#Slashdot

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[yourkingmob]

"IF A CIVILIZATION HAS ANY OBLIGATIONS – ANY AT ALL - THEN CARING FOR THE VULNERABLE IS THE FIRST AMONG THEM.

ANY SYSTEM THAT CAN'T - OR WON'T - CARE FOR THE VERY YOUNG, THE VERY OLD AND THE PHYSICALLY INFIRM DOESN'T DESERVE TO CONTINUE." - Anon

[snakegirllovehandles]

god slashdot is such a tire fire. openly transphobic comment moderated to "+5, insightful".

I don't know why I even bother to look at comments there anymore. There's so much blinkered conservative rightwing rhetoric on there that it's difficult to find the interesting stuff anymore.

[expressivegirl]

The Sims 4 Paired Poses #3

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[gwinforth]

the guy who voiced Simmons in Red vs Blue is hosting a plane crash podcast, and he's pretty good at it I guess, but it's a nice reminder of ENTROPY that enough time has passed that people who were doing projects integral to my adolescence have moved on to second/third careers, lol

how long ago was this? they released Red vs Blue on DVDs that you could buy at Gamestop...

[mourning-again-in-america]

people are drawing the genz/millennial line in a way that makes me unsure of where i land

for this particular instance (there's more, i just haven't catalogued them): - The first phone I ever had was a $50 ZTE. It could work as an mp3 player, make phone calls, and access pornographic images on the internet, which was enough for me. - I never got a non-shitphone until college, when i was scrambling to disentangle myself from reliance on family (and their smartphone plan), causing me to get a kinda decent but still cheap used pixel (because it was the cheapest thing that had google fi) - That being said, I did grow up with an iPod, I just didn't have one with a touchscreen until late in highschool (it was a handmedown, but honestly i preferred my previous ipod, a second generation nano, also a handmedown)

[ralfmaximus]

Ubisoft has come under fire from players who claim the company has revoked access to a game they had previously purchased. Users attempting to launch "The Crew" on Ubisoft Connect are met with a message stating, "You no longer have access to this game. Why not check the Store to pursue your adventures?"

Holy shit. Although, I bet there's language in the TOS protecting UbiSoft from legal repercussions that the players 'accepted' during purchase.

Ubisoft's subscription boss, Philippe Tremblay, recently stated that players will need to get "comfortable" with not owning games.

Philippe Tremblay should get comfortable with the idea of roasting in hell for all of eternity.

[yesterdays-xkcd]

Fun game: try to post a YouTube comment so stupid that people realize you must be joking. (Hint: this is impossible)

Limerick [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball sits at a computer, typing.] Cueball (typing): I used to find slashdot delightful, Cueball (typing): but my feelings of late are more spiteful; Cueball (typing): my comments sarcastic Cueball (typing): the iconoclastic Cueball (typing): keep modding to plus five (Insightful).

[maddiebiscuits]

Time to Glaze/Nightshade all your art or just leave the site I guess.

[eightyonekilograms]

Someone on Twitter is voicing their frustration that attempts to explain why open development and knowledge-sharing in the field of AI are dangerous, are being met with cynicism and right-wing attacks. And while I sympathize, I'm kind of confused at their frustration, in a "what did you think would happen?" sort of way.

To explain why, I want to say that even though I've only been programming since high school, I hung out in techie communities and knowledge spaces way before that. And in these kind of circles, there is a way of thinking about openness and knowledge-sharing that is treated as basically a truism:

"Free/libre open-source is ipso facto better than closed-source. Anyone who says otherwise is, with near-total certainty, an Enemy looking to exploit and oppress you for their own profit. FOSS is, while not sufficient, an absolutely necessary precondition for preserving your rights and freedoms. Attempts at Closing the Source must be vociferously opposed, wherever and whenever they appear, and we should make extensive organizational and legal apparatuses to fight these fights; we can assume that there will be counterattacks by the Enemy and we must be organized and ready to repel them."

This stuff gets repeated, in various forms, every single day on technologist fora (Usenet, once upon a time, followed by Slashdot and Groklaw and Hacker News and Techdirt etc.), and any kind of disagreement is treated at best with a presumption of wrongness where the speaker is assumed to carry a large burden of proof, and honestly even that is less common than just naked hostility. You can assume that this stuff is a fundamental meme in these communities, in the same way "democracy and human rights are Good; anyone saying otherwise is deeply sus" is a fundamental meme in developed Western countries.

And so it kind of stuns me that a bunch of AI safety people-- most of whom are themselves technologists who surely are familiar with the cultural memes I'm describing-- were banking on selling "we can't open the models, that would be dangerous; for the sake of Safety they must be closed instead" to the public. This was always going to go over like a lead balloon. Their own community spends every day sharpening its rhetorical knives specifically to eviscerate people who talk like that. Did nobody plan for this?

[cutecipher]

"The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real"

"In a statement to 404 Media, Fortinet said "To clarify, the topic of toothbrushes being used for DDoS attacks was presented during an interview as an illustration of a given type of attack, and it is not based on research from Fortinet or FortiGuard Labs. It appears that due to translations the narrative on this topic has been stretched to the point where hypothetical and actual scenarios are blurred."

[solarbird]

tumblr, wordpress.com to sell user data to midjourney, openAI

fuck youuuuuuuu tumblr

[mortimermcmirestinks]

I'm going to buy an absurd amount of orange juice /hj /j /srs /s /gen /pos /lh /nm /nsrs /rt /neg /neu /c /p /r /ly /npa /vent /btw /tldr /slashdot

[fishmech]

we really must remember that reddit is functionally the opposite of a forum

it's a horrible hybrid of slashdot and usenet. it actively defeats chronological conversation and buries replies. it aggresively prevents long term continual conversation even when you work around its voting nature.

[ericvanderburg]

Ask Slashdot: Could a Form of Watermarking Prevent AI Deep Faking?

http://i.securitythinkingcap.com/T1NRjW