edinbruh

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upset about progress⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if AIs weren’t inherently harmful, the companies that make them are. And by utilising, publicising, and integrating in your workflow their product you are pumping their value and giving them both more means and more reasons to fuck people over. And because making and selling an AI requires a giant mega corporation, there cannot be a free (as in freedom) alternative.

  On top of this, the AI is actually harmful. First of all, they are building their value by stealing other people’s work. They also use psychological tricks to try to give you dependency, that’s why AIs are always overly cheerful, always complimenting questions, and why companies try to humanise the product, they do this to convince you to integrate their AI in your workflow, and once it’s done, your business becomes dependent on them, and that makes them money. And if that wasn’t enough, everything you tell the AI is both used to improve the AI, and to profile for advertising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Worst case: I bring a heap of dangerous SCP-like shenanigans into this world

  Best case: I become someone’s (mine) power fantasy and get a federal job

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mayim Bialik

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get out of my head⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I unsaw it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Laser) Printer go brrrr⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Laser printers are the best. You sacrifice the quality of dense pictures, but gain incomparable speed and reliability. It’s especially worth it if you print less often, because the ink dries up if you don’t print every once in a while and you end up buying new ink even though the cartridge is full, but the toner just sits there indefinitely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨order error⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like the SoundCloud rapper from smiling friends

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UwU brat mathematician behavior⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Relationship goals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But you can ward off the bad luck by picking up the salt and throwing it over your shoulder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a war out there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The pine nuts are the seeds that are inside the pine cones. The pinecone being wooden clearly didn’t stop us from prying them apart and eating it’s content

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a war out there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People put pine nuts in salads all the time, it’s also one of the 5 ingredients of pesto.

  And why the airplane?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨y tho⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, it looks pretty strong. People end up in ER with lightbulbs up their butt, it can’t be weaker than those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨y tho⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No flared base…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a war out there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What does this mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I imagine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a scientific way to prove this? Or am I to just trust your words?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who’s a bit inquisitive about what words means will notice that “transform” means “changing shape”, and that the teeth that look like dog fangs are called “canines”. At that point, “caniformia” obviously means “dog-shaped”.

  Specialized terms don’t need to be easy for the layman, but to be explicative for the specialist.

  Also those Latin terms are literally international terms, a Russian biologist will say “Canis lupus” to an Icelandic biologist and they will understand. So you really have nothing to complain about. Just be glad that Linnaeus used an agnostic language for international terminology instead of using his native language (Swedish) like the anglophones do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corruption fetishists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, corruption is better than crimson

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Squib⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A garden gnome that fights sperm whales

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mac computer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So dogs work just like omegaverse fiction 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨world changes so fast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what Araki takes inspiration from

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo whenever anyone posts anything about anything related to Nintendo products online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Woe, brick be upon ye!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brichard!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Woe, brick be upon ye

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The PS3 doesn’t have an ATI gpu. TL;DR: it’s Nvidia.

  The PS3 has a weird, one-of-a-kind IBM processor, called Cell. You can think of it kind of as a hybrid design that is both a CPU and a GPU (not like “a chip with both inside” but “a chip that is both”) meant for multimedia and entertainment applications (like a game console). It was so peculiar that developers took a long time before learning how to use it effectively. Microsoft didn’t want to risk it, so they went with a different CPU always from IBM that shared some of the Cell’s design, but without the special GPU-ish parts, and paired it up with an ATI GPU.

  Now, Sony wanted to get away with only the Cell, and use it both as CPU and GPU, but various tests showed that despite everything, it wasn’t powerful enough to keep up with the graphics they expected. So they reached out to NVIDIA (not ATI) to make an additional GPU, so they designed a modified version of the 7800 GTX to work together with the Cell. To fully utilise the PS3 graphics hardware, one would have to mainly use the GPU for graphics, and assist it with the special Cell hardware. Which is harder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Into the meat grinder!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I chop you up, in a meat grinder, and the only thing that comes out becomes you again… You are probably a sponge

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And this is why I hate the internet 😭⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what I said, I looked up the symbols they use, that is the symbol for castration, it’s like a mars symbol, but barred. The one for spaying (?) is like the Venus symbol, but without the little horizontal line

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And this is why I hate the internet 😭⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t the symbol on her shirt mean she was castrated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of FOSS software’s websites are starting to use it lately, starting from the gnome foundation, that’s what popularized it.

  The idea of proof of work itself came from spam emails, of all places. One proposed but never adopted way of preventing spam was hashcash, which required emails to have a proof of work embedded in the email. Bitcoins came after this borrowing the idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  my point was that even if they don’t have unlimited ips they might have a lot of them, especially if its ipv6, so you couldn’t just block them. but you can use anubis that doesn’t rely on ip filtering

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s always Anubis 🤷

  Anyway, what if they are backed by some big Chinese corporation with some /32 ipv6 and some /16 ipv4? It’s not that unreasonable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every Time I Post⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The hedgedog

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So which one?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  G