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by trashb 4mo ago
AI - artificial intelligence The "artificial" can have several meanings. It seems a lot of folks interpret it as "man-made but identical" however I usually try to interpret it as "not sincere", "fa
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by trashb 4mo ago
Everyday I hope a LLM enthusiast discovers how game "AI" (and games in general) fool/trick people and realizes LLM's don't do anything different. Some of my favorite examples are the Mario kart AI, Amnesia and Deads
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by trashb 4mo ago
Create a small sun a mile under the ground, what could go wrong? Also the actual article it seems has nothing to do with fission, they are focusing on extracting the heat already down there. "superhot rock needed for next-generation ge
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by trashb 4mo ago
When a company says “AI made everyone more productive, so we need fewer people”, I want to see the evidence - and I don’t believe it exists today. I think these companies doing "AI layoffs" do actually see improvement tho
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by trashb 4mo ago
yes it does seem fundamentally different. Most claims about AI are unmeasured marketing and favoritism. Similar to how management wants you to use eclipse or codeblocks to a developer that uses Emacs skillfully because it is shiny and new a
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by trashb 4mo ago
but the host (the company) will need to pay the price in the form of server equipment. Not the user as is the case with client side rendering. If server side rendering becomes slow it will affect all users regardless of their hardware or co
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by trashb 4mo ago
> The capacity exists, but it's not necessarily used all the time. By choosing not to engage with a tool you are deciding that the tool serves you and your goals (perception of good) best by not being used. You can make it illegal t
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by trashb 4mo ago
This game looks great I really like the style it is inspiring. The author seems to consider open-sourcing the engine, I would also be interested in the mentioned scripts for asset creation. Those scripts would make a great toolset for asset
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by trashb 4mo ago
The DEC 3000 would like to have a word with you.
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by trashb 4mo ago
x86 boots in 16-bit real mode. Then you need to specifically transition into 32-Bit, and from 32-Bit it can be transitioned to 64-Bit Architecture... The last step (32-bit to 64-bit) can a bit of a can of worms especially on older platforms
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by trashb 4mo ago
> Surveillance is a tool. It's neither right nor wrong, good or evil. What is it a tool for, it is a tool for observing while no person is present therefore breaking privacy. Privacy, a state in which one is not observed or dist
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by trashb 4mo ago
Guess which funding is getting impacted to enable this kind of law.
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by trashb 4mo ago
Because in the UK people believe, media enhances this, they can get stabbed for little to no reason or over a small argument due to mostly due to social tensions but also poverty. In the US it seems you have a high chance of not getting sta
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by trashb 4mo ago
Detection, even if "on-device, fully private". Is meant to notify others, the person viewing the image already knows what they are viewing. I would argue that the notifying of others of what (kind of imagery/category) you are
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by trashb 4mo ago
> The average middle class parent will surveil the shit out of their children, for example. Most of those parents will argue that they have the right to do that and are actively recommending other parents to do the same. It happens so mu
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by trashb 4mo ago
That page does not load for me, did you mean https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png or https://xkcd.com/927/
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by trashb 4mo ago
there is a whole lot out there. I personally like the following two also: https://nocss.club/ https://no-html.club/index.txt (seems to be offline atm but archive.org has a captured version)
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by trashb 4mo ago
Maybe you're overthinking it. Perhaps instead of creating a whole new stack, you just want to host a "personal blog" yourself. You could even consider creating a listing of similar sites you have found. If all people that wan
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by trashb 4mo ago
> as they fail at least (2), (4) and (5). Can you explain how you see that they fail 2 and 4? To me it seems with Gemini, Gopher and BBSes (tilde.town is html so let's skip that) they can serve any type of content they want and you
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by trashb 4mo ago
Seems like the whole "no tracking, no targeted advertisements" is a great feature of Gopher & Gemini. BBSes do tracking but it seems rarely used for advertisement its more distributed anyway so if you don't like a BBS you
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by trashb 4mo ago
> system akin to film classification age ratings I am pretty sure that most parents let their kids watch movies that are rated for a higher age group then their current age. For example a lot of marvel movies, harry potter or pirates of
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by trashb 4mo ago
I like the idea to have a symbol to unite the world under one flag. The blue dot seems to make sense as it represents the world without focusing on one perspective or projection of the world map. The transparent background also makes sense
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by trashb 4mo ago
Make sure the new firmware slightly corrupts the audio for guaranteed high return rate. To be extra malicious, if you can infect a connected pc make it propagate the worm to any similar device plugged into the pc over usb in the future.
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by trashb 4mo ago
you could but I think the inclusion of lasers would make for a better spy / cyberpunk movie. Most "hacking" in movies are not realistic and for show but it being plausible is just a bonus.
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by trashb 4mo ago
For anyone that wants to experience fidonet or bbses, I can recommend the Synchronet client and their BBS List. They are very up to date. https://www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html BBSes with fidonet are still available to conne
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by trashb 4mo ago
> Today I cannot get a VPS without verifying my identity. Can you? I think it is at least possible to do so in a identity opaque way if you wanted to using obfuscated payment provider, free email and possibly fake name/address (ille
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by trashb 4mo ago
Have you considered that even if unwanted material was only accessible in physical form with age restriction for buying. Like porn magazines, cigarettes or alcoholic drinks, kids can still access them and find a way around it. You can ask o
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by trashb 4mo ago
I wonder (and don't hear anyone talking about it) if kids can't upload on social media and "publishing" platforms. Can they still host a website? I know that my fascination with computers largely began with creating webs
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by trashb 5mo ago
> pre-authorization If you need pre-authorization use credit, iDeal is a debit system. > It hands over the customer's IBAN SEPA Direct Debit requires my consent one time on my banking app. Giving out your IBAN number is generally
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by trashb 5mo ago
> Buyer protection Wero does introduce some sort of chargebacks and disputes, buy from reputable sellers and otherwise you are still free to use paypal for additional protection (but don't send money as "Friends & Family&qu

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