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neil, to random

If you ask me to give you legal advice, I won't get ChatGPT to generate it.

I hadn't realised that I might need to give this disclaimer but, well, things move fast.

yacc143,
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@neil Not sure if that is great.

ChatGPT seems to be great at dreaming up fake but convincingly sounding arguments for even the most outrageous bullshit.

Now if the other side does have a real attorney check the stuff, that's a problem. But how many lawyers' letters are read by lawyers?

But if you can get away with it, you can enjoy your custom designed laws & precedents that 100% confirm your point of view. Written in an overconfident style by a statistics function.

yacc143,
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@wordshaper @marcel @neil Especially when they signed/sworn somewhere that they produced all of those things painstakingly by themselves with only allowed tools.

The “funny” federal ChatGPT case starts with notarized submissions that state that some documents were produced by attorney X, when now they have already admitted that Y did it thanks to this shiny new website.

Guess this might be common practice. Just don't get caught, I guess?

rgarner, to random
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Ah-huh. Ah-huh

yacc143,
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@adnan @rgarner @byogesh It's not only about cookies.

Ads are 3rd party content on a website that is actually provided not even by that 3rd party, but by their customers. The website developers have no way to verify what is served out under their name.

In the past, more than once, ad networks have been used to serve malware.

So just stopping the tracking is clearly not going far enough.

DrALJONES, to random
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Supreme Court slashes Clean Water Act protections for more than a hundred million acres of wetlands

In a 5-4 decision, the Court eliminated longstanding Clean Water Act protections for wetlands that lack a "continuous surface connection" to larger bodies of water

Formerly protected wetlands now face an existential threat from polluters and developers

The conservative justices rewrote the Clean Water Act, ignored the text of the statute, and gutted protections for wetlands
EarthJustice

yacc143,
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@FrankFrank @ArmyGirl @DrALJONES I think some Americans have a grave misunderstanding what the USA are.

The Founding Fathers were predominately rich white land (and slave) owners.

It was never a country where all "animals were equal".

yacc143,
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@nuncio @CassandraZeroCovid @pthane @FrankFrank @ArmyGirl @DrALJONES
What are they supposed to do.

It's deeply engrained in their political system.

Worse in the US, trying to change it piece by piece would be only minimally effective.

jon, to random
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And really the sheer absurdity of European Sleeper

Here are two determined guys. They lease a freight locomotive, 2 ancient sleeping cars (at least with air con), 6 couchettes without air con (also old) and 2 seating carriages

And they manage to run a Berlin-Brussels night train, something that others - like DB, NS or SNCB - could much more easily do with their financial means BUT REFUSE TO EVEN TRY

And basic though it is it’s booked up all summer

Couchette compartment
from a couchette
Label on the locomotive. vMax 140 km/h

yacc143,
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@prefec2 @jon Realistically if they have old cars, you will only have limited wash options.

So you are back to the old technique of showering at the destination rail station. Most big rail stations usually offer a chance to shower for pay.

glynmoody, to random
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First it was no to Polish plumbers, then Afghan refugees. Now the right doesn’t want any migrants at all - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/25/polish-plumbers-afghan-refugees-migrants-legal-migration it's almost as if are simply racist bigots...

yacc143,
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@glynmoody Don't forget, some CoE bishop commented that the English Youth are far too mobile, it would be so much better for society if they stayed neared to their home.

Many Brits seem to have forgotten that it was Brussels during the accession negotiations that forced full FoM for UK subjects inside the UK (think work visas for NI for GB residents, which were removed shortly after the UK became an EEC member.)

yacc143,
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@glynmoody Well, very English upper class stereotypical thinking.

glynmoody, to internet
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€ 1.2 billion fine for over US mass surveillance. Decision required 10 years and 3 court procedures against Irish DPC. - https://noyb.eu/en/edpb-decision-facebooks-eu-us-data-transfers-stop-transfers-fine-and-repatriation what a saga; still lots more work to do

yacc143,
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@glynmoody The question is more, how long will the next fine take, and how high will it be.

It's not exactly as if Meta is capable of becoming GDPR-compliant on the quick, their business model is slightly simplifying anti-GDPR.

And let's be honest, the chance that any new iteration of an EU-US agreement survives a collision with the ECJ are slim.

The Schrems-II ECJ arguments are based on fundamental rights granted by the EU treaties, political convenience is a weak counter-argument.

yacc143,
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@glynmoody Ah, well, this ruling they will appeal, but it's basically only about the past.

For the future, they'll probably try to use the next US-EU agreement, the question is primarily how quick the ECJ rules that invalid. (the probability of any agreement US-EU agreement, without deep legal changes on the US side, being compatible with EU basic rights is very low. These are embedded in the EU treaties, so no volunteers for watering them down on the EU side.)

jon, to random
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Welcome to Day 14

The final day of the Germany borders project

Today I’m off to Guben, Żary and Forst (Lausitz)

Here’s todays intro video https://urbanists.video/w/5JESqCiQPYnJPqPCV2NB5d

yacc143,
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@jon Well, that seems to be the work uniform of a mayor of a rural commune in Western Poland.

A jacket because they are politicians, a tie would probably be too much in the rural setting, No explanation though for the bald heads ;)

jwildeboer, to fediverse
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What we really need in the , as the next iterative progression of and its implementations like etc. IMHO. https://solidproject.org to store all posts and pictures etc per user, not per instance or account. This would radically reduce the scope of an implementation and allow for frictionless migration between instances. This does NOT necessarily need any change to the standard. It's an implementation detail, AFAICS.

yacc143,
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@jwildeboer Sigh, KISS?

What's the benefit of the complicated Solid Pod thingie over downloading a ZIP file here, and uploading it to your new home?

(off topic personal rant: Sorry, we have not yet managed to get people to use proper unique and good passwords for websites. Now they are supposed to learn about passkeys (private & public keys for auth).)

I'm extremely in favour of KISS for anything that comes in contact with "users".

grumpygamer, to random
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Good article on Passkeys: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/passkeys-may-not-be-for-you-but-they-are-safe-and-easy-heres-why/

yacc143,
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@grumpygamer Sigh, so we are trying to explain ssh style private/public key authentication to Joe Public, that would be the same Joe Public that needs to be forced to choose better passwords than "qwerty” and “joe123”.

Nothing could go wrong, I guess.

magdelenehall, to random German
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Adverts claiming products are carbon neutral by using offsetting face UK ban
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/15/uk-advertising-watchdog-to-crack-down-on-carbon-offsetting-claims-aoe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

yacc143,
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@magdelenehall Good idea.

When I drove my wife to the airport this weekend, the ad that proclaimed our airport to be CO2 neutral made me almost crash on the motorway.

Offsetting is questionable when done correctly, and the couple of times local journalists looked into it, a surprising number of offsetting projects were badly designed greenwashing BS.

jwildeboer, to random
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    @jwildeboer You know you should only make enforceable laws.

    How exactly do you verify if it's machine generated? For LLM even the makers of the models have troubles recognizing reliably their output. For criminal liability, you better have an F1 very near 1 for the recognition.

    How exactly do you judge the values between 0 & 9. By the stochastic models of the individual bytes of the outcome?

    Seriously, that's full blown sarcasm, not "50% sarcasm" as you claim ;)

    resuna, (edited ) to random
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    Looks like passkeys are basically ssh private key authentication, except a new incompatible implementation and a dash of cloud.

    Edit: OK, not Google, still a re-implementation of ssh public keys with extra cloud.

    yacc143,
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    @resuna With all the issues.

    2FA, etc. beautiful.

    But by default it does not test the "will to authenticate" of the user.

    So the bad guys (e.g. law enforcement, which is legally allowed to do this in at least some Western jurisdictions!) can just force the fingerprint or whatever biometric auth you use, from the user.

    Not so cool at all. I do think I'm staying with good old passwords plus some form of 2FA to this.

    1br0wn, to random
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    Millions of people relying on charity food banks (including hospital staff and teachers https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/19/record-number-of-uk-households-depending-on-food-banks) is a small price to pay for blue passports 😱

    RT @BrexitBin
    Let this sink in.
    "Britain is now paying the price for leaving the EU. By 2024, the average UK household will have a lower living standard than the average household in Slovenia. By 2030…
    https://twitter.com/BrexitBin/status/1653836064228880384

    yacc143,
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    @1br0wn Ah, Britannia Unchained!

    Or actually, your politicians/government unchained. No more nosy colleagues from Brussels. Who ask stupid questions. That give subsidies to poor regions of the UK that London wants to starve out properly.

    1br0wn, to random
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    Even the UK’s Electoral Commission has pushed voter ID in the past while acknowledging the facts below, because it would make voters “feel” the process was more secure 🤦🏻‍♂️

    RT @MSmithsonPB
    From the latest Private Eye
    https://twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/status/1653727221834563585

    yacc143,
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    @1br0wn Peanuts.

    The Texan GOP just passed a law that allows their Secretary of State to ignore votes from counties, for basically adhoc not liking the results. Interestingly, it only applies to 6 counties. 5 of which traditionally vote heavily for the Democrats and provided 58% of all Biden votes last time.

    So an unelected GOP official gets to decide adhoc if Texas should vote for Biden in 2024 or not, funny isn't it?

    2m suppressed votes in the UK are just peanuts.

    wchr, to random
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    Largely unknown to a wider public, some of the biggest employers include so-called 'business process outsourcing' firms.

    They run call centers and provide everything from sales and customer services to back-office work and content moderation, with several 100k workers.

    Thread:

    yacc143,
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    @wchr
    Who is surprised?

    There has been quite a bit of telecommuting going on even before the pandemic.

    And the weakest workers were as usual treated worst. So yes surveillance to the max is nothing new.

    And call centers? That would be the "fries with your order, sir?" jobs of the IT industry.

    chrismessina, to random
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    Putting a number to the deflationary impact of generative AI; consider how many human hours will be replaced with $2000/month of ChatGPT credits.

    yacc143,
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    @exchgr @chrismessina
    That's only the start.

    You still need the dozen subject-matter experts that have to go through the output of the transformer to see if the output is okay, or if it's bullshit.

    Now for some usage (e.g. if you want to flood the public with bullshit that MH17 was not shot down by forces associated with you, good old KGB disinformation techniques here), then you might not care about the content of the output too much.

    But for most use cases.

    yacc143, to random
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    That's what you get when you run public transit as a business.

    It's a public utility, thus it shouldn't be strictly run by bean counters. Things like how much of the population does not need a private car or can get away with car sharing should be also important criteria.

    Remote work is straining public transit — and many agencies are stuck https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/03/public-transit-office-workers-00094999
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    yacc143, to random
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    Funny how the Brits cannot understand that a common currency is important to a single market: Just was doing my travel reimbursements, and being holier than the pope, I did take the exact costs that were charged to my card for the train tickets in the UK.

    4 days difference, and 6 cent difference. €14.25 versus €14.19.
    0.4% in € price difference.

    One might argue that this is irrelevant, but with margins in many industries being way below 5%, these currency fluctuations are major.

    yacc143,
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    @samueljohnson
    Basically, my formulation that you can only protect single transactions, is a simplification.

    Sure you can protect obviously also a batch of them. Even cheaper than doing them one by one. But the moment your real business starts to fluctuate, you start to sit on a derivate trade without an underlying trade, welcome to the casino of finding yourself of holding what is considered an investment security without planing to.

    yacc143,
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    @samueljohnson
    Please correct me if I got this wrong? I'm happy to learn.

    yacc143,
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    @samueljohnson Well, private profits, socialized losses, what's not to like.

    With these rules, it's hard to find a business not to like.

    petersuber, to academicchatter
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    "’s Public-University Board Approves Firing Poorly Performing Tenured Professors."
    https://www.chronicle.com/article/against-faculty-wishes-floridas-public-university-board-allows-poor-performers-to-be-fired
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    The same article reports that public universities in Florida are having trouble hiring professors. "During [recruitment] conversations, 'more and more often, we are hearing, "Florida? Not Florida. Not now. Not yet," because they are looking at regulations' like this one, as well as bills passed and proposed by the Florida Legislature."


    @academicchatter

    yacc143,
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    @petersuber @powersoffour Oh, I'm sure you'll find some “excellent” candidates for your next engineering prof that did his engineering PhD at a bible college.

    Would you have a civil engineer who just happens to know how to calculate the statics of a bridge built your next highway bridge, or one who is blessed by God?

    Before you answer that, see, we are already preparing this cosy burning stake for people that don't believe in the true god properly.

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