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GnuLinuxDude

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  • We hate AI because it's everything we hate

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  • The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

    Good sentiment, but my critique on this message is that the people who produce this stuff don't have really have any interest in producing what they do for its own sake. They only have interest in producing content to crowd out the people who actually care, and to produce a worse version of whatever it is in a much faster time than it would for someone with actual talent to do so. And the reason they're producing anything is for profit. Gunk up the search results with no-effort crap to get ad revenue. It is no different than "SEO."

    Example: if you go onto YouTube right now and try to find any modern 30-60m long video that's like "chill beats" or "1994 cyberpunk wave" or whatever other bullshit they pump out (once you start finding it you'll find no shortage of it), you'll notice that all of those uploaders only began as of about a year ago at most and produce a lot of videos (which youtube will happily prioritize to serve you) of identical sounding "music." The people producing this don't care about anything except making money. They're happy to take stolen or plagiarized work that originated with humans, throw it into the AI slot machine, and produce something which somehow is no longer considered stolen or plagiarized. And the really egregious ones will link you to their Patreons.

    The story is the same with art, music, books, code, and anything else that actually requires creativity, intuition, and understanding.

  • GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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  • The key point about codeberg as I understand it is it’s meant for foss projects. It’s not really much more complex than that. Want to host non-free software, or want to use it for your company’s private code repository? They don’t want that on their servers, so either find an alternative or self-host forgejo, which is the same code (derived from gitea) that powers codeberg itself.

  • I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C

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  • Can’t read my emails on it though.

    Great feature!!

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • I also try, but it is invoked on my behalf. For instance, at work if I make a pull request now multiple AI bots are summoned to give an analysis of my code changes. It's extremely verbose and annoying, and I think basically nobody reads it because all it does is just spam the comments section with way too much text.

    I vehemently hate OpenAI, ChatGPT, et al. At least it's funny when it summarizes my changes as significant improvements that improve code maintainability. I guess getting glazed by the bot in a way my manager can see is helpful to my career? Though honestly he probably also doesn't read that shit. So glad all this energy is wasted for nothing.

  • Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings

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  • “The enigma of success” whoever came up with that line has truly mastered the art of auto-fellatio.

  • North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime

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  • Why does this story magically no longer become interesting because of a group that helps defected NKs?

    There is nothing magic about it. The organization that's cited isn't the problem. The problem is the BBC cites that org as proof that this person's claims are true. But neither that org nor the BBC have said, "we have corroborated Jin-su's story." On the contrary, the BBC just admits they didn't or couldn't corroborate the story themselves. So in my mind I may as well have read this article on any rando's blog post, or in the NYT in 2001 under a Judith Miller byline. It lacks credence.

    I wouldn't have had anything to say if BBC said that they reviewed some documents that showed Jin-su's claim. Maybe a few of the "hundreds" of fake IDs that he used, for example. But instead they just read another testimony from PSCORE. Was that other testimony verified? They don't bother explaining. So they just use an unverified testimony from PSCORE and pass that off to make the reader believe that that's good enough in place of actually verifying Jin-su's testimony!

  • North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime

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  • Would you expect a news outlet to be able to somehow verify the testimony of a prisoner of war before reporting on it?

    "If the circumstance were different would you expect something different?" is what you are asking me. The interviewee isn't a POW, but a defector. And not an escapee, because according to the article he was already sent abroad, so it's not like he fled with merely the clothes on his back and a story to tell. So I would presume he would have a bit more evidence to share with the BBC than just a story, just as many of the people responding to me seem to presume that because it's been reported by the BBC it's prima facie undeniably true.

  • North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime

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  • You're tedious and annoying.

  • North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime

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  • In cases like these the journalists can and often do say something to the effect of they were able to corroborate the claims. But you're super right about being careful, because they also can mishandle the data they receive to the point where they dox the anonymous source, too. That's what happened with Reality Winner and The Intercept. They botched it, and she was arrested.

  • North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime

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  • I'm not doubting the N Korean scheme to infiltrate IT jobs. There's even that woman who was prosecuted (I think she lived in Arizona?) because she is one person who acted as a facilitator for this scheme. My point is the BBC ran a story with an "anonymous" source then admits in the middle that they couldn't substantiate any of the claims. That's the problem here.

  • North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime

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  • You're not addressing the fact that BBC admits they didn't/couldn't substantiate his claims, which apparently is no problem for your own journalistic standards.

  • North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime

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  • The BBC cannot independently verify the specifics of Jin-su's testimony, but through PSCORE, an organisation which advocates for North Korean human rights, we've read testimony from another IT worker who defected that supports Jin-su's claims.

    Oh. Ok. You'd think he can prove something with like a pay stub, at minimum. But I guess the standard of proof when reporting on N Korea is "an anti-n korea org also said so." I was genuinely interested in this article until that line.

  • Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU?

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  • I have long contended that the computer industry is course-correcting with Android/iOS/mobile. They realized their prior "mistake" of letting people actually own, control, and modify their devices. Apple and iPhone is the worst in this regard.

  • Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded

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  • It’s like he selectively forgot about the Snowden leaks

  • Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north

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  • Love to expand my business infrastructure in a country that’s actively perpetrating a genocide. Very cool.

  • Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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  • More necessary than that, really.

  • OpenAI launches personal assistant capable of controlling files and web browsers

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  • don't run untrusted scripts from the internet on your computer.

  • OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses'

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  • CEO Sam Altman warns that the rollout presents unpredictable risks.

    But that doesn't prevent his profit motive from consuming untold amounts of electricity to shove this into your face. They know what they're doing. They know their product is used primarily to generate spam, and secondarily is designed to form addictive faux-relationships with their users.

    Burn in hell. Actually, given the direction this is all going, we will all be burning in hell within generations.

  • ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout

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  • You’re spending a lot of effort complaining about your working conditions and then you see other people complain about their working conditions and your response is to get mad at THEM instead of the capitalist system and exploiting class that keeps them and you perilously employed and in your case seemingly while you’re sacrificing your body.

    Pick the right targets for your invective. Instagram uploaders aren’t making your life worse.

  • Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketing

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  • I'm extremely excited to announce that huge companies never lie, especially when they self-publish these kinds of reports. Therefore, I trust this primary source fully.

    edit: I don't want to be misconstrued. I am not saying that their environmental report is a total lie or distortion of the truth, either. I'm saying you cannot over-rely on primary sources when reporting on them.