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  • Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges

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  • You might want to look at laser printers. If you're just doing black and white documents, whatever the latest Brother printer is will do a good job, do it fast, and not screech at you about your cyan running out.

    It's a few hundred bucks up front, but the toner cartridges print a ton of pages and don't dry out if you don't use them. I can't recommend it enough if you have even a passing desire to make hard copies of documents.

  • TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion

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  • Let me start by saying first and foremost the paychecks and severance packages are beyond ridiculous. Like fucking unconscionable.

    Now, that being said yes, when the CEO rightly or wrongly (typically rightly) becomes the fall guy their career is over. If they manage to get another job it probably won't be in a leadership position, and if it is it would be with a much smaller organization that simply won't be able to pay them the big bucks. The best a CEO can hope for after a public downfall is to be put out to pasture.

    I don't feel sad for them. While their golden parachute might represent literally the last money they will ever make it's more than enough to live off of for the rest of their lives.

    There's an even bigger picture, though. Their personal reputation is ruined, but so is their family name. With the amount of money and prestige they were building up they may have had aspirations of positioning their kids as the elites of the future. Family money and connections could have ended up with their children some day becoming Senators and Congressmen. If they end up taking the fall, their public failure will sully their name for a couple of generations.

    The kind of people that become CEOs of high-profile companies are a special breed of psycho. They're willing to accept huge piles of money to roll the dice on their own career and the reputation of themselves, their children, and their grandchildren on the off chance they manage to avoid the chopping block until retirement.

  • TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion

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  • Is it really "taking" responsibility if it's getting pinned on you?

  • Dreams come true

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  • It will take some people's professions. People who write click bait articles, schlock product reviews, and pulp romance novels, and the things modern Hollywood describe as scripts might be out of a job.

    Quality novels, hard-hitting journalism, and innovative storytelling of all sorts is outside of the capability of LLMs and might always be. There's a world where nearly all run-of-the-mill writing is done by LLMs, but truly original works will always be made by people.

    At the end of the day, though, if a person can't out-write an AI they might be in the wrong line of work.

  • OpenAI, the company that brought you ChatGPT, just sold you out

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  • I was about to say ...

    Vox can speak for itself. Big sections of the public knew they were being sold a bill of goods.

  • FTC chair Lina Khan warns that airlines might one day use AI to find out you're attending a funeral and charge more

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  • She specifically said that the new tech would "increase" and "turbocharge" fraud. She did not use that example as some new kind of fraud, only that it could be done more effectively or more easily.

  • TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion

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  • There's an important thing that the CEO provides that no AI can: the acceptance of risk.

    On a day-to-day basis the CEO makes decisions, ignores expert advice, knocks off early for tee time, etc. For this work they are wildly overpaid and could easily be replaced by having their responsibilities divvied up amongst a small group of people in leadership roles.

    To see the true purpose of the CEO we need to look at a bigger scale - the quarter-to-quarter scale. What could be bigger than that in the world of the MBA?

    Every quarter the CEO must have the company meet the financial performance expectations of the board/owner(s)/shareholders. Failure is likely to result in them losing their job and getting a reputation as an underperformer, thus ruining their career. If the company does poorly or those expectations are unreasonably high then the CEO must cut corners in the operation. This of course hampers their ability to meet expectations later, but they'll make it through this quarter.

    When (inevitably) too many corners have been cut something catastrophic will happen. Either the company's reputation will go to shit with customers slowly, or a high-profile scandal will blow up in the company's face.

    This is the moment when the CEO provides their most valuable service: to fall (or be pushed) onto their sword. The CEO is fired, ousted, or resigns. This allows the board/owner/shareholders to get a new face in and demand that they fix the most egregious issues, or at least the most glaring ones that don't cost too much to fix.

    This service cannot be provided by an AI. Why? Because the AI is a creation of the company. If it is used as a scapegoat it solves nothing. The company is pointing at their own creation and saying "see, that's the problem". It's much more effective to point at a human they didn't make and scream that that person made a mistake.

  • Risky Buisness

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  • That's goddamned hilarious.

  • Iran is helping the Houthis try to secure Russian anti-ship missiles that could threaten vessels in the Red Sea: report

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  • Wait, everyone on this site has told me that even a single casualty due to collateral damage is genocide!

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  • I seem to recall a saying about pots and kettles...

  • Selective rage

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  • George Lucas gonna George Lucas.

  • Selective rage

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  • Mace Windu getting killed was the turning point and point of no return for the three film character arc of Anakin Skywalker. That's a long way from "needlessly". Sure the character didn't have to be killed, but the impact of him being betrayed and killed was enormous. The plot of the third film (and the entire prequel trilogy) culminated with his death scene.

  • Electric Boat Costs 40–50€ to Cross Baltic Sea, vs 750€ Refueling Gas Boat

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  • Sanest Lemmy user.

  • China rams Philippine ship while 60 Minutes on board

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  • I had no idea Rodney Dangerfield was playing such a key role in the South China Sea.

  • A Finnish Lapphund dinner

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  • Take your meds, dude.

  • Lawless society

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  • Cones of Dunshire.

  • A Finnish Lapphund dinner

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  • Okay, you asked for it. Here you go, served hot and fresh from the American Kennel Club:

    https://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/finnish-lapphund/#:~:text=Nutrition,nutrients%20the%20Finnish%20Lapphund%20needs.

    "A high-quality dog food appropriate to the dog's age (puppy, adult, or senior) will have all the nutrients the Finnish Lapphund needs. Treats can be an important aid in training, but giving too many can cause obesity. Give table scraps sparingly, if at all, especially avoiding cooked bones."

    Not only is your dog not some kind of special, mythical creature - you should be making sure it can't access bones. Hopefully next time you'll learn to keep your trap shut before you start saying dumb shit in public.

  • A Finnish Lapphund dinner

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  • "Trust me, bro".

  • A Finnish Lapphund dinner

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  • Maybe talk to a vet or do some reading to verify literally anything a Lemmy user says. I've encountered more lunatics here than anywhere else and OP thinks his dog is magic and can only eat frozen foods.

    Just sayin.