That was extremely interesting, thanks for sharing.

So well explained, in-depth yet not too jargon-y.

In the end, analyzing this device gives a pretty good picture of what it’s like in North Korea, not just wrt smartphones.

The issue

What’s with the comments? “Hi mom”

the PR

So “LuminaX-alt” is an AI?

I certainly couldn’t and wouldn’t be able to do that indefinitely.

You mean the topic of the article, or what you just wrote?

That’s such a bearish attitude.

…and who put them there in the first place.

Yeah, the whole thing is pretty fucked up. The world’s societies & systems need a complete overhaul. Doesn’t sound likely, does it?

That’s the (American) spirit!

Aren’t datacenters more like the factory halls for the looms?

And in any case, who is destroying them (who are the weavers)?

Yes, different article, also on Not The Onion.

Didn’t read, but I suspect the LLM was prompted to reply in this way. Still funny, considering it is known that Musk tries to tweak it in his favor. (edit: this comment puts it better)

Fully agree with the class struggle aspect here.

Weavers destroying industrial looms. How would that translate to today?

GOOD

half a billion

peanuts for Meta I guess - but keep them coming, the EU has 27 member states

“For example, we had our own Github, so we couldn’t use their Github Copilot license,” he explained. “We were still required to find some ways to use AI. The one corporate AI integration that was available to us was the Copilot plugin to Microsoft Teams. So everyone was required to use that at least once a week. The director of engineering checked our usage and nagged about it frequently in team meetings.”

“To satisfy the boss, I started using the Teams Copilot AI to get answers for questions I would previously have Googled,” he said. “Questions such as the syntax for a particular command or an idea for setting up a new (to me) process. Sometimes the answers were perfect. Sometimes they were useless. Once, I spent three hours trying to get the AI’s suggestion for a Docker problem to work before I gave up and Googled the correct answer in two minutes.”

doG help us all.

We thought these new technologies would help humanity, to have more time to concentrate on the real work. Instead they’re being used to exploit us even more, and in such a stupid way.

It’s one of those things where having even the slightest bit of insight, you can predict that this is going to crash big time, eventually. Yet the people who should don’t listen. And then, when it inevitably happens, everyone is very surprised indeed. And somebody who knew it, just like you and thousands of other people, will be celebrated as some sort of prophet. We truly live in a dark age.

Yes, all this shit is still happening while the world is looking elsewhere. China is also neocolonialistically active on the African continent, and I’m guessing the USA as well (still, despite MAGA).

I was wondering what happened to Wagner after Prigodzin died. Wrt Africa, it’s now the MoD’s Africa Corps.

They are continuing where Wagner left and if anybody ever tells you that Wagner is “not active in Africa anymore”, that’s the truth behind that.

Why, is that in dispute?

TBH I have no idea how she personally feels about the show. I have the impression that Russian Doll is close to her heart, and Poker Face is sufficiently similar that I assumed her attitude towards it is similar. In any case, she’s listed as producer for both shows.

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That would be really nice.

I just finished S02E08. Weeks earlier I had given up on it in boredom, but last night I pushed through and realized that the whole first half is groundlaying for what happens in the 2nd half. This might be the best episode yet, plot-wise. Genius.

OK, that’s empowering! It’s just trying so embarrassingly hard to be like Amélie or Wes Anderson and it’s not good at it, and it’s so cheaply produced (take a closer look at the recurring zoom in on the Pie Hole). But it’s all so over the top that it comes out almost psychedelic. And they make good plot choices, so far at least, that are more realistic than anything else in the show.

So, what’s your guilty pleasure right now? One that would make you react as depicted if found out? - Hm, that’s not possible because you wouldn’t share it then - but almost like that?

(for me it’s Pushing Daisies)

Yeah this is bad, seeing what some people patent, apparently just hoping it will stick and make them some money down the line.

I was going to put some particularly egregious examples here, but there’s too much choice - just search “worst dumb us patents” or some such.

OK, this article focuses on dumb and pointless, which is what I was going for:

2. A stick. Seriously, in 1999, someone received a patent for a toy made of “any number of materials including rubber, plastic, or wood including wood composites” for “an animal, for example a dog, to either fetch, carry or chew” and including “at least one protrusion extending therefrom that resembles a branch in appearance.” While the description is bad enough, you have to look at the image submitted to fully appreciate how ridiculous this one is. USPTO actually granted a patent on a fake stick.

1. My all-time favorite dumb patent is Apple’s design patent for… a rectangle with rounded corners. Granted in 2012, Apple received a patent for the shape of its product, which is pretty standard. It’s a rectangle. It has rounded corners. The entirety of the single claim reads, “The ornamental design for a portable display device, as shown and described,” with several pictures of what looks to be the shape of an iPad.

Lol, I was about to react with an “ackshuly” that is the precise point of this cartoon. Well played.

a routine configuration change

Honest question (I don’t work in IT): this sounds like a contradiction or at the very least deliberately placating choice of words. Isn’t a config change the opposite of routine?