Em Adespoton

On Reddit I have thousands of comments, over 240,000 karma, and I haven’t logged in in around two years.

But then, like with Lemmy, I picked my subreddits carefully and left when it seemed like they were being overrun with bots.

Yet.

So… Zoom went down because GoDaddy mistakenly started resolving the domain to 0.0.0.0? That’s what it sounds like….

In some cases, it’s people who’ve done the research and written the paper who then use an LLM to give it a final polish. Often, it’s people who are writing in a non-native language.

Doesn’t make it good or right, but adds some context.

The money they get from the government to run it has a small portion tagged as COVID money for disaster response. Which somehow has resulted in the entire funding being tagged COVID. Which means, unlikely to be renewed tomorrow.

Interesting story.

I started using Objective C in 1994 on NeXTcubes, and later NeXTstations.

For simpler, one-off projects, it was great; also great for its ability to make any existing C library or function (or even block of asm) an object that played nicely with all the rest. And every API was just another set of objects! Discovery was easy.

It wasn’t until it came to maintenance of complex codebases that it became a problem. There’s a reason things like NSurlHandler stuck around right into modern macOS — replacing objects like THAT had implications all up and down the dependency chain. Essentially, it became Apple’s equivalent of DLL Hell.

It was also the last language that I thought could be almost all things to all people; after that, I realized that specialized languages that performed really well in a single context were a much better way to go.

Of course it might. And the percentages are all subject to variation depending on who wants to buy and sell stock at the time.

There are commercial ones — but they sell to businesses, not individuals. And whether they’re trustworthy is open to discussion.

The term “Artificial Intelligence” has been bandied around for over 50 years to mean all sorts of things.

These days, all sorts of machine learning are generally classified as AI.

But I used to work with Cyc and expert systems back in the 90s, and those were considered AI back then, even though they often weren’t trying to mimic human thought.

For that matter, the use of Lisp in the 1970s to perform recursive logic was considered AI all by itself.

So while you may personally prefer a more restrictive definition, just as many were up in arms with “hacker” being co-opted to refer to people doing digital burglary, AI as the term is used by the English speaking world encompasses generative and diffusive creation models and also other less human-centric computing models that rely on machine learning principles.

He’s draining the swamp with a pump and dump!

The real impact is on small and medium sized businesses who can’t afford to run their own SOC.

So now they’re forced to hire MSPs and outsource ALL their IT.

*if you have an older Android phone.

Doesn’t even name the algorithm, and somehow spells LZMA wrong, despite just having written it out longhand.

Well, it’s PC Gamer.

[edit] I still can’t figure out if they’re referencing LZW encoding… the L and Z being the same Lempel and Ziv from LZMA, but with Welch having a different solution for the rest of the algorithm due to size constraints.

And I migrated to Organic Maps :)

Of that list, Zen is the only one really worth considering. And then you have the “but the best one that supports widevine” issue.

You’ve never had that experience?

As someone who has been paired with such a person before, that means AI gets half way there.

If I’m paired with an AI will it also get me to all its work as well as mine and then play politics to get itself promoted over me?

Media playback is easy: find the line in jack hidden away somewhere. Plug phone into it. Ignore infotainment console.

Yeah; my point is: if 23andme is liquidating, other genetic labs likely aren’t too far behind, and I’d like some warning there too… especially since I have to convince other people to delete their data.

Every engine out there other than Google already uses Bing. Bing actually has a usable privacy model; it’s one of the products IMO Microsoft actually got right.

I do long for the days of Lycos, AltaVista, Hotbot, etc. though; the ad system was simpler then.

Actually, what I really miss is the days of Archie, Veronica and Jughead, before flashing ads and marquees were even possible.