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Clinton cannot be tried again for the same crime under the Fifth Amendment.

Uhhh... shouldn't it be a mistrial now? Maybe they npw have to motion or whatever to get it classified as such before they can try him again.

Seems like the system is broken if they can't get it classified as a mistrial considering the dude literally got removed from the bench... >_>;

Here's hoping.

The fact you bring up scraping at all indicates you have no idea what this is about.

Data privacy and protection isn't about that.

"Some third party could just..." is indeed trying to whataboutism it, it's completely irrelevant.

Other instance owners are completely irrelevant.

You'll need to wrap your head around the fact that legally lemmy has to support the takedown request per instance, not federation wide.

If I truly wanted my data gone I'd have to make the request to each individual server. That's fine.

Data privacy and protection compliance means that I can request specifically server A take down my data, and still be fine with server B retaining a copy.

If I wanted both to drop the data, I'd have to request it from both individually.

Scrapers aren't involved here.

The protection isn't about "oh no people on the internet can see my posts"

It's more about "oh man it came to light Server B's owner is selling people's data and I don't want my data included in that"

This is a legal requirement, id recommend lemmy instance owners check in with their local lawyers about this, because a lack of compliance could get individual instance owners in hot water, and if multiple large instance owners realize this, it should put more pressure on the debs to fix that shit.

ITT: people too focused on Data Privacy with respect to other posters/internet denizens.

In reality the much bigger concern typically is the literal owner of the servers

If 1 server owner announces they are now selling off all their copies of raw lemmy data to an AI company to train on, legally by EU data privacy laws users very much would have a leg to stand on to demand their data be deleted and if the server owner doesn't comply, they could be in very hot water.

This doesn't have to be a federated problem.

You can request Server A delete your records while being cool with Server B keeping them, because Server A is selling your data and B isn't.

This delete/request action doesn't have to propagate, it can be "per server"

if you don’t know the URL, you can’t find it

The owner of the server sure can.

there is no way to control what we post to instances that aren’t our home one

This doesn't give the home instance a get out of jail free card for also failing to comply.

This is pure whataboutism.

I hate finding swiss cheese threads on social media

See the thing us, EU data privacy and protection laws don't really give a shit though

You feeling unhappy that chunks of a thread are missing due to someone requesting a data privacy wipe isn't, you know, a factor that matters

I'm sure you really wanted to know what so-and-so said, but the lack of their posts existing means they didnt want you to know what they said

And, you know... they have the right to do that.

Oh geez, my bad, I thought it was Google.

I trust OpenAIs demos more for largely the reason you mentioned, they have tended to be more transparent about the downsides of their products before.

Fair enough!

Ah yes, Sora, put out by Google, who definitely hasn't been known to have already done a bunch of very misrepresentative footage on their past AI demos...

Something tells me when push comes to shove it'll become obvious that though Sora will be cool and revolutionary, it also won't be nearly as big of a deal as they made it look in the demo and folks will notice efforts were made to selectively cherry pick shots that heavily favor the tool, and as soon as you go outside its wheelhouse it starts to struggle.

Edit: nevermimd I was very much mistaken!

Often these types of articles tend to be very "a lot written but nothing said", but that is very much not the case for this article.

I really enjoyed how in depth it went both on the history of how things used to be compared to what the new advancements will provide.

Outsourcing through the foundry program might lead to some pretty big revolutions in chip making. I wonder if we will start to see open source chips start to show up as large companies open the floodgates to let individuals contribute to make improvements on dies...

It never really stopped this year with how dry it was. We had some wildfires in Dec and Jan, not as many but still, eesh.

Jan 1st many lawns in my neighborhood were still devoid of snow and dry dead grass was everywhere.

In this case its actually a lot of people.

In particular, clients really give a shit if you let their NDA signed proprietary info get leaked out to arbitrary third parties.

This. In my area smoking within 10 feet of access entrances to buildings (both Marijuana and tobacco) is also not allowed, has to be done in designated areas to the side.

All i see is something like blackface.

Have you personally gone to any drag shows, or interacted with the community on a personal level?

One thing to consider as a sort of proof:

Transwoman have demonstrated infinite times over that a person with a penis can visually represent a look that most people can't remotely identify as "not a woman", it's not too hard.

Yet drag queens definitely look extremely distinct and don't look like a women you'd meet on the street at all. They are distinctly in drag, and many if these individuals could very well look like a "woman off the street" that you couldn't tell them apart from any other women if you wanted to.

And yet, it's exactly what they dont do.

So you have to acknowledge that drag isnt about looking "like a woman" at all, it's something else entirely, right?

So then the next part is asking if it's like blackface, where they are "making fun" of women. Well, if you've ever enjoyed such a performance, this too doesn't fit. They clearly are addressing and critiquing something, but it isn't women.

You are right in that it's sort of like black face, in that in the sense that it is making light of a specific topic and calling it out through performance of it taken to an extreme... BUT

And this is a big BUT...

It's not women

Drag is calling out and making fun of Traditional Gender Roles, it basically is mocking the concept of "Women must be this and men must be that"

It's a critique of tradition, a mock of women and men being forced to be a certain way. It's literally calling out at the viewers and going "You thought only women should do this? Guess again bucko"

It challenges norms and identity and association. It breaks down gender walls and forces people to question what makes a woman, a woman. It says "by acknowledging my (the drag queen) existence, you must admit that how a woman looks is not all that defines her or say I must be a woman, which is it?"

I hope that makes sense. Drag queens are huge feminism allies and typically only TERFs try to exclude them, and you really don't wanna be friends with TERFs.

It looks like most of your issues here, and why you are getting dunked on, is the assumption that drag queens represent women.

They don't. That's all there is to it. Whoever informed you that drag queens are representing women lied to you.

Drag is a performance meant to call out things we used to associate as women only. It's a critique/commentary on what one might associate as traditionally feminine.

It's meant to make the person do a double take and get them thinking about stuff, and make them question if maybe women are more complex than just a bunch of roles and clothes and hair and makeup. Drag is sort of the other side if the feminism coin.

By a person with a dick putting on an extremely big display of traditional femininity, it basically forces people to go "wait but if that's a person with a dick under all that, maybe my conception of what defines a woman is shallow and there's more to it than this..."

It basically forces to viewer to acknowledge that women are complex... see how that's a good thing for feminism?

I hope this has made you see drag on a different light, and how drag queens are a pretty huge ally to feminism and equality.

Does that make me an incel?

Nope, it's become a self identification ascribed to. Only defining feature of an imcel now is saying "I'm an incel"

And it happens to be that said communities are jam packed full of some extreme bigotry, hate, loathing, misogynistic behavior, etc etc.

Which means a person who identifies themselves with that crowd, can be assumed to be of the same cut of cloth.

In other words, a person like you would likely say "I haven't been with a woman but I ain't no incel though", to signal you don't identify with that culture.

The automobile didn't put cabbies out of jobs, it put horses out of work.

If anything it actually made demand for cabbies skyrocket, because now they could do the same job but way faster, so now they were more affordable abd not just a service reserved for wealthy.

In other words, expect that AI will increase demand for programmers exceptionally, as the bar for entry lowers.

An LLM still needs a "pilot" to "drive" it, and you need to still know code well enough to interpret the output and catch mistakes or hallucinations.

But typically when a field becomes more affordable, it goes up in demand, not down, because the target audience that can afford the service grows exponentially.

"But if it's so easy to become program now, what's to stop people from just using ChatGPT and never hiring a programmer?"

Same reason people still, today, hire cabs even if they can drive themselves.

Convenience. Time is money and just because 1 person can do all the jobs of a company, doesn't mean they physically have the time to do it.

Which makes me question whether the fediverse is a good thing

I'd argue it's good, because it means open source AI has a fighting chance with FOSS data to train on without needing to fork over a morbillion dollars to Reddits owners.

Whatever use cases the reddit data can train on, FOSS researchers can repeat it on Lemmy data and release free models that average joes can use on their own without having to subscribe to shit like Microsoft Copilot and friends to stay relevant.

They definitely do, it's common for such systems to never actually delete anything because storage is cheap. It likely just is flagged deleted=true and the searches just return WHERE [post].Deleted = False on queries on the backend.

So it looks deleted to the consumer, but it's all saved and squirreled away on the backend.

It's good to keep all this shit for both legal reasons (if someone posts illegal stuff then deletes it, you still can give it to the feds), as well as auditing (mods can't just delete stuff to cover it up, the original still exists and admins can see it)

1. Called this awhile back, this is why Reddit has such a high evaluation.
2. Poisoning your data won't do anything but give them more data, do you seriously think reddit servers don't track every edit you make to posts? You'd literally just be providing training data of original human vs poisoned. They'd still have your original post, and they have a copy of everytime you edit it.
3. Whoever buys reddit will have sole access to one of the larger (I don't think largest though) pools of text training Data on the internet, with full licensed usage of it. I expect someone like Google, FB, MS, OpenAI, etc would pay big $$$ for that.

"But can't people already scrape it?"

1. Well yes, but it's at best legally dubious in some places
2. Scraping Data off reddit only gets you current versions of posts (which means you can get poisoned dara, and cant see deleted content), and is extremely slow... if you own the server you have first class access to all posts in a database, including g the originals and diffs of everytime soneone edited a post, and all the deleted posts too.

Think about if you perhaps wanted to train an AI to detect posts that require flagging for moderation, if you scrape reddit data, you can't find deleted posts that got moderated...

But, if you have the raw original data, you 100% would have a list of every post that got deleted by mods and even the mod message on why it was deleted

You surely can see the value of such data, that only owners of reddit are currently privy to atm...

This by a long shot, I agree.