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For a while there was a deepfake scam in Italian in FB which looked like a TV news with well known journalists announcing everyone would get money for free using some crypto thingy, followed by am interview with the prime minister saying they looked into this and it was safe.

The level of carelessness was astonishing to me.

I didn't hate the writing even if it's AI, but I deeply disliked the animations. I don't know if that's LLM fatigue or not.

I was dealing with a LLM help bot on a website where I had to upload some documents and asked the bot how to get through a step where I simply don't have the right things and it kept telling me I could sidestep that (but I could not) or upload the thing (which I told it I could not to begin with!).

It's not like the previous tree based bots were good but at least they had a path to speaking with a person.

I suspect nobody ever tried to use the bot.

Those came one or more years after Napster, when it was already wildly popular because it was the only tool that did that job.

Like calibre, I guess :)

"novelty betting" has been around for a very long time.

Gambling has to do with putting money in a proposition, not with sports. "I bet you I can drink two points before you" is not a financial statement.

Did you forget Tibet?

Good thing I decided not to turn into a mollusk!

I think that's a very good insight, you're right.

I'm in agreement with the general point but was big tech well liked in the early 2020s?

Facebook scandals had exploded already, Google had already long abandoned "don't be evil", nobody ever liked Microsoft, and I think sentiment towards Apple is somewhat unchanged.

I thought the title was a wink to people who knew of that episode, without the need to actually discuss it.

Others have said this, but "The Orville", once it goes past the first few "family guy"-esque episodes, is a fantastic Star Trek.

I enjoyed Strange New Worlds, but it has too many "weird" episodes.

This is quite a detailed article, but as an Italian I feel one of the linked articles has a more evocative title: "the wardrobe of a woman who never came back".

As an aside, I got sniped into finding out why this insula is called "insula of the chaste lovers", given Pompei is quite known for sexual imagery. It's apparently because there's a house called ".. of the chaste lovers" because of a fresco where two lovers share an apparently chaste kiss

https://mediterraneoantico.it/articoli/archeologia-classica/...

If that was the case, we wouldn't be using openssh, openssl, perl/python/ruby etc...

I'm a GPL person but that's not why Linux won over the BSDs.

Just FYI, basically the same story is common in European folklore, and there's a somewhat idiomatic "stone soup" concept in English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup

Well, only if that's the bottleneck.

Consider commuting with a friend in the morning: if you get dressed and get out of the door in 5m instead of 10m, but then have to wait for me to come pick you up, and then we both sit in a car for 5m to get to the train, and then we sit on that for 50.. then your speed up doesn't really matter.

I don't know if this is the case for drug development but as GP said, we already have more designs than we can test.

Same here. A part of me wants to get a new MBP but I really can't justify it.

Isn't trading always blocked? Whenever you would allow someone to build a complete Color it's better not to allow it, and whenever you also would it's only advantageous if your color is stronger than the other thus the other party should never agree.

Any other exchange becomes pointless as you won't be completing a color anyways.

Private and anonymous are different but the digital euro proposal is for both things, it is supposed to be equivalent to cash but only for small sums.

I have no idea how that's supposed to work.

To be fair, a monster is scary so it fits. Malice in the middle perhaps would have been less confusing.

If catching "all" security issues becomes feasible then the balance tilts in favor of the projects vs the attackers.

Big malicious entities always had more investments in this than random open source projects.

> we really just need to get rid of beef

you don't even have to get rid of it, even consuming less beef has significant impacts.

> There is not a single KPI where the curve shows even the slightest sign of recovery

ozone, marine fish capture, tropical forest loss, and domesticated land are shown as below peak, aren't they?

plastic straws have been banned for a different reason than fighting climate change: they were the vast majority of trash showing up on shorelines.

I am with you with wanting carbon taxes, but it's not like there's a single issue that can ever be tackled at a time.

You may be surprised and annoyed that NLP is also "Neuro linguistic programming", I've met technical people talking of NLP and meaning that...

in Italy they're a significant issue due to foreign species having been introduced years ago. The new species reproduce faster than they are killed by hunters or predators.

ah the good old C-x M-c M-smelting

> The house called 3 of your 27 scored numbers: 11%.

> Blind guessing would average about 3.0 of them (11%).

Admittedly I gave up before the 30 threshold but I think I did well enough at "beating the house"

Edit: tried again, 14/118, which is 12%. Maybe it's because I'm typing, and that's easier to do that speaking up.

depends on the bath, but they're generally understanding of foreigners with tattoos.

There was a brief period where everyone and their dog implemented mustache[0] as a template system, but it died quickly because cross-language templating is not that useful in the end, you seldom need to switch host language but keep the templates.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustache_(template_system)

This is awesome and I hope it catches on, but the idea of "may be useful to people who want to conceal tattoos in some situations" seems far fetched, some make-up layer would probably be a simpler solution, wouldn't it?