did you fucking not read the bit where I said it’s helped by gear
I’m @froztbyte more or less everywhere that matters
did you fucking not read the bit where I said it’s helped by gear
logarhythmically, n.: in the manner of making banger beats composed in the method of striking logs
you can unsubscribe. that’s allowed.
Ethics clearly don’t really work in this profession, so schools should hammer home legal liability as well.
I’ve thought about this a bunch in the past, and tbh the only answer I’ve come to over many forms of it is “fuck the fucking USA”
it’s a place that is structurally built to allow for that kind of evasion and abuse to happen
irunno, that photographer deserves a goddamn fucking bonus imo
(as a shooter of random moments) it is extremely hard to catch things/moments like that. it’s helped along by gear (faster capture time, lenses that suit distance ootb, etc etc), but it’s still no fucking around
and that photo is a goddamned masterpiece of capturing a probably-quite-rarely-seen moment of derpitude from that fuckwit
Ethereum is a store of energy.
fucking WHAT
hah, didn’t know of those, neat. might try a few
okay at this point I should probably make a whole-ass perplexity post because this is the third time I’m featuring them in stubsack but 404media found yet more dirt
… which included creating a series of fake accounts and AI-generated research proposals to scrape Twitter, as CEO Aravind Srinivas recently explained on the Lex Fridman podcast
According to Srinivas, all he and his cofounders Denis Yarats and Johnny Ho wanted to do was build cool products with large language models, back when it was unclear how that technology would create value
tell me again how lies and misrepresentation aren’t foundational parts of the business model, I think I missed it
it is also something that’s been of passive interest to me over some years: things as published often shift underfoot, and the time at which someone reads something then shares on and then someone else reads … there might be quite a substantive difference in the contents of such things at the times. this ranges from the benign (inserting late-received comments, errata, etc), to a complete contextual/content rework. I’ve often thought that there’s a possibly for a really interesting part project there…
I’ve had this open in a background tab, reading it in pieces as time allows, and I only just noticed one of it exhibits one of the things I like noticing about various publishers’ system fucking up: a lurking page title before a post-publish edit
the page title as it is in my browser right now: Opinion | AI boom led by antihero Altman is reviving Valley dreams
. the page title as it displays in the content area: Opinion \n Sam Altman is the snake oil salesman who might restore Silicon Valley to its former glory
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the url slug also seems to be mostly the former - most of these renames on various publishing platforms seem to do that (keep the original slug instead of a rewrite+redirect)
can’t make direct guesses as to the exact reason why this one was updated whenever it was, but I expect public perception/reception might’ve been part of that?
ah yes, flashbacks to when they bought pocket and instantly forced it on everyone
where you had to remove the ui icon, untick shit in settings, and then STILL go into about:config
to kill even more things there. which I just wanted to share, but then found that apparently at some point my old settings got nuked? or decommissioned or something? and others reinstated/introduced? because none of my changes for that are there anymore
sigh
also, their push to telemetry, to labs, to getting people to cohort into running things, them pushing selective bans on plugins because of legal pressure in countries, their absolutely fucking awful track record in spending their cashflow on utter and complete bullshit instead of actually improving the browser, …
surprise lemmy feature discovered:
that’s what makes it even better - from the “self-custody of keys!!! your own credentials! v v v v v importants!” world, these dipshits still had no clue
just truly awe-inspiringly terrible
and here I am building up a fucking pile of infra in advance of deployment of boards for exactly this reason
it’s almost like, irunno, maybe you could say I’ve thought this through! only maybe tho. I’m not backed by decamillions+ vc dollaridoos, so who can tell whether I know what I’m doing, amirite
look everyone knows Vice.Com is in a death spiral now that the parent company has been gutted
why’s everyone looking so confused
Even as far back as AI Dungeon he was claiming they had an intuitive understanding of physics
omfg, every day a new opportunity to learn things that hurt my brain even more. how the fuck can someone have looked at that shit with even an ounce of understanding of gradient descent and think “yes! it has COMPREHENSION!”???
fucking hell, what an utter fucking moron
is it seriously just the ability to use more annoying reactions and upload slightly larger attachments
and server boosts! (and better video quality I guess?)
irunno the whole mechanic is a bit weird but I’ve been “okay” with it in the sense that at least it meant discord was getting revenue from rich-enough gamers and that would mean they didn’t have to suck on the VC nozzle. ostensibly.
like I would’ve likely never bought nitro for myself because idgaf about the featureset, but I would consider it if it meant no ads. alas.
how I use the app (open source project docs that only exist in this completely inappropriate medium
yeah. god. it hurts how many projects have done this shit. and now I bet that exact fucking thing I predicted may start coming around…
also, slack, ~1h ago:
Free workspace content older than one year will be deleted
Your workspace, <snip> , is on a free Slack plan. This workspace has content that is older than one year which will be deleted once the policy takes effect. Moving forward, Slack will not retain messages and files older than one year for a workspace. This policy will impact your workspace starting August 26th, 2024.
the ouroboros must be hungry.
Ayuuuuuuuuuuuda Kakovsvya
there’s also the part where all too often stans go “waaaaaah you can’t be mean [to my hero] just about a photo, that’s not fair!!” and it’s generally not good to let that shit slide either
I wonder if the esteemed poster would say the same thing about all the coverage of musk’s bumbling fuckery that also use photos which show him at all the times he didn’t have the situation pre-cultivated to capitalize on it and send a lying image