TORFdot0 @ TORFdot0 @lemmy.world

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Maybe you guys are getting downvoted for conflating Lemmy on the fediverse as a whole with Lemmy.World.

These actions don't affect anyone not on Lemmy.world, assuming db0 federates with you, !piracy is still there for you

Great thing about the fediverse is that you have options when admin/moderation actions occur that you don’t agree with. If Reddit were to remove /r/piracy then we’d have no recourse

So Apple's in-house LLM sucks? I was really hoping the big AI update that was promised for iOS18 would be for improving the on-device AI features utilizing the neural processors but I guess it looks like that won't be the case.

Siri already sucks, replacing Siri with Gemini doesn't give me confidence in Apple's AI vision

A small phone is fine to take photo/video, send messages, make calls, view video content, and play games. Any other use case is more appropriate for another device.

Technically the Docs/Sheets/etc suite would be the SaaS portion of the subscription, but Google Drive is usually accessed as a web interface or app, not as a mounted drive so I think it still counts.

Google One and iCloud+

Google Drive makes it easy to collaborate on files with my spouse, family or colleagues. Makes it easy to have my media available where ever without having to host it locally or expose my local network to the internet. And free webhosting for my personal website using Google sites.

iCloud integration with my photo library is top notch. iCloud+ "hide my email" is great for privacy on my personal domain and a lot better than trying to deal with security and deliverability for myself.

I could probably get ROI on infrastructure and storage just by buying a NAS in 3 years or less. But I won't get the time back to get the same level of security, reliability, and buy in for others so spending $99 a year on each is worth it for me.

But I don’t use those services; they still keep my data.

Exactly why we need data privacy laws. Sadly there are "profiles" out there for all of us, whether you chose to be tracked or not. Personally I think that any kind of sharing of personal data with marketers should be illegal nor should it be legal for any entity to purchase personal data without a signed consent form from the person in question.

That'd probably end "free" services and our credit score system in the United States but honestly that kind of data collection is equivalent to stalking and unethical.

There is a 3rd argument which I think is a bit more valid in "I value the service I receive in exchange for my personal data"

Using the internet without an adblocker, noscript, and whatever else is really nasty. But even if you aren't on these platforms, marketers are still building profiles on you. Honestly we need data privacy legislation and some real talk about marketing and the costs of using the internet as a society.

I don't think steam has been this boon for gamers either. In fact I no longer PC game because I can't hardly get access to AAA games anymore without DRM. Of course now consoles are heading that way with requiring installs to on board storage and neglecting to include the game on disc in a playable state.

In my use case, Steam is basically bloatware. I download mods from outside sources, don't play online with friends, and use better 3rd party platforms for chat and VOIP. It's a frankenstein's monster whose primary use case is DRM. That being said, it does provide value that other people care about. We are in the niche segment that cares about game licenses and ownership rather than conveniences.

Developers are allowed to distribute their games directly to consumers. Thats not rent seeking or a monopoly.

And Epic Games is just distributing games to gamers and providing services to developers at cost?

I don't like Steam but its clear that Epic is just mad because they were late to market and would otherwise charge similar fees.

It doesn’t matter how many locks you have if you give the scammers the keys. And so many people give up the keys

They had ChatGPT review it

Personal finance classes probably would have a non-negligble impact on the people that just mindless spend and don't save for retirement etc.

But I would think also that the wildly inflated housing and child care costs and the inelastic demand between the two means just an unexpected health emergency or unanticipated home maintenance spending would leave a family in debt and living paycheck to paycheck until its paid off.

If they had the password right the first try, that isn't a brute force attack, thats a credential leak.

If a user mutes an instance you still have to worry about a poorly moderated instance that federates illegal or harmful content to yours or worry about harassment to other users,etc.

Defederating should not be used nonchalantly but it has its place.

It’s not bad parenting if cultural norms have shifted in a way to not participate in it would cause you kid to suffer more anxiety and depression from being ostracized from it

From what I’ve been told it’s only query-able from the db and not from the API

Well put. I think tackling the bias will always be a challenge. It’s not that we shouldn’t, but how is the question.

I don’t know if any of the big public LLMs are trying to trim biases from their training data or are just trying to ad-hoc tackle it by injecting modifiers into the prompts.

That’s the biggest problem I have personally with LLMs is that they are untrustworthy and often give incorrect or blatantly false information.

Sometimes it can be frustrating when I run across the “I can’t do that because of ethics” on benign prompts that I felt like it shouldn’t have but I don’t think it’s been that big a deal.

When we talk about political conservatives being opposed to biased LLMs, it’s mostly because it won’t tell them that their harmful beliefs are correct

Yeah that take wouldn’t get you banned from lemmygrad, surprised they didn’t make him a mod for that take tbh