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- Comment on Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases 1 day ago:
😂
- Comment on How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel Hawksley 1 day ago:
It’s so grey.
- Comment on Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases 1 day ago:
Are they really using the same terminology as Putin?
- Comment on Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases 1 day ago:
Satellite services are pretty amenable to hiding sensitive parts of the world: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_satellite_map_images_w…
It seems totally on-brand for the US government to request that bits of the war zone be hidden, and it’s entirely on brand for satellite companies to hide them.
- Comment on An identification key 4 days ago:
* Not known to cause gonorrhea
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Is there a sample instance so we can see it in action?
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
That looks neat! Thanks for posting it!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Phew. I’m glad humans did better than bots.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
However, according to Opper. ai, only 11/53 cloud-based Al passed the test (~20%). Worrying, about the same error rate as humans
lololol
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 2 weeks ago:
Citing Program for International Student Assessment data taken from 15-year-olds across the world and other standardized tests, Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores. He blamed students having unfettered access to technology that atrophied rather than bolstered learning capabilities. The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 also didn’t help.
“This is not a debate about rejecting technology,” Horvath wrote. “It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works. Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them.”
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Classroom technology usage has ballooned in recent years. A 2021 EdWeek Research Center poll of 846 teachers found 55% said they are spending one to four hours per day with educational tech. Another quarter reported using the digital tools five hours per day.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s easier than alternatives. I already have it installed. The games I play are supported. My hardware generally works.
- Comment on Use the garden hose like a civilized human being 3 weeks ago:
That makes a lot of sense. Less funny tho.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 3 weeks ago:
It looks like the LLMs weren’t trained for medical tasks. The study would be more interesting if it had been run on something built for the task.
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 4 weeks ago:
tl;dr there’s a bunch of base64-encoded PDFs in the Epstein emails. Buddy had a hard time extracting them because the files are exported as images and the one and ell characters are almost indistinguishable.
Dude eventually managed to distinguish them. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Google Translate is vulnerable to prompt injection 4 weeks ago:
It didn’t work for me, either. Maybe it depends on the languages? I was trying French to English.
- Comment on Can we put shitjustworks behind a captcha? 1 month ago:
I’ve noticed the slowness too. It’s lousy, because this is the instance I recommend to normies.
But picking a solution without knowing the problem is a bit premature.
- Comment on Not the same 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 1 month ago:
Isn’t that where Amazon makes 1/3 of their money?
- Comment on Zootopia 1 month ago:
they made a whole movie out of this one
- Comment on TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker 1 month ago:
Dude is right: parental controls suck. I suspect that’s because they kind of take a back seat in most purchasing decisions. Of the various platforms I’ve enabled parental controls on (Apple, Nintendo, Android, Xbox, Epic, Roblox), I’ve found Epic’s to be the most straightforward.
It’d be nice if there was a mandated API that any kid-platform had to support, and a nice simple app to control it.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 2 months ago:
Is this new? Aren’t most tracks already available in torrents?
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 2 months ago:
The Fuck Monks?
- Comment on What are some common *unforced errors* to be wary of? 2 months ago:
This is huge. With a couple of kids, a spouse, and everyday responsibilities, it’s easy to get stressed and be a dick.
I find it takes conscious effort to switch away from whatever is under my skin to deal appropriately with the folks I love.
- Comment on New To Android? What Apps to Choose? 2 months ago:
Yes. I prefer AntennaPod. I can’t remember why. I switched a few years ago.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 3 months ago:
We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
lol
- Comment on Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together 4 months ago:
This post has a lot of serious answers to what is essentially a “no”:
In the UK, there is a non-virtual contingency plan, or at least there was. If the internet shuts down, the people who know how it works will meet up in a pub outside London and decide what to do, says Murdoch.
“I don’t know if this is still the case. It was quite a few years ago and I was never told which pub it was.”
- Comment on They locked me in a room with stab rats 4 months ago:
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 5 months ago:
What? Taiwan doesn’t want to give up its only strategic advantage? I’m shocked.
/uj
I’m curious how long it would take to build the supply chains and fabs to make the 50% things a reality.
- Comment on That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus 5 months ago:
The Wired story says the same thing but with more context and less “trust me, bro”.
They are both interesting reads.
