greybeard

It would be funny if a poorly written law accidentally banned all straight porn. I’d laugh.

Yeah, it’s about power and control, not money. Companies don’t want employees challenging their power structure. Employees are cogs to them, and cogs don’t get a say in what machine they are crushed in.

Software company here. There’s a strong external push for us to shove AI into every corner of our UI, but so far we’ve largely kept it out.

The one place we are using it is a pretty strong use-case (essentially sentiment analysis). We’ve had a chatbot in dev for a while, but are struggling to find a valid usecase for it. I think most of us are hoping the AI craze dies down and suddenly our lack of AI is no longer a marketing point our competitors use against us.

It also allows the DoD and DHS to collect application fees which gives them dark money to play with outside the oversight of Congress.

Maybe he confused him with John McAfee.

I moved onto piefed when the lemmy instance I was on shut down, and I don’t regret it at all. It’s a solid choice and promotes options in the threadiverse.

Linus would disagree with you there. It’s got a form of ECC, but it isn’t the same as server RAM ECC.

There is a benchmark that kinda tests that. It’s call the bullshit benchmark. Basically, LLMs are given questions that don’t make sense in different ways, and their answers are judged based on how much they pushed back or bought in. Claude is in a league of its own when it comes to pushing back on non-sense questions.

https://petergpt.github.io/bullshit-benchmark/viewer/index.html

I tried it a few weeks ago. It didn’t feel particularly buggy, but it was pretty slow/sluggish. Not the apps themselves, but moving and resizing windows. Basic UI stuff. Just felt like it was still very much a WIP.

Running through my head, I could easily draw maps for dozens of places. I’ve lived in quite a few, but my work had me regularly visiting a lot of different offices (IT). Many of them I did literally draw maps of, for wiring diagrams, or just to help other techs find their way.

I disagree, you can do almost anything with powershell. There isn’t always an exact command for it, but like 95% of Windows configuration lives in the registry. If you know what to change, you can make powershell manage any setting. Which is similar to the way that Bash controls Linux, through modifying config files.

I do wish they had more/better tools for configuring the OS, but it works pretty well if you know the arcane magic of Windows.

And when it comes to being a functional script, I’d take powershell over bash any day. That’s preference, obviously, but objects instead of strings makes it way easier to move data from one process to another.

I think it is why AI (Mostly just LLMs) have gotten so much hype. It’s something different. Desktop environments aren’t going to get much better. Mobile phones have been black rectangles for a decade with very little improvement. AI is something new, and feels like an advancement, even if 99% of the proposed use-cases have failed to actually work.

Elon Musk does a lot of business in Europe. You seize his assets in Europe to enforce the fines.

Many years ago a grocery store chain, which was rapidly becoming national, had its progress halted by a meat bleaching scandal. They set impossible goals for their meat department, knowing there was zero way to sell the meat at the volume they demanded, so the local stores were left to do illegal things to meet the impossible quotas. The higher ups claimed plausible deniability, while knowing there was but one answer.

What’s even crazier, is the grocery store (Food Lion) sued the journalists who went undercover to expose it, and won. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-23-mn-21242-story.html

Fortunately, the damage to their reputation did far greater damage than they won in the lawsuit, but as far as I could find, no legal actions were taken against Food Lion.

I honestly think the Grand Canyon is even crazier in person. In photos, it looks like a big hole, but in person it is truly a grand hole.

One may want to have adult conversations without seen porn. A NSFW filter is quite blunt.

Not really, Jellyfin will run just fine on old hardware. You don’t need a lot of power to do it. That said, if a USB HDD works for you, that’s fine too.

It comes from marketing copy. Same with the emdash. My company has a style guide for marketing material and it calls out using bulleted lists and em dashes exactly how AI does it.

As countries find success, others will follow. Not only because it isn’t seen as risky, but also because the tooling will be better refined, and talent will exist in those tools. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Microsoft 365 has a lot of problems, but a shortage of techs who know how to make it mostly behave isn’t one of them.

They don’t have to do that at all. These are “Work or School” accounts, and generally with Schools they are on a specific education products on top of that. All they have to do is make the company/school enter ages for all their accounts if they are using EDU products. Microsoft can reasonably trust that data.