butterflyattack

@butterflyattack@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sky News: 16-year-old boy dies after being stabbed in Bristol⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rawnsley park is pretty sketchy at night but it’s not the most dodgy park in the area. There’s a lot of dealing goes on there, I’m assuming this stabbing is related.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  now AI will be trained on your craziest “private” conversations

  I have no idea what horrible thing this will do to an LLM but I’m kind of curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (OpenAI Sora)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI just lowers the barrier required for people to be able to express what’s in their mind

  Yeah, there’s nothing wrong with people being about to express themselves, but that’s not necessarily art. With art the barriers are things like talent, creativity, and hard work. Lowering those barriers mostly creates rubbish. Typing ‘Make a pic of an x fighting a y and make it look cool!’ doesn’t make anyone an artist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (OpenAI Sora)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Happily my job is so shit and poorly paid that I don’t anticipate it ever being worth automating. Sometimes humans are just cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys might really kill passwords⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Phrases are definitely more memorable than forcing people to use capitals, numbers, symbols, all that shit. But there are just so many passwords to remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨remember, if your gf isn't open source and running locally, you don't own her⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A pretty early chatbot called Eliza simulated a non-directive psychotherapist. It kind of feels like they’ve improved hugely but not really changed much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m cool with that. Maybe they can do tailgaters next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what you’re referencing, but me too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We agreed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know but maybe it’s short for ‘open goal’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Next Fest is currently ongoing - which demos did you like/dislike?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m looking forward to it. Currently playing through the old ones, they hold up surprisingly well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police departments are using AI to review bodycam footage, and police unions are not happy about it⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bank errors in your favour do happen, or at least they did - one happened to me maybe twenty five years ago. I was broke and went to the bank to pay in my last £30-something of cash to cover an outgoing bill. Stopped at the cash machine outside my bank to check my balance was sufficient now, and found that the cashier had put an extra 4 zeros on the figure I’d deposited. I was rich! I was also in my early 20s and not thinking too clearly I guess because my immediate response was to rush home to get my passport with the intention of going abroad and opening an account into which to transfer the funds, never coming back. I checked my balance again at another machine closer to home and the bank had already caught and corrected their mistake. Took them maybe thirty minutes.

  After a bit of occurred to me that I was lucky really, because I didn’t know what the fuck I was doing and the funds would have been traced very easily and I’d have been in deep shit.

  But yeah, anecdotal, but shit like that did happen. I assume it’s more rare these days as fewer humans are involved in the system, and fewer people use cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s identifying, and I feel no shame!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’d have had to grip it in his teeth though, probably would have been a bit tricky really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but I’m on there taking a piss against my work van so I’m prepared to forgive it a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in the UK, I’ve only ever driven manuals. I know one or two people with automatics, wouldn’t fancy having one myself though. I feel like the manual shift gives me more control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “It’s God’s will!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought the old homeworld games. I remember really enjoying them way back when, and the third game finally comes out in 24 so I thought I’d give them a play through to catch up. Still good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just need a note platform that I can feel sure will exist in a few years time. I don’t mind paying for a service that’s valuable to me but evernote’s prices were a bit much and their constant pestering became annoying. I switched to Google keep - which, given that I wanted something that will last, may have been a mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds that Chat GPT will cheat when given the opportunity and lie to cover it up later.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interestingly, the answer from bard sounds like it could be true. I don’t know shit about fluid dynamics but it seems pretty plausible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t seem fair that some people get paid so well for fucking up so badly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, old games often get overlooked but they kind of laid the foundations for much of what we had today. I remember spending a lot of time on elite, back in the 80s. It seemed so impressive back then, and really it was an achievement considering the hardware was BBC micro computers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite game through the ears of Original Soundtrack?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Homeworld. Really effective soundtrack, heightened tension and the feeling of being out in empty space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workers at Amazon UK warehouse to walk out on Black Friday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t black Friday an American thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boy, 16, arrested over felling of iconic ‘Robin Hood tree’ next to Hadrian’s Wall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve cut down (dead) trees. This is a job that could be done by one experienced person but I wouldn’t tackle it on my own - it’s an isolated area and if something goes wrong you are fucked. Trees are fuckin heavy and if one falls on you, you’ll know about it. I don’t know where the 16 year old would have got the experience to tackle this, the cuts look reasonably competent. It would also have taken a fairly long blade chainsaw, though it’s hard to judge the thickness of the stump. Also, what a wanker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Minecraft wiki has been moved from Fandom to Minecraft.wiki⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s a shit-ridden ad hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, can you imagine trusting that thing to buy stuff for you? Bit scary, actually.

• Man accused of being Somerset gimp banned by court from wearing masks or wriggling on floor ahead of October trialwww.lbc.co.uk ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crooked House owners' links to previous major fire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like the famous five got upgrades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly two-fifths of robberies in London last year were for mobile phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am pretty sure this isn’t the case if you report the phone stolen. Your provider will have the IMEI number and can brick it. There are probably ways around this - one that I’ve heard is that this bricking is regional. If you sell the stolen phone to someone who is going to ship it to Africa, say, and resell it, it would work fine there.

  I should say that this info is a decade old, but I knew someone back then who would pay for phones, no questions asked. Also vehicles, even large commercial ones. The containers were going to the Gambia, although I’m sure other people were shipping stuff to other countries and continents. I don’t know if bricking is still regional but I’ve not heard that it’s changed.

  Another possibility is that thieves are trying to literally snatch a phone out of the hand of someone who is using it, while it’s still unlocked. Many of us do banking etc on our phones, and have other login credentials, so perhaps if they get the phone while it’s unlocked they can do something with this.