I ran this through the translator. "Having a dedicated home with Prime Video allows us to build on that legacy with unprecedented global reach and a broader commitment to the Television Academy and our mission throughout the year."

It came out "Jeff offered more money."

I consider anyone who thinks otherwise an amateur and don't trust their judgement.

I would give some leniance in very special situations where there is a clear, thoroughly planed migration path to FOSS and the problem has very good reasons to require a currently existing tried and true proprietary solution that is cohesive and losely coupled to everything else in the company. Something like that however requires deciders to know what they're doing and those joints usually have their systems under control and can tell a vendor to go and f*ck themselves with confidence if anyone gets pissy or turns up with a fresh absurd future pricing table. Organisations like these usually are 95% FOSS already and basically follow the same rule stated above, for obvious reasons.

Those who don't get 20+ years of this VMWare, Oracle, SAP, whatever sh*t we've been seeing ever since the dawn of time.

Bottom line: Mission critical? FOSS only. Break that rule and I'm getting ready to cash out of your gig ASAP.

Yeah, have the big AI companies cleaned their raw data sources for newer models or are they still using original scrapes of teh internets, just putting guardrails and instructions in place to discount specific data?

This watermarking text is really smart. Here's the Computerphile deep dive video con how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Younger generations gave up on radio because it sucks.

I'm gen X, and I despise radio so much that every time I've ever replaced a head unit, I've left the antenna disconnected. If radio was just music I could probably tolerate it, but I can't handle the ads and pretend DJ's.

For emergency purposes there are portable wind up radios in the emergency kits. Completely unused, in original packaging, because where I live the closest thing we have to natural disasters is winter storms that shut down the roads.

So why isnt it mandated for homes and all devices that receive radio currently?

Why is my car the only thing that *has* to receive AM?

This is another bullshit “I have a hobby horse and Im going to fucking ride it at everyone elses expense” political move.

This is all about getting us to have warm fuzzy feelings for our Flock protectors. Probably so we are willing to report the vile criminals who vandalize them to steal the valuable metals and precious SSD, HDD and memory components inside.

Turns out, making AI's play Diplomacy agains each other has been done quite often already! But I would like humans to play against the popular AIs.

I would LOVE to know how AI would fare with the classic board game "Diplomacy"!
For the ones that don't know it - it's a bit like "Risk", but there is no luck anywhere involved. Between each turn, all the players engage in e.g. 15 minutes of "Diplomacy" and literally anything is allowed (except moving the pieces). You can negotiate alliances, bribe and blackmail people, whatever. Many friendships have been lost to this game, because sooner or later you will have to backstab allies and betray friends.
It's great fun, and I seriously would like to try it with an AI once.

This is one of the hardest problems in computer science: getting names right.

Should it be called WOPR or skynet?

This "new" site is part of a larger effort by that slob to kneecap or compromise US government Web sites, and steal your personal data.

I first read about the effort here: https://thedreydossier.substac...

Yesterday, she took a look under the hood of America.gov, and yes, it's as bad as everything else the DOGE vandals have been doing: https://thedreydossier.substac...

Up until this point, government Web sites were designed, built, and maintained by the agencies responsible for that government service. For example, if you wanted to apply for or renew your passport, you would go to state.gov, which is run by the US Department of State, which is responsible for processing applications for and issuing passports. No other department has lawful jurisdiction over passports.

From the point of view of the law, that's still true. But the slob, without anyone's permission, kluged together passports.gov. This site was built and is run by the White House's "National Design Studio," completely outside the law and without any independent oversight. The State Department was not consulted and has nothing to do with it. Further, the site is filled with third-party trackers, analytics, and some custom code that copies every page you view, including form contents, to an unknown third party.

Oh, and the guy leading the National Design Studio and in charge of building these fake sites? He's Joe Gebbia -- cofounder of Airbnb. Read both articles for more details.

In short, you should treat America.gov as a malware site and stay well away from it. Under no circumstances should you feed it any of your personal information.

Until the 18th Century there was no such thing as "posted prices", unless prices were set by government regulation (only certain staples, and rarely). Instead you always had to dicker with the seller to arrive at what you would pay.

In the mid 1700s Quakers in Pennsylvania decided they did not like dickering since it meant both parties were trying to deceive the other to their best advantage. It also meant bad will if person A found out he paid more than person B for the same goods. To eliminate this troubling daily moral dilemma they introduced the startling new idea of offering goods at fixed prices that were posted for all to see.

Oh, how not 21st Century can you get? The idea of prices being fair and equitable, and honestly posted for everyone! How quaint! Our corporate masters have decide that we all techno-rubes to be fleeced as efficiently as data harvesting and AI can make it!

Why is this something new? Isn't it just an ARM chip, and Linux has been running on ARM for ages? And I think Android still uses the Linux kernel, no?

I just wanted to let you know that you have successfully driven me off of /., after some 25 years.

Not just you, obviously, the site has been in steep decline for a long time, but you were such a huge asshole that you managed to be the last straw. So, congrats for that. I won't be back.

At present, no. I've done a number of experiments with LLMs' capabilities with generating fiction, and while they are impressive for a beginner writer -- because fo the lack of spelling and grammar mistakes, they are nowhere near being able to write competent fiction.

This is because they don't model reader or character minds, they're based on word probabilities, like a predictive text keyboard. The engineers can compensate for for this to a surprising degree by feeding it data to recognize specific situations (e.g. the car wash is 100 feet from my driveway; should I drive or walk?). But this is turd-polishing.