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  • On the post: Ad Execs Speak Out: Musk’s Lawsuit Makes ExTwitter Even Less Appealing

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2024 @ 11:31am

    Mike Masnick gaslighting again

    There is nothing broken with the ad ecosystem Google hit with antitrust over the ad ecosystem

  • On the post: Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker Weakens State Privacy Law On Biometric Data, Undermining Consumer And Employee Rights

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2024 @ 04:11am

    Karl Bode is a liar

    the U.S. is too corrupt to pass a federal privacy law
    No, it has nothing to do with that, it has to do with the fact that such a law would be in violation of the first amendment. I get that there are some states that would love to milk companies, because they dont actually produce anything of value that people want to pay money for, but the US supreme court and various federal court of appeals have already held that there is no privacy right over information you willingly provide to third parties, and that such a regulation over 'biometric information' would be a content based restriction of speech outside of those types of restrictions that existed when the first amendment was made, and thus are facially invalid.

  • On the post: When Will Jim Jordan Hold A Hearing About Elon’s ExTwitter Bias?

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2024 @ 05:02am

    You should read about epistemology. e.g. Karl Popper. Gender is not a scientific theory, its merely a phenological statement about feelings that a person has, whereas facts have inherent falsifiability, repeatability, and some predictive power. Riddle me this. What tool, device, or apparatus can determine whether a persons gender with high statistical validity other than sex? Yes, there are people who are people who have various birth defects, or for example have severe mental illness for various reasons. But the entire point of the transgender movement, is to move to a metaphysical and phenomological definition, which relies upon faith alone. fun fact: I was raised by a schizophrenic transracial stepfather who among other delusions, decided that he was actually a Mexican jew and not Dutch-Irish

  • On the post: Florida’s Attorney General Declares Victory In Social Media Case, Even Though The Supreme Court Makes It Clear She Lost Big Time

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2024 @ 12:25pm

    No, because the laptop also had an encrypted copy of his apple i-cloud backups, and in addition during hunter's criminal trial the laptop was admitted into evidence as authentic.

  • On the post: Florida’s Attorney General Declares Victory In Social Media Case, Even Though The Supreme Court Makes It Clear She Lost Big Time

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2024 @ 12:22pm

    Have you looked at the contents of the laptop? Have you forgotten that he was convicted by a jury of being a drug addict in possession of a firearm at the same time?

  • On the post: Florida’s Attorney General Declares Victory In Social Media Case, Even Though The Supreme Court Makes It Clear She Lost Big Time

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2024 @ 12:20pm

    So as much as you want that scenario to have happened in bad faith, it didn’t.
    Actually that exactly the case, because the FBI knew it wasn't hacked because they had a copy of the laptop, yet lead the social media companies to believe that it was hacked, and moreover that it was Russian disinformation, as a result of 51 former intelligence officials some on the CIA payroll at the time, told them that it was such.

  • On the post: Vindictive Nonsense: Tesla Threatens To Fire Law Firm Over Expert’s Amicus Brief

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 21 May, 2024 @ 09:21am

    Perhaps more interesting

    Is how a former musician is able to turn $2,200 in stock, into a class action headed by some of the most famous corporate litigation firms, and secure a multibillion dollar judgement from Musk, without being able to prove any actual damages whatsoever.

  • On the post: CEO: ‘AI’ Power Drain Could Cause Data Centers To Run Out Of Power Within Two Years

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 11 May, 2024 @ 05:11pm

    Germany has the lowest energy production levels in 50 years
    ITS ALL AI'S FAULT

  • On the post: CEO: ‘AI’ Power Drain Could Cause Data Centers To Run Out Of Power Within Two Years

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 11 May, 2024 @ 10:02am

    Karl Bode cant code

    The reason why Berlin is running out of electricity, is because they decided to shut down their nuclear power plants, their coal power plants, and the Nord stream pipeline was blown up. Of course Karl Bode doesn't actually know anything about what goes on in Germany or how AI works, but I am going to be participating in a AI research paper discussion with a bunch of Germans in about an hour. Karl of course doesn't mention the other industrial heavy users of electricity in germany, e.g. steel and aluminum production, because they don't generate clickbait like this does.

  • On the post: Can ChatGPT Violate Your Privacy Rights If It Doesn’t Store Your Data?

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 08 May, 2024 @ 05:17pm

    Mike Masnick Malding Again

    I don't disagree with the policy positions of mike on this issue, but he again demonstrates his ignorance of both the law and how these systems work.

    1. There is a privacy tort called "false light", which is what is being violated when the LLM hallucinates facts.
    2. The AI models DO store data, and they are in the form of a database, that is in fact what the "weights" of the neural network are.
    3. A neural network does not NEED to compress data, and thereby perform hallucinations, these models can be "over-parametrized", its just very much more expensive to increase the numbers of parameters, but the choice of compression level and the scope of the training data is at the discretion of the company.
    4. A neural network can to some degree know when it might be hallucinating, when performing the "softmax" operation to predict the next tokens, analyzing the "perplexity" of the token candidates.

  • On the post: Israel Shows It Has Nothing To Fear From International Coverage Of Palestine Conflict By Kicking Al Jazeera Out Of The Country

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 08 May, 2024 @ 10:05am

    Members of the US senate have threatened that they would invoke the "Hague invasion act", if the international criminal court decided to submit an indictment or an arrest warrant for Israeli government officials, regarding war crimes and crimes against humanity. It seems that they have a vested interest, in preventing evidence of these crimes from seeing the light of day, in addition to the negative PR.

  • On the post: Sony, Paramount Explore Merger As Streaming Sector Runs Completely Out Of Original Ideas

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 08 May, 2024 @ 09:19am

    Karl Bode cant code

    "At the heart of this dysfunction sits Wall Street’s need for improved quarterly growth at any cost. It’s not just good enough to provide a profitable, high quality product, people like. The need for impossible, unlimited quarterly growth inevitably results in a sort of corporate cannibalism, most recently popularized by Cory Doctorow’s term enshittification." Actually all the streaming companies except Netflix, which has a better network transit prices because of their edge infrastructure, are losing money. Your hypothetical would only result in the same operating costs, with more competition for each niche content, leading to lower average revenue per user.

  • On the post: The GOP Is Blocking A Last Ditch Effort To Bring Cheap Broadband To Poor Americans

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2024 @ 07:25am

    Karl Bode cant code

    Is it too much to expect you to do a little work in Excel to give us some actual profit margin numbers, and to not make absurd statements like Trump "doled out" money to ATT, because he lowered the overall corporate tax rate, how is that "doling out money" when the money never belonged to the government, and how was the tax rate change made "in exchange" for layoffs? Also, you mention monopoly power, when in fact the telecom, (just like water, sewer, and electric) are "natural monopolies", by virtue of their physical fixed infrastructure. But how do you assert that they are abusing that monopoly to charge high rates, when you don't actually provide some analysis on the actual ROI that they're getting on their infrastructure expenditures.

  • On the post: ShotSpotter Pitches In To Help Cops Open Fire On A Teen Setting Off Fireworks

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2024 @ 03:55pm

    riddle me this batman, how much fuse gets burned in 10 seconds?

  • On the post: ShotSpotter Pitches In To Help Cops Open Fire On A Teen Setting Off Fireworks

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2024 @ 02:14pm

    Yeah, I'm sure its easy to tell a 16 year old exploding fireworks, from an adult shooting a gun in the middle of the night on January 25th. Its totally the cops fault, that the kid who saw cops walk up an announce themselves, decided to launch fireworks in their direction, and thought they were being fired upon in Chicago.

  • On the post: GM Pinky Swears It Will Stop Selling Driving Data To Insurers After Lawsuits, NYT Bombshell

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2024 @ 08:37am

    Karl Bode is a liar

    What do you expect from Karl Bode

  • On the post: GM Pinky Swears It Will Stop Selling Driving Data To Insurers After Lawsuits, NYT Bombshell

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2024 @ 08:34am

    HOW DARE THEY SHARE THAT HE IS A DANGEROUS DRIVER WITH INSURANCE COMPANIES
    You are really quite pathetic, if you are dangerous on the road, you should pay for the danger you put other people in, instead of crying about how unfair life is.

  • On the post: GM Pinky Swears It Will Stop Selling Driving Data To Insurers After Lawsuits, NYT Bombshell

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2024 @ 08:32am

    You understand that he had an onstar subscription service, and your kid cant just press "i agree", right?

  • On the post: GM Pinky Swears It Will Stop Selling Driving Data To Insurers After Lawsuits, NYT Bombshell

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2024 @ 08:29am

    “information willingly” which isn’t what happened here.
    Yes, it is. He signed up for onstar, and they have a very easy to understand privacy policy, that he regrets that he accepted without actually reading, and it is less than 10 pages and describes everything they can / cant do with his data. You can find the same agreement on the onstar website.

  • On the post: GM Pinky Swears It Will Stop Selling Driving Data To Insurers After Lawsuits, NYT Bombshell

    endomorphosis ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2024 @ 08:27am

    There is no "newsworthiness" requirement for the first amendment, and that requirement was directly refuted subsequently in supreme court precedent, when states tried to use it as an escape hatch for animal cruelty video regulations.

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