Comment How about we do the opposite? (Score 2, Insightful) 109
Ban the dumb, lying, hallucinating, sycophantic, power-hungry insanity we have now and bring AI online only after it's proven to be reliable.
Comment Incognito windows in an AI browser (Score 4, Insightful) 26
Your privacy will be violated any which way, but you won't feel it.
Comment Re:Said another way (Score 1) 67
It's even worse: the encrypted SD card can be decrypted by anybody who owns the same device. Meaning practically, it's not encrypted at all.
Comment Said another way (Score 3, Insightful) 67
After determining the data wasn't encrypted beyond the file system level, they successfully accessed the SD card contents using the manufacturer's proprietary equipment and procedures.
the manufacturer had the decryption key.
Why does this story not make me feel all warm and fuzzy?
Comment Is this a question? (Score 5, Informative) 191
Have you seen who's in the White House? Remember: he was voted in. Twice. That only happens in a nation with a widespread case of mental retardation.
Comment What good is a 3x less expensive AI workforce (Score 1) 12
if all your customers hate it 10x more than humans?
India should protect its pool of human workers: when the backlash against AI hits full force, they'll be well-positioned to retake the market.
I never thought I'd say I find calling customer support and being greeted by this unmistakable heavy Bangalore accent refreshing and reassuring: at least I know I'm talking to someone who understands my question and not something that serves me the nearest matching boilerplate answer from the support knowledgebase in a sycophantic transatlantic accented tone.
Comment Yeah but it's so worth it (Score 1) 31
How else will I be able to feel that deep sense of dread when I call any company's customer support and I'm greeted by an overly polite chatbot that's so syrupy it gives me type-2, that doesn't understand my problem and refuses to let me talk to a real person?
Comment Because Big Tech has principles, yessiree (Score 2) 49
Censorship is a big no-no for tech companies. Particularly when it doesn't make then any money.
Comment My Codeberg account is all setup and ready to use (Score 2) 32
I've been hosting my open-source projects on Github for years.
Why you ask? After all, isn't every open-source and free software advocate's duty to stay clear away from Microsoft?
Here's my reason: I only use the git part of Github. I don't use any of Microsoft's proprietary crap on top of it.
Therefore, Microsoft has no vendor lock-in on me: my projects are one git-push away from being hosted elsewhere. I waste their resources by making them host my massive files for free and they have absolutely nothing to show for it - no revenue, no private data to monetize, nothing.
But the minute Microsoft starts getting annoying, my repos are gone. I'll move them to Codeberg and I will gladly pay for the hosting in the form of donations.
Comment Resources allow the incompetent to make products (Score 4, Insightful) 187
When you have 32 kilobytes of RAM and a 1 MHz processor, you need all the programming talent you can get to squeeze the most performances out of them.
When you have 32 gigabytes and dozens of cores, any incompetent code monkey can churn out the same application in Visual Basic or Python.
Resources don't make your computer faster. They empower incompetent and sloppy developers, who crucially are paid less than good ones, so their boss can make more money.
Comment This really, REALLY isn't new (Score 1) 187
I remember in the last 90's / early 2000's discussing with a colleague how it was possible that X allocated 2 megabytes for an empty window, just for sitting there on the screen.
Comment Wow! Big tech will be able (Score 2) 34
to serve up advertisement and privacy-invadind SaaS at lightning speed. I can't wait!
Comment Remember: AI just spews out stuff it was taught (Score 2, Informative) 39
and low bars for academic performances have been the norm for a long time.
New Large Coral Reef Discovered Off Naples Containing Rare Ancient Corals (independent.co.uk) 13
Off the southwest cost of Italy, a remotely operated submarine made "a significant and rare discovery," reports the Independent — a vast white coral reef that was 80 metres tall (262 feet) and 2 metres wide (6.56 feet) "containing important species and fossil traces."
Often dubbed the "rainforests of the sea", coral reefs are of immense scientific interest due to their status as some of the planet's richest marine ecosystems, harbouring millions of species. They play a crucial role in sustaining marine life but are currently under considerable threat...
hese impressive formations are composed of deep-water hard corals, commonly referred to as "white corals" because of their lack of colour, specifically identified as Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata species. The reef also contains black corals, solitary corals, sponges, and other ecologically important species, as well as fossil traces of oysters and ancient corals, the Italian Research Council said. It called them "true geological testimonies of a distant past."
Mission leader Giorgio Castellan said the finding was "exceptional for Italian seas: bioconstructions of this kind, and of such magnitude, had never been observed in the Dohrn Canyon, and are rarely seen elsewhere in our Mediterranean". The discovery will help scientists understand the ecological role of deep coral habitats and their distribution, especially in the context of conservation and restoration efforts, he added.
The undersea research was funded by the EU.
Thanks to davidone (Slashdot reader #12,252) for sharing the article.
hese impressive formations are composed of deep-water hard corals, commonly referred to as "white corals" because of their lack of colour, specifically identified as Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata species. The reef also contains black corals, solitary corals, sponges, and other ecologically important species, as well as fossil traces of oysters and ancient corals, the Italian Research Council said. It called them "true geological testimonies of a distant past."
Mission leader Giorgio Castellan said the finding was "exceptional for Italian seas: bioconstructions of this kind, and of such magnitude, had never been observed in the Dohrn Canyon, and are rarely seen elsewhere in our Mediterranean". The discovery will help scientists understand the ecological role of deep coral habitats and their distribution, especially in the context of conservation and restoration efforts, he added.
The undersea research was funded by the EU.
Thanks to davidone (Slashdot reader #12,252) for sharing the article.
Comment Yes, and I've been doing my part to poison AI (Score 5, Insightful) 103
When Reddit announced they would sell user-generated data to AI companies for training purposes, I went back to literally thousands of my old technical posts and inserted subtle nonsense in them.
They look legit, and a competent human being reading through them would very easily realize they're nonsense (you know, things like "Type taskmgr and kill systemd"). But AI doesn't, and I've already read AI-generated "help" pages containing some of the shit I seeded on Reddit.
So if you too want to debase AI, poison the well: it really does works.
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