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kescusay

@ kescusay @lemmy.world

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Developer and refugee from Reddit

  • Questions swirl over Ohio billionaire Les Wexner’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein

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  • The weirdest thing about all this is that by sheer accident, the QAnon freaks actually managed to find a tiny sliver of truth: There really is a cabal of powerful child abusers. It's just that they got every single other detail, including who the child abusers are, insanely wrong.

  • Rufus blames Microsoft for allegedly blocking latest Windows 11 ISO downloads

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  • I have a work-supplied laptop with Windows on it. I use it maybe once or twice a month, just for the things requiring a VPN. The rest of the time it sits there gathering dust while I get real work done on my Linux laptop.

    The specs on the work laptop say it should be a performance beast, but my Linux machine (with half the RAM) runs circles around it.

  • Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice

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  • I'm watching that happen in my industry (software development). There's this massive pressure campaign by damn near everyone's employers in software dev to use LLM tools.

    It's causing developers to churn out terrible, fragile, unmaintainable code at a breakneck pace, while they're actively forgetting how to code for themselves.

  • Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead

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  • A while back, I was thinking about upgrading my living room entertainment PC. It's got a decent video card in it, but some of the other hardware is getting long in the tooth.

    Now, my plan is to focus on software tweaks to squeeze the absolute best performance I can out of it, and keep the hardware as-is until it starts physically breaking down. And when that happens, I'll find refurbished hardware to upgrade it with, rather than spending the exorbitant fees to buy anything new.

    What mystifies me about all this is that it's obvious what the end goal is: No more PCs, and everyone just rents dumb terminals connected to AI data centers that run everything and have all the compute power. The problem is that literally no one but AI companies want that. Not consumers, and not other companies that sell software and services to consumers.

    When cars replaced carriages, it was because people actually wanted them. Cars had real-world benefits over horses. But this shit? No one wants it. Gamers want game performance you simply can't get with streamed games. People who work with computers for a living don't want their ability to do anything to vanish if their ISP has an outage.

    Shit's gonna get stupid, fast.

  • Trump Admin to Spend $40B to Turn Warehouses Into Massive Immigration Jails

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  • Jails concentration camps

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    QuitGPT goes viral as users cancel ChatGPT in political protest

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    QuitGPT goes viral as users cancel ChatGPT in political protest

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  • We can't vote with anything but our wallets here, so this is a thing we can do to at least reduce their income. And considering they're losing close to $100 million every day already, I can't help but suspect nickel and diming them a bit still hurts.

  • Attorney on 9-year-old client in Dilley detention site: 'She wishes she was no longer alive'

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  • The fact that we no longer respond with horror and outrage over the knowledge that we have children in prison camps is itself horrific.

  • Palantir and leaders from OpenAI pledge to invest $100 million to boost US midterm candidates friendly to AI

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  • I wonder how OpenAI's investors feel about that expense, considering they're losing somewhere around $80 million every single day.

    At the beginning of the year, they projected a $14 billion loss for 2026. They'll almost certainly exceed that by quite a lot, and may have lost $12 billion in the previous fiscal quarter.

    They aren't bleeding money. They're a veritable cash volcano, blasting it into near-Earth orbit.

  • Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

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  • At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if they're working on it. He's destroying their bottom lines.

    That said, if you go after the king, you'd best not miss.

  • Ghoulish Jurassic Park Super Bowl ad.

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  • Try it on a large screen. Once details are visible everything looks super strange.

  • Trump threatens to block opening of new bridge between Detroit and Windsor

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  • Neither does Trump.

  • Ghoulish Jurassic Park Super Bowl ad.

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  • It's very much in the uncanny valley. Hard to point my finger at exactly what's wrong, but no one looks quite real. I keep expecting their too-rubbery skin to start doing weird shit.

  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

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  • Honestly, if I were in his shoes, I'd sue the pants off DHS, then head back to Ireland anyway, because fuck this shit-hole country.

  • The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.

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  • The AI boom

    They misspelled "bubble." None of the AI providers have a path towards profitability.

  • Who were some of your childhood heroes that turned out to be horrible people?

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  • Neil Gaiman. I fucking loved Sandman and damn near everything else he wrote. Finding out he's a total scumbag has basically ruined a lot of very dear memories.

  • Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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  • Yes, it's base64. And what's behind it could be anything that can be attached to an email.

    In this case, it's a PDF. If the base64 text can be extracted accurately, then the PDF that was attached to the email can be recreated.

    The challenge is basically twofold:

    1. There's a lot of text, and it needs to be extracted perfectly. Even one character being wrong corrupts it and makes it impossible to decode.
    2. As the article points out, there are lots of visual problems with the encoded text, including the shitty font it's displayed with, which makes automating the extraction damn near impossible. OCR is very good these days, but this is kind of a perfect example of text that it has trouble with.

    As for my approach, I'm basically just slowly and painstakingly running several OCR tools on small bits at a time, merging the resulting outputs, and doing my best to correct mistakes manually.

  • ‘Sana-mania’ grips Japan as ultra-conservative Takaichi expected to secure election landslide

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  • Could someone who is more familiar with Japan's politics explain what this means? Is a Japanese conservative at all like an American conservative?

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    Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd still in custody in Georgia election case, judge says

    www.cnbc.com /2023/08/25/hearing-set-for-trump-co-defendant-in-custody-in-georgia-election-case.html
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    Supermarket evacuated after spider whose bite can cause erections or death spotted

    www.independent.co.uk /news/world/europe/penny-spider-erection-venom-supermarket-b2391534.html
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    A Lufthansa pilot traced a 15-mile-long penis shape in the sky after being asked to divert his plane

    www.businessinsider.com /lufthansa-pilot-drew-15-mile-long-penis-shape-sky-diversion-2023-8