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jbloggs777 , 29 days ago to Memes in I feel so old

Dialup deathmatch FTW!

jbloggs777 , 1 month ago to Technology in Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span

English aint Lojban, if you know what I mean.

jbloggs777 , 1 month ago to Technology in Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue

You need training material for negative prompts too.

jbloggs777 , 1 month ago to Technology in US races to develop AI-powered, GPS-free fighter jets, outpacing China

Skynet sounds friendly. It needs a friendly looking logo.

jbloggs777 , 2 months ago to Technology in Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors

When you have cloud providers growing faster than the region's grid capacity, something has to give ... throttle growth there, or plan for mega growth? I guess it helps that nuclear is green again. 😁

jbloggs777 , 2 months ago to Technology in Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers.

I can now train a generative voice on my own voice and have it sing along to my own generative music.

A few more tweaks to make it consistently off key and it will be near indistinguishable! I will be able to torture not just my children, but my great-grandchildren, far into the future.

What an age.

jbloggs777 , 4 months ago to Technology in U.S. lawmakers are calling on Elon Musk to make SpaceX’s Starshield military-specific satellite communications network available to American defense forces in Taiwan after years of refusing to do b...

It's fine that it came from a private company, but the contracts with the Government must be solid, and the national security obligations 100% clear.

jbloggs777 , 4 months ago to Technology in Judge cuts law firm's legal bill in half after it used ChatGPT to calculate "excessive" amount | ChatGPT thinks lawyers don't get paid enough, apparently

Judge: "lmao no, new bill is now half"
for reasons that included the use of ChatGPT.

Meanwhile the prompt: Given X man-hours at $rate plus expenses of $expenses, and a padding multiplier of 4, generate a legal cost report in the format expected by the court. /s

jbloggs777 , 4 months ago to Technology in Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says

It's Freedom® these days. It took a little while for the application to be processed.

jbloggs777 , 5 months ago to Technology in Spotify paid users hit 236M, but losing money, amid Apple battle

They will also be terminating another 5-10% of their EU userbase this month for not accepting their latest price hikes. These will mostly be the low-volume users who were too lazy to cancel.

Wait for the special offers before signing up for a plan again, folks. And explore the alternatives in the mean time... you might just discover that you don't need them.

jbloggs777 , 5 months ago to Technology in How can open source hardware be a movement if the raw materials still have to be mined and factory produced?

I only eat vegans. Would that count?

jbloggs777 , 5 months ago to Technology in Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.

There is no point waiting for a response...the threat has been neutralized. Now repeat after me: There is no AGI.

jbloggs777 , 5 months ago to Technology in France fines Amazon $35 million for 'excessively intrusive' monitoring of warehouse staff

I'd say that the board members also have to have some personal liability (criminal of course, but also limited financial liability and a temporary or permanent ban on serving on any board or executive (legally responsible) position, depending on circumstances. Incentives must be aligned, and not something that they can justify as a cost of doing business.

jbloggs777 , 5 months ago to Technology in Google search might be getting worse - and AI threatens to ruin it entirely

Dmoz was great.

jbloggs777 , 5 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in My country/city has a new COVID wave. I got infected for the third time.

I agree that such measures would help, however...... Good luck getting that into law (again, in some places). It's just not a realistic option.