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TORFdot0

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  • If you have kids that watch on devices that can’t easily block ads like TVs or game consoles, it’s worth every penny.

    YouTube ads are full of scams and smut and all sorts of other things I don’t want my kids exposed too

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  • Could you not just change the ring tones of your contacts to something else and then have all unknown callers use the bad time ring tone?

  • Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI

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  • I mean you can provide audit findings and results and it’s a pretty big part of vendor management and due diligence but at some point you have to accept risk in using open source software that can be susceptible to supply chain hacks, might be poorly maintained, etc or accept the risk of taking the closed source company’s documentation at face value (and that can also be poorly maintained and susceptible to supply chain attacks)

    There’s got to be some level of risk tolerance to do business and open source doesn’t actually reduce risk. But it can at least reduce enshittification

  • Google might make users pay for AI features in search results

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  • Good news, in my opinion. I don't think users see the value in of AI and so maybe sites will go back to catering to organic results instead.

    Just kidding Google will just make the non-AI search experience so bad that people are forced to sign up for their AI subscription

  • Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy.

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  • Great thing about the fediverse is that you have options when admin/moderation actions occur that you don’t agree with. If Reddit were to remove /r/piracy then we’d have no recourse

  • New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text

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  • Is there a difference between being a "stochastic parrot" and understanding text? No matter what you call it, an LLM will always produces the same output with the same input if it is at the same state.

    An LLM will never say "I don't know" unless it's been trained to say "I don't know", it doesn't have the concept of understanding. And so I lean on calling it a "stochastic parrot". Although I think there is some interesting philosophic exercises, you could do on whether humans are much different and if understanding is just an illusion.

  • Why isn't there a Harry Potter-themed Lemmy instance yet?

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  • Most of the people on the fediverse are adults who are most likely going to join either a general instance or a themed instance for interests for adults and not for a children’s book series, especially not one with a TERFy author

    People like SpongeBob, I don’t think there is interest for a SpongeBob instance. Nevertheless if you think there is interest in it, feel free to host your own.

  • Power drunk mods

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  • The market will decide whether mods are in the wrong or not. If you feel like you have been wronged by power tripping mods then feel free to start your own instance and own community and people will join if the situation is that bad.

    Having an election for mods is redundant when federated networks are democratic by their nature and how their users use them. Having an "election" is potentially less democratic because it's an arbitrary vote rather than letting people vote with where they decide to hold their accounts and the subscriptions.

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  • Apple is a hardware company first, not an advertising and services company like Google and Roku, and not a literal massive online retailer like Amazon.

    Apple TV is the only one that doesn’t have ads on its home screen. I use an Apple TV to play all my physical media that has been ripped to mov and re-encoded with handbrake

  • Passwords

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  • Brute force user names instead of password. Big Brian moment