Honestly, between these obsession posts and all the other non-tech news that gets posted here, I just unsubscribed this morning. The signal to noise ratio in this community is just not worth it to me.

I prefer the latter, because it’s so much easier to filter out posts about Elon than it is to filter out posts about X (without creating a ton of false positives).

I might have been a teensie bit sarcastic when I wrote that ;)

Can you take your unopinionated headlines somewhere else? This is a technology community.

The sad state of political campaigning in 2024.

As long as ads and analytics are separate from each other and the rest.

Oh. Ok.

Why?

Good question. The answer is: for a significant amount of people, politics is emotional - so what makes sense isn’t necessarily relevant.

Before welcoming this as good news, be aware that democrats might also start thinking this misinformation is real, and decide to stay home and “not vote for a losing team”.

I guess responses like yours is the reason the headline didn’t mention the actual party gitlab is in talks with. People just love to have their villain.

Ignore the headline. Read the article. Gitlab is not about to sell to Google. They are about to sell to Datadog.

But they have been partially owned by Google for the past time, and the product has been great.

Google’s involvement is only going to lessen, so the only reason to put so much emphasis on that in the headline would be to get those rage clicks.

Typical that the title does mention Google (who currently has a minority stake) but not Datadog, who would become the new owner.

But yeah, I don’t foresee a new owner making things better for gitlab.

They could, but adding random zero width characters into words would also destroy ever spell checker, giving it away immediately and making sure that even unaware people would filter it. Doing it outside the words would leave them with too few spots to use for proper watermarking.

I think it’s far more likely they’ll use some kind of pattern in the tokens - that way the watermark will remain even when you don’t copypaste it.

But yeah, as said, they will never tell how it’s implemented, but it can still be simply subverted.

Yeah, no chance they’d rely on something that would be so easy to defeat. Watermarking by using word patterns is far more likely.

Still easy to defeat by just using another LLM to rephrase it though.

By that logic every news website is spam, because those also contain ads.

I agree the article is without much merit. But calling it spam because it also appears in a book and it mentions that source, is just diluting the term.

This article could do with a Bottom Line Up Front. I got halfway through the page and I still had no idea what problem it was trying to solve by adding new problems.

Looked up her name on Twitter to see what people were saying about this

I’m seriously wondering what your intentions were when you did that.

Better yet, just spin up your own instance, subscribe to all major communities, and have the servers push the comments to yours. No scraping required, and nobody will ever find out it was you.

Statistically it’s likely to have happened already.

My brother worked for such a Dutch company (ASM) and often got sent overseas to supervise the setting up of the production lines with these machines.

He mentioned when he’d get sent to Asia, the workers would make sure to get it done over a weekend, while implementing the same setup would take 2 to 3 weeks in the US. In part that was due to the working conditions mentioned, but also simple lack of planning in case of the latter (things would grind down to a haalt because certain changes would need to be made, and the person responsible for the decision wouldn’t respond for hours or days, etc).

Side note: while 36 hour work weeks are common in the Netherlands, 40 hours is still the norm in my experience.

Legally? No idea. What might be adequate protection in the country your instance is hosted, is probably unenforceable in another country where a federated instance might be.

Technically, you could try by using your own, self hosted instance, and not federating with others, so they won’t be able to scrape your content as easily.

But realistically speaking, your comments are possibly more likely to be scraped on Lemmy, since it’s so much more open for bots, and your content is replicated to much more servers, not all of which may have noble intents.