That GitHub "archive here" link leads to a page where it hasn't been archived... (or was the archive removed??).

It's worth pointing out that once Pokémon Go players found out about OSM, we saw a massive increase in new users as well as those contributing to OSM so that the maps would better reflect the areas they played in.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334378297_How_an_augmented_reality_game_Pokemon_GO_affected_volunteer_contributions_to_OpenStreetMap

Unfortunately there are always a few that will try to game any system. In this case they're essentially vandalizing OSM for their own selfish reasons.

Better/additional info here: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2-community-manager-seemingly-fired-after-encouraging-negative-reviews-over-now-canceled-psn-mandate-i-knew-i-was-taking-a-risk-with-what-i-said/

Spitz:

"Generally it's not a good idea to tell people to refund and leave negative reviews when you're a community manager. TIL," Spitz said. "I appreciate all the support and I appreciate even more that everyone can play the game again without restrictions. I knew I was taking a risk with what I said about refunding and changing reviews. I stand by it. It was my job to represent the community, that's what I did."

They added: "I wanted to work for Arrowhead because they're my all-time favorite studio. I got that chance. I'm thankful for that opportunity. I'd happily continue working for them if I had the choice, but that isn't up to me or anyone else in here. I can walk away happy and I don't want anyone causing trouble on my behalf, especially not to people I still have a lot of care and respect for."

This definitely sounds like Sony wanted them out and Arrowhead wanted them to stay.

For those curious, the apps that sold your specific geolocation data were "Drunk Mode" and "Walk Against Humanity".

Edit: Although Wikipedia notes that X-Mode's SDK is in use in more than 400 apps. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Mode_social#cite_note-13

This is a big win for privacy advocates as well:

"By securing a first-ever ban on the use and sale of sensitive location data, the FTC is continuing its critical work to protect Americans from intrusive data brokers and unchecked corporate surveillance,” said Khan.

They do have a free tier, and while it doesn't auto request your data removal they can at least notify you which data brokers have your info so you can make the requests manually yourself. https://monitor.mozilla.org/

Edit: The data removal features are currently available only in the US according to their FAQ:

Why is data removal only available in the US? When will it be available in my country?

Data removal is only available in the US because of legislation that allows data brokers to operate there. In many other countries and in regions like the EU, laws like GDPR prevent these websites from collecting and selling people’s personal information without their consent. We’re exploring ways to expand protection and personal data removal outside of the US where needed.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-monitor-faq

Direct link to the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/nickbild/local_llm_assistant?tab=readme-ov-file

It's a small model by comparison. If you want something that's offline and actually closer to comparing to ChatGPT 3.5, you'll want the Mixtral 8x7B model instead (running on a beefy machine):

https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/

Not just phone numbers and email addresses, but a recent ruling by a federal judge allows them to record and collect text messages without worry:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/9/23953798/automakers-collect-record-text-messages-federal-judge-ruling

Just wait till someone creates a manically depressed chatbot and names it Marvin.

This article may as well be trying to argue that we're wasting resources by using "cloud gaming" or even by gaming on your own, PC.

Shout-out to Archive.org for all the awesome work they do to backup what they can from the internet.

(Especially when some stack overflow answer to a question is just a link to some website that has either changed or no longer exists).

If you think that "pretty much everything AI is a scam", then you're either setting your expectations way too high, or you're only looking at startups trying to get the attention of investors.

There are plenty of AI models out there today that are open source and can be used for a number of purposes: Generating images (stable diffusion), transcribing audio (whisper), audio generation, object detection, upscaling, downscaling, etc.

Part of the problem might be with how you define AI... It's way more broad of a term than what I think you're trying to convey.

To clarify what OP meant by his 'AI' statement

The system uses AI to compare glue patterns [...]

The researchers noticed that if someone attempted to remove a tag from a product, it would slightly alter the glue with metal particles making the original signature slightly different. To counter this they trained a model:

The researchers produced a light-powered antitampering tag that is about 4 square millimeters in size. They also demonstrated a machine-learning model that helps detect tampering by identifying similar glue pattern fingerprints with more than 99 percent accuracy.

It's a good use case for an ML model.

In my opinion, this should only be used for continuing to detect the product itself.
The danger that I can see with this product would be a decision made by management thinking that they can rely on this to detect tampering without considering other factors.

The use case provided in the article was for something like a car wash sticker placed on a customers car.

If the customer tried to peel it off and reattach it to a different car, the business could detect that as tampering.

However, in my opinion, there are a number of other reasons where this model could falsely accuse someone of tampering:

• Temperature swings. A hot day could warp the glue/sticker slightly which would cause the antitampering device to go off the next time it's scanned.
• Having to get the windshield replaced because of damage/cracks. The customer would transfer the sticker and unknowingly void the sticker.
• Kids, just don't underestimate them.

In the end, most management won't really understand this device well beyond statements like, "You can detect tampering with more than 99 percent accuracy!" And, unless they inform the customers of how the anti-tampering works, Customers won't understand why they're being accused of tampering with the sticker.

This has nothing to do with RCS from what I read on the article. It looks like the UK wants to be able to tell companies to disable security features such as End to End Encryption so that they can view the messages.

Who cares. reddit has killed reddit. Just be here now. Ready to move on.

Uh, sir, I think you wandered into the wrong place. This is /c/Reddit>

It's not just tap water, it's also the non-stick coating on a large number of pans (including Hex Clad which is one of the more expensive sets).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene

Some additional info the article doesn't address or skims over:

The accounts were suspended for 3 months.

They only suspended accounts that were overly abusing the system. Players that duped on accident, or a small number of times were not punished except for the removal of some of their in-game currency and maybe a ship or two that they bought with the earnings they made from duping.

This is the first time that Star Citizen players have had a wave of suspensions like this for an exploit.

This is most likely because of how this exploit affected the servers. In Star Citizen, abandoned ships stick around forever on a particular instance, so other players would need to hijack/tow/destroy/salvage them to get rid of them. The players abusing this exploit would duplicate ships with cargo (that could be sold) as fast as they possibly could, leaving more ships behind than what the servers can normally handle well.

This also happened around the time of a free fly event where anyone could try out the game for a bit without having to pay. So the game wasn't performing as well as it could have been during this event. Although, tbh, this game usually struggles during free flight events anyway.

Looks like the Nordic countries have some of the best protections for their press.

https://rsf.org/en/index

The U.S. is ranked around 45th which is disappointing considering the first amendment is supposed to guarantee freedom of the press.

But in general western countries are far better than places like Russia, China, India, the Middle East, etc.

At least when Microsoft was pulling the plug on their music streaming service, they gave everyone the ability to just download all of the songs that you owned.

Great video, he breaks everything down really well...

I might have to start linking to this video rather than trying explain what AI is vs what AI isn't to those who like to make general statements like "AI is a scam!".

Well, now's a great time to let them know about Pixelfed, although explosive growth like this will be a strain on any website.

My one concern is, what do I do if the phone freezes up?
With physical buttons there is a hardware bypass so I can force the phone to reset.
With a "trackpad" I'm not as confident it will register those touches correctly when the OS has seized up.
I'm assuming they'll have something figured out at the hardware level, but I'm curious what that will be.

So many reposts in this community...

A job interview! (I wish I was joking).

The reward for developing this miraculous leap forward in technology? A job interview, according to Neuralink employee Bliss Chapman. There is no mention of monetary compensation on the web page.

Looks like someone setup a petition for Spitz to get rehired. https://www.change.org/p/re-hire-the-legendary-community-manager-general-spitz

What I've heard, and what makes sense, is that Millenials had to learn technology and troubleshoot all the issues for their parents.

Now that they're grown up, they continue to troubleshoot issues for their kids and fix any issues.

So their kids don't get that same experience.

This is more of a generalization of course, there are absolutely genZ-ers who are tech savvy.

AI is a very broad topic. Unless you only want to talk about Large Language Models (like ChatGPT) or AI Image Generators (Midjourney) there are a lot of uses for AI that you seem to not be considering.

It's great for upscaling old videos: (this would fall under image generating AI since it can be used for colorizing, improving details, and adding in additional frames) so that you end up with something like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1OgQL9_Cw

It's useful for scanning an image for text and being able to copy it out (OCR).

It's excellent if you're deaf, or sitting in a lobby with a muted live broadcast and want to see what is being said with closed captions (Speech to Text).

Flying your own drone with object detection/avoidance.

There's a lot more, but basically, it's great at taking mundane tasks where you're stuck doing the same (or similar) thing over, and over, and over again, and automating it.

What do you mean by this?:

Cara, bans us from removing malicious source code

Is there obviously malicious source code? Is there a policy that specifically says we can't remove any source code? Is this even open source?

Technically, generative AI will always give the same answer when given the same input. But, what happens is a "seed" is mixed in to help randomize things, that way it can give different answers every time even if you ask it the same question.

This just happens if you're using a VPN.. notice how it says "login to your Reddit account"?

Switching to a good VPN server, or turning off the VPN will let you browse Reddit again.

Because Livenation/Ticketmaster have a hand in almost every step between the artist and their fans.

They either have exclusive deals already in place, or they even outright own parts of it.

The artist's manager has contracts with them, they have contracts for concert promotion, and overall the vast majority of venues have exclusive ticketing contracts to only use Ticketmaster.

There are very few large venues that will even give artists the option of using a different ticketing service.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpl_AT7of5Y&t=136s

I get that Louis is against Sponsorblock and his personal feelings and morals influence the direction of the software too.

Louis may be against sponsorblock, but sponsorblock is supported in Grayjay, so at least he's not letting his personal feelings get in the way too much of what his userbase wants.

I hope Louis does well in case they go up against Google. I just hope they get a good judge that has a decent understanding of how the tech works and how a decision one way or another will really affect everything.

This is a lesson that we already learned a while back.

We used to make cars that were tough, but then we noticed that people were dying way too easily when they hit a tree or a wall.

In an indestructible car, all of the forces of a crash are directly applied to the people inside of a car. You might as well have have been riding a motorcyle when you crashed. They would need some advanced harness system that gives a little on impact without letting you hit the steering wheel or center console... there's not a whole lot of space for that.

In the cars of today, the car is meant to crumple in a way that absorbs as much of an impact as possible while trying to keep the occupants alive.

If the cybertruck is too stiff, even a collision at a slow speed will kill or severely injure the occupants.

and more

I bet they included farming equipment in the exemption list...

Videography
Photography
Downloading Machine Learning Models
Data for Training ML Models
Training ML Models
Gaming (the games themselves or saving replays)
Backing up movies/videos/images etc.
Backing up music
NAS

Take your pick, feel free to mix and match or add on to the list.

That's pretty messed up if there isn't a valid way to disclose it on the official paperwork.

One of the legitimate reasons I can see for this law would be cases where someone changed their name to be similar, or the same, as someone else who is much more likely to win.

So if someone changed their name to Joe Biden recently, I would absolutely want it disclosed that they had done so.

It doesn't break the law at all. The courts have already ruled that copyrighted material can be fed into AI/ML models for training:

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-important-supreme-court-decision-for-data-science-and-machine-learning-44cfc1c1bcaf

Text of the relevant section of the 14th Amendment:

Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Edit:
Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv

Basically just be careful if you like to post images/text taken straight from ChatGPT.

If you post anything that someone gets offended about and decides to sue ChatGPT (OpenAI) over it, they can turn around and bill you for those legal costs (whether they win the lawsuit or not).

Or if you post a screenshot that proves that you can get ChatGPT to write out the entire first chapter of some copyright protected book...

I've also seen people who like to "jailbreak" ChatGPT and then post things like tricking ChatGPT into giving instructions on how to make certain illegal devices and such. Again, just be careful and think if someone could sue the makers of ChatGPT and they include your social media post in the lawsuit, you have already agreed to pay their legal costs for that lawsuit.

Thanks for pointing this out. Here's an alternative site covering this (the only one that showed up on a quick ground.news search):

https://www.mediaite.com/news/rep-tim-burchett-floats-congressional-conspiracy-surrounding-jeffrey-epstein-flight-logs/

I mean, the proof of concept is open source, so anyone can go out and make their own iMessaging service now.

I'm okay with paying for this because they need to run a service for notifications and they also have to play this cat and mouse game with Apple.

The fact that Beeper has already come up with a patch to workaround Apple's block show's that they're going to work hard to keep this service running.

Edit: Beeper mini is still down, but Beeper Cloud is back up.