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Comment on AI music generator Suno admits it was trained on ‘essentially all music files on the internet’ in ~tech
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Comment on /r/nixos enables automated moderation with Watchdog in ~tech
Edes Link ParentNixOS recently had some issues with governance with respect to their volunteers, I'm not entirely sure which side ended up winning (there was some back and forth) but I think they're just weary in...NixOS recently had some issues with governance with respect to their volunteers, I'm not entirely sure which side ended up winning (there was some back and forth) but I think they're just weary in general about another coup happening.
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Comment on IVF alone can’t save us from a looming fertility crisis in ~health
Edes Link ParentIt's not an issue to you, it's an issue to people who want to retire at 60, 65, etc. Their retirement funds/assets/etc won't keep up with the costs of what they need to live. The short of it is...It's not an issue to you, it's an issue to people who want to retire at 60, 65, etc. Their retirement funds/assets/etc won't keep up with the costs of what they need to live. The short of it is that unless we get to a post scarcity society where old people can function without anyone taking care of them, then end of life care will be unaffordable unless they work for a longer period of their life.
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Comment on IVF alone can’t save us from a looming fertility crisis in ~health
Edes Link ParentThe inflation doesn't come from taking money from billionaires, it comes from not having enough people to work on what needs to be done. Raising wages in the assisted living industry means that...The inflation doesn't come from taking money from billionaires, it comes from not having enough people to work on what needs to be done. Raising wages in the assisted living industry means that people will leave from other industries (let's say, teachers) which requires them to raise salaries to cover their vacancies and so on. This inflation isn't bad for most people who work for a living, but it's bad for people who hold assets, usually when this happens governments tend to curb it asap because it could leave retired people who planned their retirement until a certain age with a certain amount of money short, who tend to be the people who vote. We experienced some of this kind of inflation in the last few years, but the fed raised interest rates to stop this from happening, and so the stock market and housing market went up again.
On another note, the money taken from billionaires is being used for "innovation" by investing it into the stock market or other ventures, hoping to build new things that bring value to people. Even if you're skeptical about that and think we should expropriate money from billionaires, that money could be going elsewhere, like infrastructure or education, it goes back to my last point, where I'm wondering why we keep trying to prop up retirement at such young ages, it's unsustainable and greatly taxes the youth.
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Comment on IVF alone can’t save us from a looming fertility crisis in ~health
Edes Link ParentI mean the answer is incredibly unpopular and people won't like it, but in a society without enough labor to sustain an old population which doesn't work the solution is to have them work in...- Exemplary
I mean the answer is incredibly unpopular and people won't like it, but in a society without enough labor to sustain an old population which doesn't work the solution is to have them work in whatever way they can. You can tax billionaires and companies all you want, if there isn't enough labor to produce for the retired cohort, the market will correct by raising wages until people working on other things start serving the needs of retired people, the result of this is inflation. We have mostly managed to avoid inflation by passing legislation that pushes these wages down by encouraging companies to become conglomerates, which boosts the value of stocks, where a lot of retirement money is, or they zone properties to restrict the amount of real estate that can be built so people can retire, etc. It's gotten to a point where every time I see some sort of new economic policy my first question is whether or not this is just another scheme to prop up the idea of retirement, and it always is.
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Comment on House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senate in ~tech
Edes LinkI think it's fair to ban Chinese apps as long as China bans our apps. There is a political and economic reason why China bans American tech.I think it's fair to ban Chinese apps as long as China bans our apps. There is a political and economic reason why China bans American tech.
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Comment on No more freebies: Companies crack down on customer perks and rewards in ~finance
Edes Link ParentInflation exists, so it isn't impossible for profits to grow forever. If your company isn't making record breaking profits every quarter, you would, in fact, be falling behind.Inflation exists, so it isn't impossible for profits to grow forever. If your company isn't making record breaking profits every quarter, you would, in fact, be falling behind.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
Edes Link ParentAlso horrible SEO for the name, I have been searching for opinions on the matter on different websites (including twitter) and it's incredibly hard to find results on any search box.Also horrible SEO for the name, I have been searching for opinions on the matter on different websites (including twitter) and it's incredibly hard to find results on any search box.
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Comment on ChatGPT can be broken by entering these strange words, and nobody is sure why in ~tech
Edes Link ParentIt's using tokens that are extremely out of distribution, sometimes untrained. It's like if someone discovered a way to look at a new color that has never been perceived and your brain wasn't...It's using tokens that are extremely out of distribution, sometimes untrained. It's like if someone discovered a way to look at a new color that has never been perceived and your brain wasn't wired to process it, thus the pathways would be essentially random and would cause a seizure.
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Comment on Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon in ~tech
Edes Link ParentAll the data is public, if any big tech company wants to mine fediverse data they can just create a fake server and just request it, on the other hand, the fediverse is getting all the data from...All the data is public, if any big tech company wants to mine fediverse data they can just create a fake server and just request it, on the other hand, the fediverse is getting all the data from threads for free, it's a clearly imbalanced trade. You'll be able to essentially browse through threads with your own client that doesn't track every click you make all aggregated through your instance. You get all the content and Facebook doesn't get your location data.
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Comment on Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon in ~tech
Edes LinkWhat's the point of federation if the biggest chunk of admins choose to recursively defederate with anything that threatens your status as the admins of the biggest instances? Surely this is seen...What's the point of federation if the biggest chunk of admins choose to recursively defederate with anything that threatens your status as the admins of the biggest instances? Surely this is seen as a cynical way to defend their status of being the biggest admins who can set the rules, as I don't believe that meta's moderation will be lacking
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Comment on r/Place on Reddit returns tomorrow in ~tech
Edes Link ParentHonestly since the second time they ran it multiple other websites have tried to make clones of it, i.e. specific twitch streamers. Honestly it's just cheap and boring, I don't know what changed...Honestly since the second time they ran it multiple other websites have tried to make clones of it, i.e. specific twitch streamers. Honestly it's just cheap and boring, I don't know what changed in the last 5 years or even the last year, but I don't want to spend my time making a collaborative art piece if they want to use it to advertise.
I guess back when anyone could get the data and create things themselves the relationship felt like a community rather than unpaid labor?
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Comment on YouTube is testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking in ~tech
Edes Link ParentThe whole idea that server A is supposed to be able to serve servers B, C, D, E and F's content is an idea born out of a world where storage and bandwidth are cheap and exponentially growing, one...The whole idea that server A is supposed to be able to serve servers B, C, D, E and F's content is an idea born out of a world where storage and bandwidth are cheap and exponentially growing, one that we unfortunately no longer a part of.
I don't understand how engineers that saw how the Bitcoin Blockchain needs dedicated and purpose built servers to host and search it even if it's a database where 1mb gets appended every 10 minutes, and then decided to build YouTube in a way where data needs to be duplicated in a similar fashion.
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Comment on YouTube is testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking in ~tech
Edes Link ParentThe reasons people aren't talking about it is that they won't scale because of the fediverseness of it and also the content on it is unhinged at the moment.The reasons people aren't talking about it is that they won't scale because of the fediverseness of it and also the content on it is unhinged at the moment.
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Comment on YouTube is testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking in ~tech
Edes Link ParentBut there's no paid aspect to youtube though, in terms of a movie theater, it's like walking in 15 minutes late to skip all the previous or like muting your TV during advertisements.But there's no paid aspect to youtube though, in terms of a movie theater, it's like walking in 15 minutes late to skip all the previous or like muting your TV during advertisements.
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Comment on US Redditors to earn real money for gold, karma in ~tech
Edes Link ParentIn hindsight now that I think about it my country's subreddit (in Latin America) got revived all of a sudden, it used to be a fairly progressive sub full of bilingual speakers and one day a couple...In hindsight now that I think about it my country's subreddit (in Latin America) got revived all of a sudden, it used to be a fairly progressive sub full of bilingual speakers and one day a couple of years ago it started getting a bunch of traffic from more conservative people who don't speak English. I have also notice a rise in the amount of accounts that have posts in Spanish, in their country's subreddit, in random subreddits. Perhaps there was a push to promote reddit in Latin America too.
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Comment on US Redditors to earn real money for gold, karma in ~tech
Edes Link ParentIf you have been on /r/cryptocurrency for any amount of time in the last couple of years you'll know how it will end. They added this crypto called moons, which is awarded when you get karma from...If you have been on /r/cryptocurrency for any amount of time in the last couple of years you'll know how it will end. They added this crypto called moons, which is awarded when you get karma from a post on the subreddit. The result is that it got botted to hell, it got to the point where people often complain when they see a post that got obviously botted to the top because it was just manicured to farm moons.
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Comment on Elon Musk announces new daily Twitter limitations as thousands of users report problems accessing site in ~tech
Edes Link ParentIt's hard for the fediverse to blow up right now, the current problem all these companies are having is keeping costs under how much they're earning, which is why they're tightening down to force...It's hard for the fediverse to blow up right now, the current problem all these companies are having is keeping costs under how much they're earning, which is why they're tightening down to force people to either pay a subscription or see a lot of ads. The fediverse's way of solving this is to be developed by unpaid hobbyists and ran by hobbyists on their own dime, which might be ok for a while but I really don't think it scales, especially in terms of the overhead in terms of both development time (devs go into fucking with the protocol stuff and trying to not have their network attacked) and extra bandwidth storage (because federation in the way that the fediverse does it is incredibly expensive).
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Comment on Elon Musk announces new daily Twitter limitations as thousands of users report problems accessing site in ~tech
Edes Link ParentGoogle also ends unlimited storage in their services in a week so it might all be tied up to thatGoogle also ends unlimited storage in their services in a week so it might all be tied up to that
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Comment on US Navy 'knew about Titanic sub implosion days ago' in ~transport
Edes Link ParentIsn't there value in knowing how fast they can process all the signals from their system to isolate the event?Isn't there value in knowing how fast they can process all the signals from their system to isolate the event?
Yeah, a lot of people don't realize that in a future where AI can replace artists, the big conglomerates already have the rights to enough high quality photographs (stock image companies), text (publishers), music (music labels), drawings (Disney and friends), etc saved up in their vaults to create competent models. The other day I read a paper of how a team recreated Google's BERT using one GPU trained for a week by using a higher quality text dataset, as it turns out you don't need web scale data but rather good quality data. This means that if AI is able to replace people then only big companies will be able to afford doing so and the only question left is how the split is gonna go between the people that execute the tech and the people that owns the rights.