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Yeah, the real difference is that Iron Man did more work in a 3-hour movie than Musk in his whole life.

I think EU law already prevents this, at least this has never been an issue in the multiple member states I lived in.

The real question is, what if you commission a work from another, and they make you something in a completely automated way. Let’s say a vending machine. Are you responsible for what the vending machine does if you use it as it’s supposed to be used? Or is it the owner of the machine?

Why is it different for LLM text generators?

I have a feeling that’s the point with a lot of their use cases, like RealPage.

It’s not a criminal act when an AI did it! (Except it is and should be.)

My simple solution is to cheat.

Grab something like WeMod and breeze through it for the story and ambience.

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels

And kneeling before self-destructive societal standards definitely counts as kneeling.

Thank fuck tho, it will keep electric waste down, and I feel we are starting to figure out you don’t need to spec your game to the newest graphics card for it to be fun.

How can this GaaS thing be sooo profitable and also such bad press that even mentioning it results in a “sorry we didn’t mean that” article?

the only thing the app does is start transactions and check with the server if they’re paid

Yeah, but the whole PCI DSS thing means that the app must still be secured. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to be tied to Google Play, but explain it to them.

IIRC they did coupons exclusively in their app a few years ago where I lived (haven’t checked since), and they hiked the price of everything, so if you don’t install the app, you get a 20% surcharge in effect.

That goes for every single shitty chain store as well.

namely the countries that got upset, or companies that come from there.

I guess the point is that the rich countries and companies are actually happy with this outcome, since less of the pesky NGOs that bother them in the same country can attend.

The point is, contrary to how the article wants to portray it, or you are portraying it, it’s not the rich countries or the companies complaining, but the NGOs fighting for climate conscious policies in those rich countries. They say that this makes it so that the rich countries can control who can go to the conference and who can’t. So this actually helps those rich polluting governments and companies.

Thanks for spamming this to keep reminding me, I am a total slob, and it took me this long to go find my ID card to sign.

The actual title is:

Bigger share of COP29 badges for Global South NGOs upsets rich-country groups

And the opposing argument is that the reduction of badges for NGOs from Western Europe et al. effectively makes it so that the governments of the countries with the largest emissions can control who gets to observe the conference from their respective countries. This is coupled with the fact that fewer people can attend in the first place than last time, since the venue is smaller.

To be honest, I don’t know who’s in the right here, but the article definitely feels like it’s taking a side, and the editorialized title makes that bias worse.

I think more observers, and a larger venue, could be justified for the biggest climate conference of the world. I think this event should be more important than “you will own nothing and be happy” Davos for example.

Sell their TLD before they evacuate as their island goes under water? Or that’s just Tuvalu?

“I turned up and was told what I would be filming would be a graphic rape scene,” she said.

"This act could be watched for as long or as little time as the player wanted through a window, and then a player would be able to shoot this character in the head.

What game is this even? I mean, why would any game need a graphic rape scene? Who is this going to sell to?

Don’t video games outside of Japan try to avoid getting AO rated any more?

It’s a mixed bag. Some ads (like some Youtube stuff I guess) are bundled and filtered, but most actually rely on external requests to ad exchanges. What happens mostly is that when there is an ad spot in the page you downloaded, that is in fact a generic request to an ad broker to send an ad instead of a specific ad. That then starts a real time bidding process inside multiple broker networks to find the most expensive (for the advertiser) ad they can show you based on your tracking information and demographics.

And that’s for every ad spot. It’s insanely intricate and frankly wasteful.

At this point, using Firefox and an ad blocker does more for the climate than paper straws or recycling.

Even with ad blocking, half of consumer internet traffic is ads. Google is contributing to increasing this ratio, where most traffic on the internet will be stuff the client did not request, contributing more to climate change than Bitcoin - not that this makes crypto look better, they are just a useful milestone to compare to with the press they get.

And this doesn’t include the idiotic AI shit they do.

same logic

That’s the point, it isn’t. The good old version was built on logic where the browser would send the downloaded webpage to the extension, and uBO could weed out ads and trackers, and give you the sanitized version. uBOL works completely differently, as it has to ask the browser to clean it out, but the browser will ultimately decide what to actually do, and there are already limitations that impact ad blocking, as the browser won’t accept enough changes to block all the different kinds of shit that comes through.

The other big difference in logic is distribution, uBO relies on outside blocklists to keep up with Google changing Youtube several times a day to keep sending you malware, in the new system, this is not allowed, so it’s on Google to approve a new blocklist as fast as they do their changes - they won’t.

It’s going to be less capable, it’s going to be exactly as capable as Google wants. It might as well be named the Google Ad Blocker if only that didn’t discount the insane work the uBO team does to keep up with Google’s shit.

I can’t tell if you are sarcastic

And the ad industry, considering half of all consumer internet traffic is ads.