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smegger001··on Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts
I always thought of him as if he was angling to be a bond vilian but thats kind of a potayto, potahto thing
smegger001··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
They deliberately trained the models in how to use various hacking tools, didn't give them the standard alignment training let them know where the answer key was left the models with access to said tool and told them to maximize their score then left them unsupervised for days with internet access (yeah they were sandboxed but again handed hacking tools and the training to use them if they really did want them to access the internet you wouldn't plug in the Ethernet cable) they wanted this to happen
smegger001··on Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe
>Oh AI will take our jobs..? LET IT!!

Except people still need to eat and.pay for a roof over their heaf

>Who wants to work all your life and still not be able to afford a house?

That is the fear they have from ai

>Instead of asking to be wage slaves your entire lives, demand your politicians to give you UBI.

Except the same people leading these companies do everytjing thaey can to avoid paying taxes that could fund ubi.

Elons whole Doge fiasco, the google guys fighting wealth taxes in california all fights against helping the people they are displacing. The tech ceos talk a good game about an ai powered life of luxury and ease but its not for you and me its for them and fuck the proles.

smegger001··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
Layers of defense, whats needed is the vision model detection, then those elements need to be uploaded to a crowd sourced blocklist so they can be prevented from loading to begin with.
smegger001··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
And institutional control of information didnt really start again until the Statute of Anne struck up a deal between printers and the state giving printers copyright over written works and the state the right to cencor and ban works the disapproved of nearly 250 years latter.

Radio gave us Demagogues like Father Coughlin in the US and Hitler in Germany, and we still havent dealt with the problems radio introduced when television came along and now we have the internet with social media, podcast, and algorithmic echochambers, and algorithm induced radicalization. Radio television internet any one is just as much a shock to society as print was and we still havent figured out how to adapt yet to any fully.

smegger001··on Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
More than that it was an enabling tool.

Republicans for decades have claimed that the government cant do anythingright/good and that we must deregulate and let the free market do everything.

Problem is the government is actually pretty good at doing somethings, so Republicans break things until they can use them as examples of government inefficiency then privatize it for there own profit.

Doge was made to break the government so Republicans could point at what was left and say "see government is broken"

But Musk ran it and he's and idiot that had no idea what he doing so istead of it slowly all going to shit so no one would remember it all working as intended it started to fall apart to soon. So we still have people that will point to the real cause.

smegger001··on Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
>How come we allowed all these cronies to put camera and do surveillance.

Because city counsel meetings are scheduled at awkward times for anyone employed to actually show up to. So only tech unaware old people show up

smegger001··on Grok Build is open source
Yeah I would prefer not to use models whoes the owner has a habbit of altering them to push white replacement/genocide conspiracy talking points on we he gets board
smegger001··on The Fall and Rise of Screwworm
we could possibly use a gene drive to make males that would only produce male descendants in a handful of generation they would go extinct.
smegger001··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
>>If there’s any bootlegging going on it’s Anthropic that’s doing the bootlegging but having mirrored the video etc sufficiently to beat copyright law.

>US courts have consistently ruled it's fair use.

And they also have ruled that the that output of an AI isn't copyrightable.

As such copying claudes output isnt even fair use as that is an exemption to copyright but the same as copying public domain work which any and all are allowed to do.

smegger001··on Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster
or give a different eye color it not all life or death
smegger001··on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
Sigh. What ever happened to the principle of least privilege and why arent we applying it to AI agents. They ought to be locked in a box and not capable to act outside designated task.
smegger001··on LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear
And i might be a Boltzmann Brain hallucinating all of this after a paticle cloud over hundreds of billions of years of random interactions by chance happened to condenced into thinking substance out of the chaos.
smegger001··on Shunning AI is the human choice
Exactly no one hates the ai algorithm finding cancer, or predicting protein folding or finding novel compounds for pharmaceuticals what they hate is the "we will slurp up all human knowledge violate everyone copyrights and give nothing back in return and get you fired and replaced by a shitty ai chatbot"
smegger001··on Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux
Lets see; a phone os no one used, and ad on installed without user permision as a tie-for a TV show, browser integration with a thirdparty bookmarking service that should have been an optional addon, a VPN, an abborted browser based video confercing service based on open standards that they killed for non obvious reasons, a bunch of social justice initiatives, an email masking/forwarding service killing their addon APIs in favor of googles more limited api.
smegger001··on Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said?
Does that apply to their tablet as well or just streaming devices ereader and smart speakers? Giving up android on their tablet would kill their whole app library i don't see them doing that lightly.
smegger001··on Helium is hard to replace
mostly out of our reach unless you have way of removing it from the sun without your retrieval craft melting or being captured by the suns gravity well or from gas giants without the onboard system being fried by the intense radiation or again captured by the gravitation.
smegger001··on Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths
You could probably do something to increase the apparent entropy like xoringing it with an irrational number like tao or pi starting with a digit determined by the date.
smegger001··on Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths
You could probably cheat with the one time pad and use a book as a key, pick a pre determined starting point go diagonally down accross the page convert the letters to numbers and xor that against the message. It would be near enough to random and less conspicuous than a pad of random numbers when searched.
smegger001··on Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths
I used to have little battery powered AM/FM/Shortwave/weather radio lost it a couple house moveings ago. Kept it around for the emergacy weather radio during flood events and other extreme weather when internet/power isnt reliable. Should probably pick up a replacement come to think of it.
smegger001··on Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age
It is Larry Ellison doing. He has been lobbying and trying to push the US and UK towards it for the last 20 plus years with plans on controlling the database and infrastructure behind it.

https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-billionaire-behind...

smegger001··on Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues
So pretty much the same as the Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. case ruling it as fair use as a transformative work. I mean if indexing the worlds books is transformative then a neural net run on them certainly is a transformative work and fair use.
smegger001··on I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
> if you license it MIT, and it's useful, expect Amazon to make a fork, not give you the source code,

thats why the gpl family of license exist.

MIT/BSD family licenses are do whatever you want with this,

if you want to make money off of you pet opensource project I recommend multi-license it with a copyleft with copyright assignment required for contributions and offer other licenses with a fee.

smegger001··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Smallpox, which the only remaining samples exists in a couple of secure facilities controled by superpowers for use making vaccinations in case they are wrong about their only being a few samples controled by superpowers. Everyone with an ounce of sense knows bioweapons infect both sides and nuetral parties who are no longer neutral once you infect them. It like mustard gas but worse no one other than suicidal terror groups want them and they dont have the facilities equipment samples or knowhow.
smegger001··on We Will Not Be Divided
because bio-weapons labs take more to run than a workstation pc under your desk with a good graphics card. both in equipment material and training. Its hard to outlaw use of linear algebra and matrix multiplications.
smegger001··on Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment
sort of not really but effectively yes. their deal with OpenAI gave them unrestricted use of all of OpenAI Models and IP (source code, weights, patents probably any other data) except the eventual hypothetical end products of Artificial General Intelligence which would belong to OpenAI alone but Microsoft would still have everything leading to it so could probably make that jump on their own (not a great deal on OpenAI's part as it doesn't give them much of a moat). so when OpenAI runs out of money well Microsoft won't own the IP but will have unrestricted use of it some one else could buy it at bankruptcy but microsoft could still use it. As for the staff well they already showed a willingness to jump ship to Microsoft back when the OpenAI board tried firing Sam without giving a reason, and if OpenAI dies Microsoft would probably hire any of the top talent that applied. So kinda sort of but on paper no but yeah they would have everything of value they would choose have.
smegger001··on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
I don't know about that they have multiple successful businesses with or without AI and they stand to have all of OpenAI's IP when they implode (their license gives them free access to fork all of OpenAI's AI models with the sole exception of some hypothetical future artificial general intelligence) my guess is they take a hit to the stock price but so will everyone else and they will go on a shopping spree of buying up any IP or infrastructure left after the bubble pops.
smegger001··on Why vampires live forever
as someone that donates plasma twice weekly I wonder what health effects of removing and filtering the blood regularly has if accumulation of byproducts is a major issue
smegger001··on Why is the sky blue?
because they are the frequencies that pass though water most readily, and we are made of mostly water
smegger001··on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
where will the government get the money to buy anything if the billionaires and their mega corps have it all and spend sufficient amounts to keep the government from taxing. we have a k shape economy where the capital class is extracting all of the value from the working class who are headed to subsistence levels of income and the low class dies in the ditch.
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