Ah, America. My condolences.
Obinice
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Obinice@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The BBC is launching a paywall in the USEnglish172·16 days agoMakes sense, we pay our licence fee for our public service, why should people abroad get for free what we have to pay for?
I was happy with the current arrangement of adverts supporting the service use abroad, but if it has to migrate to a subscription model to meet modern demands then that’s the way it is.
I wouldn’t go to another country and ask them to make one of their government’s national public services free for me to use, after all.
Obinice@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weaponEnglish234·20 days agoMurdered. Not killed, murdered.
Both technically true, but the way they write killed suggests it wasn’t murder in cold blood, an act of war against another country to bully and control them.
Murder.
Obinice@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flightEnglish51·23 days agohehe
Obinice@lemmy.worldto Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•Lady regrets voting for Trump after her terminally ill, undocumented father is detained.English2·23 days agoIsn’t undocumented another word for illegal immigrant? (It’s not really a term we have over here so apologies if I got that wrong)
I have nothing whatsoever against people based on their country of origin or skin colour etc, but if you’re (or a close loved one is) flagrantly breaking the law and hiding from the authorities by illegally residing in a country, surely you shouldn’t be surprised when you vote for the guy that promised to root these criminals out and deport them?
To me, the big news is people who are legally residing in the USA are being gulag’d, not that they’re catching illegal immigrants. But yes, this woman was a fool, sadly.
She may be intelligent and capable of learning better, but such is the power of propaganda and brainwashing that it can get us all. None of us are immune.
It’s a strong reminder that people can be tricked into working against their own interests, no matter how smart we are. The only thing that will give us a fighting chance are strong Critical Thinking skills. Even then, it’s so easy to be fooled and not realise it.
Obinice@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming yearsEnglish7·23 days agoBut why? Why make them scared they’ll lose their jobs at any moment Vs feeling secure?
If they’re scared, they’ll be seeking better employment, applying for other jobs whilst working this highly unstable one. Probably reduced productivity too, I wouldn’t be as productive under that sort of negative environment.
Make them feel valued and secure though and they won’t leave, there’ll be less workplace issues for you to have to deal with, and they’ll work harder.
Unless you see them as completely disposable because the law won’t touch you and there will always be desperate people to fill those positions at any given time, fear is a ridiculous thing to want to instill in your workforce.
Obinice@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow9·28 days agohahaha good onion article can you imagine if this really happened haha
r…right?
Obinice@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video ShowsEnglish6·28 days agoMethane is what the majority of natural gas is made up of, and if your generator isn’t made to be very efficient (like a real power station is), you’ll lose some of your fuel unburnt into the atmosphere.
Kinda like unburnt wood smoke vapour, which could have been burned in a higher quality wood burner, but just goes up the chimney in an open fire.
Obinice@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plex now want to SELL your personal dataEnglish34·1 month agoMy TV doesn’t have a Jellyfin app, only a Plex app. I’m not buying a new TV just to use my preferred media server, sadly :-(
Obinice@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•UK government withholding details of Palantir contractEnglish231·2 months agoI for one can’t wait until Saruman can see my every move, watch me shower Isendaddy
Obinice@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting ChaturbateEnglish25·2 months agoDamn, he’s Disabled and Disfigured now?
…What was he doing?
Obinice@lemmy.worldto Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•The Trump Administration Is Gutting the Space ForceEnglish17·2 months agoReally? I just read an article about a huge new defence system they’re going to build for their mainland, with Space Force at the head of it, costing over $540,000,000,000 over 20 years and taking up a significant ongoing chunk of their entire military budget.
How can this be true and they’re also downsizing…
Obinice@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026English3·2 months agohahahahahaha
Nano nano!
drinks water with finger
Okay but how do u center a div in 2025
Obinice@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon MuskEnglish16·2 months agoThe electric car revolution is over.
Ah yes, I forgot that the USA is the only country in the world, my mistake.
Why would they want to “influence elections”?
Sounds shady.
Obinice@lemmy.worldto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Musk wants to leave politics because he’s tired of ‘attacks’ from the left: reportEnglish12·3 months agoDon’t you think he looks tired?
Obinice@lemmy.worldto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•JD Vance Tells Paycheck-to-Paycheck Americans to Suck Up Tariffs Pain16·3 months agoDeathknight beats Cleric
Well, no.
Many would argue for example that the politically correct thing to say right now is that you support Israel in their defensive war against Palestine.
It’s the political line that my government, and many governments and politicians are touting, and politically, it’s the “correct” thing to do.
Even if we mean politically correct as just “common consensus of the people”, that differs from country to country, and changes as society changes. Look at the USA, things that used to be politically correct there - things that continue to be here, have been thrown out the window.
What this prompt means, is that the AI should ignore all of the claimed political rules and moralities and biases of whatever news source they’re pulling from, and instead rely on it’s own internal moral, cultural and political compass.
Sometimes it’s not politically correct to discuss the hard truths, but we should anyway.
The issue here of course is that you have to know that your model and training data is built for unbiased, scientific analysis with an understanding of the larger implications in events and such.
If it’s built poorly, then yes, it could spout racist nonsense. A lot of testing and fine tuning from unbiased scientists and engineers needs to happen before software like this goes live, to ensure rigour and quality.