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teawrecks

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  • Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification

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  • Because they know the "party of anti-regulation/anti-nannie state" will never trust people to take care of themselves and someone will be forced to do it. They acknowledge either they will have to do a bunch of work and be liable when it fails, or some middle man will. So they choose the middle man.

  • What's your most cynical opinion about the world?

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  • Historically, the only thing we've found that lowers wealth inequality is inevitably large scale war and death. And i don't expect that to change before the next time it lowers.

  • how long do you need to be Ina relationship with someone before you can say 'Go fuck yourself, I love you too.' and your partner will respond with a chuckle instead of a blood fued?

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  • I've been with my partner for 16 years. We met one of my friends for brunch last year, and afterwards he and I hung out, while my partner went home. Before she left, my friend said, "it was so good to see you

    <her name>

    " and hugged her. Then she turned to me and I said, "bye bitch, see ya at the house". We laughed and she took off. My friend was like, "dude, I can't believe you said that and she was cool with it. My gf would be pissed at me for days!"

    So yeah, I got a good one :)

  • 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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  • Why not 2012?

    For Kony.

  • The simple test that blew up the FTC's case against Meta

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  • If they were required to leave all meta platforms, then what would the experiment show? It sounds like the intention was to see where people shifted their time when they stopped using one meta product. If FB users primarily went to IG and vice versa, then it would indicate they held a monopoly. But it sounds like IG users primarily switched to TikTok and YouTube, not FB, indicating they are different products from each other and have different competition.

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • No, we think it's great, keep going.

  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

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  • If sufficiently advanced malware can break out of a VM, then it's only a matter of time before an AI breaks out of a measly container 🍿

  • What is the most relieving thing you've done for yourself?

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  • Earbuds have come a long way and are very convenient, but IMO there's no match for proper over-ear open-back headphones. My first pair of "nice" headphones was the Sennheiser HD555, and I made sure all my rips were at least 320kbps. Had the same experience, suddenly I was hearing sounds in songs that I never knew were there!

  • What is the most relieving thing you've done for yourself?

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  • Nice headphones. Life is too short to be using shit headphones.

  • What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?

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  • If it just looks like a stream of TLS packets, so the content is encrypted, what would DPI be able to see? I feel like if it could detect it as a VPN, that's just a bug that needs fixing, not an inherent weakness in the protocols involved.

  • Proton Offered Me Money... Then It Got Weird

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  • Very not weird behavior. Not worth the watch.

  • Finally switched my fiancee to bazzite, fuck me was it a trial

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  • But on closed source drivers, right?

  • [RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)?

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  • People or LLMs?

  • [RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)?

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  • Hold up, what did I read into it? I directly quoted you and asked for clarification on whether you currently believe that is the state of AI, or whether you're saying that's what automation used to be.

    If you're saying that's what automation used to be, then we agree. But if you believe that modern AI can only do the "tedious bullshit no one wants to do", that's literally not the case.

    Sora 2 is generating realistic video of anything you want given just a text prompt, rivaling the best VFX artists.

    Hollywood is currently clamoring to "work with" AI celebrities who don't exist, with a synthetic voice, singing songs no one composed with lyrics generated by an LLM. Why give a cut to a pop artist or band if you can synthesize it from nothing?

    The education system has been completely upturned because every assignment can be completed by an AI, and there's no way for the teacher to detect it. And it's having a measurably damaging effect on students' intellect.

    A popular quote floating around right now is, "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

    And right now I literally can't know if someone is running an AI with the prompt: "respond to this comment as though you are an out of touch older American who still thinks the capabilities of generative AI are limited to simple automation of tedious tasks no one wants to do anyway." And you don't know if I'm an AI with the prompt, "respond to this comment like a condescending tech literate young adult who is afraid of the impact that generative AI owned and funded by an oligarchy is going to have on every aspect of their future."

    I honestly feel stupid even bothering to type any of this out. I'm surely being had.

  • [RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)?

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  • And it's worth noting that you can't automate the interesting parts of a job, as those are creative. All you can tackle is the rote, the tedious, the structured bullshit that no one wants to do in the first place.

    Are you saying that this used to be the case and acknowledging that it's no longer true with modern AI? Because it's demonstrably not true for modern AI and is the entire reason people are fearful.

    Honestly, this post is so far out of the loop, part of me is wondering if it's AI generated.

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    Can kids under 10 be possibly taught coding, without even mentioning the word syntax to them ??

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  • If coding is the means to an end they want, they will learn it.

    I started learning how to program because I wanted to mod Halo 20y ago. Gaming is often a motivator. I had a co-worker who started in the 80s, whose only option to play games on his C64 was to type up a bunch of BASIC from a magazine. He had to take care not to make any typos, then play the game, and then didn't have any persistent tape to save it to, so he just lost it all on a reboot. Turns out, if you're "forced" to type code in all the time, you start to figure out which bits do what, and you start changing it to behave how you want.

    "Hacking" could probably work as a motivator, though with great power comes great responsibility.

    But yeah, a kid won't be interested in programming unless they see it as their only option to do what they want to do. PICO8 might be a good entry. Or something like Minecraft modding.

  • What do you think about each Lemmy instance trying to be a Reddit alternative?

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  • Reddit also has a bunch of similar communities with overlapping topics. That's not a Lemmy thing.

    I prefer the Fediverse to grow organically. If that means everyone reads this thread and suddenly unanimously decides that we need to change how we organize topics across instances, so be it. But I don't think that'll happen, and that's fine too.

    If it can't survive organically, then it can't survive.

  • Elon Musk’s Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia

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  • That is literally the opposite of Musk's goal.

  • What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified?

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  • Isn't Overwolf's business model literally monetizing and profiting from modding communities? Curseforge and Overwolf are the epitome of enshittification.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Do you have any rules you try to follow when engaging with others online?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Open casting alternative (by Amazon?)

    www.trustedreviews.com /explainer/what-is-matter-casting-new-airplay-rival-explained-4407108
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    qpwGraph vs wireplumber vs pipewire

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Any time I tell my reddit friends about lemmy