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neksn··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
> We do not have a say over a nuclear-armed idiocracy forcing it's profound corruption and stupidity on other sovereign entities.

That’s funny because it perfectly defines the relationship between the EU and the countries in it.

neksn··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
Just to confirm, what this means is that the training data contains one or multiple pitch black images, and their system is refusing to reproduce them verbatim?
neksn··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
Interestingly, using AI Studio with the gemini-2.5-flash-image model and asking it to generate a "completely black image" fails with the message "Image recitation block," which has zero hits in Google.
neksn··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
Considering all models can use search engines, is this really relevant?
neksn··on Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
They are selling a reduction in labour costs which has been the primary selling point of automation since humans began automating things.
neksn··on Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
> And absolutely no one seems to be interested in answering the question of “okay, then what?”

I don’t see why the people being booed should be responsible for answering this question. How many such questions did the inventor of the tractor have to answer?

neksn··on Stellantis plans $17,500 small EV to revive European market
I was thinking more in terms of horsepower, etc. I’m sure it will be a “city car” with ridiculous power and autonomy.
neksn··on Stellantis plans $17,500 small EV to revive European market
I can’t even imagine how ridiculous this will look.

How about you go back to making actual cars at that price point?

neksn··on Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'
The page is gzipped in transit - only 5 MB of traffic are generated.
neksn··on Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks
Isn’t that the audio description (AD) track? Maybe it’s mixed in because of an encoding error.
neksn··on Colombian singer Shakira acquitted of tax fraud in Spain
She did everything properly, but the tax agency illegally imposed a fine on her anyway.

Remember that in Spain the tax agency loses 51 % of trials. I assume the percent would be even higher if everybody could afford to defend themselves.

neksn··on Colombian singer Shakira acquitted of tax fraud in Spain
…she was told she had to pay taxes that she didn’t owe. It was a shakedown, which is quite common for the Spanish tax agency.
neksn··on Why is this site named Antipope?
A Mandela effect is when it happens to a large group of people. I’m afraid you’re alone in this.
neksn··on Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center
What’s interesting to me is that for you to build a $10B datacenter (or any other business) you are shaken down for over $3.3B.
neksn··on Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
Closed source binaries rot.
neksn··on Court bans Kars4Kids ads in California for violating false advertising law
> Kids in need aren’t even really the target of the organization’s financial efforts. Instead, those go to 17- and 18-year-olds seeking gap-year trips to Israel and their families.

This is priceless.

neksn··on The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news
They only show what the website gives them through opengraph tags. If the site doesn’t want to give up that information they can remove the opengraph tags. Even still, fair use should allow Facebook to summarise the contents of the link if they wanted to (but they don’t do that).
neksn··on A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
And this is only the beginning.

I wonder what a good white-collar career path will be post-AI? What is your opinion on this?

neksn··on The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news
The demographics of this site have changed so much that people here are applauding… that it is now illegal to embed opengraph information on Facebook? This is deranged. And it only happens because the government is in bed with legacy media. The government being in bed with the media is awful for the common person.

Embedding opengraph data is a clear case of fair use, and it’s sad to see all of this coming from a community that has long been against copyright.