TaLiTr

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by TaLiTr 1mo ago
At work we bought a used tablet off eBay to replace a customer device where they really wanted an identical (obsolete) model. OMG the amount of extra crap that Verizon branded tablet had pre-installed was agonizing. All system apps so you c
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by TaLiTr 1mo ago
> I think he’s a net positive to the world. As a person he's either a poser or a neo-nazi. As a government agent he's responsible for many deaths and as of yet untold harm. Tesla was one of the earliest EV manufacturers, but t
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by TaLiTr 1mo ago
What a strange and pretentious comment. They're not mutually exclusive, two things can be had at the same time.
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by TaLiTr 1mo ago
To "engage with your point": > hire a ghost writer. Writers are affordable and plentiful. > use your position as a presumably well remunerated tech person to hire a writer to cater to it. Ah yes "fuck you, pay me."
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by TaLiTr 1mo ago
> surely stuffing a low-mid-tier game full of microtransactions works much better than selling a really good game. Do they? That doesn't seem like a guarantee. Battlefront 2 was the most high profile game in recent memory I can thin
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by TaLiTr 1mo ago
> the engine limits the kinds of games that are thinkable. Does anyone actually do that? Most people just sit around thinking things up, and only later are they sobered to the fact of how much work it would be to implement a niche featur
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
I think GP is talking about using an LLM to write filters for the constantly changing Facebook ad serving code, which would be distributed to users.
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
> I don’t believe any warrant is required for police to follow someone, so they wouldn’t even need the tracker! Interesting how you reframe that, because the police would absolutely need a warrant to put a GPS tracker in your car. This k
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
In Canada, video footage that personally identifies me is considered personal information. This includes the license plate number.
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
Yes, it is. If you were investigating a business or building, you would document vehicles coming and going.
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
Is it OK to install a GPS tracker on your car if you only drive on public roads? You seem to think that would not compromise your privacy in any way.
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
Solar has a problem so it's a vanity project, but coal has a billion problems but it doesn't matter because you can adjust the output? Like it genuinely sounds like you're suggesting our current terrible system shouldn't
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
Ah yes, all of anime is a "fetish thing." People like you are the reason every single communication, logo, and document is overly formal corpo-slop that reads like a LinkedIn post.
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
> so it is profitable to sell vibecoding tools, but its unlikely to be consumed by "serious organizations" Isn't Anthropic currently using a "vibe coded" version of Bun they made using their own models?
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
> that the link/post author wasted time and could have just had an LLM do it instead. And I think it’s important that we make clear that that style of comment is not welcome here. So if someone talks about how "X" was hard
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
> "I just made this with AI instead, it was so easy and I didn't even have to do anything myself" is effectively also dunking on the author and disrespecting/devaluing the effort they put into whatever they submitted
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
>Quantamagazine is owned by the heavily AI invested Renaissance Fund. Except it's not? It's owned by a private foundation where the only link is both were founded by the same dude who hasn't run either in like 15 years. T
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
I don't trust anything the North Korean government says without external verification, why would I believe the U.S. government?
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
My comment was referring to the fact that art is in the eye of the beholder. Given your biases, nobody could show you an AI image that you would say is art.
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
I think you're misunderstanding me, I'm agreeing with the GP that AI generated food pics are a net-negative. The sentence is more "I don't get who would think that(AI generated food pics) is a good idea" but I could
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
I can show an AI image with artistic value. But, to you? Apparently not.
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
> Public shaming and rejection are probably the best way to teach people it's wasting people's time and disrespectful Public shaming is disrespectful. As is the self-righteous "teaching" of something that is ultimat
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
> When I see pictures of food on a menu, I expect them to be real pictures of an example of the actual dish I'd get I don't get who would think that's a good idea. Like if I order something because the picture shows that t
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
> No way 1/7 people globally use ChatGPT? Seems at least plausible to me. Anecdotally: I have 3 coworkers (4 if you include me) out of a dozen who have used it at least twice in the past year. I was queuing at a return desk a month
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
Have people moved on from Calibre? I've been slowly spinning up self-hosted services and Calibre was on my TODO. I haven't even heard of Booklore.
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
Considering that the GP said > Being able to put epubs bought elsewhere I'd say it is in this case.
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
> Yes yes, greedy fat cat publishing oligarchs treading on the poor put-upon scrappy AI underdogs. /s The fact that the copyright-mongers are oppressing someone you don't like this time should probably not change your opinion
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
I think they might mean Word as in Microsoft Word . Just based on the feature list they were describing.
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
I wish... The best I've found is https://openipc.org/ which is a very manufacturer unsupported way of reflashing certain chips with open-source firmware. It seems very fiddly as only certain SoCs are supported and goo
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by TaLiTr 2mo ago
> creating the cracked version of a piece of software is infringement Depending where you are it might be "DRM circumvention" all the way up to some bollocks hacking charge. It's pretty murky in places because lots of copy

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