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by ttctciyf 10mo ago
No, it's not. It has various functionality, as shown by the built-in help: > Example output of the SysRq+h command: > sysrq: HELP : loglevel(0-9) reboot(b) crash(c) terminate-all-tasks(e) memory-full-oom-kill(f) kill-all-tasks(i)
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by ttctciyf 10mo ago
Well, there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
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by ttctciyf 10mo ago
Also unfortunately reminiscent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kincora_Boys%27_Home
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by ttctciyf 11mo ago
> Why though? Do we really need that many more commercial attempts at Star Wars and Harry Potter? This kind of baby and bathwater argument could as well be used to ban writing altogether!
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
At risk of Godwinisation, there's a very obvious example.
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
> you nonce. Who was it that said, "every accusation is confession in disguise." Hmm.
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
Thought it was going to be about Freedom Bookshop in Angel Alley, Whitechapel, but thankfully that seems to be alive and well[0]! Being "the oldest and largest specialist anarchist bookshop in Britain" without succumbing to inter
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
"Hallucination" is a euphemism at best, and the implication it carries that LLMs correctly perceive (meaning) when they are not hallucinating is fallacious and disinforming. The reification of counterfactual outputs which are othe
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
Then they should host the meetings on irc! (not completely kidding.) Or maybe there's an opportunity for someone to create an "interop environment" where AIs representing diverse persons' agendas within an organisation c
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
Conspiracists were already on to this in 2023[0]. It's such ripe pickings that if the tick explosion pans out a concomitant explosion in info pollution seems inevitable. 0: https://americanfaith.com/bill-gates-funded-re
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
> top 10 domains that the White House Wire links to (by occurrence), from May 8 to June 24, 2025: youtube.com (133) foxnews.com (72) thepostmillennial.com (67) foxbusiness.com (66) breitbart.com (64) x.com (63)
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
The screenshots are quite something. Maybe one way to think of this is the chatbot and a susceptible user stochastically spiralling each other into a folie à deux [0] together? 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
There really should be some comeback for this type of enshAItification. We're supposed to think "oh it's an LLM, well, that's ok then"? A question we'll be asking more frequently as time goes on, I suspect.
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
Just the relentless digs at Starmer, and, you know, adherence to the facts, which have a well-known left slant ;-)
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
Despite the clickbaity title (in the original it EVEN has tabloid caps), actually a very interesting long form interview with Karen Hao, an MIT alumnus acquainted with several OpenAI execs since university, whose recently published Empire o
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Silicon Valley Insider Exposes Cult Like AI Companies [video](youtube.com)
5 points by ttctciyf 1y ago|3 comments
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
I've given this the (awful, clickbaity) title that it's under on YouTube, but it's actually a very interesting long form interview with Karen Hao, an MIT alumnus acquainted with several OpenAI execs since university, whose re
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
I've no inclination to click through to the video, but there are undoubtedly many youtube channels that use AI generated scripts spoken by AI generated voices in order to try and make a quick buck, following the advice of many "ma
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
Genuine question: does your bank not have a website you can use for that? (Wondering how your bank enables online for desktop/laptop users and/or folks without their app.) (ETA:) My banks probably have apps, but I only use them vi
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
Can we say "enshAItification"?
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XAI facing lawsuit for operating over 400W gas turbines without permits(techcrunch.com)
4 points by ttctciyf 1y ago|0 comments
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
Another solution is Conty[0] which is a download-and-run containerised Steam based on Arch; I use it to run games on Slackware without multilibs, and it's worked flawlessly so far. However, it seems Arch are also dropping multilibs as
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
> Humans being manipulated is not, in and of itself, a hint that things are going wrong. Well, if this is meant to counter the abstract's claim that: > Modern smartphones are designed to manipulate the attention and behaviour of
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
What about "bit"? Doesn't that come before "it", Mr Wheeler? :)
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
I admit I'm an edge case, but last year I installed Slackware on my main desktop specifically to escape the clutches of systemd, and by god it feels great to have a working /etc/rc.d again! I do use containerised solutions fo
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
Press release the Telegraph story is based on: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/new-theory... Arxiv version of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23877v1
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
https://archive.ph/rBAKV
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
Also lacking AGI roadmaps and fusion power roadmaps, I bet. Slackers!
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
> Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google’s DeepMind, said the goal is to create “models that are able to understand the world around us.” > These statements betray a conceptual error: Large language models do not, cannot, and will not “und
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by ttctciyf 1y ago
... and now he doesn't > Elon Musk said on Thursday that his rocket company SpaceX will not decommission its Dragon spacecraft just hours after stating that the company would begin decommissioning - https://www.reuters.co

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