That seemed random, and it kinda was: uneducated(!) guess on how long it will take the technology to both develop and popularize to the point the average kindergarten massacre* is committed with a 3D printed gun.
Is 30 years long enough for there to be a decent likelihood we’ll be able to print the switch and firearm from that video? Thanks for your responses, I can tell you know your stuff.
* to be clear, being forever upset about Sandy Hook has no bearing on my respect for responsible gun owners, presumably the vast majority
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts....
The argument has been since free filing means only the wealthy will hire accountants, free filing would discriminate against the poor given a few mistakes will be made here and there.
I may not need to mention that disingenuous argument is made by the pirates at Intuit and their lobbyists.
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates....
Before his company was able to block more of Microsoft's own tracking scripts, DuckDuckGo CEO and founder Gabriel Weinberg explained in a Reddit reply why firms like his weren't going the full DIY route:
“… [W]e source most of our traditional links and images privately from Bing … Really only two companies (Google and Microsoft) have a high-quality global web link index (because I believe it costs upwards of a billion dollars a year to do), and so literally every other global search engine needs to bootstrap with one or both of them to provide a mainstream search product. The same is true for maps btw -- only the biggest companies can similarly afford to put satellites up and send ground cars to take streetview pictures of every neighborhood.”
It would be much harder to know what exists beyond "GBY" (Google, Bing, Yandex) and how it all works without the work of Rohan “Seirdy” Kumar. For three years, Kumar has been updating a heavily annotated list of search engines with their own indexes. It is 7,000 words, but only a portion of it deals with engines offering general indexing, in the English language. You can read Kumar's evaluation methodology for a better understanding of how he compared and assessed sites.
What stands out? Mojeek ("it's not bad… I'd live") and Stract ("a useful supplement to more major engines") are two of Kumar's favorites. Right Dao has "very fast, good results," in part because its crawler starts off from Wikipedia. Yep reaches farther out, showing results that link to and back from sites related to your query and also promises to share ad revenue with creators. All of them show promise, but you get the sense that they're a second car, or a third bicycle, rather than a primary transport.
There are far smaller-scoped engines in other sections of Kumar's post. If you're wondering where that one other search engine you've heard about is, it's probably in the "Semi-independent indexes" section, because it uses a GBY index when its own results are not strong enough. Here, you'll find cryptocurrency-friendly, controversy-courting-founder-having Brave, a few engines that either "resell" GBY results or stuff affiliate links into them, and "the most interesting entry," according to Kumar, Kagi.
Kagi requires an account and uses its own index, Teclis, in combination with Google, Bing, Yandex, Mojeek, and others, including, notably, Brave. Kagi's founder has strong opinions on the AI-based future of search and responding to harmful searches in ways that are not "scalable." How much of that does or does not bother you will vary, but it's worth noting that Kagi also suffers when the GBY triumvirate is restricted.
Yeah, what isn’t SEO spam—Search Engine Optimization spam, SEO marketing, keyword stuffing, Google keyword stuffing, backlink building, best backlinks, best backlinks for backlink building
Used to love the gaming and gaming related sub-reddits. Its sad what its become. While /c/gaming (and other related lemmy instances) may not be as active, it feels like it has much more human reactions than reddit at this point....
I wish I had saved one great comment on this. Can’t do it justice, but it was something about how since we know since we know everything will be used as training data, it's better to be posting in the open instead of inside a walled garden where one particular company will be doing its best to monetize it.
You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...
"Are we making progress? Yes, we are," he added. "We have definitely made progress when we look at metrics on factuality year on year. We are all making it better, but it’s not solved."
Let’s be fair with our headlines!
CEO of Google Says It Is Still Solving for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information [and is okay with people dying from rattlesnake bite misinformation in the meantime]
The work bathroom is currently a warzone, on their phone speakers people like to play music, play games at full blast, and one guy likes to chill to ambient rainforest. What song can I play to passive aggressively make it known that I don't want to listen to their tik tok feeds while I work out my demons?
Question I’ve had (obviously Israeli government sucks but trying to understand Hamas):
Is there any sanity in Hamas’s calculus? Could any of them say “well, it’s been hard losing 35,000 of our people, BUT thanks to taking the hostages we … got a couple prisoners exchanged … and …”? Did Oct 7 do anything for Palestine besides getting world eyeballs on the region? The visibility seems a little useless given the death toll.
And will they have any domestic support after a certain number of casualties?
btw I could see myself being utterly irrational when backed into a corner for decades, just trying to make some sense of whether they even have a game plan
It won’t get people killed very often at all. Statistically there’s like no way you’ll know anybody who dies from taking a hallucinated suggestion. Give some thought to the investors who thought long and hard about how much money to put in. They worked hard and if a couple people a year have to die because of it how is that a bad trade off?
-kinda how it literally is almost unless the hubris is stronger than I imagine
Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.
Praise Dog ( startrek.website )
YouTube Is Cracking Down on Gun Content, and 3D-Printed Gun Makers Aren't Happy ( gizmodo.com )
A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts....
Thank you for your service ( lemmy.world )
Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it - Gothamist ( gothamist.com )
This is a very entertaining and educational article, giving insights into the methods used by thiefs to try and get access to your phone data....
Microsoft has blocked the bypass that allowed you to create a local account during Windows 11 setup by typing in a blocked email address ( www.tomshardware.com )
Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025 ( sh.itjust.works )
Source...
Nikki Haley writes ‘finish them’ on IDF artillery shells during Israel visit ( www.theguardian.com )
Antique memes? In MY roadshow? ( lemmy.world )
Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation ( www.theverge.com )
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates....
Internet Archive is continuing to experience service disruptions due to a recurrence of a DDoS attack ( farside.link )
Tweets from @internetarchive:...
I can't decide what the inverse would be. ( lemmy.world )
In Australia, a Cessna light aircraft's engine failed, but the pilot managed to steer it away from residential buildings. ( streamable.com )
If a handheld device cannot withstand being dropped, it’s planned obsolescence
(Post title)
New Doomsday Clock just dropped ( lemmy.world )
Has this sub turned into a training ground for AI LLM? ( old.reddit.com )
Used to love the gaming and gaming related sub-reddits. Its sad what its become. While /c/gaming (and other related lemmy instances) may not be as active, it feels like it has much more human reactions than reddit at this point....
YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers ( 9to5google.com )
Sealed Windows 2000 Advanced Server floppy disks ( lemmy.world )
Amongst all this AI hype of the past few years, nobody talks about that it's finally feasible to create an MS Clippy that works.
Last major Arabic-style mosque in China loses its domes ( www.theguardian.com )
Google ad on a magazine from 1999 ( i.redd.it )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/22055566...
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information ( futurism.com )
You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...
Most annoying feature ever ( lemmy.world )
What song should I play for my bathroom neighbors?
The work bathroom is currently a warzone, on their phone speakers people like to play music, play games at full blast, and one guy likes to chill to ambient rainforest. What song can I play to passive aggressively make it known that I don't want to listen to their tik tok feeds while I work out my demons?
Far-right Israeli settlers step up attacks on aid trucks bound for Gaza ( wapo.st )
This is a gift article link, so there should not be a paywall.
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search ( www.theverge.com )
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )
Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.
Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while ( newatlas.com )
James Bond's Roger Moore: a charming story ( sh.itjust.works )
Source
It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register ( www.theregister.com )
T-Mobile imposes $5 monthly price hike on customers using older plans ( arstechnica.com )