@872ab8e1 Illegal that the NSA used it. But apparently not illegal that the companies like Meta collected it and sold it.
Maybe they're trying to solve the problem from the wrong end here... Privacy should be fundamental, not selective.
@872ab8e1 Seems a good time for a reminder that "alkaline water" has absolutely zero health benefits. It's just a matter of a certain sort of taste and texture. Otherwise there are exactly zero benefits.
People get lead into ideas like that it can somehow balance their blood pH or something. It doesn't. If it could affect your blood pH at all you'd end up in the hospital. Your body keeps blood pH in a very very tightly controlled range. Alkaline water will not change this.
@691662b8 I was just reading about this one and it sounds pretty fascinating. The most realistic sounding theory is two *rogue* neutron stars collided out in the middle of nowhere. (I suppose they must have already been somewhat together when they were ejected from their galaxy then just got closer and closer over time until bam? Must have taken forever for them to be so far out there.)
@872ab8e1 And what we're all sidestepping is the fact that when we actually took mitigations we were able to actually kill an entire strain of a disease that kills numerous people every single year. While other strains are still out there of course, it's at least a few less people likely to actually die now. Imagine if we killed off even more.
But yeah, masks are evil because, uh, uhm, personal freedoms or something. (Though if you're free to not wear one you're also free to... wear one)
@f2dbd6cd LibreOffice. I like that, while it does resemble Microsoft Office somewhat, it's far far more light and efficient. Plus, you know, open and free. It runs great even on an old Raspberry Pi. (As far as I know OpenOffice is considered depreciated in favor of LibreOffice and shouldn't be used anymore btw.)
BTW Freeoffice isn't quite as free as it makes out to be.
@872ab8e1 Most are stupid or straight up bad, but I do have to admit the crying baby Donald Trump is funny at least.
I guess I'll say yet again what I've been saying over and over. LLMs are not AI. As they lack any actual understanding, they can't intelligently know what they should or should not do. It takes external mechanisms to control the output and even then those can usually be tricked.
@872ab8e1 All these pesky laws just don't accommodate people like Musk at all. How is a malignant narcissist and a con artist even supposed to get by in such a system?
@691662b8 Every now and then you run into one of those rare people who legitimately cares about trying to better humankind.
It's sad realizing how many today have joined antivaxxers in spreading misinformation and such, so won't even recognize the value of her work.
@872ab8e1 Ooh. New wallpaper picker and lockscreen clocks? How incredible! I must have this at once! I'm totally sold!
Lol, but seriously, I'm about 99% sure I remember there being a lot more to 14 versus 13 than just those two things that was a lot more important. I haven't paid a lot of attention I admit since I stay a bit behind due to staying on LineageOS instead of stock, but there were real benefits to it as I recall.
@872ab8e1 Oh. I must have misunderstood something? I thought they shut them down already in the past.
It's worth noting here that there is an open source project in the works to create an alternative free network for the WiiU and 3DS. It still needs more work and isn't a direct drop in replacement, but it's making good progress.
https://pretendo.network/
@a1aa26bb Yeah, I keep trying to say over and over that LLMs are not AI, yet everyone is still rushing headlong right into pretending it is and all the pitfalls therein. LLMs do not have any mechanism of trying to understand or adapt. You can apply external constraints, but those can be bypassed pretty easily.
@872ab8e1 Modest is best for smartwatches and I wish more people got that. You don't want a 10GHz processor in a smartwatch. You'd be surprised how much could probably even be done in < 1GHz if they really optimized better. Battery life is much more important than playing big games.
@872ab8e1 It's long past time for the "dietary supplements" loophole to be closed. They should have to go through the same rigors and evidence requirements as any medicine or treatment would that claims to do the things they do.
@3aa006c3 Man Unreal was a true classic. It's too bad they decided to change the formula for the second and then just abandoned it entirely for only the Unreal Tournament style (and then changed even that to something no one enjoyed. *Sigh*)
@872ab8e1 Those look like extremely cheap o-rings. The kinds you use for things like keyboard keycap dampening rather than the kinds that go into a high pressure, high performance line...
@fee855d8 Honestly I've been trying to say this for quite a long time now. People are taught from an early age that they can basically pick and choose what to believe reality is and thus invent their own little reality to live in, then project it outwards and grow angry if anything dares challenge it.
Though ultimately I think our best long term solution is schools need to have critical thinking classes. You can't directly challenge the former, but you can at least harden people's logic ability
@872ab8e1 Gonna be honest, I'm actually getting a little tired of Samsung pretty much dedicating itself these days to trying to compete with Apple over aesthetics and such. Their sole focus these days seems to be on the least important parts of actually having a modern smartphone.
@872ab8e1 Of course no one was ever confused. It was always just the principle of the thing. They can't stand that people might recognize that an alternative could exist.
@872ab8e1 It's always lovely to watch obscenely rich people ruin things people have relied on for more than a decade on random whimsy or ego. Impressive job though. Beating Facebook at spreading disinformation is a seriously hard bar to clear. But he did it. Congratulations I guess. You're a testament to all of America's enemies, the spread of disease and destruction, etc.
I wonder if he's trying to apply for position as a horseman of the apocalypse. Good luck!
@872ab8e1 It's amazing how effective placebos can be I admit. Even if you tell people something is a placebo sometimes it still has an effect.
I just wish there wasn't a whole high-profit market built up around selling placebos marketed as not placebos. I still think we'd be best off with some kind of official placebo products, but like they say it in the fine print. It wouldn't work for some, but then we wouldn't have people thinking they can prevent the flu by taking vitamin C and zinc.
@872ab8e1 Honestly sounds like much ado about very little at least to me. Chrome should be able to issue a patch for this and apparently Firefox and Safari already don't work with it. Though the issue lies on the GPU, so drivers possibly should adapt for this. It sounds like it can't get very much and it takes way too long to be effective given that it can't run its own custom code or anything. The minimum attack vector for a very very small image was over 30 minutes...
@425a31b8 Uh... It's more like surveillance technology goes hand-in-hand with what people call "AI." LLMs take data and incorporate it into their model to be regurgitated later and one of other things called AI processes surveillance data then """"intelligently""" decides what to do with it. Really the fundamental issue there is the actual surveillance done in the first place not the "AI" being applied to it.
@872ab8e1 I'm still not entirely convinced they weren't intentionally sabotaging themselves. I don't know why, but possibly something to do with all the stocks they sold right before making that announcement. There is literally no way they didn't realize that declaring even indie devs would suddenly find themselves paying a lot even for games they made many years ago would destroy all trust in the company and chase countless devs away permanently.
Maybe they're aiming for a big sellout?
@425a31b8 I think I miss back when smartphones were used as small, still kind of somewhat minimal devices for looking things up and etc instead of becoming giant DSLR cameras with so many lenses they look more like a bee's hive sticking out so far that they no longer even fit comfortably in one's hand or in cases.
@872ab8e1 Has anyone yet determined the long term durability of folding screens? Generally speaking, any folding part will eventually start to break down and eventually completely break no matter how flexible -- and they're not exactly made out of rubber anyway. If you're using a computer *right* you use it for years and years -- it should outlast a phone if you're using it right. Will these hold up that long?
@425a31b8 I'm seriously confused as to why people keep insisting on treating LLMs as if they are AI. Just because they might pass a Turing test in a most cursory of manners -- particularly given that they do it by cheating anyway.
@872ab8e1 The problem is that it's basically not a scientific discussion to begin with. It should have been from the start, but at some point it became what effectively amounts to a religion. That means no matter how much evidence you show one way or the other, people are going to believe whatever they want to believe.
@872ab8e1 One way or the other there will be lawsuits.
Someone said they sold a bunch of stock a week ago too? Sounds like there may even be room for insider trading investigations and such.
Honestly, it's all a hot mess. I really feel like something is weird about all this -- like they were trying to pull some kind of stunt and weren't concerned about the inevitable consequences for whatever reason such as if they all meant to grab a bunch of money and run off or something.
@872ab8e1 Looks pretty good. Though I think this one has already been remade several times before no? Still, even if so this one looks like it could be the nicest one yet.
I wonder though. With the Unity stuff going on, how many projects like this may suddenly go on hold.
@872ab8e1 "Google's app for generating MFA codes syncs to user accounts by default. Who knew?" They did announce this. It was a new feature as of very recently. It was a huge problem before because you had to jump through hoops to transfer 2FA syncs between devices.
Personally though, I do think I like the methods used in software like Aegis better. It can save to a file I can load between devices. Not perfect, but a better balance.
@af151d0b Funny thing: it wasn't Mac OS they copied. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both copied Xerox.
Can you imagine what it must feel like to be Xerox kicking themselves so hard for creating what later made Microsoft and Apple so rich?
@872ab8e1 I would very much like to know why it was originally measured at less than 1.6 and yet they're reading more than 5.7. That's orders of magnitude higher on this scale. So much so that one or the other is wrong. Frankly it's probably the 5.7 as that would probably wreck the battery just on its own. As one comment said, France is likely acting on some bad information here.
This is non-ionizing radiation btw.
@872ab8e1 "With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and dozens more this month, is no software safe?"
Of course not. That's the nature of exploits. And there will always be some crazy condition that breaks things. It's impossible even to know them all. The closest thing any software gets to being safe is just if it's not used enough for hackers to bother with it. Someone still might hack it just for the sheer heck of it, so even that isn't a guarantee.
@749d2a0c I do want to point out again a reminder that trying to force us to migrate FROM a Google account to get the full 1GB for a free account is definitely not helping.
@3f26518c@e82d9b81@134318c2 It can be tricky with sound though. Sound is extremely subjective. Internal supersampling to 1MHz or what-have-you sounds great on paper and can certainly do a lot in a number of situations, but in the end, what matters is what it sounds like to one's own ears. It's very tricky honestly. It can come out better, worse, or no discernible difference when changing such a thing.
I'm using a hybrid-tube amp these days and the difference of swapping tubes is insane.
@9ac07000 I was surprised from the start of the pandemic how little people seemed to be able to process this fact. Of course, that was back when at least a handful still seemed to actually care. I'd see people with so much facial hair it just poked right out of the mask and even lifted the mask from the face a bit. At that point the air just goes through the beard rather than the mask. Why did this have to coincide with the yeti look being the in thing?
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