I try to respond to every genuine engagement. I block trolls, contrarians, and provocateurs because life is too short.
It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. Without the large hadron colliders we would have no knowledge of the force. When you learn to quiet your mind, you’ll hear them speaking to you.
I wonder if one of OPs most recent comments, “I fuckin hate Pizzacake”, has anything to do with this masterful edit of subtle comedy they’ve uploaded.
Code.org has some good program for teaching coding for free. Also check out Kahn Academy, and definitely Scratch - as others have mentioned.
In general i do like others and don’t really use many apps that have ads.
I used to use TrackerControl which works great, but acts as a vpn to get around root restrictions that stop standard ad-blocking, and now I use a permanent VPN to my home network over Wireguard, so I can’t use TrackerControl any more (or any other non-root system-wide ad blocker).
I got around this issue by setting up a work profile, and installing the few apps that I still use that have ads on the work profile, and having TrackerControl installed on the work profile. That way… Can have always-on VPN on main profile, and few apps with ads blocked on the work profile.
I use Grayjay for YouTube, auto-blocks ads. Browser has its own ad blocker.
Google sure seems to not care about VPN leak bugs that easily enable user apps to track real-world IP addresses without any kind of special permissions, even while the user thinks they’re safe in ‘lock traffic to VPN only mode’.
I wonder why…
Via Graphene issue tracker.
Author: ArminShupuk
@thestinger As I see that you, Daniel, have picked this one up, I want to add that I was just in touch with Yusuf, who found the registerQuicConnectionClosePayload VPN leak. He informed me today that they didn’t pay him and closed the report as “won’t fix.” He had no success with his appeal. Mine seems to be “won’t fix” too, with no success reasoning with them either.
So there are currently already two arbitrary ways for any user app with internet permission to leak the IP address in VPN lockdown mode that won’t be fixed upstream.
Side note, the main GrapheneOS dev being his usual abrasive self (this is his only contribution to the thread).
Author: thestinger
That’s not the spelling of my name.
Arguing semantics is a classic strategy of people who don’t have a valid argument to make.
I bet this is because LLMs stole her art for training, so now that the LLM users have pumped out thousands of slop-art aping hers down to the colour palate and brushstrokes, her originals also get identified as also AI.
Credit card companies don’t care. All it takes is one missed date on that introductory offer expiry on one card and that 0% becomes 19% on the backdated 30k, accrued monthly… eating your meager profit plus more, plus time spent. And the companies know it will statistically happen sooner or later, which is why they make these offers.
You do you though. Personally I hope it works out for you, fuck the banks.
Two very dumb things:
I now know a few people in their 40s who are wondering if they should sign up for unwanted credit cards just so they can keep buying games on Steam.
100% malicious compliance. Steam never likes being told what to do by anyone - users, devs, governments.
Edit:… Aaand it’s in breech of the codes. So… I guess the ACCC will have to take Valve to court again.
The code terms mandate that age checks must be ‘robust, reliable and fair’. Forcing people to get credit card accounts would not meet the code. It explicitly states “in order for age checks to be fair, service providers should offer more than one method of age checks to users”.
The Altmans, Palantirs and Musks all refer to their shitty products they’re shoving in every product as ‘AI’, and people understand - they’re talking about LLMs. The haters of that group say ‘I fucking hate AI’ and people understand - they’re talking about big corporate LLMs, not some protein folding model that’s helping to cure cancer.
Its not complex, and people don’t need to elaborate.
It’s literally 1/4 of the entire worlds stock market and superannuation and investments now… And a lot more in derivatives (bets on how the future will pan out).
So… the entire world’s leaders and financial industry is either FOMO or holding, and throwing stuff into the cash fire in the hope the flame doesn’t go out and tank the entire world in a financial disaster that’ll rival that of 100 years ago.
Its beyond reckless.
Even if the cookers are right and AI pans out and it does replace 30% of jobs or something - congrats, leaders and finance dregs, now you have an entirely new disaster to deal with that you funded.
I figured that’s kinda implied in the ‘rare’ part, but yeah agree. Always support as much as you can.
I figure masterings are entirely fair game if you own a copy of the album in another form. Eg I’ve got a bunch of MFSL, Audio Fidelity, AM+ and SHM-CDs that have great mastering of particular albums that I’d never have been able to afford as physical purchases due to their rarity and ‘audiophile’ collector status IRL. I have no doubt that the musicians and engineers involved would be glad their work is being enjoyed, rather than unobtainable.
Rare CDs that are in-print nowadays generally don’t have any tracks (or masterings) that you can’t get via a separate release or digital purchase for a more reasonable price, because modern artists mostly live or die by digital stream popularity.
I just wanna add that if anyone wants to pay a bunch of money for rare CDs to access the music: you needn’t.
There are bit-perfect rips all over torrent sites and soulseek, and you can even verify they’re bit-perfect with tools like CUETools.
I have no doubt the Chromecast hanging off my TV is 95% as bad.
Likely multi-tech system, could even be part expert system AI as they’re often used in the medical field. They haven’t really explained much about the underlying tech they’re using here, except that it was trained on expert data.
Whereas, I think if they could sell this exclusively as a LLM success story it would be mentioned by acronym in the release several times to gain media buzz for the research/publication.
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Sounds fine to me. Private, easy opt-out, environmentally net positive. Measured use of technology to provide something useful… No problem.
This whole sub is more ‘fuck AI© corporations’ than ‘fuck LLM or any other kind of AI as a technology’.
I’m aware and I said that already.
I also explained why the joke isn’t funny alone in my hypothetical for downvoters, but you ignore that because it didn’t suit your interpretation.
Fucking joke, just ‘we don’t want to increase cost of living’… That’s it?
Plastic recycling has already been shown to be a joke, RedCycle lasted for hot minute before it collapsed under the volume of clean, post-consumer plastic sent their way when they couldn’t find anyone who wanted to use it. The only solution is to cut out as much single-use plastic as possible with regulation.
We got by just fine with consumer goods before plastic… There’s very little reason we can’t return, except industry pressure. Keeping the costs down for McDonald’s and Coke and Unilever (etc) to the order of a few cents per package just so they can externalise the cost to us… With microplastics affecting our health and microplastics polluting the environment. Dim choice.