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TheObviousSolution

@ TheObviousSolution @lemm.ee

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  • On Using AI For Commercial Uses

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  • Using AI is telling people they shouldn't care about your IP because you clearly don't care about theirs when it passes through the AI lens.

  • European solar-panel lobby calls to restrict remote access of PV inverters from high-risk vendors, urges EU to ban inverters from China

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  • I mean, it sounds to me that the biggest problem is not having the experience to manufacture and modify electronics readily throughout Europe so we have to treat them all as take or give. I don't mean in the sense of being able to retrofit foreign PV inverters, I mean in regards to being able to accurately define and even potentially disable the threat.

    One of the ways this used to be done was with the development and enforcement of standards within markets, why isn't this being done instead of outright bans? Seems like it's more about companies lobbying against economic threats instead of actually enforcing industry wide standards, although I'm also curious if and how much of this concern has to do with the recent Spanish blackout. The biggest problem with Chinese tech is that they are sold as the alternative to get around excessive proprietary BS pricing only for them to pull even worse proprietary BS shenanigans.

  • Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026

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  • If you see Netflix as part of a bundle, get the bundle without it. You having no choice to get out of the subscription is feeding into this.

  • GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica

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  • What I can't get around with is people expecting AI that was developed by not respecting IP rights to suddenly begin respecting their presumed IP rights (not that most are not just accepting them away through the associated EULAs) with what they generate using them.

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  • Just because something isn't going the way you want it to go doesn't excuse any and all behavior. Most parents are able to teach their children this one basic rule.

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  • I was stuck in traffic the other day, and waiting for the traffic to move wasn't doing anything so I just took my rocket launcher out and started blasting.

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns Trump Admin If They ‘Lay a Finger’ on Members of Congress ‘We Are Going To Have a Problem’

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  • If the bar has to be that high given everything they have already done, then perhaps you are living in an oligarchy.

  • New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.

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  • It will be several orders of magnitude worse than prohibition era policies if it passes, although I suspect part of the impetus is because save for the ideologues they are better at competing and prospering in black markets than they are in open markets.

  • he loves his bribes

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  • Trump's MAGA is a terrorist aligned personality cult, confirmed.

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  • Honestly, that's not what I see from them. They may have the lowest paid employee working cashier, but the people who handle customer service desks are chosen and trained to handle these sort of situations diplomatically, even when effectively the same thing happens and they just talk bad about these clowns in the staff room. The only places I see people just openly admitting "I don't care" attitude openly are usually people on a second hand market apps and people with small businesses who have their local market penned in. Might just be my experience, I'm also not in the US.

  • Marshmallow Test

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  • Excerpts from Wikipedia:

    A replication attempt with a sample from a more diverse population, over 10 times larger than the original study, showed only half the effect of the original study. The replication suggested that economic background, rather than willpower, explained the other half.

    Work done in 2018 and 2024 found that the Marshmallow Test "does not reliably predict adult functioning".

    It's great for a confirmation bias, but such a study is way too simplistic to really reach a conclusion. Oh, and:

    The results seemed to indicate that not thinking about a reward enhances the ability to delay gratification, rather than focusing attention on the future reward.

  • Marshmallow Test

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  • I'd have the one just so I don't have to wait 5 minutes to get out of that weird ass test.

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  • In my opinion, those sort of businesses are also the ones that end up crying out when they lose to bigger players in the space who are willing with those sort of customers. At the end of the day, are you there to feel good, or are you there to get money? Here's a little secret: nobody cares about those sort of people, it's just that some care more about the money they can get from them than others.

    For me, it's right up there with tech support that complain about the trivial bullshit they are called for when it is that trivial bullshit that gives them a job.

  • Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company used to be so idealistic that people were 'not working very hard'

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  • He's basically admitting that now that he's wholly a sellout, he's making more money. La-de-la, tell me more.

  • People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

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  • The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked | TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.

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  • So basically, they hacked themselves out of any benefit Signal was giving them, and then an external party finished the hack.

  • When you're stuck with your right-wing dystopian nightmare and your friends aren't

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  • If only more people were willing to throw hammers at the big screen.

  • ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

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  • The reason this is "The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation" is because it has exposed what Cambridge Analytica's successors already realized and are actively exploiting. Just a few months ago it was literally Meta itself running AI accounts trying to pass off as normal users, and not an f-ing peep - why do people think they, the ones who enabled Cambridge Analytica, were trying this shit to begin with. The only difference now is that everyone doing it knows to do it as a "unaffiliated" anonymous third party.

  • Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen

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  • Good luck, independent car manufacturers usually get bankrupted out of business directly or indirectly by a market dominated by traditional car manufacturing lobbies designed to be replete with minefields that usually go up in difficulty just before it's supposed to reach mass production. There have been plenty of innovative EV designs that have died off because of this, and it's telling how much power those lobbies have when its the one thing countries will unite against to keep Chinese competition off of their borders.