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elshandra ,

Rupert Murdoch has entered the chat.

elshandra ,

All your base are belong to AIs

elshandra ,

They’re not people, they’re cancer to society.

elshandra ,

Suicide is more like not turning up to the exam and taking it later.

elshandra ,

I think ubi has merit as a short term stop-gap measure, when a replacement system is ready to be introduced. My expectation is it will drive inflation up just by there being more poor-people money to sweat into the corporate/landlord e: toilet paper is more appropriate.

elshandra ,

For free? Surely there’s some way to get that shit out… Or at least, the panel.

elshandra ,

“It broke”

elshandra ,

Only their word until someone does it with a sniffer. E: I suppose, or looks the source but someone answered better now.

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elshandra ,

Assuming it’s not cached and sent next time it talks, of course.

elshandra ,

I think a fun way to protest would be to stop the economy. Just all simultaneously stop working and spending, stay home and spend time with our families.

elshandra ,

Yeah, that’s why it’s the chaotic neutral solution… We would need to organise food, water, comms and energy supplies almost immediately. We’d to have to work together, and that is chaotic.

elshandra ,

Just Gabe working on a god tier game.

elshandra ,

Nah Gabe working on a god tier game. He just want to be able to say the same thing we all do… “you mean, you have to use your hands?”

Where we’re going, we don’t need peripherals.

elshandra ,

HL3 will be a secret minigame you unlock after you beat the HL1 & 2 minigames on hard. Of course HL3 will have been worth the wait.

elshandra ,

We’re just waiting for the environment to correct that problem.

elshandra ,

If they’re games, protondb (.com) will tell you how well you can expect them to run. Other stuff, it’s often a case of search the web or try and see. Wine takes some getting used to, you’ll probably have to get your hands dirty and do a little learning.

elshandra ,

Probably a good starting place would be to take the three apps you need most, and just search the web for guides to running them on Linux. That’ll give you an indication of how much work you might/not be in for.

e: also if a guide says “just run this shell script” even chance it’s not just that simple.

elshandra ,

Well I suppose they were right. Windows 10 was the last version of Windows for me. I’m okay with not using what little only works on windows. Unless you need something more niche/specialised, windows isn’t worth the pain.

elshandra ,

That’s really the biggest problem I think Linux has, unfortunately it’s also one of Linux’s best features - it’s not a uniform experience. Yours won’t be the same as mine, etc.

Some things that should be simple aren’t, and sometimes getting things going can be frustrating, and you will without question at some point have to troubleshoot and fix something.

I’m fortunate that I have a lot of background and experience in the industry, and I can understand people don’t want to go to that trouble, just like people don’t want to learn to cook.

Most things in Linux I find these days do plug and play to some degree, but there is absolutely missing effort and/or openness from the hardware vendors. Like not being able to configure macro keys/extra mouse buttons without a windows vm.

Having said that, I found the way windows was going, adding crap into the os that I don’t want, and constantly changing where settings are etc. Changing my defaults, and so on. There’s just too much I don’t like about the way it’s managed. Also, winsecure.

elshandra ,

In that way I’m like a professional cook that spent all day cooking for others, so when they get home they just don’t have the energy to put all that effort into themselves.

Funny that, I’m a Linux admin. I actually run my own servers for everything. I’m a firm believer in whoever owns the hardware owns the data. It’s just like work but with tools that I like. I like knowing where it is, and it’s not going to end the world if it’s offline for a time.

I did windows admin for about 5 years though up to 2008r2, and I have to say I do like AD and ntfs ACLs (except when they break). Those times do contribute to my aversion.

I too know a thing or two about developing, back in the day I did C, pascal, C++. I remember how much easier delphi was than mfc. I got out of developing when they started dumbing down the tools further (why didn’t you die, java… C#, etc.) Electron can’t die in a dumpster fire fast enough.

Don’t start me on teams. I’d say the same for o365 though. Hard to believe these products make me want work to go back to lotus notes, domino, sametime…

Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)

A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.

elshandra ,

If only it worked that way in practice eh.

We found these marijuanas in his pocket, they were already in evidence bags for us even.

The model that can separate the fact from fiction and falsehood will be worth far more than any model creating fiction and falsehood.

Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack (apnews.com)

In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina...

elshandra , (edited )

If only it were that easy, we’re talking about govt departments here. It’s because they’ve either been brainwashed into it, or the executive profiting from this somehow.

There’s a lot of stupid rules about what you should and shouldn’t use in gov, and some of the barriers to the should list are very expensive. It’s frustrating as hell to know there’s a great tool for a job, but not being able to use it because they haven’t got some accreditation.

e: clarified individual profit, before it read like the department profits.

elshandra ,

The best solution to any problem is to go back in time to before the problem was created, sure. That cat’s so far out of the bag, and it’s only going to multiply and evolve.

elshandra ,

Interesting take, addiction to the convenience provided by AI driving the need to get more. I suppose at the end of the day it’s probably the same brain chemistry involved. I think that’s what you’re getting at?

I’m any case, this tech is only going to get better, and more commonplace. Take it, or run for the hills.

elshandra ,

Everyone is. As time and tech progresses, you’re going to find that it becomes increasingly difficult to avoid without going off-grid entirely.

Do you really think corps aren’t going to replace humans with AI, any later than they can profit by doing so? That states aren’t going eventually to do the same?

elshandra ,

Ah, so more like self-harm prevention, gotcha.

I guess like any tool, whether it is help or harm depends on the user and usage.

elshandra , (edited )

Oh, right. Microsoft is a corp. They don’t care about the harm they do until it costs them money.

e: also, I love to bash on ms, but they’re not the problem here. These things are being built all over the place… In companies, in governments, in enthusiasts back yard. You can tell Microsoft, Google, Apple to stop developing the code, you can tell nvidia to stop developing cuda. It’s not going to matter.

elshandra ,

I suppose, could be harm reduction. Like peeling a bandaid off slowly instead of ripping it off.

They’re here, they might not be everywhere yet, but they’re here to stay as much as photoshopped images or trick photography are. Just more lies to hide the truth.

All we can do now is get better at dealing with them.

elshandra ,

Idk, I find this hard to believe. I would think the challenge is more access to the information (gates, bandwidth), a speedy vault to store that information, and improving their models.

When you think about what’s available on the internet, how much of human knowledge and propaganda is out there. With enough/deus ex tech, there’s no way ai shouldn’t be able to learn most of anything with the knowledge available, and the right trainers.

elshandra ,

Everything’s a competition for company profits.

elshandra ,

Mhm, I wonder when we’ll have the resources to build one that can tell the truth from other lies. I suppose you have to learn to crawl before you learn to walk, but these things still having trouble rolling over.

elshandra ,

The way those those "maybe"s are used, are trying to illustrate their elevated doubt. So like “if 3 independent lawyers all agree I’m not getting fked.”

elshandra ,

That’s not how this is supposed to work. Most humans don’t think like machines, and many are never going to. It’s the job of your “ai” to work out what its human is telling it.

elshandra ,

Enter the bureaucrats

elshandra , (edited )

I think I got mine via some kind of lottery system back in the day. I used to be a big fan of Google back in those times. Was amazing to have 1000mb.

elshandra ,

I’m pretty much with you all the way. My take is that capitalism, corrupted by the ruling class is hardly distinguishable from indentured servitude at this point.

It’s just that our collars/shackles are invisible, we are given the illusion of freedom, and our pain is more psychological than physical.

elshandra ,

As someone suffering from sciatica as a result of desk time, I feel this. This is why I consider the monetary system as it is abused and designed currently to be a cleverly masked slave system.

When the ruling class are able to dictate both how much money you get, how much you can buy with money, how can you even place a value on it. Shit’s worthless. We’ve seen it become worthless overnight. I can’t eat it, I can’t shelter in it, I can’t drink it. In my country, it’s plastic, so I can only sympathise with the ecosystem we’ve been so careless of… Not even burn it.

This is something I realised young, when my parents and grandparents described how much return they got for their time. It’s even more evident across my lifetime.

elshandra ,

Yeah I nearly panicked for a second there, then I remember noone’s getting near that anyway. Back to my relaxing weekend.

elshandra ,

you don’t cast Teleport to go from your room at the inn to the nearby village to clear out some goblins.

Me who casts teleport to go from the inn, or my house, to the centre of town in games.

elshandra , (edited )

Yarly, I can only use edge inside the work environment and I was missing this functionality from Firefox. Thanks, OP. e: autocorrect.

elshandra ,

Yeah much closer to the /. I remember, just needs to cull the front page article texts to a few lines - too much scrolling.

elshandra ,

I think both are true, it really depends on the business, and the mentality of the exec. It is extremely difficult to get software approved in my environment if it doesn’t come with some kind of vendor support.

Basically they want assurance that if something breaks, they can get someone to fix it if necessary.

Personally, I don’t think this is the best approach. Vendor support is often underwhelming, and it is not forever. The longer you want it, the more it will cost you to keep it. By the time they cash out, you’re so invested the cost to change is prohibitive.

My biggest gripe with closed source software, is the pissweak amount of peer review it gets, and it shows repeatedly. It’s disturbing that we use things as important as operating systems and security products that only get scrutinised by a small number of people. People who probably all have similar methodologies and tools at their disposal. So, you forever see CVEs because they miss simple things. We’ve actually had a vendor (who we spend millions on yearly) tell us they wouldn’t fix a 9.9 because they were planning to discontinue the product, and sign a nda.

I would love to convince my org to refit to oss, but it would be an enormous investment just to transition, and honestly… With the stuff we’re seeing on the horizon of tech, I’m expecting some wild shifts in the way we do things in a similar 10 year timeline. It’s been nice working with x86 since 8086, but it’s time.

elshandra ,

Which is interesting in itself, what if AI by chance produces a likeness of you, unintentionally. Is there an AI that has a database of all of us to know that? I’m sure they’re trying, for whatever reason.

Now, if you’re someone famous, like a pop star or president, chances are there are a lot more images of you in those databases, which could also skew the resulting images.

So I guess, what we really need is some way to trust the image, otherwise … I really don’t know how this can be avoided, maybe a smarter entity does.

elshandra ,

Modernised: Evil Trumps when good men do nothing.

elshandra ,

You’re not wrong in any way, they definitely do need more funding. No matter how much you throw at it, the enormity of the task of making sure everything that wants to come to market is safe for humans… I can’t imagine how humans can even keep up.

Sure, the risks associated with brain implants are high, but it’s something you (hopefully) very consciously have to agree to. It’s more value to test some artificial sweetener to make sure it doesn’t give us diabetes.

elshandra ,

Hopefully the people elon’s persuading to do this work are better aligned.

elshandra ,

Oh absolutely, people gonna keep being people. The truth seems to be that we don’t really know, but it’s likely somewhere between 4 and 16 from the little bit of reading up I just did.

elshandra ,

Let’s not forget water… And eventually, oxygen… But keep buying/selling those trinkets people, for the economy.

And well, how much of these resource estimates leave enough for other life too, or does all other life just exist to feed us?..

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