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Tower at Nine (www.youtube.com)

Additional details from their Twitter account:

After months of preparation and anticipation, the Tower At Nine interstellar spacecraft launches from its home of Ren, beginning its acceleration to near-lightspeed to cross the vast expanses between the stars.

https://x.com/teeteegone/status/1851976871879094313

And a cutaway view can be found here: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/1fyzmn0/anatomy_of_a_spacecraft_the_tower_at_nine/

[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 59 points 4 weeks ago

As someone who uses Whisper fairly often, it's obvious that they've trained off of a bunch of YouTube videos.

Most of the time it's very accurate, but there have definitely been a few times in long transcription sessions where it will randomly hallucinate that someone is saying "Don't forget to like and subscribe!" When nothing was said anywhere near that.

[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 102 points 1 month ago

Disney lost their old camera tech used to make a "yellow screen" with sodium vapor lights.

It's actually better than a green screen because the yellow light is so specific that even if you remove that particular frequency of light, everything else still looks fine. You can do all sorts of things that would normally be very difficult to pull off with any of our green screen tech (like drinking water in a clear bottle or wearing a rainbow dress).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk

[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 140 points 3 months ago

Jail makes the most sense considering he returned with the same ticket in his pocket, but then again, since his family reported him missing you would have thought that they would have found out that he was in jail...

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[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 59 points 3 months ago

Really good article discussing the unfortunate trend where

a lot more people are trying to push gamers to play games that aren't really designed to be played for months on end.

-Buckley

Some other great quotes in there, the whole thing is worth a read.

[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 91 points 3 months ago

The list of apps that were found to have this malware:

  • AirFS
  • Astro Explorer
  • Amber
  • CryptoPulsing
  • Brain Matrix
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I just noticed that crossposts like this one: https://lemmy.ca/post/23884170 do not show the text from the original post.

Viewing the crosspost on a browser displays it, but on Voyager it only appears if I click on the original post.

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/17734195

What's the reason for the empty comments, lately?

In the last few weeks, I frequently see some empty comments. It's just the username and no text beneath.

Is there a deeper reason behind this? Do people nowadays strip away the text instead of deleting a comment? Or did some script surface that 'makes the internet forget'? First I thought people did this before deleting a comment and the deletion just didn't get federated. But I scrolled through some older posts and they also still have comments like that, so that can't be it. Right?

Can anyone educate me?

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[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 139 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Better/additional info here: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2-community-manager-seemingly-fired-after-encouraging-negative-reviews-over-now-canceled-psn-mandate-i-knew-i-was-taking-a-risk-with-what-i-said/

Spitz:

"Generally it's not a good idea to tell people to refund and leave negative reviews when you're a community manager. TIL," Spitz said. "I appreciate all the support and I appreciate even more that everyone can play the game again without restrictions. I knew I was taking a risk with what I said about refunding and changing reviews. I stand by it. It was my job to represent the community, that's what I did."

They added: "I wanted to work for Arrowhead because they're my all-time favorite studio. I got that chance. I'm thankful for that opportunity. I'd happily continue working for them if I had the choice, but that isn't up to me or anyone else in here. I can walk away happy and I don't want anyone causing trouble on my behalf, especially not to people I still have a lot of care and respect for."

This definitely sounds like Sony wanted them out and Arrowhead wanted them to stay.

[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 184 points 6 months ago

It's worth pointing out that once Pokémon Go players found out about OSM, we saw a massive increase in new users as well as those contributing to OSM so that the maps would better reflect the areas they played in.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334378297_How_an_augmented_reality_game_Pokemon_GO_affected_volunteer_contributions_to_OpenStreetMap

Unfortunately there are always a few that will try to game any system. In this case they're essentially vandalizing OSM for their own selfish reasons.

[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago

Direct link to the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/nickbild/local_llm_assistant?tab=readme-ov-file

It's a small model by comparison. If you want something that's offline and actually closer to comparing to ChatGPT 3.5, you'll want the Mixtral 8x7B model instead (running on a beefy machine):

https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/

[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 48 points 9 months ago

Not just phone numbers and email addresses, but a recent ruling by a federal judge allows them to record and collect text messages without worry:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/9/23953798/automakers-collect-record-text-messages-federal-judge-ruling

[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 61 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They do have a free tier, and while it doesn't auto request your data removal they can at least notify you which data brokers have your info so you can make the requests manually yourself. https://monitor.mozilla.org/

Edit: The data removal features are currently available only in the US according to their FAQ:

Why is data removal only available in the US? When will it be available in my country?

Data removal is only available in the US because of legislation that allows data brokers to operate there. In many other countries and in regions like the EU, laws like GDPR prevent these websites from collecting and selling people’s personal information without their consent. We’re exploring ways to expand protection and personal data removal outside of the US where needed.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-monitor-faq

[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For those curious, the apps that sold your specific geolocation data were "Drunk Mode" and "Walk Against Humanity".

Edit: Although Wikipedia notes that X-Mode's SDK is in use in more than 400 apps. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Mode_social#cite_note-13

This is a big win for privacy advocates as well:

"By securing a first-ever ban on the use and sale of sensitive location data, the FTC is continuing its critical work to protect Americans from intrusive data brokers and unchecked corporate surveillance,” said Khan.

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