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  • Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today

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  • nes game programmers

    Were these guys even Real Programmers?

    Here's a great talk by a guy who worked on a 1982 game for the Atari 2600, a game console first released in 1977. It's a fascinating insight into the early evolution of computing. They didn't work around limitations. They used a machine to do whatever it could.

    If anyone has ever wondered by what standard C is a high-level language, this is for you. Or if you want to know how we ever could have developed something to connect the abstract logic of some algorithm with some glowing pixels on a screen.

    Pitfall Classic Postmortem With David Crane Panel at GDC 2011 (Atari 2600)

    There's an ancient myth that a god created the first pair of tongs. Tongs need to be forged in a smithy. Obviously, you need tongs for that.

  • Who is your oldest "hear me out" that you can remember from childhood?

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  • o7

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  • I guess most people don't get how terrifyingly dystopian this is.

    In the EU, there is a serious push to make this mandatory.

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  • Studying BDSM in an animal model, I see.

  • OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power

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  • out-of-context quote about

    That didn't exactly look like animation. Looks like they trained an AI to control a humanoid figure in a virtual environment. It learned completely new and inhuman means of locomotion. Not very impressive from the technical angle, but the pitch about using it as a model for Zombie movement was clever.

    You can use that for CG animation, of course. But those bi- and quadrupedal robots are also trained that way.

    I feel the filmmakers manufactured some drama there. Knowing the real context of the quote makes it much more sensible.

  • ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli-style images highlight AI copyright concerns

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  • It depends on where they did it, but probably yes. They had the right to do it in Japan, for example.

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  • This is why WIS and INT are different stats.

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  • How dare you accuse me of being of the same caliber as Qanon. You don’t know me.

    I know that you recklessly spread disinformation and react to proposed facts with hostility rather than curiosity. I don't know more about the qanon people either.

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  • Yes, but that's not the only reason. It's also done to track users; specifically to detect ban evasion and such things. Detecting DDoS attacks or scrapers might also be a purpose. Your instance only gives the first as a purpose, though. EU sites are legally required, per GDPR, to disclose such things.

    I don't know how I should reply to this level of aggressive ignorance and willful disinformation in a way that does not appear arrogant.

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  • Yes, which is why I think a company like Reddit plausibly holds less information than an Australian Lemmy instance.

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  • If identifying-information-storage was so vital, logless VPNs wouldn’t exist.

    I see no technical reason why a VPN would need to store outgoing connections. I would be surprised if they didn't store incoming connections, but I don't actually know.

    Anyway, just don't make stuff up. You're not making the world a better place. You ever heard of these Qanon guys? They made up a lot of shit and they didn't make the world a better place.

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  • As far as I know, all these posts could come from an LLM via a botnet. The article does not support your claim. I don't know what you are trying to argue here.

    I have given you factual information. I obliged your request for a source. You are welcome.

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  • The paper contains errors about AI technology and should not be taken at face value. Notably, its understanding of distillation is wrong.

    Unfortunately, it also lacks an analysis of EU law, which makes the paper rather useless. The EU almost always goes for monopoly rents in these matters, which does not stimulate anything. The EU has no content industry able to compete with the US's, no major tech industry, and it is clearly not developing AI companies either.

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  • EU law requires them to moderate that sort of thing. Bit ironic to complain about that on an EU instance.

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  • Destroying documentation while a court case is pending tends to be highly illegal.

    Any Lemmy instance stores identifying information for technical reasons. I couldn't say if reddit stores more information for longer. Quite plausibly, your instance has more on you. Reddit is internationally exposed to various regulations and must make a professional effort to comply.

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  • In practice, copyright would be the big problem. There is no Fair Use in Europe. There is no difference between what they do and Anna's Archive or LibGen. As far as copyright people are concerned, this is just "theft" on a gigantic scale.

    Then there's the GDPR. As far as the EU is concerned, this is one huge human rights violation. The GDPR does allow for archives, but figuring out how the IA should operate would take some litigation. I doubt they would be allowed to provide the Wayback Machine.

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  • http://warrior.archiveteam.org/

    The ArchiveTeam Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive — and it’s really easy to do!

    The warrior is a virtual machine, so there is no risk to your computer. The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space.

    The warrior runs on Windows, OS X and Linux. You’ll need VirtualBox (recommended), VMware or a similar program to run the virtual machine.

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  • Well, not to Europe. They've always been illegal here. I don't know where they could even go.