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- Comment on 4 days ago:
A wild ‘D’ suddenly appears! (that’s about all I know about Pokemon…)
- Comment on 4 days ago:
“AI” hallucinations are not a problem that can be fixed in LLMs. They are an inherent aspect of the process and an inevitable result of the fact that LLMs are mostly probabilistic engines, with no supervisory or introspective capability, which actual sentient beings possess and use to fact-check their output. So there. :p
- Comment on Is there a music thing that handles single tracks 4 days ago:
Search for v2.79 (if memory serves) on oldversion.com for the last ‘good’ version of classic winamp, and the streamripper plugin is still floating around somewhere on the 'net…
- Comment on Is there a music thing that handles single tracks 5 days ago:
An absolutely ancient tool I used to use was WinAmp (v2.x) with the Streamripper plugin. It would save out each song from a shoutcast or icecast station to a file with the artist/album/title/track like a champ. Maybe not quite what you want (won’t do youtube) but there are a ton of great indie stations on the vorbis icecast network…
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
Perhaps someone could write an ‘adb loopback’ app – get that into the official app store, and said app would then squirt other .apk files through adb on the phone to itself, thus sideloading it.
- Comment on The future of Vim builds for Windows 2 weeks ago:
Couldn’t they just use a Windows VM on Linux to run the build tests?
Not that I care, the only vim I use occasionally is under MSYS64 (I think… maybe it’s just plain vi).
- Comment on The Bog 2 weeks ago:
Great idea! Float out some ‘life rafts’ for the critters to gather on first, then tow them to shore before sending the workers in.
- Comment on redwoods 2 weeks ago:
/c/dadjokes
- Comment on The Bog 2 weeks ago:
Why don’t they put sone long planks leading up and out of the bog for a day or so before the harvesters go in? Give the spiders a time window to migrate to the shore…
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 4 weeks ago:
Related, but kale blooms look similar and I like the florets a lot in pasta (esp. mac & cheese).
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 4 weeks ago:
We already pay with all of the personal data they steal from us (adblocks or no), and all the lifetimes wasted watching ads for those who don’t or can’t block them (and the ad revenue paid to them by corps who buy those ads) so no, Google doesn’t deserve our money for Premium.
Same thing as when cable TV was new, they said paying for it was to require fewer ads… how long did that last?
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 1 month ago:
WTF kill this with fire.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 1 month ago:
And ‘Lie detectors’. Don’t forget those frauds.
- Comment on It really works! 1 month ago:
Ironically, ionized particles tend to stick together (trying to become neutrally-charged) whereas unionized particles tend not to interact as strongly; so a group of chemists ‘binding’ together to form a union would actually be ‘ionized’ not ‘unionized’ … metaphorically :p
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 2 months ago:
Ah, hashcash. Wish that had taken off, it was a good idea …
- Comment on AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand 2 months ago:
Just using “LLM” is also a bit over-specific, however, as it’d exclude text-to-image models, and others.
Fair point. I haven’t heard of an equivalent to LLM for, as per your example, text-to-image models. Hmm.
- Comment on AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand 2 months ago:
Oooh, Iike that one.
- Comment on AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand 2 months ago:
Please everyone, consider calling “AI” something more accurate – they’re not intelligent, though definitely ‘artificial’ as in man-made. I personally like the terms “stochastic parrot” or even just “LLM”.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
if jobs had living wages
But but billionaires would be slightly less obscenely rich then, oh no!
- Comment on Microsoft Says Its New AI Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors 2 months ago:
AI for pattern recognition (statistical stuff) IMHO is fine, it’s different than expecting thought, reasoning or understanding, which the new ‘AI’ does not do, despite the constant hype.
- Comment on Google releases Magenta RealTime, an open source AI model for live music creation 2 months ago:
Good god, it’s Microsoft Songsmith all over again.
- Comment on Palantir Is Going on Defense 3 months ago:
Data analytics firm doesn’t like … data on itself being analyzed. huh.
- Comment on Your Philips Commodore 1084 monitor might have a serious flaw (and it has twins!?) [1:06:11] | Adrian's Digital Basement 3 months ago:
I had the Magnavox 8CM515 which was basically the same, and the front power switch burnt out – repair guy just shorted it, saying it was next to impossible ti find a replacement… used that monitor on a CoCo-III, Atari STfm and an MM/1, wonderful RGB monitor for its time.
- Comment on Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government 3 months ago:
Agreed. I got to see him speak once years ago, wonderful lecture on the nature of creativity, lateral thinking, and just… stuff. Hard to describe, but just excellent.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 3 months ago:
- Comment on Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years 4 months ago:
Beat me to it. Anand Giridharadas has spoken on the general scam of billionaires white-washing their legacies like this… their philanthropy seldom approaches, much less exceeds, the harm they did in getting so rich in the first place.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 4 months ago:
Still love my Acer Aspire v151, core i5. 11" is a great size, just big enough for a standard keyboard. I wish they would have updated models like that. A Ryzen 9 version would kick ass.
- Comment on The Evertop: A Low-Power, Off-Grid Solar Gem 4 months ago:
Damn, I wish someone would make a 68k based version of this.
- Comment on Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive 4 months ago:
The IA needs to relocate out of the US, now. The EU and Canada should be convinced to fund them.
I’ve donated to them and am willing to do so again, but I’d like it to be after they show they have a concrete exit plan.
- Comment on Florida draft law mandating encryption backdoors for social media accounts billed 'dangerous and dumb' | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
It may become the duty of every software engineer at this time to offer their services to those who need security, to make custom solutions for those who require it.
Cypherpunks, arise!