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cpitman commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures   iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop
timmg · 2 months ago
> The more Google insists on forcing advertising on us...

You can... just not visit youtube, right?

cpitman · 2 months ago
Or just pay for Youtube.... $8/ month gets rid of most of the ads in videos, $15/month to remove ads from music, shorts, and search results.
cpitman commented on The vocal effects of Daft Punk   bjango.com/articles/daftp... · Posted by u/qzervaas
bee_rider · 4 months ago
I don’t even know what it is, haha (maybe it is an… Album Video). But it is great.

I guess there is the concept of a Rock Opera, but that doesn’t seem to have expanded much across the genres.

cpitman · 4 months ago
They were the official music videos for the album, looks like Daft Punk released all of them on YouTube.

This Playlist has them all in order: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSdoVPM5WnndLX6Ngmb8wktMF...

cpitman commented on The vocal effects of Daft Punk   bjango.com/articles/daftp... · Posted by u/qzervaas
jedimastert · 4 months ago
It is unreal to me the amount of impact Daft Punk had with only four studio albums.
cpitman · 4 months ago
Interstella 5555 is still one of my favorite movies. It's an anime movie where the entire soundtrack is the album Discovery. There are no vocals, the entire story is told by only the animation and music, and it works incredibly well.
cpitman commented on Lawmakers are skeptical of Zuckerberg's commitment to free speech   theverge.com/news/646288/... · Posted by u/speckx
holmesworcester · 5 months ago
Free speech is a about whether a society values and protects free speech or not.

If a society values and protects free speech, we would observe institutions, businesses, and individuals being very permissive and polite to speech they find objectionable.

If it doesn't, we would observe that its government doesn't care much about free speech either.

Free speech involves making sometimes uncomfortable sacrifices for a principle. Why would anyone support a government making such sacrifices if they don't believe in making such sacrifices at an individual level?

cpitman · 5 months ago
Yes, the First Amendment is about the government.

Freedom of speech, in the other hand, is part of a moral code that believes in inalienable rights, that humans implicitly have the right to express themselves. The government does not grant the right to freedom of speech, because we already have it. The first amendment says that the government must respect that right, but creating the right.

cpitman commented on Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game   github.com/lechmazur/elim... · Posted by u/colonCapitalDee
Gracana · 5 months ago
I've been using QwQ-32B a lot recently and while I quite like it (especially given its size), I noticed it will often misinterpret the system prompt as something I (the user) said, revealing secrets or details that only the agent is supposed to know. When I saw that it topped the "earliest out" chart, I wondered if that was part of the reason.
cpitman · 5 months ago
I was looking for a more direct measure of this, how often a model "leaked" private state into public state. In a game like this you probably want to sometimes share secrets, but if it happens constantly I would suspect the model struggles to differentiate.

I occasionally try to ask a model to tell a story and give it a hidden motivation of a character, and so far the results are almost always the model just straight out saying the secret.

cpitman commented on The average college student today   hilariusbookbinder.substa... · Posted by u/Jyaif
echoangle · 5 months ago
> All texts combined for one of my courses is between $35-$100 and they still don’t buy them.

Is that considered cheap in the US? Do people not do like 5 courses per semester?

cpitman · 5 months ago
Considering these courses included assigned reading, and that total would include multiple novels, yes, that is cheap.
cpitman commented on Solarpunk   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol... · Posted by u/nis0s
BirAdam · 6 months ago
Once a replicator is invented, human economic systems don’t make any sense. In a society without scarcity, money is meaningless as anyone can have whatever he/she desires nearly instantly. Of course, there are great discussions around what this would do to people psychologically and thus what such a breakthrough would do to human civilization.
cpitman · 6 months ago
A replicator still cannot give everyone a beachfront villa.
cpitman commented on IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp   newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-... · Posted by u/ahurmazda
oso2k · 6 months ago
Red Hatter since 2016, first in Consulting, now in Sales.

Oh the “synergy” rocket chat channel we had back then…

Things have been changing, for sure. So has the industry. So have our customers. By and large, Red Hatters on the ground have fought hard to preserve the culture. I have many friends across Red Hat, many that transitioned to IBM (Storage, some Middleware). Folks still love being a part of Red Hat.

On the topic of ridiculous expectations…there’s some. But Red Hatters generally figure out how to do ridiculous things like run the internet on open source software.

cpitman · 6 months ago
Every time you say rocket chat, I have to appear.

FWIW, the change at Red Hat has always been hard to separate between the forces of IBM and the reality of changing leadership. In a lot of ways those are intertwined because some of the new leadership came from IBM. Whatever change there was happened relatively gradually over many years.

cpitman commented on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order   whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/martialg
generic92034 · 6 months ago
> Eventually, and in fact about 50% of the time - the OTHER team is in power.. and may just push the overreach further.

Are you sure this is going to be a fact, in the future? How likely is it, that the next elections will still be (somewhat) fair?

cpitman · 6 months ago
Very. Election officials, across states and across parties, have been faithfully discharging their duties, often under pressure to not do so. This is a responsibility of the states, and not the federal government. If you're concerned, then work as a poll officer on election day.

In Virginia, I get to participate an incredibly professional and structured process that makes it easy for everyone who can vote to vote and makes sure there are many checks that the process is being followed correctly.

cpitman commented on The Iconic 3DBenchy Enters the Public Domain   nti-group.com/home/inform... · Posted by u/kotaKat
bityard · 7 months ago
> One cannot just declare something is public domain.

Of course you can. Lots of people do this. There are whole websites that collect and distribute public domain photos, music, artwork, etc.

I'm actually very curious now what led you to the line of thinking that it isn't possible?

cpitman · 7 months ago
Surrendering work to the public domain is actually more complicated. It's easy to make the claim that a work is public domain, but the law may not allow you to actually relinquish all copyright claims. This also depends on which country you are in.

This is why the CC0 license exists, to attempt to provide a more legally sound equivalent to plain public domain (https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/).

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