But what if I wanted to communicate with humans instead of propaganda-bots? Then yes, that Internet is dead, and there's no real fucking reason to be on most of those sites.
Hundreds of helmeted police swarmed the site of a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday, firing flash bangs, arresting defiant demonstrators and dismantling their encampment....
Police and private security throng every entrance but one. Steel barriers line the streets. Students pack up belongings in their cars and leave for home - classes are cancelled, and exam plans are up in the air....
Is it really a solution, though, or is it just GIGO?
For example, GPT-4 is about as biased as the medical literature it was trained on, not less biased than its training input, and thereby more inaccurate than humans:
There you go, assuming the problem is worth the corporation’s time and money to bother solving. The correct answer is to not bother hiring a customer support department and telling people that they’re SOL when stuff goes wrong. The goal is to take in more money than you spend on customer support, so you spend none.
That used to be the dream: corps hired you to work on the thing they needed that you were good at. Now, though, they just want everything for free and just acquihire to reassign you to whatever makes more money.
At first I thought “hey, patient gaming is taking off” when I read this headline, but really, what it’s saying is that people are spending most of their time on evergreen live service titles like Fortnite. Ugh.
See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn’t use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don’t agree to their terms, then I don’t get access to their new products. That...
I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let’s us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?
I’m still mad he didn’t use the size of the number to tell the system which block to read first. I feel like that would be a great use of division or maybe modulus?
Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’ ( www.independent.co.uk )
A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. ( www.businessinsider.com )
Boeing Swears They Just Only Hire Suicidal People ( thehardtimes.net )
Trump slurs words, struggles to gain crowd enthusiasm as he takes to campaign trail ( www.salon.com )
California police flatten pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA, arrest protesters ( www.reuters.com )
Hundreds of helmeted police swarmed the site of a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday, firing flash bangs, arresting defiant demonstrators and dismantling their encampment....
Columbia University community 'shattered' after police raid ( www.bbc.com )
Police and private security throng every entrance but one. Steel barriers line the streets. Students pack up belongings in their cars and leave for home - classes are cancelled, and exam plans are up in the air....
Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Moral Crumple Zones: Crushing the Human to Preserve Venture Capital ( papers.ssrn.com )
Moral Crumple Zones discusses how humans are used to absorb liability from automated systems....
Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash ( www.theregister.com )
Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: ‘Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage’
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' ( www.404media.co )
Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app ( lemmy.world )
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability ( www.404media.co )
60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows ( kotaku.com )
At first I thought “hey, patient gaming is taking off” when I read this headline, but really, what it’s saying is that people are spending most of their time on evergreen live service titles like Fortnite. Ugh.
The Only Way to Save Public Education Is to Turn Every Single School in America into High-End Condos ( www.mcsweeneys.net )
read more: mcsweeneys.net/…/the-only-way-to-save-public-educ…
Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service
See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn’t use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don’t agree to their terms, then I don’t get access to their new products. That...
Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects ( drewdevault.com )
Android offering privacy by profiling and sharing app ussage info? ( lemmy.world )
I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let’s us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?
4 billion if statements ( andreasjhkarlsson.github.io )