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Beethoven's hair reveals surprising health secrets and family history in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Give medieval people 200 years. Someone in the lineage will cheat, I guess.

The rise and fall of robots.txt: As unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As I always write, trying to restrict AI training on the ground of copyright will only backfire. The sad truth is that malicious parties (dictatorships) will get more training materials because they won't abide by rules. The end result is, dictators would outperform democracies in terms of future generation AIs, if we treat AI training like human reading.

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Tucker Carlson: Putin takes charge as TV host gives free rein to Kremlin (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

The Russian leader was given the opportunity to expound familiar grievances unchallenged.

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Why are Americans so gloomy about their great economy? (www.economist.com)
 

Inflation, partisanship and the pandemic have made them glummer than the numbers suggest they should feel

I think the author just looked up statistics to reach a conclusion convenient to them.

Just ask the actual people. (Why didn't they do interviews?) There are so many details lost in their cherrypicked numbers. Prices, wages, housings, they are very bad according to what I read online, contrary to what the author argues citing average growths. Maybe they have no grasp of reality anymore?

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How the term “genocide” is misused in the Israel-Hamas war (www.economist.com)
 

I used to like The Economist, but this is Nazis propaganda right on their page.

Israel, by contrast, does not meet the test of genocide. There is little evidence that Israel, like Hamas, “intends” to destroy an ethnic group—the Palestinians. Israel does want to destroy Hamas, a militant group, and is prepared to kill many civilians in doing so. While some Israeli extremists might want to eradicate the Palestinians, that is not a government policy.

This is not okay. This is Nazi logic. Nazi, fascist logic, from The Economist.

Even Nazi Germany did not make killing the official "intention" or government policy in my understanding. At least not always. It was announced as a safety guarantee, for example.

Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

I said it's better than showing missinformation.

Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Lucky Tran, director of science communication at Columbia University, discovered this himself when he attempted to use Threads to seek out research related to covid, something he says he does every day. “I was excited by search [on Threads],” he said. “When I typed in covid, I came up with no search results.”

Yes. It's better than showing misinformation. SNS is notoriously bad at helping "doing your own research".

Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Since the start of July, the app's downloads have fallen by almost 30% compared to the preceding two months, according to data from app performance tracker Apptopia.

Okay, this is different from losing 30% of users.

Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (4 children)

According to a report published by popular research companies, the company faced a significant financial loss by closing the last two months with a user loss of over thirty percent.

This article doesn't show the source.

Google’s new Topics API makes users vulnerable to fingerprinting attacks in c/[email protected]
Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I feared things can go bad since LogMeIn acquired Lastpass. However, I didn't imagine things go actually THIS bad.

Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

No, no unicode on 99.9% of websites.

Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, websites in my country don't allow symbols for fear of code injection attacks, and the allowed max length is 8 characters. You read it right. Fucking hell, it's Japan....

Mozilla flunks 25 major car brands for data privacy fails in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

asking you to do things no reasonable person would ever do -- like reciting a 9,461-word privacy policy to everyone who opens your car’s doors.

If this is what they say we agree by tapping that license button, how about they put this on their TV ads?

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Transition from GPL to LGPL or CC. IMHO choosing GPL is pointless in many cases and were chosen rather randomly.

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