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CommieGIR posted:Yeah we have a 5+ year old Samsung Color laser and its saved us so much on ink, helps that I hate Inkjets in the firstplace. I got a black in white Samsung in like 2009 that I had to replace the toner on for the first time a couple years ago. I had to order the toner off Amazon and didn't realize it was a two pack, so I'm basically set for life.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Get a pi-hole and your mobile browsing gets much better as well. I run mine in a docker image on a 10 year old small form factor dell along with a bunch of other stuff. When I'm out of the house my phone VPNs to my home network so I still get ad blocking as well. This is great, but it doesn't help with YouTube ads. If you want to block those on mobile, just install F-droid, the open source dork app store, and look up NewPipe. It's an ad free YouTube app that can play with the screen off, without any ties to buttcoin nonsense.
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PT6A posted:But without the gas pumps shouting, how will you know to buy an EXTRA BIG rear end FRIES?! All the pumps I've interacted with so far that show video ads can be silenced with one of the buttons next to the screen. Just press all of them into either the sound stops or the pump blasts off or whatever.
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Aug 7, 2022 15:46
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Mister Facetious posted:The entire point of a social network is encouraging engagement via a cycle of posting and consumption. Content and communication paywalls are in diametric opposition to that. I think everyone here is aware of that, and destroying social media is in fact an explicit goal.
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Aug 30, 2022 22:57
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PhazonLink posted:Ah yes I too remember NG Resonance from that Deues Ex game everyone memory holes. I don't memory hole Invisible War. That's the first game that let me beat a child to death with another child. 
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Sep 1, 2022 21:06
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By popular demand posted:Next phase is the loving refrigerator calling you loudly by name and asking if you'll be having dulche De leche again. I'm imagining the wine section literally calling out to a recovering alcoholic by name. Edit: Posted this before seeing withac's post lol
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Sep 14, 2022 07:24
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How do you gently caress up something that basic?
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Sep 23, 2022 15:22
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I can tell you speak from experience and probably deeply resent never being taught to use the shift key
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Sep 29, 2022 15:42
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silence_kit posted:Interestingly, the US spends more money on education per primary school student than Denmark. Yeah, the biggest issue for American schools isn't the total amount of finding, it's the dumb way we allocate it (so rich communities' high schools have football stadiums, poor ones don't have enough desks) and the various obstacles students face outside of school (poverty, etc).
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Vegetable posted:It’s almost certainly a trademark. And their claim to it weakens if companies are allowed to use it haphazardly. Current IP laws force them to defend it or lose it. Agreed. This is absolutely a consequence of adobe's software as a service model. Otherwise, people would just stick to old versions for however long it took Adobe and Pantone to pull their heads out of their asses. Adobe, for their part, is deliberately trying to shift all the blame to Pantone by making it sound like they got blindsided. They didn't. That knew drat well what was at risk when they made the cloud shift.
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Oct 29, 2022 15:37
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Doggles posted:Looking forward to Musk inventing the flying Tesla... Attaching a net to a couple quadcopters bought with cash in a town that isn't where you live could shut this poo poo down pretty quick
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Nov 3, 2022 06:32
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Kwyndig posted:Well I'm hearing reports of the Fail Whale has returned. The what now?
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UCS Hellmaker posted:Considering there is a rash of car thefts of kia's hyndias and Hondas oh boy The thread ends with the flaw being patched on the backend, but yeah.
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AtomikKrab posted:My car has remote start but to actually move the car requires a key inserted into the ignition and turning on the remote start also locks the doors and disables remote unlocking meaning you have to open the doors manually with the physical key. I've had occasions where I had to chisel my way into the car to turn it on to start melting ice. Several times my neighbors would look out the window, see me, figure out what I was doing, then turn their cars on with the clicker.
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Piell posted:Yes the entire point of Mastodon is each instance gets to decide what it wants to do, join one that fits your preferences The Twitter thread above you talks about what sound like issues with this model "This mastodon account has made its entire personality calling me a n*gger and Jewess and if this were Twitter I would block them and everyone who follows them but it’s mastodon which means I can’t even see all of their followers much less autoblock all" (I'm copy pasting this one instead of embedding because it has screenshots of vile poo poo that's been posted at her) https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1590839017725079552?s=20&t=S3HZUdbdxn09y1hVB2fSyw
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I'm gonna laugh if Mozilla manages to zombie shamble back into being a major player by default.
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Indie Rocktopus posted:Anyone tried out the Brave Browser? The people who make Brave are involved in crypto. I can't remember the details; maybe someone else can help out here.
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Dec 22, 2022 20:20
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Mzbundifund posted:I just keep all my passwords in a text file on my desktop I have them all written in a little book I keep in a drawer. If someone is physically rooting through my stuff I'm hosed anyway.
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But they're kinda hosed up and missing functionally that browser tabs had from the beginning. It's progress, obviously, but it's kind of astonishing that they didn't just copy all the behavior of tabs in Edge.
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OctaMurk posted:if my management seriously considered ceasing free coffee id quit immediately because thats dumb My former employer did this. There were even corporate emails (plural) about how much it saved us. Also there were corporate emails about the record revenue that quarter.
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pumpinglemma posted:There’s also Vanced and similar good ad-blocking Youtube apps if you’re on Android - Google got all those taken off the Apple app store at around the same time they decided to lock PiP playback behind an annual subscription fee, though. (Another reason to use Vinegar…) The best YouTube alternative is NewPipe from the Fdroid all-open-source "store." It can play with the screen off or the app in the background, no ads, no login, no tracking.
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Jose Valasquez posted:Why is this a thing that exists I have a friend who volunteered for a group that does this. Most of the people she talked to are some combination of too broke to pay for therapy, in a situation where they can't physically go to a therapist (eg they've been isolated by an abuser), caught up in toxic masculinity (eg afraid if they admit to suicidal ideation to a professional their guns will get taken away), or in crisis bad enough to need someone to talk to right now in an area where actual therapists have months-long wait lists.
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-Blackadder- posted:Not for nothing but if people would just spend a little time in the gym they wouldn't have to become Data Scientists just to get laid. Or they could just not get laid as often. It's not that big a deal.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:I mean, the ideal would probably be a multinational, tax-funded entity like UNESCO that ran search and social media, with ethics boards, lots of paid content moderators, rules that encourage information over advertising, etc. Even if it happened it would probably be weaponized for geopolitical purposes.
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Electric Wrigglies posted:Morrowind was also procedurally generated and then touched up from what I understand. Daggerfall to go back even further. Oblivion used generation, not Morrowind. They generated terrain then tweaked it by hand so they wouldn't spend half the dev cycle hand-crafting erosion marks in hillsides. The dungeons were still constructed by hand. The dungeons in Daggerfall were generated, along with towns and so forth.
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MixMasterMalaria posted:Oblivion's world was super bland after a couple of hours because of it. It was super bland because they made the whole world a bowl with the white gold tower in the center, visible from everywhere, completely destroying the illusion of size, then had absolutely everything everywhere leveled to you so there were never any surprises. And because they followed the weird mushroom land with what was in the in-game books supposed to be jungle, but inexplicably made it into generic not-Europe. I don't think using time-saving generation tools was a major factor in Oblivion's shortcomings.
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Neo Rasa posted:Didn't they end up not even actually using it in the game (or severely limiting it in some way) because it would always result in some huge clusterfuck NPC riot or something? They used it. Radiant is the name for the entire "people going around doing stuff" system they developed. But it was indeed seriously limited because it kept doing crazy poo poo like the Hungry Guard Incident, which is what you're thinking of. A penniless guard got so hungry they stole food, got caught by the owner, and fought the owner when attacked. All the other guards joined in due to being the same faction, along with the owner's friends. Then stray arrows dragged in literally the whole town until everyone was dead. This all happened outside the view of the character, who returned to turn in a quest or whatever and found a ghost town. They also had issues with NPCs looting crates where the player stashed loot, potentially artifacts, which adds a fun new dimension to bat brawls. That staff that creates a doppelganger of whoever it's used on was a particular problem, because characters were smart enough to use it on the most powerful character nearby, ie the player. Basically, they removed problem cases one by one until they ended up with a system not really noticably different from hard scripted routines. It just didn't require them to literally write scripts for every NPC lol Kwyndig posted:Oh I doubt it, there were so many bugs and weird choices with NPCs in Oblivion (like a character who lives in one town, but for some reason starts in another town 20 miles away, leading to them being killed by bears) that I doubt any kind of coherent group based behavior would result. Characters have their home and other settings configured via a series of forms in the editor. Iirc you can set some stuff via the preview window, but a lot of stuff is set blind, and doing it from the character panel is generally faster. If you click the wrong location ID it won't necessarily be obvious something is wrong unless a tester finds it. Then players just assume that argonian is supposed to be dead in a ditch. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Feb 1, 2023 |
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Xand_Man posted:Ehh I see a lot of people somehow surprised that when you talk to a bot designed specifically for medical diagnosis its answers will all be through the lens of medical diagnosis. You're missing the forest for the trees. Part of being a medical professional is sorting out what details are relevant or not, and which problems are severe enough to constitute a disorder. People can't figure it out for themselves because they aren't medical professionals; that's kind of the point. So if the AI forces any and all information into the lens of the diagnoses it knows about, as if everyone who comes to it must have a diagnosis, that's actually worse than nothing. Now consider psychiatric disorders that make the sufferer an unreliable narrator. I'm not even talking psychosis. OCD often makes people fixate on urges they don't even have. Like, they're terrified they'll poison their family without actually having the urge to do so. Figuring out which concerns are plausible requires understanding context, the very thing AI is worst at. Applying the current state of the art to medical advice is way, way worse than using it to make crappy dialog or fanart. It's a problem tailor made to turn the shortcomings of machine learning into human suffering. Edit: At the very least this bot hasn't had nearly enough training from cases where there isn't actually a diagnosis. The typical AI failure mode where you show a plant-identifying bot a picture of a cat and it guesses hydrangea with a 2% confidence is unacceptable for this use case. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Feb 1, 2023 |
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Sorry, much like advertising there's no such thing as a bad view I regret to inform you that all your views are bad 
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Neo Rasa posted:Sometimes we use it briefly on our TV's browser and every time remember how using YouTube both without adblock and not being logged in, it's completely loving insane. And it always really does IMMEDIATELY start suggesting Jordan Peterson/etc. dogshit from the get go. YouTube sucks rear end but I've never seen it recommend jorp and I spent years using it not logged in on my xbox. I'm not saying I don't believe you or that you're doing anything wrong, just that their stupid algorithm is so unbelievably, inscrutably bad. Also NewPipe owns.
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cat botherer posted:The single biggest problem I have with google for tech queries is the loving "did you mean __" and "including results for __". Everything has to go in quotes now, and even then it still thinks it knows better than me. It's a big problem whenever you are searching for anything less common. The ones that drive me nuts are where if you search something that's a degree of separation from something more common, it just gives you the more common thing. I'm endlessly searching for info about step two of a process only to get results about step one, or articles about how the process is possible. This is most infuriating when the issue is that some menu item in loving Android straight-up isn't there. I Google "the fooble the narble option is missing" and it acts like I googled "fooble the narble" and get endless pages showing pictures of a menu option I don't have.
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Family Values posted:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/seven-states-push-to-require-id-for-watching-porn-online/ This is plausible, but it kind of hinges on the Congress critters themselves understanding the tech, and being able to plan that far ahead. I'm still leaning towards it being low effort pandering. Though it's the first time I've ever seen them think to include language about "animated depictions"
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Boris Galerkin posted:I mean realistically all they need to do is to listen to the people who are giving them boatloads of money who also happens to understand the tech. And yet such understanding does not appear to be reflected in the law. 
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PhazonLink posted:why even charge back, bro just own it. They get caught by a significant other or patent who they knew would object, panic and claim it was ID theft. Then they're committed and have to follow through. Also a lot of pay stuff these days is live webcam stuff with the added parasocial element so there's no way to pirate it.
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Crypto literally works by doing nonsense makework. The energy consumption is inherent to the concept of crypto currency, not just the result of people trading a lot. AI isn't really comparable, imo, because the work is as useless as the result. The kind of processing involved isn't deliberately designed to take up as much processing power as possible.
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Different activities take different amounts of energy. You can't just pour processor cycles into ChatGpt and get smarter results out. You train it, which is the hard part, computationally; then you use it or let people use it. The movement toward monetizing use and generation additionally limits growth. Crypto mining, however, gets more productive the more power you throw at it. It's about turning effort into value. Even beyond that, transactions are inherently expensive in a way actually using an already-trained model isn't. I'm not saying AI won't suck up a huge amount of resources. Just that the specifics are such I don't think you'll get anywhere near the level of electricity usage that crypto drove. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Feb 21, 2023 |
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Epic High Five posted:I think it can be useful, I just don't think it will be, and I think this strongly enough that I don't feel compelled to pretend it's going to be doing anything but clogging stuff up and putting people out of work and into precarity. AI is already used for all kinds of stuff from image processing in smart phones to mail sorting. It's just that, as someone else observed, once useful tech catches on, people stop calling it AI.
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Mega Comrade posted:The photo stuff really bugs me. I don't mind phones using AI, but they try and pass it off as just the camera being great. Why not just be honest, have a button, AI enhance. It's not just enhancement. They take a series of photos bracketed differently and stack them, using AI to compensate for small movements. Same concept for all the night vision features. I'm not familiar with this moon video.
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