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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Maybe, but their dreams are pretty.
I'm not sure an AI's
dreamshallucinations about eggplants, mustaches and beer would qualify as "pretty".
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@hungrier Here is my proposal: make emojis AI-generated. Modern AI algorithms should have no problem generating combinations of popular concepts, assigning a name and number to them, determining if they are "NSFW" or not, and yes, even generating drawings of them.
Generate 65,536 of them so they fit neatly in a single plane. We'll finally will be able to type something like :eggplant_with_fake_mustache_drinking_beer: and get a result.
The "Not Sure If Good, Bad or Evil Idea Thread" is
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@anonymous234 Google is already doing something kind of like that
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No, Bloomberg, I'm not a robot
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-29/health-records-company-pushed-opioids-to-doctors-in-secret-dealHealth-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker
They're simply paying $145M ($0.63 per ad) to get off the hook—all criminal and civil cases settled, the junkies are still junkies and the bosses of Purdue Pharma still have a comfortable life.
I'm sure El Chapo would gladly have coughed up that much.
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Not sure if or not, but I was referring to https://electricsheep.org/
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@Dragoon There's also some @error_bot functionality for it (some people used it for their avatars) but I forget how that goes.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@hungrier Here is my proposal: make emojis AI-generated. Modern AI algorithms should have no problem generating combinations of popular concepts, assigning a name and number to them, determining if they are "NSFW" or not, and yes, even generating drawings of them.
Generate 65,536 of them so they fit neatly in a single plane. We'll finally will be able to type something like :eggplant_with_fake_mustache_drinking_beer: and get a result.
We've all seen the AI generated colors. Be afraid. Be very afraid!
Infra-black, the black that is on the other side of black, is that colour which people see just before they die from, say, head-butting a wall. It may also be seen, frequently, as a side-effect of retrophrenology, or playing American Handegg.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
are they doing an about face and they want to be vilified?
or are they just rebranding likes to be licks like @ben_lubot's friends at mastodon?
or is this something even weirder and potentially more sinister?
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
He said his goal for the next decade "isn't to be liked, but to be understood." That's because in order to be trusted, "people need to know where you stand," Zuckerberg said.
There will never be trust for farceberk
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No, I think they are large enough now that they are going to get vilified no matter the stance they take. So they might as well say they are going to do what they want and if you don't like it shove off. As the article notes, during their most tumultuous times they are still growing and making profit. So really, what are you plebeians going to do about it?
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
what are you plebeians going to do about it?
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
There will never be trust for farceberk
I trust them to steal my data...
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
He said his goal for the next decade "isn't to be liked, but to be understood."
There will never be trust for farceberk
I think we understand them a little too well, as for some reason we wish for the whole of fecesbulk's management to be nailed to a lamppost with rusty spoons.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Not sure if or not, but I was referring to https://electricsheep.org/
OK, I thought you meant Deep Dream—ElectricSheep isn't quite AI. Feeding the Internet to Deep Dream and having it dream of avoc^Weggplants … nope.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
And that's on top of this:
Edit: brillant onebox, zdnet!
[de-oneboxed autoplay video - bz]
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
or are they just rebranding likes to be licks like @ben_lubot's friends at mastodon?
Srsly, "licks"? "Mastodon" is rather reminiscent of tits and wanking already
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
or are they just rebranding likes to be licks like @ben_lubot's friends at mastodon?
Srsly, "licks"? "Mastodon" is rather reminiscent of tits and wanking already
apparently it's specific to which mastodon instance you join. and of course i joined https://vulpine.club
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
or are they just rebranding likes to be licks like @ben_lubot's friends at mastodon?
Srsly, "licks"? "Mastodon" is rather reminiscent of tits and wanking already
apparently it's specific to which mastodon instance you join. and of course i joined https://vulpine.club
"FOX News" was taken already, eh?
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Edit: brillant onebox, zdnet!
Thanks. I was reading and casually scrolling along until someone's voice just started talking to me.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Thanks. I was reading and casually scrolling along until someone's voice just started talking to me.
I'm protected from that by the GDPR consent dialog. Yay I guess…
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@dkf What will happen to GDPR post-Brexit?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Thanks. I was reading and casually scrolling along until someone's voice just started talking to me.
I'm protected from that by the GDPR consent dialog. Yay I guess…
Ah, that's why it didn't happen here.No, no EU proxy active.
Or because any and all JS dumbfuckery is opt-in on my FF.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Uh-oh: Advanced driver assistance systems are making us all bad drivers
… which shouldn't be a surprise to anybody who's ever heard of human factors at least in passing.
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“The new approach, called FLAIR, optimizes data storage systems by using all the servers within a given network. Therefore, when a user makes a data request, if the main server is full, another server automatically activates to fill it,” the university explained in a blog post.
The second sentence makes it sound like load balancing, which has been invented already. But if it's using "all servers within a given network" then maybe it's more like RAID over a network?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
“The new approach, called FLAIR, optimizes data storage systems by using all the servers within a given network. Therefore, when a user makes a data request, if the main server is full, another server automatically activates to fill it,” the university explained in a blog post.
The second sentence makes it sound like load balancing, which has been invented already. But if it's using "all servers within a given network" then maybe it's more like RAID over a network?
Maybe it's "make everything speak BitTorrent"?
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Lockheed Martin fixed 44 bugs in the F-35 software last year. 44 of 917 that is:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-30/f-35-s-gun-that-can-t-shoot-straight-adds-to-its-roster-of-flaws*Despite the incomplete testing and unresolved flaws, Congress continues to accelerate F-35 purchases, adding 11 to the Pentagon’s request in 2016 and in 2017, 20 in fiscal 2018, 15 last year and 20 this year. [...] By late September, 490 F-35s had been delivered and will require extensive retrofitting. [...] Still, the testing office said “no significant portion” of the U.S.’s F-35 fleet “was able to achieve and sustain” a September 2019 goal mandated by then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis: that the aircraft be capable 80% of the time needed to perform at least one type of combat mission. That target is known as the “Mission Capable” rate.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
The second sentence makes it sound like load balancing, which has been invented already. But if it's using "all servers within a given network" then maybe it's more like RAID over a network?
… which has also been already invented. It's called memcached.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
44 of 917
That's like two orders of magnitude better than mainstream software
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
44 of 917
That's like two orders of magnitude better than mainstream software
It's also 5 orders of magnitude more expensive.
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Clearly you have not seen the pricing for Oracle or Salesforce.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Clearly you have not seen the pricing for Oracle or Salesforce.
To not mess up the data, I've excluded people who ask for your soul.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@topspin
Clearly you have not seen the pricing for Oracle or Salesforce.In an alternate universe, Oracle was declared the winner of a contest and got a $400 billion program from the US government to design and build a database that would replace all existing products and be in service until 2070.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
No..... I'm a Fox.
I've recently (like a day or two ago) started playing BotW. And I keep seeing foxes skipping around. Keep thinking of you when I do so.
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Looks like Apple didn't win the argument
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As much as I love seeing apple getting smacked down, I can't help but see this as a bad thing. How long until we are at USB-F1 as the new hotness, but all mobile devices are still mandated by law to keep USB-C around, even though nobody uses it?
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@Dragoon Another argument would be the problem: What if you designed a phone with no physical connectors at all? Water proof pretty much by default.
I mean, wireless charging works pretty well now and data transfer has been solved for even longer.
(Yes, there'd still be the question of who'd actually want that but that's another discussion)
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
What if you designed a phone with no physical connectors at all?
I doubt that'd run afoul of the new rule, provided the charging cradle (or however that bit is configured) follows it.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon Another argument would be the problem: What if you designed a phone with no physical connectors at all? Water proof pretty much by default.
There have been a few concept/demo/pre-render devices in the past year or two that have had that idea but I don't know if any of them have been officially announced or released anywhere.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Keep thinking of you when I do so.
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@Dragoon So it's an election year, and Amazon just released its tax returns? Is anyone else getting nervous?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
But if it's using "all servers within a given network" then maybe it's more like RAID over a network?
It's just load balancing with every server added into the pool.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
Is anyone else getting nervous?
it's election year, so yeah i'm nervous.... the first time i get a political spam/scam call i'm muting my phone until December. If you want me leave a fucking voicemail or text me. i'll call back or respond.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
the first time i get a political spam/scam call i'm muting my phone until December
You could try just asking them what they're wearing, and whether they've been a naughty boy/girl/fox/attack helicopter/whatever seems apt…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
the first time i get a political spam/scam call i'm muting my phone until December
You could try just asking them what they're wearing, and whether they've been a naughty boy/girl/fox/attack helicopter/whatever seems apt…
that would be a good way to get off their call lists....