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EpeeGnome

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  • Is there a way to install Windows 11, somewhat bloatware/AI free? (It's for college.)

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  • I've admittedly got a lot of selection bias, since people don't tend to bring me their computer when it's working correctly. I'm sure it usually works fine. Still, the only times I've seen a multiboot system suddenly fail, it was Windows's fault.

  • Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag

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  • We do understand exactly how LLMs work though, and it no way fits with any theories of consciousness. It's just a word extruder with a really good pattern matcher.

  • Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag

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  • I like the comparison but LLMs can't go insane as they just word pattern engines. It's why I refuse to go along with the AI industry's insistance in calling it a "hallucination" when it spits out the wrong words. It literally can not have a false perception of reality because it does not perceive anything in the first place.

  • Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026

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  • This feels to me like a common folk saying from somewhere translated into English. It's also a very apt and appropriately vulgar metaphor for the situation.

  • information technology rulepartment

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  • Alas, no, I can't really pull off making a silly cat face. I can however pull off a cheesey hacker movie "serious" face, and I do so when saying it out loud.

  • Is there a way to install Windows 11, somewhat bloatware/AI free? (It's for college.)

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  • You can, but on the same drive they will share the same bootloader. While Windows officially can share its EFI partition, be aware that updates may rewrite it, and might not bring your other install along. This is fixable, but still very annoying if you have some expertise on Windows boot setup commands.

    This is why I always to prefer to setup multiboot systems on separate drives with their own EFI partition, and always use the non-M$ install for the boot menu.

  • information technology rulepartment

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  • I work in a little computer shop and one problem people bring to us is getting locked out of their computer because they forgot their password. In Windows without Bitlocker it's really easy to do, completely routine. I've been doing this job for 8 years now, and even after all the times I've done it, I still say this. Usually not out loud, unless I think the customer would appreciate the joke.

  • you rule

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  • That was my thought as well. Probably not better, but yeah, different I can do.

  • Good point

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  • I can't see the thumbnail, but I could already hear the Ryan George character in my head just from reading the image text, so when I saw a youtube link I assumed it had to be one of those skits.

  • linerule mandarin

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  • I know even less Mandarin that you, so I hit it with Google translate. It translates the vectors the same as you did. It tries to translate the matrix characters with various odd results. It keeps changing, but guesses things like "Holmium sulfide smear" and "Thorium juice stove gui." If I actually take a picture so it can do a full analysis on a still image, it transcribes them into surprisingly accurate unicode characters that look almost exactly like the original. It even includes a pronunciation guide, but the translation just says that they are unintelligible characters. I'm guessing that these are syntactically valid character combinations that are basically nonsense.

  • Moving Mousepad Is An Elegant Aimbot

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  • Huh. That would explain why the exact same person reminded me of himself. Feel a bit silly for missing that.

  • Moving Mousepad Is An Elegant Aimbot

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  • I dislike cheating as much as the next person, but I do love a good outside the box solution like this. I don't recall what YouTube channel it was, but there was a guy who made an amazingly inelegant aimbot that worked by electrically stimulating the user's muscles using off the shelf TENS devices hooked up to a custom controller. He explained what it did and asked permission in chat to use it. The other players thought it was hilarious and agreed to let him do it.

  • Just act normal

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  • Go ahead, no one will notice. No one will immortalize it on camera to be viewed across the internet. It'll be fine.

  • What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?

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  • Steampunk then: What if we combined real Victorian craftsmanship and tech with imagined advanced machines.

    Steampunk now: What if I glued two plastic gears to a cheap vinyl corset.

  • I'm definitely giggling

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  • How alaming!

  • Rule

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  • Do a film adaptation. Refuse to change the subtitle.

  • idk if this is real tbh

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  • I'm guessing he means the gun is to deter people from physically harming him, or shoot the ones who aren't deterred. This in no way helps anyone whose health is threatened by any of the numerous more common threats to health, but that's not his problem.

  • Classical statues were not painted horribly

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  • When a headline asks a question, then the answer is usually "It's not that simple, but, no, not really". Sounds like it applies here. "Well, they often were painted, but no, we have no reason to assume they did a bad job like we sometimes do."

    Edit: The post title was changed to a statement, but the article is still titled "Were classical statues painted horribly?".

  • lets see what memes I have on hand

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  • When I was in college, in a network programming class we had a semester final coding assignment. I forget now what all it was supposed to do, but I do recall my friend in the same class spent a week of free time writing his. I forgot about the assignment completely until he asked me how it was going for me a few hours before it was due. With no other options, I simply punched in a example program from the textbook, replaced about 10 lines in the middle and tested.

    It seemed to work. So, I very clearly labeled which code was mine, and which was copied, so that I technically wasn't doing a plagiarism. Then I turned it in, and hoped for the best. I got a 100 on it. My friend was pissed, because he only got a 99.