Natanael

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Natanael ,

If a group of lawyers told me I can't talk about people from a region they don't like I'd laugh and ask if they want to lose their licenses to practice law

Natanael ,

You're forgetting the girl gets to also make a wish

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Inflammatory factors are linked to autism (seems like a lot of things which can cause immune dysregulation are). Smoke is inflammatory.

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Heartbreak

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Not how copyright works. Adding something with creative height together with something without leaves the combined work with ownership only of the part with creative height with the rest unprotected.

(bots can not achieve creative height by definition in law)

Natanael ,

There's already rulings on this holding that the prompt for all LLM or image generator isn't enough to count the result as the human's expression, thus no copyright (both in USA and other places)

You need both human expression and creative height to get copyright protection

Natanael ,

Not quite how copyright law works. Photoshop and similar gives you copyright because it captures your expression.

An LLM is more like work-for-hire but unlike a human artist it doesn't qualify for copyright protection and therefore neither does you

Natanael : There's already rulings on this holding that the prompt for... answered I'd argue that this is a different scenario, as AI is a... by iglou in Programmer Humor

Natanael ,

Lobbyists selected by rich people tell politicians who to appoint to lead agencies. These people give directives and can get agents fired for disobeying.

Stopping it means removing "single points of failures" like not having such a powerful hierarchy, in addition to accountability measures (independent inspections, etc)

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Yes.

Meanwhile intelligence agencies says they want to stop encryption to help them investigate crime...

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Pressure wash

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Well, unless they also made key generation shitty, because that's equally plausible and would likely allow RSA keys to be broken (it's surprisingly hard to generate RSA keys safely)

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Unreliable certainly. For as long as there's radio coverage there's a way, but it used to be impractical to give passengers enough bandwidth. 20 years ago you'd have to ask the captain nicely to get a call routed (read: have an emergency)

If you allow civilian HAM radio, you go back a few more decades (not quite applicable to planes, but definitely applicable to boats). If you allow Morse code you go back yet a little further.

Natanael ,

This one (bath thermometer) goes to 111°F

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Irrational probabilities makes MWI impractical unless you interpret the branching much like a continous graph (as a visualization, see phase of matter graphs) with an ever increasing number of dimensions. And yes continous branching is weird

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They're just contributing to perfect information, or, uh...

Natanael ,

This map won't be centered on the equator

‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti ( www.commondreams.org )

The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, “shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.” ...

Natanael ,

EU have a freedom of expression law and multiple countries also have constitutional freedom of speech, including right to film police

Germany is also rather unique in having laws with opaque interpretations

https://digit.site36.net/2023/01/31/police-violence-in-germany-misuse-of-wiretapping-paragraph/

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He holds it weird too

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That meeting should've been an email anyway.

... Uh, wait a minute...

Natanael ,

Interestingly they're basing it off the Bluesky atproto architecture. Seems like they're keeping controlled sign-ups and setting the appview to only index (and only display) their own users.

And if they don't break protocol compatibility, others could have a "read-only view" of their network from servers / clients that federate (comparable to a lemmy server which would reject incoming messages but still let you browse)

Natanael ,

What about surrealists

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They went for the protocol used by Bluesky. But apparently disabling federation.

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In USA, after 3 years of no use and no intent by the owner to use you can challenge a trademark

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Not with those diets

Make Nazis Ballasts

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A board of peace - after telling the Norwegian prime minister that he's not committed to peace anymore because he didn't get the peace price (and no, the PM doesn't control the peace price)

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Exactly. At best you're commissioning work to a machine. You didn't provide much creativity, at best a direction and some constraints.

In the art world it's been settled ages ago that the underlying concept isn't protected, and few if any prompts go beyond just describing a vague concept.

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It's worse than your typical creative claim on copyright of something like a poem - because prompts are by definition functional more than creative, and typically contain too few purely expressive elements to meet creative height. They managed to put prompts in a worse position than boilerplate code in terms of protection, lol

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The verification doesn't work like on Twitter, it's just proving the identity, it's not some flag of prominence.

There's even multiple organizations who can issue verifications on bluesky, for example newspapers can act as verifiers of their own staff;

https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification

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Yes, but without federation

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A gov accounts mute / block list, for example

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Real-time in computing usually either means a real-time OS with guaranteed low latency response (typically for stuff like microcontrollers regulating machines) or streaming live data (low latency delivery of the most recent value)

This sounds like the latter, and a typical SQL database don't guarantee real-time updates (you can have "atomic writes" to prevent inconsistency but usually this would make it slower) but some databases like this one are designed to ensure you can read out updated correct and consistent values much faster. Also with standard databases you usually make scheduled individual requests, but a real-time database could often send a stream of updated values to a "subscribing" program

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But then the bear would still have to be afraid of honeypots

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It's actually kinda easy. Neural networks are just weirder than usual logic gate circuits. You can program them just the same and insert explicit controlled logic and deterministic behavior. To somebody who don't know the details of LLM training, they wouldn't be able to tell much of a difference. It will be packaged as a bundle of node weights and work with the same interfaces and all.

The reason that doesn't work well if you try to insert strict logic into a traditional LLM despite the node properties being well known is because of how intricately interwoven and mutually dependent all the different parts of the network is (that's why it's a LARGE language model). You can't just arbitrarily edit anything or insert more nodes or replace logic, you don't know what you might break. It's easier to place inserted logic outside of the LLM network and train the model to interact with it ("tool use").

Natanael ,

The question is if it wins then more support than they lose.

YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.

For fellow Americans living in cities where ICE is active, many people, especially those of Hispanic descent, are already carrying around passports on their persons at all times because they're rightfully afraid of being forcibly disappeared or deported to some random South American country. ...

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They're targeting anybody who challenges their authority, starting with people who look different (foreigners first)

Woman dragged from car by ICE identified as U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman ( www.cbc.ca )

A U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment in Minneapolis was dragged out of her car and detained by immigration officers, according to a statement released by the woman on Thursday, after a video of her arrest drew millions of views on social media. ...

Natanael ,

People who opposed the monster won't feel offended by that. Normies won't be here to see it.

And some of these hardline ultrapurists has to be shamed into doing the right thing

Natanael ,

Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and 2020 and still was below 50% in 2024 AND his policies never got support from a majority ever when presented without a name.

There has never been a majority who has liked anything he had to offer.

This was a propaganda war from racist wealthy assholes who bought out a ton of the companies controlling the media landscape. They exploited bullshit election rules and lied and bribed and extorted to suppress resistance, all just so they could be assholes in public without being called in it.

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ICE already says their facial recognition app is more accurate than your actual citizenship papers.

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If you asked people about their policies and literally absolutely anything they wanted to do, and hid the names, Trump always lost because he is MORE unpopular

Media helped Trump steal credit for things others did, instill fear of things his opponents never would do, etc. Nobody lost to Trump by being a worse candidate, but because media refused to be honest and people believed the lies

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Did you not pay attention to how Kamala was called a liar by media for saying Trump would send the military against cities?

... And then he did?

Did you not pay attention to how he claimed credit for Covid funds that Democrats established? Blaming Democrats for Trump judges' decisions? Setting up Afghanistan so the exit would happen at the start of Biden's turn to hurt his approval when it predictably turns to chaos? How Biden's age was somehow a problem but Trump's never was?

Media was hysterical about how democrats would make everything worse somehow but never explaining it, then repeating Trump's claims that he's deliver the best economy ever and all kinds of bullshit like it.

And with all that Trump still didn't even get 50%!

Natanael ,

What part of the campaign was worse

Please specify

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Every time the policies and suggestions and everything else was presented without names, Kamala's campaign won. When people didn't know who's proposal they was listening to, Kamala won.

So please explain what you mean about better candidate, because you have said nothing about how she was worse.

From here in Sweden, it looks like the things needing replacement is the fucking electorate and the billionaires owning the media companies

Natanael ,

The main difference is Linux package managers with their package metadata is better at cleaning up than corresponding Windows installers.

Especially antivirus programs, they are the worst

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Now Windows won't boot

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Because it has legs