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brsrklf ,

French public services tend to switch between FOSS and proprietary software, depending on the politics of the time.

In my little corner of it, they're leaning toward proprietary right now, especially since a big Microsoft ecosystem deal was kind of forced on us and we're supposed to go all in. Who knows how long it'll last though.

brsrklf ,

The article made that joke too, and... Yeah it's spot on.

brsrklf ,

Still think those people should have gotten a playdate instead, it's more fun and certainly not less useful (which is, not at all).

(When I first heard about the r1 I immediately thought it was weird how the 2 devices looked alike, I've since learned they shared the same designers).

brsrklf ,

force everyone's data into their OneDrive account. OneDrive now at capacity, you must upgrade to ensure all your data is backed up and retained.

If it's made without any agreement from the user (hundred pages long EULA doesn't count), time to GRPD the fuck out of them.

brsrklf ,

The combination of that knowledge and your username is disturbing.

brsrklf ,

Nature's squeaky toys!

brsrklf ,

How dare you.

brsrklf ,

Perhaps perplexity has privileged pipelines for perpetrating its pumping purposes.

brsrklf ,

Well that one's a bit ominous.

brsrklf ,

I was wondering what that skunk was doing with a bone.

TIL skunks are omnivorous and occasionally eat carcasses. Huh.

brsrklf ,

EU cultural values include resisting against corporations doing whatever they want with our data. Let's see meta try to reflect those.

brsrklf ,

Anyway, no matter from which parts of the world it's trained, we're talking about 2024 Facebook content. We've seen what Reddit does to an AI.

Can't wait for meta's cultured AI to share its wisdom with us.

brsrklf ,

From all I've seen till now, looks like the standard Heathcliff experience to me.

brsrklf ,

I got the bro to bra mutation (or I suspected it anyway) but, that's not the main joke IMO.

I mean, the brofish. They're fish in a tank. They're excited about saying "bro". A human being had that idea and made a comic about it. I don't know about others, but that's the funny part to me.

brsrklf ,

At the beginning of Smash Bros Ultimate, some people jokingly tried to make "Smush" a thing (since the previous, fourth game, officially Super Smash Bros for 3DS/for Wii U, was often referred to as Sm4sh for short).

brsrklf ,

Beneficial AGI Summit
Oh good, they're the ones who want a nice AI overlord.

brsrklf ,

Shit hasn't got real until I am standing up and have tried three different controllers.

brsrklf ,

revealed his secret to someone else

I generally don't like Apple, but I think crying about privacy violation because someone you're willingly sharing your account with saw your stuff is not reasonable.

brsrklf ,

It would absolutely be a privacy concern if someone without the rights to access this data could access it from the computer.

My understanding is that it's the same account logged on both devices. Computers are multi-users devices. No technology ever would protect your secret stuff from someone you've just shared your personal account with.

It's a problem that deletion is not perfectly synchronized, yes. It certainly is a privacy risk because an unauthorized intruder could find them. But in this particular case, there's no intrusion. The wife just had normal access to these messages in the first place.

brsrklf ,

Making the world a better place by brutally murdering anyone who's slightly misbehaving, one at a time.

brsrklf ,

I... have no idea what that was supposed to convey. That probably makes it funnier.

brsrklf ,

Okay, that makes a bit more sense.

It's a bit less surprising then, but the crazy execution still makes it work IMO.

brsrklf ,

Just growth isn't enough, we have to make sure our growth rate itself is growing!

Keep differentiating that shit forever!

brsrklf ,

It is. Last time I needed a screenshot I tried that, it never worked and I ended up removing the SD and reading from it.

brsrklf ,

conscientious

I think you mean consensus, general agreement.

Conscientious is an adjective applying to people, and it's a personality trait associated with acting responsibly and following one's conscience.

Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms (techcrunch.com)

Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”...

brsrklf ,

Officially they say it's to comply with law and that they're not using that data to train AI.

That kind of panic is bound to happen when people start wondering what cloud services can do with their stuff.

The answer is simple : in theory, everything. Abuse will happen. Say no to SaaS as much as you can.

brsrklf ,

non-SI unit

astrophysics

Well no, I don't think I would believe that.

brsrklf ,

I have an old gmail account that's just my first name initial and my last name.

Occasionally I get mails from shady people, like "coaches" spewing pseudoscientific fake psychology bullshit. Turns out there's a guy that barely knows how to write and has a similar name to mine who regularly gives my address to people.

I tried telling them about the address (there was what I assume was a family contact in CC). I don't think it registered at all. Makes me rather uneasy.

brsrklf ,

Obligatory what the fuck is wrong with how the US pays service people.

Tipping is for special appreciation, not basic sustenance.

Robotic 'Third Thumb' Makes Tasks Possible With One Hand; Can Be A Game Changer For The Disabled (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

This controllable prosthetic, the Third Thumb, attaches to the right hand, granting wearers the ability to perform a slew of one-handed tasks such as grasping objects, opening bottles, sorting cards, and even peeling a banana.

brsrklf ,

All that time we though image generation AI couldn't count, really it has been telling us to invent more fingers.

brsrklf ,

That prosthesis is controlled through feet. if all you want is pushing more buttons, there is no need for that extra finger, you can achieve the same with pedals.

brsrklf , (edited )

They exist for gaming, but mostly just in racing controllers, since, well, those simulate vehicles with pedals. But yeah, in theory they're just analog foot buttons indeed.

brsrklf ,

I can imagine that.

Reminds me of my experience with a rhythm game/RPG of sort from some time ago, that had battles being played like Dance Dance Revolution games. Only you had to switch in real time between 3 alternative charts to attack/defend/heal.

It's probably not actually meant for using with an actual DDR dance mat, but it's a feature if you want to, and, well, I have mats. However there's the problem of all those non-arrow commands, like switching panels, and it's a bit much for just feet. So the way I tried it was using a controller for actions while I stepped to the arrow charts.

My conclusion : coordinating all that stuff is fucking hard.

brsrklf ,

Fun fact : this was the (slightly hidden) premise for Splatoon.

Those happy, colourful descendants of squids and other marine animals are playing paintball over the ruins of our civilization, long after human extinction.

They worship an old fax machine they found, too, for some reason.

brsrklf ,

Yeah. It was revealed mostly through a couple of "scrolls", rewards in the single player mode.

There was a human fossil (somehow petrified while playing Wii U) dated 12,000 years ago, and documents from scientists warning about global warming and oceans rising.

Last scroll was a message from a scientist, "the professor", in the middle of the big extinction event 10,000 years before Splatoon. At that point all land life would disappear very soon. The professor did the logical thing and saved his cat.

brsrklf , (edited )

The most baffling part of it is how it looks like zero attempt was made to attribute credibility to sources.

Using Reddit as a source was bad enough (of course, they paid for it, so now they must feel like they need to use this crap). But one of the examples in the article is just parroting stuff from The Onion.

Edit : I've since learned that the Onion article was probably seen as "trustworthy" by the AI because it was linked on a fracking company's website (as an obvious joke, in a blog article).

If all it takes for a source to be validated is one link with no regard for context, I think the point stands.

brsrklf ,

Maybe it's a Star Trek stardate ?

brsrklf ,

Golden-plated cement boots, dropped from above the Mariana Trench.

brsrklf ,

Hey, I never thought of using them like that! Mostly I just used those as stabilizers.

... fuck, I need to start playing again.

brsrklf ,

It's a downward spiral.

First you play Breath of the Wild and you unintentionally drop the rock on an early one, make it "oof" in pain and making you a bit guilty. Then you meet Hestu, you see a few dozens more of the crafty little bastards, and you start enjoying dropping stuff on them.

And then Tears of the Kingdom happens, you've seen literal hundreds of them by now, and now you've got an infinity of new ways to make them scream in terror.

You're going to hell, and it's totally worth it.

brsrklf , (edited )

Kind of?

Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom both try to get away from usual logical puzzles with set solutions for open-ended situations with lots of tools to solve them, often relying on the physics engine, environment and a weird set of powers. TotK turns it up to eleven.

It adds powers like making some stuff rewind time, combining anything you can find with your weapons and shields, and yeah, most impressive of all glueing lots of stuff together to make absurd contraptions. There are basic materials everywhere, and in particular bits of machinery like motorized wheels, rockets, hot-air balloons, fans, flamethrowers, ...

You can even save your own machine blueprints to rebuild them from elements you find or have in your inventory, on the fly. It's crazy.

brsrklf ,

I don't know. Even if the outcome is just that the implant just stop working, with no other issue, it's looking pretty bad to me.

Since it required literal brain surgery just to be installed, which I assume is already a serious risk, it's not something you want to potentially be useless.

brsrklf ,

From France, I've been barely exposed to Heathcliff... Except for a random animated series from the 80s starring him and a bunch of other OC cats. And I wouldn't have recognized the name later, because they'd changed it for the French localization (they called him "Isidore").

I've only learned about Heathcliff (and the fact the cartoon was supposed to be partly based on him) when I watched a Quinton Reviews video on youtube. The whole video was based on the joke that Quinton was basically an authority on Garfield material at that point and he reviewed Heathcliff as "Garfield but worse" (maybe).

brsrklf ,

The appeal is the form factor

Looks like a red playdate.

Difference is, playdate is a fun toy, and that looks completely useless.

brsrklf ,

I don't see any discussion below my honest opinion.

I do see a downvote though, whoever disagreed with me apparently preferred that to discussion too.

brsrklf ,

Jean-Baptiste

Emmanuel

Zorg.

brsrklf ,

Well, that one was not so much remote and more like hidden in the silly fake automaton thing.

‘Mamma Mia!’ Stage Star Sara Poyzer Replaced By AI On BBC Show To Recreate Voice Of Dying Person — Update (deadline.com)

The BBC has issued a statement that offers important context to Sara Poyzer’s viral social media posts. The British broadcaster said it is using AI technology in a “highly sensitive documentary” to represent the voice of a person who is nearing the end of their life....

brsrklf , (edited )

I'm not sure what to think about that.

I'm all for shitting on replacing people with AI, but in this case it's done with the agreement of the person, who is still able to give it, who can't talk anymore, and for a documentary. So sure, they could have done it with a voice-over actor, and maybe I'd have preferred it too, but I can't really say this feels wrong. At this point it feels a bit like Stephen Hawking using his voice synthesis software.

If the person was unable to agree and didn't write what is being told with "their" voice though? That'd be shit.

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