Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)P

pup_atlas

@ pup_atlas @pawb.social

Posts
0
Comments
56
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • AI is creating fake historical photos, and that's a problem

    Jump

  • That’s for historians and professional researchers. It may not sway the field at large, but it’s still a huge risk to public opinion. I shudder to think of the propaganda implications for rewriting history in a near indistinguishable way.

  • Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent'

    Jump

  • No, he’s right.

  • response to recent trends rule

    Jump

  • No they have so much power because decades of lobbying have made it impossible to get anywhere without traveling on a road in a car— Which uses gas. This is not a problem citizens can feasibly solve, this sort if problem can only be fixed with government intervention.

  • Vision Pro EyeSight feature doesn't really work, argues Macworld

    Jump

  • Everyone seems to be missing the point of the external display. It’s to keep you somewhat tethered to the real world, not to look super impressive. It gives people around you enough information to know if they can see you, and if they are looking at you, that’s it’s purpose. And it does that really well from what I’ve seen. Does it look a little weird? Sure, but it’s doing what it was designed to do.

  • Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’

    Jump

  • Or go club anyway, for free. Just went to one with no cover, and didn’t drink anything. They actually had a raffle I did pay for, but I ended up winning. So technically, I profited 🤔

  • Texas firm allegedly behind fake Biden robocall that told people not to vote

    Jump

  • They stormed the most secure building in our country with the express purpose of stealing control of our government while openly shouting they wanted to hang the VP and members of congress, with the gallows they brought.

    If that isn’t the textbook example of seditious treason, what is? They should have the book thrown at them. To do any less is to endorse and encourage this behavior.

  • How to fool a laptop into thinking a monitor is connected?

    Jump

  • You can attach a fake one in software via XVFB (X Virtual Frame Buffer). It’s a little involved if you aren’t familiar with X, but it only took me an hour or so to get setup. Then you don’t need any hardware at all, and can set whatever resolution you'd like.

  • What if I paid for all my free software?

    Jump

  • If that were solely true, there would be a lot more competition in the field right now. Amazon, (and to a much lesser extent the other 2 big names, GCP and Azure) are so massive not because they have a lot of power (plenty of other companies like digital ocean or OVM have plenty of scaling power too)— but because the integrations between their products are so seamless. Most of that functionality has a foundation in FOSS software that they’ve built on top of.

  • To Stop AI Killing Us All, First Regulate Deepfakes, Says Researcher Connor Leahy

    Jump

  • Regulate does not equal stop, or even really slow for that manner. There are a number of measures we can mandate that wouldn’t slow any real research, but that would curtail malicious activity, like mandating some form of detection research to go alongside models, or pushing for better watermarking technology for genuine content.

  • Computer chip maker announces furloughs at Oregon factory days after landing $72M from feds

    Jump

  • The feds should claw that money back. I’m sure they intended for this money to go back into the community, and this is borderline fraud.

  • Discord lays off 170 people, blames growing too quickly | TechCrunch

    Jump

  • No, they messed up. Regardless of user count, and economic context, there is a limit to how fast you can grow a company. Going beyond that limit means that you’re diluting internal company knowledge so much that everyone just ends up doing their own thing— it’s chaos. Quality control, standards, procedures, etc go out the window. You also loose your ability to create accurate, data-backed plans with a high degree of confidence the farther you get from where you are now. You can predict the impact of a few new hires pretty easily, but hundreds, when your current team is only a couple hundred? You simply can’t forecast what holes you are creating, and challenges you will encounter with that many new people (specifically, that high of a growth percentage) in that short a time period. Growing that fast is incredibly risky, and in almost all cases, a terrible business decision. I’ve worked for SEVERAL companies that have worked this way, and it always destroys the company from the inside out.

    If you want confirmation, just look at their product offering. Discord has consistently come out with features that no one has been asking for in a desperate attempt to monetize their platform, while for some reason continuing to hire like crazy (I.E., spending shit tons of money). Instead of working on their core product, and finding a way to monetize that. I can (and do) pay for all the messaging platforms I use out of principle, and I would happily pay more if their platform were more reliable. They could easily gate features in a way that generates them money, but instead of doing that, they let the core platform stagnate and add all this paid crap no one wants, of course they aren’t making money. This is a direct result of their company having a huge percentage of employees that do not fundamentally understand the product, because they hired too fast and diluted their internal knowledge.

  • X removes support for NFT profile pictures

    Jump

  • It was never a scam, it was always a successful money laundering operation for the rich while covid had all the real galleries closed. It did exactly what it said on the tin. It’s just unfortunate that some people thought it was a real economy to begin with. Either way, good riddance.

  • Spotify (un)wrapped: Unpacking recommender algorithms

    Jump

  • Yes, that was what I was getting at. Not having true random is one thing, I understand (and like) that implementation. Apple has been doing it since the first few iPods. But Spotify “shuffle” isn’t near even, it is exactly even, as in “if you shuffle play this playlist twice two days in a row, it will play the exact same order”. Which is why people are complaining about Spotify specifically.

  • Spotify (un)wrapped: Unpacking recommender algorithms

    Jump

  • The problem isn’t that their random is biased or has rules, the is that it is entirely deterministic, to the point where it will play the same exact songs, in the same exact order for days. It’s as if shuffle just activates a hidden “shuffle” playlist that only updates once a week.

  • Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates—even more than an iPhone

    Jump

  • I’ll believe it when I see it. Apple has a demonstrated track record of supporting their phones for years, Google has a demonstrated track record of killing anything that isn’t an immediate run-away success. So sorry Google, but I can’t just take your word for it.