Squorlple

joined 2 years ago
[–] Squorlple 3 points 1 day ago

The show excelled at creating tense situations where you would worry if the characters will survive (except for the child soldier planet episode), but the characters were generally not engaging enough for me to really care. The kids all were obviously going to survive because Disney wouldn’t kill kids, but if they were adults or droids then that would be better at delivering tension for the audience. Jod was the most interesting, but his true malice couldn’t shine with the kids’ PG-rating armor. The reveal of the planet being ruled/powered by one robot without any redundant systems felt too familiar and trite with Disney’s The Marvels and even She-Hulk both within recent memory.

Wim upturned an entire planet’s way of life, probably got some innocent people killed, and possibly crashed the galactic economy. That’ll teach the audience the right lesson about wanting to go on an adventure.

[–] Squorlple 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Squorlple 7 points 4 days ago

That’s one of several elements of AI nonsense in the image

[–] Squorlple 17 points 4 days ago

Good cause, but boo AI image

[–] Squorlple 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

My first thought for a substitute that meets your criteria is a private Discord server for each of your particular interests/hobbies, but I’m fairly new to Discord and I never really understood Pinterest. In any sort of situation, if someone who is provided access to non-public info decides to take that info and run, there’s fundamentally nothing to stop them apart from consequences; ex. a general who learned classified military secrets and wanted to sell that info to an enemy state would (ideally) be deterred by punishment from the law. Sure you can muddy the water by distributing information that is incomplete or intentionally partially incorrect, but the user/general still needs to know enough to operate without error.

Long side tangent warning:

Is your concern mostly the data being harvested, or when you say “safe from AI” are you also referring to bot accounts pretending to be real users? If the latter is a concern, I’ll first copy a portion of a Reddit comment of mine from over a couple of years ago (so possibly outdated with tech advancements) when I was involved with hunting bot accounts across that site and was asked about how to protect against bots on NSFW subs:

“I have been trying for a while to figure out a way for subreddits to require users to pass a captcha before posting and/or commenting; however, I haven’t been able to find a way that works and is also easy for the mods to implement. The closest solution that I’ve seen is the verification posts which some NSFW subs require. This is example is copied from the rules for r/VerifiedFeet:

Verification Required: Start Here Posts & Comments Reported as: You MUST include "Verify me" or "Verification" in your post title. Verification steps:

1. ⁠Submit three photos using Reddit’s multiple image uploader. Show your feet with a written verification containing your username, the date, and r/VerifiedFeet. Add a fold to the paper somewhere and hold with your hands or feet. Each photo should be a different angle.

2. ⁠Add “Verify Me” or “Verification” in your post title or it won’t be seen by Mods.

3. ⁠Wait for a verification confirmation comment from the Mods to begin posting in our community.

Instead of requiring the photos to be taken against the user’s feet, perhaps other subreddits could permit it to be against any arbitrary object of the user’s choosing. Seeing as the subs which you mod are all text-based without images, my suggestion is setting those subs to Restricted, creating a new sub for users to post their verification photos, and then whitelisting the users who have done so (as well as whitelisting the users who have already posted and commented to your sub prior to this).”

Since AI has advanced enough that higher end generators can create convincing images of verification photos such as these, one thing that it cannot impersonate yet is meat. As in, you can certainly verify that somebody is a living being if you encounter them in person. Obviously, this is limiting for internet use, but on a legal level it is sometimes required for ID verification.

Or if you’re referring to human users posting AI-generated content, either knowingly or unknowingly, there’s not any way to fight that apart from setting rules against it and educating the user base.

[–] Squorlple 8 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I don’t see how any publicly accessible info could be protected from web crawlers. If you can see it without logging in, or if there is no verification for who creates an account that allows access, then any person or data harvesting bot can see it.

I wonder if a cipher-based system could work as a defense. Like images and written text are presented as gibberish until a user inputs the deciphering code. But then you’d have to figure out how to properly and selectively distribute that code. Perhaps you could even make the cipher unique and randomly generated for each IP address?

[–] Squorlple 21 points 4 days ago

I thought there was an extra layer of irony with the reply, but that is not the account of actor Phill Lewis, who was once sentenced for DUI manslaughter

[–] Squorlple 6 points 4 days ago

“Echoes” also quotes the Phantom of the Opera theme /s

 
[–] Squorlple 43 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I had a couple Republicans at my work a year or two ago who were adamant that renaming a local small body of water from [Racial slur against Native Americans] Lake to [Native American term for a type of body of water] Lake was “re-writing history”. They alleged a vast conspiracy including the Aunt Jemima’s syrup and other rebrands. They really do just believe whatever their programming says their in-group is believing at any given moment.

[–] Squorlple 12 points 6 days ago (4 children)

May a moody baby doom a yam

[–] Squorlple 53 points 6 days ago (8 children)

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama

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Face it (lemmy.world)
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A classic (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Squorlple to c/[email protected]
 
 

Hey, I’m looking forward to seeing this community grow and I’d like to see it future-proofed against people using it to cause trouble. These are a couple of suggestions for preventative rules that the mod(s) can implement as they like.

  1. Post in good faith. Don’t use your post to try to spread drama, to soapbox, or to give a platform/audience for bad actors. Posting thumbnails from bad actors such as content farms, bigots, misinformation spreaders, and trolls is discouraged as you will just be giving them more attention and clicks. Conversely, don’t use your post to advertise for yourself or to shill for others.

  2. Don’t use posts to harass content creators, either on or off of this community.

  3. Link to the video in the post description.

  4. Do not post thumbnails which are entirely clearly A.I. generated or which are entirely pre-existing images (ex. album art).

  5. Thumbnails must be for YouTube videos (and specific other sites/content?).

  6. If the thumbnail is overly risqué or gross, use the NSFW tag.

 
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Falling upwards? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by Squorlple to c/politicalmemes
 
 
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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Squorlple to c/math
 

I’m gathering data for a hobby project and notating where the triangles in the data correspond to Pythagorean triples, but sometimes it doesn’t seem clear to me with certain data.

Can there exist Pythagorean triples in which the leg lengths are not coprime with each other but both are coprime with the hypotenuse? i.e., a right triangle in which (leg~1~, leg~2~, hypotenuse) = (a * n, b * n, c), in which a, b, c, and n are whole numbers and n is not a factor of c?

How can I determine if a right triangle with given lengths can scale to be a Pythagorean triple? If any of the values in (leg~1~: leg~2~: hypotenuse) are irrational, that does indeed mean the values cannot scale to be whole numbers?

Once it is determined that the triangle can scale to a Pythagorean triple, what is the best method of scaling the values to three whole numbers?

Thanks for any help

Edit: I’ve found an effective way to determine primitive Pythagorean triples from given leg lengths. Using a calculator that can output in fractional form, such as wolfram alpha, input leg~1~ / leg~2~ and the output will be a fraction with the numerator and denominator denoting the leg lengths of a primitive Pythagorean triple. Determining the hypotenuse is then simply using the Pythagorean Theorem.

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