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PhobosAnomaly

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  • Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."

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  • I think Tay will be taught in AI ethics-type courses for generations to come.

    I wonder whether it'll be in the context of "hey look what happened when AI had no guardrails", or whether it will be "fuck we should have seen this coming".

    As horrendous as the content it was spouting was, it was highly amusing to see the project nosedive so spectacularly quickly.

  • Hacker gets 10 years for stealing $20M in home buyers’ down payments

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  • I suspect the answer lies in paragraph 4, where I'm making the assumption that the scammers make contact directly with the buyers, and invite a payment to be made to the scammers rather than the brokers.

    I suppose in a strictly legal sense, the brokers are off the hook then as they've no idea the scammers have asked the buyers to send a payment.

    It's scummy as fuck all round.

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  • Man I miss Eudora back in the day. I used the mail client in SeaMonkey before I just started using my phone to check mail.

    The 90s and 2000s were a simpler time.

  • Why do masks make people so angry?

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  • I'm just freestyling here and I'm sure someone with a professional experience or academic background in psychology can tear it up for arsepaper, but I wonder if it's an innate fear?

    Like the uncanny valley with autonomous human-style robots or how AI generated pictures of faces are sending primitive recognition patterns haywire, I wonder if covering up half of the visual cues to recognise someone as friend or foe provokes an in-built negative reaction?

    I mean, it's not rational, but then chucklefucks who complain about it don't do rational even if it's in their interest.

  • Tim Walz loses home county to Trump

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  • Absolutely agree with you - I think perhaps Kamala was too safe a pair of hands and didn't generate enough excitement - but then I'm too old for watching fancy headline grabbers (though Ed Davey's approach to Lib Dem vote grabbing at the GE this year was highly entertaining) so to me, a boring but competent candidate is good for me.

    I suppose I only brough up her gender and his sexuality because they both share an "outlier" characteristic that Republicans in general aren't too fond of.

    Nice to hear from you fellow Brit!

  • Republicans admit they plan to implement Project 2025

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  • auto-gay

    Sounds like a really bad transformers opponent.

  • Tim Walz loses home county to Trump

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  • Speaking from across the pond, I think Pete would have been brilliant... but then that's hardly part of the job description any more is it? A breeze block with the ability to talk shit and grift would unfortunately be a far more electable candidate this year.

    Plus, if electing a woman was too troublesome for people to handle, what would happen if they fielded one of the gays!!!?!??

    It's a disgrace really. Either Pete or Kamala would have been a safe pair of hands.

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  • Man I'm sorry to hear that. I'm not going to pretend to know how you feel or give you hollow "I understand" or "it's going to be okay" promises because I can't back them up, and yeah the next few months are going to be proper shit.

    All I can tell you is that having known you for half a dozen paragraphs on a phone screen, I already care about you more than that bumbling punchable arse piece that is going to make life difficult for a couple of years, and I think it'd be super cool if you stayed around a while.

    I can't promise you wonders, but I do hope you find your way.

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  • I'm not sure where you're going with that comment but I'm going to interpret it in the least-charitable way possible and assume you're talking about suicide, and that ain't the path to take, friend. Reach out - that omnishambles of a cockwomble isn't worth it.

    If you're talking about moving or leaving the country, then good luck with that too 👍

  • 2024 Presidential Election Megapost!

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  • FACKIN TRUMP KILLED DIANA ON 8/31

    IT SEZ IT RIGHT THERE MATE

    ITS COOOOMING HOME, ITS COOOOMING HOME, ITS COOOOMING

    BORIS IS COMING HOME

    edit: ah fuck, I've just seen what post I've commented on

  • "It's going to be fun to play this game again!" [Azul Crescent's silly scribbles]

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  • I think that's a fair comment, and to extend it a bit further, people expect a standard quality of life in games now that either have emerged over the years a a positive gameplay trait (regenerating health, accessibility customisation, the yellow paint guide) or a technical innovation (auto save, autoaim, customisable graphics etc).

    I find it really tough going back to play Perfect Dark (the original, not the excellent remaster) and really struggling to play through the brilliant game at sub-20fps; or playing Metal Gear on the NES without the ability to return to the same room on death, seeing as the password system was a bit clunky.

    We've come a long way, largely for the better.

  • "It's going to be fun to play this game again!" [Azul Crescent's silly scribbles]

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  • Oh wow, Perfect Dark Zero had much higher metacritic scores than I expected.

    I thought it would literally be a 50 - I didn't think it was a good game, I didn't think it was a bad one either - it was the most middle-of-the-road competent shooter I had played in years. I remember it getting largely hammered at release though, I suspect that had more to do with having Perfect Dark in the title and not meeting unreasonably high expectations than actually being a poor game though.

    That ending song about a sex act was really weird though. The song was an absolute banger but the lyrics just had little to no context to them.

  • Trump Allegedly Used Burner Phone Routed Through Egypt To Illegally Pressure Michigan House Speaker

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  • hey BB got SIM? 18/m/Florida

    join LagoPoolParty for deets

  • She plays Dress To Impress on RTX 4090 💀💀💀

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  • When the Xbox 360 was out in stores, I wasn't really arsed about getting one. My Dreamcast was still doing me just fine.

    Mass Effect looked cool (it was), and Alan Wake had taken my fancy and looked great (it was).

    What really tipped my hand into spending a couple of hundred quid on a console was... Doom. The XBLA version of the original.

    I'm a massive Doom nerd, but the first time I heard the new positional audio of a Imp's fireball in 5.1, I just about spaffed - and I took a day off work to hoon through Doom 2 and No Rest For The Living.

    I think there's something quite satisfying about playing a game on a device massively overspec'd for it. I played Quake III on a Pentium 3 450mhz with 64mb RAM and a TNT2 M64 card, and every new PC or laptop that I get, I still find it deeply gratifying installing Q3 and seeing it run silky smooth.

  • Exclusive poll: Young Americans swipe left on Trump voters

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  • I think it's brilliant that people publicise their political affiliations - it's like a big red flag to either avoid certain topics... or just avoid them altogether.

    It's like Social Interaction for Dummies.

  • MAGA congressman says top priority is shutting down FEMA like the Department of Education

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  • Just for the lols, I voted on the "Is Trump mentally fit for president?" question. It just asks for an email address and a couple of validation questions.

    what the fuck is that though? Automatically enrolling someone in a string of "update" mailing lists is a dick move.

    I only hope their reporting attitude is better than their data management policy is.

  • We didn't have GPS!

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  • I don't miss the tool, I miss the general vibe and feeling of the late 90s or early 2000s.

    CD's for everything, over engineered autorun splash screens, the seeking of mechanical harddrive heads when computing a route, the sense of adventure, and the general positive outlook that consumer tech is working for us, not because of us.

    I miss those days.

  • We didn't have GPS!

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  • I miss the days of Microsoft AutoRoute. No internet connection needed - but you were stuck with the map and routes present in the release version that was on the CD.

    Printing was optional and encouraged!

  • Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim

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  • That's not the problematic metric though. It's the 70-80% (link) install base of the Windows OS on desktop computers that Edge is installed with that's the basis of the anti-competitive allegation.

    The fact that it still only takes 5% of the browser usage is more of a happy accident.