FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities 6 days ago:
Can’t. Legally.
- Comment on Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat 1 week ago:
Yeah, if it’s essential that the students prove that they can write a report/essay - in person, hand written or on a offline computer.
The other better option is that you don’t give assignments that are just written essays and book reports.
- Comment on Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat 1 week ago:
Bingo.
If a school keeps giving their students assignments that current tools can answer easily, the school needs to change their assignments.
- Comment on Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat 1 week ago:
Nor should they. It’s up to the educational institutions to move with the times and make assessments that make sense in the current world.
- Comment on YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations 1 week ago:
Paywalled.
- Comment on Microsoft Task Manager now tasking PCs with running multiple copies of itself 1 week ago:
And you don’t have preview updates enabled unless you know what you’re signing up for, or you’re too dumb to understand what you’re signing up for.
- Comment on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate 1 week ago:
Ask it to divide integer 1 by integer 2. Explain to me why the CPU hands back 0 and not 0.5.
Because integers are whole numbers by design. You don’t get 0, you get 0 with remainder 1.
Blindly saying such issues can be overcome is, imho, the truly stupid statement
I’m not saying they definitely will be - I’m saying that blindly saying that they definitely will not ever be overcome is stupid.
- Comment on The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars 1 week ago:
You’re talking about America, which has nothing to do with the UK doing this.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
There is always going to be a need for some people to have personal vehicles and electricity is a damn sight better than gasoline.
When that electricity is generated from solar panels and wind turbines that require endless mining of non-renewable sources, and create endless landfill, no, it’s not a damn sight better than gasoline. It’s causing significantly more environmental damage than gasoline is.
The point is that sometimes you want something that cannot be directly profitable but which is of a certain benefit to society.
You want that to be publicly owned, not lining the pockets of private enterprise. If a private company needs subsidies to exist, it should be left to fail. If it needs subsidies, it should be publicly owned.
- Comment on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate 1 week ago:
Technological impossibilities exist all the time.
This isn’t one of those times. We’re just scratching the surface of AI. Anyone saying anything absolute like it’s impossible for them to not hallucinate is saying “No one should listen to me”.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Public service spending isn’t a subsidy.
Nothing about EVs are “renewable”. The government subsidies for “renewables” are one of the biggest examples of corruption we’ve ever seen.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
They don’t subsidise the purchase price of petrol cars.
Should the oil industry be subsidised? Absolutely not, they would still be extremely profitable without the subsidies. It’s pure corruption by politicians who want to help their mates, help keep the donations flowing, and want to position themselves for cushy exec jobs and board seats when they leave politics.
The EV market is different though, as this situation shows. The oil industry doesn’t need subsidies. The EV market, as well as the “renewables” market, do.
- Comment on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate 1 week ago:
What computers do now was considered “impossible” once. What cars do now was considered “impossible” once. That’s my point - saying absolutes like “impossible” in tech is a giant red flag.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Because corruption, mostly.
Oil however is a bit different as the world would literally collapse without it. We have no replacement for it. We need it.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
If a product can only exist with huge government subsidies, it’s probably not ready for the market. These cuts are because of the government cutting federal tax rebates for purchasing an EV.
I love EVs, and my next car will likely be one, but if you can’t make an EV at a price point that people will buy them at without the government essentially using taxpayer money to discount them, then you shouldn’t be making EVs.
- Comment on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate 1 week ago:
It is, therefore, impossible to eliminate them
If anyone says something like this in regard to technology they’re raising a red flag about themselves immediately.
- Comment on Microsoft Task Manager now tasking PCs with running multiple copies of itself 1 week ago:
Oh no!
The issue, which turned up in the non-security preview update for Windows 11 (KB5067036)
Oh so it’s nothing. Don’t join the Windows Insider program unless you are ok with getting bugs, and when you do get bugs - report them. That’s what it’s for! It’s NOT for regular everyday Joe Blow to run on their personal machine.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that Windows 11 guts the muscle memory that older consumers have built up from using prior generations of Microsoft Windows.
What on earth are you talking about? lol
- Comment on Twitter says passkey reset isn't about a security issue – it's to finally kill off twitter.com 2 weeks ago:
“To clarify: this change is not related to any security concern, and only impacts Yubikeys and passkeys – not other 2FA methods (such as authenticator apps),” X Safety stated.
“Security keys enrolled as a 2FA method are currently tied to the twitter.com domain. Re-enrolling your security key will associate them with x.com, allowing us to retire the Twitter domain.”
Physical security key currently tied to the twitter.com domain won’t work when users attempt to authenticate from the x.com domain, so they must be re-enrolled in preparation for what sounds like a sunsetting of the Twitter domain.
- Comment on A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light 2 weeks ago:
This guy doesn’t do it via software.
- Comment on Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship? 2 weeks ago:
One of the few things that seemingly all political parties agree on is that the government should get to control every single part of your digital world - especially what you can read/write/see online. It’s disgusting. The UK especially has gone off the deep end, arresting thousands of people under their new “online hate speech” laws for ridiculous things.
- Comment on X Plans New Profile Features to Show Location and Username History 4 weeks ago:
Great changes.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 4 weeks ago:
I’m right though, aren’t I? ;)
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 4 weeks ago:
Artists have never made any significant money from album sales unless they self publish. 90%+ of the revenue from a cd sale goes to the publisher, producers, executives, marketing, etc. Going to live shows and buying merch has always been the primary way artists actually make money.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 4 weeks ago:
So you pirate their work, giving them nothing, instead of using Spotify where they actually do get paid?
So you don’t really care about the artist, it’s just an excuse to justify piracy lol.
Dude just say you prefer to pirate. You don’t need to pretend to be doing it because of morals.
- Comment on FCC could roll back rule requiring ISPs to list every fee, apparently, there are too many 4 weeks ago:
They’re not mutually exclusive. Listing the fees is pointless if there’s nothing anyone can do about them.
- Comment on FCC could roll back rule requiring ISPs to list every fee, apparently, there are too many 4 weeks ago:
How does this hurt people?
- Comment on FCC could roll back rule requiring ISPs to list every fee, apparently, there are too many 4 weeks ago:
What exactly is the point of making them list the fees anyway? So you can shake your head at the ridiculous fees, ask them to waive them, and they say “No”?
- Comment on Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users 4 weeks ago:
Do the laws that required them to do the age verification also require them to keep the verification images?
- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 5 weeks ago:
So they’ve made a proprietary cable?