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    Something odd happened on Reddit today..

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  • You just don't get it by only concealing IP address. I bet if they also managed to avoid browser fingerprinting and giving clues about their location through their use of the site, that would have been enough that Reddit isn't showing advertising based on location.

  • Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

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  • Should have said ok and then destroyed it once it's legally your posession

  • Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

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  • They say that, but I can almost guarantee you the feds get direct access without asking and keep it a secret, because that's how tech companies do things in general. Flock cameras/data is openly used to provide a combined search of all cameras, this partnership implies Ring is going to go further in that direction too.

  • This just happened to me, and I did waste 1-2h because of it

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  • There should be some kind of automated certification for git repos, where if the described install process does not complete on a default install of the most popular OS, the software gets a big red "does not work" label.

  • Today, enjoy your self-hosted home automation

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  • Ring, etc are either slow or not responding

    Nice.

  • Should we treat environmental crime more like murder?

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  • What the author seems to be proposing is something like true crime media but for environmental crimes.

    And if you’re tempted to turn around and say that environmental crimes don’t happen because of individuals, but because of “the system”, I hear you. Social structures, ideologies and politics have a profound impact on human behaviour. Using this term – the system – can feel like a profound contribution to a difficult discussion, underpinned by the desire not to over simplify. But exactly who, or what, is the system?

    A serial killer also lives in a society, and we can blame society for any hardships they may have faced. But if on a true-crime show I were to simply cite “the system” as a motive for murder, people would want me to be more precise. We understand that choices are involved, and motives are personal, not just systemic. Otherwise, wouldn’t we all be criminals?

    Seems like a cool idea.

  • Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code - Ars Technica

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  • the bigger issue is that it’s being used in a GPL3 project which kind of isn’t allowed

    I followed the links and I think the original argument being referenced has been twisted around a bit game-of-telephone style, GPL prohibiting inclusion of LLM generated code isn't what it's claiming, it's more that they think AI trained on GPL code violates it when it happens to reproduce it exactly:

    it is readily apparent that GitHub Copilot is capable of returning, verbatim, already extant code (although it does attempt to synthesise novel code based on its training data). This immediately raises the issue, what happens when that code (such as the previous example) is licensed under a copyleft license such as the GPL or AGPL? How is the matter of copyright in this instance resolved?

    https://github.com/ZDoom/gzdoom/issues/3395 https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/on-the-nature-of-ai-code-copilots#5.%20What%20About%20Copyright?

    It might also be the case that the GPL prohibits LLM generated code somehow, I don't actually know, just want to point out that no one has made an argument for that.

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    Bread can be much more

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  • Alfalfa sprouts and hummus make for a really good sandwich

  • Too lazy to code currently

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  • Pick an idea and roll with it, most of them won't work, but the only way to find out what will is experience since nobody is going to tell you the truth about money making methods.

  • Visually indistinguishable

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  • Fun fact, on release, the UI for Morrowind did not even have health bars for enemies, this was patched in later.

  • I proposed a hypothetical plan while high, would it work in court?

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  • I'd worry about getting a very biased jury

  • One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill

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  • The site lets visitors compile a mass email warning about the bill and send it to national government officials, members of the European Parliament and others with ease

    Why are they talking about this as if it's a strange thing to happen and disruptive? I've seen lots of websites about a political issue that help people send emails to their representatives, isn't that just a normal part of democracy?

  • how did you make the switch from reddit to lemmy.. i'm trying to myself but struggling to ngl

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  • I didn't really, I have 13 Reddit tabs and like 25 Lemmy tabs open in this browser window atm

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    Looking for a community for AI skeptics that is more actively moderated than /c/fuckai

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  • Based on my experience with spaces for discussing and arguing about AI, there is a huge amount of middle ground in peoples opinions between unconditional rejection of the technology and complete denial of every problem or threat that could be associated with it. There's also many different perspectives about what solutions to those problems are a good idea or not.

    There is not anything like ideological unity. Someone who is supportive of AI for anti copyright reasons is usually going to have a lot of differences of opinion with someone who thinks AI powered surveillance will solve society's problems by eliminating crime. Someone who wants strong government crackdowns on AI because they think Eliezer is right that a superintelligence will form and kill us all will disagree in many ways with someone who thinks the technology is largely a scam. This is a new thing that's causing rapid changes, so people are going to have different ideas about it.

  • For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid

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  • I don't think the additional levels quite fit. From the original blog post:

    The most obvious advantage of classifying the forms of disagreement is that it will help people to evaluate what they read. In particular, it will help them to see through intellectually dishonest arguments. An eloquent speaker or writer can give the impression of vanquishing an opponent merely by using forceful words. In fact that is probably the defining quality of a demagogue. By giving names to the different forms of disagreement, we give critical readers a pin for popping such balloons.

    The bottom two aren't really themselves arguments. They aren't things you read and then make a decision whether to take seriously, but rather means of controlling what you read to begin with. So while there is reason to criticize these practices, their inclusion muddles the scope of the message. The scope of the message is important, because the ideal of free expression has become more controversial since it was written in 2008, and it's not itself a defense of free expression, more of a proposed heuristic for getting more out of a debate with the assumption that you are approaching that debate with the intention of improving your rational understanding of something or leading others to a rational understanding.

    IMO arguments about censorship and violence need to be made separately, because the value of that approach (as opposed to words being valued mainly as persuasive weapons) is in question and has to be addressed.

  • For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid

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  • Until you physically can't communicate anymore, it's always an option to keep trying.

  • [Jenny Gorelick] Co-Stars

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  • You can sort of emulate a vibrator with the bridge of your nose and humming really loud, just saying

  • Does anyone else feel worried when you see a big number in the Lemmy notification inbox?

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  • This is a good point, there are definitely plenty of times I've gotten a response and ended up embarrassed and rethinking a bit how I approach things, and I'm certainly not advocating to avoid that. And maybe "disable inbox replies" is more something with niche uses and not a general solution here. I guess the main reason I mention it is, most of the time I have felt a similar kind of anxiety about responses has been over some specific comment I believed really should be said but knew was likely to get a hostile reaction, and being able to rule out worries over those specific comments helped a lot on Reddit.

    The larger point I want to make though is that the anxiety you are describing in the OP post should be overcome, and shouldn't be a struggle people face alone without help. I want to hear from more perspectives, and it's not great to think it's likely many are deterred entirely by this sort of fear of social disapproval. IMO learning from mistakes is harder if it's considered as and feels like a punishment or enforcement of some external will.

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    Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?

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  • I am streaming my music but not like that, allow me to flex my custom setup: