It's still Google, which is basically just another EvilCorp Inc. Probably donating more directly to the creator would give them more money than going through Google.
TIL about garrotes. We are such a fucking evil species, goddamn.
The blogpost was hilarious though. I'm just sitting here sipping my drink while I watch this AI thing play out. May the AI overlords come within my lifetime.
There is no "middle ground". The solution is to talk about sex. Early and when it's prompted aka when children start asking questions.
Stop treating sex as if it's something holy, special, taboo, and assigning a bunch of value to it. Trying to shield children from it is precisely the wrong thing to do. It's exactly the same with this fairy tale bullshit about relationships, marriage, and kids. Media makes it seem like the epitome of existence, that there's nothing greater than finding that one special person, and that there's only one special person forever and ever, and that it has to be of the opposite sex in order to procreate.
The more you hype something up, and that includes trying to hide it, the more it tantalizes people.
Again, answer questions honestly and truthfully that pertain to sex, attraction, relationships, and so on. Teach how to tell the real from the fake. Normalize knowledge and understanding of intimacy. It'll make for much healthier children and even healthier adults.
Now, if only human brains were able to more accurately tell apart fake from real news, we'd have much less of a problem. I bet it has to do with training though. Once we get used to having deepfake voices talk to us as often as normal human voices, we probably won't be able to tell them apart - just like like with fake news. People trained to consider fake news normal will have much more difficulty telling it apart from genuine news.
I've tried multiple things to try and help people understand why I paste that there. This is the closest I got with the least amount of comments about it.
I think the fact that you got the point from the license name and the link fulfilled the purpose of informing the reader.
As for AI training who knows how well they clean their data. Copilot spit out the entire GPL verbatim as well as a few other licenses and got sued. Data cleaning processes clearly vary among companies.
But if you have an idea on how to better indicate that content is licensed at a glance, go ahead and do it.
Given how many comments I receive in the vein of "are you seriously licensing your comment?", I think the intent is quite clear. But since people keep asking why, I might add a blurb (since I don't have a page I can link to) to explain that.
You are free to improve on the format if you like. Maybe I'll see a comment of yours with a format I agree with and copy that formatting.
I doubt it. I2P is like TOR, but more optimised for P2P and has less users, so it's much slower (100-200KB/s on established connctions). But if the number of users grows, it may become much faster.
The total speed of my torrents has been 200KB/s, once even got 300KB/s. Honestly, that's not a problem for me; I'm not hooked and don't need an instant fix.
It's also logical that I2P can't access the clearnet. That's not the purpose of I2P. Theoretically there can be inproxies and outproxies, but AFAIK very few people operate them. Having an outproxy is like operating a TOR exit node.
Speed is side-effect of anonymity. The more people you route a request through, the slower it gets. It's at least as slow as the slowest link. A VPN is one single, high speed link, but it doesn't grant you anonymity (if the VPN provider collects logs). IINM you need at least 2 hops to be anonymous. A - B - C, B doesn't know if A is the source or just forwarding a request nor if C is the final destination or just another hop.
Hello fellow selfhosters! I have a laptop and a tablet (both running endeavourOS), and I want a certain folder to be always in sync. I also have a very potato server....
A single folder and power consumption is important --> syncthing. It doesn't have great power consumption, but since the devices aren't constantly on, you can just start syncthing up on the portable devices when needed. You can configure syncthing to sync when connecting to a specific Wifi, when power saving mode is turned off, I think even specific times.
It'll run fine on a server and can be configured .
Our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.
We hypothesized that pull requests made by women are less likely to be accepted than those made by men. Prior work on gender bias in hiring – that women tend to have resumes less favorably evaluated than men (5) – suggests that this hypothesis may be true.
To evaluate this hypothesis, we looked at the pull status of every pull request submitted by women compared to those submitted by men. We then calculate the merge rate and corresponding confidence interval, using the Clopper-Pearson exact method (15), and find the following:
Open
Closed
Merged
Merge Rate
95% Confidence Interval
Women
8,216
21,890
111,011
78.6%
[78.45%, 78.87%]
Men
150,248
591,785
2,181,517
74.6%
[74.56%, 74.67%]
4 percentage point difference overall.
Pull requests can be made by anyone, including both insiders (explicitly authorized owners and collaborators) and outsiders (other GitHub users). If we exclude insiders from our analysis, the women’s acceptance rate (64.4%) continues to be significantly higher than men’s (62.7%) (χ2(df = 2, n = 2, 473, 190) = 492, p < .001)
Emphasis mine. that's 1.7 percentage points.
The final paragraph also omits how the acceptance changes after gender is "revealed" (username, profile image). The graph doesn't help either
For outsiders, we see evidence for gender bias: women’s acceptance rates are 71.8% when they use gender neutral profiles, but drop to 62.5% when their gender is identifiable. There is a similar drop for men, but the effect is not as strong. Women have a higher acceptance rate
of pull requests overall (as we reported earlier), but when they’re outsiders and their gender is identifiable, they have a lower acceptance rate than men.
So women drop from 71.8% to 62.5% = 9,3 percentage points, and they say it's more than men, but don't reveal the difference. Only graph has an indication (unless I'm missing a table) and it may be 5 (?) percentage points for men. Which would be about 4 percentage points between both genders.
Figure 5: Pull request acceptance rate by gender and perceived gender, with 95% Clopper-Pearson confidence intervals, for insiders (left) and outsiders (right)
The conclusion:
Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.
That's quite exaggerated for <=5 percentage points. Especially for the number of people involved.
Out of 4,037,953 GitHub user profiles with email addresses, we were able to identify 1,426,121 (35.3%) of them as men or women through their public Google+ profiles.
Maybe I missed it, but how many of those were women and how many made PRs?
in a 2013 survey of the more than 2000 open source developers who indicated a gender, only 11.2% were women
Let's compare the PR rate per gender:
Let's say the percentage of women did not increase since 2013, which I'd find difficult to believe, that's 1,269,247 men and 156,873 women. Men made 150,248 + 591,785 + 2,181,517 = 2,923,550 PRs. Women made 8,216 + 21,890 + 111,011 = 141,117 PRs. That's ~2.3 PRs per man and ~0,9 PRs per woman. If the percentage changed and more women became contributors, that would decrease the PRs per woman.
That leads me to ask:
are women more hesitant to contribute PRs that might not be merged? if so, it might contribute to why their PRs are merged more often
are the women with accounts on github more likely to be people who have some kind of education in the IT field? if there are less hobbyist women (percentage-wise) on github, and more hobbyist men who just chuck their stuff online then decide to contribute to a project, it might contribute to PR acceptance (you're comparing pros to amateurs)
what does a similar acceptance rate for double the amount of PRs for men actually say? I don't know, but it might be pertinent.
I very much encourage humans to contribute to opensource. So, while this paper says something about the current state of things, it doesn't seem like it's saying much. The differences in pull request acceptance are not very significant (<5 percentage points) to me
That might also be the case, but that then raises the question of the quality of PRs in order to judge the contribution quality of "anonymous" contributors.
From what I understand LLMs are just large heuristic machines. They gather a lot of statistics on token order and return an answer to that with something that statistically should higher than other options. There's no "understanding". So to answer your question, no, they don't understand the license.
Content is most likely scraped wholesale from websites, possibly run through some clean up to possibly filter out absolute garbage, and fed into an LLM to train it. An LLM can be tricked to reveal its training data (e.g repeat "fruit" forever). It's in those cases where copyright infringement is detected and if action can and has be taken. There are court cases currently in review, the most popular being the one against Github Copilot for infringing on the license of sourcecode it ingested.
Guy Lewis Steele Jr. (/stiːl/; born October 2, 1954) is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages and technical standards.
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster's taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
Ares! I can't find an English wikipedia article about it 😮 Just found out it was written in delphi and opensource.
Those were the days... DC++, Ares, Limewire, Napster, Emule, Bearshare... so many things just to download the latest Linkin Park. Only for it to end up being porn 😅
That's probably KDE - the K Desktop Environment. Linux variants are called "distributions" and they are basically software bundles maintained by groups.
Desktop environments are basically bundled themes and software to present a desktop, bars, effects, and so on. Windows basically has one desktop environment, but linux has many: Most popular are KDE (windows like) and Gnome (Mac like), but there are more like Cinnamon, XFCE, LXQt, LXDE, which look more like windows.
Desktop environments also have window managers - they do what they say, manage your windows: maximize and minimize them, stack them (stacking window managers), tile them (tiling window managers), or even allow only one window at a time (like kiosks).
If you want to start your linux journey, grab bazzite if you want to game or linux mint debian edition (comes standard with cinnamon desktop environment, but you have the choice during installation to use KDE too) and give it a go!
You can also test distros (linux mint for example) online!
tbh, I know little about the capabilities of the Great Firewall. Maybe it already is possible to circumvent it with a VPN or an anonymity network like I2P or TOR. Also don't know if they block per IP or in blocks. Possibly hosting the peertube instance on public cloud infra would make it difficult to block if the IP changed at certain intervals.
Hosting peertube could however provide dissenters with more options than youtube.
*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...
"There are tons of Linux distros, some might say way too many Linux distros and if I'm being honest you shouldn't be recommending most of those distros, not because they're bad but because there's basically no documentation."
The Ars article is definitely better than the gamesindustry.biz one. Patent trolls for sure.
Also, what the fuck is that patent? They are describing a multi-cast over unicast, which is basically a for loop over the participants. Friggin ridiculous.
“When Web Summit started, it attracted an overwhelmingly European and North American audience, but the changes over the past five years have been stark with the rise of participation from the Arab world,” Cosgrave said.
What kind of participation have we seen from the Arab world? Do they only cater to Arabs or are we using apps, websites, services, and devices of Arab origin without knowing it?
Cosgrave was critical of the US and European countries, saying they “find it difficult when companies from elsewhere in the world outcompete them”.
This is definitely true. The US's favorite move to any kind of Chinese success is to try and ban it. Best example is how they forced the Netherlands to stop their golden goose ASML from sending lithography machines to China, then being completely surprised that China could make chips of their own with unexpected precision. Sure, they are a generation behind right now, but they are quickly catching up and then suddenly the West will have to actually compete with better products, instead of relying on market dominance.
Used VPN for cheaper YouTube Premium? Congrats, your subscription has been canceled ( www.androidauthority.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35022759
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity ( ludic.mataroa.blog )
Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws ( www.engadget.com )
Human Brains Can Tell Deepfake Voices from Real Ones ( www.news.uzh.ch )
YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes ( www.youtube.com )
2.6M Piracy Reports Against French Users Resulted in 234 Financial Penalties * TorrentFreak ( torrentfreak.com )
Seed everything, but seed bad media more
Shitty movies and shitty music needs to be seeded more than good music and movies....
Nextcloud or Syncthing - which one do you suggest?
Hello fellow selfhosters! I have a laptop and a tablet (both running endeavourOS), and I want a certain folder to be always in sync. I also have a very potato server....
EU to charge Apple under Digital Markets Act, impose a fine of up to $50 million per day - GSMArena.com news ( m.gsmarena.com )
Stop comparing programming languages ( programming.dev )
Stop comparing programming languages...
Easy choice
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Not really sure whether S-expressions or Python indentation-based scoping get more hate... ( programming.dev )
...from people who seem to refuse to install paredit or coloring plugins for either?...
Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men ( www.researchgate.net )
Our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.
Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices ( www.theregister.com )
lmao imagine that
Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products” ( www.theverge.com )
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What drew you to the high seas?
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster's taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down ( www.theverge.com )
Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here ( www.ghacks.net )
The writing is on the wall--I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.
YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong ( www.nytimes.com )
Fake WhatsApp and Instagram apps that can steal personal data ( www.infoterkiniviral.com )
“ARE YOU ALL SEEING THIS” ( sh.itjust.works )
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services ( www.theguardian.com )
*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...
Stop Recommending Niche Linux Distros! ( youtu.be )
"There are tons of Linux distros, some might say way too many Linux distros and if I'm being honest you shouldn't be recommending most of those distros, not because they're bad but because there's basically no documentation."
Why Creators Shouldn't Own their Creations (And Why its Good for them too) ( invidious.perennialte.ch )
Activision to pay $23.4m for patent infringement ( www.gamesindustry.biz )
China will dominate the world of tech, Web Summit’s Cosgrave says ( www.aljazeera.com )