Solaria, here we come.

…for now.

Humans aren’t rational creatures.

That’s a truism, but it’s not justification for allowing it to happen. People being naturally irrational is not an excuse to continue being irrational.

And if it makes people feel uncomfortable to be reminded that they’re choosing to be abused by billionaires for free, then good. Get uncomfortable. I hope they feel uncomfortable every time they scroll Facebook. I hope they feel a little shame every time they complain about housing prices on Instagram, because clearly, knowingly having their worst impulses monetized for the benefit of the absurdly wealthy isn’t enough.

I understand that logic, but “being the product” must not really be that bad for them. They might complain, but if it was truly distasteful, they’d do something about it.

And being exploited for profit and explicitly knowing it is about the saddest thing I can think of for my fellow humans. It’s no wonder the billionaires just take and take, because people let them.

Thanks for sharing. Nice to know my Lemmy instance blocks them, but sad to see my Mastodon instance federating. I guess I should think about moving.

Yeah. If they were an ethically responsible company.

And we all know they’re not, so…

Aren’t group chats unencrypted by design, with no option to encrypt? (I don’t know, I don’t use the app. Just something I vaguely recall somebody saying.)

I knew somebody who was highly intelligent (was being interviewed for the CIA) and decided to go work for Facebook, because the pay was better. No compunction about the ethics of working for the disinformation machine that is Facebook, just saw it as a stepping stone in their career.

The people who work there must be masters of compartmentalization, because either they don’t care and/or see it as a means to their own ends.

Equally? None of them to Trump’s degree, by my assessment.

But then, we’re quibbling over degree of terribleness here. I’m not exactly a fan of most politicians or how they have been governing for the last 30 years, so I’m not at all saying things are rosy on the other side.

Could probably count on one or two hands the number congresspeople that can’t be bought.

Absolutely.

I don’t think they’re making that claim, just that Trump is easy to manipulate and buy off for anyone with the means. Everything is negotiable with him.

My own thought is that the wealthy corpos absolutely can and do purchase US politicians, but some of them have some philosophical guardrails that preclude stepping over certain issues. That number, however, seems to be shrinking the longer we have politicians who are allowed to get fat off of the people.

Oh yeah. They’re still in stock, but there was an article not that long ago that said LG was the last in a line of name brands that have stopped producing them. So what stock is left is the last of it.

That doesn’t sound like physical media. Still sounds like streaming, so isn’t it still beholden to the same problematic VBR issues as other platforms?

This is a genuine question but—what physical media? Blu-ray players are no longer being produced by name brands, and DVDs certainly aren’t capable of storing the data.

It’s liquid helium for me. I won’t settle for less.

I wouldn’t personally buy one, but provided the spacebar was big enough, it probably wouldn’t be terrible to use. Not so long ago, mouse touchpads weren’t that big, so it could potentially work.

But for someone who cared about such a compact thing, I have to wonder if they would prefer a mouse nipple over a spacebar-mouse.

However, United said access would be free only for MileagePlus members, revising an earlier plan to offer free Wi-Fi to all passengers.

That doesn’t sound free. That sounds like a subscription. But I would expect nothing less than blatant lies from a company that partners with a Neonazi fascist.

The LLM didn’t “try to do bad things.” It did exactly as it was told, and it was told, “Achieve your long-term goal at all costs.” They then gave it access to a shell and connected it to other unsecured network drives.

This wasn’t a surprise, like a prison break. This was a computer being given a vague task, selecting a novel solution to the problem, and following directions to the letter using the tools at its disposal.

I’ma push back on that and say that our laziness in shortcutting our explanations is only muddying the general public’s understanding of generative models, and it only serves the interests of the venture capitalists hoping to pump up the AI hype bubble and cash out before it pops.

So while I agree that we have been doing that as a species since forever, it’s not a particularly good trait we possess, and it’s led to some gross misunderstandings and even bad actors weaponizing that trait to equivocate and push an agenda.

Deus Ex, here we come.

Hopefully there’s a JC Denton or Adam Jensen in the future, too.

And because of that lack of dev support, it can do less than a MacBook