@dessalines@lemmy.ml being as sharp as always, thank you for sharing this! I somehow missed that essay in the past, and recently even had a discussion where I argued in favor of signal. His overview makes some great points that shouldn’t be dismissed offhandedly. The important point is to not make the mistake of shunning signal in favor of an even less secure alternative. Also the user’s threat model should be taken into account. Those who aren’t anticapitalists (yet) might need to worry less about the concerns.
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Hmm, this is a topic that has been debated for years, I guess instead of writing my own summaries, it’s great to link you to some resources, outlining why modern AI (“LLM”/“GPT”) is controversial:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#Safety
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#Societal_concerns
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT#Limitations
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop
Note that some issues apply only given certain output (e.g. hallucinations), some depend on the usage (the decision to generate and publicize AI slop is made by human operators), whereas some issues are always present (e.g. huge environmental impact).
Regarding the there being a difference between good and bad AI or not: Some people argue that it’s always bad, some are bit more nuanced, some are competely blind/ignorant to the problem. Only those in the middle camp would necessarily see a difference.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•How could/would/should the Fediverse do age verification if required in the EU?English
8·8 days agoWe shouldn’t go down without a fight, out plan A must be to prevent dystopia. And you are right that asking "what if"s can encourage a feeling of defeatism by distracting from plan A, however it’s generally not bad to think about a plan B ahead of time.
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Technology@lemmy.world•10 petabytes of sensitive data stolen from China's National Supercomputing Center, hackers claim — daring heist would be largest ever China hack, covering 6,000 clients across science, defense, and beEnglish
16·9 days ago$200/card? What are those, legitimate western numbers?/s You can find “2TB” SD cards on AliExpress/etc for $3. Increasing the capacity to 1PT shouldn’t be much more than a minor change in the firmware.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Does this explain why there are no bullet trains in the USA?
56·13 days agoShort answer: The automobile lobby prevents it.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How does one get started with the *arr stack?English
1·13 days agoYou can expose your stuff to the internet, that’s not inherently frivolous, but it increases your attack surface. If you use cloudflared, you can tunnel it through cloudflared, which helps not publicly exposing your IP (but your services are still publicly exposed). You might be able to use cloudflared together with gluetun, but I prefer having the reverse proxy and cloudflared outside of the gluetun network.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How does one get started with the *arr stack?English
7·14 days agoI haven’t tried any out-of-the-box solution or setup script, so I can’t talk about them. if you go diy or want to edit any solution to have internet access exclusively over VPN (or not at all otherwise), I can recommend gluetun. Other than that, I just have a simple docker compose file and a reverse proxy. I recommend not exposing it to the www, but to keep it only accessible in your local network, or tailscale, if your use case allows it. Note: if you set up https, you might be leaking your subdomains in permanent certificate transparency records.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Those of you who don't wash your hands after going to the bathroom, why?
1·15 days agoI can’t speak for myself, but I’ve seen some children/young teenagers with ADHD being already too focused on what’s next. Or they go to the toilet with a handheld gaming console or smartphone to begin with, and never diverted their attention except for the bare minimum required when going to the toilet.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Any immich users know how the people sorting works?English
41·15 days agoI attune your family has human identifiable faces? Do you have a machine learning service container running? If so and if its enabled, it should just work. Otherwise, maybe try tweaking the parameters?
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•[Meta] 🚧 Under New Management 🚧
13·15 days agoThank you for moderating here, dohpaz! You are aware of the recent drama surrounding watermarks, with one particular (but actively posting❤️) user cropping out artists’ watermarks posting them here? I guess beep is confusing watermarks and an attribution link.
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•That person who is always serious.
521·15 days agoI love how they draw faces. Thank you for sharing and welcome back, beep. I hope the community (you included) can someday manage with less drama, but maybe the drama is half the fun of it.
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Jucika and the shy gardener
20·15 days agoI just tried it out and checked with a mirror. It’s possible (especially when leaning against the wall, but also without), but it’s quite the uncomfortable and unnatural pose
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Jucika and the shy gardener
14·15 days agoMaybe she is in motion
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Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification DatabaseEnglish
381·15 days agoThat’s a interesting approach. It kind of backdoors a lot of private communication efforts. I can’t even be sure, if disabling notifications for signal would avoid them from showing up in the database anyways
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Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!English
2·17 days agoI haven’t tried it, but NTH on the SmartTube telegram chat recommended https://github.com/webosbrew/youtube-webos
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why some people call it Natopedia the imperialist enciclopedia?
51·17 days agoI don’t use such terms, but I’ll try a possible explanation: There is indeed a certain tendency. Articles are mostly written by speakers of that language. For example English articles by English-spreading editors tend to be influenced by western ideology. If you’d look at, I dunno, Russian Wikipedia, I’d assume it’s a similar situation.
It’s known that there are indeed paid government agents editing Wikipedia. But even those that are not are influenced by the Zeitgeist, which itself is informed by state propaganda. So we don’t need to assume intentional malice.
Ideally, people complaining about Wikipedia would have the time and skill to improve it. But that’s easier said than done.
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Technology@lemmy.world•New Mexico's Meta Ruling and Encryption - Schneier on SecurityEnglish
15·18 days agothe post already links to a summary, but tl;dr
the state seeks to charge Meta for supporting grooming of minors, because adding chat encryption obstructed law enforcement. Criminalizing the design decision to add encryption might deter all companies.
Some of the most damaging evidence in both trials came from internal company documents where employees raised concerns about safety risks and discussed tradeoffs. […] the rational corporate response is to stop putting anything in writing. Stop doing risk assessments. Stop asking hard questions internally. […] That makes everyone less safe.
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Jucika and the prolific houseplant
10·18 days agoThat’s pretty wild 😉

It wouldn’t surprise me if both are just happy to gave enjoyed each other’s show