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Telorand

@ Telorand @reddthat.com

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  • What even is "EU OS"?

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  • Fedora

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  • No, I understand just fine. You're ignoring the part where I said rights aren't actually fundamental or intrinsic. They're privileges society treats that way, and like other privileges, they can be taken away.

    In any case, if you go to a well-known Nazi bar on purpose, what does that make you? People who go to 4chan on purpose aren't innocent victims, and their potential loss of privacy is justifiable considering how much harm has come just from there.

    If you use your rights (i.e. social privileges) to purposely cause harm, or to support platforms or causes that are well-known to cause harm, there should be consequences.

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  • let’s work toward making these institutions not rely on or be beholden to governments.

    I don't see how that's possible unless you use a system that's resistant to governments (or moneyed interests). And the only systems like that are effectively outside their government's power or jurisdiction. Otherwise, the right mix of ambitious or greedy people could eventually cause it to crumble.

    Did you have some other kind of system or plan in mind?

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  • Oh? I'm not that familiar with his comedy, but I probably should get to know it. What little I know I like!

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  • I prefer the platinum rule of humanism, but essentially, yes.

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  • All rights are privileges, if we're going to be pedantic. This is evidenced by the fact that they can be taken away. Society tends to operate on an unspoken, collective agreement that certain rights should never be violated, but if they were actually intrinsic, we wouldn't have to fight tooth and nail for them.

    I'm a moral relativist, so if someone is happy to abuse their right to privacy to harm others or otherwise take their rights away, especially the right to privacy, I don't feel any compunction to draw a hard line and say that the harmful person deserves to keep those rights in spite of their actions.

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  • Good. Privacy is a fundamental right, but since that platform is regularly used to doxx people who are simply trying to exist, in addition to platforming and incubating some of the most harmful ideologies, they've relinquished any claims to those rights to privacy, as far as I'm concerned.

  • Judge Enters Contempt Order in Venezuelan Deportations Case

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  • I dunno. It's never happened in my lifetime, and certainly not with half of the legislative branch being complicit in the descent into fascism.

    Like I said, I don't really have a lot of optimism in their ability to do what is required. On top of that, the enablers aren't gone just because Trump might be someday. Our collective work is only just beginning, and it starts with little actions like those of the judge in this case.

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  • Agreed. Things definitely suck right now, but things aren't hopeless. Only when we stop resisting will the fascism begin to ossify, and all the people being brave enough to resist, in both little and big ways, matter.

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  • I don't know if I can comfortably say "most likely," but I'm not optimistic about that possibility. Since Trump won, it's been my position that nobody's coming to save us working class peons. We will not get a group of Avengers striking from the outside or a lone Adam Jensen fighting from within.

    In reality, it will take all of us doing different things to resist, and hopefully, that collective effort over time will be enough. It will still suck in the meantime.

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  • It's not much, but this will be important as evidence should Congress ever find its spine and actually consider impeachment.

    ETA: and waiting around for that unlikely possibly might be a fools errand.

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  • We need a single source of truth for this.

    So distribute it, like DNS. Have the CVE Foundation be the final authority, but relying solely upon them makes me uneasy.

    The CVE Foundation might currently be independent from the US government, but that doesn't mean they're not still subject to its whims. I think people underestimate just how awful things are or could get here, and "why is the government doing that stupid/heinous/bizarre thing" has become a daily mantra for many.

    CVE needs better protection from hostile governments, and distributing the system seems like the only way to achieve that

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  • That's good, I guess, but decentralize it. It's a tool used globally with global ramifications, so other countries should be able to run their own instance of it. That way, if an instance goes down, nobody else is left without it.

    Over the coming days, the Foundation will release more information about its structure, transition planning, and opportunities for involvement from the broader community.

    Hopefully that includes decentralization on the roadmap.

  • A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data

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  • It's not mentioned at all in the article, so what you inferred from the headline is not what the author conveyed.

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  • Duh. He literally lives in the void below the scene. He would have to have eyes like that.

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  • Don't forget the part where it's constantly expanding. So it's 96B ly so far.

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  • Sure, and I'm sympathetic to the baffling difficulties of English, but use Google Translate and ask someone who's more fluent for help with the final polish (as a single suggestion). Trusting your work, trusting science to an LLM is lunacy.

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  • The lede is buried deep in this one. Yeah, these dumb LLMs got bad training data that persists to this day, but more concerning is the fact that some scientists are relying upon LLMs to write their papers. This is literally the way scientists communicate their findings to other scientists, lawmakers, and the public, and they're using fucking predictive text like it has cognition and knows anything.

    Sure, most (all?) of those papers got retracted, but those are just the ones that got caught. How many more are lurking out there with garbage claims fabricated by a chatbot?

    Thankfully, science will inevitably sus those papers out eventually, as it always does, but it's shameful that any scientist would be so fatuous to put out a paper written by a dumb bot. You're the experts. Write your own goddamn papers.