That’s mostly a thing in 110V regions. Same for dishwashers. 230V gives you enough watts to heat your water fast.

According to some geo ip databases the IP is is Brisbane, Australia

I am curious. Why would you need them?

Just yesterday was my first real encounter with AI bros. I was at a google developer group meet up that was explicitly about coding without any AI. I went there because I thought that might be fun and I’d meet some people.

Well there was this one boomer guy that bought fully into the hype. He started the meet up with a AI News round up that also included OpenAI hack story. He was absolutely ecstatic about how much of a “thriller” the hack was and how amazing it was how the agents worked together. For me it felt like the words came directly out of Sam Altmans asshole where he had embedded himself firmly and deeply. It made me deeply uncomfortable to see someone so captured by the hype.

For me this is just another hype machine. Even if the LLM autonomously escaped the sandbox it only speaks of the ineptitude of the engineer who set it up and not the intelligence of the model.

My wife and I decided that we didn’t want to put children into this world. I did the snip snip recently. It just feels way too bleak. Can’t imagine putting a child through that.

AFAIK there is a proposal to make that browser option a reality. There was a setting once but edge made it default on and then everyone was like “well then we gonna ignore it”.

The thing is that most of the consent forms are not compliant. The choice should be Consent and don’t consent in equal style and then additionally a choice. Every form that forces you through a secondary screen is not really compliant.

The problem is that we have an enforcement gap. The rules get enforced by each country and they have limited resources for that. It’s an imperfect system.

A DM is only visible to the sending and receiving server. It is like an email. The server admin on both sides can read them in the database. They are encrypted during the transport with tls (https). The database is usually not encrypted at rest.

You can PGP encrypt them. That should make them secure.

The thing is that with the current laws, even if China would open source all the info they have gathered, companies in other countries couldn’t use it.

I’d say $1 billion is not inconsequential.

Short of starting a war with the US no other country can really do anything but the US and they somehow seem to be adamant to let Trump do whatever he wants. I don’t know why they would do that, but here we are.

Just as an FYI: Lemmy has a big update for the front and backend in the pipeline. You can see it on https://voyager.lemmy.ml/. I think this might bring some nice improvements.

So technical aspects might soom-ish change.

Scraping : nothing. It’s public data over a public protocol. Not really anything you can do. If you don’t want it scraped, don’t post it.

Bots: Ban them if they are obvious or reported and not marked.

I now have to think about canceling my non existent subscription. What a headache.

Not even 5G? I don’t want it for the higher speed but for the network coverage. This phone is truly pay more for less.

I recently talked with wife about that when she saw a picture that felt off. It made her angry about AI. We talked about it and came to the conclusion that if it is not an important image and it’s hard to tell then to just assume it’s real. It only makes you angry, changes nothing and might even falsely accuse someone.

For news stories I don’t really look for photos too. If it’s important I will try to use a wide spread of written media. That’s all I can do for now.

In a vacuum maybe but are they profitable if you add the infrastructure investments to the mix? What about model development? There was a shit ton of money that was spent. Covering the running costs is not enough. At some point someone has to pay for the investments.

AFAIK it’s not about drinking tap water. Pretty much everyone knows that our water is high quality. It’s more that it’s not freely offered at restaurants and requesting it is sometimes even frowned upon. We went to a spot where a friend was rather rudely cut off after the second glass of water while the whole table was ordering the “expensive” drinks.

I don’t think we have that rule in Germany. I only know that the cheapest drink on the menu must be non alcoholic.

Germany is very weird about water. We have clean good tap water everywhere but restaurants want you to pay for bottled water. I have been to a few countries and most of them give you water without asking. But not Germany.