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atrielienz

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  • Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an 'ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse'

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  • The problem with your argument is that the companies that people rely on are going to have to deal with a market where AI is taking up a lot of resources they rely on, which will cause problems for their customers outside of the US.

    European and African and Asian companies don't need chips? They don't need Harddrives? They don't need computer components? How are car manufacturers going to build and sell new cars or fix older cars without chips? How do engineers trained to use CAD and modeling software do that without computers? (Please note that I'm not talking about some 60 year old engineer who will do it with a draft board and a pencil and a slide rule, I'm talking about new engineers who learned these electronic tools expecting to have them always available and who now are facing an uncertain future for the tech their business relies on).

    The point is, there are far reaching consequences for AI in tech that effect the entire world.

  • Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an 'ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse'

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  • This is an oversimplified version of events.

    The majority of voters don't like the current regime and are fighting it in through the avenues they are aware of.

    But here's the main problem.

    The propaganda isn't how we got here. The fact is, the conservative party in this country has been desperately chipping away at public power for decades. They enacted policy and legislation over a period of years (over 100 years if we're gonna be honest about this), in order to defang the public. The main problem with that is that propaganda only works when you can control the discourse and that's the reason the big push is happening now. This is their last ditch attempt to get things they want done and cash out. They do not plan to be here for the aftermath.

    The average MAGA voter is indoctrinated with the propaganda but that's not really why Trump won. He made promises that appealed to their basest/hateful natures and those are the majority of the promises he kept. He won because of complacency on the part of people who opposed him (including voters and voter eligible people who opposed him), and the hatred of the people who supported him. Some of that hatred comes from the propaganda. But some of it just comes from the fact that the problem is a systemic part of our country as an institution and that's the major thing you leave out. Along with the complacency and the hatred, he also won because desperate people trying to cash in and cash out backed him. There's a greed component you also left out.

    The crazy thing is that greed component also exists in the voters.

    Pretending that it's simply a matter of using propaganda to get people to vote against their own self interest is only part of the picture.

    They were voting for things they view as part of their self interest.

  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going live on Twitch in new streaming series 'Talk with the People'

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  • But twitch is owned by Amazon and frankly they can and do moderate Twitch streams.

    This is not supposed to be a discouragement of politicians connecting with the public via any means necessary.

    I just want to point out the flawed logic of saying news media is owned by billionaires so it can't be trusted, but twitch, also owned by a billionaire can somehow be trusted.

  • Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an 'ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse'

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  • All of that falls apart in more ways than one for a lot of people once they can't maintain a quality of life at all. I'm not saying they aren't susceptible to propaganda. I'm saying that propaganda often falls apart when you have to worry about where your next meal is coming from.

    Young people are using AI because they want the shortcuts to the goal society said they need to achieve.

    Pretty much all of the stuff you talk about is stuff a smaller subset of the population fall for. You went through and described a bunch of MAGA voting as if the vast majority of higher education graduates fall into this category.

    In point of fact it's been proven repeatedly that more often than not the reason Conservatives have been trying desperately to fight against higher education and education in general is because they get pushback from educated people more often, even after feeding them a steady diet of religion, conservative propaganda, and racism.

    This is completely ignoring the majority of people to make your point.

    It also ignores the last 70 years of politics and economics which explain how we got here. There's more too it than "we convince them to vote against their own best interest".

  • Ontario Police Deploy Secret Spyware That Lets Them Remotely Take Over Your Phone

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  • More than likely yes. It disables biometrics and forces the use of a passcode if you have one enabled.

    On Apple devices and Android devices go into lockdown mode when they are restarted.

    Both of them will when left idle for a select period of time it will reboot. This is called Inactivity reboot. This basically forces the phone into lockdown mode.

    These are new features that have been implemented on Apple and Android respectively fairly recently.

    Apple phones also have the ability to wipe themselves away when left off for too long. You can do this with some versions of android but for the most part the one I know of is Graphene OS.

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    After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban / A Texas councilmember will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within c…

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  • What the public don't know about they can't complain about.

    Flock started this campaign to proliferate their camera and surveillance equipment with a bunch of propaganda and probably just straight up bribes.

    The public didn't know what was happening and now they do know and there's a growing number of people advocating against these cameras as a result.

  • Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an 'ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse'

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  • You don't get to convince a bunch of companies to eliminate job paths by getting rid of entry level positions (even before AI), sell the idea that the AI is basically going to make their degrees useless, and then try to sell them on AI after the fact.

  • Plex announces borderline offensive Lifetime Pass price hike

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  • Lol. A lifetime subscription for a singular one time payment is a bad deal in any service that requires upkeep. That's what makes it so enticing to people generally.

    I paid for a lifetime plex membership in 2014. It's was $74.99. The use I have gotten out of it in the last 11 years has to have cost the company more than if I was a paying subscriber who paid a monthly fee.

    When I say "can't afford" I literally mean it costs the company money to keep providing these services over time. I have services available to me from my "subscription" that don't even exist in the current offering.

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    Lyft driver caught blatantly using Gemini AI (with watermark) to fake damage to his car and charge riders extra for cleaning fees

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  • I don't even understand why this is what you focused on from what I said but I'm not doing this.

    The point quite clearly is that this person very likely could have used the money they used to get started working for Uber or Lyft to do something else.

    But even if they hadn't that doesn't mean being poor makes you do criminal shit. You can do with this information whatever you want to. I don't care how you feel about what I said.

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    Lyft driver caught blatantly using Gemini AI (with watermark) to fake damage to his car and charge riders extra for cleaning fees

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  • You ever tried to take out a loan with no credit or collateral? You ever tried to get one with bad credit?

    Did you think about this at all before you made your snarky response?

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    Driver intentionally drove Cybertruck into lake to use vehicle’s ‘Wade Mode,’ police say

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  • I saw a comment somewhere about how it's "ACAB" up until something like this happens and I was like "can you explain to me the process by which you think this person will be held accountable for the damage they have caused and the efforts that will have to be made to retrieve their personal property? Because that cost is going to be born by the tax payers and will have environmental implications.

    They should have charged him for endangerment to his passengers too.

  • Plex announces borderline offensive Lifetime Pass price hike

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  • I just don't understand why they don't stop offering it altogether. This price hike shows they can't really afford to offer it at all. Just stop. It's okay. You don't have to keep providing this service tier to new users.

  • CISA credential leak raises alarms, and Capitol Hill demands answers

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  • I don't care what the answer was. Because it's got to be negligence and ignorance. I care that there are consequences. Which seem to be pretty thin on the ground these days.

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    Lyft driver caught blatantly using Gemini AI (with watermark) to fake damage to his car and charge riders extra for cleaning fees

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  • There are a lot of people in the world not being paid a livable wage. Most of them aren't going out of their way to defraud people for the purposes of monetary gain.

    So the question becomes would making a livable wage make him less likely to do this? Is it the desperation that makes him commit fraud?

    Was it not making a livable wage that made those idiots in CA fake bear attacks to get insurance payouts?

    Was it not making a livable wage that makes porch pirates steal packages?

    The problem is this is conjecture with no actual substance of fact behind it. Nothing in the article makes reference to him needing the money.

    So you took your view that Lyft and Uber Drivers don't make a living wage and put it together with the headline and decided in your head that the most probable motive was he was strapped for cash because he doesn't make enough.

    I want to remind you all of something. When you become a Lyft or Uber driver there are requirements including that a vehicle can't be older than a certain model year, and has to have no cosmetic damage. I don't own a vehicle that fits the requirements. Most people don't. To maintain a vehicle for 15 years or less with zero cosmetic damage plus meet the other requirements for driving for Uber, you'd have to have money to maintain your vehicle.

    It has to have 4 doors. It has to seat 4 riders. It has to have a clean title that doesn't include rebuilt/salvage/reconstructed titles.

    It's likely that based on the cleanliness requirements alone you have to either detail it yourself or have it detailed.

    Some of these drivers provide snacks and water and stuff.

    So while I will not dispute that these ride share companies don't pay what they should, I'm also going to point out that being poor doesn't make you a criminal. This person jumped through a lot of hoops (some of them probably fairly costly) in order to drive for this company. And they chose to try to defraud some teenagers and their family.

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  • I don't because that implies that the AI can lie. What I mean by that is it implies that the AI has the contextual understanding to say something that isn't true for the purposes of deception. AI can't do that.

    When an AI LLM provides an answer that isn't true, it's a rounding error.

  • Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750

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  • Original lifetime Plex Pass for $74.99!

    That's what their email said. So my understanding is I must have been grandfathered into the pay one time and have it forever thing.

  • Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750

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  • I paid... $74.99 for a lifetime plex sub in 2014. Is this the same service?

  • Who will buy your services if you fire us all?

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  • They'll imprison us and use us as cheap labor. At least in the US. Unless they kill us.

  • Who will buy your services if you fire us all?

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  • The rich. Corps. That's who they are selling services to these days. Especially the AI stuff. You can't afford AI. I can't afford it. But the corp you work for can. The no longer care about us plebs.