The sooner Justin Castreau and his minions are voted out of office, the better.

As an Aussie I don't totally agree about some aspects of what was done here to start to bring Google/Meta to heal, but a couple of things to note:

Payment related to content to sustain a competitive market is not a payment for links, it is a recognition that Google and other big tech financially benefits and exploits the content of others for that financial benefit, often within highly controlled and manipulated eco systems.

Secondly, since the introduction of legislation Australia, and despite Google's heavy handed scare tactics, same with Meta, the sky has not fallen, agreements are in place and from the consumer perspective, other than the FUD tactics at the time, nothing has really changed since there is some national legislation.

In my view big tech can and should be regulated, particularly in circumstances where the underlying business model is profit from harm.

Despite doom propaganda, the net is not gong to collapse just because some necessary legislation is required. Rather, common democratic common sense and controls should prevail over corporate paid lobbyists, particularly when the latter are carefully controlled messaging via third parties.

The current big tech opposition to considering and introducing democratic based controls reminds be of the efforts by the tobacco industry to stall legislation, once it was known the product caused significant harm.

Is this that little message app that became completely irrelevant when they dropped SMS integration?

This has all the newsworthy significance of me standing up and saying the same thing.

Who fuckin cares, Signal.

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Does anybody actually rely on Google for news?

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Maybe next time try using water…

It was a pdf but the address was FB’s CDN so no go

Or they don’t care. Governments world wide have had unfettered access to private communication for centuries. Why would they want to give that up?

We do hotel desking. I wasn't into it at first, but it's actually fine.

Really most of my team has our favorite spots where we sit. It hasn't been an issue with too many people in at once.

Because its algorithms are weird, and when you try to make it simulate feelings it tends to become act like a deranged abuser. Some people find that funny.

People in the government who say messages must be encrypted in a manner such that the government can read them doesn't seem to understand how encryption works.

Encryption keeps anybody from reading your messages. That's just how it works.

No, you can't.

Not even idiots who think that way and try to use prompts that way can.

ChatGPT is basically a dumb Clippy autocomplete which by definition cannot innovate.

No. they can't.

Chatgpt is ... at best decent for very, very simple methods.

But it is shit for even normal decent programming tasks. Let alone innovative programming.

By fucking design! By the very way it works it CANNOT innovate because it just 'riffs' on what it has seen ... it guesses based on previous input ... and most input is SHIT.

And even if the model was trained on the best input .... by it's very definition of how it works it CANNNOT innovate.

Yet.

Been using signal as an alternate for a group of friends that have iphones and android. It's been great!

Plus the desktop app is nice

Soon AI will render middle class developers obsolete.

The US as in the US Attorney?

ChatGPT will refactor your code. It will also refactor its own code if you ask it to.

https://imgur.com/a/RSq9CBI

It can do far more than that especially when given the proper prompts.

The mods don’t let you link to arxiv on a technology subreddit?

I know chatGPT is not the end all be all and can be very wrong, but I absolutely I love using it for researching any topic.

You know why? Because it’s like old school Google.

I’m not bombarded with ads or have to scroll through paragraphs of filler text someone wrote to game the algo. It’s just a straight forward answer to my question.

Wake me up in 10k years please then

Nothing of significance will come from their actions

I looked into that a few days ago. It is trained on a data set that contains 5 petabytes of data ... A lot of the components are actually open source or at least well documented via papers but there is just no way anyone can create one without a few millions as budget.

The key with chatgpt isn't asking for the whole cake, it's asking for the ingredients.