It's pretty funny that Brendan Eich of all people created a programming language whose worst feature is a pronoun developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
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This rings true to me — I've been thinking lately that it's not so much that AI is amazing or terrible, it's just that this is what happens when you spend decades writing bad software and then throw tens of billions of dollars at cybersecurity research in like six months.
wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...
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"Art Club Run By One Tired Person" is on Zlorp! Why not send them a Zlorp Buzz? They'll be able to answer your questions (if they go four pages deep into a hidden menu which we assume they know how to do because surely they're a huge corporation that has a whole department to deal with our bullshit)
did you know this country has more queer art clubs than statues of Winston Churchill and I think that really tells a story about modern Britain
Interviewing a govt minister Hazarika shows a graph comparing young people claiming PIP to the size of our armed forces & declares it "tells a story about modern Britain" I can't even make a sarcastic comment about our fearless fourth estate, because Hazarika is a Labour politician
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Kitsune Tails is 35% off for two more days: kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails Or get all of our games bundled for $17.99 on itch (itch.io/s/204320/kit...) or $18.75 on Steam (store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673...) Kitsune Tails and Zero, roguelike MidBoss, and block push puzzler Ultra Hat Dimension
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I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...
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I actually think the use of the word “finally” is so telling as to the role our heavily right-wing media plays in our politics. Sources like The Telegraph have been pushing successive governments for trans-exclusionary policy for years. They’ve got what they wanted. This is now their victory lap.
There is one acceptable version of this: Alanis Morrisette's cover of King Of Pain, in which she sings "queen of pain" but the track is still called "King Of Pain" because Alanis understand that IDs should be immutable, dammit
doing a cover of a song and changing the pronouns in the lyrics to make sure the listener knows youre straight should be punishable by death
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I have set a crossword! And not a crisis, as my phone keyboard wanted to write (at least, I hope not) Sample clues: 🖨️ About 14% of printer ink is magenta (4) 💎 Decline opportunity to take diamond centrepiece for rings (4,4) 📺 What CSI: Fresno might be representation of (9)
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The important thing to remember when people remind you that Googlebooks and Google Books are different products, is that neither Googlebooks nor Google Books is the same thing as Google Play Books.
when I initially heard about the "googlebooks" (not to be confused with distinct google product "google books") I assumed this was google using monopsony power to exploit the ram shortage to force more people into locked-down computing but no they are priced at full ram-is-stupid prices lol
Thing is I'm pretty sure this would have been partially avoided had the government not made life so damn complicated, like I made it to 40 without thinking I had ADHD and I think I'd have made it to 60 if the trains worked and I wasn't constantly on the hook for increasing amounts of nonsense admin
It's grimly amusing that, having been roundly rejected from the art community for not understanding why people do art, the AI bros blundered into mathematics and completely failed to understand why people do that either
Shot and chaser. I recall someone smarter than me talking about how AI companies are disrespectful and outright hostile towards real experts. This is just further evidence to that point. What an absolutely shitty, useless thing to do. www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
What's fun about this is, by the show's established logic, since the Tardis takes the Doctor to situations that reflect their personality and emotional state, of course if they regenerate into a child, they'll go on wacky cartoon adventures and none of the Serious Grown-up Fans can say shit about it
Fans like to claim Doctor Who needs to be rested becuase the ideas are getting stale the someone comes up with the idea of a companion who shoots TOAST out of his head when he’s scared, this show will never ever die!!! www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...
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Serious question though, why are these always so bad? The internet is not exactly hurting for good photos of delicious-looking food, so why can't these models that are supposed to be good enough to replace human designers create even an OK picture of a hamburger?
Another café doing an AI flyer that looks like all of the others. People saying they won't eat there, others saying why blame small businesses for using AI? Yes, of course, the environmental cost, but mainly, it looks shit. How much for the ball bearings on an armadillo, topped with matchsticks?
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