Just because they tricked half the population into becoming collaborators doesn’t mean it’s not the owning class versus the common people.

Don’t get me wrong, there will be fights along political lines, they will be used as cannon fodder but just like any war the opposing soldier is not your enemy, those that guide the actions of those solders are. Propaganda will do one heck of job making sure gullible people believe they have no choice.

Racism is form of cancer but it has been demonstrated many times that on a individual level it can be cured.

“When it detects a user may be under 18, Google will notify them that it has changed some of their settings and will offer information about how users can verify their age with a selfie, credit card, or government ID.”

Selfies are useless as proof for young adults and people with a young face. No algorithm can tell a 17.11 yo from a 18 yo so it will flag every single one of them.

This is a way to normalize handing over your details for the next generations. Nothing more.

The good news isn that once teens figure out that other browsers and search engines don’t stop them from finding porn they might stick with them.

Guy behind him in the vid looks like they are tripping balls.

Cuda and optix are anecdotally three times faster at rendering than any amd solution.

That doesn’t mean amd doesn’t perform well though, its personal preference on how much that time saving is worth it.

Just to add some variation to these comments.

Nvidia works absolutely fine on (arch) linux, that needs to be said. Performance is on par with windows.

Depending on what your needs are its the better choice. (I have a few pieces of software that greatly rely on CUDA)

But the elephant in the room is your need for non proprietary driver. The only open source nvidia does is the strict minimum to catch up and stay competitive on linux (they where losing before). There is a clear winner on this front. Que all the other comments.

Doesn’t seem like that was his goal.

Feels more like a ¯_(ツ)_/¯ reaction on the bid.

That said, cant rule out that its all theater to obscure the fact that Sam recently endorsed Trump and is working close with government, just less visibly then Musk.

Something something free speech absolutist?

They never were of course but they did gave Anarchist who actually are a bad name.

The Israel State committing genocide is horrible but how is this relevant to Sutkevers start up and AI?

The only slivers of an Israel connection i could find are.

• Sutskever was born in the Soviet Union moved to Israel at the age of 5 and lived there till he was 16 before moving to Canada.

• The picture they used in the article was taken at a university in Israel 2 years ago when he was still a part of OpenAI.

• The startup does have offices in Palo Alto (US) and Tel Aviv (Israel) but thats a silicon valley kinda place, literally all the major tech players have an office there. And i fully agree that is something we should be skeptical about, but its not something you can single American company out on.

Source? Sutskever is a ex OpenAi founder and the one who tried to oust Alman for being to corporate.

There is no need to communicate like this. I actually had already learned about this app and checked it out yesterday on a different community with way less people and there was no article there. I just saw the opportunity of this post as way to discuss it.

I like to make a few things clear that seem to cause confusion.

1. I made my post in full understanding that it probably does not feature a “preference based algorithm”, trying it out did not gave it the impression it did. But i want to be more sure there is nothing along those lines included and tried to engage in discussion about the need for preferential settings. Its somewhere between a genuine and rhetoric question.

2. Call me pedantric, trough i prefer autistic but “algoritm” has like i explained a specific meaning to me. Its mathematical formula for a specific purpose. The app in question is code, code is math. Randomizing code (which are never truly random btw) uses an algorithm. You can not tell me that the app uses NO algorithm, well oc you can but to my brain that does not compute. Any form of customizing the feed, even a hack, would be algorithmic in nature.

3. I disagree this (and many things) require a full fledged article, just a clear few line description or like including those quotes you put up here would do for me. I know the internet likes to make everything into “news” but i don’t have to like or partake in that. I prefer to spend my time engaging on lemmy about the topic directly because that (this diverted discussion included) helps it grow.

Its not presented as being specifically made without.

There is plenty of room for more ethical algorithms and to get technical. It definitely does have a algorithm.

A very basic formula that simulates randomness to pick one Wikipedia page after the other.

I just wish i could customize that to my interests. So for example it favors articles tagged as ancient mythology and minimizes politicians from the 90s

I understand their stance but it is a bit sad because if i could tailor it to my interests i absolutely would use it all the time.

Wikipedia is massive there is way more that i don’t want to read then there is that i do.

Personally i think there is roam for a “not insane, Fully transparent and user controlled” algorithm but also that would take a lot of developer effort.

Does it have an algorithm of some kind?

I usually hate them but for something safe like wikipedia i would love to have it tailored to my interests.

Its a tough question because lemmy is for a cleary majority a variation of political left. ML is infamous for being tankies for example. One reason i observed for this is because corporate sites, you know which ones ars increasingly leaning if not full on political right.

There are right leaning communities oc but i doubt there is much truly Neutral. You may also encounter a lot of defederation with those communities to protect targeted communities from fascism

The far right takeover happening in the US is not helping because what even is the center position at this point? Feels like a full on information war.

Having said that i fully agree that there should be neutral ground if not purely on the basis that the word is not America and there is plenty of political spectrum in the world besides (Anti)Facism.

I have noticed that the big political communies all allow US posts because we are still reasonably small. As we grow we will see more diversity.

Which brings me to the my last point, do not be afraid of empty communities. Be the user you want to see and subscribe to it, maybe post something. Someday someone may and as an early member you get the privilege of helping to shape it towards what you believe we need.

We should just start to call him President Sanders.

With actually fair and democratic elections (non of this gerrymandering and representatives shit) he would have won. Even Trump fanatics like him.

Just skip the legal bureaucracy which is set aflame without regard right now anyway and hand the man a crown.

They hired Daniel Penny who chocked and killed a homeless mentally ill black man.

He was cleared in court on the defense of protecting others but the victim had not used violence, they were erratic and appeared threatening, and had been involved in fist fights in the past (which is irrelevant in the present). Its Penny who started a physical attack and ended that mans life.

Even with the most extreme benefit of doubt where Penny really is a good samaritan. Hiring him in the context of this political collapse is a clear sign and cannot be misread.

Killing undesirables gets rewarded.

My HA is not port forwarded and only accessible when connected to the home network.

I have a private backdoor tunneling into my network with self hosted vpn so i can use it away from home.

Integrations i use come in two types relative to your question. But all of them involve giving HA acces to the controls and data. Not the opposite. I have never heard of an integrations that required data from HA.

The biggest tell on what is what is does the intended way to control the device make use of any cloud. If your device does not require a cloud or account and you can connect it to the integration with just an ip it should all be local.

But many integrations will require you to provide the credentials for a cloud because it’s easier. In that case you are not any more exposed then if you use the vanilla apps.

For my solar panels i could use the cloud but i convinced the technician to give me admin rights enabling a local api i can use instead. That cloud stuff is still there, cant disable it but it means i can still read my solar panels in case of an internet blackout.

If i could all my devices would be blocked from talking to the outside and all use local apis for control but its sadly not how most stuff is build. For stuff like cameras i wont even consider it unless they do though.

Not for s second do I believe this was a accidental oversight.

I am sure they had very good reasons, all alligned with their actual interests with no thought spared to even consider consequences for small fish users.