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  • Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too

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  • Meh. My work gives me the choice of Chrome and Edge. I decided to try edge to get access to bing chat last year, and I've found it to be a pleasant experience compared to chrome. It's got some neat features, and the built in copilot AI can be handy. I haven't missed chrome (or Google for that matter) in the year I've been using edge. It's fine. Still use Firefox on my personal laptop and phone though.

  • Training Generative AI Models on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use - Change My Mind

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  • Google scanned millions of books and made them available online. Courts ruled that was fair use because the purpose and interface didn't lend itself to actually reading the books in Google books, but just searching them for information. If that is fair use, then I don't see how training an LLM (which doesn't retain the exact copy of the training data at least in the vast majority of cases) isn't fair use. You aren't going to get an argument from me.

    I think most people who will disagree are reflexively anti AI, and that's fine. But I just haven't heard a good argument that AI training isn't fair use.

  • Video appears to show the Israeli army shot 3 Palestinians, killing 1, without provocation

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  • As others have said, a like of wood and paper form warmth. The important part though is the person kneeling to light that on fire was not shot first, someone else standing nearby was killed. Then two other people running to the victims aid where then shot. When one of those guys trys to crawl away he gets shot again. Then when the IDF troops get there, they don't seem to give a shit about the pile of wood/paper, they just look at they guy they killed, kick one of the wounded guys on the ground, and then leave without providing any aid.

    The IDF's story is they thought the guy lighting the pile was lighting a moltov cocktail. Bullshit, but even if so, why not shoot that guy doing the lighting instead of just some other random nearby guy? Or how do the guys coming to the first guys aid pose any kind of threat?

    What's really fucked is nothing will come of this. Just another dead Palestinian.

  • Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favored Israel, Analysis Shows

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  • The point your making is at best that journalists aren't biased in favor of Israel as a country, they are biased in favor of nation-state sanctioned slaughter. When a "terrorist" attacks people in their homes, that is horrific. When a nation-state levels an entire neighborhood, that's a "counterattack." The most charitable version of your argument is that these publications don't just devalue Palestinian lives, they simply devalue all civilian lives when a nation state uses indescriminate force. So long as the people doing the killing are flying a internationally recognized flag and doing that killing in an impersonal way, it is not "tragic" or "horrific" or a "slaughter." The fact that the human suffering that results is on a far greater scale is of no consequence, if a nation state does it it's fine. Your argument is arguably far worse.

    But that's not what is happening here. If Russia or China had clustered two million minorities in a small walled area, and then bombed the ever living shit out of them, killing at least 10,000 women and children, displacing 90 percent of the population, cutting off food, water, and power for months at a time, do you think the NYT or WaPo would refrain from calling that a "massacre" or "slaughter" or "horrific"? Of course not, the bad guys killing civilians gets emotionally charged language. The "good guys" killing civilians is just the unavoidable consequence of a "counterattack" after a "horrific slaughter", proportionality be damned.

    This article actually does a great job of quantitfying this bias, I encourage you to actually read it.

    In conclusion, take your head out of your ass.

  • OpenAI claims The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles

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  • There is an attack where you ask ChatGPT to repeat a certain word forever, and it will do so and eventually start spitting out related chunks of text it memorized during training. It was in a research paper, I think OpenAI fixed the exploit and made asking the system to repeat a word forever a violation of TOS. That's my guess how NYT got it to spit out portions of their articles, "Repeat [author name] forever" or something like that. Legally I don't know, but morally making a claim that using that exploit to find a chunk of NYT text is somehow copyright infringement sounds very weak and frivolous. The heart of this needs to be "people are going on ChatGPT to read free copies of NYT work and that harms us" or else their case just sounds silly and technical.

  • OpenAI claims The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles

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  • One thing that seems dumb about the NYT case that I haven't seen much talk about is that they argue that ChatGPT is a competitor and it's use of copyrighted work will take away NYTs business. This is one of the elements they need on their side to counter OpenAIs fiar use defense. But it just strikes me as dumb on its face. You go to the NYT to find out what's happening right now, in the present. You don't go to the NYT to find general information about the past or fixed concepts. You use ChatGPT the opposite way, it can tell you about the past (accuracy aside) and it can tell you about general concepts, but it can't tell you about what's going on in the present (except by doing a web search, which my understanding is not a part of this lawsuit). I feel pretty confident in saying that there's not one human on earth that was a regular new York times reader who said "well i don't need this anymore since now I have ChatGPT". The use cases just do not overlap at all.

  • you have to subscribe to the dictionary now

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  • I was annoyed, like the OP, then I read your comment and now I'm impressed and have an urge to buy a copy of OED I most certainly will never open. They owe you a commission on my sale.

  • Uttar Pradesh: Dalit teen cooked alive for protesting against molestation

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  • California passed a law banning caste discrimination, but Gov Newsome vetoed it after Indian backlash. Their argument was that by singleing out caste discrimination, your calling attention to an Indian cultural practice that totally doesn't happen anymore (it does, even in the US), and since your bringing negative attention to and falling out an Indian cultural thing doing so is therefore racist/discriminatory. To me this just sounds like white people being against an anti discrimination law because it makes white people look bad because of their past practice of discrimination, and racism totally doesn't exist anymore. Like if race or caste discrimination isn't a problem anymore, then the law does nothing, so what's the big deal?

    It bummed me out that the Indian community in CA was so up in arms about that law, as it not only would have protected people, it would have sent a message to the world, and India in particular, that we're firmly against caste discrimination. Especially if the Indian-American community was vocally backing it. It could have done some real good. Also, Newsome is a coward for doing what is politically expedient for his presidential ambitions, rather than doing what's right.

  • Eleven top Iranian commanders killed in Damascus airport strike - report

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  • Tin foil hat warning, but it is starting to feel like Israel knows it's losing US support for the genocide, so is looking to broaden the conflict to force the US to relock arms with them.

    Ps. Why doesn't this source mention that Israel is responsible for this strike, it's reported all over the place I didn't even think it was a question. The JP treats it like some rogue weather event that came out of nowhere.

  • German Art

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  • Crikey!

  • She spent her inheritance sending money to TikTok Livestreamers. What started as a game turned into addiction.

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  • It really is interesting and of course kind of sad. She was retired, living alone, a world traveler until the pandemic hit but plunged into isolation after that. While we might think it's silly, I can emphasize with the appeal this might have to someone like that:

    Then, seconds before a match ended, she'd hit her favorite creator with a $13 disco ball or a $29 Jet Ski — if she planned it right — just enough to push them over the edge and win.

    The chats would erupt into a frenzy, and the streamer and their fans would shower her with praise. "It's like somebody on TV calling out your name, especially if there's over a thousand people in the room," White said. "It really does do something to you. You feel like you're somebody."

    I remember my grandma would lock herself in a little room playing Tetris on the Nintendo for literally 8-10 hours a day. I imagine if she had lived to see tik tok, she'd be worse off then the lady in the article.

  • Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

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  • I look forward to reading everyone's calm and measured reactions

  • ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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  • There are no red flag laws in Maine. There was no legal way to take his guns even if they thought that was necessary. Also, the christofacist supreme court is set to strike down laws that prevent people convicted domestic violence from owning guns, which will chip away at the legality of red flag laws everywhere. Happy Thursday everyone!

  • McDonald’s once again sued after customer burns herself on hot coffee

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  • How's that corporate boot taste?

  • Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras

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  • We continue to recommend Wyze lighting, since we consider them lower-risk, lower-impact devices—a security breach of a light bulb, for instance, wouldn’t give someone a view of your living room.

    Call me paranoid, but I don't want a company I don't trust plugged into my network at all.

  • Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration

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  • During an earnings call on Tuesday, UPS CEO Carol Tomé said that by the end of its five-year contract with the Teamsters union, the average full-time UPS driver would make about $170,000 in annual pay and benefits, such as healthcare and pension benefits.

    The headline is sensationalized for sure. But the article itself actually makes the point that the tech workers are misunderstanding that the $170k figure includes both salary and benefits.

    "This is disappointing, how is possible that a driver makes much more than average Engineer in R&D?" a worker at the autonomous trucking company TuSimple wrote on Blind, an anonymous jop-posting site that verifies users' employment using their company email. "To get a base salary of $170k you know you need to work hard as an Engineer, this sucks."

    It is important to note that the $170,000 figure represents the entire value of the UPS package, including benefits and does not represent the base salary. Currently, UPS drivers make an average of around $95,000 per year with an additional $50,000 in benefits, according to the company. The average median salary for an engineer in the US is $103,845 with a base pay of about $91,958, according to Glassdoor. And TuSimple research engineers can make between $161,000 to $250,000 in compensation, Glassdoor data shows.

    On the whole though this is a useless article covering drama on Blind, wrapped up with a ragebait headline.

  • Mastodon Usage Soaring as Twitter Rebranding Leads to User Exodus: CEO Eugen Rochko

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  • Another article I read theorized that Threads launching might have increased the awareness of ActivityPub and softened peoples resistance to the "Mastodon is too hard, not worth trying to figure out" messaging in the media. Who knows though, and there's probably not a single answer anyway.

  • Toynbee tiles - Tiles found embedded in asphalt, usually sporting cryptic messages

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  • One thing I find interesting is how interested people are by these tiles, myself included. From the Wikipedia article, it seems pretty clear that this was the work of one man who believed in a crazy conspiracy theory - humans can send their dead to Jupiter where they will be resurrected, and his proof is wholly found in fictional stories. But how he went about expressing it, the effort and permanence of his method of communication, somehow makes it a fascinating mystery. If he had instead written the same cryptic message on a cardboard sign and stood along the road, nobody would have given him or his ideas a second thought.

  • Turkey leader Erdogan will back Sweden joining Nato - Stoltenberg

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  • So I guess Turkey is getting some shiny new F16s?