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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had to use Office a lot professionally and I have to say you do get to learn its quirks over time if you’re stubborn enough to figure out what triggers each unexpected behavior. Ironically learning LaTeX really helped me figure out what’s happening internally in Word in some of those situations, just understanding how the breaks and spaces might be stored gives you a little extra insight.

  AFAIK you can do something similar to what you’re describing in outline mode but I could be completely misremembering.

  All the Office suite is bloated but LibreOffice still feels a long way off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the Notepad > Wordpad > MS Word progression was pretty much perfect. A zero complication plaintext editor, something with a bit more formatting, and outright typesetting for print.

  Granted I use a combination of Notepad++, Obsidian, and haphazard LaTeX venvs now so who am I to talk. I don’t represent most Windows users and especially not the Linux daily drivers. I’d like to think there’s still a lot of people in my situation.

  It says a lot that none of the reasons I like Notepad++ were brought into Notepad when they changed it. A copilot button in the place where I write immediate notes and edit batch files? What could possibly be the use case? I just need it to be able to open massive text files and have a decent search UI and that’s it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The companies that market machine learning tools to investors and the masses have not been set up by people who believe art has value. Everything is content, and content exists to be aggregated alongside advertisements or displayed for a fee.

  I genuinely hate that actual artists can’t use a lot of pretty neat novel digital levers to make stuff. Because it’s synonymous with garbage. The ability to leap across the uncanny valley has lost all novelty and is downright banal now.

  But the answer to your question is the same as every desperate attempt at getting a “good” use case for slop generators. It’s for cranking out low effort trash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a dedicated fan of walking simulators I can already see the amount of shovelware we need to dig through to find the good stuff multiplying by orders of magnitude.

  It’s been a year since I played INFRA and I’ve thought about it without fail at least once a week and it damn well isn’t because they haphazardly made boring environments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love/hate that this is a common experience. Someone did this to me too, although this was sort of a work friend taking the piss.

  I have straight up backhandedly implied people senior to me who get paid 5x more than I do are throwing any possible expertise they might have out of the window. To their face. My stance on these slop extruders is well known among my colleagues.

  I’ve even told people who used them in front of me, in a gentle but unflinching way, that their willingness to use them uncritically is a red flag for me and that comparing my genuine work to general machine output is something I can’t simply decide not to take as an insult. Including people who are supposed to review my work. As a professional I have to do something that exceeds the first page of Google in specificity. I do the long yards. Why is that suddenly a problem? If our work was this simple why are we getting paid to do it?

  Some of these people trust me enough that they’re getting queasy about the whole AI thing after initially giving in. Yeah it’s decent at summarizing mass emails from corporate. Summarizing mass emails from corporate is not our fucking job. At least two people were paid subscribers to OpenAI’s product and no longer pay for chatbots. Proselytizing against the death of critical thinking is not a lost cause.

  I have to get the fuck out of corporate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was an idea tooted over on Mastodon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll just be called Microsoft Copilot.

  None of you are in an abusive relationship with the cruel mistress that is Windows and her accursed family and it shows.

  Personally I’m excited for when they rerelease regedit as Windows Copilot, MFS as (Co)Pilot, and Purble Place as Copilot Kids Demo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to refuse change at the bakery when I was a kid and would instead pick something out of the stack of pirated PS2 games. Something like two US dollars? Three? Not an egregious sum for my child self to waste every so often. The death of the on the ground piracy culture of the third world really sucks, although those beautifully dodgy TV boxes give me hope for humanity.

  Those were the fucking days eh? You either catch a movie on TV or in the cinema, or you get lucky with whatever they’ve got on random counters in random shops. Remember watching schlock? Was that bad for culture? Was it really that bad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anything from the lemmy universe ever went viral before Reddit or Tictac or Insta?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that they pass a referral link by default even to Lemmy is really funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy [ ١ رجب ]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Arabic is pretty broken and was clearly pasted into a left-to-right text field.

  I think you’ve hit the cultural irrelevance relatively well. I wouldn’t worry too much about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we have No Man's Sky fans here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’ve heard somewhere an opinion that someone preferred the original atmosphere of the game even if it was flawed. I do wonder if they have a mode for that.

  I haven’t played the game so I don’t know, but that’s the first thing I think of for some reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Far-right Kast wins Chile election in landslide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  🌍👩‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: Israel Used Palantir Technologies In Pager Terrorist Attack In Lebanon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t put into words how horrible that week was. Everyone was suddenly expecting their phones, laptops, solar inverters, and even newer cars to spontaneously kill them. These things exploded out on the street, in buses, in restaurants. Even if you’ve been told all of your life these people are terrorists (and that is something I’ve definitely been told more than you have), this attack is a genuine innovation in terrorism. Utter chaos, and a complete lockdown of our weak medical infrastructure.

  The doctors were pulling shards of glass out of and had to amputate children’s eyeballs. For the crime of sitting in the wrong bus at the wrong time. I don’t care even if they were sharing a bus with Satan.

  From a comment I made about living through that week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Wilds drawing I made⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did have reduced frights on and it didn’t work for me. I’ve even read some anecdotes about it being worse than having it off. It doesn’t remove the creatures I think it just makes them walk slower and makes the sounds less jumpy, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Wilds drawing I made⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Put off the DLC for so long (4 years now? 5?) that I’d have to relearn a fair bit to get back into it.

  I remember being chased by a creature and noping out. I’m not built for horror games and that was a huge shift in tone from the idyllic feeling of the base game. I get that the thug I’m avoiding is basically a sprite with eyes and some music cues designed to feel a little stressful but I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does no one in the bible have a last name?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure you get these if you move. These names are common in my part of the world and they’re never common in the place the name refers to. At some point an ancestor moved and it stuck to their kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The British Empire⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I only ever saw it as controlling the spread of the horrific and anti-human terrorist philosophy of “believing the mass internment and murder of Palestinians is not a good thing actually”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring bathroom doors back to hotels⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never heard of this phenomenon. What on earth? Do you just shit next to your bed like a prisoner (I don’t even want this for prisoners?)? I don’t see any photos on the site. Surely this isn’t that common?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaires are robbing us blind, but i still feel like a theif taking a few hundred dollars in cash out of my bank⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Few years ago, people literally had to rob the bank for their own money here. Thing was, when you went to the bank and you asked for your money and they didn’t give it to you, they were technically breaking the law, and you brandishing a weapon to while asking for something that is legally yours is not a particular crime. The thought of threatening a bank employee whose job was to be a verbal punching bag for an evil financial system wasn’t appealing to many people, and most people didn’t have enough in there for it to be worth it, so it wasn’t as common as the media made it out to be.

  A lot of “robbers” used obviously fake “weapons” and that did work - while also giving plausible deniability towards the law (“I didn’t really make a threat”) and for the employee (“I was being threatened and complied” without actually being in danger).

  You’d think our sordid history with capitalism would instill a lesson or two in our society but vapid “entrepreneur” culture and socio-economic pick-me-ism are at an all time high here and every day I am drawn more to the mountain hermit life and this is not a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike most people, I get my information from a vetted, trusted source.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m one hypnotic frenzied writing session away from a giant winding post about how magazines gave us curated, focused cross-sections of the world around us, and how we interacted with them before the dopamine reptile brain event horizon era. I really have a lot of thoughts on this.

  I don’t know if this is real and I almost don’t want to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Pseudo) Science⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’d have a guy with a bunker full of 1952 Tylenol, which “still had mercury and opium so you know it worked”.

  It’s like you people don’t grapple with conspiracy culture and its tireless army of very well adjusted people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 486 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This might have been the last AAA game I was hyped for, bought at full price, and enjoyed within its buzz cycle.

  I should play it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They Wylin'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not word for word then, you got me there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They Wylin'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard this word for word but in Arabic back in like 2006 about Yasser Arafat. What’s old is new again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a month that's relevant to me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You ought to really bite down on that filter, give it a good satisfying crunch, just give it a real manly squeeze using your masculine man face working man muscles, just to make sure no particles go anywhere. You’ll be fine, trust

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a month that's relevant to me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The asbestos is probably the healthiest ingredient in that cigarette.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not clicking on the link, but this is right up my alley. Would love to host something like that locally, some sort of convenient museum of emulated stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC I played it a little and it was just mobile microtransaction hell after a certain point, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any decent GPT-detection tools that can be run locally?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I should have been more clear, this is exactly what I’m asking about. I’m somewhat surprised by the reaction this post got, this seems like a very normal thing to want to host.

  Doesn’t help that some people here are replying as if I was asking to locally host the “trick” that is feeding a chatbot text and asking it whether it’s machine-generated. Ideally the software I think I’m looking for would be something that has a bank of LLM models and can kind of do some sort of statistical magic to see how likely a block of tokens is to be generated by them. Would probably need to have quantized models just to make it run at a reasonable speed. So it would, for example, feed the first x tokens in, take stock of how the probability table looks for the next token, compare it to the actual next token in the block, and so on.

  Maybe this is already a thing and I just don’t know the jargon for it. I’m pretty sure I’m more informed about how these transformer algorithms work than the average user of them, but only just.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a whole ass case of assorted fine Lebanese wine for Natenyahu, stashed away in my family’s old home in the mountains.

  Here’s hoping he doesn’t get to it before I do.