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  • Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill

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  • They're not worried about CSAM. They worried about TikTok users being influenced during an election campaign.

    And yes, it is a moderation issue. Specifically, the US doesn't want the current moderation team to be in charge of moderation.

    Disclosure: I don’t use Facebook, Intagram, Twitter, nor TikTok

    To put it in perspective, about a quarter of the US population uses TikTok. And politics are a major discussion point with the political content you're exposed to selected by an algorithm that is opaque and constantly changing.

    It absolutely can be used to change the result of an election. And China has meddled in elections in the past (not least of all their own elections... but also foreign ones:

    "China has been interfering with every single presidential election in Taiwan since 1996, either through military exercises, economic coercion, or cognitive warfare, including disinformation or the spread of conspiracies"

    -- https://www.afr.com/world/asia/taiwan-warns-of-disturbing-election-interference-by-china-20240102-p5eunf

  • Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill

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  • logging statuses that were typed out, but ultimately not posted.

    That's common practice across the web. For example in a lot of social networks (not Lemmy) if I were to close this reply box without clicking the "Reply" button, I'd simply be able to open it and my half written reply would be restored.

    It's not about gathering data on users, it's about saving users from accidental deletion particularly on touch screens where it's so easy to accidentally brush the wrong button.

    Also I'd argue anything you intentionally type into a facebook status message box, is something you're happy to share with facebook and everyone on your social network. There's no expectation of privacy and we self sensor what we type into that box.

    Logging key strokes is different, there's no reason to record that anything you record (other than actually typing messages) is likely to be something the user intended to type somewhere else but didn't realise which browser window had keyboard focus.

    They would be picking up all kinds of things including passwords.

  • Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill

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  • For example — last year they sent what a spy balloon over the USA in what a lot of experts believe was a test of US defence systems - weapons used to shoot down the balloon had never been used before outside of top secret test facilities. And that balloon was covered in high tech sensors and almost certainly broadcasting data in real time. There's no plausible explanation for the incident other than to find out how the US would respond.

    Why does China want to know how US defence systems work? A lot of people already think there's a chance of war between the two super powers. That balloon incident didn't help things.

    And what went viral on TikTok? Claims that the balloon was a actually flying over Canada and never went near US soil. Claims that it was launched by kids in the USA. Where did those claims originate from? Nobody knows, but it seems pretty coincidental. These claims were spread on other social networks too - but they went viral on TikTok alone.

    That's not the only incident, it's just one of the most recent one that involved TikTok. Others have been far more serious especially in busy international waters south of China.

    If Twitter's financial backing by Saudi Arabia/Qatar is ever a concern, I'm sure the US will act on that as well.

  • What do you think about Abstract Wikipedia?

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  • Your description doesn't seem to match what the site does? For example the front page has a function that converts uppercase text to lowercase text.

    It's not article content - it's an interactive utility.

  • AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead

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  • customers say X, they probably mean they want Y and Z

    Sure - an LLM can help catch some of those situations. But if anything it makes prompt engineering even more important.

    Sometimes the customer actually wants X, and a prompt engineer needs to predict this issue and disable the Y/Z behaviour. Prompt engineering is changing, but it's not going away.

  • AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead

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  • Future systems could for example start asking questions more often

    Current systems already do that. But they're expensive and it might be cheaper to have a human do it. Prompt engineering is very much a thing if you're working with high performance low memory consumption language models.

    We're a long way from having smartphones with a couple terabytes of RAM and a few thousand GPU cores... but our phones can run basic models and they do. Some phones use a basic LLM for keyboard auto correct for example.

  • AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead

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  • I really wish all of these companies racing to replace their existing software features and employees with LLMs understood this.

    They totally understand it. And OpenAI has solved it. For example while researching The Ultimate Answer to Life the Universe and Everything, I asked it to calculate 6 by 9 in base 13 and got the correct answer - 42.

    ChatGPT didn't use the LLM to calculate that. It only used the LLM understand an obscure and deliberately confusing chapter of the Hitchhiker's Guide book, to write and execute this python script.

     
        
# To calculate six by nine in base 13, we multiply the numbers in our standard decimal system and then convert the result to base 13.

# Calculate 6 * 9 in decimal
result_decimal = 6 * 9

# Convert the result to base 13
# The easiest approach is to use the divmod() function repeatedly to get the remainder (which corresponds to the base 13 digit) 
# and update the quotient for the next iteration until the quotient is 0.

def decimal_to_base_n(num, base):
    if num == 0:
        return "0"
    digits = []
    while num:
        num, remainder = divmod(num, base)
        digits.append(str(remainder))
    return ''.join(digits[::-1])

# Convert the decimal result to base 13
result_base_13 = decimal_to_base_n(result_decimal, 13)

result_base_13

  • Photographer steps inside Vietnam’s shadowy ‘click farms’ | CNN

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  • If it's like my seat, the gas seal is probably stuffed. I should probably fix it but I just treat it as a reminder to stand up.

  • Photographer steps inside Vietnam’s shadowy ‘click farms’ | CNN

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  • API requests are usually encrypted with SSL and protected against unauthorised use with something along the lines of a JWT: https://jwt.io/

    Breaking through the SSL might be possible, if the developer doesn't pin certificates, but you don't know the secret used to generate the HMAC signature (blue section of that website), then you can't simulate the API request. And the secret shouldn't be sent over a network connection.

    You could probably access the secret with enough work, but it would be a lot of work. You'd have to do it separately for each app. And the developer can change the secret whenever they want. The developer will change the secret at the slightest hint of anything like this being used with their app. And possibly also take additional steps to keep it from being accessed (e.g. store it in the Trusted Platform Module or equivalent on Android/iPhone). Even the CIA can't access that - it's mostly intended for payment processing and protecting data on a stolen phone, but there's nothing stopping a weather app from using it to prevent unauthorised access to their API (weather data is very expensive, and often billed per API request).

    Running the real app on a real phone though... basically nothing an app developer can do to stop that.

  • A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.

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  • Train infrastructure is being removed around the world - good luck convincing people to build more.

    The fact is a train turns one trip into three trips - truck to the railway station, train to another station, truck to the final destination. That often adds days to what otherwise might be a 3 hour delivery - because trains are only cheap if you send about a hundred or so trucks full of cargo on a single trip.

    Only really makes sense for really long trips but more and more of those are done by ship or airplane. Trucks aren't going anywhere.

  • A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.

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  • It's the battery, and the support frame to carry the weight of the battery safely. Like it or not - cars are getting heavier.

  • Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees

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  • The code is obviously protected by copyright. Not sure why anyone would question that?

    If the prompt is protected, then the output image will be too (and by the same owner). I suspect it depends on how detailed the prompt is (just like a tweet might not be eligible for copyright, unless it's a particularly creative joke/haiku/etc).

  • Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled | Electrek

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  • As a seasoned camper the original design doesn't look even remotely weatherproof. So to me, this is an improvement.

    The lack of tent mode (suspension self levelling) is disappointing but in reality other vehicles don't have that feature either and the world is full of level campsites. It's also not that hard to manually level things up with ramps or a jack.

    More disappointing is there's no way to connect the tent to the HVAC system - that would have been a massive selling point if they could manage it and surely wouldn't have been difficult? Just need some sort of opening or pipe to the main cabin and a few software tweaks to make sure you don't drain the battery overnight.

  • Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry. It's hard, but we should leave it be

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  • I think you’re wrong about government funded news. It will always be less biased than privately funded news because democratic governments (even Trump) are held accountable in a way that no private company ever will be.

    We definitely shouldn’t get all our news from the government but it’s hardly the horror show Americans seem to think it is. Especially in a democratic country.

    Facebook was not built on the backs of journalist has always been about chatting to friends and family first, strangers second, and news a distant third

    Facebook has clearly stated they don’t profit off news. I’m inclined to believe them until proven otherwise, especially since I can open the Facebook app and there is literally no news anywhere to be seen.

  • Google just took down IPAs (Apple equivalent of APKs) of popular YouTube tweaks

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  • Apple has always allowed side loading just not as a method of mainstream distribution.

    App developers use it all the time and not just on their own devices, it's also used to beta test apps.

    There area few different ways it can be done with varying limitations. But in general it is absolutely possible to install apps outside of the App Store. In fact side-loading has been around since before the App Store even existed.

    Almost anyone (except Tim Sweeney) can register for a developer account. And in fact you don't even need to, since most people who side-load are testers not developers. Developers can deploy a pre-release build of their app to up to ten thousand regular iPhone owners bypassing the app store entirely.

    I have no idea what they're talking about with "only 3 apps". As an iOS developer I've got countless side loaded apps on my iPhone. Some of them are test builds of my own apps, some of them are test builds of other people's apps, some of them are hobby projects where I've slapped together an app in a weekend — not good enough for public distribution but it works for me and I've been using them for years.

  • The DMA hasn't changed Big Tech's anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe

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  • Give it time. The DMA came into effect today. And it includes provisions for the European Commission to measure how effective it is and supplement the DMA with orders that only apply to individual companies without applying to the entire industry.

  • You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on

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  • There are three issues:

    1. Copyright
    2. Trademarks
    3. Patents

    For copyright, you have to make an exact copy - which OP didn't do. Even then it's not perfect protection, sometimes you're still allowed to make copies (e.g. Google copied Java several years ago, and the court said that was OK).

    For trademarks, there has to be confusion over who sells the product. OP isn't trying to impersonate Reddit so they're fine there as well.

    With patents... yes, if Reddit owns any patents on their service, then OP has a problem. But I don't think they do. Also patents are relatively short lived. You only get exclusive rights over your invention for a short period of time then everyone else is allowed (indeed encouraged) to copy it.

  • You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on

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  • Giving big corporations control over what other people say or think

    Wait... what? Reddit is not a "big corporation". Reddit also doesn't have control over what people say, let alone think. Moderation on Reddit is done by the community.

    Honestly I think your service sounds even worse than Reddit. Sure, you're not as big but neither was reddit when they first started out. Unlike reddit it looks like your service does directly control things? You've got one policy for the whole site dictating acceptable content, while Reddit has thousands of policies created by users.

    Ultimately I think the Lemmy is the right approach to this type of website. If you think you can do a better job then Lemmy, then by all means go ahead. But I think being on the fediverse is table stakes.

  • Nissan To Deactivate Key Features From Early EVs

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  • Please direct me to any EVs that actually do this

    The Nissan Leaf "actually does this" (though in the UK, it will stop working unless you have a recent model). Obviously it only works if your power company supports it.

    It's relatively common around the world and often has nothing to do with saving money. It's often about protecting the energy grid. For example in my city the grid can remotely switch off hot water heaters when they are struggling with demand. And at work we have red power points on the wall that have a higher grid priority - the entire city could have a blackout but those power points should still have power. Not because we have a UPS but because the grid will not cut power to that circuit unless there's a catastrophic safety risk (e.g. the power line fell over and pedestrians are walking all over it - they wouldn't send power then).

    Sometimes that works by cutting delivery but increasingly often it's done at the consumption side. The switchboard on the outside of my house has a cellular radio connection to the energy provider so they can do these things.

    It's also possible to roll your own off peak system - if you have solar panels on your roof for example you might only charge when your panels are producing power. And you can do that from your EV charger, meaning it will work with any EV.