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  • What happened to nuance discussion?

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  • I blame smartphones

  • Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?

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  • If there's one person who knows their applied zk proofs, it's that guy.

  • Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?

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  • There are some pretty strong arguments that even zk proof is a flawed way of preserving privacy though, in a variety of ways. It prevents pseudonymity by enabling one-user-one-account, and it leaves users vulnerable to being coerced to reveal their full online activities by handing over cryptographic keys.

  • Switzerland government release full FOSS LLM under Apache 2.0, argue for AI as Public Utility

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  • We can’t afford to make any of this. We don’t have the money for the compute required or to pay for the lawyers to make the law work for us

    I don't think this is entirely true; yeah, large foundational models have training costs that are beyond the reach of individuals, but plenty can be done that is not, or can be done by a relatively small organization. I can't find a direct price estimate for Apertus, and it looks like they used their own hardware, but it's mentioned they used ten million gpu hours, and GH200 gpus; I found a source online claiming a rental cost of $1.50 per hour for that hardware, so I think the cost of training this could be loosely estimated to be something around 20 million dollars.

    That is a lot of money if you are one person, but it's an order of magnitude smaller than the settlements of billions of dollars being paid so far by the biggest AI companies for their hasty unauthorized use of copyrighted materials. It's easy to see how copyright and legal costs could potentially be the bottleneck here preventing smaller actors from participating.

    It should benefit the people, so it needs to change. It needs to be “expanded” (I wouldn’t call it that, rather “modified” but I’ll use your word) in that it currently only protects the wealthy and binds the poor. It should be the opposite.

    How would that even work though? Yes, copyright currently favors the wealthy, but that's because the whole concept of applying property rights to ideas inherently favors the wealthy. I can't imagine how it could be the opposite even in theory, but in practice, it seems clear that any legislation codifying limitations on use and compensation for AI training will be drafted by lobbyists of large corporate rightsholders, at the obvious expense of everyone with an interest in free public ownership and use of AI technology.

  • Switzerland government release full FOSS LLM under Apache 2.0, argue for AI as Public Utility

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  • But we can't afford to pay. I don't think open models like the one in the OP article would be developed and released for free to the public if there was a complex process of paying billions of dollars to rightsholders in order to do so. That sort of model would favor a monopoly of centralized services run only by the biggest companies.

  • The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot?

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  • TikTok

    I think you're always going to have problems with a lack of authenticity on platforms where opaque algorithms do all the work of deciding what gets popular and what gets shown to who.

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    Women and men and consensual sex

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  • but the kinds of people who grape others generally don’t feel shame

    I think this is probably not true.

    the primary tool society uses to respond to grape, assault, prison, ostracizing or murder is, so like, so what is there less shame?

    Those tools aren't equally available to everyone, they are expressions of power, which some people have access to more than others.

  • Have you ever met a truly evil person? What happened?

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  • From what I've heard "psychopath" is in fact a disorder that makes a person worse at managing their own life, in addition to making things worse for the people around them.

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    apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people

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  • I like it, more people should adopt unusual typing quirks imo

  • Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out

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  • "For our awards to comply with the law we have to limit who can be considered for an award to biological women only," she explained.

    "This change to the awards doesn't alter our strong commitment to including and supporting all those who cycle, including transgender and non-binary people.

    What about just not having the awards then

  • Linus Comparison

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  • I don't watch his other content but in that one video he was absolutely doing exactly what a typical user would do in his situation. He was trying to follow a tutorial, he ran into the sort of warning message Windows users are conditioned to breeze past, and followed the onscreen instructions without trying to understand the confusing stuff. They changed how it worked after that incident, as they should if mass adoption is at all desirable.

  • Guys and Girls of the fediverse who have made the decision to end a toxic relationship, did you choose to go to the gym? If so what has been the out come for you since then?

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  • Wasn't my choice to end it, but working out did help, the physical discomfort dulls the emotional pain. Although I did it at home rather than going to a gym. Years later I'm still more in shape than I was before that episode.

  • Platform for Crowd Sourced Software Bounties?

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  • What about a way to donate (held in reserve for that purpose?) money after the fact for specific commits, and then have a way to indicate which things you'd be most likely to donate to going forward if they are completed? This would mean less reliable payments since there wouldn't be a guarantee any given contribution would result in a payout, but there wouldn't be any disincentive to work on things and there would be a general idea of what donators want. Plus doing it that way would eliminate the need for a manual escrow process.

  • Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip.

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  • I hate the idea of software/hardware that can prove that the user does not have control over it so much

  • 'The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace situation with Disney+ positive views on AI generated content

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  • I bet they also hope to ultimately corral all fanart into spaces they directly control.

  • Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services

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  • Even if they are trying to hack me it's only polite. Plus on the very remote chance they somehow find this and care they would have slightly more info about me.

  • Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services

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  • Tried setting this up, caught a few already

  • Chat Control 2.0 has passed the first round of approval

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  • Barring civilians from using encryption and software deemed dangerous is a new level imo. These are the tools we have to fight this stuff, maintaining those rights is a big deal.

  • There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business

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  • I have read some articles about this, and I can see how it makes sense in some contexts. Like iirc when this happened to Red Lobster, they were able to make money through a combination of ripping off a certain group of investors, and the significant value of the company's real estate holdings. That makes sense.

    In the case of online magazine equivalents though I really don't get it. What is there to sell off? Shouldn't any potential long term profits be priced in at the point they get bought out? If the company has tangible assets like offices, couldn't they just sell those without firing anyone and have people work from home? The intangible assets are all directly tied to the publication's reputation and audience, which seems like it would die off fast without anything worthwhile on the site.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?

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    Apple Revokes EU Distribution Rights for Torrent Client, Developer Left in the Dark * TorrentFreak

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    U.S. Senators Introduce New Pirate Site Blocking Bill: Block BEARD * TorrentFreak

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