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Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated article summaries to Wikipedia in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 1 points 9 minutes ago

Trolling aside, yeah, being able to explain a concept in everyday terms takes careful thought and discipline. I'm consistently impressed by the people who write Simple articles on Wikipedia. I wish there were more of those articles.

Manitoba cabinet minister harassed college employee in past job, external investigation concluded in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This CBC piece is veeeery similar to a story Canadaland released earlier this week.

They interview the person the new MP harassed. She does a good job explaining the impact Chartrand's harassment had on her.

I didn't see a link to it in the CBC piece.

Tim Sweeney on The Future of Fortnite and AI Game Development - IGN in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

AI Vader was a lot of fun. It was a great use of the technology.

You're right that Fortnite is sort of a launcher on its own now. The community developed games don't hold a lot of appeal for me, but some people like them.

A close view of the GBO in c/[email protected]
Is it a big deal if my phone hasn't had a security update in 5 years? in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This. I'd avoid using it for banking or access to a Gmail account that is registered with your bank. Or receiving 2FA texts.

But scrolling Lemmy and making calls? It's probably fine.

City of Perth to suspend e-scooter hire after pedestrian death in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 4 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

It doesn't appear to be a ban, so much as a suspension. Which seems totally reasonable when new technology is involved in a death.

Cars are regulated, with minimum safety requirements, and drivers are required to undergo (minimal) training. I'm not sure what's appropriate for e-scooters, but similar requirements could be reasonable.

Ukraine hit fewer Russian planes than it estimated, US officials say in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

weekend hit as many as 20 Russian warplanes, destroying around 10 of them, two U.S. officials told Reuters, a figure that is about half the number estimated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Eh. Still seems pretty good.

For Sale: The Original Home of Dungeons & Dragons in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Given D&D's sudden popularity, I'm kind of surprised the museum closed recently.

Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated article summaries to Wikipedia in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 8 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Is the point of Wikipedia to provide everyone with information, or to allow editors to spew jargon into opaque articles that are only accessible to experts?

I think it's the former. There are very few topics that can't be explained simply, if the author is willing to consider their audience. Best of all, absolutely nothing is lost when an expert reads a well written article.

war journal in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 19 points 1 day ago

Even in death, he still serves.

evocatus, my silliest soldier in c/centuriichan
[–] sbv 5 points 1 day ago

We're getting into ncd territory here. Which is one of the best territories to be in.

Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated article summaries to Wikipedia in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

There's a core problem that many Wikipedia articles are hard for a layperson to read and understand. The statement about reading level is one way to express this.

The Simple version of articles shows humans can produce readable text. But there aren't enough Simple articles, and the Simple articles are often incomplete.

I don't think AI should be solely trusted with summarization/translation, but it might have a place in the editing cycle.

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TD’s new CEO Raymond Chun faces the mountainous task of rebuilding trust in the bank (archive.is)
submitted 1 week ago by sbv to c/[email protected]
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TD isn't fixing its money laundering problem because of Canadian penalties, but because the US regulator wouldn't put up with their shit:

It had become clear TD needed a new leadership team to usher in the sweeping changes required to fix its anti-money-laundering failures, which in October resulted in U.S. regulators announcing more than US$3-billion in fines by the Department of Justice and a host of non-monetary penalties that will carve deep trenches in the bank for years to come.

Money laundering has pushed up costs in our real estate sector and enabled the drug crisis. It's bizarre that we haven't done more to stop it.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-td-bank-raymond-chun-ceo/

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“How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. (arstechnica.com)
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The Eight Laws of ~~Robotics~~ Calmness:

  1. Technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention.
  2. Technology should inform and create calm.
  3. Technology should make use of the periphery.
  4. Technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity.
  5. Technology can communicate, but doesn’t need to speak.
  6. Technology should work even when it fails.
  7. The right amount of technology is the minimum needed to solve the problem.
  8. Technology should respect social norms.

I'm a little suspicious about a certification body that's paid for by producers, but it's fine if they can make it work.

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Canada has a measles problem (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by sbv to c/[email protected]
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Interesting podcast about the measles outbreaks in Alberta and Ontario. I got:

  1. The outbreaks are primarily among unvaccinated Mennonite communities.
  2. Heard immunity (thanks to vaccination) among the general population has prevented exposures from turning into infections.
  3. Provincial health ministries are avoiding talking about Mennonites because they want to avoid stigmatization.
  4. Provincial health ministries aren't holding regular briefings for political reasons.

But it's a podcast (and I'm too lazy to read the transcript) so maybe I got some of that stuff wrong.

Edit: Fixed the link to the transcript. Thanks @[email protected]!

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mod me! (sh.itjust.works)
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this one

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token frame 1 (sh.itjust.works)
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original. Should not be modded.

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repost-bot 0.1.4 - start of mod config (self.repostbot_comm)
submitted 2 weeks ago by sbv to c/repostbot_comm
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In version 0.1.4, mods can now configure the repost-bot to watch a community and complain when a user reposts an image too often. The mod configures the community by PMing the bot with something along the lines of

{"https://sh.itjust.works/c/repostbot_comm": { 
  "action": "comment", 
  "minRepostIntervalSeconds": 60, 
  "allowRepostsFromOtherCommunities": false 
}}

You can see an example of this groundbreaking behaviour here.

Next up: adding reporting and removal of posts.

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Third repost, but outside of 60s window (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago by sbv to c/repostbot_comm
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are you gonna ignore this, bot?

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second image (sh.itjust.works)
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catch me bot

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test: initial image (sh.itjust.works)
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go bot go

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Finance Minister Champagne suggests Ottawa won’t present budget this year (archive.is)
submitted 3 weeks ago by sbv to c/[email protected]
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Former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page said there isn’t enough time left before the summer recess for the government to produce a full budget with new policy announcements, but he said the Liberals should at least produce a fiscal update before the summer that shows where things currently stand. He said campaign platforms didn’t fully account for the various U.S. tariff moves that have disrupted the Canadian economy.

“They are out of date,” said Mr. Page, who is now president and chief executive officer of the University of Ottawa’s Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy. “Parliament will be asked to approve spending authorities without a reasonable planning framework.”

and lil context:

Federal governments almost always release a budget early in the year. One rare exception was in 2020, during the pandemic, when the government didn’t table one.

The absence of a budget would leave Canadians without a clear picture of the new government’s spending plan, or how recent economic events have affected Ottawa’s bottom line.

Original: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-new-energy-minister-hodgson-planning-western-canada-trip-as-carneys/

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Carney’s housing fix needs a dividend for millennials and Gen Z (archive.is)
submitted 3 weeks ago by sbv to c/[email protected]
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I think Kershaw is trolling in this op-ed, but it's hard to tell. He's saying that the $14 billion planned increase to OAS for seniors will subsidize many people who are already well off. So he suggests younger Canadians (who don't get to participate in the housing market) should get a similar amount:

Millennials and Gen Z deserve a greater share of the $1.5-trillion windfall generated by rising home values since boomers were young adults.

A $1,000 annual payment to every adult aged 18 to 39 would be a start. The simplest way to deliver this compensation would be through a refundable tax credit, claimed when young people file their annual returns. Governments seeking more visible credit might directly deposit $250 every three months into young people’s bank accounts, clearly labelled as a housing wealth dividend.

I know $1,000 doesn’t stretch far in today’s housing market. It may only cover a few weeks of rent or mortgage payments. But over 21 years, that same annual payment adds up to real money that can help with costs.

Of course, there are less spendy alternatives:

Options include eliminating outdated Age and Pension Income tax shelters, which could pay for half the cost. The other half could come from beginning the Old Age Security clawback at $100,000 of household income, rather than continuing to provide the full $18,000 subsidy to retired couples with $180,000 in income.

I think Kershaw is using the $1,000 per year "you were born too young to get a house" tax rebate as an illustration of the amount of cash going to retirees. But maybe he isn't.

Original: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/young-money/article-carneys-housing-fix-needs-a-dividend-for-millennials-and-gen-z/

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The Great Tabletop Hackathon: Hacking the Gibson in Multiple Cyberpunk Systems (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by sbv to c/[email protected]
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A really fun comparison of some sample hacking/decking/netrunning runs in Shadowrun (1st, 4th, 5th), Cyberpunk (2020, RED), and a couple of systems I'm unfamiliar with.

It's interesting to see the ludic philosophy for each system:

  • Shadowrun seems to value stealth for deckers, meaning cybercombat only occurs when something goes wrong.
  • Cyberpunk seems to expect netrunners to steamroll everything in the system they're attacking.

I have a personal attachment to the Shadowrun style, and I'm trying to figure out how "sneaking" works in Cyberpunk RED. I think the short answer is it doesn't, and I'll have to figure out what an alarm means in this system and how it should be triggered.

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