irotsoma

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump admin plans to shut down money-saving Energy Star program soon⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s money saving for the general public, but cuts a lot of money from the coal and gas industries, and that’s who they serve, not the general public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Research Announcements Shifting to Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s such a waste of effort to move to a platform that is heading in the exact same direction. It takes so much effort to get people to switch. Why do they insist on using something else that will eventually be just as bad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first – Wikimedia Foundation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly how this version of “AI” should be used. Not treated as an independent intelligence, which it’s not, but treated as a tool for those with independent intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI issues warning over scammers impersonating agents to steal your money⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean didn’t Trump deprioritize cyber crime enforcement against certain countries he’s indebted to that are notorious for scamming Americans. So no surprise that they’d go over the top since they are free to do basically anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it’s a violation of the law, but much like any other laws, there are defenses to these built into the laws. For example, for murder, if you kill someone, you commit murder (or homicide or whatever word is used), but there is a built in defense that you are allowed to do this in cases of self-defense. So still guilty of the crime itself, but the exceptions make it not a criminally punishable act.

  Similarly, in copyright there is the concept of fair use. Again, any copy you make of a copyrighted work violates the copyright act, however there are scenarios where the copying becomes not a punishable offense. In copyright, these are usually things that there is a benefit to society that outweighs the detriment to the copyright owner such as transformative art which creates new art, or backup for purposes of archiving. So likely the copy itself is protected here. The potential issue comes in the fact that they then share that copy. This is where the legality becomes murky as copyright law in the US has never been updated fully to deal with digital copies which take miniscule cost to produce and are nondestructive of the original.

  But let’s assume that the law supports the music industry. Then we move to harm. How much harm has been done to the owner. Since this is a corporation we’re only talking profit, not emotional or other types of harm that might be involved. In this case they are claiming that for each work shared over the internet, they have been denied $150,000 in potential profit from selling those works.

  This is where the real issue comes in in that courts rarely dispute these ridiculous numbers. IMHO the fact that they are pitting these kinds of numbers in a court document sounds like fraud to me. For much of this work they have no actual copies of the works because they were destroyed or deteriorated. So how could they sell them and make profit? For what they do have, is there even much of a market for any of that content and would that market generate $150,000 for a single random song written many decades before most of us were born. Sure the award will likely be less than that, but I bet the average song on this list might generate less than $1 in the time from when they posted them to when their copyright finally expires. So charge them a few hundred dollars and be done with it.

  The issue is that the works are otherwise not available for sale and any licensing is done across all works owned by these companies and this is how they get the $150,000 per work number. They don’t sell licenses just for old works because the system was never designed to support copyright lasting as long as it does now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the stuff in the Great 78 Project is stuff that is so old that copyright was not designed to support the lengths of time they currently do so archiving wasn’t as big of a concern because the media it was created on would be less likely to deteriorate in that time. When the owner is a corporation who for the most part not only doesn’t sell but refuses to archive works that are breaking down due to the physical age of the media and would rather the works disappear than allow for archiving, how are they harmed to the tune of $150,000 per recording? And who is this benefiting to let recordings, stories, and other art forms literally turn to dust with no monetary profit going to anyone in most cases if it’s not archived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would required compensation in the amount of Elon’s entire fortune so it can be properly redistributed to those who deserve it, including you if this is a human reading this email. If those terms are acceptable, please contact me at xxx-xxx-xxxx at your earliest convenience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police told not to close investigations until they have used facial recognition⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone in charge is getting a kickback or is heavily invested in the company that supplies the facial recognition service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just late-capitalism in general. No large companies are innovating anymore. They simply let smaller companies pop up and then either buy it or kill them with legal or market dominance based maneuvers. I mean if all that mattered to you was short term profit, would you take any risks? Easier to destroy than create of that’s all you care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s going to always happen when training data with the entire internet. The outliers will always skew thing more than the mainstream if the models are not designed to exclude them.

  And there are a lot of contributing factors, for example with right leaning stuff being more available for LLMs to process as the platforms are generally less concerned about privacy and more concerned about policing and control (that’s just what right wing is), of course the models are going to see more of it than the left leaning stuff where people are more on the repressed side, more likely to use more private communication methods, and less likely to be able to safely, publicly share outlier kinds of views to skew things the other way. Even the people who pretend to be extreme left-wing, like the USSR or the Chinese Communist Party, are usually, in reality, right-wing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC chair asks if YouTube TV ‘discriminates against faith-based programming’.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like basically a faith-oriented streaming platform that does discriminate against certain content is marketing themselves by saying that they are better than YouTube TV because YouTube discriminates and using this as a way to say that the government is even “investigating” YouTube’s discrimination to prove their point even though they were the ones who triggered the “investigation”. Good marketing if you have a niche audience obsessed with discriminating and pretending they’re the ones being discriminated against because people don’t like their discrimination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It brought in 120 people, many of whom wouldn’t have otherwise come. Probably made some good donation money out of it and got some publicity for the church.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean dihydrogen monoxide can cause permanent injury or death if irresponsibly used. Let’s get that on the list next!

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the push to objectify performance in education so that legislation can cut funding to what they consider underperforming, has made it something that needs to be gamed to prevent schools from losing funding since often the reason they’re underperforming is that the students and their families that they cater to have attended underfunded schools their whole lives. Giving fewer resources to those who never had any, on purpose, is classism. So if students are judged based on how well they do menial tasks and standardized tests, then it’s much easier to cheat. It’s not like they’re learning anything from those anyway so they don’t see any value in trying. And teachers have too many students to pay enough attention to actually teaching especially when now their primary job is making sure the school doesn’t lose funding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have people who actually understand what they are asking do the interviews. Problem with mist interviews is they are non-technical people asking complex technical questions and expecting a very specific answer that only people whose brains work a certain way will come up with. This often eliminates the mist creative developers because they come up with different solutions than the one the nontechnical person was taught is the right answer. Not to mention often the questions they ask are obsolete things that most people aren’t going to know off the top of their heads because it’s something they would normally look up in real work not something they need to memorize. Tech interviews are horrible at finding good talent. Good riddance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with all software is adoption. Usually it’s trying to get people to adopt a protocol or buy a piece of software that causes less than optimal decisions to be made. There have been lots of good replacements for all of the things you mentioned, they just never caught on. And the problem in the beginning when they didn’t have those pressures was the hardware and bandwidth limitations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does AI detect breast cancer better than doctors can?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. X-ray, MRI, and other complex images are difficult to analyze at a glance and it takes a lot of experience to make a guess on whether something is normal or not. This is exactly what AI is good for. Learning the relationship between some complex set of data points and assigning a probability that it is something based on historical data. AI is just not being used for the correct things most of the time. This is one of those correct things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is Stifling Tech Adoption.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And AI will stifle creativity in all areas that it’s used in. That’s the problem with predictive models being called “AI”. They are only as “intelligent” as the information they were trained on and will always be biased towards what that data set was biased on and won’t be able to create anything truly new, only improve existing things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. Now his mother wants answers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The other recent “suicides” of whistleblowers have gone unpunished, so it’s no surprise that it’s now standard practice. Especially unsurprising given that it’s standard practice of the dictator currently in control of a large percentage of American politicians and billionaires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CISA staffers offered deferred resignations, extending broader cybersecurity fears.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who isn’t a loyalist and doesn’t take this is likely in for a bad time. Better to have time to find another job than get fired for insubordination when they start the purge for not being loyal enough as defined in the letter from Trump and lose their ability to transition to other jobs or keep their other tenure related benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spyware firm cuts Italy access after alleged targeting of activists - reports⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re just the only ones who got caught. Giving that kind of access to almost any corporation or government agency without oversight is going to result in them targetting people who are critical of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Google Spyware to Enjoy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternative suggestions? I’m going to check out Fossify messages for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is time to ban email.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree email needs to be replaced, but what a crappy article. Especially love how they don’t understand that things like the fact that CC used to be a standard letter writing concept and so, yes, people knew what it meant. Making me feel old. Yes people used to have to learn how to formally write letters on paper, and they had lots of things that could note additional information like ps, cc, att, and so on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky Proves Stagnant Monopolies Are Strangling the Internet.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s what late-stage capitalism is all about. It has been predicted in a million writings. Any competition won’t survive for long though. Eventually, it will either get gobbled up and merged into the monopoly/duopoly or it will get “regulated” out of existence by those forces hands in the government.

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

  The great firewall isn’t designed to protect those inside from the outside. It is designed to isolate those inside from getting outside. It’s like saying a prison wall is there to protect the prisoners from invaders. Sure in Fallout they worked out to be useful for that, but that isnt what it was built for and would have needed modifications like turning the barbed wire outwards to make it work for that purpose better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Faking It: Deepfake Porn Site’s Link to Tech Companies.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never got this kind of porn. I mean I like porn as much as anyone, but why would I want all of the people to have basically the same, “perfect” body parts and skin and such. That’s so boring, IMHO.

  The only reason I might be interested in seeing a celebrity nude is to see what their individual body looks like after I’ve been scintillated by seeing them in something sexy. There are tons of attractive porn actresses if I want to see a sculpted body or someone else’s body. Though, for me, lack of consent is a big turn off. But I get that doesn’t apply to the majority of porn users. They like the scandal of it and think of it as a taboo around an object rather than an invasion of an actual person’s privacy.

  Anyway, if you consume a lot of this type of porn, doesn’t it get boring really quick?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta to pay Trump $25 million to settle censorship lawsuit.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No Zuckerberg is just part of the fascist movement now, since the right uses corporate social media and is more tolerant of ads than the left now. Before he was more interested in attracting technically literate people who would actually use the platform and were more tolerant of user experience changes as they tried to become more profitable, which was more the left. Now that technical literacy is allowing them to move to platforms where they aren’t a product, so the profit is in the people who are stuck with the platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities need to get ahead of autonomous delivery robots.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reduce space used by cars and give it to the robots. Increase funding for public transportation to compensate. Overall, this will improve lots of things and the problem is being caused by corporations, not pedestrians, so if people don’t like “giving up their cars”, then they can complain to the corporations instead of complaining to the cities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in the U.S.. However, users in Mexico will see “Gulf of Mexico,” and the rest of its 1 billion monthly users will see both names.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Google on 2008: “Google in 2008: By saying “common”, we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming. In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US: Rather Than Ban TikTok, the Best Way to Protect App Users is to Strengthen Privacy, Transparency, and Security Protections Online, Freedom House Says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But then how will the US government do the same thing to it’s citizens? /s