Oh this is why my two monitor dongle only works on Linux.

I thought it was weird that I couldn’t get the second monitor to work without plugging it directly into a Mac, but I put it down to being a cheap dongle.

A big shout out to Oxford spelling which mixes American and English spelling and is incredibly hard to find a spell check for. It gives you all the extra u’s and z’s you could ask for.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling

There’s solvents that will at least soften, if not remove bitumen, and WD-40 can be used in a pinch.

Maybe try some of that if you’ve not finished already?

If it’s only 300 calories, it’s probably a diet shake and packed full of fiber to make you feel full. You’re better off switching to normal milkshakes.

As you’re vegetarian, I would get really into dahl cooked with ghee. It’s incredibly tasty and has so many calories.

The reason all the weird “rationalists” are worried by roko’s basilisk is because it basically uses all of their dumb arguments for friendly AI against them.

So in the course of realizing why it’s wrong, a bunch of cultists either end up deprogramming themselves, or they just have a breakdown and go murder their landlord.

It’s just that punctuation is not meant to be used in titles.

English has a bunch of weird rules.

Because if a website doesn’t work in your browser, but it works in everyone else’s, no one will say “oh that website’s badly written”, instead they say “what a shitty browser”.

So you have a huge web standard you have to respect, and then all the websites with non standard code you have to make work anyway.

Accelerated Firefox timeline.

That used to have a picture of an actual Phoenix and then a red panda before it got streamlined.

If ladybird keep going at this rate, everyone will be trying to cancel them by the middle of next week

I mean if everything is ephemeral and the users are anonymous and don’t log in, the federation wouldn’t actually do anything.

It was a horrific story. Fortunately, it’s not actually true.

Researchers have since uncovered major inaccuracies in the Times article, and police interviews revealed that some witnesses had attempted to contact authorities. In 1964, reporters at a competing news organization discovered that the Times article was inconsistent with the facts, but they were unwilling at the time to challenge Times editor Abe Rosenthal. In 2007, an article in the American Psychologist found “no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive”.[7] In 2016, the Times called its own reporting “flawed”, stating that the original story “grossly exaggerated the number of witnesses and what they had perceived”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese

Just so you know, dullsters was also coined by the person who started the club. He used it to refer to members. It was submitted to the Oxford English dictionary, but I don’t think it got in.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/the-rise-of-the-dull-mens-club-where-its-hip-to-be-square-7q0d8fqkv

And the archive link: https://archive.md/hwzsa

There’s also been a bunch of rival Facebook groups for this, I wouldn’t worry too much about this one also being called the dull men’s club.

Wasting other people’s time.

If you want to use an LLM that’s fine, but if you’re cutting and pasting it into a discussion you should warn other people that it’s not human generated.

And most of it isn’t wrong, it’s just a giant wall of text that’s largely irrelevant to the conversation.

As a heads up, the person you’re arguing with seems to be using an LLM to generate text.

I would down vote and move on. It’s not a real discussion.

Oh that’s good.

I’ve often wondered how could I make my instant messaging less instantaneous, while giving a new app access to my banking emails.

This is one of those things where both are likely to be true. All webscale datasets have a problem with porn and csam, and it’s like that people wanting to generate csam use their own fine tuned models.

Here’s an example story. https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/news/investigation-finds-ai-image-generation-models-trained-child-abuse and it’s very likely that this was the tip of the iceberg, and there’s more csam still in these datasets.

A university I worked at had a similar policy to the first one.

They wanted a single username and sign on across all IT systems but also had some really old legacy systems that didn’t support long passwords.

So they’d force everyone to use passwords that were exactly as long as the maximum legacy password length.

For me, the worst system is the Microsoft authenticator which locks me out my account for five minutes if my fingerprint doesn’t match the first time I try.

I think the easiest way to describe how it feels is it is like having a tooth taken out.

You’ve had it removed because the pain is too much, and now finally that pain is gone, but instead you’re sat there feeling puffy and swollen from the recent trauma, and you’re just constantly aware of this gap where there used to be something present.

Just like going to the dentist, it gets better though. And I’d do it again in a heart beat if I had to make the same decision.