In some places, the main criticism that residents have about data centers has to do with the amount of water they consume to cool servers. This isn’t the case in Marseille, however, which is well-supplied with this resource. The authorities have even given Digital Realty access to water from the former underground drainage channels of the Gardanne coal mines, located north of Marseille. The water flows into the port, so the firm can use it to cool its systems.
YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connections with real life?
From what I've seen so far, the case here seems to be that it's only being done to shorts, and what's happening is that they're being permanently stored at a lower quality and size and are then upscaled on the fly. I mean... it feels kinda fair to me. Theres a good reason YouTube has so little competition, and it's because how hard and expensive maintaining a service like this is. They're always trying to cut costs, and storage is gonna be a big cost. Personally, I'm glad it's just shorts for now. It absolutely shouldn't be happening to people who are paying for the service or making money for it, though.
Or give an option to toggle. Surely letting people turn it off would save them even more resources, if they don't have to bother with upscaling the video in the first place.
It would not make any sense for them to be upscaled on the fly. It's a computationally intensive operation, and storage space is cheap. Is there any evidence of it being done on the fly?
They could do that without upscaling. Upscaling every video only fly would cost an absolute shit ton of money, probably more than they would be making from the ad. There is no scenario where they wouldn't just upscale it one time and store it.
While it could theoretically be done on device, it would require the device to have dedicated hardware that is capable of doing the processing, so it would only work on a limited number of devices. It would be pretty easy to test this if a known modified video were available.
AI upscaling can be run on a ton of devices nowadays.
Also people are forgetting it’s not just storage, it’s bandwidth they save with this move. So even if they store both the low and high res copies they can save 4x the bandwidth (or more) serving to devices with upscaling capabilities.
It’s not that computationally intensive to upscale frames. TVs have been doing it algorithmically for ages and looking good doing it. Hell, nVidia graphics cards can do it for every single frame of high end games with DLSS. Calling it “AI” because the type of algorithm it’s using is just cashing in on the buzzword.
You are right that nvidia cards can do it for games using DLSS. Nvidia also has a version called RTX video that works for video. But are they could to be dedicating hardware for playback every single time a user requests to play a short? That is significantly different than just serving a file to the viewer. If they had all of these Nvidia cards laying around, they surely have better things that they could use them for. To be clear here, the ONLY thing I am taking issue with is a comment that it seems that youtube may be upscaling videos on the fly (as opposed to upscaling them once when they are uploaded, and then serving that file 1 million times). I'm simply saying that it makes a hell of a lot more sense any day of the week to upscale a file one time than to upscale it 1 million times.
It's not so much that they down- and upscale the video of shorts, their algorithm changes the look of people. It warps skin and does a strange sort of sharpening that makes things look quite unreal and almost plastic.
It is a filter that evens the look with images generated by, say, grok or one of the other AI filters.
In a year people will think that "AI-look" is a normal video look, and stuff generated with it is what humans can look like. We will see crazed AI-fashion looks popping up.
Why? I like shorts, bite sized, shaped for mobile when I'm in bed or shitting, interesting content — my feed is very curated after many years of training it, so I only ever get interesting stuff, no brain rot 👍. Coincidentally my Watch Later list is getting out of control. 😓
To be fair, back before ML natural language programming, non-tech folks often assumed coding was just telling the computer what you want in plain English. Today that's what vibecoders do
Well, youtube is not even intended to host quality content anymore, but besides that, this appears to just be visual tweaks. This title is trying to be vague enough that one could assume it's tweaking the content itself which would be of real concern. It's not doing that (for now). Video graphics seems like an awefully minor thing to be screaming about AI over. Especially when AI has actual reprocussions in the knowledge accuracy sector.
Incineration, even in advanced plants like in Japan releases toxic fumes and is bad for people and environment. It also doesn’t address the issue of microplastics being released during the production and use of plastics. Let’s just stop it at the source.
The Chinese tech giant, in partnership with American company Lyft, aims to launch driverless ride-hailing services in Germany and the United Kingdom in 2026. While China and the US are driving the robotaxi revolution, Europe remains a bystander.
My next post after this one was lemmy.world/post/34898968 (a story about a Baidu taxi driving into a construction pit) in my home feed.
Hopefully the EU itself can provide its own competitor in this space and that the EU actually enforces its own privacy and safety laws against this behemoth.
Da oggi è possibile creare il proprio curriculum vitae interattivo, in modo semplice e veloce e l'esportazione in odt, docx e pdf è immediata. Salvando il file di configurazione json è possibile proseguire l'editazione anche successivamente. L'applicazione web sarà disponibile sulle release di Ufficio Zero Linux OS. Ringraziamo @amassaro per il suo lavoro.
Il più grande studio cinematografico d'Europa, in collaborazione con Rai Cinema, ha deciso di lanciare un nuovo progetto totalmente rivolto ai giovani.
I don’t run Linux all the time. Sometimes, I like to run other operating systems too, like FreeDOS, an open source implementation of the classic DOS operating system. My quad-core... Read More
A 39-year-old man is in custody after deliberately crashing a sports utility vehicle through the gates of the Russian consulate in Sydney on Monday morning, an incident that left two police officers with minor injuries.
Grape Hyacinth are bulbs that flower in springtime. They produce clusters of delicate, bell-shaped blooms in various colours, in this case blue. folksy.com/items/8534312
A small colour drawing of a patch of blue Grape Hyacinth flowers, also known Muscari. They are beautiful spring bulbs that flower in springtime. They produce clusters of delicate, bell-shaped blooms in various colours, in this case blue.
@greenpete I've weirdly not noticed that, only ever grown them outside😄 Their big brothers, hyacinth are certainly very strongly perfumed. Lots of people here get them flowering in pots indoors for Christmas time.
@greenpete Ahh! That explains it. They look very similar, but the grape hyacinth is much smaller. Will sniff some next spring to find out if they also have a scent.
#Brandizzo: non dimenticare la strage operaia del 2023. "Nell’agosto del 2023, si verificò una strage operaia con cinque morti e con conseguente impagabile dolore per i familiari e i compagni di lavoro."
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E’ stato reso pubblico dal Ministero dell’Ambiente il parere con cui il Sindaco di Taranto ha espresso dissenso motivato nei confronti delle prescrizioni dell’AIA contenute nel PIC (parere istruttorio conclusivo) per lo stabilimento siderurgico.
La vita sembra essersi trasformata in una stringente alternanza lavoro-turismo, e lo stesso turismo somiglia sempre più ad un lavoro. Il resto eventuale sono effetti collaterali. P.S.: E buon primo #settembre!
My cat kept opening cupboards and ripping open food packets while I was at work. So I installed CCTV in the kitchen with a speaker so I can tell her her to stop from my desk at work. After 12 days she learned to knock the camera away first so I couldn't see. Clever girl.
At the gates of the design capital, Sesto San Giovanni's water tower is about to be transformed into a scenic fountain, part of the regeneration project of the former Falck area.
In Indonesia continuano le proteste contro il presidente Subianto e le sue politiche discriminatorie scoppiate giovedì scorso a seguito dell’uccisione di un uomo, da parte della polizia, durante...
Seems like it would be a good way to funnel content into more niche communities by tying their posts to whatever is posted on a subreddit until they can take off on their own.
Does such a thing exist? If not, making it shouldn't be too difficult. I could probably whip something up real quick and toss it up on a software sharing platform.
Would anyone be interested in something like this? It could actually work really well with Lemmy's option to show/hide bot posts because people could choose if they want to see it at all.
It exists and some Lemmy communities operate that way. It’s not a good idea at all in practice. For example one community mirrors a tech support subreddit. It’s utterly pointless engaging in that community because the person asking the question will never read your answers. You can’t bootstrap a sense of community.
It probably doesn't make much sense to mirror /r/technology to /c/technology since that community is already popular and self-sustaining on lemmy.
There are countless other 'niche' communities that have no posts for months, however. There already isn't anyone engaging in these communities and it's unlikely that that will change because nobody wants to manually make posts that next to nobody is going to see. It's cyclical.
True, but from experience, those cycles are not broken by bot posts. You then have a community full of crossposts with 0 comments. Try it if you like, but usually the reason for dead communities is a lack of interested people.
There are countless other 'niche' communities that have no posts for months, however.
Hey, have you seen !fedigrow@lemmy.zip? It's got a lot of discussions on how to handle this.
I think that to grow a niche community, you need at least 2-3 regular posters, and you need to make posts that encourage discussion (i.e. ask questions or provoke a thoughtful reaction that readers would like to share.)
There are whole instances dedicated to mirroring Reddit. However a lot of people on the fediverse oppose such features, on my home instance eg. lemmit is filtered out of /all stream. lemmit.online/
You are right, this is a 1:1 mirror of Reddit without any Lemmy user interactions. Since it is a one way mirror, any comments would not reach Reddit, I assume this is why it was decided to keep the communities closed down in such a way.
They exist. In some communities they may work but IMO a lot of times they hurt community engagement, since no one really wants to reply to an autogenerated OP or join a community that's a wall of empty bot posts.
It's easy to make one. But why would you want that?
As time goes by and more and more people join the Fediverse, I'm sure some niche comms will start taking off. I don't like bots mirroring content from somewhere else, even as a help. In fact, I will immediately unsubscribe from any comm that starts doing that. And I'm sure many people also would.
That's not true. There's one bot that routinely posts to news communities called "MicroWave" and there are consistently people engaging with its posts.
A huge thing that real posts have but bot posts do not have: comments notify the OP and thus have a good chance of getting a response. The bot communities almost never get comments, and even if they do it's extra rare for them to get a reply.
If I didn't care about human-to-human comments then I wouldn't be here or on Reddit, I would just use RSS feeds, or the Google news feed.
This already exists, I have seen it used before, don't know any exact repositories though. The reason it's not really used is because it's pointless. What are you trying to achieve with it? Your community won't look more active if it has more posts with zero upvotes and zero comments all made by the same user.
Hiding posts from bots will also hide posts from this bot.
Keep in mind that not everyone here uses Lemmy, so a Lemmy feature isn't a good defense in a federated world like this.
There are rss bots that post stuff on lemmy, like for hackernews. And then as another user mentioned there are some servers like 50501 that mirror reddit and cross post to lemmy.
I think the general problem with such things is.... they post a lot of shit. Sure the top content within a community -might- be interesting but you're also going to get pointless junk that just fills up the fediverse. Not to mention the other issues with lack of interaction. I think the unfortunate reality is that the long term best thing for the community is hand curating content and posting it yourself. I say unfortunate because that's more work than a bot, but you'll be better able to grow a community. Plus some people like me will just block any bot i see because they generally are a waste of my time
Yeah I remember when people were "backing up" subreddits here and mostly just created a shitload of dead posts that the original OP had no idea existed
❝ !!! Warning about Fake Holocaust Posts Using AI- Generated Images and Stories !!! [...] they are in fact dangerous distortions: * They invent stories of people who never existed and present them as real victims. * THEY EXPLOIT HOLOCAUST MEMORY FOR CLICKS, SHARES, AND REACH * They contribute to confusion and the erosion of historical accuracy. [...] Therefore, we ask you to be cautious. [...] * Try to verify names through trusted sources, like Yad Vashem ❞
⁉️ 'Roza Anholt-Delden' is included in collections.yadvashem.org/en/n…: "Gender: UNKNOWN" and no photograph is included. Either Dani Dayan {1} is too lazy or he was not allowed {2} to store her picture in your databases and use it for Hasbara purposes - which he did on social media anyway (nobody will notice? I just did).
⁉️ 'Christina Anholt' is included in collections.yadvashem.org/en/n… *and* a photograph is included. She MAY BE the same girl as the baby in Roza's arms, but I'm not sure. Help!
{1} Dani Dayan is Auschwitz deputy chairman as well as Yad Vashem and IHRA chairman. He is THE (or one of the) architect(s) of the Israeli "From the river to the sea" masterplan (see infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat…) - which consists of abusing Holicaust victims and radically modify the definition of AntiSemitism, as confirmed by Gideon S'aar in holocaustremembrance.com/news/…: "The new antisemites attack Israel’s right to exist and its right to defend itself." It has nothing to do with "self defence". The aim is greater Israel without room for Palestinians.
This is 100% self defence of Hamas, also defending ANYONE who POSSIBLY MAY HAVE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH HAMAS - proven, supposedly or not at all.
Surrendering and/or handing over all 50 hostages means a horrific death for even more Gazans than is taking place right under our eyes RIGHT NOW.
Note this all takes place while Israel holds 100,000 as many Palestinians hostage (5 MILLION PEOPLE) - which the western world knowingly ignores, or even publicly denies.
If HAMAS is a terrorist organisation, then what is ISRAEL?
And what are Israel's unconditional supporters - the US, GB, EU, CA, AU, and NZ?
What are Westbank settlers (no Hamas there)?
What kind of a person is former YESHA (*) leader, greater Israel architect (and himself Westbank settler) Dani Dayan? What inhumane liars are the IHRA (chaired by Dani Dayan)? And what is the Auschwitz Council (hijacked by ultra-Zionists including deputy chair Dani Dayan) and Yad Vashem ("remember" Jews only - chaired by Dani Dayan)?
(*) "From the river to the sea" - myesha.org.il/?CategoryID=419 ("YESHA" includes Gaza, which has been unmentioned - but is expected to return soon), Unicode characters inserted by me: ❝ 🚨 Yesha Council Strategic Objectives 🚨 🔸 To secure the borders of the State of Israel 🔸 To safeguard Israel's strategic expanses–between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea 🔸 To ensure Israel's right to the Land by strengthening Israeli settlement in Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley
🚨 Yesha Council Goals 🚨 🔸 Application of Israeli sovereignty in the area 🔸 One million Israelis living in Judea, Samaria,and the Jordan Valley 🔸 The development of roads, transportation, water, electricity and economic infrastructures 🔸 To double the number of tourists from all over the world and all religions 🔸 To prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea
🚨 Our Challenge 🚨 🔸 Construction and development of infrastructures in Israel are based on regional planning and national master plans (TAMA). 🔸 Despite the continually growing and developing Israeli settlement of Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley, these areas have not been included in TAMA plans for over 50 years. 🔸 Without master plans for the area, Palestinian and European initiatives are taking root, thus endangering the continuation of the Zionist enterprise. 🔸 Our aim is to create master plans for the area to enable and ensure sustainable settlement. ❞
Edited to add: see my linked list of remarks regarding toots on behalf of the Auschwitz Council in infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat….
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22 July 1942 | A transport of 931 Jews deported by the Germans from #Westerbork in the occupied Netherlands arrived at #Auschwitz.
After the arrival selection made by SS doctors 479 men & 297 women were registered in the camp as prisoners.
The remaining 155 people were murdered in a gas chamber. Among them were Roza Anholt-Delden and her daughter Christina.
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22 July 1942 | A transport of 931 Jews deported by the Germans from #Westerbork in the occupied Netherlands arrived at #Auschwitz.
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The remaining 155 people were murdered in a gas chamber. Among them were Roza Anholt-Delden and her daughter Christina.
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1 September 1923 | Dutch Jewish woman, Roza Anholt-Delden, was born in Amsterdam.
In July 1942 she was deported from #Westerbork to #Auschwitz with her daughter Christina. They were murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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In July 1942 she was deported from #Westerbork to #Auschwitz with her daughter Christina. They were murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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