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augustulus··on Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future
right, but Firefox only supports Firefox extensions and Chrome Chrome, so what’s your point?
augustulus··on C diff spores resist bleach and remain viable on surgical scrubs, fabrics
any part of your body - besides hair, nails and bones, I suppose - need to be supplied with nutrients, water, etc
augustulus··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
probably more effective than trusting ublock is to find an obscure method. ublock is too much of an easy target for google. on the flipside, something obscure is possibly harder to trust
augustulus··on Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future
Safari itself supports extensions
augustulus··on C diff spores resist bleach and remain viable on surgical scrubs, fabrics
my question with this kind of thing is how does it not almost immediately infect the rest of your body? is it just WBCs or?
augustulus··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
how can they not remain a charity?
augustulus··on After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data
we should be careful making the assumption that this is all the data they exfiltrated. this could easily just be the first tranche to prove that they’re serious
augustulus··on After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data
more risk of exposure presumably
augustulus··on OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
the impression I got was that they started out with honest intentions and they were more or less infiltrated by Microsoft. this recent news fits that narrative
augustulus··on OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
tangentially, it’s an absolute disgrace that non-profits are allowed to have for-profit divisions in the first place
augustulus··on Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
if you think it’s impossible with computers then surely you must have a reason why computers are operationally incapable of doing the same as flesh and blood
augustulus··on Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
nothing I’ve seen from OpenAI is any indication that they’re close to AGI. gpt models are basically a special matrix transformation on top of a traditional neural network running on extremely powerful hardware trained on a massive dataset. this is possibly more like “thinking” than a lot of people give it credit for, but it’s not an AGI, and it’s not an AGI precursor either. it’s just the best applied neural networks that we currently have
augustulus··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
it’s not really possible for it to be a scam. if you want to see its product you can go and try it yourself
augustulus··on Sweden plans new nuclear reactors by 2035, will share costs
or alternatively 40ish years ago was when the capital-holders really got their claws back into Western governments. nuclear being broadly a public endeavour, it didn’t really have a chance
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