JohnEdwa

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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

I was basically after that same concept - create that credential, and have the website only verify it's legit and nothing else.
I think my example of how it's currently done for basically everything in Finland just confused people, I wasn't suggesting every country implements adult age checks with their banks.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Was an example of the security, not who is running the service. But I mean, guess who knows if you pay for OnlyFans or stuff like that?
Your bank.

And like I said, it's only really secure if the service doesn't keep a database of logs connecting the two.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (10 children)

Depends entirely on how it's implemented, because the website doesn't need to know who you are, only verify that you are over 18. Which can be done reasonably securely - you generate a random ID on a secure service (e.g here in Finland, we use our online banking stuff for official verification purposes), give that ID to the website, and the only communication between the two of them is "Is id 123 valid and an adult? Yes/No".

Now, if that "secure service", most likely a government contract done as cheaply as possible turns out not to be, and they keep logs linking those IDs to the URLs requesting verification, then the entire thing goes belly up.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Self-driving cars are a thing, Weymo is doing pretty fine.

But you might be able to spot a few (dozen) teeny-tiny (huge, bulky and extremely obvious) differences between a Waymo and a Tesla cybercab.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

the subscription feed still and always has completely bypasses Youtube’s recommended brainrot anyway

Though they are messing with that too, on mobile there is a "Most Relevant" section on top. Though thankfully they are videos from your subs.
...for now.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Interestingly in the US it isn't, gold is measured in Karat (k/Kt), and Carat (ct) is the unit of weight.

1 Karat is 1/24th gold, 1 Carat is 200 milligrams.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Us sharing a 1000+ km long border with russia might have something to do with that.

And even then, military service isn't actually required, you can do a siviilipalvelus (lit. "Civilian service") instead.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, but there's the third option, just outlaw contraception and abortions. Capitalism is only incompatible with kids if you give your slaves the ability to choose if and when to have them.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 weeks ago

Annoyingly many artists still use it, and for some it's their only platform they post at any regularity, except for paid posts on patreon. I haven't used Twitter as a social media site for almost a decade now, but my "twitter only" art list still has 18 people on it.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Major version numbers are used when stuff changes, and especially when shit breaks. Can the latest OS X 10 run the same software and on the same hardware as the first OS X 10? If not, increase the major number.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That jump at least had a reason, as a bunch of older software checked if they were running on windows 95 or 98 by checking for "windows 9".
And what it actually feels like is the jump from windows 3.1 to 95. Because it's literally the same one.

Win 10 and 11 do also use something like this, though it's more hidden as it's the update numbers - they were yearmonth (1507, 1709) and are now yearhalfofyear - 20H1, 21H2.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Making up answers is kinda their entire purpose. LMMs are fundamentally just a text generation algorithm, they are designed to produce text that looks like it could have been written by a human. Which they are amazing at, especially when you start taking into account how many paragraphs of instructions you can give them, and they tend to rather successfully follow.

The one thing they can't do is verify if what they are talking about is true as it's all just slapping words together using probabilities. If they could, they would stop being LLMs and start being AGIs.

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