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breadfred2 t1_j9o5mii wrote
Reply to comment by palox3 in Study reveals 1 in 4 children apps on the Google Play Store violate privacy rules by jeffsmith202
What do you base that on? Do you have aan Android phone yourself? Do you have children who download apps without your knowledge?
NZGumboot t1_j9o5cvl wrote
Reply to comment by Plzbanmebrony in Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing by Vailhem
No. Part of the process to extract energy involves the experimenters sending information from one entangled particle to the other (presumably along a wire). Thus it doesn't matter if the energy transfer itself is instantaneous, information still can't be transferred faster than the speed of light.
Nudemales1 t1_j9o570k wrote
Reply to comment by dontpet in Flooded with AI-created content, a sci-fi magazine suspends submissions by AmHoomon
Most products you are served up online are probably selected by ML recommendation models of varying complexity
czl t1_j9o4tlc wrote
Reply to China tells big tech companies not to offer ChatGPT services — State media outlet blasts chatbot as spreading U.S. government 'misinformation' by marketrent
Quandary for dictatorships: How to apply censorship to the vast datasets required to train large language models? No doubt they are already working on AIs to apply censorship but even those require large training sets of forbidden content. Is this quandary like Soviets being unable to develop their own computers? Seems some technologies are like a test for a society. Michael Crichton uses this idea in his Sphere novel.
Negative_Ad6063 t1_j9o4odq wrote
Reply to comment by drossbots in Flooded with AI-created content, a sci-fi magazine suspends submissions by AmHoomon
Digital media is quickly becoming obsolete if you can mass distribute content like this. The age of the painters are coming back! Be physical not digital :)
Significant_Work5855 t1_j9o4fx4 wrote
Reply to Study reveals 1 in 4 children apps on the Google Play Store violate privacy rules by jeffsmith202
Not every apps? I'm impressed
[deleted] t1_j9o3sma wrote
Reply to Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates says the rise of AI poses a threat to Google's search engine profit by Nsaxon
Google made a massive wrong turn years ago. Surprised no one jumped in already but the reality is that it was a shitty Microsoft program that made it happen in the first instance. Why hasn’t he done something about it himself?
marketrent OP t1_j9o2zjj wrote
Reply to China tells big tech companies not to offer ChatGPT services — State media outlet blasts chatbot as spreading U.S. government 'misinformation' by marketrent
Excerpt from the linked content^1 by Cissy Zhou:
>HONG KONG -- Regulators have told major Chinese tech companies not to offer ChatGPT services to the public amid growing alarm in Beijing over the AI-powered chatbot's uncensored replies to user queries.
>Tencent Holdings and Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, have been instructed not to offer access to ChatGPT services on their platforms, either directly or via third parties, people with direct knowledge of the matter told Nikkei Asia.
>Tech companies will also need to report to regulators before they launch their own ChatGPT-like services, the sources added.
>The latest move by regulators comes amid an official backlash against ChatGPT.
>On Monday, state-owned media outlet China Daily said in a post on Weibo, China's heavily censored equivalent of Twitter, that the chatbot "could provide a helping hand to the U.S. government in its spread of disinformation and its manipulation of global narratives for its own geopolitical interests."
>An executive from [one] leading Chinese tech player said that even without a direct warning his company would not make use of ChatGPT.
>"There will inevitably be some users who ask the chatbot politically sensitive questions, but the platform would be held accountable for the results."
>OpenAI, Alibaba, Tencent and Ant Group did not immediately respond to Nikkei Asia's request for comment.
^1 Cissy Zhou for Nikkei Asia, last updated 22 Feb. 2023 20:34 JST, https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/China-tells-big-tech-companies-not-to-offer-ChatGPT-services
OverthinkingMadMan t1_j9o2ruj wrote
Reply to comment by Curious_Charge9431 in Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me. A vital AirTag safety feature is incorrectly notifying me every day. by MayoFetish
Your solution is the same as just removing the air tag and placing it somewhere. That is already an option. So?
For this to be a problem, you first would have to accept a family invite for a tag, then that tag has to be put on you somewhere, without you knowing it and you would have to be unable to see the location yourself.
If that is the intent, then there are better ways to do that without the other person noticing. Just get a dog tracker that used 4G. That doesn't give notifications, doesn't require the partner to accept anything and the partner would be uanble to see the location.
DneSokas t1_j9o2m5y wrote
So while others have already mentioned that the title is misleading, it should be noted that it IS possible to pull energy from nothing at least on paper. In real life there are probably practical limitations that prevent the otherwise perfectly allowable maths to become reality but its a good thing to keep in mind anyway to remind ourselves that the laws of thermodynamics are descriptions of the universe and not ironclad parts of it.
stealthmodeactive t1_j9o2is3 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Study reveals 1 in 4 children apps on the Google Play Store violate privacy rules by jeffsmith202
Whoa settle down.
I said probably nobody will read it but you can. Not sure what's ignorant about that. There's so much junk on any app store you make it sound like people are just reading all the source code of everything all day. A perfect example is OpenSSL. And heart bleed
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed
My second paragraph shows you don't know what you're talking about. Most people are going to jam that "allow while using app" permission. So sketch web browser app could just be listening 24/7, or only when it needs. Maybe microphone isn't the best example since most phones have an indicator these days. But it will apply across other types of permissions. Once you allow Snapchat to read your contacts so you can "find who else is using snapchat", you think it stops there? Or are they always scanning your contacts without you knowing, just silently monitoring for updates?
You're lashing out at both a user and an advocate for FOSS. But to not admit its potential weaknesses is ignorant.
Gh0sss t1_j9o2cok wrote
Reply to comment by StealyEyedSecMan in Amazon closes $3.9 billion deal to acquire One Medical | CNN Business by prehistoric_knight
doesn't really work when both companies are heavily incentivized to nickel-and-dime people for life saving medications, i think the main problem is that people are heavily profiting from these drugs, and that there is an incentive and movement among pharma companies to ask for way more money than what it took to actually create the drug
gaurav_gilalkar t1_j9o1ps5 wrote
Reply to comment by veritanuda in Got a tech question or want to discuss tech? Bi-Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread by veritanuda
Okay. Will do. Thanks
moon_then_mars t1_j9o1ap4 wrote
Reply to comment by NeurodivergentPie in Apple reportedly made a big breakthrough on a secret non-invasive blood glucose monitor project that originally was part of a 'fake' startup by dakiki
They call it the iVee. The apple intravenous
moon_then_mars t1_j9o13ox wrote
Reply to comment by Dredly in Apple reportedly made a big breakthrough on a secret non-invasive blood glucose monitor project that originally was part of a 'fake' startup by dakiki
Maybe just buy two watches. Those blood sugar monitors are like $4000 each and an apple watch is like $350
Plzbanmebrony t1_j9o10j1 wrote
Reply to comment by PapaverOneirium in Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing by Vailhem
So they also sent data faster than the speed of light? My understanding with the whole limit of entangled partials is that while yes they remained sync you can't touch them without desyncing them. My understanding is that IS impossible based on our understanding of the universe.
moon_then_mars t1_j9o0y6z wrote
Reply to comment by MakingItElsewhere in Apple reportedly made a big breakthrough on a secret non-invasive blood glucose monitor project that originally was part of a 'fake' startup by dakiki
You may hate apple, but do you have a founders edition Stadia controller sitting around?
moon_then_mars t1_j9o0nb0 wrote
Reply to comment by PapaverOneirium in Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing by Vailhem
I didn’t realize it worked like that. I (incorrectly) thought it was like a read-only signal on both sides, and doing so destroyed the link
[deleted] t1_j9o0lrk wrote
Reply to comment by unhealthySQ in Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing by Vailhem
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JDub_Scrub t1_j9o0i6r wrote
Reply to comment by LiamTheHuman in Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing by Vailhem
One of my favorite times from my childhood was sitting around after work talking about The Simpsons. The "cromulent" episode had just aired.
Good times.
[deleted] t1_j9o0h71 wrote
Reply to comment by stealthmodeactive in Study reveals 1 in 4 children apps on the Google Play Store violate privacy rules by jeffsmith202
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FrankWestingWester t1_j9o0d6j wrote
Reply to comment by Thorusss in Flooded with AI-created content, a sci-fi magazine suspends submissions by AmHoomon
Sci fi magazines are maybe the first people I'd expect to reject this. The upcoming misuses of ai is exactly what writers have been warning about for decades. Also, their inboxes are literally being overwhelmed to the point of uselessness with this low quality spam. That's not useful to anyone!
landwomble t1_j9o042e wrote
Reply to comment by hucktard in In-Car Climate Control Design: How It Has Gone Backwards and How to Fix It by nastratin
Sure, defrost/defog buttons get used, but summer or winter, with climate control you set a temp you want and the car sorts it out and maintains that temp. I guess with older style aircon with no temp sensing you might need to manually fiddle with it but on modern cars - I don't see the point. I don't want to be cold in summer, I want to be comfortable all year round...
nosyattacker03 t1_j9o02rp wrote
Reply to Study reveals 1 in 4 children apps on the Google Play Store violate privacy rules by jeffsmith202
That's the advantage on being the pioneer on mobile technology. They just set there own limits to there favor.
strapabiro t1_j9o5q75 wrote
Reply to Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing by Vailhem
is this the usual fancy named experiment where we don't count the energy required to run the experiment itself?