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Yeah, the real answer is that they’d just ignore it- because even though what they’re doing is flagrant copyright abuse, unless you’ve got an army of lawyers like Disney, you’ll go bankrupt going after them.
What you can do is play dirty. If you have your own website, make an AI Tar Pit. Make your website not just useless to AI, but actively malicious towards it.
Edit: Changed basically the whole comment, as you’re right. I looked at the Blog, and it does state in his FAQ that he had a backup. Which frankly makes a significant part of the article completely BS - as it makes multiple heavy implications that he didn’t have any backup.
This apparently happened with “no explanation and no recourse,” putting “terabytes of family photos” and their entire message history out of reach, as well as preventing the ability to sync work across devices.
He has copies elsewhere, so why would he be worried about losing access to this data.
Also, the end of the article discusses not storing all your data in one place…
If you store your photos and files in a single place, it’s a good idea to back them up to multiple locations to protect against something going wrong. But with how integrated devices are these days, it’s hard to avoid having all your apps, purchases and media within a single ecosystem. In cases like that, there’s not a lot you can do.
So it wouldn’t be wrong of most people to walk away from this article with the assumption that he didn’t have a proper backup strategy.
Everyone always learns the hard way, just the same as I did - one copy is usually as good as no copies at all.
For data you can’t afford to lose, the 3-2-1 rule is king. Original, cold local, and remote.
Fair enough. I imagine as a PhD its easier to avoid since you’re doing new research, so you’re presenting unique information with (in theory) unique sentences.
Whereas for a lot of undergrad students, up until the tail end of their degrees, they’re writing about fairly extensively covered topics, so you’re much more likely to accidentally steal wordings from others who have already written about them. In fact at that stage, I’d bet having too low a plagiarism score would more likely indicate you’re barking up the wrong tree.
Genuinely. As a student I don’t think I ever saw a Turnitin score for my work below 40%. There are only so many ways to wrute a sentence about the same thing, so its impossible to not accidentally plagiarise someone’s works.
I remember one lecturer telling me that they don’t really look at the % unless its something aggregious like +70%. But more often they’re looking for patterns in what it highlights.
Loads of tiny highlights with individual sources are likely to be a false positive, but big chunks of highlights from only a couple of sources is likely to be a true positive.
All I can do is pray that my current RAM survives long enough for this stupid AI bubble to burst, like with the Crypto-Bro GPUs.
But it is kind of horrifying how easily consumers have been priced out of the RAM market - at least for newer stuff anyways
Considering everyone I know with a folding phone has had a fault with the folding part of it - I don’t think its the best idea from a durability standpoint to add yet another folding part.
If one screen or fold point breaks, you’re now left with two unusable (but perfectly functioning) screens. Seems like an expensive gimmick to me.
“Could” is doing about as much lifting in this article as Atlas lifting the world.
I’m holding my reservations until something actually comes along
Honestly I get your frustration. Feeling like you’re being hidden away…
But I think you’re taking what you’ve got for granted. It sounds like your family is fairly liberal and well-meaning, but that doesn’t mean her’s is.
Even in the west, religious conservatism can get nasty real quick (especially for woman), so I can absolutely see why she might be scared to tell her family.
She probably doesn’t like hiding you in the shadows any more than you do - you should be careful putting your feelings over her well-being.
LLMs are made to mimic how we speak, and some can even pass the Turing test, so I’m not surprised that people who don’t know better think of these LLMs as conscious in some way or another.
It’s not a necessarily a fault on those people, it’s a fault on how LLMs are purposefully misadvertised to the masses
Yeah…
A game with actual gambling disguised as a loot system - perfectly fine, PEGI 3+
A game that depicts gambling but has no actual gambling in it - absolutely fucking NOT, PEGI 18+
I can understand why PEGI would be hesitant to give a game depicting gambling a rating of 3+…
But putting it as 18+, on the same level as actual, real money gambling games is ridiculous.
It shows a complete lack of awareness regarding the difference in danger between depiction of gambling vs actual gambling. And perhaps more dangerously means malicious publishers (cough EA cough) are able to get away with slipping disguised real money gambling into their games (and in front of children eyes) unnoticed.
They won’t care that Trump hasn’t done anything to fix the price of eggs, because they’re too busy being reeled along by whatever the next thing is that right-wing media is telling them to be angry about.
It’s the Archer method of drinking, but for societal awareness - keep the people fighting over pointless stuff and they’ll never have time to reflect on the things they should be angry about.
I’ve been using protonmail basically since its inception for money-related stuff (due to it being secure), and the one time I’ve had a fraud flag appear while using it was due to being on a VPN at the same time.
… But I’ve had that also happen when I used to daily drive Gmail, so I can’t imagine the Proton part made the difference.
Obviously anecdotes aren’t very good evidence, and maybe in your experience it was your email - but if that is the case, I’d be weary of any provider that automatically flags non-“big tech” addresses as fraudulent. That likely means they’re rather lazy about their cybersecurity.
It ia very much an English speaking world thing, but I wouldn’t say US-centric as we have basically the same greeting in the UK.
Yeah, that wouldn’t fly as much here either - if somebody asked how my day was, I’d be inclined to think they want a summary at least.
Unless Anon is willing to put in some serious work, like properly going back to school or busting their ass learning (and getting good at) a trade, then their life is kinda fucked.
You can’t just crawl out of almost 20 years of NEETing into really any kind of job, especially without the charisma to at least try masking it.
Also fuck knows why Anon’s parents just let them drop out of school and basically cease to exist outside of playing videogames for best part of two decades. That’s plain bad parenting.
As others have pointed out, the problem is “How are you?” on its own is generally a greeting not a question.
As such the answer is largely irrelevant - so while it doesn’t have to be outright lie, the answer shouldn’t be longer than a single statement and shouldn’t make the other person feel like they need to be concerned.
If you want a slightly less beaming answer you could go with “Alright”, “same old, same old”, “same as always”, or “Eh, could be worse”, or any of the other suggestions already made.
I’d be honest. Life is as much (if not more) about luck as it is skill.
There are smart folks out there who have spent their entire lives working hard, probably made decent money, but will never be rich because an opportunity they were equipped to capitalise on just never arrived.
By that same score, there are people who stumble onto or are born into opportunities for wealth that most people will never see by sheer happenstance.
My only impression of him being that he enabled your wife’s cheating, I’d hazard a guess he was born into his opportunity - and while that doesn’t diminish his own efforts, its not a fair comparison to make. Apples to oranges and all that.
Yeah, I feel bad for Anon getting shouted down for trying to be helpful, but sometimes you’ve got to stay out of the way
That’s part of why I asked, cause I’m sceptical they can see it in the first place, never mind that’s its probably not Potato’s actual IP given how much they’re advocating VPN use
Honestly, I think consumers allowing manufacturers to start integrating screens into cars was a mistake.
Knobs and dials are way easier to nevigate blind (whilst focusing on the road like we’re meant to), and none of that stops you plugging in your own third party device for other features, or replacing the headboard yourself.
Giant tablets with complex menus are dangerous to drivers, and only serve to milk the consumer for things they already had access to in their car as standard not 10 years ago.