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SnoopSqueak
I was abused by my christian parents.
I would like to live long enough to see humanity mature out of superstition and free the world from human greed.
member since 9 Jul 2026 04:36
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- on AI agents steal 600,000 credit cards records: Operator is running 3 open source AI systems autonomously breaking into hundreds of Online Retailers for $25 a target in an ongoing campaign in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17h ago
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on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
a tiny misstep
Multiple colossal missteps.
you shouldn’t have used the company card to pay 20＄ for your kid
Correct. He should have spent $0 on a company credit card for his kid. He could have spent $20 from his own personal card, which presumably would have more reasonable limits. He should have ensured the card required a pin to use so that unauthorized charges couldn’t accrue.
I feel bad for him, too, but he’s incredibly stupid and I don’t see why anyone else should have to cover his ass for his own fuckup.
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on I am required to use Gmail as the email client for my school email in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 14 Sep 2026
Sure. But don’t forget to take steps to prevent Google from harvesting your non-school data anyway. If using an official Gmail app, you’re probably screwed; they get your location, wifi, device info, why not?
If using a web browser, be sure it’s a privacy-focused one, don’t sign into anything but Gmail, and sign out and close the browser completely every time to clear cached data. And Google will still scan every email with automated scrapers, potentially training their AI on your carefully written essays, etc.
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on I am required to use Gmail as the email client for my school email in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 14 Sep 2026
Presumably, privacy. Google is actively weaponizing and selling all data we give them.
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on I refused to train the AI that could replace me in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
The scam is killing us. Stop being complicit.
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on Exemption on age verification for Linux operating systems in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
I don’t think anyone should be using Windows. It’s fascist spyware. Windows users don’t own their systems, Microsoft does.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Their training data has nothing to do with it unless you’re using a local one without web access.
Did you know that the ones you access online are also trained?
Did you know that any chatbot that can connect to the web was given that capability?
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
We have robots outpacing human performance in specific tasks using neural networks.
Because they were created BY HUMANS to do exactly that.
Also, LLMs can perform on tasks they weren’t explicitly trained for.
Such as?
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Again, we are stuck in a semantics debate. What I call reasoning you don’t, it seems.
It is a pattern matcher. It does not reason.
But all I know, as someone that has worked in software engineering for 25+ years, is that the output of whatever it does, and whatever you call it, is incredibly useful.
I have a degree in computer science. Irrelevant. Anyone can see that the “AI” is not intelligence.
Saying “it just generates text” is a reflexive reaction that attempts to flatten the nuance.
It’s a large language model. It generates text.
All Columbus did was sail west.
And killed indigenous people. Datacenters and shitty chatbots are killing people today, good point.
All America did was throw some fuel into a tube and put Neil Armstrong on the top.
Scientists did that, not America.
All Picasso did was to throw some paint onto a cloth.
At least he did it himself instead of prompting an image generator.
All this PhD student did was generate text.
Correct. And you seem to have learned nothing useful.
Surely we’ve got to have some more nuance in there.
LLMs can sometimes be useful. AI does not yet exist. It’s a scam.
If there’s a difference between 10000 monkeys hacking on a typewriter and a human writing their doctoral thesis, the quality of their act isn’t in whether text was generated but WHAT text was generated.
You don’t understand the metaphor. It’s about the nature of infinity, not the competency of monkeys as authors.
If you run an AI prompt infinite times, it will inevitably generate a correct answer somewhere in there. The rest of the time, it will be wrong, potentially with lethal consequences.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
It can’t reason. It doesn’t think. It makes shit up as it was trained to do. It can sort of detect patterns and make a guess about what response would get it the highest score, but it’s so error-prone that a human has to verify the output anyway. It’s difficult to tell whether the perceived benefits outweigh the costs. There are many different types of LLMs and use cases.
As a person who values life and our environment, I’d rather not participate in the sloppification of our world. As a Linux user, I am wary of vibe coded flaws slipping under the radar and screwing up my system.
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on Blur your house in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 30 Aug 2026
“Just give us your name, address, and more, and we’ll stop violating your privacy (on the surface). Training AI? Well, obviously. Selling to data brokers? I mean, why wouldn’t we? We’ll delete the document after we’ve stored all the details in our database, of course.”
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on Blur your house in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 30 Aug 2026
“Google says the document is deleted after 60 days.”
Lol. They absolutely keep all of the data.
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on German airport worker dies of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane' in c/europe@feddit.org · 26 Aug 2026
In christofascist USA, it’ll likely be “god is sending plagues and famine to punish sinners.” Much like how gay people are blamed for hurricanes.
“We take no joy in the death of innocent people,” Marcavage–a former Clinton White House intern–told one reporter. “But we believe that God is in control of the weather. The day Bourbon Street and the French Quarter was flooded was the day that 125,000 homosexuals were going to be celebrating sin in the streets. We’re calling it an act of God.”
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on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Yeah. We went to the moon with, like, 1 MHz CPU and 2 KB RAM.
“autonomously” doing what they are programmed and prompted to do, as always.