AJ007

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by AJ007 9mo ago
One thing that's consistent with AI negative/doesn't work/is slop posts: they don't tell you want models they are using.
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by AJ007 9mo ago
There was also a brief moment where digital art wasn't cheating as long as you didn't use layers and the clipboard. This too will pass. Soon everything is going to be rendered at 60hz in real time, and demands that everything need
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by AJ007 9mo ago
"Your band was formed after 2023, we will ignore you even if you aren't AI" By the end of 2026 the AI/no-AI thing is debate is going to be dead because there will be no way to know the difference. This is almost true rig
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by AJ007 10mo ago
Mastodon has been better than I expected after the first Twitter exodus slowed down. Much less noise than X/Twitter. The protocol may turn out not to be scalable, but it's very much alive.
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by AJ007 10mo ago
There is probably nothing that is safe for a toddler to have displayed on a screen 6 inches from their face for an hour+ a day, either for their physical or mental development. Adults suffer as well, but at least by their own agency. Also
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by AJ007 10mo ago
Just had to look this one up. PG&E's first bankruptcy was April 6, 2001. Based on the stock price decline prior to that, it looks like their shareholders thought everything was ok in November of 2000 and the stock was $27 (it botto
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by AJ007 10mo ago
PG&E emerged from their most recent bankruptcy with more debt than they entered with! This was largely because of the wildfire liabilities - $30 billion. In more direct terms, the lucky Californians are paying the unlucky Californians,
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by AJ007 10mo ago
The TV thing isn't a new story, this was public. Everyone should have known about it and no one cared. (I could inset a boilerplate rant about Snowden here) Those datacenters are not being built so that you can talk to ChatGPT all day,
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by AJ007 10mo ago
The average VPN user is knowledge-less. At best their internet usage data is being sold to third party analytics companies. At worst third parties are routing their own bots through their local connection.
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by AJ007 10mo ago
Deep dive this is not, and it certainly wasn't worthy of being upvoted on hn..
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by AJ007 10mo ago
The real story is we are training millions/billions of people to send what is basically biometric data to sources which they should never trust. You think stolen credit cards are bad? The long term consequence are so dumb and obvious t
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Monotype accused of overcharging Japanese devs for Japanese language fonts(gamedeveloper.com)
3 points by AJ007 10mo ago|0 comments
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by AJ007 10mo ago
The problem is the reverse of what is being argued here. The stakes are high because of how much money these companies are making off of DLCs/in-app purchases. The game operator thus has an incentive to ensure that high value customer
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by AJ007 10mo ago
Interesting thing I noticed trying to play old versions of Call of Duty a year or two ago -- the oldest ones which supported hosted servers, there are still players, but once they switched to matchmaking either no one is playing or its so t
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by AJ007 10mo ago
I don't know what's wrong with XMPP other than the network effect collapsed when the GMail chat thing was killed, while the mobile client options were poor for a very long time. Matrix has the appearance of being a drop in replace
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by AJ007 11mo ago
They have the same jurisdiction problem as Signal. So does Delta Chat, Matrix which were mentioned in another response here. From a practical side, if the client and server are open source then the project is survivable even if the supporti
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by AJ007 11mo ago
Seeing the height and angle, I would question how comfortable that keyboard is. The whole project looks like a special edition collectors item, not something anyone would use.
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by AJ007 11mo ago
Kind of reminds me of the junk forensic fire science. "Slop Detective" might have been nice in 2022, now its slop itself. Maybe this is an old link? If someone just published this in the last 90 days, they are an idiot. There&#x27
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by AJ007 11mo ago
My first thought was this is the whole thing about managers at Google trying to get employees under other managers fired and their own reports promoted -- but it feels too similar to how fucked up all the account and billing stuff is at Mic
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by AJ007 11mo ago
The "decentralization" of Matrix is true in some respects, and false in others. Which would be ok, but if all of the complex architecture and issues are in the support of being decentralized, then this seems like an early planning
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by AJ007 11mo ago
Perplexity had a big advantage over the competition when model hallucination was bad. That gap has narrowed enough for now. Perplexity beats Google, ChatGPT, and Claude if you want an answer with citations and want it fast. Claude deep rese
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by AJ007 11mo ago
Maybe I'm going too far from the tipping point of "this is easy" when it actually isn't, but the ability to clone an open source project now, modify some part of it, and then compile it locally seems like the future. Thi
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by AJ007 11mo ago
"one call per claim" I wonder how long it takes for it to be common knowledge how important this is. Starting to think never. Great idea by the way, I should try this.
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by AJ007 11mo ago
Also easy to forget how much negative sentiment, on the opposite political side, there was prior to the vaccine being approved. The NYT had an article on how it would take 10 years for the vaccine to be developed and approved! Operation Wa
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by AJ007 11mo ago
The night before this story was published I was pondering what percentage of Youtube ads I was watching were scams -- not 100%, but it was higher than 50%. Which raises questions about semi-legitimate looking items might actually be soft sc
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by AJ007 11mo ago
Did not read the book, but have been following OpenAI since the beginning. The whole thing comes across as a bait and switch with parallels to Google's "Don't be evil." At minimum he isn't a person whom comes across
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by AJ007 11mo ago
The AI researchers who joined and worked for less money than they would have been paid by a big tech company because they thought it was the right thing to do.
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by AJ007 11mo ago
It wouldn't be the first honeypot phone, haha. What bothers me is that when phones are stolen, they end up in other countries. Maybe you are a nobody, but if it is trivial to extract the information on a phone then there is more than a
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by AJ007 1y ago
Mistral is pretty much toast? Their models perform poorly and I'm not sure why anyone would use them. Maybe there is a catching up point somewhere in the future, hopefully.
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by AJ007 1y ago
What about by default web browsers are required to have Javascript disabled and uBlock installed and running? They could do a reverse Google, and make it so its impossible to uninstall uBlock. If we are going to go down the path of mandatin

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