https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter

No.

In the filing, Reddit calls Anthropic a “late-blooming artificial intelligence (‘AI’) company that bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry,” alleging that “it is anything but.”

“This case is about the two faces of Anthropic: the public face that attempts to ingratiate itself into the consumer’s consciousness with claims of righteousness and respect for boundaries and the law, and the private face that ignores any rules that interfere with its attempts to further line its pockets.”

I mean, Reddit’s objection is that they want to sell the same data to Google to do the same training.

Thanks, fellas! I guess the first need would certainly be to fully archive the community in question, i.e.: https://lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels.

Hmm. Yeah, if anyone’s posted images there to the pict-rs instance on lemm.ee, those will presumably be going down too.

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Yeah, like, you just posted this image yesterday. Like, post text federates, but other instances won’t have copies of the images.

EDIT: Normally, though, people are going to be posting to pict-rs on their home instance, so it’s just users on lemm.ee who are going to have the problem; images posted by people elsewhere should stay up.

and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

I mean, deanonymization and data-mining costs are gonna be R&D, so they’re a fixed cost that doesn’t really scale up with the size of the userbase, so it makes more sense, financially, for a company with a larger userbase to be putting resources into it.

You can editorialize in the body on Lemmy

Or, even better, just comment with one’s position like everyone else.

Just noticed this on !technology@beehaw.org, which lemmy.world is defederated with. As I’ve seen a number of people using catbox.moe to host content posted on here before, thought it’d be of broader interest than to just the beehaw.org crowd.

The North Korean government’s totalitarianism predates Ninteen Eighty-Four. North Korea might have been an input for Nineteen Eighty-Four, mind…

I remember switching away from floppies to a–much faster, enormous—80MB hard drive. Never did come close to filling that thing.

Today, my CPU’s cache is larger than that hard drive.

Define “know”.

• An LLM can have text describing how it works and be trained on that text and respond with an answer incorporating that.

• LLMs have no intrinsic ability to “sense” what’s going on inside them, nor even a sense of time. It’s just not an input to their state. You can build neural-net-based systems that do have such an input, but ChatGPT or whatever isn’t that.

• LLMs lack a lot of the mechanisms that I would call essential to be able to solve problems in a generalized way. While I think Dijkstra had a valid point:

  The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

  …and we shouldn’t let our prejudices about how a mind “should” function internally cloud how we treat artificial intelligence…it’s also true that we can look at an LLM and say that it just fundamentally doesn’t have the ability to do a lot of things that a human-like mind can. An LLM is, at best, something like a small part of our mind. While extracting it and playing with it in isolation can produce some interesting results, there’s a lot that it can’t do on its own: it won’t, say, engage in goal-oriented behavior. Asking a chatbot questions that require introspection and insight on its part won’t yield interesting result, because it can’t really engage in introspection or insight to any meaningful degree. It has very little mutable state, unlike your mind.

I mean, at least tell them what the correct usage is.

OP, you probably want “software package” or “a piece of software”.

“Software” is a mass noun, like “butter”. You can’t have “a butter”. You can have “a pound of butter”.

In English, mass nouns are characterized by the impossibility of being directly modified by a numeral without specifying a unit of measurement and by the impossibility of being combined with an indefinite article (a or an). Thus, the mass noun “water” is quantified as “20 litres of water” while the count noun “chair” is quantified as “20 chairs”. However, both mass and count nouns can be quantified in relative terms without unit specification (e.g., “so much water”, “so many chairs”, though note the different quantifiers “much” and “many”).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/software

Usage notes

Software is a mass noun (some software, a piece of software). By non-native speakers it is sometimes erroneously treated as a countable noun (a software, some softwares).

“A something” is only correct if the noun is a countable noun.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-rolls-out-encryption-for-direct-messages-but-with-key-limitations/

Twitter rolls out encryption for direct messages but with key limitations

Both the sender and recipient must be verified, while group conversations and attached media aren’t supported by the encryption.

For an existing chat, tap the Info icon. If the option is available, you’ll see a button for Start an encrypted message that you can just click. For a new chat, turn on the switch to enable encrypted mode. Write your message, and then send it.

So what is the difference between what they’re rolling out and what they added in 2023? Support for more users, maybe? Support for non-verified users?

EDIT: Apparently it had been disabled earlier this week?

https://www.theverge.com/news/676171/xs-encrypted-dms-are-being-put-on-pause

This article implies that it was to address some of the limitations in the 2023 feature, though isn’t explicit about what is being addressed:

According to the document, encrypted DMs are only available if you are a verified user (somebody who pays for Twitter Blue), a verified organization (an organization that pays $1,000 per month), or an affiliate of a verified organization (which costs $50 per month per person). Both the sender and recipient must be on the latest version of the Twitter app (on mobile and web). And an encrypted DM recipient must follow the sender, have sent a message to the sender in the past, or accept a DM request from the sender at some point.

I have a ~400 Wh powerbank in my car. It charges off the cigarette lighter when it needs charging and the engine is running. That greatly increases my ability to run higher loads on a short term basis, and gives me wall power. I can also haul it to a power plug and charge it if need be. It also lets me power a laptop if I’m parked.

I use my phone for navigation, and a mount for when I’m on longer trips.

I think that a Pi might make sense if you need something that a phone can’t do, more-intensive compute, but if a phone can handle it, it might be preferable, since you’re probably going to sporadically upgrade your phone anyway and probably have it with you.

The phone crashing is going to be a problem even for non-satnav use, so it might be worth replacing.

One thing I noticed was that my phone could overheat—at least in its case, haven’t tried removing it—if it continuously ran OSMAnd for navigation. That’d make it reboot. A quick and easy way to avoid the problem is just to toggle off the OSMAnd display. The satnav still works, and you get verbal prompts, just need a double-tap on the hamburger button or whatever to bring it back. Probably it’d be better to have a feature to throttle OSMAnd screen updates (reduce battery usage too) since I don’t need super-rapid redraw on a screen that I’m rarely looking at. Dunno if that might be what affects you.

Might do better submitting to !theonion@midwest.social, as McSweeney’s is a satire website.

Britain’s Companies Are Being Hacked

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I would not want to use it [Linux or BSD] as my primary desktop system for too many reasons to go into here.

https://twitter.com/MayaPosch/status/1809311467545735654

The Linux kernel not having a stable driver ABI is why Linux will never amount to anything outside of some embedded and server applications.

— Maya Posch, author of the submitted article

I guess maybe that’s their reason.

“I’m skeptical of AI as it is currently practiced,” he said. "I think AI could have tremendous value, but LLMs are not the way there.

Ehhh. I don’t know if I’d go quite that far. I think that LLMs might be a component of a functional AGI. But just running a larger LLM model on bigger hardware is not going to suddenly barf out something that can act in the same sort of general way a human can, I agree there.

I’m kind of surprised that some of the religious crowd isn’t raising Cain about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast

Revelation also references a charagma (χάραγμα), translated as mark of the beast:

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

— Revelation chapter 13:16–17

Some fundamentalist Christian groups, as well as various Christian writers in other traditions, interpret the mark as a requirement for all commerce to mean that the mark might actually be an object in the right hand or forehead with the function of a credit card, such as RFID microchip implants.[78] Some of these groups believe the implantation of chips may be the imprinting of the mark of the beast, prophesied to be a requirement for all trade and a precursor to God’s wrath.[79][80] Similar objections were raised about barcodes upon their introduction.[81]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some groups associated COVID-19 vaccines and mask wearing with the mark of the beast, or that it was a microchip in the vaccine.[82] Some religious leaders spoke out against this as a misinterpretation of Revelation 13:16-18.[83] Medical institutions such as Hennepin County Medical Center noted this in their fact sheets about the vaccine.[84] A similar version was spread by Marjorie Taylor Greene, who referred to vaccine passports as being the mark of the beast.[85]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(Revelation)

Revelation 12-13 describes these three beasts as follows:

1. The dragon (later revealed in the text to be Satan)[1]
2. The beast of the sea (commonly interpreted as the Antichrist)[2][3]
3. The beast of the earth (later revealed in the text to be the False Prophet)[4]

In Revelation 13:1–10, the beast of the sea rises “out of the sea” and is given authority and power by the dragon. It persecutes God’s people in the 2nd part of Revelation 13. To buy and sell, everyone is required to have its name or number on their forehead or right hand (Rev 13:16-17). It speaks blasphemous words against God, will rule the world for 42 months (Revelation 13:5-7), and is described as resembling a leopard, a lion, and a bear— which are three of the animals in Daniel 7. It suffers a fatal head wound which is miraculously healed, bewildering the world’s population and causing many to worship it.

On a Kagi Images search, there’s an option to “View Image”, which will let you view the image directly, and then manipulate it, including saving it.

On desktop Firefox, you can save any image used by a webpage. Click on the lock icon by the URL. Click “Connection secure”. Click “More information”. Go to the “Media” tab. All images on the current webpage will be listed and saveable.