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bluGill

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  • Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days

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  • That is a tricky question. IT isn't just does the CEO know, but should the CEO have known. If you make a machine that injures people the courts ask should you have expected that.

    The first time someone uses a lawnmower the cut a hedge the companies and gets hurt can say "we never expected someone to be that stupid" - but we now know people do such stupid things and so if you make a lawn mower and someone uses it to cut a hedge the courts will ask why you didn't stop them - the response is then we can't think of how to stop them but look at the warnings we put on.

    When Grok was first used to make porn X can get by with "we didn't think of that". However this is now known. They now need to do more to stop it. there are a number of options. Best is fix Grok so it can't do that; they could also just collect enough information on users that when it happens the police can arrest the person who instructed grok. There are a number of other options, if the court accepts them depends on if the tool is otherwise useful and if whatever they do reduces the amount of porn (or whatever evil) that gets through - perfection isn't needed but it needs to get close.

  • Do you play an instrument? If so, which one(s) and how proficently?

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  • There are bagpipes from places other than scotland. Much less well known and thus better fitting the weird/obscure qualification.

  • Do you play an instrument? If so, which one(s) and how proficently?

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  • Mandolin is the only one I claim. But I dabble in almost everything - with a prefrence for the weird/obscure. No recorder for me, I play the easier penny whistle instead. Someday I'm getting bagpipes, just need a place to practice where my wife won't divorce me.

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  • At 50 or 55 of course we will be saying come back when you are 90 (at least those of us still alive and with mental abilities to say that)

  • Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

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  • Everydown turn there are layoffs and loss of talent. They alweys find something 'unique' to blame it on. Then things recover and they hire people who learn it again.

    until 10 years have passed I refuse to call ai job loss anything other than the latest iteration of that pattern. Time will tell.

  • Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World

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  • In my case wind turbines. My local utility produces more wind power in a year than customers use.

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • Why are you typing anything in a grocery store? Type in the kitchen when you need to add something to the list, but in the store it should be just checking off the items as you put them in the cart. Maybe you have a good reason, but it feels like you are solving the wrong problem. [insert long rant about usability and human-machine interaction]

    If you really need a keyboards I agree bluetooth keyboards are chunky. I often use a 60% keyboard with my phone, but it is a lot larger than my fine despite being a small keyboard. There is no getting around the size of hands though, you can't make a good tiny keyboard (even a 40% won't fit in your pocket).

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • You can find bluetooth keyboards that work just fine on a phone. The hard part is finding a good small one.

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • Hopefully firefox and the like will start putting spellcheck in their mobile applications again. I got mad at auto correct because it was worse than my spelling (at least you can guess what I meant - auto correct often changed to the wrong word: you wouldn't think to I might mean something else). I also often use a bluetooth keyboard, again spell check is needed.

  • Colorado right-to-repair law covering consumer electronics now in effect

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  • @GaryGhost@lemmy.world

    @mesamunefire@piefed.social go to adafruit or sparkfun (there are others) and pick up a "learn how to solder" kit of a type that looks interesting an put it together. Those kits will have instructions that give you a good chance of success and give you practice. They are also cheap so you don't mess up something expensive if you make a mistake learning.

  • Tips for moving from TrueNAS to Debian for a NAS?

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  • Core or Scale? If running Core I'd say install plain FreeBSD on it. Even if scale I'd consider that in a full wipe - FreeBSD is great as a server and supports ZFS out of the box without problems.

    Then grow a long beard (not optional, even if female) so you can be "the old guy who has seen it all"

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    If college is better than no college, then going to an average college isn't bad?

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  • That if assumes something wrong. Some degrees will make you worth a lot more - doctors and ingineers skew the averages. Pick a degree in history or teaching and odds compare to someone who became a plumber without college and things can be different. History can still be better - but only because who you know matters and you can meet the right person - but odds are you won't

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    If college is better than no college, then going to an average college isn't bad?

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  • i know the party schools near me, but if you go to one half way across the country I've never heard of it and so I can't judge you.

  • When/how frequently do you replace your phone with a new one?

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  • I had the first G1 android, overall better than the flip it replaced. Replacing that got me something better. Every other one the specs were better on paper but in reality I couldn't tell the difference. Which is why I replace when it breaks.

  • Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again

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  • The price of a mini pc includes the price of the case, power supply, heat sinks, fans and such. The hdmi is the only thing suspect but if the case doesn't expose the hdmi port that will be in the minipc as well. when you compare just the board of a pi to a full pc that is unfair.

  • GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

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  • There are two clipboards in X11 - but MMB pastes from the selection not the clipboard. I have never heard of the other clipboard being used for anything and I first heard of this more than 30 years ago. (I don't know what wayland does about clipboards, butiit acts live X11)

  • Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference

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  • My guess is they started the site in the first place.

  • Recommendations

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  • Bambu has great marketing: they have given printers to a lot of well known makers who in turn now feature them on their YouTube and the like. If you just want a printer that prints standard stuff with standard work flows they are probably good. However they are in the long run likely to be expensive since they require their supplies (which are reportedly good, but expensive). If you want to print something and not think about the printer they are good enough. However if you want to hack a printer, save money, or experiment they are going to limit you.

    Everyone recommends Prusa for a reason: most of the things that make printing good and easy were developed by Prusa and then the others used the open source license to put their own name on it. Some of the others have done some innovation, but the major hard work was done by Prusa and he should be supported for that.

  • Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?

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  • For now. Those used cars are rusting and otherwise wearing out.