It is perhaps another sign of how bad things have become with Google’s search results—full of algorithmically generated junk sites—that publications like CNET are driven to such extremes to stay above the sea of noise....
How fucking stupid is that? Sorry, but not having a good morning. This is like when I found out you can’t set the number of rings either. Sometimes I just want to smash all my tech and go back to rocks, sticks, and leaves.
The Left Party’s Sahra Wagenknecht, one of Germany’s most controversial politicians, is threatening to form a new party. And analysts say it’s the far-right AfD that should be most worried.
Exactly 15 years ago, in August 2008, the Russian military entered into open conflict with Georgia. Moscow launched an offensive deep into the country before securing a favorable peace treaty and avoiding international isolation.
And the fact the breakaway regions prevented the circumvention of Russia as a gas supplier granting direct access to the Azerbaijani fields is just pure luck for Russia.
In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.
A lot of licensing prevents or constrains creating derivative works and monetizing them. The question is for example if you train an AI on GPL code, does the output of the model constitute a derivative work?
If yes, Github Copilot is illegal as it produces code that should comply to multiple conflicting license requirements. If no, I can write some simple AI that is “trained” to regurgitate its output on a prompt, and run a leaked copy of Windows through it, then go around selling Binbows and MSFT can’t do anything about it.
The truth is mostly between the two, this is just piracy, which always has been a gray area because of the difficulty of prosecuting it, previously because the perpetrators were many and hard to find, now it’s because the perpetrators are billion dollar companies with expensive lawyer teams.
AIs are deliberately designed to not copy-and-paste.
AI is a marketing term, not a technical one. You can call anything “AI”, but it’s usually predictive models that get called that.
AIs are deliberately designed to not copy-and-paste. What would be the point of one that did? Nobody wants that.
For example if the powers that be decided to say licenses don’t apply once you feed material through an “AI”, and failed to define AI, you could say you wrote this awesome OS using an AI that you trained exclusively using Microsoft proprietary code. Their licenses and copyright and stuff doesn’t apply to AI training data so you could sell that new code your AI just created.
It doesn’t even have to be 100% identical to Windows source code. What if it’s just 80%? 50%? 20%? 5%? Where is the bar where the author can claim “that’s my code!”?
Just to compare, the guys who set out to reimplement Win32 APIs for use in Linux (the thing that made it into MacOS as well now) deliberately would not accept help from anyone who ever saw any Microsoft source code for fear of being sued. The bar was that high when it was a small FOSS organization doing it. It was 0%, proven beyond a doubt.
Now that Microsoft is the author, it’s not a problem when Github Copilot spits out GPL code word for word, ironically together with its license.
I can see European outlets, especially state-funded ones going the Mastodon way. Here even municipalities and governments are rolling their own Mastodon instances.
Apparently it’s a wannabe powermod who got banned after squatting a ton of community names. There was a post from the admins saying that he’s creating garbage communities, with a quarter of all communities being those at one point.
Now a year after the commercial launch, the Lower Saxony state ministry has abandoned ideas for future hydrogen trains, arguing that battery-electric models “are cheaper to operate.”
Single player with cheats is where it’s at. Sometimes I like challenge in my games and with some games it’s the challenge that gives it flavor, like some wargames. But if it’s just a game where you play for some story or it’s about building stuff, give me Creative mode.
Also, “cheating” as long as everyone is in on it in multiplayer is fun. Of course trashing public lobbies with aimbots in CoD is just stupid, but playing a coop game like Raft or Payday with a friend and having the option of just turning off some of the difficulty elements so that you can focus on what makes it fun for you is awesome.
I’m a bit iffed by Payday 3 having some super strong anticheat that also kills mods. I’m not big on public lobbies anyways, why can’t I just give my money for the developer, get a game and play how I like it? Anticheat for public lobbies makes sense. But please let me turn it off for me and my mate who just want to have fun and are both in on it.
The city of Bountiful, Utah voted to build a $48 million fiber network to provide affordable gigabit broadband for its residents and businesses. Regional internet providers Comcast and CenturyLink opposed the plan and tried to force a public vote through a taxpayer group they fund. However, communities often build their own...
Some of the best internet in the world is in Romania, where just by pure chance it’s all private but with the government owning the last mile. That’s how it should be, companies are only effective if there is an effective market keeping them that way.
Monopolies should be busted, natural monopolies should be either state owned or very tightly regulated including the prices as there is no true price discovery when there is no competition.
Just wait until it’s not technically mandatory, but you can’t do your taxes, find a job or participate in society without beaming ads straight to your brain.
The whole point is that it’s worth open sourcing to promote rights to repair and fix Apple’s deficiencies. This only makes sense in context of Apple being a shitty company, as otherwise it would have no point.
It’s like nicotine patches, they would have no utility if the tobacco industry didn’t get a whole lot of people addicted to something that kills them.
The EU is actually moving in that direction, except not through tax subsidies, but straight up regulatory requirements. User-replaceable batteries will be a strict requirement in 5 years for example. I’ve seen something similar with right-to-repair stuff, but I don’t really remember where that is.
From the article: “About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters. The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel...
Except he never was a brilliant engineer, he was fired for engineering incompetence at one point, and he’s been lying about having an engineering degree.
ICE cars are not just problematic because of their emissions, they do much worse things with their infrastructure requirements. Roads and parking that can support everyone driving their car alone everywhere results in sprawl. That makes everyone not in a car have to get in a car as well, and also increases infrastructure costs for other services, since they have to service a much larger area.
Cars have their place, but in an ideal world, a regular family regardless of where they live shouldn’t need one. It’s not a personal mobility solution. Taxies and stuff make sense, everyone sitting in their own car doesn’t.
And this is not even counting that car accidents are a leading cause of fatalities because we give a licence to everyone with a pulse.
While I was living in a city with an expansive but terrible quality public transit system, I owned a foldable electric bike. I used it to commute, I kept it under my office desk and charged it off the office mains while working. It had like 30 kilometres of range, which I used like 12 of, so I even had some distance to play with and visit a friend after work.
If it was raining, I could get on the bus with it. It was cool as hell.
BRUSSELS, July 27 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday found itself the target of an EU antitrust investigation over the tying of its chat and video app Teams with its Office product, putting it at risk of a hefty fine....
Your TPM unit in the motherboard has more privileges than you do. It attests to the integrity of the kernel, graphics driver included, and the kernel attests to the integrity of the browser and any peripherals.
From the article you linked it seems that historians by and large agree she was of Greek descent with a bit of Persian ancestry, and a bunch of laypeople are heavily debating them on it.
research team suggests development of applications that convert full thoughts into text, controlling objects in real and virtual worlds—and even perhaps augmented memory.
Just read the first line of that article you linked below the title.
Defense contractors are under pressure to ramp up production but want long term government guarantees of sales
It’s not that the West has run out of artillery shells. It’s that the West’s MIC is not willing to ramp up production, since we are not at war, and there is no guarantee that additional manufacturing capacity will pay off for weapons manufacturers once the war ends and there is no need for it any longer.
The EU, particularly Germany has gone through a massive disarmament since the Cold War. It still spends twice as much on its military in absolute terms as Russia. If we are talking total industrial capacity, the EU has 8 times the GDP of Russia.
Just on artillery shells, the 5th biggest artillery force in the world just joined NATO. Do you expect their reserves to be empty?
The head commissar of the National Police from communist times is the current Minister of Interior. Also, he was a board member in Hungary’s largest bank during the brief time he wasn’t in the government in some way.
Half a dozen ministers from Orbán’s government shared a dorm room with him back when he was secretary for the Young Communists.
Unlike most neighbouring countries, the documents detailing covert interior security agents have not been publicly released. The people of the old Hungarian State Security who were tasked with finding out, torturing and killing counterrevolutionaries are now occupying seats in the parliament, government and opposition alike.
So lol yes, they are. Except they now pretend to be fascists instead of pretending to be communists.
Orbán is the richest man in Hungary. He is the financial elite. There was one person who has been used by him as a strawman and then tried to go against him. The guy is out of the country and has been stripped of most of his money.
To be honest, I think most of these people are edgy contrarian Western people if not straight up agitators. Yes, the current US system does abhorrent things. Yes, it is often hypocritical against Russian and Chinese policies. But the mental gymnastics required to go from “US imperialism and worker exploitation bad” to “Russian / Chinese imperialism and worker exploitation good” is a huge leap.
I didn’t say that, only that there is no one “capitalist” system with patterns that apply everywhere. You said that the government of Hungary is subservient to its financial class, but there is no financial class in Hungary that’s separate from the government.
There’s always worse. In the early 2000s there was a movement calling for a state referendum on abolishing a particularly stupid institution that basically allowed every Hungarian politician to claim as much expenses as they wanted, without limit or even a need to show receipts.
The movement was successful in collecting enough signatures, but the government just abolished the institution before the referendum, re-establishing it under a different name just months later, so the signatures didn’t count.
Those signatures collected however show up for nominations for micro-parties no one heard about which divide the opposition vote. Mind that 20 years have passed, and many signatories are dead. The leaders of these micro-parties get public funds for campaigning, which they always steal, and the party is always disbanded before any serious investigation would happen. The government is okay with this.
And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility....
This is a non-exhaustive list of around 500 corporations that could be selling services on their own, that could compete in the same market these four are in. This is what you could “vote with your wallet” for.
Point is, every time a product gets traction in a market where big companies desire dominance, they get bought up or priced out. These companies don’t operate in a functioning market.
The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google (arstechnica.com)
It is perhaps another sign of how bad things have become with Google’s search results—full of algorithmically generated junk sites—that publications like CNET are driven to such extremes to stay above the sea of noise....
ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time (www.theregister.com)
😡Just learned that blocking a caller on android doesn't block their voicemails😡
How fucking stupid is that? Sorry, but not having a good morning. This is like when I found out you can’t set the number of rings either. Sometimes I just want to smash all my tech and go back to rocks, sticks, and leaves.
The far-left challenge to Germany's far-right AfD (faz.net) German
The Left Party’s Sahra Wagenknecht, one of Germany’s most controversial politicians, is threatening to form a new party. And analysts say it’s the far-right AfD that should be most worried.
‘Putin realized there wouldn’t be any consequences’ - What Russia’s elites learned from the 2008 invasion of Georgia (meduza.io)
Exactly 15 years ago, in August 2008, the Russian military entered into open conflict with Georgia. Moscow launched an offensive deep into the country before securing a favorable peace treaty and avoiding international isolation.
Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out, turning copyright law on its head (www.theguardian.com)
In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.
ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions' (www.theguardian.com)
a side project while learning coding
holders github
Spread the Load! Join other Instances! (ls.buckodr.ink)
Yes I know they’re getting DDoSed, I’m just messing around
The dream of the first hydrogen rail network has died a quick death (qz.com)
Is it (still) worth trying to switch my family and friends from WhatsApp to Signal? (Read all of it, please.) (kbin.social)
This may sound a bit dumb, but eh....
I had to post from my alt account because lemmy.world servers are down (discuss.online)
Posting my favorite memes (lemm.ee)
China's new high-speed train just set a new record as the world’s fastest — and it could travel faster than an airplane (www.thecooldown.com)
Comcast, Centurylink Fail To Derail Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network In Bountiful, Utah (www.techdirt.com)
The city of Bountiful, Utah voted to build a $48 million fiber network to provide affordable gigabit broadband for its residents and businesses. Regional internet providers Comcast and CenturyLink opposed the plan and tried to force a public vote through a taxpayer group they fund. However, communities often build their own...
So, Neuralink got FDA approval for human trials, and a certain fanbase is VERY excited about that (fosstodon.org)
Commodification of everything you think off Past/Present/Future....
A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies (www.businessinsider.com)
Well so it begins.
This Machine Could Keep Moore’s Law on Track (spectrum.ieee.org)
ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI (www.nature.com)
Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make (arstechnica.com)
Indian Video Games Industry Rallies Together as Over 40 Studios Ask Government To Separate Games From Gambling Apps | IGN (in.ign.com)
Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints (www.reuters.com)
From the article: “About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters. The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel...
Microsoft in EU antitrust crosshairs over Teams, Office tying (www.reuters.com)
BRUSSELS, July 27 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday found itself the target of an EU antitrust investigation over the tying of its chat and video app Teams with its Office product, putting it at risk of a hefty fine....
Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification (vivaldi.com)
Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and TomTom have launched their open map dataset (www.theverge.com)
Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
Google is already pushing WEI(DRM Webpage) into Chromium (github.com)
Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain. (mastodon.social)
The awesome Taylor Lorenz reports this on Mastadon. Highly recommend to follow her if you like these updates about what’s going on.
Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark (futurism.com)
Why is youtube suggesting aggressive actions against protestors? (lemmy.world)
I made sure to remove cookies and not sign in so I think these are the base suggestions made by youtube.
Brain-computer interface easily slips in and out of ear canal (medicalxpress.com)
research team suggests development of applications that convert full thoughts into text, controlling objects in real and virtual worlds—and even perhaps augmented memory.
Package Managers (lemm.ee)
Putin tells Poland any aggression against Belarus is attack on Russia (www.reuters.com)
How i feel on Lemmy (programming.dev)
Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser (github.com)
And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility....