JonEFive @ JonEFive @midwest.social

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"No"

"I heard 'activate'. Thank you! Your credit card will be charged $129 annually. To cancel, please log on to the website because there's no way we're letting you get out of this mess the same way we got you into it."

Do you change the names of all your devices to people names? The living room lamp is Steve, the bedroom fan is Maryanne...

This is why I'm so confused by Amazon's approach. I know they've already sunk millions if not billions of dollars into this, so why has the user experience not improved in the last 8 years?

I'm not going to buy things with my voice when just getting the lights to turn off or music to play can be an infuriating endeavor. Speech recognition has stagnated.

The third party integrations are just so clunky too. They could have made money by selling licenses to businesses in order to access the service, but again, they haven't improved that experience at all.

The "Alexa, let me talk to dominos." or "Alexa, ask LG to turn off the TV" is just stupidly cumbersome. Why can't you set up preferred providers? I don't have to say "ask Spotify to play music" I just say "play music", so we know it's possible. It would be trivial to implement other preferred service providers compared to the overall scale of Alexa.

Oddly specific. I'd like this to become a new meme please. The beef stroganoffadors will have no idea what's going on.

Yeah, us Americans have got fucking up democracy covered pretty well.

The other beautiful thing is that if you aren't satisfied with the behavior of mods and admin on one instance, there are literally hundreds of others to choose from. You aren't stuck dealing with bad actors if you want to participate. And if moderation of a particular community upsets the users, they are free to move to or create a similar community on a different instance.

The major downside of this is that it's going to create echo chambers, but that's unavoidable. It's not like this is a new problem. Communities that reject outside ideas outright have existed long before the internet.

From the first link:

Edit: This comment was written [in 2020] at a time when Lemmy the software was practically identical with the lemmy.ml instance. At that time we barely had any moderation tools, so it was an easy way to keep some groups of users off the instance. Now its different, there are good mod tools, and many different instances. So we removed the slur filter in Lemmy 0.14.0 (instance admins can optionally configure one, which lemmy.ml does).

So basically some developers working on a pet project took a shortcut at a time when other features were being prioritized. Let's not make this particular item out to be more than it is. I think it serves the conversation better to focus on what the post is about which is widespread bans on certain content.

Exactly. Some of these engines are perfectly capable of combining differing concepts. In your example, it knows basically what a horse looks like, and what a human riding on horseback looks like. It also knows that an astronaut looks very much like a human without a space suit and can put the two together.

Saying nothing of the morality, In this case, I suspect that an AI could be trained using pictures of clothed children perhaps combined with nude images of people who are of age and just are very slim or otherwise have a youthful appearance.

While I think it's repugnent in concept, I also think that for those seeking this material, I'd much rather it be AI generated than an actual exploited child. Realistically though, I doubt that this would actually have any notable impact to the prevalence of CSAM, and might even make it more accessible.

Furthermore, if the generative AI gets good enough, it could make it difficult to determine whether an image is real or AI generated. That would make it more difficult for police to find the child and offender to try to remove them from that situation. So now we need an AI to help analyze and separate the two.

Yeah... I don't like living in 2023 and things are only getting worse. I've put way more thought into this than I ever wanted to.

As soon as I heard Unity was back pedaling, I thought "there's part 2 of the plan"

1: release abusive payment scheme to see just how much push back they get. If push back is minimal or losses are acceptable, end here and enjoy the profit.

2: if push back is strong, implement the actual payment policy that is still a significant increase, but less significant than the one above. And wait until the controversy blows over, which it will.

Yes, lots of developers will leave, lots of developers will choose a different engine for their new games, but there are a ton that will decide that it isn't feasible to switch engines and plenty that will just eat the added cost. The thing that remains to be seen is just how much damage Unity has done in terms of new projects choosing other engines over theirs.

Don't you bring facts into this! We want to be outraged!

Being serious though, they ought to be investigating whether there were any changes in those sale orders. If they've been the same and unchanged for the last two years or some long period of time, I don't think there's a case. But if they're was an adjustment a month or two ago, that would be very problematic.

If you're worried about physical theft then you'll want to enable encryption on the storage drives.

There's certainly a middle ground between IOT cameras sending a constant stream out to an internet server and a completely private circuit.

First, let's put the NVR inside the network so that we aren't constantly broadcasting to the internet.

Then let's not allow direct access to the cameras from the internet. Instead, we connect to the NVR via a VPN.

You keep control of all the recording and storage infrastructure, and you don't place your trust in these corporations that have been found over and over again to be lying or overstating their security stance.

Not to mention providers giving-in to subpoenas without even the slightest fight, and you would never know about it. Heck, some don't even require subpoenas, a simple law enforcement request might be enough.

Don't worry, your body will release all that carbon when you die.

I still have trouble believing that Elon can possibly be this dumb. There's something willful about everything he's doing and that includes intentionally ruining Twitter. Yes, a lot of this is for attention and theatrics, but he didn't need to buy then tank a social media platform for that.

This post on programmer humor is now funnier as a result of your analysis. Everything is funnier when it is 100% accurate.

I'm here to spread the good word about JSONC. It is the way and everyone should adopt it in place of JSON wherever possible.

How precise are your scissors?

One of my favorite youtube channels did a riff on this

I mean, being a combative dick to her is pretty much her aphrodisiac.