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- Comment on Users claim Discord's age verification test can be tricked with game characters 2 days ago:
The 2019 video game also comes with a picture mode, which allows the player to change Sam’s facial expression, allowing the user to bypass a secondary check which requires a person to open and close their mouth to make sure they are a “real person.”
Surely someone will develop an app to create a face and animate it in just the ways these checks require. And then we’ll be into another arms race, but the kids will still have access to adult websites. This will just enable surveillance of anyone hapless enough to upload their actual ID.
- Comment on US | Internet Archive Designated as a Federal Depository Library 3 days ago:
I hope they have an overseas mirror beyond the reach of the censors.
- Comment on Junior dev's code worked in tests, deleted data in prod 1 week ago:
I remember learning about operator precedence in SQL the hard way at 4pm on a Friday.
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- Comment on Netflix’s first show with generative AI is a sign of what’s to come in TV, film 1 week ago:
Huh, Netflix found a way to make its shows even worse. It’s quite in character for them.
- Comment on 'Climate change doesn't exist,' says Reform UK mayor despite third summer heatwave 1 week ago:
Has your friend heard of Florida? And some of the northern states in-between are relatively sensible too - Minnesota for example.
- Comment on 'Climate change doesn't exist,' says Reform UK mayor despite third summer heatwave 1 week ago:
Got to be American. Only Americans assume everyone knows where they are.
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- Comment on Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters 2 weeks ago:
Even then they hate you, but they’ll kiss your ass.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 3 weeks ago:
Now I’m the first person to agree that X is a Nazi site run by a Nazi, but it’s conspicuous how the prompts have been removed here. Without the prompts this doesn’t prove much.
- Comment on Windows 12 release is pushed back at least another year as Microsoft announces Windows 11 version 25H2 4 weeks ago:
10 felt good compared to 8 and 8.1. But that was a very low bar.
- Comment on Too Many Cooks 4 weeks ago:
Ah, it has been a few years since I was last traumatized by this. Is it time again?
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- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 5 weeks ago:
I don’t see where he admits what the headline claims.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 5 weeks ago:
I don’t see where in the article he “admits” what the headline claims. Let me know when Satya Nadella stops talking 100% bullshit, because that will be real news.
- Comment on U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine 1 month ago:
If bird flu takes off it could be billions, and tens or hundreds of millions in the USA.
- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 1 month ago:
The company now operates in 12 countries and employs around 20 people.
That sounds like hard work.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 2 months ago:
You make it sound like it’s rare to get into good universities in the UK from state schools. But most of the students at the UK’s top universities come from state schools.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 2 months ago:
It’s quite possible to get into the best universities in the UK from state school. More than 67% of undergraduates at Oxford University come from state schools.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 2 months ago:
Maybe they had to sell their photos to an agency so they could afford that 5th holiday. Times are hard.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 2 months ago:
Well fuck me, it’s real. Eat the rich.
- Comment on A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn’t Use A.I. 2 months ago:
What do you mean?
- Comment on The AI revolution is underhyped: The arrival of non-human intelligence is a very big deal, says former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt. 25:37 2 months ago:
When was the last time Eric Schmidt was worth listening to?
- Comment on demon named racecar 2 months ago:
People named MarjorieiorjraM.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 2 months ago:
I just have the regular subscription. I wouldn’t pay for the lifetime one. I want to support them but I am not confident enough that they’ll be around for the long term since video hosting is a hard business to make money from.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 2 months ago:
I have stopped buying lifetime subscriptions to cloud services unless they pay off within a year or two. Any longer and you just can’t trust that it will be honoured.
- Comment on Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con 2 months ago:
The LLM isn’t trained to be reliable, it’s trained to be confident.
And it’s promoted by business people with the exact same skill set. I would argue though that there’s nothing wrong with what LLMs are doing: they’re doing what they were trained to do. The con is in how it’s being sold to us as a source of knowledge or understanding akin to a search engine.
- ‘If it isn’t recorded it will disappear’: the Muslim photographer shining a light on Bradford’s Jewish communitywww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Pope Joan 2 months ago:
When every single pope looks like a left-wing extremist to you, you may have strayed too far to the right.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 2 months ago:
Soulseek is basically the same thing too, and still works.