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RegalPotoo

@ RegalPotoo @lemmy.world

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  • If people's voices become copyright protected in the future as a response to AI, will any non-commercial uses of voices be affected as well?

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  • Maybe? It depends on how the laws get written?

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  • Mayor of New York isn't the end goal

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  • No.

    But...

    The adage that "the dose makes the poison" is working in your favor here. A large city supply delivers millions of liters of water per day; by the time you dilute your poison into millions of liters of water you'll either be adding absurd amounts of poison (someone is going to notice massive line of tanker trucks queued up outside the treatment plant), or you are dealing with large - but not unweildly - volumes of something so horrendously toxic that it's still deadly when diluted that much. There are very few substances that toxic, and someone is going to notice if you start procuring hundreds of liters of botulism toxin or Vx because at that point you are dealing with outlawed chemical warfare agents

  • What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?

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  • You can't use logic to talk someone out of a position they didn't use logic to get into in the first place

  • Neighbour is deliberately harassing my family by blasting the radio on subwoofers in every room from 7:30 AM till 11:30 AM every day. Can anything be done about this? Me and my family are at wit's end

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  • This only works with rational actors

  • Neighbour is deliberately harassing my family by blasting the radio on subwoofers in every room from 7:30 AM till 11:30 AM every day. Can anything be done about this? Me and my family are at wit's end

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  • Maybe don't engage in a war of escalation with unstable people

  • Release v0.6.11 · open-webui/open-webui

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  • The license change literally just prevents you from stripping their branding if you have more than 50 users a month - this is more permissive than the MPL that Firefox is licensed under

  • What are commonly used idioms/metaphors that make no sense to anyone who knows about the topic they come from?

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  • Not quite an idiom, but one of the senior managers at work keeps talking about Moore's Law in the context of AI stuff like it's some kind of fundamental law of the universe that any given technology will double in capability every 2 years

    1. Moore observed that transistor density in microprocessors had historically been doubling every 18 months, and this trend more or less continued for a decade or so after he noted it
    2. Density has nothing to do with the capability of technology that uses those microprocessors. The performance of the chips roughly doubled every couple of years, but there was a lot more going on with that than just transistor density
    3. Moore's law hasn't held for at least the last decade
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  • I don't know about strictly racist, but it's definitely got colonial overtones. Europe has used "they are uncivilized" as an excuse for the way they brutalized their colonies, erased cultures and enslaved people for centuries

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  • Another point on this, in events like this the cell network is often under very significant stress as every single person tries to contact their family and friends at the same time to check if they are OK. The general advice is to avoid making phone calls if you can to keep capacity free for people who need to contact emergency services

  • What do you pay for your cellular service?

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  • Nothing - my employer pays for it - but if I was paying myself it would be $85NZD/month for 150GB 5G data, unlimited text and calling to NZ and Australia

  • Should naming your children stupid names be illegal?

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  • If you are going to propose a law, you need to define "stupid"

  • Genuine question - why did 250 people buy this?

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  • At a guess:

    • People with steam accounts and VPNs in countries that steam doesn't operate in. Steam will block your "foreign" credit card as a fraud risk, but eBay dgaf cos it's the sellers problem if they get ripped off
    • This is probably a pretty convenient way to send small amounts of money to people in a way that looks pretty legit. Arrange to buy some drugs off someone over telegram, they get you to buy a "steam card" from them, they send an envelope with a blank bit of cardboard and the drugs

  • Backup compose and env files

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  • Check them into Git, but be cautious about credentials that might live in the env files that you don't want to expose if you end up making the repo publicly available.

  • Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz?

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  • IIRC Ubiquity make a line of point-to-point ethernet bridges that operate in the 20GHz range (because more bandwidth, and if you have line of sight you don't care about interference as much). Responsible vendors won't even sell you one without sighting a license cos they can also get in trouble for selling it to you if it turns out you are operating it illegally

  • When Lemmy got named did no one think that the "lemming" association might alienate people?

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  • There are two truely hard problems in computer science; P=NP, naming things, and off by one safety

  • What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm?

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  • Beyond just being able to draw a bow, being able to draw it well enough to have a chance of shooting at all repeatably takes a lot of training - it's not just lifting a 50+lb weight, pulling it towards you with one and and pushing it away with the other while keeping your arms stable requires a lot of strength in muscles the people don't tend to use.

    Source: former colleague is an international competition level archer - the sheer amount of core strength and coordination and balance you need to be a good archer is wild

  • "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" isn't a good saying

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  • Yeah, that was the general point I was trying to gesture to without being too hamfisted about it; people can escape crappy situations and generational trauma with some outside help, either on the small, personal level or the larger structural level

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    RegalPotoo @lemmy.world

    "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" isn't a good saying

  • When the product manager rolls in to open a JIRA ticket

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  • Place I worked previously did this with Think pads - didn't matter if you primarily used an email client or an IDE, you got the same 32GB RAM/i7/512GB NVMe. They were big enough to be ordering new laptops 50 at a time, and the overhead of having to manage different pools for swaps when things needed fixing or for upgrades wasn't worth it. It only needed to save something like a billable hour a year over the book life of the laptop for it to be worth it

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    RegalPotoo @lemmy.world

    Do you need to adjust your speedometer if you change the size of your tires?