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dan

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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • Another smart move

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  • Visual Basic used to let you choose if you wanted to start arrays at 0 or 1. It was an app-wide setting, so that was fun.

  • Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea

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  • How is it not AI? Just because it's not AGI doesn't mean it's not AI. AI encompasses a lot of things.

  • Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop

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  • I just wish Mazda had a good EV. Their EVs just aren't that good at the moment. I leased a BMW iX a few months ago, but my old car (which I still have) is a 2012 Mazda 3. Love the EV experience and I don't think I'll buy a gas powered car ever again.

  • Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop

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  • Most cars have a SIM card with a very basic data/phone service. In many jurisdictions, it's a legal requirement for cars to have a button to call emergency services, so they need phone connectivity for that. It's also used for software updates, map updates, and of course, data collection.

  • Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop

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  • DOGE employee

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  • Somehow, millennials ended up being the only generation that at least kind of knows how to use computers.

  • That shadowy place

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  • a dialog came up, and faster then i could catch what it was, they closed it

    My wife does this and then asks me to fix whatever is broken. I'd be able to help if I was able to read the error!

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  • As I understand it, their data does in fact enter into the Wayback Machine

    Thanks for the info! It never used to, so I guess that changed at some point.

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  • There's already cars available today with semi solid state batteries: Some by Nio and one by IM.

    The article I read about the MG was certain that it'd be solid state. Sorry for the incorrect info.

    Don't wait for solid state, the current battery tech is more than adequate for the majority of people

    That's true. The advancement in technology is why I'm leasing my EV (BMW iX) rather than buying it, though.

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  • Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits

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  • Purging NSFW subs from Reddit? Will there even be anything left? lol

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  • Fully solid-state batteries are just around the corner - some Chinese models already have a semi-solid-state battery, MG are releasing one this year, companies like Toyota and Honda are working on it too. The current use case is to extend range (600+ miles / 1000+ kms) but they could also be used to get similar range as today's cars with a much lighter battery.

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  • very avoidable reasons.

    They're understaffed for the amount of work they do, and their staff are probably even more busy fighting lawsuits at the moment. Things are going to slip through the cracks, unfortunately.

  • Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated

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  • There's likely been trillions of posts on Facebook during that time frame. Is a sample size of 8000 really sufficient for a corpus that large?

  • Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated

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  • I have to imagine it took a lot of work to verify conclusively whether something was or was not generated

    The study is by a company that creates software to detect AI content, so it's literally their whole job

    (it also means there's a conflict of interest, since they want to show how much content their detector can detect)

    It’s a much larger sample size than a lot of studies.

    It's an extremely small proportion of the total number of Facebook posts though. Nowhere near enough for statistical significance.

  • Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated

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  • This doesn't have anything to do with encryption. They had a public database (anyone on the internet could query it) and forgot to put a password on it. It really shouldn't even be public.

  • Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated

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  • In that case, how/why did they only choose 8000 posts over 6 years? Facebook probably gets more than 8000 new posts per second.

  • Simple remote system monitoring tool

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  • You don't need Docker. The agent is a single executable file so you could just manually copy it to /usr/local/bin if you wanted to.