[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 16 points 1 hour ago

That's a great question. I tease, but first step is realising the problem and you've done that. Much harder is acting on it.

The truth is nobody really knows. It's new. Addiction to it is also new as is the research showing its deleterious effects on the brain.

If I was looking for somewhere to start by trying to read a book a every week or two. Alternate between appealing fiction and an important topic. If you have readings set by your educational institution - do those instead. Reading and digesting plaintext information works a lot of your brain and doesn't come with any immediate answers to questions, it will help you build your patience back.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 53 points 11 hours ago

RIP Korean students in formative years learning critical thinking and social skills.

Govt-funded Chatbot about to gaslight them that every idea and question is genius-level, and that social connections are something a computer can fulfil.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 37 points 15 hours ago

I don't like Garfield comics.

What I don't do, is comment on every Garfield comic that I see posted to whine that I don't like Garfield. I don't even feel a hint of desire to do that.

This is why people who see all the anti-Pizzacake comments on every one of her comics know that it's not really about the comics. It's people who are angry at seeing popular comic lady who self-inserts in many of her comics again and need to share that anger. It's just kinda pathetic.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

What a legend.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Because FOSS isn't the problem. The problem the law seeks to address is profit-driven big businesses like Meta and Fortnite who don't care to provide any protections for kids or actively target them in their manipulative behaviour, hence targeting the laws at the actual problem (non-FOSS software).

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Fucking embarrassing how little pressure it takes Labor to cave to literal Zionist Lobby pressure tactics that cost them far more in the US, breaking against their own longstanding laws and policy as the reporter points out.

Though I will say that they are helping me convert former Labor voters into future Greenies. So.. not a total loss.

This excellent (as always) reporting from MWM is helping.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Occam's Razor, I suspect X AI simply downloaded/scraped all porn they possibly could access on the internet to build their training data, and this included a large amount of child porn.

Likely Elon-style factors:

  • time pressure. performed in a huge rush (he joined the LLM party late with massive FOMO),
  • zero internal pushback. Majority highly pressured immigrant/temporary staff (H1-B visas used a lot by Twitter in wake of Musk buyout)
  • zero importance placed on ethics / content review by leadership, likely even an ethics-negative internal culture. "Move fast, break things, fuck the government regs".
  • loathe to pay licensing fees for materials or 'waste time' negotiating content-access contracts from legitimate porn businesses ("just scrape all the torrents and free sites you can find, the internet is full of free porn").
[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I'm running a 10 year old 'western stuff' PC and I don't run into any issues.

Planned obsolescence exists in single-manufacturer products (smartphones, white-goods), even moreso in vertically-integrated businesses (Apple, Samsung).

It doesn't work at all in the PC industry where component suppliers compete for market dominance, because if their company puts out a shitty product that fails more rapidly than a competitor, they lose sales and brand reputation in a crowded market.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 67 points 4 days ago

"AI for the first time can replace or exceed human cognition." 🤣

No.

Maybe if you chose one tiny sliver of human cognition like memory and isolate it, but cognition overall? No chance. LLM tech is a database inference machine. Some uses? Yes. 1/3 of the worlds stock market wealth invested in it? Dumb.

Not many years ago, Bill Gates said that climate change was the most important issue facing the world.

I guess that's solved now, because he now says how we handle AI use and access has taken the mantle as the most important issue the world's facing.

This is just more AI cooker stuff from a billionaire octagonarian.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

The US president is such a toddler.

Fuckin embarrassing.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 69 points 6 days ago

That's crazy that LG installed adware by bundling it up with Windows drivers and delivering it through Windows Update.

If companies can send adware through Windows Update packaged simply as 'drivers' and Microsoft doesn't even raise an eyebrow even once this is known, reported and questioned by media, then my already low opinion of their quality control drops precipitously.

394

Circa 2005, white lines left in respect to the original cropper.

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"Dmitriy Kurashov is the first Russian soldier to stand trial in Ukraine for an alleged battlefield execution."

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Hi all.

First, thanks for reading. I'm not exactly sure if this is the correct location to raise a concern about a ban/deletion, but I guess it's as good as any.

So:

  1. I dont know which mod it was. Log is redacted?
  2. post deleted & banned from the News@Lemmy.world community
  3. screenshot of modlog attached
  4. screenshot of comment attached.
  5. It was an appreciated post with 106 upvotes 26 downvotes at deletion and several positive responses yesterday. When I came back today (I'm in Australia so timezones..) the comment was deleted and I was banned - and several negative comments have appeared which I would have liked to respond to.

Original post: a news article about Proton Mail.

My post: Essentially I took the time to read the article and included the quotes of what was written by the CEO that was being discussed in the article - as many in the comments had surprised me by jumping straight to him being a literal Nazi. As not a single other commenter had included the quotes to discuss the source, I thought that would be a valuable contribution. I also gave my opinions which you can see in the comment on the modlog, the formatting is messed up so I included a screenshot of the (recreated) comment. https://lemmy.world/modlog/1347

What I didn't notice was that the article writer had omitted the first part of the Twitter post from the CEO in her quotation of him - so I quoted her, and in doing so missed the context that the CEO had actually started "Great pick by @realDonaldTrump" at the start - which does of course change the context of his Twitter post to praise. This was clarified for me in the angry responses. I would have edited my comment and owned my mistake, however stood by the rest of the comment regarding Proton's official follow-up.

So, is that deletion and ban fair?

Update 10 hours later: contacted a mod directly to see if i can find out more about the ban or perhaps get it remedied.

Update 48 hours later: contacted the entire mod team, and got back feedback from several of them - all helpful. My post has now been undeleted, and my account unbanned from the News community 👍

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