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  • Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in A.I. Clash With Trump

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  • the article mentions that:

    The rallying behind Anthropic was tinged with opportunism. Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, said in a memo to employees this week that “we have long believed that A.I. should not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons,” which is the same stance as Anthropic’s.

    But late Friday, after Mr. Trump had ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s technology, OpenAI said it had reached its own agreement with the Pentagon to provide its A.I. for classified systems. OpenAI said it had found a way to put safeguards into its technologies that would somehow prevent the systems from being used in ways that it does not want them to be.

    For many A.I. companies, government contracts are only one piece of an expanding pipeline of business. The $200 million contract that Anthropic had been negotiating with the Pentagon for A.I. use in classified systems, which precipitated the fight, would most likely be only a small percentage of the company’s revenue. Anthropic primarily sells A.I. software to other businesses and last year hit a monthly pace of $8 billion to $10 billion in annual revenue, Dr. Amodei said in December.

  • The FAF Defederates from Feddit.org

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  • I really hope there are better examples of the instance's problems than what we got in the post. Most of the screenshots (emphasis on most. a few did illustrate exactly what the post said they illustrate) were just banning people for civility. You may oppose civility politics, but in that case I don't think we should defed just because their moderation enforces civility. Here's one example from the modlog:

    And if you read two more words instead of instantly ragequitting like a little bitch, you would've realised that it's an EXTRA aid package THEY can use, not that Israeli bases need to guard it. Literally just a humanitarian bridge that allows Gazans to access basic necessities from Israel...

    Do you agree with this removal?

    How about this comment our instance removed?

    And if you read two more words instead of instantly ragequitting like a little bitch, you would've realised that it's an EXTRA interface you CAN use, not that it's Java based. Literally just a compatibility layer that allows Octave to interop with Java...

    I trust Unruffled that there is much better evidence out there, but I can't rest my hopes for such an impactful decision on civility politics. I really hope people come around with much more to chew on.

  • European Memes a community to enjoying memes that celebrate quirks of Europe

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  • casualeurope feels a lot more discussion and news, and !yurop@feddit.org has been defederated from by dbzer0 for Israel-related reasons

  • Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN"

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  • the problem with edge's (allegedly) is not just it's white-label, though. that would make it a VPN.

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    Dangers of the privacy rabbit hole

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  • it's like why some people prefer Windows LTSC I think: less breakage, more stability, less experimental features, enterprises that use these often want like privacy hardening for security or something so these distributions often have similar things, etc

    i do not think there's anything to worry about chinese laptops with us-designed chips lol. it's a TSMC to the bottom

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Tom Robinson from The Game Theorists is Tommy Robinson in disguise

  • Kids of today will likely miss Roblox in 15-20 years, but it's unlikely they'll have the chance to play the stuff they missed during their childhoods

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  • you do have to download the roblox player

    some of its games could damn well be run offline and locally

    the draw of roblox for players is precisely that everything is social. without that, everything's just a budget ripoff without its own value proposition.

  • Kids of today will likely miss Roblox in 15-20 years, but it's unlikely they'll have the chance to play the stuff they missed during their childhoods

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  • Independent Mojang never had a FOSS-ish development style. For the most direct thing, Minecraft only released code deobfuscation mappings after five years of being a Microsoft subsidiary.

  • Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

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  • thank you!

  • Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

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  • https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/95614/do-ad-impressions-count-if-the-user-is-using-an-adblocker summarizes Google Ads's documentation at https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/141811?hl=en (TL;DR: pay depends on whether a script/request attached to the ad element is performed).

    It's true that different adblockers do different things, but the most popular ones do block the requests too. One of the most popular arguments for adblocking is performance and bandwidth. If we only hid the ad from view without doing that, we would not get the performance and bandwidth savings that adblock brings. So, µBO blocks the requests.

    You can confirm yourself whether the request is blocked by searching "ad" (or "doubleclick" specifically for DoubleClick Ads, which are the majority of Google Ads) in your browser DevTools's "Network" tab. Compare when the adblocker is off vs. on; for me with µBO the majority of requests aren't even attempted and disappear when their entire element is ad-blocked, and in these cases the pay script doesn't load either. The screenshot above only shows some requests that were attempted and blocked.

    Going down the rabbit hole, doesn't that then also imply that people using assistive technologies like a screen reader for the visually impaired are actually stealing content?

    No, screen readers would still read ads. Just having the screenreader move to the next element is the same as scrolling past the ad. The difference is that if the advertiser doesn't give alt-text, the content can become nonsensical. But the advertiser still pays.

    You can approximately check an ad's text for a screenreader with Firefox DevTools's "Inspect accessibility properties" feature.

  • Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

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  • as much as sneaking into a seat in a cinema without paying means you're no longer involved in the deal. so yeah, you might have a point that you're no longer involved in any deal, but i'd still call that piracy.

  • Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

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  • thing is with ads you can block, the advertiser is not paying if the ad is blocked.

    i agree that taking a restroom break while an ad is showing is not piracy. that's not blocking the ad, though.

  • Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

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  • you are involved in the deal, because advertisers pay by how many times the ad is displayed (or clicked). just like how you are involved in the deal between the distributor and cinema, because the pay depends on how many tickets you buy.

  • Joining Haidra, instance democracy and the tantalizing potential for user flairs

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  • hmm, you can donate compute?

  • Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

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  • by "the act" I meant things that are more popularly understood as piracy. even if torrenting cracked Assassin's Creed was legalized, I'd still call torrenting cracked video games piracy.

  • CSS that tries to aim to make governance pinned vote tallies display like normal Lemmy emoji size in the Photon frontend

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  • not exactly sure what you mean. you could send me a link and i'll give you a link to its photon UI. it handles image posts

  • Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

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  • If one of the pirate parties succeeded in implementing their platform, I'd still call the act piracy there.

  • Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

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  • That makes the piracy a lot more ethical and probably something I support.

  • Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

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  • i mean if not targeted, how is it any more brainwashing than arguments online?

    or maybe i'm just biased against being affected by it because i've got a really frugal family culture

  • Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

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  • but to the website's wallet

  • Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

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  • i agree; you're making copies: not displacing any original inventory

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    CSS that tries to aim to make governance pinned vote tallies display like normal Lemmy emoji size in the Photon frontend

    userstyles.world /style/26618/default-slug
  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

  • Tech @programming.dev
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    archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog

    gyrovague.com /2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog

    gyrovague.com /2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
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    Couple Receive $200,000 Settlement After ‘Pungent’ Indian Food Complaint

    www.nytimes.com /2026/01/23/us/palak-paneer-indian-food-racism-settlement.html
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    False cognate

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/False_cognate
  • New York Times gift articles @sopuli.xyz
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    What Hunger Looks Like

    www.nytimes.com /2025/11/27/opinion/hunger-food-insecurity-affordability.html
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    Italy Passes a Femicide Law, Seeking to Prevent Violence Against Women

    www.nytimes.com /2025/11/26/world/europe/italy-femicide-violence-women.html
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    ~1.3 GB per layer, 115 GB in total

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    ~1.3 GB per layer, 115 GB in total

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL, on this day 50 years ago, Oliver Sipple had saved President Ford by tackling his assassin Sara Jane Moore. He was promptly outed as gay.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Sipple
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