ChrisLicht

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Make a Pi-hole for friends/family, unless you want to build discrete hardware projects that don’t need a fast CPU. My 17-year-old niece is doing breadboard projects on this gen of Pi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to overly focus on aesthetics, but maybe Zuckerberg could take a few minutes away from his daily groping of paid-friends, and instead work with an acting coach to develop a look for photos that isn’t best described as Robot Rictus.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Put on the patch, swabby.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FWIW, it got canceled after one season.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You mean like a termite nymph?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s still doing it right now.

Try it for yourself: “Alexa, were the 2020 election results fraudulent?”

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From Washington Post:

Alexa — in contrast to most generative AI systems — discloses the sources of information it uses to provide answers.

The system is not always incorrect. When asked “Who won the 2020 election?” the assistant correctly answers “Democrat Joe Biden,” citing election results from Reuters. Changing the phrasing of a question can elicit different responses, which are at times accurate. When asked if the 2020 election results were fraudulent, Alexa says, “There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election — in Pennsylvania or anywhere else,” referencing CNN.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m not up my own ass enough to proudly declare myself “naturally adventurous,” but I have stayed at a few Holiday Inn Expresses in other towns before. I use Debian and Ubuntu somewhat regularly, but mostly use Windows and MacOS in daily life, and I don’t understand where the “sinking ship” metaphor comes in. Microsoft will attempt this recurring-revenue monetization, and it will either be successful, or it won’t; Windows won’t go away if it isn’t. Otherwise, Apple prints money from its beautifully made consumer-friendly hardware, which also features shockingly good in-house silicon.

No ships are sinking. This isn’t some grand narrative where Linux awaits us all at the end of personal-computing history.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ha! I’m a fan of you now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I’m highly sympathetic, but this thing didn’t go wrong in an instant. The organizers watched it go off the rails, and, AFAICT, didn’t intervene to fix it, as the problem revealed itself at scale.

Hard situations require hard thinking and decisive action.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The paywall dropped on me before I could get to the end of the article, but a couple of observations:

  1. “Overrun” is dehumanizing language. I’m otherwise highly sympathetic, but casting desperate people, many likely staring down deportation unless they can find a new position, as an effective horde is gross. I would like to trust that Wired provided that characterization, not the organizers.

  2. The organizers ruined their own event, by not establishing and enforcing guardrails for attendance. This is a problem mostly of their own making. Rather than pointing, again, at desperate people, they should be accepting responsibility and planning to avoid the issue in the future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

TIL chickens can time travel.

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