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- Comment on These AI generated pics are becoming impossible to spot 1 hour ago:
The eyes see what they want to see 🤷♂️
- Comment on These AI generated pics are becoming impossible to spot 1 hour ago:
It’s not that these images are perfect - it’s that they’re close enough.
The “problem” is that these images look amazing with a minimal touchup - something which would happen anyway to a real photo.
An extra hour to two fixing some AI artifacts (the ol’ droop-eye and derp-hand) is a LOT cheaper than getting actual people out to an actual location and taking an actual photo.
- 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 2 days ago:
I’m running Ubuntu on a Surface Laptop Studio. I really like it, though I have not yet gotten the touchscreen and pen working.
If I figure it out (and I remember) I’ll let you know.
- Comment on Life pro tip: Maybe give her some pointers if it's her first blow job. 2 days ago:
I see no evidence of these “girls” you speak of 🤔
- Comment on Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw 2 days ago:
Iceland figured this out some years ago, and now they make heaps exporting computing power to international AI compute buyers.
They do it with a naturally cold climate, and loads of geo-thermal power.
- Comment on Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to 'create God' 2 days ago:
I think Zuck is right about this, insofar as the comments in the article are concerned.
OpenAI have done a brilliant job of selling the dream - but there will not be one “god model,” - there will be many specialised, smaller models.
You can already see it going that way with new hardware shipping with NPU’s. These workloads are expensive to run and shipping them to your device is a top priority.
- Comment on What are your plans for when the Milky Way galaxy collides with Andromeda? 2 days ago:
Winchester? 🤷♂️
- 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 2 days ago:
For me it’s a pragmatic desire to share information with as few megacorporations as possible.
I deal with MSFT for so many other things, not all by choice - and Edge does everything I need it to do.
As with many such questions, it’s about the trade-off you are prepared to accept.
- Comment on Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation 2 days ago:
This can’t be real?
First of all it’s almost certainly torture and human rights violations.
Secondly, never mind freedom of speech - now you can’t even have your thoughts to yourself. Only the Church has ever claimed such power over people. Fuck. That.
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 3 days ago:
Unfortunately they care more about spying on us themselves.
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 3 days ago:
Do you know if there people who have gone this far analysing the TikTok and WeChat apps?
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 3 days ago:
All I want to know is what do these Temu people think my life is like?
- Comment on “I am a cybernetic organism, living tissue over metal endoskeleton” 3 days ago:
What about a mimetic polyalloy though?
- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 4 days ago:
Yes, install Linux and the end up using O365 in the cloud anyways 🤡
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 days ago:
I get what your saying, in that open source projects normally have a licence that applies to how it’s used - but this has always been open to abuse.
Nothing has ever stopped things like this happening - see how industry has taken advantage of open source for decades (often productising things as their own in the process).
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 days ago:
If it’s a public repo do they need permission?
Not saying this is good, but you can’t really argue that it’s not a natural consequence of open source.
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 5 days ago:
“tHATs nOT tRuE the aRCHiteCTuRe iS cOmPlETlY dIffErEnT!!!1!11!!ONEONE!!!
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 5 days ago:
Oh man, I remember so many people defended 8GB since the M1 first came out (and since).
I always argued it would significantly reduce the lifetimes of these machines if you bought one, not just because you’d be swapping a lot more on the (soldered in BTW) ssd, but because after a few years of updates it would become unbearably slow, or hardware would fail, or both.
Didn’t stop people constantly “tHe aRchITecTuRE iS cOmPlETelY diFFeRenT!!!”
Sure it’s different, but it’s still just a computer. A technical person can still look at the spec sheet and calculate effective performance accounting for bus widths etc.
Disclosure: I bought a top spec 16GB M1 Mac Air on launch and have been extremely happy with it - it’s still going strong.
- Comment on Ironing 5 days ago:
There’s the great trick - you really didn’t.
- Comment on Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded 5 days ago:
RabbitMQ is used internally by a lot of applications and is often referred to colloquially as just “Rabbit”.
- Comment on Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded 5 days ago:
Lots of tech people who don’t know or care about the r1 device are going to get a jumpscare from this post 😁
- Comment on Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly 6 days ago:
Why does my open source browser need proprietary SaaS products stuffed into it?
Isn’t this what extensions are for?
- Comment on Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly 6 days ago:
Seconding this. Why not allow people to run llama3 or other open source models?
- Comment on OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content 1 week ago:
The real problem is robots.txt is an honour system in the first place - It’s never been a defence against bad (or even simply poor faith) actors.