If the VPN is for phoning home, of course there’s free client and server software.
But if it’s for spoofing a different location, you either get found out, or you have to pay.
I wanna live in a world where I do not pay for anything but there is stuff that you can only really get if you pay.
I mean it’s a metric. Not a perfect one, but it helps to get an overview of the state of a repository.
Maybe not the right discussion for the shit post community
Yeah if you think life is simple just because you fit into that category, boy have I got some news for you. Never assume people’s struggles, the world is big and generalizing groups of people is dumb.
Guess it takes a shit post to learn biology
Sponge? Bacteria? Viruses?
That’s unrealistic. In the grant scheme of things Lemmy is small. There’s not enough activity for bigger criminal activity to occur here yet. Generally, there’s a bunch of three letter agencies who could probably get search warrants or permission to go after instance owners, but they’d need to be aware of Lemmy and they’d need a good enough reason to convince a judge. It’ll be a while until then. Maybe on mastodon first, we’ll see but that’s all speculation.
And should we be concerned? Maybe about those 3 letter agencies, but not about platforms like these, and most definitely not about Lemmy instances.
As long as we keep defederating from actually scary ones with csam on there, we’re more than good.
Also if this is a rhetoric question with a strong insinuation to get angry at lemmy.world then get bent, I like my Lemmy instances drama-free, thank you.
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After looking up the Wikipedia definition I kind of disagree; my definition is more narrow but I also think it’s more akin to what we currently understand AI to be.
That said, even with the very loose Wikipedia definition of AI I don’t know how the hell you conclude that the internet / the web is AI. Yes, specific parts of it are AI, but the Internet in my understanding does not fit the definition.
A statistical model built on neural networks solving black box problems.
I don’t hate AI but 99% of applications currently are just vanity, there are big energy problems with it, monopoly consolidation is getting exacerbated by it, identity theft is becoming easier than ever and then stolen training data and information clusters will be the next big issues.
What I’m saying is, a lot of experts (those who survived from the older field of machine learning and its various applications like genetic algorithms and classifiers) are critical of AI, and most people should be. It’s a big opportunity but we could destroy our society with it if we don’t come up with ethical constraints codified in law.
Omfg can we go a few weeks without a big leak pls?
I second syncthing as a solution.
I personally use an smb server and tail scale client + Headscale and then those smb files are locally backed up to a different drive / different PCs that remain in the network, but that doesn’t automatically sync and instead works by connecting to the server directly.
What you’re describing sounds like a solution that automatically resynchronizes on connection, and that means you’re looking for versioning / sync, thus probably syncthing is the easiest.
First of all, not a shit post.
People only hate the pedos they dislike.
Disagree. You mentioned MJ and Epstein. There is a huge amount of victims, witnesses, monetary transactions and evidence (e.g. pictures) about Epstein being a pedophile. For MJ being a pedophile there’s only a fraction of that.
I personally do not care for MJ. People like his music but I don’t really. It’s easier for me to see Epstein as a pedophile because there is just so much more corroborating evidence, and way harder to see MJ that way. Do I believe he’s not? Not really, I haven’t looked that deep into it and I heard this before a few times. But I’m not say someone is a pedophile without evidence. If they’re wrongly accused, that’s fucked up. And ultimately, he’s dead and there’s no real evidence and no suggestions he was part of a wider circle of other perpetrators.
On the other hand Epstein is dead, but there’s other people who helped him or committed crimes themselves. So we should concentrate on those, so that the victims get justice and the perpetrators which do still live get tried and convicted. And especially make sure ghislaine Maxwell, who is convicted and got an insane deal has to face more consequences and finally gives up names so we can start demanding trials for all of the others involved.
Basically, it’s never a “I hate Epstein but not MJ” thing, it’s just that we can address whatever Epstein did, and that is important and there’s lots to go on, but we kinda can’t do it with MJ unless there’s more evidence, there’s likely more perpetrators or there’s more victims coming forward, and I haven’t heard any of that.
Nuzlocke tourism
I kinda want one now
You should be proud of yourself indeed
I’m an IT guy and I get mad anxiety with anything soldering, welding, …
I am incompatible with anything less digital than a PC so I got mad respect for this sorta stuff.
“Not every ‘WTF micro$oft’ moment is a slam dunk,”
Brother, your quotas of shit hitting the fan is reaching fecal velocity of new degrees. Your company’s current state of existence has absolved you of the right to a balanced perspective.
What I’m trying to say is it’s never gonna Microsoft 100% of the time, but at this point no one trusts you, and you’ve earned that, and now you have to live with the consequences. I know this Microsoft contact is probably not the reason, but he is still working there, and that means he deserves some of the blame on a constructive level.
13 drive-by quick-access points
I wish your opinion was shared more.
I do music production. I’ve seen what AI can do, and for making a simple master of one of my demos AI is great. But everyone who has been there knows that the fun of making music comes from uniqueness. AI can’t do that, it can only riff on things known in its dataset.
I’m not worried at all, because this means the boring commercial music becomes less impressive, and unique and elaborate music becomes even more valuable. I’m cool with that; nothing of value is lost.
I get why people are freaked out, but most of the tangible issues come from greedy managers with a pinch of dunning-kruger, trying to replace workers. And that’s got almost nothing to do with AI and everything to do with assholes. There will be consequences, but people have to stick out this short-term chaos. And that’s the only thing I have empathy for in this.
Well that and unlicensed training because governments can’t get their shit together to enforce ethical guidelines for AI training & data collection practices.
While the observations are true, the characterizations of this article are completely wrong.
What’s plausible is that AI genuinely changes their information based not only on what you speak but how you speak.
LLMs work in associative thinking patterns. People who speak in a similar way often know about the same of specific topics. And because AIs are lords of the common and average, these broad stroke patterns are just regurgitated back at us.
It’s just like racism in policing: black people often land in prison. And a part of that is racism on it’s face: police think less of black people.
But another big part is obscured systemic racism: if you’re less educated or more poor, you have a higher chance of doing criminal things. And black people generally have less access to good education or wealth. It’s not causality, but it’s an indicator and a noticeable and patternized correlation.
And I think this is exactly what we see here. The AI hasn’t specifically been trained to be classist and racist, but it’s just throwing those patterns back at us and finally visualizing underlying classism and racism in our real world.
AIs sure do a lot of bad, but in this case, the bad thing already happened before AI became involved. At least that’s my humble opinion.