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ptz

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Ask me anything.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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I’m not a fan of short form videos at all, but it’s cool that exists for those who do :)

If it has an embed API, I’ll probably add support to Tesseract if there’s interest.

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My friends will usually send me the good stuff so it spares me the scrolling. They get to share something cool they found, and I don’t have to scroll. Win-win 😆

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Estonia considers itself a front-line state, a Nato member where its border guards stare across the Narva River at the Russian fortress of Ivangorod.

I don’t know why, but the way I read that made it sound like Estonia is Gondor. Which, now that I think about it, seems pretty apt. At least being a NATO member, if/when they call for aid, they should expect an answer.

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That is certainly a fear I carry, yes. Unfortunately, the most I can do is vote against Trump and the US’s far-right and hope for the best.

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Happy Cake Day! Mine’s in just under a week.

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Edit: I’m going to slightly bend (but not break) the unofficial Admin Prime Directive a bit and point out that at least two people with Lemmy World accounts downvoted this post. Like, what are you even doing here then?

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Lol, right? Lots of instances are having cake days over the next couple of weeks.

I’m going to have such a hangover when I’m done celebrating all of these lol.

Why Is There an AI Hype? | The Luddite (theluddite.org)

Companies are training LLMs on all the data that they can find, but this data is not the world, but discourse about the world. The rank-and-file developers at these companies, in their naivete, do not see that distinction…So, as these LLMs become increasingly but asymptotically fluent, tantalizingly close to accuracy but...

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And other companies who had something half-baked just threw it out to both say “me too!” and to ingest as much user input training data in order to catch up.

That’s why “AI” is getting shoved into so many things right now. Not because it’s useful but because they need to gobble up as much training data as they can in order to play catch up.

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That hit me right in the gut.

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There’s a comedian who did a bit that was something like “A lot of my friends have parents who got divorced. Mine should have but didn’t. I think I had it worse”.

Paraphrased horribly, but if someone recognizes this bit, please let me know because I’ve long since forgotten even though the gist of it has stuck with me.

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I agree with the sentiment completely, but they’ll be even more poor and desperate. Which makes them easier to control/manipulate and even more likely to accept whatever scapegoat their golden calf god tells them is the cause of their poverty.

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I’m technically 9-5, though I can choose 7 to 3 or 8 to 4 if I want. I usually work 7-4 and take extra breaks throughout the day (or a really long lunch). Granted, I work for a non-profit which has a LOT less bullshit to deal with. I also have the option to work 7-5 or 8-6 if I want to only work 4 days a week. Flex time is an amazing fringe benefit.

Outside of salaried jobs, I haven’t seen anywhere mandate 7-5 schedules for hourly employees (unless it’s a 4 day work week). Companies do not like paying overtime, so most I’ve dealt with will send you home the moment you hit 40 hours.

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Flex time alone was worth the pay cut I took when I went corporate to non-profit. You can’t buy time, but flex time is the next best thing.

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“I’m a POLITICAL PRISONER!”

– Sent from my iPhone which I’m totally not allowed to have if I’m an actual prisoner of any kind.

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I don’t get why people are downvoting this.

Yeah, the NRA sucks, but a ruling in the other direction would have had worse consequences considering it was a 1st amendment case.

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I put out a small portion of the fire I started. Thank me and give me money, please!

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Fuck this “AI” nonsense, the techbros shoving it into everything, and the Bitcoin cryptobros that came before them.

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“Fox News knowingly lies to its viewers to undermine the legal system again in the hopes that people will vote for that criminal orange cunt .”

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Before I watched the Picard finale, I started back at the first season and watched all the way through. I may do that with Disco. Which sadly means avoiding spoilers for another few weeks.

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You mean Brock Turner the rapist who now goes by Allen Turner the rapist? That Brock Turner the rapist?

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And Meta’s only concern is whether their check clears.

Use volcanic ash to reverse global warming

While I was in the shower, I thought of a brilliant idea! Let’s trigger several smaller volcanic eruptions that release a semi-controlled amount of volcanic ash into other atmosphere. That will cool down the atmosphere, which should buy us some time to fix our carbon emissions....

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Basically this:

Fry and Leela: I’m glad global warming never happened. Actually it did but thank god nuclear winter canceled it out.

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Edit: I mis-interpreted the guy’s connection to the websites. I thought he fell for the disinformation, but he helps create it. Traitorous dickbag.

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Why do they always look like thumbs?

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Answer is in the quote. “Don’t tread on me”.

Doesn’t say anything about how you shouldn’t tread on others.

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I’m finally caught up, so I can participate in these now :)

t would be silly if, say, the Breen dreadnought was to show up and simply yoink away the structure with a tractor beam while we’re still in the cold open, and the Lagrange point did not matter for the rest of the episode.

That bugged me so much 😆. I literally yelled at the TV: "Why didn’t you just do that?! Or at least technobabble away why you ‘can’t just’ "

Granted, all the cool stuff that followed wouldn’t have happened, but still.

Burnham uses her xenoanthropology specialization to understand that joining a Breen feast day would be considered a good thing to do. Xenoanthropology was established as Burnham’s scientific focus in the series premiere, “The Vulcan Hello”.

I am really loving the multiple callbacks to Burnham’s xenoanthropology background this season. Given the nature of their mission, it makes sense for that to be a relevant focus.

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I definitely appreciated it on that level after the moment had time to sink in. Maybe that’s what bugged me so much about it. Watching sci-fi, I suspend a certain amount of disbelief. When something entirely plausible happens, it just hits me off guard.

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I know you’re being sarcastic, but that is exactly how I felt for about 15 seconds. 😆

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Oh, then I missed that. I knew they missed the mark with the jump but thought they had closed the distance by that point. Thanks for pointing that out.

I haven’t had a chance to watch the finale yet, so I may go back and start S4 over and watch them all like 10 a hour movie. Will watch for that when I do.

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Could also be two different types of chocolate (adding up to the same amount overall). Both packages are 225g, so the overall weight is certainly not doubled.

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Everything that gives people non-gatekept access to any media is considered “piracy” by the powers that be.

‘Home taping is killing music’ written above a cassette tape with crossed bones beneath

That propaganda image is from the 80s.

Re: NFL

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True, but that doesn’t stop them from being propagandized as “piracy”.

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So should the accompanying level of stupidity.

Forecasters warn Oklahoma may see tornadoes; Texas could bake in triple-digit temperatures (apnews.com)

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Forecasters are warning of another day of heightened risk of dangerous tornadoes in the Midwest on Saturday and telling people in south Texas they may experience triple-digit temperatures — and that’s with four weeks to go before summer starts....

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god only punishes blue states. when it happens to red states, it’s their faith being tested. 🙄

New warp drive concept does twist space, doesn’t move us very fast (arstechnica.com)

The researchers did indeed discover a warp drive solution: a method of manipulating space so that travelers can move without accelerating. There is no such thing as a free lunch, however, and the physicality of this warp drive does come with a major caveat: the vessel and passengers can never travel faster than light. Also...

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“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:”

What about Hunter Biden?

Source: Lisa Kudrow’s Best Scenes in ‘Death to 2020’

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They’ve already done that once. See Chemours

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I don’t know if this is the right community for this or not. There’s no rules against it, but it’s not typically the type of content this community posts.

Maybe try !cool_github_projects

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12ft.io/proxy?q=https://fortune.com/2024/05/21/fe…

That took, like, zero effort. Probably less effort than it took to whine “paywalled”

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archive.ph/UlPRM

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Remember when this was considered the behavior of malware?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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Wasn’t that basically Bonzi Buddy and whatever software bundled it without any options to opt out? 😆

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That’s just the living room. You should see the kitchen.

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Worst case, they’re saving it to an encrypted blob storage, calling that encrypted, and hiding deep in the ToS that you actually agreed to that

And then it’s discovered that bucket was accidentally set to public for over 8 months. Oopsie daisy! But you can’t sue us because also deep in the ToS was a forced arbitration clause.

Also, if you don’t agree to the whole ToS, you can’t use the computer you just paid for.

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Thanks for that. I was watching it via the embed in the article and didn’t realize the YT link I copied had the timestamp from my current position.

Updated the post.

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The “what” gets shot into the sun is less important, lol. I just found it interesting that shooting anything into our sun is more difficult than sending it to another sun.

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Peter Griffin dressed flamboyantly asking people to not look at him and that he does not want this attention.

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Totally agree.

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