TehPers

If you’re seeing downvotes, it’s unlikely anyone on other instances can see them as well. Not sure how they federate, but Beehaw has them disabled, so they’re not on Beehaw.

You also won’t see too much critical of Google on their channel despite it being one of the biggest threats to privacy and safety, for obvious reasons. Can’t hurt the hand that feeds I guess.

Well this is a load of nonsense. You can see where they got funding for that investigation here. It was crowdfunded, after all.

As for the rest of your comment, “everyone knows something at a high level” is the dumbest reason not to do an investigative piece. It’s exactly that people only know it at a high level that investigating is important.

It would be way more interesting to know if now after china said no more nvidia if the flow of chips is ongoing, but they probably won’t ever cover that.

If you’re looking for another investigative piece as a follow-up to their previous one, then why don’t you email them directly? If you’re just complaining that there isn’t one, then can’t really help you there. The story of the GPU black market has already been told though, so the most they could probably really do is a hardware news segment if I had to guess.

GN’s last crowdfunded investigation into export-controlled GPU sales in China was a masterpiece of modern journalism. I have no doubt he wouldn’t fail to deliver here.

This sounds like an opportunity to follow 4chan (of all things) and politely tell them to fuck off.

If you believe they violated Beehaw’s rules, report them.

If you want to be in a space without moderation, then Beehaw isn’t for you. Moderation isn’t only spam filtering. If you believe that’s what moderation should be, that’s okay. But that isn’t what it is here or in almost any space.

Beehaw’s only rule is to bee nice. Surely anything that violates that rule isn’t worth any of our time to read.

Government-backed email would also help solve the “is this a bot” problem by limiting the number of email addresses that can be used, though naturally you’d also lose anonymity using that email.

There’s also the issue that if the emails are predictable, spam and phishing become much easier.

I’m mixed on this one. If we could choose the username and there’s no API for anything other than “is this a person” and your classic IMAP/SMTP stuff, then I’d be a lot more on board I think.

Surely agreeing to that contract was not part of the job description when they signed on. I’m curious if they could argue that the contract was signed under duress and have it voided, then sue the company for using their likeness without permission.

It’s not really (which says more about corporations than anything).

Yep! You would need not only an AI superintelligence capable of reflecting and adapting, but legislation which holds liable those superintelligences and grants them the rights and obligations of a human. Because there is no concept of reward of punishment to a LLM, they can never be replacements for people.

There is a fundamental limitation of all LLMs that prevents it from doing as much as you might think, regardless of how accurate they are (and they are not):

LLMs cannot take liability. When they make mistakes, they cannot take responsibility for those mistakes. The person who used the LLM will always be liable instead.

So any automation as a result of LLMs removing jobs will end up punting that liability to the next person up the chain. Management will literally have nobody to blame but themselves, and that’s their worst nightmare.

Anyway, this is of course assuming capabilities that don’t exist.

Graham Platner isn’t an elected official, nor are any of the three legislators named Graham Platner, nor are any of Louis Rossman’s other names Graham Platner.

Please, if you’re going to troll, make a better attempt at it. Or even better, take it somewhere else.

He literally put out a video not that long ago praising three democratic legislators for proposing a right to repair bill. Weird impression.

By “crackers” I mean “black hat hackers”.

Ok I just misread it then, sorry!

What they’re doing should be outright illegal in most countries; it’s equivalent to changing a contract unilaterally after both parties signed it.

Update to [COMPANY NAME]'s Policies

Yes, this should be illegal, but it’s already common practice. I’m just hoping that enough of this will eventually get people to stop buying these products, and hopefully we can start seeing some real legislation against it in some countries.

Additionally, I’d strongly advise against buying any sort of “smart” device, unless you’re pretty sure the benefits of connecting your toaster to the internet outweighs all the risks.

This should be obvious at this point. “Smart” just means “internet-connected”, and we already know what happens to every device that connects to a remote server during regular operation: telemetry (and not the nice debugging kind but the “what do you use” kind), and advertisements.

Including corporations and crackers

The “crackers” part of this confuses me. Samsung is a Korean company. The chairman’s name is Lee Jae-yong (이재용). Samsung NA’s CEO is Yoonie Joung. Maybe I’m misreading this?

This seems entirely tangential to the thread. At least from what I’m reading, they’re discussing whether Britain and Germany allow freedom of speech. Nobody in the thread seems to be talking about MS’s stance.

I think the statement that Microsoft is not your friend is noncontroversial, a given, and applies to every large corporation on the planet.

I recommend you look into Minecraft specifically because the model has its quirks.

I’m familiar. The first server I hosted was an alpha hmod server for some friends, and I’ve played a lot since then.

What MS is doing doesn’t prevent anyone from connecting to a server. It only puts a wall in the way, saying essentially to both the host and the players that this server violates MS’s terms for hosting, but not preventing them from doing so. Server owners can bypass this restriction in a few minutes with a single restart (assuming they aren’t using a modded server that can apply the change at runtime).

This isn’t unique to Minecraft. Games have supported custom servers for as long as I’ve been alive, and more recently as software became more and more internet-connected, restrictions on those servers have also been enforced. Being self-hosted or a custom lobby on a game doesn’t change this - the server software is still owned by MS and licensed to the users.

If anything, that it is so easy to bypass this shows that it’s nothing more than signaling. I would be much more concerned if the solution weren’t simply to change online mode to false. Sure moderation is another story, but there are alternative solutions, like IP banning.

Also, Mojang/Microsoft should be seen as an enemy of the common people for many reasons - including their Copilot AI. If the Chat Reports feature (where purchased accounts are neutered because of automated chat reports) isn’t reason enough to dislike Microsoft, consider the following: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

There are many, many reasons to dislike Microsoft. They have made many terrible decisions in the past, ethically speaking. This does not implicitly mean that every decision they make is bad or harmful. It only raises the question of intent behind decisions, and here the intent seems clear to me: they do not want their brand associated with the kind of speech allowed on that server.

The issue is whether they can limit speech on their platform. Their own hypocracy means absolutely nothing. They are free to be as inconsistent as they want so long as their rules stick to their own software and platforms.

Edit: I should add that “they should allow racism here because they do somewhere else” has to be the most wild argument I’ve ever read.

Are you ever planning to address the actual topic? Or do you just hurl insults?

It will probably end up running better for them anyway.

Seriously, I use Office at work, and I wonder everyday why anyone subjects themselves to it. Then I subject myself to it because that’s what I’m supposed to use. But I sure as hell don’t at home.