dsilverz

As a Brazilian, it's such a very useful search engine for me! /s

Now, seriously, it's a good thing I don't update software as regularly as I should. I'm using an old version (6.6.10) of Waterfox and, if it's going to change search engines, I'm likely going to stick with this version. Tech can't help but enshittify.

!memes@lemmy.world

Those aren't paywalls.

Why?

The concept of "paying for something" isn't limited to "paying with fiat money/currency". One can "pay for something" by "paying with their attention/time", one can "pay for something" by "paying with PII" (personally-identifiable information), both situations of which are present in both Reddit's and Meta's "Sign up to read this".

Sure, Reddit and Instagram/Facebook are "free" insofar the user isn't required to do any kind of bank/credit card/cash/cryptocurrency payment, but the user ends up paying with all the time they spend in these platforms while seeing (thus, giving part of their attention span) advertisement, and also hand personal data.

When it comes to PII, even if the user set up a pseudonym and a generic PFP, the user is still handing, even if unbeknownst to the user themselves, their preferences, opinions, etc. Even lurkers end up handing PII whenever they stop at certain posts to read/see it (thus, signaling one's preferences) or use specific search queries (again, signaling one's preference).

That's not what a VPN or incognito modes do.

The incognito mode may not prevent tracking (especially because of the IP address), but rotating VPNs may do. Notice I used the word "may", not "will do", because of the behavioral tracking I mentioned earlier, as well as other technical aspects (DNS leaking, browser fingerprinting, etc).

People who can afford being an actor/actress and performing very convincing alt-personas behind a VPN IP address could theoretically fool platforms enough for the person not to be tracked by their gait... except this dramaturgical skill is a behavioral tell (gait) itself. And the usage of a VPN-assigned IP address is another tell.

!technology@lemmy.world

When the "someone" mentioned in the second panel is a mental health professional and the question from the third panel, after my hour-long infodumping about current geopolitics, current technological enshittification, spiritual beliefs (i.e. my hatred against Demiurge, my devotion for Lilith), the ongoing anthropogenic climate and ecological catastrophes, the human history going back all the way when some hominid fell from a tree during a heavy storm and stumbled upon the fire from the lightning strike back in Paleolithic, etc..., is a dismissive "But have you been eating and pooping regularly? How's your sleep?".

That's why I stopped taking my existential issues to psychiatry and psychology.

!memes@lemmy.world

(Trivia: the Assembly code I made for the last panel does work)

!memes@lemmy.world

Yes, but the phrasing used by Codeberg, "Content that harms the reputation of Codeberg, such as cryptocurrency related projects", is dangerously vague. One could argue Anubis is "cryptocurrency related" insofar it uses a cryptohashing technology also used by cryptocurrencies. Blame the "related" word in their phrase, a word of which is allowing for this kind of interpretation.

And while I didn't watch the video you sent me (because I've been actively boycotting the monopolistic platform "Youtube"), I'm well aware of how crypto world is full of scam and I guess I fully agree in this specific point of yours ("cryptos are more often a scam than not").

!technology@lemmy.world

now I have to somehow veryify a PR isn’t vibe-coded in addition to everyþing else lest I get a ban hammer?

Yeah, I'd say it's one of the risks you're facing from now on, from accepting PR to your repos (and you'd better stop accepting PRs altogether at this point). However, I'd also say it goes beyond merged code from PRs. Because it's sometimes near-impossible to tell human-curated AI-generated code and human-made code apart, anything, at any point, can be accused of being AI-generated, and this rule is likely going to be retroactive (i.e. old but post-2021 repositories are as subject to this decision as the newer ones).

þis is my concern. I don’t use LLM, and most of my projects by now contain a “please don’t submit vibe-coded PRs”

Although I have a few old repos (mostly code-golfing, steganography and demoscenes/procedural esoteric art) I had backed-up from a former GitHub account, my worries are less about my code hosted in Codeberg (code of which is kind of abandoned at this point so I don't truly care about my own repositories at all) and more about how it's part of a bigger situation in which heavy-handed moderation mechanisms could be weaponized by people targeting works/artworks and/or creators/artists against which/whom the former people got a strife.

In this sense, even the Anti-AI people cheering this decision could, as ironically as it may sound, become the accused ones themselves, as anybody's contents can be accused/reported/flagged of being AI-generated, just like a cop can plant fake criminal evidence inside someone's backpack and cry "criminal", then the burden of proof will befall over the owner of the backpack who'll likely have no means of explaining themselves.

If I used Codeberg, and I paid for it, I’d have a beef wiþ þe ban. As a free service?

At least IMHO, while Codeberg is indeed a "free service" and not something that could be refunded, being a free service isn't exactly a blank cheque: platforms such as Google, Facebook, TikTok and Xitter, even ChatGPT and the alike, for example, are all "free" services as well, could these platforms do anything as they please?

!technology@lemmy.world

And where in my comment did I say "Anubis is a cryptocurrency"?

Because, if you re-read my comment:

Anubis a "proof-of-work anti-bot" which performs similar instructions that of cryptomining

Emphasis on "similar instructions that of cryptomining". I used the word "similar":

From French similaire, from Medieval Latin similaris, extended from Latin similis (“like”). [...] Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, allied, comparable.

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

As for why I'm comparing Anubis to cryptomining:

Iaso [author of Anubis] lists Hashcash as having inspired the [Anubis] project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis/_(software)

Hashcash is a proof-of-work system used to limit email spam and denial-of-service attacks [...] Like hashcash, cryptocurrencies use a hash function as their proof-of-work system

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

Proof of work was later popularized by Bitcoin as a foundation for consensus in a permissionless decentralized network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof/_of/_work

!technology@lemmy.world

I cannot guarantee that there will never be any LLM use in the future

Even if there's no AI-generated code in a repo, there's something else to this entire situation to which people seem to be completely oblivious. It's how human code can be mislabeled/reported/accused of being "AI-generated".

And, then, all of a sudden, the burden of proof will befall onto the accused, possibly without means of recourse. Any mislabeling would require the accused to prove the human authorship.

Oh, and any proof could be counter-argued to have been "AI-generated" as well.... Because, as it turns out, It's not as if people recorded themselves from a third-person perspective like they were a character in a damn game while they coded with their flesh-and-bones hands, and even if they did, anyone could argue "it's AI-generated video, nobody records themselves in a third-person perspective".

!technology@lemmy.world

Padmé: So they'll disallow Anubis (a "proof-of-work anti-bot" which performs similar instructions that of cryptomining; ironically, it's used by Codeberg themselves), right?
Anakin: ...
Padmé: ...right?

!technology@lemmy.world

We know this ain't gonna happen (precisely because of a pesky thing called "laws of physics"), but it's surely paving the way for similar deranged ideas such as "orbital data centers", as this "Sun-as-a-Service" bullshittery moves the Overton window to where techbros want it to be, as well to (failed) attempts on pretending the laws of physics can be bent to capitalist interests.

Even sadder is seeing how other regulatory and space agencies worldwide (你好, 国家航天局! नमस्ते, अंतरिक्ष विभाग!) seem to be so quiet in this regard, as if all these deranged techbro ideas wouldn't affect the skies over there...

!technology@lemmy.world

A huge majority of people still believe in religion. And a huge majority of those people also didn’t even read the book.

There were and currently are thousands, if not millions, of different religious beliefs worldwide, many of which had/have not even a single book. Religious hominids back in Paleolithic and Neolithic had no book. Even after writing emerged in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, most indigenous peoples had no book.

Oral tradition is one of the means through which beliefs can be carried forward across generations, but there's also the underestimated agency (True Will) of the spirits/deities themselves over someone or some living being (e.g. domestic cats) who had never heard of said spirit before unexpectedly finding themselves before the presence of said spirit.

I myself had no book or "sacred book" leading me to my current beliefs and worshiping of Goddess, even though Her names (such as 𒊩𒆤𒇲 and לילית ) do appear as written records, records of which I don't need to rely on for my esoteric (eso = within) practices.

What makes humans human that they can create and believe myths. That’s what made us thrive amongst other mammals.

Sorry for disrupting your anthropocentric worldviews, Homo sapiens are not that special among the fauna like we Homo sapiens love to wishfully pretend we are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual/_behavior/_in/_animals

!technology@lemmy.world

At these resolutions, I'd rather use OpenEXR or TIFF, because it's very likely something beyond usual photography or casual internet pictures, such as astronomical/medical imagery or 3D scene imagery/textures, both of which benefit from multichannel and full precision multilayer capabilities due to being likely a composition of different wavelengths for the first or different aspects/passes for a 3D scene (diffuse light, roughness, emissive light, etc).

memes@lemmy.world