Ah, so speculation. I speculate that AI will decide we're not useful and go all Skynet/Matrix on us. I sure hope I'm wrong. But if I try to sell you a doomsday bunker, you have every right to laugh in my face.
Who knows what Firefox will look like tomorrow? I do agree it's important to keep options open, knowing about Waterfox, LibreWolf, IceCat, and maybe some others.
That's my ultimate goal. While there are some good home theater PC options out there, I'm thinking a base M1 Mac mini (8GB RAM, 256GB storage) would be better than an Apple TV, mainly because it can run Firefox with uBlock Origin; therefore, ad-free YouTube with SponsorBlock.
There might even be better options for less money that run Linux on an x86-64 platform, which opens the doors to light PC gaming. That Mac retailed for $599 when it was new, but it would be cheaper now, especially if it's used. Used opens the door to Intel Macs, but Intel Macs are typically more trouble than they're worth, as I understand it. These could run Linux, but I heard the hardware has cooling issues that Linux wouldn't solve (other than having the chance to run at lower overheads than macOS, perhaps).
Their site always worked better with other peoples' code.
I wonder what would have happened if they just hired those people instead of trying to accuse them of blackmail?
If I need spyware to ensure I’m playing a game right, that’s a game I don’t need.
Anything involving Copilot makes me happy to be a Mac user.
If you have a machine that runs Windows and the hardware is still good, it’s time to give Linux a chance. Look into Proton for gaming (it’s a translation layer, like WINE I suppose). And let’s stop acting like Macs are the odd one out. Macs run UNIX. Windows is the odd one out! ;)
We all have to do the course. And honestly I'm not even mad.
In my line of work, most people are not computer savvy. We're running Windows 11 and no one has admin privileges, even the highest ranking people. They're all limited. That's fine. We can't install anything. I'm pretty sure I could hit up PortableApps and get some portable software working, but I'm not trying to push my luck. I'm pretty sure I know what I can and can't get away with, but it's a good job and I don't want to mess it up. Besides, a lot of people are illegally streaming sports or movies and getting away with that, so IT security is pretty lax. That's probably true at a lot of places.
I don't mind the cybersecurity courses because I mute them and make them run at double speed and I ignore them, clicking through, then I ace the test. It's not that I don't care. I just know the material already. I've also helped coworkers who earnestly sat through the whole thing and are genuinely struggling. I know they hate how casually I get all the questions right, but they hate having to go through it a second time even more.
Plus, there's one vendor of training videos that is kind of like an office comedy, and one of the workers has a bunch of anime fan art in their cubicle. So it amuses me to no end that all of my coworkers are seeing these characters. It's nothing recent and I haven't seen it in a while. I know Killua from Hunter x Hunter is there. 12 year old boy, has super powers, something with lightning? (been ages since I watched HxH, and Meruem best boy) and he can rip your heart out of your chest (he's done it before). I feel like they need to add Anya Forger (from SPYxFAMILY) to the wall. That would be funny. (Telepathic toddler, dumb as a box of rocks, and just as adorable.)
TL;DR: Woman missing an arm couldn't get AI image generators to generate an amputee. It apparently didn't know how. Now it does and the woman says the representation is important.
I guess it couldn't find enough art to steal of amputees for it to form enough of a basis to draw them? And so in reaction to the backlash (such as it was), they gave it more data?
This is some creative math. So the $20 a month people were then paying for GamePass didn’t amount for anything?
This is why the ex Bethesda guy said GamePass hurts developers. They’re making a killing on GamePass but they aren’t applying those numbers to game sales. Games on GamePass are expected to sell well outside of GamePass, so GamePass literally hurts games on the service. So who wins? Looks like just Microsoft.
Bluesky might be better than X I’ if all you want is SMS length microblogging, but I’d like to see scientific types embrace a more federated system.
Nope, my wife uses Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Discord.
Can't get her to adopt Fediverse equivalents.
I'd say I choose quality over quantity, but she mostly is in artist communities that don't want to move off the old platforms. They say they were there before the crazies, they aren't the problem, so they're not gonna move, even if the people who own those platforms are straight up fascists. I couldn't do it.
YouTube is trash. I was watching a cooking video, and I swear, after 60 seconds of ads, the YouTuber talked for maybe one whole minute before it went to ads again with a 60 second timer.
I don't like AI much, but I'm fine with this. Note, I don't buy books on Kindle. I just think it's fine if you want to ask "who is this person again" or "what happened in this place?" There used to be digital books that were all hyperlinked up so you could do that anyway, but I guess it was too much work or people didn't really use it enough to justify the work. Especially if the names are strange to you and you don't know them — like high fantasy stuff.
I think it's unreasonable to ask authors to provide this information as well when you can just have an AI sum it up. The problem occurs when the AI gets it wrong. Especially if you, in turn, want to blame the author. It needs to tell you this information is coming from the app, not the author, or the publisher, and that it can sometimes make mistakes.
Or, here's another idea. Some authors write bibles (basically info dumps) but readers never see these. So what if they bundle that and the AI can reference that? The problem I see then is something like Game of Thrones, if you ask who Jon Snow is and it tells you he's the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. (This was never confirmed in the books, but it was a popular fan theory. It was confirmed in the HBO series (like a decade ago) so it's assumed that that was the author's intent... so having a document full of the author's notes could spoil you in other ways.)