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HarkMahlberg , 4 months ago to Technology in Bluesky federation goes live

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HarkMahlberg , 4 months ago to Technology in Bluesky federation goes live

This is the same criticism that was made of cryptocurrency's claim to fame regarding decentralization, consensus, and resilience to authoritarian takeover.

"If you take all these different parts of your identity, all the games you play, all the things you buy, all the groups you join, and stick them into one system, that's a central system. It doesn't matter how many servers that system spans, you've pooled all that data in one place."

And ultimately we can make the same criticism of the Fediverse itself. It's nice that there are different platforms, different instances, different communities... but it's still just one entity at the end of the day. This is especially apparent with the spam wave we just saw. Misskey, Mastodon, Lemmy, even kbin was not invulnerable. You don't need to attack them individually, you can attack them all at once, and then they will naturally spread your attack to other instances for you.

HarkMahlberg , 4 months ago to Technology in Google pauses Image Generation in Gemini

Super bowl ads don't mean anything. The crypto world also ran ads before/at the super bowl, look how they're doing now.

Air Canada had to shut down their AI chatbot because it was making up refund policies and costing them money.

New Hampshire is pissed that someone used an AI Biden voice to spread voter disinformation.

If it's not already there, AI is quickly approaching the FO phase of FAFO.

HarkMahlberg , 4 months ago to Technology in Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown

Almost makes me nostalgic for the way clothing used to work in Cyberpunk 2077.

HarkMahlberg , 4 months ago to Technology in Vudu’s name is changing to “Fandango at Home”

"We have Fandango at home."

Fandango At Home at home:

HarkMahlberg , 4 months ago to Technology in Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription

The value-add is the comedy of a man pretending an Intel Q6600 is better than a Ryzen 3600X.

HarkMahlberg , 4 months ago to Technology in Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription

Yeah that's the guy. Hilarious to see he thinks his garbage biased opinion is worth any amount of money.

HarkMahlberg , 4 months ago to Technology in Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

For what it's worth, I guess they saw this coming.

HarkMahlberg , 4 months ago to Technology in Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

Oh I'm not giving you grief, I just think it's funny.

the article is on a CO site

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HarkMahlberg , 4 months ago to Technology in Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

The irony of this being crossposted from ML.

HarkMahlberg , 4 months ago to Technology in Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”

Probably not without some tinkering, but DRM can always be defeated.

HarkMahlberg , 4 months ago to Technology in Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”

How the tables have turned.

Sony won the case against Universal that allowed people to record TV shows with their VCR. I wonder how they'd feel if I pointed OBS at their streams.

HarkMahlberg , 4 months ago to Technology in Smaug-72B-v0.1: The New Open-Source LLM Roaring to the Top of the Leaderboard

What a catchy name.

HarkMahlberg , 5 months ago to Technology in Police departments are using AI to review bodycam footage, and police unions are not happy about it

Man, you said everything I wanted to in less than half the words. Shoulda just linked to your comment lol

HarkMahlberg , 5 months ago to Technology in Police departments are using AI to review bodycam footage, and police unions are not happy about it

And shareholders

He couldn’t have imagined the drama of this week, with four directors on OpenAI’s nonprofit board unexpectedly firing him as CEO and removing the company’s president as chairman of the board. But the bylaws Altman and his cofounders initially established and a restructuring in 2019 that opened the door to billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft gave a handful of people with no financial stake in the company the power to upend the project on a whim.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-bizarre-structure-4-people-the-power-to-fire-sam-altman/

Oh! Turns out I was wrong... "a handful of people with no financial stake in the company" doesn't sound like shareholders, and yet they could change the direction of the company at will. And just so we're clear, whether it's four faceless ghouls or Sam Altman, 1 or 4, the fact that the company is beholden to so few people, who themselves are not democratically elected, nor necessarily law experts, nor necessarily have any history being police officers... their AI is what decides whether or not to hold a police officer accountable for his misdeeds? Hard. Pass.

Oh, and lest we forget Microsoft is invested in OpenAI, and OpenAI has a quasi-profit-driven structure. Those 4 board directors aren't even my biggest concern with that arrangement.

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