p03locke

@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you forget just how much money was dumped into Quibi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just wrong. If you write a book, you own that book. Many people sell art.

  If you want to publish a book, you have to contact a publisher, and they will acquire the rights to publish your book. If you want to publish an album, you have to give up your rights to the music publisher. You don’t really “own” your media at that point.

  Also, compared to the number of artists out there, many people don’t sell art. A select few sell art, and the rest are broke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Copyrights aren’t for you, or for that artist that writes a song, or paints a picture. They exists to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.

  As such, I would like to extend this to ‘delete all copyright law’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure he dangled it, and then handed it over, like the traitor he is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey has now lost 4 million Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t see the contents of the post, because I assume it’s available to members only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a shit take.

  I swear everybody here is fucking black and white, with no room for nuance. This is how cults and echo chambers get started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because AI and LLMs especially have become the new bogeyman to blame what amounts to technological shifts that society has not adapt to. All AI has done has made technology more accessible and available to the common man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. This used to be something only rich people or corporations could do. Now, anybody can do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sound-alikes have been around for as long as there has been voice actors.

  John Kricfalusi did the voice for Ren during the first season of Ren & Stimpy, got fired, and then Billy West took over the job. Nobody noticed the change. Did John consent to the change? No, of course not.

  This shit happens all the time with music and singers. It’s just that now the availability has increased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t understand why that’s the barrier to entry for many people. It’s like people want to be enslaved to a monopoly on purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The more effort we put into making Bluesky and Threads good

  While I somewhat agree, I don’t think we should be putting “Bluesky” and “Threads” in the same sentence.

  Also, I think Threads is a cautionary tale around this whole protocol argument, where a federated technology does not automatically mean it’s safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg founder Kevin Rose and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian buy Digg for an undisclosed sum from Money Group, aiming to focus on “connection and humanity” online.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha! I jumped into Reddit to get away from Fark, many many years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is more of a personality problem than an issue with AI itself. StackOverflow has been doing people’s homework for decades now.

  If the talent is crap, then you tighten the hiring process. Never hire a developer without a series of code tests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Better question: Why the fuck are you still on Twitter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Data structures called hash tables”? Editor thinks this is some arcane little-used data technology.

  Hashes are used in literally every programming language that’s worth using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia VPN Crackdown Revelation - VPN Sites Hide Their IP Addresses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Russia having a blocklist full of Cloudflare IP addresses is almost normal too.

  Sure, let’s just block all of Cloudflare. Or Azure. Or AWS. I’m sure that won’t end up blocking half of the internet at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of embracing this gift of open-source, they desperately cling to the old monopolies.

  Fuck them. AI is in the people’s hands now. OpenAI is old tech now.

  Why should mega-wealthy investors pour billions of dollars into this shitty old technology that doesn’t turn a profit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s counteroffer to the government trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure Google will drag this around until the end of January, when suddenly they don’t have to do anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WordPress Forces Users to Agree That Pineapple Is Good on Pizza⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why people keep harping against pineapple on pizza, which works well as a sweet/salty contrast, but completely ignore when America was obsessed with anchovies on pizza.

  If anything, that would be a topping that even less of the population would agree on being good on pizza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UnitedHealth's Optum left an AI chatbot, used by employees to ask questions about claims, exposed to the internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one-letter away from Opium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man who won art competition with AI-generated image now says people are stealing his work⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can convince people that AI is capable of original works, or you can convince people that AI is nothing but a tool to remix and mashup other people’s artwork.

  What is original and what is a remix and mashup of other people’s artwork? For every example of “original artwork” you could provide, I can show you how it’s derivative of other people’s artwork.

  We’ve been copying and remixing creative ideas for centuries. There’s no such thing as “original works”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X fails to avoid Australia child safety fine by arguing Twitter doesn’t exist⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, what’s the fine here? $350?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  while OpenAI & friends have been infringing copyright on a much, much bigger scale, and getting away with it.

  Based on what? Distributing numbers in a big database doesn’t infringe on copyright, and downloading a web page or image doesn’t either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And I am of the opinion that spreading access to knowledge is vastly more important than copyright laws made decades before the internet was a thing. Especially when is comes to US copyright laws being forced upon the rest of the world.

  Breaking the law is not how you change copyright laws. Ironically, AI is the best way to crack copyright laws like an egg, but everybody seems to be vehemently opposed to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It’s completely accurate.

  They pushed this “digital library” idea to even beyond their own definition, got punished for it, and now they are at-risk of losing their core function. Corporations and alt-right shills would love to get rid of any trace of accountability, and this is one avenue that calls them out on the bad shit they post online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Due to AI fakes, the “deep doubt” era is here⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s Recall AI feature won’t be available for Windows testers until October⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t we just have it not available? At all? I don’t think people want a bunch of screenshots getting stolen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week”

  Yes, you’re right. There isn’t a thing that requires this. You shouldn’t be required to do so.

  The problem with naming a company an idiotic name like “Nothing” is that it’s so easy to make who’s-on-first jokes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FCC proposes requiring robocallers to disclose when they’re using AI⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s go one step further and require robocallers to disclose that they are robocallers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It May Soon Be Legal to Jailbreak AI to Expose How it Works⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure they will take this opportunity to expand the DMCA to unbelievable levels.