They work only with the best. Musk fired the other ones.
matlag
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matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•This long-term data storage will last 14 billion yearsEnglish
3·23 days agoI was actually thinking whichever company bringing this for the masses will abandon its support 5y later and 25y from now we won’t be able to read it at all, let alone decode the bits.
matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•This long-term data storage will last 14 billion yearsEnglish
6·23 days ago1 million years? You mean 200 top!
matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimatesEnglish
5·1 month agoChina wins what? Except if they already won by far, they have similar AI, with similarly high costs and similarly low value, similarly not worth it. Either they also invest big and will crash just as hard, or they don’t and they’re just enjoying the show of US suiciding its economy through AI.
The story section page 1 more entry in the French version than in the English version: project was suspended in Feb 2020 because they couldn’t find an industrial partner. 🙁
I thought multiple times about resurrecting this: https://www.lincrevable.com/en/
I’m ready to bet the men worried that women would fuck robots are also jerking off on Tilly Norwood and hope they can create porn videos.
matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•Republicans put tech firms in a vise on Kirk social-media postsEnglish
171·4 months agoIs that a surprise? Don’t we know enough that when they talk about freedom of speech, they mean they should be allowed to insult and incite violence against minorities, but critics against them should not be allowed?
matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Is there still any hope for privacy phones? 2025 and beyond
1·4 months agoThe “EU” is a set of instances with multiple backgrounds and interests. Multiple bodies can work in totally different directions.
matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Fox News seems to ignore the crime rate in Republican StatesEnglish
2·5 months agoThere are multiple factors contributing to high murder rates:
- Guns: ban them.
- Mental health: provide free support for mental health issue, including a phone number where people can safely report friends and relatives in crisis. Today if you report, they send police officers totally untrained and unprepared for these situations and that easily ends up in drama
- Gangs: a lot of the murders are gang members against gang members. There is no miraculous solution to that. But I would advocate: decriminalize possession of small amounts of drugs, provide shooting rooms with support (both physical and mental) freely available. I would even support offering drugs substitutes for free under control. If the drug price collapses, their business collapses.
So: vote for someone who will support social science based policies.
I’m sorry there are no easier way. “Get tough on crime” is the solution that was experimented the most and has proven again and again to be inefficient.
Edit: you may already be doing that, don’t take this as an assumption you don’t. I understand the frustration and that feeling of being powerless while people ask you “why aren’t you DOING something about it?”.
matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
Games@lemmy.world•It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading VoicesEnglish
1·5 months agoBut they’ll likely be older, and learn to be more tech savvy to get around the block.
The school my kid attens provide Chromebooks, with a tight control of course.
That’s why 11y old had to learn from one of their classmates how to bypass the control. Thanks to tech protection they were safe from accidentally finding porn (did that ever happen to anyone in real life??) for at least one week.
The only part I mentioned was child development, which research has shown to have a negative impact (just like we did with cigarettes and alcohol).
We all agree. Yet I don’t understand why you so much want to defend a mechanism that is already failing its stated purpose. In case you missed it: it is a miserable total failure. It just increased VPN usage. That, and the massive data collection. Period. Nothing else achieved.
So now I guess it’s going to be ok to control VPN.
That’s going to fail, by the way. Then I guess you must ban Tor at ISP level. Completely block it, for the sake of the children.
Then, then, then…
Then children are still exposed to porn, but we’re working on it! Meanwhile, would you come to the station explain why you visited that website and posted that nasty anonymous comment about the PM last wednesday night?
matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
Games@lemmy.world•It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading VoicesEnglish
2·5 months agoAnd eventually, we always, always figure out their leaders don’t abide to the rules they set for others.
matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
Games@lemmy.world•It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading VoicesEnglish
3·5 months agoWhy do we regulate alcohol and cigarettes? Why dont parent’s just parent their kids? How would the kid even bave the money to buy them in the first place? To be clear, when these restrictions were being put in place, people absolutely had the exact same arguments you are making right now. The onus is on the parents.
And so now no kid can’t access alcohol or cigarettes, right? Right?? Aaaaah, yes they can…
Even kids with parents that have reasonable restrictions are easily able to access internet pornography because internet devices are everywhere. Internet devices are easier to access than cigarettes and alcohol, and can do just as much damage to their development. Why wouldn’t the government also control access to confirm someone’s age.
It’s going to have exactly the same efficiency: none. Kids educated enough to know they shouldn’t seek it won’t. The others will definitely find a way to get it. We will never hear about it after. There will be no report, stats, anything. How much stats have you seen on the efficiency of “anti-terrorists” laws?
Please do not respond to me about giving out your ID if you do not acknowledge my comment on use zero knowledge proof’s to verify you’re over an age.
I don’t acknowledge vaporware.
“Child’s protection”, “anti-terrorist”, “against pedophile” so many emotionally triggering words so that we slowly accept more and more control. Had this been proposed 10 years ago, people would have screamed this is “soviet-style”. Nowadays, it’s just one more small step.
I don’t give it another 10 years before you accept webcams in your house with IA monitoring you with complete guaranteed privacy as the IA is only to report cases of harm on children by their caretakers. It will just take a bit more push and a big case of child abuse on the news. We do watch people’s behavior outside the house, right? Why not inside? How many more kids are you ready to sacrifice in the name of privacy??
matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
Games@lemmy.world•It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading VoicesEnglish
4·5 months agoThe internet is different, and it’s currently the wild west.
As opposed to real world where I could buy alcohol without any problem at 15–16 and was offered cigarettes at the same age despite both being forbidden in my country? If kids wants something bad enough, they’ll get it. The stronger the ban, the higher the interest it creates for teens.
Again, if done correctly, it can be done privately and securely.
The only thing you could try is parental control on their devices. Be aware they will seek other devices outside, from their friends, etc. UK has seen an explosion of VPNs use since implementation of their control: it’s miserably failing already.
Or is it? Many adults went through the ID confirmation process…
Education: that works! Mindless coercion never works. But the advocate of these solutions know that very well. The kids were never their target.
matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Elon Musk travels with as many as 20 bodyguardsEnglish
2·5 months agoYou misunderstand him. When he said that space conquest would have casualties, he was thinking about NPCs. He’s the Player1 in this universe. Contrary to all of us, he’s not expandable: the game would instantly ends.
matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Elon Musk travels with as many as 20 bodyguardsEnglish
6·5 months agoImagine if someone had travelled to the past to kill Hitler, failed, and then Hitler would include them in his speeches: “I already survived a homicidal maniac!”.
matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealthEnglish
12·5 months agoOnce you start to have money, you get a money dependency. No matter how rich you get, the “baseline you really need to live the life you want and nothing more” growths together with your wealth.
Take lottery winners and ask them if they could give away half of their gains. Will you be surprised if most of them say no, even though the day before they would have set their “minimum needed to live a happy life for the rest of my days” at a much smaller fraction of it?
Now take a similar population, but who in addition rationalized them deserving that money through their hard work and talent.
Yes, at least for Firefox:
matlag@sh.itjust.worksto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I'm setting up a Windows 11 laptop for my uncle. Is there a sneaky way to make it block right-wing bullshit websites?
4·6 months agoTechnically that won’t be a baseless conspiracy theory though. Just not “the liberals”, and not hiding “the truth”.


And now you’ve just given Boeing executives some great ideas how to further reduce costs! I don’t thank you!!