NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball 2 weeks ago:
AI is a surveillance technology.
- Comment on SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user content 2 weeks ago:
Best update all your files with some trash first and let it sit for a couple months to hopefully overwrite any backups, there’s no guarantee that “deleting” it from your account will actually remove it from their servers.
- Comment on When technology is the problem, not the solution 2 weeks ago:
It’s your problem. It’s somebody else’s solution.
It’s not final yet.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 2 weeks ago:
How could this possibly be GDPR compliant?
- Comment on Is upgrading the ssd easy enough that it is worth the cost savings? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I put a screen protector on mine right away. It’s a portable device.
The combination of the etched screen and an etched screen protector definitely hurts the sharpness - I would’ve been better off with the standard glossy screen.
- Comment on Is upgrading the ssd easy enough that it is worth the cost savings? 3 weeks ago:
Have you installed a Linux operating system before?
The hardware swap is not difficult, but you do have to reinstall the OS on the new drive, so if you’re not already familiar with that process it may be a hurdle. The good news is there shouldn’t be any important data on it, so if you do have a problem you can just wipe it and start over.
I bought the original largest model, and in less than 6 months decided I wanted more than the 512GB. I wish I had saved the $200 and bought the cheapest model. There’s no other appreciable difference.
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 3 weeks ago:
Personally I just splice all my cables into MIL-DTL-26482 connectirs, that way I know they’re solid!
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' 5 weeks ago:
AI is surveillance tool.
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 1 month ago:
Aer
Rime
Stonefall
Shovel Knight
Journey
Spider Heck
Overcooked (1 & 2)
Snakeybus
Osmos
Sonic Mania
World of Goo
Duck Tales Remastered
Spyro: Reignited Trilogy
- Comment on Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy. 3 months ago:
For-profit corporation makes profit-motivated decisions. Film at eleven.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 3 months ago:
You will own nothing and
like ithave no recourse. - Comment on Large Language Models Think Too Fast To Explore Effectively. 3 months ago:
Finally, we conduct an intervention to examine whether ablating the most correlated neuron causally reduces the corresponding exploration strategy employed by the LLM in the task.
Moreover, whenever a forescent skor motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration.
- Comment on AI-Generated Fake War Images Passed Off as Real 5 months ago:
We are on the verge of being completely snowed under by generated trash.
- Comment on The Plucky Squire recently came out, and used the Steam Deck to represent PC 8 months ago:
- Comment on Huawei’s $2,800 trifold phone is a real thing it wants people to hold and use 8 months ago:
butytho
- Comment on Roblox will start sharing more revenue with creators 8 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” 8 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 9 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 10 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 10 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago:
Yeah, basically this.
- Comment on RealVNC is dropping its “Home” plan and barely noting its free “Lite” option 1 year ago:
Just use TightVNC.
- Comment on China tensions underline US investment in TSMC 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago:
- Comment on Thousands of phones and routers swept into proxy service, unbeknownst to users 1 year 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.
