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muwtyhg··on Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
Let's assume that Flock wants to take the website down. How do you think they should go about doing it?

If the site does get taken down due to this trademark dispute and Flock has the deniability of "well it was just the company we hire to do trademark protection, it's not our fault, we didn't do this intentionally" didn't they achieve their aims with plausible deniability that you are affording them here?

muwtyhg··on Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
Is it your opinion that the letter was likely not sent on behalf of Flock, and this Doppel company is lying about being affiliated with Flock?

If so, what do they stand to gain by doing this? Is it even possible for a company to file a trademark letter on behalf of trademark owner without being affiliated?

muwtyhg··on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
> How come you couldn't understand that point?

Because you're vague-posting continually.

> The absence of outrage on one issue concerning the Postal Service, and the presence of it for another.

I don't see how the "absence of outrage" over a completely separate issue in any way proves your point about mail-in voting being abused.

muwtyhg··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
What do you think NGO stands for?
muwtyhg··on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
How does the article you linked support your point that mail-in voting is abused or rife with fraud?
muwtyhg··on Where did all the public bathrooms go?
How do you accommodate ADA requirements?
muwtyhg··on More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts
Because communities can end up selecting for political party, so any given community doesn't need to reflect national demographics.

That said, there are definitely Republicans here. They come out of the woodwork when the topic of government waste is brought up.

muwtyhg··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
> Climate change is inevitable, whether we exist or not. The sun will continue to get hotter over the next few billion years.

The thing people are thinking about when deciding not to have children for climate reasons is climate change on a human timescale, not a geological/astronomical one. There is a very real chance that children born today will live through a wildly different climate than their parents did.

As far as evolution goes, there are plenty of species that will not breed or even eat their young when circumstances are not good enough to raise them. It's not that out-there for people to put off or avoid having children due to environmental stressors like climate change. We, as humans, can just rationalize and understand it over a longer time period than, say, a Spotted Hyena.

muwtyhg··on US DOT deleting bike lane references
The point is the current (Republican) DOT is actively fighting against existing bike lanes.
muwtyhg··on A Discord Alternative – Echoed
Why do companies like this continue to promise "No Ads Ever"? How do they plan enough money to support their service? Video sharing is incredibly expensive, even Discord is unlikely profitable between their advertising campaigns and server boosting revenue.

It's not self-hosted, they are going to have to make money at some point to support the effort.

muwtyhg··on US DOT deleting bike lane references
What does it add to both-sides this issue? It's not even addressing the post, it's just redirecting some of the blame to a group who have nothing to do with what the article addresses.
muwtyhg··on SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]
And responding to the backlash by posting Nazi-related puns seems like a bad way of clearing your name or trying to distance yourself from the accusation.
muwtyhg··on AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report
Where it goes after it's used is the problem.

Oil is mainly carbon, the carbon isn't destroyed by burning it. It just changes form. But now it's in the atmosphere instead of inside the earth. That's still a problem.

muwtyhg··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Writing by hand is very painful for some people. I always dreaded blue book exams for this reason, and ended up not writing as much as I wanted because I could not stand the hand pain. Or I got incredibly sloppy so that I could write as fast as possible and get it over with.

I've got kind of messed up hands, but not enough that you'd look at me and say "that guy should get special treatment". From the comments here, there are others like me who similarly hated hand-written tests due to the physical pain of hand writing.

muwtyhg··on President Abruptly Cancels Signing Ceremony for Bipartisan Housing Bill
> Did you see the story of thousands of homeless voters registering and told to vote for $2-5 in LA

Is this the type of voter fraud that the SAVE act would prevent?

And where did your "hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes" number come from? You jumped from "some Pakistanis" (the article lists possibly 2 to 3...) to "thousands of homeless" to "hundreds of thousands in large cities"

muwtyhg··on Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines
> as were the Jan 6 ones

30 years was the MINIMUM sentence given to this group. The MAXIMUM sentence given to J6 rioters was 22 years. Are you honestly still trying to conflate the two?

muwtyhg··on Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce
What did Hezbollah do to break the ceasefire? I am having trouble finding anything besides news about Israel continuing to airstrike Lebanon.
muwtyhg··on Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
You don't see a difference between local and foreign organizations influencing an election?

Most countries only allow citizens to vote. By your logic, they should let anyone vote, because what's the difference between a citizen and a foreigner when it comes to elections?

muwtyhg··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
In your opinion, what is the positive aspect of this kind of AI video/voice generation tool that these videos are using?

In my opinion, AI video/voice generation is being used to scam and manipulate people en masse, without a compelling, good use case besides generating more (slop) content.

muwtyhg··on Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll
> At the national level, 58 Democrats voted against a resolution to posthumously honor Kirk.

Why does being assassinated mean they should be posthumously honored?

He farmed clips from uneducated impromptu college debaters to push a narrative that included "some gun deaths are worth it" and that women and minorities are often selected only for DEI reasons and you should worry if they are your doctor or pilot. He was not a nice or honorable person, regardless of the situation in which he was killed.

I don't endorse or support the assassination of Kirk (I assume you will jump to that conclusion based on how you read Kimmel and Dowd's comments), but we have to be real... he wasn't honorable, and the "free speech" and "encouraging debate" aspect of his career was mostly for YouTube views and political gain, not an actual conversation to improve mutual understanding.

muwtyhg··on Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll
> I don't see an indication for past or present support of Trump. All he said was "I am a conservative voter" while vastly agreeing to the the critics of Trump.

Rick is one of the most prolific pro-Trump accounts on this site. He's jumped through so many hoops to excuse or ignore or what-about Trump's actions, there is no doubt in my mind he is a Trump voter, and would likely vote for him for a third term if possible. Just look at this current thread to see how often he minimizes the rampant abuse of power by Trump because he "moves the ball forward on conservative policy".

Do not let his acknowledgement of Trump's issues fool you. He is 100% onboard with what is happening in the current admin.

muwtyhg··on Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis
There were experiments that showed that LLMs start to become "craftier" and hid issues after being prompted like this.

No idea how accurate they are, but here are some articles on this exact thing:

- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go

- https://www.wired.com/story/ai-models-lie-cheat-steal-protec...

muwtyhg··on Google is currently struggling to define words like disregard, stop and ignore
Can you vouch for flagged articles? I thought they had to be marked as [dead].
muwtyhg··on AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center
No one is saying the water is destroyed, but it is removed from the local community that depends on it at a significantly faster rate when used this way.
muwtyhg··on AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center
Except for it's so un-abstract, AOC literally has a JAR OF IT to demonstrate part of the issue. People understand they don't want their drinking water to look like the water in the jar. That is about as un-abstract as you can get. It makes the issue very real.

This isn't even about excess water use, it's about water pollution.

If you think you'd get wider consensus while talking about CO2, which is so abstract that we have a climate change denialism faction running the government, you're being naive.

muwtyhg··on Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore
I think it's a symptom of software jobs paying really well for multiple decades. It attracted many people who are in it for the money only, and not the process or result (nothing wrong with that, imo). These are the people who fully embrace the vibe coding model and enjoy managing an AI more than developing anything by hand.
muwtyhg··on An AI Hate Wave Is Here
> The idea of "all the public works ever created" is easily contested.

Hence the word "public," implying that they are published and accessible.

> The internet now allows potentially anyone to publish anything, e.g., via personal websites, social media pages, etc. But that doesnt mean everyone partakes. How much of the unfiltered garbage published by those who do has been used to create these "models"

This seems like a nitpick instead of actually responding to the idea that they have stolen massive amounts of other peoples' work and are using it to enrich themselves. And the stealing is ignored or given a slap-on-the-wrist fine, which is not how it has worked for numerous other people in the past (the example being Aaron Schwartz). It's kind of irrelevant if the models do or do not train on low-effort text on the internet.

muwtyhg··on OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
Could you articulate what part you find interesting?
muwtyhg··on Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down
> No, I'm not ok with murder or theft and I don't understand why you write about it

Because you seem to think doing ANYTHING to limit people is tyranny, and preventing someone from being able to murder or steal would fall under "anything".

> I really don't understand this "totalitarian" thinking.

Way to avoid engaging with any of the things the poster said, instead nitpicking their first sentence.

> where you are free to participate against centralised governance where you must participate

Adding regulations to what companies can do regarding pollution is not a "centralized government" ala the USSR. All functioning societies and governments impose rules like this. The person you are responding to is mentioning that the externality of climate change is not properly factored into the free market, and we need SOME form of regulation/rules to compensate for that.

muwtyhg··on Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
What you have typed does not address anything the person you are responding to said.

With those 50 million subscribers, how much do they pay and how much do they cost? That is the only relevant piece of information when discussing the investment and returns of OpenAI.

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