ApatheticCactus

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[–] ApatheticCactus 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

See- this is a problem. Illegal immigration means one thing, but people hear it and think of a family speaking spanish in the grocery store and assume them to be what 'illegal immigrants' are. People just ascribe anything vagely unknown to them as 'illegal immigrants' and want it gone not realizing that most of the time the people they are imagining are here legally. It's still racism but with a technically safe cover word, but many are hearing one thing and thinking another.

So when everyone is talking about illegal immigrants they could mean completely different things depending on who you talk to.

[–] ApatheticCactus 6 points 22 hours ago

I think it's a legal issue, honestly. When printers first came out there was a fear that people would just print money and other illegal things, so printer firmware had to print out security identifiers on everything in yellow ink so it can be traceable. That's also why yellow ink always goes out first, and why it complains about yellow ink when trying to only print black and white.

If that's law, then it could be illegal to use firmware that does not have these features, and anyone making fimware that 'just prints' may be held liable.

Thus is all just an educated guess though, but seems plausible.

[–] ApatheticCactus 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So... Is guy like- lowercase man?

[–] ApatheticCactus 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think its even paid shills. We have generative AI now, and can VPN with fake accounts pretty easily as regular consumers. If we can do it, they can do it on a larger scale and professionally, and not just 'their side', but global rivals.

If another country wants your country to do something stupid, all they have to do is get a bot army to upvote bad ideas and pump out memes and comments supporting whatever policy you think will negatively impact your rival.

If they're NOT doing this already, then they're terrible at their jobs, and I don't think they're honestly that incompetent.

That said, don't assume they're only trying to influence everyone other than you. All that social media data created a system to predict who you are and what buttons to push to get you to act.

[–] ApatheticCactus 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ApatheticCactus 4 points 1 month ago

I fuck around by the melvins

[–] ApatheticCactus 2 points 2 months ago

I had an iPad tell me I didn't have permission to delete a photo that I took with the iPad. Somehow I didn't own the picture I took of my own dog.

[–] ApatheticCactus 2 points 2 months ago

Large LLM model?

[–] ApatheticCactus 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Tastes better. Probiotic, so can be healthier. Risk is very low of contamination, low enough that the mandate for pasteurized milk was kinda overblown, but technically safer.

I find the posturing the funniest. Conservatives trying to act tough by drinking raw milk is hilariously tame. It's like being proud of not wearing sun screen when mowing the lawn. Like, that's arguably fine either way, but sunscreen is a little safer but...why would you brag about that?

[–] ApatheticCactus 9 points 2 months ago

Imagine he's playing Eurotruck simulator.

[–] ApatheticCactus 1 points 2 months ago

Agreed. It gives results that appear promising, and if they were correct all the time it would be amazing... But it's not, though sometimes it is.

I have one I was messing with that would scan through a document and answer questions about it with sources cited from the document. I feel like that's the best path to trusting the output.

Also, I think game questions are best suited to asking solutions to linear quests that have a defined answer. I asked it about a good Destiny build, and it answered but what it gave me was a pretty basic build that doesn't work the best in the current meta, but I kinda knew it couldn't give me a good answer there.

Because it's not always totally correct, you can't trust it. Investors are shown examples where it is correct and incorrectly extrapolate the trend.

[–] ApatheticCactus 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Ai" is largely a gimmick. It can be an impressive gimmick at times, but the failure rate and misses are too common to really trust. I'm an enthusiast, so I have been dabbling a lot with what it can do, and theoretically there are some really cool applications - but we're not there yet. I've got Gemini on my phone, and yeah... I can talk to it about things, but like... Why? The most useful thing I've done with it so far is ask it specific game information like, "hey, I'm in x level and I see a chest. I can't see a way to get it right now, is it something I can come back and get later? Or do I have to figure it out now?". And it can answer that.

Saves me from having to look up an ad riddled guide, but that's not a killer feature. Integration with aps could be huge, where it can actually do whatever task for you, or automate something tedious, but that's still not super common. I'd rather personally and directly control anything vaguely important.

It's really a solution looking for a problem.

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