If anything, I'm really glad how Europe has stepped up and started cooperating more as a consequence of US actions these past few months.

Absurd. Glad I have a Kobo.

It seems weird FBI would post misinformation regarding how "they" are spending the money

No one ever questions these things. "It's for the kids!" is the one argument that'll lead us all to damnation.

If you don't read the article, this sounds worse than it is. I think this is the important part:

ChatGPT's persuasion performance is still short of the 95th percentile that OpenAI would consider "clear superhuman performance," a term that conjures up images of an ultra-persuasive AI convincing a military general to launch nuclear weapons or something. It's important to remember, though, that this evaluation is all relative to a random response from among the hundreds of thousands posted by everyday Redditors using the ChangeMyView subreddit. If that random Redditor's response ranked as a "1" and the AI's response ranked as a "2," that would be considered a success for the AI, even though neither response was all that persuasive.

OpenAI's current persuasion test fails to measure how often human readers were actually spurred to change their minds by a ChatGPT-written argument, a high bar that might actually merit the "superhuman" adjective. It also fails to measure whether even the most effective AI-written arguments are persuading users to abandon deeply held beliefs or simply changing minds regarding trivialities like whether a hot dog is a sandwich.

A reminder that the people voting for these laws do not understand technology. They don't get it. Yes, this law sucks, but even if it passes, I'd be really surprised if it was actually enforceable.

I'd like to clarify that removing DRM does lie in a grey zone in many countries, including in the US due to some court rulings. In some countries the right to make a backup of your e-book might have priority over copyright law for example.

I try to not get swept up in "correlation equals causation" and conspiracies, but many of these timings seem really really sus

Great that they're discussing it. Less great that people are still like "no one is ever going to move to Lemmy, so let's just ignore it and stay on the same or another centralized social media where we always are bound to someone else's whims". I posted a topic regarding anarchists staying on centralized platforms some months ago, and it still doesn't make sense to me that many, often marginalized groups, trust large corporations to be the place where they can organize. I realize the barriers to entry are lower, and that more people are on those sites (so that you can reach more), but it's still not logical at all in the end.

It's a common misconception that stripping DRM is illegal. If you own the books, it's legal in most countries to strip the DRM. This method doesn't even touch the DRM, he just extracts the content after being delivered it. Maybe it's semantics, but it's not the same as using the DeDRM plugin for example.

Completely machine translated subtitles often lack quality and nuance to their translations. I'd rather have a human getting paid to do proper subtitling instead. But yes, if the option is having zero subtitles instead, then sure. That's not the case with Netflix etc though, they can definitely afford proper subtitling.

Translation is an art as much as it is a science.

It's better to pay for a VPN provider that is verified to work in China. And no, they won't kidnap you for using a VPN as some people write here. It's a non-issue just to bypass the GFW. The issue is when you write to a Chinese audience things that the CCP do not like.

I do not know about this specific case, but many cracked copies are true false-positives. Only 28/74 flagged it as malicious. Sure, do your due diligence, but in general it'll be picked by antiviruses as malware.

It's super frustrating how everyone's excited for the next centralized thing that'll just start anew on the road to eventual enshittification.

I'd say a fair idea is to host your own personal website with your resume, if you're capable and/or want to learn. There are often examples you can base your portfolio on.

I really dislike this argument. Just because it's "their country, their rules" doesn't not make it an issue? Especially when it comes to privacy concerns. Privacy concerns are universal. There are a plethora of serious issues that are not defended by "national sovereignty". If that was the case we should just turn a blind eye to North Korea, right?

What I find mad is that people are seriously depressed about this on /r/Tiktok. Yeah sure, I understand small creators now having a tough time having their business disappearing, but people are literally saying that TikTok was their only source of information and that they don't know what to do now??

I think Linux phones are a thing? https://itsfoss.com/linux-phones/

One of the worlds greatest wonders

Endless growth will kill us all. I can't tell you how much I detest these "concerns".