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  • System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks

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  • For most of us on Lemmy, buying a PC with no OS installed is like buying a car with an empty fuel tank and/or battery. It's ready to preform at 100% in about 10 minutes.

    For most other people, it feels more like buying a car that's completely missing an engine/motor/battery. They don't even know where to start, even though in the case of the PC the process is many orders of magnitude simpler.

  • Lutris is AI slop now

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  • Tangent: crediting Claude with co-authorship? wtf?

    I can totally see the mega-techs trying to push that in EULAs, but for an individual to do it seems strange, even though there's a kernel of honesty behind it. It also seems risky as far as OpenMetaMicroogleAI finding future loopholes to steal your shit.

    This dev talks like they are doing everything else the right way, as far as reviewing and understanding the code regardless of its source. In that situation I'd look at blocks of LLM-generated code the same way as ones copy/pasted from stackoverflow or 3rd party example code. At BEST you have "here's something that might work" which is nowhere close to actually being done if you're any good. (insert joke about "it compiles, ship it!)

  • NEW POLL: Majority of Americans Believe Trump Launched Iran War to Cover Up Epstein Scandal

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  • Well obviously, but what I want to know is if the USA being the BFG-9000 of Israel was a planned goal of the whole Epstein "honeypot for powerful psychopaths" operation or if it was just convenient timing.

  • After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

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  • The preview for the reply notification for this comment started getting my brain so excited when my eyes scanned over the beginning. Screen grab:

  • After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

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  • After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

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  • That sounds like an almost refreshing "you're one of us now / welcome to the real thing" type of brutal honesty.

    Did it have a friendly tone and/or serve as an ice breaker before your presentation?

  • Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data

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  • No Privacy Perpetuity

    :/

  • How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%]

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  • I'm no expert and don't care to become one, but I understand they generally trained these models on the entire public internet plus all the literature and research they could pirate.

    So I would expect the outputs of those models to not be some kind of magical correct description of the world, but instead to be roughly "this passes for something a person on the internet might write."

    It does the thing it was designed to do pretty well. But then the sociopathic grifters tried to sell it to the world as a magic super-intelligence that actually knows things. And of course many small-time wannabe grifters ate it up.

    What LLMs do is get you a passable elaborate forum post replying to your question, written by an extremely confident internet rando. But it's done at computer speed and global scale!

  • After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

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  • "Huge rich company responsible for hosting like half of the fucking internet spent the last year pushing code to global-scale production without so much as a review by a senior engineer."

    That's how I read that headline.

  • Good Advice

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  • This is a new image/meme for me and I like it. The hand gesture gives it a little bit of a "witches vs patriarchy" vibe too. I don't know if that means more or less coming from a random old cishet dude, lol.

  • Good Advice

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  • Dang, were they actually going into an artery there, or was it just a large opening or you were also on blood thinners or something?

    I get an IV every month and they always use a vein, and any bleeding is just a tiny ooze. But I'm holed up for a matter of hours, not days+ as with a hospital stay.

  • In 2022, the American Medical Association called for a permanent end to Daylight Savings Time, citing negative effects on health

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  • They have no vision!

    We have the technology now to make DST a sliding scale so that the sun sets at 9PM every day.

    Listen not to the nay-sayers! "Waaah, it is not good to eat lunch in the dark before sunrise!" Not with that attitude, mister!

  • In 2022, the American Medical Association called for a permanent end to Daylight Savings Time, citing negative effects on health

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  • The good old days, when the fire hose would occasionally turn off and we could breathe and participate in folksy traditions like complaining about the clocks.

  • Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated)

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  • Anybody having config issues on their high end machines with super fast on-die unified memory are going to be the new "waaah, my Ferrari has a flat tire" gang, lol.

  • New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice

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  • I'm a human being and I'm pretty sure I am already not allowed to give legal or medical advice to anybody in new york or any other state.

  • Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you

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  • Prior art: I remember a long time ago seeing a video of a Barney (as in purple dinosaur) video game for little kids that would just start playing itself if you didn't touch the controller for a while. It was a side scroller, probably NES/SNES/Genesis.

  • is this even possible

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  • Oh yeah, the DNC is crappy controlled opposition that normally exists to make conservative ideas seem liberal/leftist to americans.

    .... But that still means tens of millions of people actively choose the nightmare over the boring uninspiring candidate. Both things are true and both are bad. :/

  • Pipeline

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  • My version of this, and I bet I'm not alone here is more like

    Windows -> Linux Mint -> Debian

    [ Picture of grumpy yet somehow friendly old graybeard with one foot into his "goose farmer retirement" equivalent ]

  • My enthusiasm for tech is basically gone.

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  • Same here. Specifically, I do still love technology and all sorts of STEM subjects, but I have no excitement for tech products.