kfet

kfet, 6 months ago

To save you a click, this is about union members voting for general strike in Quebec over wages.

kfet, 6 months ago

Almost like it is not a for-profit company, and the investors interests are not a priority…

kfet, 7 months ago

Hamas is an internationally recognized terrorist organization, which just executed a bunch of civilians on a music fest. There is no grey area and no room for interpretation.

kfet, 7 months ago

This is the guy who went on record claiming that it is somehow NATO’s fault for Putin’s Russia invading Ukraine. Do not trust him with anything related to politics, he is out of his mind.

kfet, 7 months ago

I was talking about Chomsky. He is not trustworthy.

kfet, 7 months ago

Maybe the released few were treated well. Very few out of hundreds. Hamas have not deserved an ounce of trust, don’t give it to them for free.

kfet, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Good! Saying “I will not condemn Palestinian resistance” at this specific time is a quite literal endorsement of Hamas. It’s the only “resistance” and it is 100% based on slaughter of innocents (both Israeli and Palestinians).

A really horrible stance to take, with the very much expected consequences.

kfet, 8 months ago

Hamas people literally shot-up a music fest, murdering a whole lot of civilians, kidnaping even more. Where would you draw the line before calling them terrorists?

kfet, 8 months ago

No, it doesn’t, that is not at all what the court has said, it’s just a clickbait title.

What they said is that a 1982 Canadian law about suing foreign states cannot be used retroactively for a 1960s case. Much less dramatic, I know.

kfet, 8 months ago

Quoting the article: “…Although WIRED could initially replicate the troubling Bing result, it now appears to have been resolved…”.

Most of the web-search-capable bots I use (fastgpt, bing chat, poe web-search) correctly refuse to quote the published LLM-hallucinated info. It can still be reproduced on perplexity ai.

This seems to be much less of an issue than recent publications make it out to be, mostly because all the companies behind those bots are aware and actively addressing it, I guess.

kfet, 8 months ago

I’ve been reading on an iPad mini for years, dark mode, and I have no complaints, never had any sleeping issues. For me the e-ink reader really shines at the beach, irreplaceable there.

kfet, 8 months ago

Here’s an AI bot’s summary:

Cory Doctorow gave a talk about the concept of “ensh*ttification” - how internet platforms start out good, then abuse users to benefit businesses, then abuse businesses to benefit themselves, until they die.

He argues today’s big tech firms like Facebook and Google have undergone ensh*ttification, withdrawing value from users and business partners to benefit shareholders.

Doctorow says ensh*ttification happens due to lack of competition, companies’ ability to “twiddle the knobs” with no transparency, and laws that criminalize modifying platforms.

He proposes halting consolidation, limiting companies’ twiddling abilities, and restoring the right to modify platforms through “adversarial interoperability.”

This will help shift control of technology from giant companies to small ones, co-ops, nonprofits and user communities.

Tactics include blocking mergers, mandating open APIs, government procurement rules favoring interoperability, and rolling back laws against modifying platforms.

The goal is a “new good internet” that succeeds the old open internet and avoids the pitfalls of today’s walled gardens. Doctorow urges spreading these ideas to seize opportunities in future crises.

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Link to the bot prompt and completion: poe.com/s/9ttdGxEMHMSCkLnSTGiz

kfet, 8 months ago

Some trans support rallies in BC tomorrow:

bcfed.ca/statement/no-space-for-trans-hate

kfet, 9 months ago

Working as intended then.

kfet, 9 months ago

Not funny :/

kfet, 9 months ago

Fixed the link