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- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
Hit me with your best music recommendations from ugly people.
- Comment on “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs 1 month ago:
Old news? Seems to be a subject of several papers for some time now. Synthetic data has been used successfully already for very specific domains.
- Comment on Platypuses 1 month ago:
bro heard about Darwin and went “imma try everything then!”
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 2 months ago:
Remember when you payed for software and then it was yours forever?
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 2 months ago:
I can’t believe they’ll put this on windows 10 pro.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Shareholders want the CEO that gets them more money. If that person doesn’t deliver, they don’t ask why, they ask when. If they don’t like the answer, they get a new CEO. Rinse repeat, here we are.
Except Zuckerberg, of course. He’s just evil.
- Comment on The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices 2 months ago:
Maybe the EU will eventually extend these rules to the iPad. I’ve already tried installing from the epic website and the process is not that bad.
- Comment on The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices 2 months ago:
Only for EU iPhones, right?
- Comment on Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck 2 months ago:
Why does google feel like they’re playing squid games inside the company? Just with AI overlords besides the rich psychopaths.
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’ 2 months ago:
Exactly. Number of users: 1
- Comment on Google dropping ublock origin represents a flawless David vs Goliath victory for its developer 2 months ago:
This might be a best case scenario. It won’t happen, Mozilla has been turned into a corporate funds receiver for years. That CEO compensation doesn’t pay for itself. Imagine paying for actual software engineering work.
- Comment on 600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 42827 in two days 2 months ago:
Not saying it’s the bots… but it’s the bots, isn’t it?
- Comment on Is Asmongold an alt-right "entrypoint" influencer? 3 months ago:
It also feels that the money starts pouring in once a content creator taps towards the right. Much like criticism comes knocking if you go left.
- Comment on Is Asmongold an alt-right "entrypoint" influencer? 3 months ago:
That’s literally how the alt right works. Spot the right environment where things can gradually escalate from a comment or a private message.
- Comment on Is Asmongold an alt-right "entrypoint" influencer? 3 months ago:
Haven’t watched it, looks like room-temperature IQ reaction content.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
old iphone: hey guise
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
Microsoft already knows that people keep windows around either because they want multiplayer games or are scared of linux.
- Comment on He remains at large 4 months ago:
The solution for a toddler with a gun is an adult with a gun. Or something. Idk, I’m not american.
- Comment on Forest Gump thought "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get" because he was illiterate and couldn't read the little card. 7 months ago:
Even if you can read, it’s mostly just cheap praline.
- Comment on To Stop AI Killing Us All, First Regulate Deepfakes, Says Researcher Connor Leahy 9 months ago:
Ban photoshop, I dare ya.
- Comment on You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds 9 months ago:
So far, I’ve moved to Kagi.
- Comment on Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years 9 months ago:
please seed
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook's total pay drops to $63 million for 2023. 9 months ago:
That’s why we don’t see him wearing a vision pro. The poor guy can’t afford it.
- Comment on NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft 9 months ago:
It’s like a blind Pinocchio flying at the speed of sound controlled by a touch screen. 2024, ladies and gents.
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 10 months ago:
Feels like a nice symptom of Valve’s flat structure.
- Comment on Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules 10 months ago:
They kind of loud, though
- Comment on That one is winning 10 months ago:
that’s some deep strategy
- Comment on The 'Effective Accelerationism' movement doesn't care if humans are replaced by AI as long as they're there to make money from it 10 months ago:
Accelerate towards UBI, you cowards.
- Comment on Best text to image generator 10 months ago:
Can you give an example of a complete prompt? Are you using Dall-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion…?
It seems that all models need to have prompts crafted specifically for them and you need to follow-up with corrections. The follow-up is critical for pretty much anything these LMMs output.
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 10 months ago:
The only thing that still might save printers is competition.