A mother and her 14-year-old daughter are advocating for better protections for victims after AI-generated nude images of the teen and other female classmates were circulated at a high school in New Jersey....
The problem is how to actually prevent this. What could one do? Make AI systems illegal? Make graphics tools illegal? Make the Internet illegal? Make computers illegal?
I remember being forced to learn this in university.
I started CS from the POV of someone with several commercial projects under the belt and at the time being fluent already in five or six different programming languages. But the university where I started had had an issue - they had been way to theoretical (imagine people writing their CS thesis on a mechanical typewriter, and professors telling us that one does not need computer access for mastering CS!). So they had been more or less forced to include at least a bit of real world stuff into their blackboard and paper world. Which resulted in a no-excuse-mandatory beginners course in Turbo Pascal in the first year and Turbo Prolog in the second.
And I was not alone. It was painful. They showed a programming task to be done on the overhead projector, and about 90% of us could have just typed down the answer without thinking and be done with the weekly assignment in five minutes. Nope. Instead, we had to follow (and join) a lengthy, boring, and worthless discussion about the very basics of programming, before we were allowed to work on it. And woe to us if we did not follow the precise path that we had been “taught” in that lesson, even if it was done in a way that no normal programmer would ever implement it.
If they had given us all the assignments for the semester in one go, we would probably had finished them in one afternoon, including documentation and time to spare.
At least with Turbo Prolog we learned something new. First and foremost that there are strong reasons that nobody uses Prolog for serious programming.
In welcher Hinsicht ist es das neue Amazon? “Irgendwas Online Bestellen”? Das hatte Otto schon. “Ausnutzung von Mitarbeitern”? Das können die anderen auch…
A court-ordered financial auditor has caught Donald Trump quietly moving $40 million from the Trump Organization into a personal bank account—seemingly so the former president could pay his whopping $29 million tax bill....
Russia has added the spokesman of U.S. technology company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to a wanted list, according to an online database maintained by the country’s interior ministry....
Eine Wanderung machen und den GPX-Track mit Freunden teilen? Das wird schwierig, wenn ein Referentenentwurf des Bundeswaldgesetzes so verabschiedet wird....
Selbst das “access=private” ist für manche eher eine Einladung. Und wird in den meisten Fällen entweder nicht gesetzt oder einfach ignoriert. Laut Zeitungsbericht wurden sogar schon illegale Mountainbike-Strecken hier im Naturschutzgebiet auf OSM gemappt.
Ja, und Naturschutzgebiete zu vergewaltigen ist OK, oder was? Drähte spannen ist zwar kriminell, aber ich kann mittlerweile verstehen, das manche Menschen das als Notwehr ansehen, wenn man sieht, was für massive Schäden Mountainbiker hier im Wald anrichten.
2)Welche Schäden werden denn durch Mountainbiker genau verursacht?
Frag da mal die Förster. Die Liste der Schäden ist lang. Und der Abrieb kommt da nicht mal drin vor. Hier im Wald (Naturschutzgebiet!) werden immer wieder “Trails” gebaut. Dabei werden Rampen aufgeschichtet, Äste abgesägt, Baumwurzeln durchgehackt. Der Boden wird verdichtet, der “Trail” wird bei Regen zu einem Bach, der Boden wegschwemmt. Und natürlich die Störung der Wildtiere.
Zitat aus einer Reportage des NDR:
In einer E-Mail bitten Revierförster des Deisters, eines Waldgebiets bei Hannover, um Hilfe: Die Fahrer würden mit Sägen und Schaufeln immer wieder ihre Trails kreuz und quer durch den Wald schlagen. Die Förster hätten keine Chance, an die Biker selbst zu gelangen. Mit Bußgeldern und vereinzelten Kontrollen wird die Region dem Problem nicht Herr.
Die Reportage, die sie hier im Naturschutzgebiet gedreht und gesendet haben, habe ich jetzt im Netz nicht gefunden. Aber dafür gibt es genug andere.
aber mir wäre jetzt neu, dass Mountainbiker für massive Waldschäden hauptverantwortlich wären.
Da gibt es zwei unterschiedliche Probleme: Facharbeiter die fehlen, und Arbeitskräfte die fehlen.
Die ersten fehlen, weil Firmen nicht selber in die Weiterbildung investieren, gleichzeitig aber nicht gewillt sind, vorgebildeten Fachkräften auf dem Markt eine entsprechend attraktive Arbeitsstelle zu bieten.
Die zweiten fehlen, weil Arbeitgeber maximale Flexibilität bei minimaler Entlohnung erwarten - Arbeitnehmer, die wie eine Maschine ohne Seele und Verstand auf Knopfdruck zu- und abgeschaltet werden können, und mit möglichst wenig Geld abgespeist werden, am besten noch als Scheinselbstständige, die für 5€ pro Stunde noch ihr eigenes Auto ruinieren.
So, I learned in physics class at school in the UK that the value of acceleration due to gravity is a constant called g and that it was 9.81m/s^2. I knew that this value is not a true constant as it is affected by terrain and location. However I didn’t know that it can be so significantly different as to be 9.776 m/s^2 in...
Just don’t make the same mistake as one physics lab did. They made a series of measurements and their results showed that gravity quickly increases in fall, falls slowly over winter, and back to about pre-fall levels very slowly in summer. It took quite a while to figure out the reason of this unexpected result. They turned their equipment inside out to find a mistake to no avail. Then they realized that the university stored coal for the central heating and hot water in the basement under the lab…
Rounding of constants always depends on what you are calculating. Getting a rocket into orbit is a case to use the actual local value of g with a bunch of digits (and the change with height, too). If you build a precision tool, some more digits of PI are no bad idea.
But to calculate the lenght of fence to buy to surround a round pond, I actually used 10/3 for “PI plus safety margin” once.
Can’t be that big, as the difference in mass close to the instrument only varied in the several tons category, but obviously enough to puzzle the scientists.
No, it isn’t. I have dined exceptionally well in the UK. Our Christmas dinner is based on an a recipe from an English cook. We have a Scottish cafe/diner in town which serves excellent food.
OK, I’ve dined horribly, too, but it is definitely not the norm - I made the mistake of ordering half a chicken in a fish and chips shop. My recommendation: Don’t repeat my mistake.
Sorry, but I cannot help you decide what you want. Maybe it is time to think about that first.
What are your personal goals in life? How could you achieve them, what would be the path or paths to your goal?
Then you might find some political group that matches those paths or even goals. But finding clarity is something you need first and foremost. Anything else is “just” a consequence.
You can stop insisting that this is my personal problem for a start.
What you do is inherently your personal problem.
Are you fine with the rise of fascism?
I am definitely not fine with that.
What are you doing against it and how do you believe is it going to work when it hasn’t all those past years?
What I can do, I do, and what makes you believe it has no impact? You don’t know what I do, and, for a number of reasons, I’m not going to make public what I do.
Teen girls are being victimized by deepfake nudes. One family is pushing for more protections (apnews.com)
A mother and her 14-year-old daughter are advocating for better protections for victims after AI-generated nude images of the teen and other female classmates were circulated at a high school in New Jersey....
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Happy 40th birthday, Turbo Pascal! (blog.marcocantu.com)
November 28, 2023 - Turbo Pascal turns 40...
Ist Galaxus das neue Amazon? German
Hat irgendwie alles und ist auf Geizhals oft noch leicht unter Amazon…
Trump Caught Moving Money Around to Pay Massive Tax Bill (www.thedailybeast.com)
A court-ordered financial auditor has caught Donald Trump quietly moving $40 million from the Trump Organization into a personal bank account—seemingly so the former president could pay his whopping $29 million tax bill....
Russia puts the spokesman for Facebook owner Meta on a wanted list (apnews.com)
Russia has added the spokesman of U.S. technology company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to a wanted list, according to an online database maintained by the country’s interior ministry....
Komoot-Paragraf und die Novellierung des Bundeswaldgesetzes (www.heise.de) German
Eine Wanderung machen und den GPX-Track mit Freunden teilen? Das wird schwierig, wenn ein Referentenentwurf des Bundeswaldgesetzes so verabschiedet wird....
Überall fehlt Personal: Wo sind die Mitarbeiter hin? (www.br.de) German
Does everyone learn the same gravity in school or is it different everywhere?
So, I learned in physics class at school in the UK that the value of acceleration due to gravity is a constant called g and that it was 9.81m/s^2. I knew that this value is not a true constant as it is affected by terrain and location. However I didn’t know that it can be so significantly different as to be 9.776 m/s^2 in...
It's funnt because it's true (fanaticus.social)
Dutch election: anti-Islam, far-right Geert Wilders set for big win (www.euronews.com)