In this case I feel like it is extra nefarious, since the point of using chromebooks in schools is also to surveil students and not give them control over devices that are managed by school admins who would like a company to ensure that they do not get revealed as incompetent by child hackers. That shit is getting normalized and students are also not getting experience working with computers that aren’t just edu-kiosks that only allow superficial interaction. Major contributing factor to tech illiteracy.

Imagine being the person who paid 7.9 Bitcoin for stolen Runescape gold that now gets deleted

What’s a better way to word it? I can’t think of another way to say it that’s as concise and clearly communicates the idea. It seems like it would be harder in general to describe machines meant to emulate human thought without anthropomorphic analogies.

I thought this talk page comment was pretty cool:

Get off your highly partisan POV-pushing labeling of him as a “domestic terrorist”. You will need reliable sources to verify any claims that Pretti fired a shot, obstructed operations, resisted arrest, or any of the other drivel that you have mentioned here. That’s enough, and you are violating WP:BLP by even mentioning any of this unsourced nonsense here.

If you were invited to such a party you’re probably already ahead of the curve

Makes sense, in other contexts I’d watch at lower speeds (I watch starcraft games sometimes at 1.25x), but for me this is kind of like the video equivalent of skimming an article, actively reading and listening at the same time and not multitasking. I also manually skip around to get to relevant information faster.

I’d also like to mention that I’m able to do this because I use FreeTube, not because I pay for YouTube…

Not OP but informational podcast/interview type videos that are heavy on talking and long I watch at 2.25x with subtitles on.

I feel like there are also other potential reasons to want to publish software anonymously though, even if monetization is not the goal. For instance, to keep it game related, there have been plenty of noncommercial fan projects that get shut down mainly just because the companies that own the IP are run by assholes.

This seems like a good idea, but a related question I’ve been wondering about is, what is the best way to anonymously run a software project facing this type of threat model, when you also want that software to be accessible to people? Does anyone know about any tips or resources for this? Is there some kind of darknet github? How do you do social media or collect donations/payment? Also, are there any good examples of projects that did this right?

The cloud is basically by definition someone else’s computer, kind of inherently opposed to user control

What features would people expect/want such software to have?

I’m sure it helps a lot that these are games with player hostable servers

I’m trying to figure out whether this is a felony or not under the notorious CFAA

In practice, any ordinary computer has come under the jurisdiction of the law, including cellphones, due to the interstate nature of most Internet communication.

Maybe it depends on whether those speakers are only bluetooth or somehow internet connected?

Cats are supposed to have pretty good directional hearing right

That dog has said some terrible things

So what is the alternative? A lot of artists and their allies think they have an answer: they say we should extend copyright to cover the activities associated with training a model.

And I am here to tell you they are wrong. Wrong because this would represent a massive expansion of copyright over activities that are currently permitted – for good reason.

He goes on to say that prohibiting AI works from being copyrighted and worker collective bargaining are better solutions, and I really agree with the arguments for this. I also liked this bit about how some of what remains past the bubble could be useful:

And we will have the open-source models that run on commodity hardware, AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff, like transcribing audio and video; describing images; summarizing documents; and automating a lot of labor-intensive graphic editing – such as removing backgrounds or airbrushing passersby out of photos. These will run on our laptops and phones, and open-source hackers will find ways to push them to do things their makers never dreamed of.

It’s possible to cut a groove in a board so you can drive a screw outwards from it, but that’s pretty difficult and also the wrong approach for shelves which should be attached to the wall by supports underneath instead to distribute forces better.

Good movie though

If it is, at least they bothered to put a different font on the text than the usual for ChatGPT comics. The woman being drawn identically in the second panel except for the eyes is also a point against it being AI.

Browsing Lemmy by only what you have subscribed to is not as viable as on Reddit because there is generally less content per community.