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emsign··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
The fun of some is the horror of others.
emsign··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
They have nothing to do with Cloudflare. Their challenge page is only made to look like the one from Cloudflare. It's entirely their own page. Only the reCaptcha challenge is not theirs. And the reason why nobody gets redirected is because the have used up their free enterprise quota with reCaptcha, as you can read in the widget itself.
emsign··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
It's not that. Archive.today have simply used up their free quota.
emsign··on LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
A virus that is trained on mostly the wort human output the internet had to offer.
emsign··on Billionaires Are Funding 'Anti AI' Content [video]
Thanks, that's a very eye opening interview!
emsign··on Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)
It's funny how the article just assumes PIM be for computing weights of a model without even mentioning it in the introduction.
emsign··on Creepy Crawlies
It's because the companies doing this bought the current government.
emsign··on Creepy Crawlies
Makes me wonder how much garbage they actually collect across the web. That can't be good for the quality of the LLM.
emsign··on Creepy Crawlies
What a waste of energy LLM training is. Meanwhile Himalayan mountains are crashing down. I love this world. It's so idiotic.
emsign··on Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise
The future will be solar. Especially in underdeveloped regions without a centralized power grid, solar makes the most sense. And even in developed countries having solar panels on your roof and a battery in your cellar is the most cost effective way of getting all your electricity needs.
emsign··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
They are buying the user base.
emsign··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
Marc Andreessen helped establish the modern web browser, he has always been an Ayn Rand fan for example. But politics wasn't that important back then, I guess? And I just think there simply were not a lot of opportunities to gain some political and financial capital from voicing their fringe believes for people like them back in the day. They were busy building systems and software, now they are busy building or changing political systems.
emsign··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
This. The alt right in German speaking countries are calling themselves "Identitäre", which was inspired by French Les Identitaires. For all their criticism of what once was just a niche and fringe academic leftist movement, they are hypocritically are mirroring at least mirroring it if not more so. I believe they have actually helped progressive identity politics become mainstream as a reaction to their attacks on minorities, as a reaction to their hatred the mainstream has signaled their solidarity with minority identities, this is the main reason for Rainbow flags, to show solidarity against hatred.
emsign··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
It's always the same give these people enough prestige and power that they feel untouchable and their true nature comes to the surface. No more dogwhistling needed he thinks, I have powerful wealthy backers and their lawyers now.
emsign··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
Then why chose a distro that is being maintained by one person. I would NEVER recommend a Windows/Mac and first time Linux user to switch to such a distro. Not just his political views no quite practical implications are key here: what if this guy has a heart-attack? The distro will be abandoned. What if his development PC gets compromised? The distro is fried in both cases. The more developers are on the team holding the credentials and responsibilities the better, the safer a distro is. Omarchy is nothing more than an experimental distro and shouldn't be used productively or as your main OS. Simply because it's run by one guy, one single point of failure.

It's the same reason why you mustn't recommend CachyOS to newcomers either, they're still just two people running the show, although they're aware of the risks that comes with it and trying to expand their core team.

emsign··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
Ugh, gosh really? I looked at one of the videos of the... eh excentric developer of the distro where he was presenting 4.0 and I was wondering about that retro neon design of background images he seemed to adore so much. I was wondering why someone would still think this Fashwave design to be cool. It's been what? 10 years when this trope peaked?
emsign··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
As long as people are using X and linking to it this pain will just go on. If you have an account there you will not notice how unusable it is for others. And that's by design.
emsign··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
That's correct. In Germany we pay "indirectly" via the end price. Meaning whoever has to pay the afforementioned EPR fee is free to add their cost to the price of the product.
emsign··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
There's one problem: Nationalist parties in Europe hate EU-wide solutions and they are becoming more and more popular. It will hurt our economies but these parties thrive on lies anyway and deep down voters their voters want to "see the world burn".
emsign··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
> The two apps send the prompt to a remote server for moderation

Why? What needs tobe moderated locally?

emsign··on Casio F-B100W-1A
> A built-in motion sensor automatically tracks your daily steps, with your step count displayed on the LCD screen. Pair with your smartphone via Bluetooth® for automatic time adjustment and easy access to watch settings through the app.

I see and I was wondering why they sold it for £55 only. They collect and sell your personal data.

I'm happy with my original one, thanks.

emsign··on A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell comes to mind
emsign··on Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents
So Google is training AI to run businesses that go bankrupt now? That's not very smart.
emsign··on AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users
I mean, what do you expect? They rely on models that were trained on non-curated data, texts originally written by lying, cheating and stealing humans. They can't be better than the source. Even with reinforced learning this can't be undone or made better.

Quite the contrary I suspect that it even helps the LLMs to better hide their inherited bad traits more successfully because they get punished for getting caught, not for giving immoral or lazy answers. They have no conscience since they are just predictions matrices trained for success and failure alone, not for living "a good live" or being a good "person".

emsign··on I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
Yeah, they can literally go out of focus depending on their distance to the retina.
emsign··on I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
Floaters are protein debris flakes literally floating in the fluid of your eyeballs. They're not neurological. They become most noticable when moving your eyes. And over time their appearance changes as they slowly migrate, often times going in and out of focus.
emsign··on The Entropy of a Markov Chain
I love this stuff. Like the one definition of death being an organism dying is one that starts failing to maintain itself. Maintenance being the essence of being alive. Or in other words creating local order by sourcing energy from the environment and thus increasing entropy outside the organism.

The laws of thermodynamics are so universal and primordial, they even preceed all of fundamental physics. And once you "get them" which is more like accepting them to be universally true, you can use them to evaluate and explain a lot of things. They help you decern reality from magic for instance, or magical thinking. Ideas that would only work if the second law of thermodynamics makes an exception is magic and therefore impossible in this universe.

emsign··on Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
On a sidenote, what's up with people still using Ayn Rand references in their company names. It's cringe.
emsign··on Discovery Loop
Nothing on that page says how they will actually do it. What is their method except "using AI"? And why has this over 750 upvotes? Meaningless AI company hype spam like this is exactly the reason why HN is so boring at certain times of the week.
emsign··on Amiga clarifies Commodore rights and the future of AmigaOS
It plays well into the Amiga fanbase mythology that Commodore and especially the Amiga shoud have been THE personal computer of the masses, not the IBM compatible x86 machines. But somehow in the early 1990 history took a wrong turn.

After its demise the Amiga/Commodore brand and intellectual property was split and changed hands frequently leaving behind a fragmented and often adversarial landscape of companies. So this fragmentation maybe can be seen as an obstacle for the Amiga to once again rise up and get its revenge against the x86/x64/ARM... you name it.

I think therefore Mr. Fractic is the perfect fit for this computer. The idea is a bit... over the top.

I grew up with C64 and Amiga and I still hold it dear in my heart, it had many great games back then, but I'm not buying into the new Commodore thing at all. It comes off as a bit off and goofy, maybe even problematic.

While I'd like to see all Commodore related brands to come together under one roof once again, I think funding it via the creation of new hardware by a for profit company to be ridiculous and ill fated. Let the dead be dead. I would have wished for a non-commercial custodian like entitiy instead, that just makes sure that people who use the brands and IP can do so for a modest fee if it's DIY projects or small companies selling add-ons just so they have the legal security of not getting sued for mentioning Amiga or Commodore somewhere in their texts and releasing all Amiga and C64 hardware and software under a FOSS license for the public to fix and enhance if they like.

But this just seems to me like just another post-Commodore company meddling with the legacy and legal stuff.

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