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Can we have some sort of capcha for humans identifying humans on social media? This is terribly required.

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Who is PG? Pelon Gusk?

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Shareholders: 80% fired? Yay efficiency!

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity (ludic.mataroa.blog)

How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can’t manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn’t laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI...

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I don’t want to believe that coders like these exist and are this confident in an AI’s ability to code.

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What happened to HN? I have now heard HN silencing cetain posts multiple times. Is this enshittification?

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That’s depressing

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Cars go heavier but carrying the same number of passengers. Something ain’t right.

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It’s not a pure monopoly by choice. While it’s true Youtube has a monopoly in terms of number of creators, viewers and content, it’s still not a profitable venture. I heard it was burning through money to keep up with the sheer amount of content they have to deal with. Youtube is doing all this monetization now because they have ran out of VC money and upper management decided that it needs to be self-sustaining. Even the obscene amount of data Alphabet is gathering from Youtube does not create enough revenue to generate profit. But it’s a “too-big-to-fail” product now so Alphabet will continue to invest. Competitors saw all of this and just noped out.

Other commercial video services, like Nebula, have popped up but they are subscription-oriented right from the get-go, like Netflix. This means they have a very small audience and it will take years to build up an audience like Youtube. So I don’t see them growing, at least in the near future.

xavier666 ,

Using a VPN to get a lower price on the subscription is not a service issue, that’s abuse of regional pricing, and no company would accept that.

The internet’s most beloved company, Steam, also bans people for abusing the store using VPNs. So as much as I hate Google, i find nothing wrong with this.

xavier666 ,

I have a very sinking feeling that websites will be streamed in the future (SHTTPS) and it will be pioneered by Google :'(

xavier666 ,

Yo dawg, I heard you like Linux. So I built a Linux container for your Linux phone. Now you can enjoy Linux while enjoying your Linux phone.

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“The Time I Was Forced By The Government Into A Relationship With My Tsundere High-School Sweetheart”

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Not sure if pro or anti-LGBTQ

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Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

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Wrong!

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Adobe is worse than scammers. Scammers at least have the self realization that they are scamming. Adobe will steal your money and huff on the fumes that they are providing a valuable service by letting people open PDFs.

I recently downloaded their PDF reader (because it’s the only app which allows for digitally signing a document with a visible cryptographic signature) and it’s 400 MB in size. In no world should a PDF reader be that large.

xavier666 ,

TRUST THE BOX!

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There are hundreds of Windows and Linux apps which can open PDF, but so far only Adobe’s version is the only one which can attach a digital signature. I normally use Zathura on Linux which is like a 5 MB maybe. It’s tiny, very configurable and JUST a pdf reader.

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Solid explorer on my phone. Nautilus or any file manager on PC.

sftp each one from the other. Add the connection as a favourite. File transfer becomes a drag and drop thing. Bonus points if you create a static IP for each device.

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Tracking*

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I really hope he is secretly investing in cloning so we can get Gaben (2) joining Valve soon. Or atleast invest some money in uploading his consciousness into a giant metal head 🗿

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One bonus is that the ad isn’t an auto loading video WHICH I DETEST.

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They were really ahead of their time

With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?

Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play....

xavier666 ,

Lean muscle per kg of body weight is significantly higher for men.

xavier666 ,

Hey, it’s free organic soap

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Mr. Wolfie “SheepEater” Fangs joins “Sheep Protection Service” as a board member

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Saying “my source is I made it up” used to be a meme. Now it’s an essential business feature

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Yes, AI art is at it again

xavier666 ,

I actually made it up. But it’s based on a comic. 😛

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Hello insomnia, my old friend.

I’ve come to not sleep ever again.

xavier666 ,

I have a license. I enjoy driving as a leisure activity.

But I hate driving to work. I just take the shuttle and enjoy listening to my podcasts. We have a decent public transport system as well, so it helps.

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Yeah, the general attitude of wild witch-hunts and instant zero-to-11 rage at the slightest mention of it. Doesn’t matter what you’re actually doing with AI, the moment the mob thinks they scent blood the avalanche is rolling.

This wasn’t always the case. A lot of research on NLP uses scraped social media posts (2010’s). People never had a problem with that (at least the outrage wasn’t visible back then). The problem now is that our content is being used to create an AI product where there is zero consent taken from the end-user.

Source: My research colleagues used to work on NLP

Microsoft's new Paint Cocreator requires an NPU — AI-powered feature requires 40 TOPS of performance and a Microsoft account (www.tomshardware.com)

Microsoft quietly added a new AI feature, called Cocreator, into its raster graphics editor included in every version of Windows since 1985. You need a Copilot + PC with an NPU that can deliver 40 TOPS or better to use it. So, you need to shell out at least $1,099 to get one of the new Snapdragon X Windows Copilot+ PCs that...

xavier666 ,

You can’t make art about Mario

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…and ethically!

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Just as a sidenote for others, I have been using MyPaint for years now. It’s open-source, cross-platform, supports graphic tablets, no AI bs. It’s super stable, opens fast, and you can use it for maximum snideness by drawing circles and arrows

mypaint.app/downloads/

How are you parsing JSON on the command line?

I want to extract and process the metadata from PNG images and the first line of .safetensors files for LLM’s and LoRA’s. I could spend ages farting around with sed or awk but formats of files are constantly changing. I’d like a faster way to see a summary of training and a few other details when they are available.

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AI chatbots are very good for teaching. I’ll give them that.

xavier666 ,

True. I wouldn’t use them for very complicated stuff. I currently use them for “what is x?” and “how is x different from y?” kinds of question.

One advantage of using an AI is that it removes a lot of fluff that you get on blogs. However, that can change very soon when our AI overlords figure out monetization.

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And thus begins “why isn’t the profit line going up?” phase of the company

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Did anyone buy the Pi Zero at $5 or did we all mass hallucinate?

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It is physically impossible for the bugs to hurl meteors at these distances

This one always bugged me (no pun intended) when I first saw the movie as a kid. We (humans in the movie) can barely do precision missile-strikes on another planet across the galaxy, and the bugs are way less technologically inferior. How do they even move/manage a meteor?

Buenos Aires is an inside job?

xavier666 ,

A year back this was a joke. But now it’s true.

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I enjoy predictive text/auto-suggest during chat, Google’s old voice-recognition for setting alarms/timers/conversions. OCR is also nice.

xavier666 ,

Most of the comments about HDR on Linux is

  • "Yeah, that’s a weakness of Linux"
  • “Yes, it’s being worked upon. Hope it comes soon”
  • “Some distro X has partial support for it”

I’ve never seen anyone become mad, both on reddit and Lemmy

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This is the way

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that is how the internet started initially

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Let me tell exactly what will happen.

  • Step 1 - It’s opt-in. Everyone chill
  • Step 2 - It’s opt-in but the opt-in button is advertised during startup
  • Step 3 - “opting in in crucial for your safety and comfort” advertised everytime during startup
  • Step 4 - it’s opt-out now but it can be turned off in settings
  • Step 5 - it’s opt-out but the off button is hidden below 3 layers
  • Step 6 - the opt-out button is gone but can be turned off with a registry edit
  • Step 7 - sorry, it’s a core component of W11

We are currently at Step 1

This comment is taken from another lemmy post but I forgot the username. Apologies.

xavier666 ,

“We promise”

Source: Trust me, bro

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All artwork will be deligated to AI. Photoshop discontinued. New “CS Suite With AI Agents” released. Works only with voice prompt and eye gaze.

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