for that skill. So your own instance is pro-corporatism, so long as they're benefiting from stealing from workers. Not very anarchist if you ask me.

    On the other hand, there's a company that I believe partnered with Affinity a few years back that is a website design company that was hiring artists to create UI pieces for a training set for their LLM that they were going to use to create website templates for customers as part of their service (and I think they were also guaranteeing royalties for those who contributed as well?).

  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • An estimated 20% of women will be sexually assaulted in their life. Half of those will happen by the time that they're 16. 40% of trans women will be sexually assaulted.

    This isn't about your feelings being hurt.

  • A broken clock is still right twice a day.

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  • The politicians? Sure. But the average American liberal/leftist just wants peace and universal healthcare.

  • A broken clock is still right twice a day.

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  • Sooo...what exactly has changed? That still sounds like right and left to me.

  • "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

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  • The one thing I will say is that there does seem to be a generalized dislike for AI that has all the investors and upper management types nervous. Even by their own studies do people generally either not care about AI in their products or actively dislike it/find it intrusive. There was a study by a phone company from this past summer or fall that concluded that 80% of their users had no interest in AI or found that it actively made their experience worse, and there have been plenty of pretty damning reports about how useful it's been in various industries (just look at Microslop). That is not conducive to convincing investors to fund your product and does not show a viable path to making a profit in the future.

    We've seen similar things happening recently with car manufacturers walking back on their big touchscreens (with some help from regulation in civilized places that care about things like "pedestrian fatalities" - like Europe) due to consumer sentiment. They tried for nearly a decade to push bigger and bigger screens into cars and remove physical buttons, and now they're moving in the other direction. Completely anecdotal evidence, but the last time I went to buy a car I told the salesman at the dealership that I wasn't interested in cars newer than a certain year because that was when they increased the size of the screen and put them in a more obnoxious spot on the dashboard, and he said that he heard similar sentiments from practically everybody who came in looking to buy a car - everybody hated the bigger screens.

  • Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS

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  • If you think about it, it is very wasteful for you to have that chocolate bar in your food pantry. So many wasted calories as most bodies can only burn a fraction of them before converting the rest into fat. Same can be said for pasta and many other foods. We even spend a full third of our lives asleep, consuming even less calories! Incredibly inefficient!

    Maybe the solution is aerosolized calories that can be sprayed via plane over vast regions of the country instead of food so that calories are owned by the people on a local, regional, or national level?

  • California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

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  • Don't worry, you're not pissing in my Cheerios or anything, I just always end up in one of those "That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works!" rants whenever they pull the "ghost gun" nonsense.

    It's like how it's illegal in Mass to own a suppressor unless you're a cop or military, then you can buy as many as you want. Like...it reduces recoil a little and reduces the noise from permanent hearing loss to temporary hearing damage, it's not gonna make a gun silent. Movie magic quiet is only possible with very particular sub-sonic rounds of a specific caliber. You want silent? You put a suppressor on an air rifle. Dead silent and completely legal to put a suppressor on in all 50 states because it's not a gun, despite being just as dangerous at close ranges.

    Edit: Also, these laws are often supported by firearms manufacturers because it benefits them to prevent people from being able to go elsewhere, like making aftermarket car parts illegal or forcing people to get their service done at a car dealership.

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    How could we go about making a jurisdiction where advertising is illegal?

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  • This is how you do it. You create clear and direct laws that specify what isn't okay. New Hampshire banned all billboards. I believe Vietnam recently banned all ads longer than 15 seconds online. These make it absolutely clear what is and isn't okay, and leave no wiggle room for companies to try to circumvent the laws on technicalities.

  • California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

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  • They have metal internal components just like almost every 3d printed gun does. There are some things that you just need metal for, like springs. The vast majority of 3d printed guns are actually guns purchased from a gun store and then modified with the equivalent of handmade after-market parts.

    In order to be undetectable by metal detectors, you would have to keep the amount of metal in them to about that of a pair of glasses. So basically a firing pin and that's about it. I think a break action firing chamber would probably set it off like a big belt buckle would, and no recoil or magazine springs mean that it would have to be a single shot weapon with a manual reload - some kind of break action. And no barrel liner or a metal barrel at all, nor metal bullet casings. A shotgun shell might be able to make it through because of their mostly plastic shell with a copper back about the size of a quarter, but that's gonna be about it.

    It's really not the issue that politicians and the media make it out to be. It's just fear mongering.

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  • So...step 2 is figuring out how many cells are needed to run DOOM on wetware?

  • Be Wary of Bluesky

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  • Because the most common people complaining about Bluesky fall into 1 of 2 groups:

    People upset that Bluesky isn't tolerating their behavior (mostly Nazis and transphobes angry about the community not letting it become Truth Social 2 or allowing transphobes to harass users, but also certain leftist groups, much like the tankies here on Lemmy)

    People upset that the infrastructure isn't FOSS or some similar complaint about it not being enough (purity test behavior like in every comment section on Lemmy)

    And people saying that Bluesky is an echo chamber tend to fall very heavily into group 1.

  • Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety"

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  • Didn't they do this with an AI vending machine already and it started selling tungsten cubes at a massive loss?

  • California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

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  • Wrong, the purpose is to prevent people from not buying from a corporation - guns and otherwise. You can buy polymer guns right from the store.

  • California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

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  • Print the parts for a new printer on a cheap one, buy the hardware at a local hardware store or electronics store (or even strip the cheap one for most of the parts), and start printing in your favorite flavor of open source software. Or buy the printed pieces from someone or online and then buy and assemble the rest. That's what they do with guns to circumvent some of the gun laws, because the not quite finished pieces are not legally considered a gun.

    All this would do is make people buy printers the way that they buy guns, ironically. And it still won't do anything about the so-called "ghost guns" anyway, because those are either legally bought guns with the serial number shaved off, or they're garage guns like the one used to assassinate Shinzo Abe.

  • California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

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  • Except for the fact that this doesn't put any pressure on anyone who wants a gun (those are still really easy to get in California, just not as easy as most other states). But those who benefit the most from this law are gun manufacturers, and not long after when this bill is extended to printing replacement parts for anything, all companies that charge inflated prices for repair parts or design their products to be unrepairable entirely.

    What people who print "guns" are actually printing is gun furniture. Custom grips and the like, either for comfort/aesthetics or so they can take cheaper gun parts and use them to build a clone of a similar gun from a company that charges more. They still use legally purchased gun internals.

    The gun that Luigi Mangione supposedly used was a Glock, legally purchased and one of the most ubiquitous pistols in the world, with a 3d printed grip on it. Every other part of that gun came from the manufacturer.

    The gun used to kill Shinzo Abe, however, was made entirely out of simple materials readily available at any hardware store and is completely legal in all 50 states. Because a gun like that is considered a "garage gun" and those are legal under federal law because it's essentially impossible to stop somebody from gluing together a pipe and a nail to strike the bullet with and fire it down the pipe barrel. But 3d printed gun parts don't fall under the same regulations and those who stand to lose the most from people 3d printing are those who charge unreasonable prices.

    You know who else would benefit from this law? Games Workshop, who sells many miniature figures for $40+ each, and a few for over one thousand dollars.

  • YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it

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  • You're laboring under the impression that consumer protection laws mean anything in the US. They don't. Unless it's something absolutely egregious, then maybe they might get a slap on the wrist. Maybe.

    Another perfect example is my buddy who was looking at digital watches yesterday. The same watch was $100 more expensive on Amazon than at Walmart, and Prime prices are often higher than if you don't have Prime. I've also had Amazon completely lie to me about an item being on sale, claiming that it was 50% off on a Prime day sale, and then when I went and checked it the day after it turned out that it had been more like $5 off than the several hundred they claimed the sale would've saved. They marked it up wildly just to pretend that it was on sale. And they're not the only ones to have been caught doing that. Plenty of other places have been caught doing the same thing, but since they're big companies, unless you can get a settlement from a class action suit, nobody cares.

  • YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it

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  • These kinds of things are often A B testing to see what they can get away with - especially in countries like the US where consumer protection laws basically don't matter. It's kinda like when they raise subscription prices in one country but not another, but with showing some people in that country a certain amount of ads per watch time vs another group with a different amount of ads. They see how much they can get away with before people start complaining, and then what they can get away with before people start cancelling.

    I watched a video just this morning talking about how YouTube has built-in systems for similar A B testing with video thumbnails to tell creators which gets more watch time. You give it 2 thumbnails and it randomizes which one people see, and then tracks click-through rates and watch time percentages before giving you a result of which one performs better.

  • My therapist says she might have to report my abusive family to the authorities. How do I avoid being reported so the cops don't show up and make everything worse?

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  • Since you have the help of a therapist, you should use them as a resource to help formulate any plans and put them into motion. Therapists aren't just there to talk to, they're good for sound boarding ideas like this off of because they have access to resources that other people might not necessarily have. A therapist's word or signature can get you access to medical care or services that would otherwise be more difficult to get, and they know the ins and outs of systems like social security or aid programs. Their job is to help you, and by telling them straight up that you need help getting a plan together to get out of your living situation they can focus on that.

    In the short term, I would recommend putting together a "bug out" bag that you can stash somewhere safe in case you need to leave quickly. Ideally, you should have copies of important documents such as social security cards and stuff that you might not be able to go back for later, but it should at least be just enough stuff to get you by for a couple of days if you need to drop everything and leave. Stuff like a change of clothes, a water bottle, and some cash.

  • Fifty Years Ago, the Supreme Court Said Money Is Speech

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  • This isn't a "grrr, Russians r bad and evil 😡 USA number 1! 😲🥵🍆💦" statement, it's a "we know he's on one payroll, but just exactly how many is he really on" statement. Because it's been known for ages that he has connections to Russian organized crime. The FBI has been trying to get charges to stick on it since the 80s.

    They own a lot of Trump property and he's been given tons of "gifts" by them over the years - including boats, airplanes, and cars. It's believed that a lot of his failed businesses were money laundering schemes for Russian crime syndicates (every single one of his businesses except his father's real estate empire have gone bankrupt). How else do you explain bankrupting not just one, but two casinos? They're practically designed to print money! And then there was the whole "Trump Beauty Pageant" thing. You know, the one where he would fly around the country in his private jet, just him and a bunch of underage girls. Oh, and Jeffrey Epstein. I almost forgot that he went along for the rides, too. Can't forget that his favorite part was "when he would open the door on the girls while they were in the dressing room getting ready."

    Anyway, getting a bit off topic there. Not only would it benefit Russia to have an egomaniac leading the country (don't correct your enemy while they're making a mistake and all that), but it would be of great use to have a man willing to smuggle confidential documents to Mar A Lago and sell them for the right price in that seat.