Is this really about technology? Sounds like it's really about American renter rights.
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2024
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Yeah, it's really more about two massive industries colluding to extract additional income from working Americans. Rental agencies contract with Spectrum, get a cut off the top, and the renters are stuck with a shitty internet service they don't want. Honestly, renting has never been a great experience for the average American, but it's been getting worse over time. Rental agencies are starting to cut staff, reduce actual beneficial services offered, force renters into paying for additional junk services they don't want or need (what the fuck is a $50 a month "beautification fee," anyway? Nobody ever fucking cleans this place...), and, of course, increase rent every year. And they can do this because...what the fuck else are you going to do? If you're working class and live in a high cost of living area, you can't just move, or buy a house. You have to rent. No other options, really. And while you'd think "well, if someone else opens an apartment complex that offers better services, you can just move there." Sure, and spend 15 grand moving a mile and a half only to have the apartment complex you moved to suffer the same enshittification after 6 months that the first one did.
The US, wow... what a place to live in as the 99%.
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From what I understand it is some thing for AI, to stop them from harvesting or to poison the data, by having it repeating therefore more likely to show up.
Sounds an awful lot like that thing boomers used to do on Facebook where they would post a message on their wall rescinding Facebook's rights to the content they post there. I'm sure it's equally effective.
Sure, the fun begins when it starts spitting out copyright notices
That would require a significant number of people to be doing it, to 'poison' the input pool, as it were.
It seems pretty well established at this point that AI training models don't respect copyright.
I would be extremely extremely surprised if the AI model did anything different with "this comment is protected by CC license so I don't have the legal right to it" as compared with its normal "this comment is copyright by its owner so I don't have the legal right to it hahaha sike snork snork snork I absorb" processing mode.
No but if they forget to strip those before training the models, it's gonna start spitting out licenses everywhere, making it annoying for AI companies.
It's so easily fixed with a simple regex though, it's not that useful. But poisoning the data is theoretically possible.
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That seems stupid
Interesting. Feels like that thing people used to add to FB comments back in the day that did nothing but in the case of AI I could see it maybe doing something. I’ll be looking into it - thanks!
To turn every comment, no matter how on topic, into obnoxious spam.
You know if you want to do something more effective than just putting copyright at the end of your comments you could try creating an adversarial suffix using this technique. It makes any LLM reading your comment begin its response with any specific output you specify (such as outing itself as a language model or calling itself a chicken).
It gives you the code necessary to be able to create it.
There are also other data poisoning techniques you could use just to make your data worthless to the AI but this is the one I thought would be the most funny if any LLMs were lurking on lemmy (I have already seen a few).
Thanks for the link. This was a good read.
That's a neat idea and I've considered it, but would need time to research and test. Time I don't have, so this is the easiest thing I came up with. If there were a bot, plugin, browser extension, or something that did the necessary modifications and kept up to date with new developments in AI, I'd use it.
I find most landlords if you start pushing for addendums do one of two things: they immediately shut down, which is usually an indicator they're going to be difficult anyway. Or they don't care enough and they'll wave it away just to get you in the door, especially when the clause you are disputing is insignificant and looking for someone else could cost them 5x or more what that little clause was worth anyway because of a missed month.
This is obviously contingent on a lot of things. Do you need to move now? Is it incredibly difficult to find anything and this checks off every other box? Etc. But just something to consider if you have room to abandon ship on a rental you find.
I'm actually shocked at how small an amount of people have t-mobiles. It works fantastic and never drops in my area, which is a whole lot better than the cable net I had. My phones are t-mo so the internet (its a gateway they give you, so modem/wifi in one) is $30 a month with no taxes or bs. Straight $30. I think it's $50 if you aren't a t-mo cell customer.
i play games online, and wireless is prone to jitter and lag spikes.
you don’t notice these things when browsing the web, streaming movies, or even downloading large games. but in multiplayer games it’s a problem
i have gigabit fiber in my neighborhood though, so i’m not being forced to choose between shitty cable and compromised wireless
I also game online and have no lag or jitter(unless it's server side and everyone is complaining). Like I said before. I have good ping and zero packet loss. Sounds like you had a bad wifi set up.
Define "good" ping. (Latency is the proper term)
Edit: Nvm, just saw your other comment. 50ms isn't bad.
30ms+ is high for cable in my experience. I was getting routinely in the high teens and low 20s.
On fiber I get less than 10ms.
That's all the way through the gateway using its wifi, too. I'm sure if I plugged in the ethernet cable and skipped the wifi it would shave off like 10ms.
Can't beat it for just $30 a month.
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I think in my part of europe cable is the only realistic solution, every home cellular thing has a download limit. All of the cable offerings here are flat
- secuirity cameras are safer if they are connected locally using ethernet cables, Wi-fi cameras are vurneable to jamming.
Latency. Also, wired is always better than wireless. I'll save the long boring explanation for another time, but suffice it to say that wireless constantly has dropped packets, and constantly has to retransmit data.
Wired when you can, wireless when you have to.
Not by much. My average ping on cable was around 30ms with no packet loss. On t-mo 5g it's usually around 50ms with no packet loss.
Fifty is still a good ping. Even for fps gaming. Stuff doesn't get dicey until you've gone over 80. As further, I've had no gaming issues at all with it.
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I'm on T-Mobile via an MVNO for $204/year all-in (Mint, 5GB/month) and have 5G Business Internet through them for the flat $50. Combine that with being exclusively on solar power, and it's cute to hear when the local utilities go down.
Is it as fast as fixed internet? No. Is that relevant 95% of the time? Also no.
The 5GB/month is a big drawback for me. I would blow through that in a couplenof days.
I rarely break 1GB/month given how often I'm on WiFi, and I don't stream anything on my phone (purchased music collection works just fine). I get that's not how we're encouraged to use phones, but it suits my needs.
I set my phone to auto download playlists and podcasts on WiFi, so it isn't really a problem. I think there was one month when I had to buy extra data so far, and that still ends up being cheaper than being on a plan with more data.
Curious question: what does the business internet plan get you over the home plan? I'm on Comcast Business right now, but I'm always looking for better options (plus we're looking at getting a 5G failover at work).
I didn't have a choice when I started looking into 5G as primary internet ... home was not available at my address but business was for whatever reason. "Very Good" signal tends to get me about 200Mbps, with "Excellent" hitting 400Mbps peaks.
Fast wise I'm at around 50 ping with no packet loss and over 400mbps.
Non "speed test" website wise, I will get over 30MB/sec downloads when I'm pulling in a game download from steam, so I know mine at least does over 280mbps in the real world.
I'm sure "location, location, location" on this, and it will vary a lot depending on your area and congestion in that area.
Just FYI steam compresses the data and shows the throughput with compression so the number will be higher than your actual download bandwidth.
T-mos general coverage outside of city centers and interstates is trash (they're all pretty bad, but Tmo is very binary). I'd get it over xfinity, but it's not even offered in my major university town due to coverage limitations. And it's not like there aren't big pipes nearby - the university consumes more than 100TB of data traffic a day; their Netflix traffic alone was so large just 3 years ago that they were on the edge of getting a co-located Netflix rack on campus.
I get you for your area, but that's not the case in my state. Also, t mobile has the largest 5g coverage area nationwide by a large margin. Like, not even close. Area wise Verizon and at&t combined still don't match it.
Well, you're the one who said you're shocked at the small numbers of Tmo customers. It may be a shock in your area if they have good coverage, but in my state they are trash. I have TMo and lose signal anywhere outside a city center. I visit my verrrrry rural parents and get zero signal in a 30 mile radius around their house until I get there and connect to their wifi ... powered by an att-connected 4g router.
Like I said, that's your area(and thats 4g from the att. Not the much faster 5g). Doesn't change that you can look up coverage data from any source you can find. 5g coverage is completely dominated by t-mobile for nation wide coverage right now.
Now cell coverage for 3/4g and just keeping cell signal; Verizon all day.
Yes, my state is far larger than yours, so that may be a difference. We only have 5G coverage in major cities and along interstates.
Did I even mention what stayed I was at in this thread?
No, but I know what state I'm in. You're not in Alaska or Texas or you wouldn't be making these fantastic claims, so by process of elimination, you do not live in a larger state than I.
Then my next question would be why you think a states size has anything to do with getting good 5g coverage and speeds?
Yeah, why would I engage with that sort of disingenuous nonsense. We're talking about cell coverage. Area matters. Period. Full statewide 5G coverage may be possible in a tiny state, but it starts to get bad and then abysmal as states become larger and are mostly rural.
Why do you possibly think that a states size has anything to do with where they place cell towers? Cities barely even care about what state they sit in. Hell, Kansas city is in two states. Cell towers are just put in populated areas. Not populated states.
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