Kirk

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have no issue with using AI to find otherwise undiscovered security bugs. But attempting to fixing them with AI I'm not in favor of.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you! I made a similar comment elsewhere. This was a chart for sales, and because generative AI can't even be copyrighted there is no reason to purchase it. This has publicity stunt written all over it.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

man made or not.

If there is a silver lining to any of this AI nonsense it's that it just might wake some people up to the fact that they have been fed corporate slop for decades. AI changes nothing except it makes slop faster.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago

I don't wanna defend pop music too much but "catchy" is one of those aspects of music that's easy to immediately recognize but extremely hard to pull off. In order to be catchy a melody needs to be both wholly familiar feeling but also juuuuuust different enough to surprise our ears.

I'm not saying a generative AI couldn't ever pull it off if you drained enough lakes to do it, but while it's very good at producing the "familiar" it's very very bad at producing anything "surprising".

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

For a long while I wondered what would happen when Apple (a company who prides itself on it's products "just working") inevitably collided with the generative AI hype train.

At first I thought they might stay away of the whole thing, but they didn't and it's been funny watching them struggle to integrate even the simplest aspects of generative AI into their products. Anyone who knows how LLMs work know that it is wholly different than the natural language processing that goes into Siri.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Odd that it's on top of a sales chart when AI music can't be copyrighted, so anyone could just get it for free. It makes me suspect it's presence there might be inauthentic.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh man, I suspected that was artificial! 😡

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm wondering if you have the "cookie notices" and "annoyances" filters disabled? They are not checked by default. It's under settings > filter lists. FWIW the page loaded cleanly for me.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Something I've been realizing lately is that fascism's whole deal is adopting the appearances of trustworthy institutions like universities, activism and TV news (and apparently scientific papers) but the goal isn't to inform it's to persuade. All the bullshit ultimately leads to the same path.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Weird they would go through with spending a billion on this after banning "fossil fuel equipment" in all new construction recently. I wonder if the old pipelines were in bad shape or something?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago

Shame there is no plan for a physical release but still cool

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Framework, but their laptops are also about twice as expensive as equivalent models from other brands.

Eh, I just ran some comparisons and Framework is only about $100 more than the cheapest equivalent in another brand with the same CPU/Memory. $200 more with Windows.

 

Been watching DS9 Season two and have been very impressed with the quality. I remembered it being "pretty good" but in my memory it was "the season with "The Circle" trilogy, "Melora", "Rivals" and "The Maquis", episodes and story lines that never really did it for me. I think that made me forget how many really good one-off episodes were also here, to name a few:

  • "Necessary Evil"
  • "Rules of Acquisition"
  • "The Alternate"
  • "Armageddon Game"
  • "Whispers"
  • "Paradise"
  • "Shadowplay"

All bangers!

Also I love how this season ever so slowly drip-drops dominion references culminating with the season finale "The Jem Hadar"

Wink

 

Someone should probably jump in and explain what federation means.

 

I have an aging Kindle and am looking for a new eReader to both read books and articles I've saved throughout the day. I use Wallabag to save articles. I like it over Pocket because it's better for paywalls because it fetches content directly from the browser.

I am leaning Kobo because of apps like Wallabako and KoReader (not exactly what that is yet but people seem to like it).

Anyone else have a similar setup or have any advice?

 

Note that r/coolguides is a very "normie" subreddit and may require extra handholding. There are a lot of people who don't seem to understand what "open source" means. Some looking for "The Lemmy app" etc. Be patient and helpful!

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