eveninghere

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eveninghere,

I think one has to gather more proof before concluding that the gap is due to LLMs. It can also be that the engagement was lost due to third party app drop. We don’t have stats to distinguish them.

eveninghere,

sometimes-correct summary without needing to click on a single result

Crazier than it sounds. We don’t see the page contents AT ALL by default.

eveninghere,

I am a manager at a big tech and I hate capitalism. CXOs really only care about profits, and thus everybody high-level proposes new enshittification strategies.

eveninghere, (edited )

Edit: okay, deep fake. That’s bad. The title is the problem for me, then.

Sorry, what’s the actual problem with users creating fantasy porn? How about they ban all traditional drawings apps and photo / video editing apps, then? Those can also produce nudes. Oh, and browsers also. And text editors.

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

eveninghere,

This one’s fixable. Just hold Meta accountable. It should be illegal they don’t manually filter ads when submitted.

eveninghere, (edited )

Someone has to rewrite this…

You have to read thousands of words past Executive Summary to see what’s going on, which eventually turns out to be the usual left-right culture war (aargh…) The worst is that this actual theme is hidden in the links and is never directly mentioned in the letter.

The letter also stops short of taking side between left and right although the links clarify it’s obviously the former.

It instead accuses the NixOS platform of having “systemic” problems in “leadership,” “structure,” etc. etc. I was like, “just say it, you simply believe in a more progressive NixOS team.”

They only say “bad behaviors,” then define bad behaviors with abstract terms using one paragraph. That’s shortly after the text uses the metaphor of “missing stairs in a staircase”, without explaining what these missing stairs are about.

So abstract, without examples for all this depth of abstraction.

They go on with their “bad behavior”, bad behavior, bad behavior, and finally there are links. If you click on the first (?) of these links, you finally see that this one example was about minority representation in NixOS development. In the rest, you see examples of the usual conservative vs. progressive culture war.

There are proper ways to do this.

eveninghere, (edited )

So… why don’t they just write that people (or they) want a more progressive NixOS management?

Would be more to the point.

Edit: if you doubt, just check all the examples in the letter.

eveninghere, (edited )

How do people even find the legitimate sites for Win apps these days? I mostly can’t. Even the legitimate github repos occasionally link to Sourceforge wtf

eveninghere,

This sounds like an exaggeration though.

To me it seems like these researchers are saying the switch is confusing and complicated. That is not to say that Apple secretly collect data after lying to their users.

The problem with Siri, first example, is more about Apple’s (characteristic) terminology garbage. Siri’s voice control has nothing to do with Siri’s search suggestion, yet they marketed both as Siri. Actually, you can turn them both off, but since the voice control is just called Siri, they confused their users.

That’s different from "collecting data even when supposedly disabled.

(Tbf, even if they were better termed, my mom would still manage to confuse herself… mo matter what Apple do, the average user won’t be able to turn off anything.)

That said, there’s no point trying to convince someone on the internet anyway, and so I don’t really know why I wrote this comment.

As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

eveninghere,

Still on iCloud, Google Drive and OneDrive. No way these people know how to store photos offline on their phone.

eveninghere, (edited )

In February, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged technology companies to adopt memory-safe programming languages like Rust.

My comment is somewhat unfair, but WH is not the right body to make this kind of recommendation.

eveninghere,

I think I won’t be able to convince you, but one could say RH is leaching on FOSS projects anyway. Well, that’s also what FOSS is about. Products people use should be open source, and this extends to business products. (And free as in freedom.)

eveninghere,

I don’t like Lemmy’s stance on mod features, but I still don’t appreciate people who stress devs to add features because users are the most important.

It should instead be we will not use your software otherwise.

eveninghere, (edited )

following pressure from a conservative think tank that holds shares in the company

Yeah, while I hate to say I rather support capitalism – living in a milder capitalism country in which the bigger problem is commercialism – I admit capitalism is broken fundamentally. Any bad actor can push their conspiracy just by putting money.

Lasse Collin, the other xz maintainer, has acknowledged the backdoor (tukaani.org)

They haven’t particularly made a comment on the situation so much as acknowledged it’s happening. They seem to be going with the story that they had nothing to do with it and this is news to them. Hope to hear more from them soon so we can find out more about the situation, how and why this happened, etc....

eveninghere,

Sorry to hear your situation. I’ve heard a similar story from a friend, where cronies bully one “colleague” after another to push that poor person to the edge. These morons climb the company’s career ladder in that way, hacking the HR evaluation. It’s truly disgusting.

eveninghere, (edited )

viewers of select YouTube videos

So, now a policeman who doesn’t like whoever YT user can unseal who that is… For a far-right policeman that can be anybody whose comment looks “woke”.

I think I shouldn’t use YT anymore. Actually, any SNS that uses my email…

Edit: they collected user identities on who watched videos on fucking “drones”.

eveninghere,

The current internet search is becoming obsolete. People are able to tell apart BS, though. This means, there’s a possibility for a smarter filter. Hard to tell whether we will see one in the near-future.

Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)

this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...

eveninghere,

It should be illegal for the company to own user-generated contents. They should at least pay the users.

eveninghere,

I guess they turned to experts instead of making it a political issue led by conservatives.

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