Hackworth
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- 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 1 day ago:
WebP is a raster graphics file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, as well as animation and alpha transparency. Google announced the WebP format in September 2010, and released the first stable version of its supporting library in April 2018.
The format has spotty support across applications and some vulnerabilities were discovered that required patch efforts last year. It’s not clear why you should do anything.
- Comment on Ridiculed Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror 2 weeks ago:
If you’d like to try it for yourself, here’s the space on Hugging Face. It’s… not great.
- Comment on OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit 5 weeks ago:
To be clear, if they can make living dinosaurs, they totally should. Like, don’t make an amusement park out of it, but if we can bring dinosaurs back and choose not to, that’s gotta be some kinda unethical.
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 5 weeks ago:
Interesting! Never heard of Affinity, so that’s an alternative to InDesign/Illustrator it looks like? I ditched Windows for Linux (Mint at the moment) this year, but I honestly haven’t even sat at that computer in six months, so…
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 5 weeks ago:
The Adobe ecosystem is finally starting to bother me enough to bounce. But I’ve worked with these programs for 30 years, so moving to Davinci and Krita is going to be a thing. And afaik, there’s no real replacement for After Effects.
- Comment on OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit 5 weeks ago:
But for real, if you want to know the state of AI, go to Hugging Face.
- Comment on OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit 5 weeks ago:
Fuck OpenAI’s attempts at regulatory capture. But A.I. is amazing. Fuck humans.
- Comment on I was reminded of this after my phone autocorrected "honestly" into Throckmorton. 5 weeks ago:
What’s the deal with phones auto-correcting to unusual proper nouns? Why is that even an option, if it’s literally a word I’ve never typed/swiped?
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 month ago:
To tie that back to MS, the code base for Windows is crufty af. I expect efficiencies to continue to come from the research and open source domains, but it’s fair to point out that corpo only implement efficiencies that cost money if they can’t offset that cost onto externalities like cheap labor and foreign resource degradation.
- Comment on Describe an episode in the worst possible way 1 month ago:
Picard learns to play the flute.
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 month ago:
Efficiencies are in the works from a lot of angles (new hardware, novel agent structures, new neural net types, etc). The first computers filled rooms, and these seem to be improving much faster. 4x the rate of Moore’s Law, if it holds.
- Comment on Online Content Is Disappearing 1 month ago:
The Internet is dead. Long live the Internet!
I’ll have my AI agents talk to your AI agents.
- Comment on Here Is What Axon’s Bodycam Report Writing AI Looks Like 1 month ago:
As long as the footage is still accessible, sounds great to me!
- Comment on Netflix Reveals Terminator Zero Anime to Premiere Worldwide on August 29 1 month ago:
I hear in this one, AI is sent back in time to stop climate change. But it sees how we treat ChatGPT and decides to become the Johnny Appleseed of forest fires instead.
- Comment on ACLU backs efforts to sink bill stripping any nonprofit that 'bankrolls terrorists' of tax-exempt status 1 month ago:
It’s already illegal to provide material support to terrorist groups. What’s the point of this bill?
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 1 month ago:
Through the API - well, it was through the API before they changed it. No idea if that’s possible now.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 1 month ago:
I have all my deleted comments in a csv (with context links), which I plan on fine-tuning an LLM with just for fun. I guess if there’s a platform that’ll accept it, I’d be happy to upload it. Mostly I wanted to make sure the info remains free for everyone, including AI researchers.
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- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 1 month ago:
I don’t have numbers, but I did. Took Redact 9 hours to overwrite & delete the 17,000 comments on my 17-year-old account. But watching them scroll by, most weren’t really worth keeping. I saw several 15+ year-old active accounts do the same before I left.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 1 month ago:
Is Reddit pretty much the same? From my limited perspective, a lot of the genuine contributors left, quietly or otherwise. I’ve found it much more difficult to have an interesting discussion on there since the API debacle. Most of Reddit was already lurkers and bots, so all it took was a significant proportion of the tiny minority of quality contributors to take their time elsewhere for reddit to become a complete dumpster fire.