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eRac

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  • A picture is worth 1000 words

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  • There are various methods, but from a practical standpoint it is gone regardless.

  • A picture is worth 1000 words

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  • They are trans.

  • Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled

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  • They have two avenues to make money:

    1. Sell commercial services such as customer support bots. They get customers thanks to the massive buzz their free services generated.
    2. Milking investors, the real way to make money.

  • Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled

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  • Generative AI doesn't get any training in use. The explosion in public AI offerings falls into three categories:

    1. Saves the company labor by replacing support staff
    2. Used to entice users by offering features competitors lack (or as catch-up after competitors have added it for this reason)
    3. Because AI is the current hot thing that gets investors excited

    To make a good model you need two things:

    1. Clean data that is tagged in a way that allows you to grade model performance
    2. Lots of it

    User data might meet need 2, but it fails at need 1. Running random data through neural networks to make it more exploitable (more accurate interest extraction, etc) makes sense, but training on that data doesn't.

    This is clearly demonstrated by Google's search AI, which learned lots of useful info from Reddit but also learned absurd lies with the same weight. Not just overtuned-for-confidence lies, straight up glue-the-cheese-on lies.

  • Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

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  • The lack of pressure leads to absurd file sizes for silly things.

    A few weeks ago, I needed a vector company logo, so I asked our graphics team for one. The file they sent me was 6MB. While working with it, I noticed it was actually quite clean, so I exported it as an SVG and it came out to 2KB. 1/3000th the size for the exact same graphic.

    I opened their file up in a text editor and found font configs for specific printer models (in a graphic with only filled curves), conditional logic, multiple thumbnails, and other junk.

  • The time has come: Fisker has filed for bankruptcy

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  • The blade and tool company.

  • Tesla expects to raise price of Model 3 in EU as bloc preps import duties on cars made in China

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  • That's what usually happens with tarrifs. Unless there's a ton of other competition, domestic producers just increase their prices by the same amount.

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  • Banks like to think that branch employees (bank tellers) are sales people. Most of them give 'goals' to each employee requiring them to open a certain number of new accounts, land a certain number of loans, etc each week/month. It isn't ethical since the only people you can really sell on those services are the ones who should least get them. Anyone who actually wants/needs the services will come to you.

    Wells Fargo differed from the rest of the industry by setting completely impossible goals, not just unethical ones. This led to them developing a culture where signing people up for services they didn't agree to became commonplace.

  • Tactical Breach Wizards: Release Date Trailer

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  • Check out the demo if you have a chance. The game is a lot of fun and it has some pretty funny demo-exclusive writing.

  • What does Israel’s rescue of 4 captives, and the killing of 274 Palestinians, mean for truce talks?

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  • His ultranationalist coalition partners have threatened to bring down his government if he ends the war without destroying Hamas.

    His government is coming down then. You can't destroy an insurgency through non-social means.

  • Musk accused of selling $7.5 billion of Tesla stock before releasing disappointing sales data that plunged the share price to two-year low

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  • Probably. She was not found guilty of lying about her reason for selling the stock in question, though she was found guilty of obstruction and other lies, along with conspiracy.

    She was never charged with insider trading, so if she hadn't lied, she would likely have been fine.

    Interestingly, they also charged her with securities fraud. They argued that, as the face of a publicly traded company, covering up a crime was market manipulation even if it had nothing to do with that company. The judge dismissed that charge.

  • Musk accused of selling $7.5 billion of Tesla stock before releasing disappointing sales data that plunged the share price to two-year low

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  • No. She went to jail for lying to the feds.

    Her financial manager was suspected of insider trading. The FBI questioned her about it and she lied to them in an attempt to protect him.

  • Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection.

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  • That's exactly what it is. Firefox's advanced tracking protection blocks connections to social media sites from other sites so that social media can't see your behavior on the rest of the Internet.

    Twitter started moving some things to a different domain and FF saw it as a third-party, blocking connections from it to the old Twitter domains.

    Yet another reason the rebrand is dumb.

  • "LiNuX uSeR iNsTaLlInG A BrOwSeR haha" meanwhile :

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  • A single registry edit to a key that doesn't exist because they wanted to obscure that it was possible.

  • The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook

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  • Factorio is the best manufacturing/logistics sim by a huge margin. Some of that is technical things, but the biggest contributor is game balance and the complexity curve. They spent years iterating to find a sweet spot.

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  • The regulatory agency is pretty large, but it's headed by a 5-member commission.

  • Apex Legends hacker says game developers patched exploit used on streamers

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  • They specifically used it to make major players blatantly cheat during a tournament so that it would be taken seriously and fixed quickly.

  • What do you think most dinosaurs sounded like?

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  • Have you ever heard big cats? They sound like little cats but... deeper. I feel like dinosaurs would sound like birds with similar deepening, depending on the size of the dino.

  • This is how big one tonne of CO2 is

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  • Yeah, I've taken a breath in a high-CO2 environment a few times. The whole body freaks out instantly. Not fun.