NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on The Plucky Squire recently came out, and used the Steam Deck to represent PC 1 month ago:
- Comment on Huawei’s $2,800 trifold phone is a real thing it wants people to hold and use 2 months ago:
butytho
- Comment on Roblox will start sharing more revenue with creators 2 months ago:
They’re still exploiting child labor for profit. Sharing a little more profit with the exploiters doesn’t change the child labor aspect.
- Comment on MPA says no more “Whac-a-Mole” with pirate sites, claims it took down “mothership” 2 months ago:
What if I have a sword?
- Comment on This web game lets you drag words around a communal fridge door to create poetry 3 months ago:
So the “New word…” box seems pretty open… it accepts Unicode characters like Miscellaneous Symbols. I assume any valid Unicode character would work… I haven’t tried any of the unprintable/control characters yet.
I wonder how much filtering there is… what would happen if little bobby tables showed up?
- Comment on Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan 4 months ago:
A rising tide drowns all users.
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 4 months ago:
That is super not how fair use works:
In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:
- the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
- the nature of the copyrighted work;
- the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
- the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Considering that OpenAI is making a commercial profit from developing its ML models, they seem to have missed #1 already. #3 also because the model usually ingests the entire work, not just part of it.
Actually, this makes me wonder if the design of OpenAI’s business structure is intended to try to abuse this:
The organization consists of the non-profit OpenAI, Inc. registered in Delaware and its for-profit subsidiary OpenAI Global, LLC.
So, the “non-profit” part of OpenAI collects the data for “research” purposes, but then the for-profit side sells the product.
- Comment on Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work 5 months ago:
Very nice list, thanks for sharing. I hadn’t heard of a lot of these.
- Comment on Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work 5 months ago:
"We have never trained generative AI on our customer’s content, we have never taken ownership of a customer’s work, and we have never allowed access to customer content beyond what’s legally required,” Wadhwani said to The Verge.
" yet…"
- Comment on Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work 5 months ago:
Yeah, basically this.
- Comment on RealVNC is dropping its “Home” plan and barely noting its free “Lite” option 6 months ago:
Just use TightVNC.
- Comment on China tensions underline US investment in TSMC 7 months ago:
The other places you mention were not islands. People could walk out if necessary.
Unless you can propose at least a rough outline of something practical (e.g. what ships might be used, a time estimate for how long it would take to move all of the people, personal belongings and the hardware, and a plan for how to get 24 million people to willingly leave their homes without a fight) I think you should give it up.
As I said, it’s worthwhile to discuss alternatives, but it’s not worthwhile to continue to discuss ones that are obviously infeasible.
- Comment on China tensions underline US investment in TSMC 7 months ago:
Couldn’t Taiwan find a country willing to “harbor” the entire population and move
Let me stop you right there - how exactly do you propose to move 24 million people?
It is worthwhile to talk about possible alternatives, and I don’t think you should be getting down votes for it, but this isn’t feasible.
- Comment on China tensions underline US investment in TSMC 7 months ago:
I’m not sure what you’re going for here.
Are you implying that Taiwan is not an independent country?
- Comment on China tensions underline US investment in TSMC 7 months ago:
- Comment on Thousands of phones and routers swept into proxy service, unbeknownst to users 7 months ago:
That’s basically what Mirai is used for:
Ready-to-go botnet kits obviate the need for tech savvy. For $14.99-$19.99, a botnet may be leased for an entire month.
- Comment on "I will definitely find evidence against you": Hong Kong officials warn that posting and sharing criticism could breach the city’s newly enacted national security law 7 months ago:
I will definitely find evidence against you
Even if I have to fabricate it.
- Comment on LEGO Reveals Massive Dungeons & Dragons Set 8 months ago:
overpriced
At $359.99 for 3745 pieces this actually falls below the $0.10/brick threshold, which is pretty good for a licensed set. Most of the Star Wars sets are higher than that.
- Comment on LEGO Reveals Massive Dungeons & Dragons Set 8 months ago:
paperback book that can be purchased with 2,7000 Insider points
wut
- Comment on The case for 4K Blu-ray in a world of streaming 8 months ago:
is now the time to revisit physical media?
It was never time to leave it.
- Comment on Home theater fans are being starved of the new 4K Blu-ray releases they want and it's not okay 8 months ago:
I doubt that Disney will be anywhere near bankruptcy for a long time. I think they’ve realized that keeping content on streaming platforms gives them control over it indefinitely, even if operating the platform isn’t profitable. They probably won’t release a lot of that content on physical media unless the streaming becomes drastically costly.
If Blu-ray is still being distributed in 10-15 years it will be like gwttign a VHS tape today.
- Comment on Home theater fans are being starved of the new 4K Blu-ray releases they want and it's not okay 8 months ago:
You will own nothing and
like ithave no recourse. - Comment on got her! 11 months ago:
- Comment on Discord rule 11 months ago:
