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RainfallSonata ,

Stop trying to make AR glasses happen.

RainfallSonata ,

Of course they exist.

RainfallSonata ,

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

RainfallSonata ,

Garfield without Garfield is better. And they did it first.

RainfallSonata ,

Kate Bush - Deeper Understanding, 1989.

RainfallSonata ,

Porch pirates.

RainfallSonata ,

I mean, if enough vaporizers have to be re-shipped because they were stolen before they're received, yes, of course. You're not going to expect to pay a second time for something you never received. The insurance company (I assume this is medical use?) or the supplier doesn't want to pay a second time. Of course they're going to make you sign. It's not a law to stop porch pirates, it's a law to reduce costs.

RainfallSonata ,

Ok, buddy. There's not any indication that's even a law and not just policy from the company selling the device.

RainfallSonata ,

That doesn't mean the law says signatures are required. It could only be how the company chose to respond to the law. Got a citation?

RainfallSonata ,

Take off your tinfoil hat. Maybe set down the vape. Lying? I was responding to incomplete information. Not everything's a conspiracy. This is an old law now being applied to new technology. Nothing infuriating about it.

RainfallSonata ,

Dude, you're going off the rails...

RainfallSonata ,

Well, yes, now that OP quit dancing around his vape pen use and provided a source, I see that.

Because only women are worried about becoming step-parents? (This prolly could've been an Ask Lemmy.) (lemmy.world)

I'm looking for some good reading on how to, eventually, best help be a step parent to my partner's children and NEARLY ALL books are geared toward the woman's perspective as though men don't want to be a strong teacher and develop these kids into healthy adults. Ugh!...

RainfallSonata ,

What were your search terms? You want "blended families."

RainfallSonata ,

I mean, the planet's dying, but ok. At least we've got robots that "excced human performance" in making their overlords profits. Imagine if these scientists were putting their efforts to real use.

RainfallSonata ,

Is it, though?

RainfallSonata ,

Is there a difference?

Fake Photos, Real Harm: AOC and the Fight Against AI Porn (www.rollingstone.com)

In 2023, more deepfake abuse videos were shared than in every other year in history combined, according to an analysis by independent researcher Genevieve Oh. What used to take skillful, tech-savvy experts hours to Photoshop can now be whipped up at a moment’s notice with the help of an app. Some deepfake websites even offer...

RainfallSonata ,

"The legislation amends the Violence Against Women Act so that people can sue those who produce, distribute, or receive the deepfake pornography, if they “knew or recklessly disregarded” that the victim did not consent to those images."--The article.

RainfallSonata ,

That wasn't the point of the article though. It isn't either/or.

RainfallSonata ,

And they say feminists can't take a joke!

RainfallSonata ,

(Psst...The women at Hooters aren't real....)

RainfallSonata ,

The joke is mocking men who objectify women for their bodies and don't treat them as actual human beings. Once women have shown their tits and brought a sandwich, these men would be glad if women cease to exist.

RainfallSonata ,

Well, I mean, everyone's skill at reading comprehension is different. Keep trying dear, I'm sure you'll get it. But a little self-awareness wouldn't hurt, either.

RainfallSonata ,

Lotsa butt-hurt misogynists itt. "Oh, I don't get it!" "It's not funny!" Yes it is. It's about you. That's why you don't get it.

RainfallSonata ,

Well, if you had reading comprehension skills, you'd know the difference.

RainfallSonata ,

My, aren't you clever!

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

RainfallSonata ,

Parents can be licensed for use by other companies.

RainfallSonata ,

I don't understand why anyone uses one of these,when you can stream anything you want for free on your computer in your web browser.

RainfallSonata ,

Anything you would watch on tv is available free on the internet. No subscriptions, even Netflix. I"m not being sarcastic. Hang your f'ing monitor on the wall, then. That's all that makes this "tv" different. Well, and its advertisements.

RainfallSonata ,

They look so fucking stupid I can't imagine them ever being worth the resources wasted on development.

RainfallSonata ,

Platforms should be held responsible for the content their users publish on them, full stop.

RainfallSonata ,

Why does this guy think he invented the web? I don't know enough to say he didn't, but why does he think so?

Wasn't it a multi-person/org effort? Isn't that why everyone laughed at Al Gore when he implied the same? After going on about the need to decentralize, this guy wants to take the credit himself?

RainfallSonata ,

It's about tf time.

RainfallSonata ,

No. No it's not.

RainfallSonata ,

I tried that, but eventually they just all blended so that now I've got three different windows with 50 of the same tabs open. Groups can have labels so that I can see which group is which.

RainfallSonata ,

You're just shifting responsibility to the population that has no real control over the matter. That's completely unethical.

RainfallSonata ,

How right you are! https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2024/03/06/controversial-manufacturer-friendly-pfas-language-could-be-resurrected/

Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)

We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there's been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of...

RainfallSonata ,

Idk, I'm a woman approaching my senior years who had to have someone else install it. My whole household is on Linux. None of us are in IT.

RainfallSonata ,

But they're banning printed books in libraries instead...

Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn't use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don't agree to their terms, then I don't get access to their new products. That...

RainfallSonata ,

This. I used a large-screen, dumb tv as a computer monitor for streaming for several years. My kid got his first real job and bought us a smart TV. It is so much worse...

RainfallSonata ,

The new who?

RainfallSonata , (edited )

Or the fact that he's apparently cut the chest out of his t-shirt, while his vest doesn't wrap around the back of his torso.

Amazon made airport workers toil in 100-degree heat without shade, water — The trillion-dollar online retailer plans to appeal workplace safety citations and $14,625 in fines (jalopnik.com)

Amazon made airport workers toil in 100-degree heat without shade, water — The trillion-dollar online retailer plans to appeal workplace safety citations and $14,625 in fines::The trillion-dollar online retailer plans to appeal Cal/OSHA citations and $14,625 in fines.

RainfallSonata ,

They should be fucking shut down. Fuck fines.

RainfallSonata ,

Something my instructors could never explain to me is what Turnitin does with the content of papers after they're scanned. How long are they kept? Are they used for verifying anyone else's work? I didn't consent to any of that. When someone runs for office 20 years later are they going to leak old papers? Are they selling that data to other AI trainers? That's some fucking bullshit. It needs to be out of the classroom for more reasons than just false positives.

Are there any genuine benefits to AI?

I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting,, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something...

RainfallSonata ,

Not for you or I.

RainfallSonata ,

No, there really isn't. There isn't going to be any form of technology where you can be free if it. And in that case, I don't see how it will be possible for Mozilla to avoid it, even if they want to. At the very least, Firefox will have to interact with it elsewhere. It's really best that they start figuring out what that's going to look like, if a bit late.

RainfallSonata ,

Same, same.

RainfallSonata , (edited )

It's also a puff piece, though it does contain the common and increasingly-comical self-flagellation at the end about how all these models are probably racist. Like all corporate DEI initiatives, everyone involved is only interested in admitting the problems in such a way as to avoid ever challenging the power structures that replicate them.

Ask me how much time I'm spending on (and how much they're paying me to sit through) DEI training at work. I mean, Im not against it, but if the CEO isn't gonna share the internal power structure, wtf is the point?

In functioning countries, healthcare is publicly owned, publicly operated, publicly accountable, and guaranteed to all residents. In other words, it's democratized. Compare that to living in a country where millions of people do not have access to medical care and where Google is actively working on a proprietary chatbot alternative to doctors,

(While calling it democratization of healthcare)

which gets a puff piece in the most prestigious scientific journal, and ponder what working in or writing about tech does to a motherfucker.

RainfallSonata ,

I very much do not want AR. There will be ads everywhere.
What happened to the anger people had toward Google Glass and the feeling that people wearing them would be recording everything around them basically all the time?

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