The idea of storing age in the OS is that end programs don’t actually access it directly. They get age ranges, like child/adult, not the actual birthdate. In theory, it’s much more private than uploading your id and photo to every random website/app that you use.
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and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children
The USA’s aversion to the human body is so strange to me. Is there a tangible negative to children occasionally seeing thicc booty once in a while? And don’t even get me started on nudity. As long as parents are present to provide guidance, as they should be in all things, seeing different bodies can be a valuable learning experience and a boost to body image. That said, if the only women your child ever sees are mommy and twerking latinas, you’re in for a bad time.
Non-profits want to maximize their impact and spend efficiency. If they track how people use their services, they know better where to focus their efforts for improvements. If they know how people are finding their site, they know where to focus their marketing spend to help the most people per dollar spent. Marketing and user analytics are an important part of even altruistic goals.
They don’t care about quality, they care about cutting costs and keeping subscribers. That’s why they employ experts and why some even invent their own codecs and custom hardware to go with it.
Regardless, I’d bet anything that you are not able to reencode blurays to 15mbps without substantial quality loss.
Lmao, I promise streaming services and CDNs employ world-class experts in encoding, both in tuning and development. They have already poured through maximized quality vs cost. Tuning your encoder to allow for more bits in some scenes by definition ups the average bitrate of the file, unless you’re also taking bits away from other scenes. Streaming services have already found a balance of video quality vs storage/bandwith costs that they are willing to accept, which tends to be around 15mbps for 4k. That will unarguably provide a drastically worse experience on a high-enough quality tv than a 40mbps+ bluray. Like, day and night in most scenes and even more in others.
Calibrating your tv, while a great idea, can only do so much vs low-bitrate encodings and the fake HDR services build in solely to trigger the HDR popup on your tv and trick it into upping the brightness rather than to actuality improve the color accuracy/vibrancy.
They don’t really care about the quality, they care that subscribers will keep their subscriptions. They go as low quality as possible to cut costs while retaining subs.
Blu-rays don’t have this same issue because there are no storage or bandwith costs to the provider, and people buying blu-rays are typically more informed, have higher quality equipment, and care more about image quality than your typical streaming subscriber.
Oh, for sure, the marketing is terrible and makes this into a bigger issue by making people over confident. I wouldn’t say the lack of sandboxing is a major problem on its own, though. If you want an automated agent that does everything, it’s going to need permissions to do everything. Though they should absolutely have configurable guardrails that are restrictive by default. I doubt they bothered with that.
The idea is sound, but the tech isn’t there yet. The real problem is that the marketing pretends that LLMs are ready for this. Maybe Anthropic shouldn’t have released it at all, but at this point AI companies subsist on releasing half-baked products with thrice-baked promises so at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if OpenAI, in an attempt to remain relevant, tomorrow releases an automated identity theft bot to help you file your taxes incorrectly.
Bad, sure, but also a well-known fundamental issue with basically all agentic LLMs, to the point where sounding the alarm as much as this seems silly. If you give an LLM any access to your machine, it might be tricked into taking malicious actions. The same can be said to real humans. Though they are better than LLMs right now, humans are the #1 security vulnerability in any system.
LLMs can get around this by requiring explicit permission before being able to take certain actions, but the more it asks for permission, the more the user has to just sit there and approve stuff, defeating the purpose of an autonomous agent in the first place.
To be clear, it’s not good, and anyone running an agent with a high level of access with no oversight in a non-sandboxed environment today is a fool. But this article is written like they found an 11/10 severity CVE in the linux kernal when really this is a well-known fundamental thing that can happen if you’re an idiot and misusing LLMs to a wild degree. LLMs have plenty of legitimate issues to trash on. This isn’t one of them. Well, maybe a little.
That’s partly the point. Use words that accurately describe your evil group to incorrectly describe other groups and all of a sudden the words lose meaning and nobody can call you that anymore. Hooray!
The article clearly states that the plants aren’t needed, not even to power AI. They’re literally keeping them running purely to pollute and own the libs.
Anywhere from 5 to 7 bananas. Or about 0.01296 football fields.
The question you should be asking is does the audience have enough faith in some random commenter’s intelligence.
PWAs are cool af and widely used for publishing apps on the App/Play stores. It’s a shame they haven’t been adopted more widely for their original purpose of installing apps outside of those stores, but you can’t get everything you want.
Is this vetoable? Not every decision made by Congress is subject to a presidential veto, that would be insane. It’s just new bills, I thought. Releasing the Epstein files isn’t a law they’re trying to pass.
Doesn’t matter if you pay the full $27k or if you pay $5 and the employer pays $26,995, either way it’s $27k in your benefit package. Just because it doesn’t pass through your pocket first doesn’t mean it’s not your money that you earned.
I concede that you would not get a $27k raise if your employer didn’t have to cover insurance. However, there would be a whole lot of extra money allocated to compensation packages. Well, really the same amount of money, but vastly reduced costs.
That’s not the bet. It’s a frivolous lawsuit with no chance at succeeding.
They’re either betting that defending it would cost more than $25M, that a bribe will bring them favor, or, more likely, accepting that the cost of doing business in Mein Dönald’s America is to periodically pay large baseless “fines” at the whim of a dementia patient.
It’s not a legal issue. They’d just shut down any accounts doing this. They already detect and shut down account sharing and this is just a variant of that. No law or government intervention necessary.
Sling couldn’t have asked for a better marketing campaign
It’s certainly breaking TOS, so the country you’re in doesn’t matter.
Aye, but AV1 uses math to make the videos smaller, which is the same technology h.264 uses, so clearly it’s patent infringement!