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  • Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

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  • Hi everyone, JP here. This person is making a reference to the Weird Al biopic, and if you haven't seen it, you should.

    Weird Al is an incredible person and has been through so much. I had no idea what a roller coaster his life has been! I always knew he was talented but i definitely didn't know how strong he is.

    His autobiography will go down in history as one of the most powerful and compelling and honest stories ever told. If you haven't seen it, you really, really should.

    ITT NO SPOILERS PLS

  • Interesting hacker used my GF's name and YOB for password. Thoughts?

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  • I dated a girl named Password for a while. She was a lot older than me, she was born in the year 1234.

    Anyway, @op the exact same thing happened to me. I gotta get smarter about opsec.

  • “CSAM generated by AI is still CSAM,” DOJ says after rare arrest

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  • This isn't true. AI can generate tan people if you show them the color tan and a pale person -- or green people or purple people. That's all ai does, whether it's image or text generation -- it can create things it hasn't seen by smooshing together things it has seen.

    And this is proven by reality: ai CAN generate csam, but it's trained on that huge image database, which is constantly scanned for illegal content.

  • “CSAM generated by AI is still CSAM,” DOJ says after rare arrest

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  • I guess my question is, why would anyone continue to "consume" -- or create -- real csam? If fake and real are both illegal, but one involves minimal risk and 0 children, the only reason to create real csam is for the cruelty -- and while I'm sure there's a market for that, it's got to be a much smaller market. My guess is the vast majority of "consumers" of this content would opt for the fake stuff if it took some of the risk off the table.

    I can't imagine a world where we didn't ban ai generated csam, like, imagine being a politician and explaining that policy to your constituents. It's just not happening. And i get the core point of that kind of legislation -- the whole concept of csam needs the aura of prosecution to keep it from being normalized -- and normalization would embolden worse crimes. But imagine if ai made real csam too much trouble to produce.

    AI generated csam could put real csam out of business. If possession of fake csam had a lesser penalty than the real thing, the real stuff would be much harder to share, much less monetize. I don't think we have the data to confirm this but my guess is that most pedophiles aren't sociopaths and recognize their desires are wrong, and if you gave them a way to deal with it that didn't actually hurt chicken, that would be huge. And you could seriously throw the book at anyone still going after the real thing when ai content exists.

    Obviously that was supposed to be children not chicken but my phone preferred chicken and I'm leaving it.

  • Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0

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  • Me: Oh, I get it, this "Lemmy" website -- it's like The Onion but for nerds?

    My fellow lemmings: No, they're serious. run0 is real.

    Me: Hah. The Onion, but for nerds! I love it.

  • Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

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  • The 8gb ram MacBook works great for [...] writing resumes...

    Um I'm not sure where you heard that but ChatGPT requires a shit ton of memory

    (Sorry, I'll show myself out)

  • Did the year zero never exist ?

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  • The enumeration on the losing side of that debate is probably correct. But as a person who was in my early 20s in 2000, I'd like to offer what I will characterize as The Historical Context and Definitive Conclusion to This Debate.

    No one actually gave a shit about that debate. Sure, it came up, but it did not alter anyone's party planning. We weren't actually celebrating the changing of the millennium, we were celebrating because we had a permission slip to do so. Any attempt to withdraw that permission was unwelcome.

    In Paris on December 31st, 1999, at around 11pm local time, someone threw themselves in front of a metro. The trains were free that night (because it was the 100 year anniversary of their opening iirc), but because of that suicide, at least one of the train lines was substantially delayed. The streets from the center of the city to the north side were crowded well toward dawn as everyone chose to walk home instead of wait indefinitely in a stinky train station.

    That person, who chose to end their life on the tracks that night, holds the core truth of the debate within his death: it's a ridiculous debate and those who would fight for it should just stay the hell home and let the rest of us drink a lot and dance.

  • YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps

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  • I still get block messages in Vivaldi, but not Firefox.

  • High quality channel

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  • Chicagoan here, chiming in: I saw this guy like 4 times on my way to work this morning.

  • Reminder: crypto isn’t solarpunk. It’s cyberpunk.

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  • Literally a children's hospital in my city had their shit locked up by "hackers" -- they were using pen and paper to schedule appointments for weeks, using handwritten notes to pass health details from ER to ICU, etc. It could still be down for all i know, I haven't checked in a while.

    I don't know exactly how much pain and suffering this has caused kids, or how many died because of it, but i know how hard it was when my son was in the hospital for months when he was little, and that was with a fully functional hospital.

    It's fucking disgusting. And I'm like kinda pro-crime a lot of the time...

  • Reminder: crypto isn’t solarpunk. It’s cyberpunk.

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  • Unfortunately an economic system is only as useful as its buy-in, and that's the hard part. If you want you fight financial hegemony, don't give wealthy people another lever of control.

  • Reminder: crypto isn’t solarpunk. It’s cyberpunk.

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  • It's hard enough to get people on board with social movements that directly help them and have no downsides; you're going to have a hard time promulgating a financial system that undermines the wealth of the people who dominate the standard financial system, especially when the more wealth you've accumulated (in the standard system) is directly proportional to your ability to spread propaganda to support your wealth.

    There are better, more winnable, battles to fight than the global financial system.

    While i agree that a victory there would be huge, part of the reason it would be so huge is because of how very, very unwinnable it is.

    That said, if you're super stuck on finance as the issue you want you be involved with, imo, the best thing you can do is communicate the questions -- the problems with contemporary finance, of which there are so very many -- and don't waste your time offering solutions.

    (Even if we had a solution that could work, it would surely be obsolete by the time it could be meaningfully implemented. Cryptos of all kinds, at this point, can only provide their benefits to people with disposable wealth, who can afford to take the risk, and those are exactly the people who don't need you to fight for their interests. Or anyone -- but you're not anyone, you are you; your energy is finite, spend it where it can help the people who need it most.)

  • Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

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  • For sure. Look, I hate Stack Overflow as much as the next guy but you gotta admit, for the big picture, long term, best practice for the future of software development, that's the correct format: one question, focused discussion, end.

    Discord's failure to make its history available is really going to put a big hole in the middle of our cultural wisdom.

  • Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

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  • Mumble does that one thing just fine, but it doesn't do all the things discord does.

    And it's not just the fact that discord does all those things that's made it so dominant; it's the fact that it does all those things in one place.

    Even just the core features of voice chat, text chat, and the ability to set up a new server where you have extensive moderation control in one click -- it's what people wanted.

    They don't need a handful of different programs to glue together a shittier experience, they need a FOSS discord/slack.

  • Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

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  • ??? I hope you don't actually think this

    There's no reason to require everyone on earth to prioritize a better computer interfacing environment over their free time.

    My time is worth way more to me than video game voice chat -- but it's not either/or. Thanks to other developers, I can have both.

  • Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

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  • Edit: tldr: I think I probably could've saved myself a lot of time by just saying that discord is like slack but for friends/fun.

    I didn't think people use it like lemmy/Reddit. People use it like IRC. That's the analogous tech. IRC is better in almost every way, but not in the most important ways: ease of use, and voice chat.

    I know only a handful of people who could set up a server for IRC, but in discord, it's a one-button process. Sure, you can use a public IRC server, but then your channels are harder to organize and you don't have as much moderation control. I dn't think

    I would vastly prefer IRC, but even if it was easy to set up, I would still need something for voice chat, and, sure, there are plenty of voice chat tools, but not ones that integrate with text chat so well.

    I think a lot of people like the API and the bots built from it, tho personally that's not something I use much.

    I'm in probably ~50 servers: groups of friends, video game guilds, tech chat (eg HTMX, Lit, Svelte), random interests (eg mechanical keyboards), and community servers for video games (eg a couple of LFG servers, a couple servers where I can ask questions to tryhards, streamers' communities, etc).

    I would vastly prefer to use something FOSS, but there just isn't something that does it so well and so easily -- and even then, I'd probably have to use discord for a bunch of these things.

  • Well?? Does it??

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  • I'm not opposed to the idea but it doesn't seem like the kind of thing you can just try one time. Isn't there some kind of preparation phase to be able to handle ..."stuff"?

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  • Tell me it was "Top 10 Steven Universe Betrayals" without telling me it was "Top 10 Steven Universe Betrayals"

  • how can something be so courageous and yet so true

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  • I also get annoyed when people criticize when wealthy people support leftist causes. Like, yeah, Bernie Sanders (or whoever) has a lot of money, so the fact that he isn't blinded to injustice by his own privilege is a good thing.