Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, who said their study was the largest of its kind, said they found no evidence to support “popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk” from the technology....
On the other hand, I have seen strong anecdotal evidence suggestive of a link between poor mental health and the habit of regularly posting angry obscentiy-filled rants to social media.
You know... If during Y2K, someone had asked me, "what do you think the 2000s will be like?" - I'll admit, dealing with a huge "Nazi Problem" was not on my list.
It's as if the whole planet fell for childish fantasies concocted by American advertisers in the 1960s. Flying cars, free energy, underwater cities, and countless other progressively more refined forms of the myth that continued technological progress would inevitably result in boundless riches for everyone. It was optimism run amok, cheered on by science fiction more often than it was critically examined. It was fuelled by commerce, and by politics.
Well, we did get some fantastic technology. The Internet, for one thing. Whatever faults people find with it, it does at least give us unprecedented access to information, including information about how and why were lied to about all that other stuff. Information that makes it clear how little wisdon we collectively have. Information about how we've lost touch with the natural world so thoroughly that we've degraded the whole earth's ecosystems almost to the point of total failure.
Now that the illusion is beginning to wear thin enough for people to see through, we're learning how horrible we've been to ourselves all along. Maybe that's the first step in the direction of changing the way things are done, and that's my kind of optimism.
I probably wouldn't ban someone for it, but it's not difficult to see why that comment is a distasteful and callous oversimplification of the reality of what's happening, and it has nothing to do with the f word. If we're going to pick one word to single out I'd say it should be "normal." This situation is not normal by any standard.
Yes but what did Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and Ben Shapiro have to say about it? What about David Duke? Was he unavailable for comment? You can't just go to Elon all the time, let's get some diversity of opinion in there.
If we ever need to fight back against malevolent AI bots, perhaps emulating Alan Partridge wouldn't be the worst strategy. They won't have the slightest idea what we're talking about.
It would come with a different set of problems, but they don't seem any more difficult than those we already have. Not that it matters today, it's perhaps more of a concern for some future society that has the courage to devote itself to democracy.
Oh right. I just meant it's a pretty far-out idea and not really relevant to practical politics right now, interesting though it may be. Thanks for the explanation.
OpenAI’s offices were sent thousands of paper clips in an elaborate prank to warn about an AI apocalypse::The prank was a reference to the “paper clip maximizer” scenario – the idea that AI could destroy humanity if it were told to build as many paper clips as possible.
There has been a lot of criticism in the mainstream media of Tiktok, mostly because young people use it to share news and information. TikTok has allowed young people, well-educated and informed young people to share their knowledge with each other. It's making the establishment very nervous, and that's a good thing.
Most of the complaints about tiktok are well-founded. It's a dangerously powerful tool that can be used by its corporate masters, advertisers, foreign governments, and sometimes unknowable algorithms with unpredictable motives to exert subtle influence over its users that can perpetuate selective ignorance and harmful misconceptions of reality on a massive scale.
It's just that the same complaints apply equally well to instagram, twitter, youtube, and the TV news.
Yeah I noticed that yesterday as well. Not for the first time, and not always just on mbin. It's beginning to look as if something about the way kbin/lemmy federation is designed must be fundamentally broken.
The more I see of its sysop the more I like this place. Thanks for keeping it all running.
Whilst it's on my mind can you recommend a place to report general mbin bugs? It doesn't seem able to see m/baduk@lemmy.ml and a few others I've noticed. Neither was kbin until recently.
In case you are blind and the images have no alt text, the linked article prominently features images of people being "removed" from the grandstands by men in police uniform.
I downloaded the game files, mounted the .iso files and added the game to setup.exe to my steam library and installed the game under the mountpoint. When i click play in steam i just get back to the installer. Running the SkyrimSe.exe in steam(located in the CODEX directory) doesnt work. I use Arch Linux.
I have a dim memory of hearing somewhere that you need to run SkyrimSELauncher.exe first at least once to create .ini files and such.
I was going to suggest you just spend the $6 or whatever to buy the game on Steam, but apparently they're asking $53 for it now. What the fuck Bethesda. Maybe they had to raise the price to stop it selling more than Starfield. Anyway, good luck.
I've had issues running stuff even on debian. Too often the people packaging things just assume you're using Windows to run your Windows executables like some kind of noob.
Well, I'm an enjoyer of occasionally pausing to contemplate the effects our actions today might have as their untraceable implications reverbrate through the collective unconscious a thousand years from now.
For one thing it means I experience strong feelings of hostility when something like the currently circulating drivel about "longtermism" comes to my attention.
Does anyone have a better source of info about this? I've found "good news" in the names of things to be a reliable indicator of people who seem to believe they're trying to make the world better while polluting the information environment as much as any other fake news site. I'd rate the article as slightly less credible than a press release from the company itself.
Don't want to be subjected to random loud noises from your phone? Just turn off the alerts! All you need to do is figure out how to get root access, drop into a shell, explore the file system to learn enough to know where to look for things, figure out which application is responsible for this stuff, and find a way to disable it without breaking anything else.
I swear this whole system is some kind of government program to turn more Canadians into computer hackers.
You would presumably not opt out then. I know many people who would not, even if it were easy. Some of us would, and a few of us feel all the more compelled to do so because it was made unreasonably difficult.
It's remarkable that Tibetan culture has been so tenacious that there's anything left of it today. If the government of 50 years ago had been able to exert the kind of control over its people that they do today, it's hard to imagine that it wouldn't have been fully eradicated by now.
Of course it has. You need to offer the world a useful service for some length of time before you have dominated the market to such an extent that you can cut the quality and jack up the prices without there being any meaningful competition to worry about.
So who exactly does own OpenSubtitles Group Limited, and what are their motivations? If you're claiming to know, I assume you must be some kind of insider? Because they don't seem to be all that open about it. Otherwise we can only judge by their actions.
I love it, but it was pretty messy a lot of the time in various different ways. My impressions were:
Season 1: Brilliant, really good science fiction
Season 2: Fun episodic comedy sci fi
Season 3: Sometimes weird, sometimes gruesomely tedious
Season 4: Trying to be more like a normal comedy TV show, results mixed
I guess there is no need to introduce what a Degoogled phone is (or a custom ROM without google services, like GrapheneOS is) and the Aurora Store is basically said in a crude way the Google Playstore but without the need to log in to your Google account, quite useful in my opinion....
Nobody will be able to give you a definitive answer. Google's ways are unknowable. You are running the risk of losing your Google account by having a Google account.
While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.
The sight of so many people around the world who had always been unequivocal supporters of anything and everything Israel did slowly changing their minds as the horrific scope of the violence inflicted on Gaza continues to escalate has been an impressive one. The remaining people who refuse to change their views at all are impressive in a different way.
The Unix timestamp will begin with 17 this Tuesday 14 November 2023 10:13:20 PM UTC. Here is how to see Unix time on your system. For #macos#freebsd#bsd run
date -ur 1700000000
Nice timing. I don't see how warning you that your email passwords will be kept remotely by Microsoft would be "redundant." Many people will assume from that message that it would only send them all your mail, and the even more carelessly optimistic among us might guess that it would be end-to-end encrypted as it obviously should be.
That is not what "end-to-end" means in this context. In fact, finding out yesterday that Outlook sync is not end-to-end encypted prompted me to look up OneDrive to see if it at least has that feature. It does not, and someone who doesn't know a thing or two about how cryptography works would have a hard time finding out that it does not, because the search results are polluted with people misunderstanding the concept exactly as you do.
Microsoft's own web site goes to great lengths to explain how all your data is encrypted in transit, and encrypted at rest. Their internal security and access control systems are elaborated on in impressive style. You'd think that if they're going to go to all that trouble, and want people to trust them, they would indeed provide end-to-end encryption where it's appropriate. But no, they carefully avoid mentioning the concept. They are unwilling to acknowledge that it might be a thing people expect these days, but they do not go out of their way to correct people who imagine that they already have it.
"End-to-end encryption" refers to situations where an intermediary connects endpoints with each other to facilitate transfer of information between them, but the data is encrypted in such a way that the intermediary itself cannot read them. For example an email server connecting the sender and receiver of an email where the server cannot read the mail, Firefox sync which lets you sync browser config across devices without Mozilla being able to know anything about what that data contains, a Signal chat where the servers relaying the messages to all the participants can't read them. That sort of thing. The term would only be used when Microsoft's server is not itself an endpoint, but a service provider that connects endpoints together without having any way to read their data.
For another example, if we imagine an end-to-end encrypted version of OneDrive used by someone who just has the one computer, the endpoints would be that computer at different points in time. Microsoft has no need to be able to read the data to provide that service. In this kind of scenario where there's only one or two endpoints the whole thing is easy to set up, no problem at all. I mean all encryption is pretty complicated, but it's a solved problem that's well understood. It only gets more complicated when you have for example a group chat with many participants who come and go.
What's a piece of classical music that everyone knows but most people don't know they know?
27% Of New Cars In France Now Plugin Electric Cars ( cleantechnica.com )
It’s not just electricity — Bitcoin mines burn through a lot of water, too ( www.theverge.com )
Study finds no “smoking gun” for mental health issues due to Internet usage ( arstechnica.com )
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, who said their study was the largest of its kind, said they found no evidence to support “popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk” from the technology....
'What's the point?' — EU lawmakers sink teeth into digital euro ( www.euronews.com )
Lemmy.ml mods remove "two-sideism" comments on Israel-Palestine conflict on AskLemmy, causing drama
A user posted the question What opened your eyes to what’s happening in Palestine? on !asklemmy....
TIL that Hitler approved the construction of a supertank weighing 1,000 tons, over 100 feet long, with a main gun repurposed from the deck gun of a battleship. ( en.wikipedia.org )
Elon Musk says Ireland's Leo Varadkar 'hates Irish people' ( www.euronews.com )
New maps show where snowfall is disappearing ( www.cnn.com )
Alan Partridge on cars, Canadians and Sunday roasts: ‘I’m already about 70% vegan’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Frustrated lawmakers run for the exits: ‘DC is broken’ ( thehill.com )
The public has increasingly soured on Congress — and now, some House lawmakers are starting to agree....
OpenAI's offices were sent thousands of paper clips in an elaborate prank to warn about an AI apocalypse ( www.businessinsider.com )
OpenAI’s offices were sent thousands of paper clips in an elaborate prank to warn about an AI apocalypse::The prank was a reference to the “paper clip maximizer” scenario – the idea that AI could destroy humanity if it were told to build as many paper clips as possible.
Fedia submissions stopped federating out again?
I've noticed that recent submissions made in both @LoLFanArt and @FloatingIsFun don't seem to have federated out:...
Why Bluesky over sth like Activitypub? ( slrpnk.net )
Is it really decentralized and private?
Artificial intelligence guzzles billions of liters of water ( feddit.de )
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5792180...
Why is Firefox making these outbound connections? ( infosec.pub )
I have all Firefox Data Collection and Use options disabled....
F1 fans removed from grandstands ahead of delayed Vegas FP2 ( www.motorsport.com )
How to install Skyrim
I downloaded the game files, mounted the .iso files and added the game to setup.exe to my steam library and installed the game under the mountpoint. When i click play in steam i just get back to the installer. Running the SkyrimSe.exe in steam(located in the CODEX directory) doesnt work. I use Arch Linux.
Previewing changes in Windows to comply with the Digital Markets Act in the European Economic Area - Windows Insiders Blog ( blogs.windows.com )
How do you think your personal beliefs about what happens after we're gone influence the way you live right now?
Wave-Powered Desalination System Produces 13,000 Gallons of Drinking Water a Day From Each Buoy ( www.goodnewsnetwork.org )
Test of Canada’s public alerting system, Alert Ready, coming Wednesday ( www.theweathernetwork.com )
China is slowly erasing Tibet's name ( feddit.de )
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5651275...
OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed. ( blog.opensubtitles.com )
The Crossover No One Asked For or Remembered ( lemmy.sdf.org )
Former U.K. PM David Cameron returns to government as foreign secretary ( www.cbc.ca )
PM Rishi Sunak shakes up leadership team with unusual move as Conservatives lag in the polls
Am I running the risk of getting my Google account banned for logging into the Aurora Store or a custom rom like GrapheneOS?
I guess there is no need to introduce what a Degoogled phone is (or a custom ROM without google services, like GrapheneOS is) and the Aurora Store is basically said in a crude way the Google Playstore but without the need to log in to your Google account, quite useful in my opinion....
The United Nations just voted 145-7 in favor of a resolution condemning illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine & Syria. ( media.mas.to )
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7835650...
GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour ( www.forbes.com )
While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.
Calls for Gaza cease-fire divide Europe’s Socialists ( www.politico.eu )
"I'm Rick Berman, and I'm a piece of S%^#" ( i.imgflip.com )
Turkey's main opposition leader Özgür Özel: We are facing a coup attempt under the leadership of Erdoğan! ( t24.com.tr )
Warning: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft | mailbox.org ( mailbox.org )