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Eggyhead ,

I’m not French, but I am a teacher and I want in on this. Love getting materials sent to me from Microsoft teams accounts that refuse to let me actually access anything. Cute web UI, now can you send me the actual document instead of a picture of it in a browser?

Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads | Full-service Poseidon info stealer pushed by "advertiser identity verified by Google." (arstechnica.com)

Mac malware that steals passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data has been spotted circulating through Google ads, making it at least the second time in as many months the widely used ad platform has been abused to infect web surfers....

Eggyhead ,

We’re just going to put this extra window on your car, and if thieves find a way to use our window to break into your car, it’s not our fault your shit got stolen.

Eggyhead ,

I think you could eliminate all tracked advertising across the internet and the losses would be much smaller than Google would have you believe.

Eggyhead ,

Well I suppose because it’s just too much a hot topic right now, AI probably should be exempted from discussions on privacy concerns. Good point.

Eggyhead ,

They will still be selling user data whether you opt for the ad supported tier or not, so get used to that.

Eggyhead ,

It definitely looks like AI.

Also, merging with Macy's then using computers instead of humans to make a commercial, I wonder if Toys R Us is running out of money or something.

Eggyhead ,

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something about the anti-steering rule. Can someone give me an example of what this sort of thing looks like in a brick and mortar store?

Eggyhead ,

If neo nazis are deliberately trying to train the AIs that feed into everyone’s workflow, I think it is newsworthy despite what all the other headlines say.

The Neo Nazis are the threat, the AI is being abused.

Eggyhead ,

Oh, if it’s being run locally, then I’ve fundamentally misunderstood the situation. Thanks for pointing it out.

Eggyhead ,

True. In fact, anyone using an ad blocker is actually a thief, and anyone with a VPN is probably a criminal. /s

Eggyhead ,

In b4 Elon decides he can do advertising better, too.

Eggyhead ,

So if artists are “creatives”, what does that make them? “Exploiters”?

Eggyhead ,

I keep saying it. Privacy invasive, targeted advertising has got to be barely worth the cost of maintaining it. Why else is Google trying to put more ads in places, kill ad blockers on chrome, force expats out of subscriptions, and experiment with unskippable ads if not to try and invent some kind of additional value to advertisers out of nothing.

Eggyhead ,

Even if Apple cuts the price in half, it'll still be a hard pill to swallow.

Eggyhead ,

I still keep Social on my Home Screen, but I’ve been using Run for a while now. I’m also starting to use lemmy world a bit more because I’m tired of waiting for a dedicated iOS app. I’ve seen like 3 come and go now and I just don’t think it’s going to happen anymore.

Eggyhead ,

Without a doubt, but it hasn’t stopped a cornucopia of lemmy apps from cropping up on iOS.

Eggyhead ,

I would venture a guess there are at least 50 kbin users willing to pay $2 a year for a dedicated kbin/mbin app on iOS. I personally gave some money to the developer of Artemis back when she was active, but I have no idea what became of her.

Does interstellar’s developer have a donation link where I might buy him some coffee and drop a request?

Eggyhead ,

“Just look at what you’re grandparents are into…”

Eggyhead ,

I teach language. I get paid for my time in front of students, not the time it takes to prepare their lessons and the materials. I use AI to quickly reference grammar rules, to fabricate example dialogs in specific scenarios to practice, and to suggest activities to do in class to practice the target grammar. I never do exactly as it says, just take it as kind of a source of suggestions for me to build from.

Eggyhead ,

Well, LLMs are quite literally trained on language, so asking it to simulate a conversation between a hotel clerk and a guest who is upset that they can’t find the hair dryer is pretty much what it’s best at doing.

You can even build the dialogs with students. Have them introduce a scenario for the LLM to manufacture, then have the students suggest variables to apply, such as the clerk being hungry and in a bad mood while the guest is actually drunk after returning from a club in order to see how the language changes, then have the students act it out for laughs.

Eggyhead ,

Namely, the fact that Apple charges a "Core Technology Fee" for developers who want to "steer" users to offers outside of its App Store. There's also an additional 3% that goes to Apple if a developer uses its payment processor.

Eggyhead ,

Mafia: cops are ruining our extortion business!

Poor mafia.

Eggyhead ,

Cool. Good for Android users.

Eggyhead ,

One, what an AI-written paragraph: "While some ... remained silent ... [others] abstained from public comment." Aren't those the same thing?

Yes, but it works. The emphasis is that all of the richest were silent instead of just some, which was the case for the rest of the shareholders. We hate repeating words in general English (which is why we have such a ridiculous amount of vocabulary), so “silent” was replaced the second time.

Still awkwardly worded, though, so you might be right with the AI thing.

Eggyhead ,

You’re not wrong or anything, but “on accident” is used commonly in American English, so the author isn’t wrong either. I think it might have come from an association with “on purpose”, as in “I didn’t do it on purpose, I did it on accident.”

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), the rules of language only matter if people actually stick to them. Language shifts over time no matter who kicks or screams about it.

Eggyhead ,

Imagine all the training they’ll get from random queries off of the millions of Apple users who don’t even know what chat GPT even is yet.

Eggyhead ,

I love this mentality. This idea that forcing someone who hates ads to watch a bunch of ads somehow magically makes more wealth happen. The whole thing is a bubble desperately trying not to burst by basically forcing more ads in more places where it actually makes very little difference.

I wonder if creators are actually going to get paid any better if YouTube forces more people to watch ads on their channels. My bet is not.

Eggyhead , (edited )

Do adblocked videos prevent creators from having another view registered for a monetized video?

I don’t know how to do a video platform. If I had the time and skill, I’d rather make a FOSS, federated platform for creators/studios to host and finance however they want. Odds are they would never be as egregious as YouTube is being, and I’d be less inclined to skip their ads.

Eggyhead ,

Ad-revenue is literally how content creators get paid

Great. If YouTube removes viewers’ abilities to block ads, resulting in more ads watched, will content creators get an increase in pay?

Again, I doubt it.

I hate ads just as much as the next guy but this mentality of expecting to get content for free is ridiculous. That's unbelieveably narrow sighted and self-centered thinking

You’ve missed the whole point. Ads exist to encourage people to spend money on products, therefore companies profit from paying for advertisements.

Where does the profit come from if someone who doesn’t deal with ads is forced to watch an ad? Do you think that person is just going to decide to spend money?

Secondly, if a creator adds a 1-2m sequence in their video to talk about a sponsor, no one is tracked, no one knows any better if uninterested viewers skip past it, and it’s usually very relevant to that creator’s target audience. I have zero qualms with such a system, and sometimes it’s actually really entertaining.

Morals or not, this is Google scraping at the bottom of the barrel to invent value where there is VERY little to be had. Data-invasive, targeted advertising is superfluous and needs to die.

Eggyhead ,

Individually, no. But each view not generating ad revenue does still generate streaming costs. If no one would pay Google to host their ads on YT, I doubt they'd keep the platform online.

Well this kind of renders the whole “if you don’t watch the ads, content creators can’y get paid” morality approach meaningless, don’t you think?

Where is the money supposed to come from? Companies pay Google to put up ads expecting a return on the investment. If Google starts forcing people who inherently avoid advertisements to watch advertisements, what value is that actually supposed generate for either of Google’s customers? I’d just walk away from the screen like I do with regular television.

Eggyhead ,

I’m sorry, I didn’t meant to imply you were making the morality argument, it’s just one I hear frequently. I meant to bring it up as an example.

I honestly don’t mind ads as a business model. I just wish they were non-invasive and relevant to the content.

Robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and painted cardboard (www.theregister.com)

A team of researchers from prominent universities – including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue – were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system, and suggest the...

Eggyhead ,

I was so close to finishing, too.
Time to look for another doomsday thread, I guess.

Eggyhead ,

Images on the feed shrink when I try to zoom in on mobile. If I want to read the text on the image, I need to tap it once to open the post, then tap it again to open the image. At that point it fills the screen, but I still can’t zoom in any closer, it just bounces back.

Eggyhead ,

Non-targeted advertising for random electronics on tech sites and games on videogame sites will probably net a similar amount of interest from users at a much lower cost both financially and morally than invasive targeted advertisements. Google wouldn't have anything to sell though, so... time to blame the users who want to be left alone now, I guess.

Just looks like an economic bubble on life support.

Eggyhead ,

This one is so good. Probably one of my favorite comics of all time.

Eggyhead ,

Cute, but explain.

Eggyhead ,

Ah. Okay. So what threw me off was my assumption that the owl was responding to “you’re on” with “whooo” (who’s on?). So I thought the bartender was saying it should be “whom’s on”.

Thank you for the clarification!

Eggyhead ,

A lot of people in this thread have a lot of really strong opinions without actually reading the article. The model was cool with it, but she herself also thinks it’s time to retire the photo from how it’s being used in image processing, where it likely isn’t even necessary in the first place. Respect her on that. I seriously doubt she cares if it remains accessible on the web for the pervs worrying about censorship. It’ll still be there if you desperately don’t want to lose your opportunity to take a gander.

Eggyhead ,

The version of macOS that was released today, 11.0, also known as Big Sur…

Good thing we’re on top of things here on the fediverse.

Eggyhead ,

I don't even know what to say about this whole acquisition other than I am deeply disappointed. I am a teacher, and I bought this suite to create handouts and activities for lessons every once in a while. I often share these activities and handouts with other teachers who need ideas. I don't use the Affinity suite frequently or in a professional-enough manner to justify dedicating any more of my long-stagnant pay rate to it, so if prices go up, I will have to stop being a customer whether I like it or not.

Eggyhead ,

If premium features are free for educators, I need to look into how that system works.

I’m happy to keep my V2 license, but I guarantee V2 will be shorter lived than V1 was now that a company was acquired and costs need to be recuperated.

Eggyhead ,

…they just couldn’t figure out how to hamper the watch in just the right way to convince users that Android OS was the problem, so they gave up.

Eggyhead ,

Would it be possible to VPN to an EU address and download?

If so, I’d imagine things are going to get hard for VPNs not too long after.

Eggyhead ,

Imagine this extending to the Vision Pro and getting native access to the Steam VR library on that.

Eggyhead ,

I would say the same for iPhone.

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

Eggyhead ,

Are we certain it does what we think it does? Could it be something to do with the ability to lock your phone remotely if stolen, or just something to do with Lock Screen functionality?

Eggyhead , (edited )

…says someone from a lemmy.ml account?

Edit: Poked the hornet’s nest…

Eggyhead ,

With the U.S. election cycle ramping up, it’s not just the kids doing it now.

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