Because spinning disks are a bit cheaper than SSD?

It is / was pretty cool technology. And it’s a shame that it didn’t take off more in the gaming world because it worked really well.

There are some tip-offs when content is written by AI but good prompting or just rewriting can easily remove.

The university’s “five professors who subjectively agreed it must be AI” because they tried themselves sounds like something University would do. This just won’t hack it for future AI detection.

IMO these institutions need to make their peace with AI because all smart people naturally find fast ways to get things done easier.

Isn’t it true that AI generated content cannot be copyrighted? I had assumed that ruling would cause big brand owners to avoid it… unless they are documenting every artist’s work along the way, admitting to using it sometimes could blow holes in their brand.

Haven’t checked in a while but is there any hope for cloud storage of the image library yet? I’m kind of holding out for S3 support because I don’t want to manage multiple terabytes locally.

echo -n thatDude | sha256sum

Oh they do, frequently

Obsidian has a plug in for this… here is an announcement from the plugin author: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1bsa6dy/alpha_release_of_my_handwriting_plugin_ink/ (sorry for a reddit link)

Switched from Onenote to obsidian. There was a small learning curve and I had to install some plugins, but I love it. It looks amazing and runs so much faster than OneNote ever did.

It seems like the most significant new feature is called anti-gravity which is kind of an allow list?

We’ve had white lists for a long time so I’m not exactly sure how this will impact the system. That being said I read through the release notes and there are a lot of changes and improvements throughout the system, so congrats to them team on the 6 release.

I’ve had pihole running on my home network for years and I love it.

I think it’s funny because it’s true. Long form written communication used to convey a lot more subtlety than just its content. It’s a tradition that we will lose a bit like other formalities because it no longer tells you useful information about the sender.

I live in Southeast Asia and had no idea there was an Indiana Jones 5. But I don’t pay attention to any celebrity news or go to the theater much. Don’t watch TV much and have ad blockers installed on all my systems. But I did watch all the original Indiana Jones movies so might look this one up.

I think sites that feel they have valuable content can deploy this and hope to trap and perhaps detect those bots based on how they interact with the tarpit

Honest question, what are the incentives for instance operators to play nice, so to speak? And not just recreate new oligarch safe havens?

It seems like each instance is a miniature zone of centralization and it’s still incumbent on individuals to create their own circles of influence. For better or worse that’s how we get hivemind echo chambers and I’m not sure it’s even in human nature to seek anything else.

Alternatively we have to rescue our friends and families when they start to fall for BS and educate them aggressively on improving the sourcing of their information.

Had one for a while. It’s ok but the places you can safely ride are more limited than you think. E-scooters are a far superior invention for mobility.

My TikTok feed is full of content that I find interesting and educational, from creators who work hard to make something valuable.

For them, banning TikTok means the work they put in to curating an audience will be partially lost, they’ll retain only the followers who find them on another app. If they are monetizing, they’ll potentially have to start over. That may discourage some who are just getting started from developing their craft.

If china, bytedance, meta, or any other platform is collecting user data in such a way as to be a national threat they definitely need to cut it out and this should be regulated. For example, it should be impossible to identify the location of military generals based on where their wives access TikTok from, or who’s having an affair with who based on proximity to each other, or to develop a vast dataset of individually identifiable profiles of every user that could be used to selectively damage their character.

Aside from these problems, which are potentially solvable, I think the individual creator/maker economy is an awesome way to give more power to the people.

Send them an invoice for your consulting services. Or, sue for kidnapping.

Bluesky is being run by a funded professional startup team and is aimed at the masses. Mastodon is run by activists and software devs and brings in other like minded folks.

The smart ones all know how to use VPNs as well. They know what’s up.

Crazy thing is they only need to control the masses who are mostly uneducated or don’t care enough to figure out what’s going on. Turns out that even the USA has a massive group of the latter type.

What in the HIPPA violation