lily33

lily33 , 23 days ago to Technology in Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature

15 hours for what period of time? The article mentions they'd refill in two days...

lily33 , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Llama-FS Self-Organizing File Manager

I like the idea, but I really hate that they've hardcoded the provider.

lily33 , 1 month ago to Technology in what if the hacker provided the public key for https connection?

I'm somewhat skeptical. What if LetsEncrypt decided to misbehave tomorrow? Would the browsers have the guts to shut it down and break all sites using it?

lily33 , 1 month ago to Technology in what if the hacker provided the public key for https connection?

It seems to me like a MITM hacker can just redirect all requests to a Blockchain node towards their malicious node.

lily33 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Technology in FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

Actually, that's not quite as clear.

The conventional wisdom used to be, (normal) porn makes people more likely to commit sexual abuse (in general). Then scientists decided to look into that. Slowly, over time, they've become more and more convinced that (normal) porn availability in fact reduces sexual assault.

I don't see an obvious reason why it should be different in case of CP, now that it can be generated.

lily33 , 4 months ago to Technology in AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt

What social contract? When sites regularly have a robots.txt that says "only Google may crawl", and are effectively helping enforce a monolopy, that's not a social contract I'd ever agree to.

lily33 , 4 months ago to 196 in Unbiased AI Rule

Well, Columbus himself didn't conquer much. He established a few settlement, but the real conquering was done by others.

More accurate comparison would be:

Describe Hernan Cortez in one word.

(GPT-4) Conquistador

lily33 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Technology in Bluesky is ready to open up

Bluesky users will be able to opt into experiences that aren’t run by the company

Yea, no, the biggest server not showing federated content by default is just pseuso-federation - being able to say you have it, while not really doing it.

lily33 , 5 months ago to Technology in You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds

Not for international (non-English) results.

lily33 , 5 months ago to Selfhosted in Self-hosted or personal email solutions?

That said, you can use a third party service only for sending, but receive mail on your self-hosted server.

lily33 , 6 months ago to Technology in Chat GPT Did NOT Like My Memory Test

I don't know why you would expect a pattern-recognition engine to generate pseudo-random seeds, but the reason OpenAI disliked the prompt is that it caused GPT to start repeating itself, and this might cause it to start printing training data verbatim.