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  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • That may be something else if you're not currently using the Wayland compositor, which I think is still in alpha.

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • Besides the potential risk of unknowable copyright infringement and the dangers that poses to FLOSS projects as I mentioned in another comment here:

    Simply using an AI that's run on a corporate data centers encourages the construction of yet more data centers, with all of the environmental/climate negatives they bring, as well as local harms they induce on the people living near them, such as increased electricity rates.

    Using corporate AI directly helps the financial situations of the big tech companies that host them (by boosting usage/user numbers, they are able to attract more investment capital), most of which are owned by right-wing CEO's who are more than willing to collaborate with and fund fascist governments to ensure that they are not regulated in search of both maximum profits. Some of these companies, such as Nvidia, Palantir and Oracle, genuinely appear to be seeking to use these tools for what would previously be considered crackpot conspiracy theory levels of public control and surveillance.

    But if someone is absolutely determined to use them regardless, I would hope they either use a locally run LLM, or use a distributed model like AI Horde, as at the very least that does not encourage the construction of corporate data centers nor boost their financial prospects.

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • Unknowingly using potentially copyrighted code from an LLM in a FLOSS project opens it up to being sued for infringement, which most FLOSS devs can’t afford to fight, especially in the US’s current extremely pro-corporate courts.

    It’s putting a target on your back for down the road when it becomes profitable for patent trolls to use AI to try to scan for copyrighted code on public code bases. Big tech companies could do the same to squash an open source competitor.

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • I'm certainly not pleased with it.

  • Microsoft's Windows 11 push backfired, so it's quietly keeping Windows 10 alive for another year

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  • They absolutely do put on government backdoors, but most people aren't going to be personally targeted by that, but they are likely to get hit with non-fed malware, like keyloggers to steal accounts, botnets, identity theft, etc.

    Not that it justifies it, fuck Microsoft, but you get what I mean?

  • Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph

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  • The ones at the bottom that are below the None category aren't defederated from anyone, so they can access every instance.

  • Microsoft's Windows 11 push backfired, so it's quietly keeping Windows 10 alive for another year

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  • I am in no way disagreeing that Windows 11 is a shit show, and wildly less secure than Linux, but realistically as bad as it is, it's still going to have less open and known vulnerabilities than Windows 7.

  • Microsoft's Windows 11 push backfired, so it's quietly keeping Windows 10 alive for another year

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  • I agree with everything you're saying here besides security. Windows 10 and 11 have received hundreds if not thousands of additional security patches that 7 never will receive, which would be crucial to using the internet safely today.

    However, 11 (and to a lesser extent 10) has horrific privacy invasive features built in, so it's very much a trade-off there, making Linux the only option to have both security and privacy.

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    Tesseract dev injects malicious code into browser to illegally DDOS the dbzer0 instance

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  • He did, his instance was dubvee(.)org. i guess that wasn't good enough 🤷

  • Beyond CAPTCHAs: How do we keep human‑pretending bots out of the fediverse?

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  • there is a significant probability we already are at this point,

    I personally don't believe that we are, not here, anyway. If I browse reddit for a while, I get the feeling that it is overran with bots at this point (like, 45 to 50% bots, based on my own subjective intuitions), as I'm not sure reddit itself is actually fighting it all that hard (on the surface, it would seem like AI traffic that isn't 'discovered' to be AI traffic would still be useful to them to artificially boost user numbers for investors as well as for ad revenue. In other words, I'm not sure they have a strong incentive to weed out AI users, at least in respect to short-term profits? Though I could be wrong).

    Lemmy/Piefed on the other hand still don't appear to be very bot-ridden yet, maybe 5 to 10% at most.

    I think it is a rising threat, and we're already sort've at a point like it's depicted in Cyberpunk 2077. In the future it may indeed make the internet an unfun place to be socially, but at least for now, the fediverse appears to holding it back so far. As I say, if it ever becomes overwhelmingly bots, I'm definitely going to be scaling back my participation, and if others do the same, then yes, the internet will suffer for it and be a far less useful resource, but at the same time, the bot resistant alternatives I mentioned in my other comment will benefit from that exodus, and we'll likely just adapt to that.

  • Beyond CAPTCHAs: How do we keep human‑pretending bots out of the fediverse?

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  • I already answered the first part your question at the end of my previous comment. As to the idea that they become more useful/beneficial than actual human members, I personally find actually interacting with other humans more fulfilling than interacting with a machine in a social context, regardless of how 'useful' they are.

    If AI gets to the point where it's all pervasive, indistinguishable from real people, and we somehow cannot devise a way of weeding them out of online communities, I'd honestly probably just stop participating socially in public internet spaces, and instead restrict myself to private invite-only communities that do more intense vetting to ensure only humans are in that space, or participate in and help build up local mesh-networks, where people can actually meet up with who they talk to online.

    That would probably mean a lot less time spent online overall, and instead going outside and finding connection with people in real life.

  • Beyond CAPTCHAs: How do we keep human‑pretending bots out of the fediverse?

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  • I didn't and can't guarantee that, I merely said that most bots reveal themselves with the technique I described.

    I suspect that using human applications to get an AI through the door will be somewhat uncommon, as hiring people to do that for profit seeking reasons is likely not terribly viable, as a human can only write so many applications per day, and that labor isn't free, I just don't see the economics working out. Bot spam is likely only profitable when it is entirely automated.

    But if a human specifically targeted an instance in that way, that certainly could happen. I suspect that at least for now, other users may be able to suss-out a bot that gets through, as they still have some tell-tale signs they give off in their writing style, but it's plausible that at some point they will be able to blend in seamlessly. At that point, we'll need to devise new ways to weed them out if they begin to take over.

  • Beyond CAPTCHAs: How do we keep human‑pretending bots out of the fediverse?

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  • It is correct, it is very frequently used in much of the material LLMs were trained on, and the AI is correctly using it, but generally to excess. It uses it so often, that it has unfortunately become a signal that something might be AI written. That is just the reality at this point, and I suspect Em-dash usage by humans will begin to fall off, at least online to avoid that association (until the AI is trained on material that makes it not use em-dashes, at least).

  • Beyond CAPTCHAs: How do we keep human‑pretending bots out of the fediverse?

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  • They are still quite evident in the way they construct their messages, and of course any em-dash usage is a big giveaway.

    Someday they'll likely be able to answer those questions more convincingly, but right now it works for the most part.

  • Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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  • But Codeberg just doesn't want cryptocurrency scams, and Anubis isn't a currency, it has no ability to pump and dump like cryptocurrencies can. Proof-of-work to weed out bots has little similarity in practical usage with proof-of-work to waste electricity for a digital number that is more often a scam than not.

  • Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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  • Anubis isn't a currency, though.

  • Beyond CAPTCHAs: How do we keep human‑pretending bots out of the fediverse?

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  • Having manual account approvals combined with a short questionnaire asking why they want to join and which communities interest them has been extremely effective on my instance so far, as most bots reveal themselves at this step.

  • Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party

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  • In Major Shift, Trump Admin Prioritizes Fight Against ‘Left-Wing Terror’ Over Islamic Extremism

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  • Food and Cooking @beehaw.org
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    Easy Crispy Baked Fish in a Walnut and Cracker Crumb with Simplified Fondant Potatoes | Atomic Shrimp

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    I Switched From Windows to Linux – It Only Took Me 20 Years (Including Davinci Resolve Setup)

  • Comics @lemmy.ml
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    The Thief of Tales, page 1

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    What would happen if you crossed Tangerine Dream with Mirror Universe TNG? Something cooler than it has any right to be

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    50 years after Basic, most users still can't or won't program anything

    www.zdnet.com /article/50-years-after-basic-most-users-still-cant-or-wont-program-anything/
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    The legendary UNIX Magic Poster by Gary Overcare (high quality)

  • History @mander.xyz
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    The Great Eggnog Riot of West Point Military Academy, 1887

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) Cory Doctorow

    pluralistic.net /2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Logseq - A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base

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  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    3D Printed Hydrofoil Ep.3 - Endurance Test and Control Dynamics

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    Temporary Carbon Storage 🙃

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    The Coolest Gridfinity You Can Print | Zack Freedman

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Riding The Worlds Biggest 3D Printed E-foil Board - Ep.2

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Building a human rideable 3D Printed Hydrofoil

  • C Programming Language @programming.dev
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    Writing a game the hard way - from scratch using C.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip

  • Buildapc @lemmy.world
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    Scrapper Battle: $300 (AUD) Gaming PC Challenge

    yt.artemislena.eu /watch
  • History @mander.xyz
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    Tauchretter: Escaping a Sinking Submarine in WWII | Our Own Devices