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Really burying the lede there.

If the headline is a question, the answer is always no.

…I feel like openssh has a much larger attack surface than a simple binary.

Right. This is just trading one set of security pitfalls with a second, much worse set of security pitfalls.

Some of the more extreme-minded liberals do a good enough job at sabotaging themselves and the movements they are a part of, without the need for malicious saboteurs. Like Atheist+ or progressive stack.

Then again, Russians orgs are out there, trying to influence politic movements and sabotage others. GamerGate was an entire sea of political actors, journalists, influencers, and Russian agents, trying to push their own narratives to the point of mass disinformation from both sides, with the general public on either side confused and angry at the other’s responses.

Defund means to essentially get rid of a department or thing. The phrase “defend the police” means “get rid of the police”. It doesn’t matter if there’s some cartoon to re-explain away the phrase or a bunch of other people trying to re-define the English language. English is English, and words have meaning.

The “defund the police” movement failed because us liberals don’t fucking understand marketing. Like, at all. I can’t count the number of times some liberal movement crops up with their slogan and Republicans turn that slogan against them because nobody spent the ten minutes time to think about how that phrase or thing could be abused. For example, that brief time when the LGBT movement wanted to rename themselves to LGBTQIA2SUVWTFBBQ? Seriously?!?

It’s like naming your baby “Assman McAssface” and wondering why he gets bullied in school.

Obviously, LTT doesn’t see the long-term benefit of retraining his team to not be attached to monthly subscription bullshit.

Short-term quarterly-profit energy.

Sigh, not this article again. No, they can’t “deepfake a person with one photo”. They can create a bad uncanny-valley 75% accurate version of one.

I’d say that’s about 10-15 years too late, but as a total outsider who’s not at all familiar with the situation, it looks like his realization and action on it was sincere.

2009 is better than realizing it in 2016. The GOP took the Tea Party and funneled all of that hate and racism over Obama and his “tan suits” into something much worse.

I would if I could!

WTF is this whole thread?

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dependency_2x.png

Business Insider has always written braindead content.

There are far too many local to mid-size banks that have a shocking lack of security. Logins without HTTPS, banks using ancient transfer protocols, web sites that can recover your full password in plaintext.

My old mortgage company had a bug where if you hit the Login button twice, it would redirect to a GET request with my password on the query string. Good thing I was re-financing away to some other company that actually gave a shit.

Even with all of the security standards out there, like PCI, NIST 800-53, SOX, FedRAMP, etc., there is not enough enforcement to punish these fucking lazy assholes from leaking data like this. Even in the larger sectors, it’s just a constant pattern of buying out more shitty banks with different platforms and policies, until you have this mess of mismatched everything that can’t be unified into sane standards.

Stop telling me what to do! You’re not my mom.

Considering he takes money from YouTube, Nebula, Patreon, and Twitch, I don’t know why he feels the need to take sponsorships, too.

Guy is completely tone-deaf when he pushes some fitness as a service crap for his sponsor, immediately after complaining about how monthly services are replacing one-time purchases.

The pictures in your embedded widget on your post say “Unterstützt von DALL-E 3”. Also, the very start of the article says “When Melissa Heikkilä tried Lensa’s Magic Avatars”, which uses Stable Diffusion, but I’m not sure if they further trained it themselves.

The point is that “Lensa’s Magic Avatars” isn’t all of AI, and clickbait titles like this needs to stop treating it like that. It’s the latent diffusion equivalent of this.

That’s DALL-E. DALL-E is different than Stable Diffusion, which is different from Midjourney, which is different from the many NAI anime models out there.

We need to stop treating LD models like they are all the same thing. Models are based on the data they are trained on. Sure, a lot of them started out from a Stable Diffusion model, but that’s not always the case, and enough training can have them go off in specialized directions.

Yeah, if you go back through hundreds of years of artwork, most of it are pictures of women. Some of them are nude. There are many many artists that only draw women, modern or classical. And there’s a ton of male Japanese artists from centuries ago that did the same thing.

I asked it to create a sort of witchy, sorceress character and many of the generations she was fully topless with her boobs out, despite me not asking that or even explicitly putting “fully clothed” into the prompt. There was one image that the system created and then removed and threatened me with a ban for it being too sexualized despite me putting no sexual language in the prompt and it being all the AI.

That’s just one model, and obviously not Stable Diffusion. LD models are just based on whatever they were trained on. If you don’t like it, download another model trained on something else and try it out. Or train one yourself.

Also, I wish everybody would download a SD client and just use this software locally. All of these toy websites are shit, and local clients aren’t going to threaten to ban you because of what you generated. It’s a good learning experience to figure out the software, and these tools are useful for more things than just bitching about the tech on the web.

It’s bizarre. People suddenly start voicing pro-copyright arguments just to kill an useful technology, when we should be trying to burn copyright to the fucking ground. Copyright is a tool for the rich and it will remain so until it is dismantled.

No, that’s the thing where somebody Googles the result and gets the right answer.