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  • I think you're overshooting with your response.

    My statement had nothing to do with LLMs, or targeting Iranian schools. I was simply responding to the previous statement that a computer will fail you.

    Computers don't fail people. They're precision instruments, and anything short of a cosmic ray bit-flip, or hardware failure, will not result in a failed execution of its instructions. Therefore the computer didn't fail YOU - YOU failed to provide adequate instructions for it to do what you wanted.

    Even in your reply you specified that these neural nets are being given specific information to train target selection on. Sure, the AI is nowhere near the keyboard (well, it actually is, but more on that later), but then again, WHO fed the AI the training data? WHOSE decision resulted in the AI spitting out a school as a viable bombing target? Ultimately a human sits at the top of the chain, even if it was multiple automated AI systems that collated, labelled, sorted and managed the training dataset. The reason why those highly advanced neural nets didn't work the way they were expected to (even accounting for the NN black box effect), is, ultimately, down to human failure.

    Mind you by failure here I am simply talking about expected outcome vs what happened. The expected outcome being the AI providing 100% viable combat targets, active combatants, military bases, etc., not a school full of children. Because while the cheetoh in chief might be a raging narcissistic child rapist bastard, I doubt most of the rest of the US armed forces agrees with bombing children, so the original goal of the AI had to be to provide said viable targets. Therefore there had to be a human component that provided the data to skew the targeting, and that human component was most definitely sitting in a chair in front of a keyboard...

  • And if that doesn't work, try folding and unfolding.

  • AND IT WILL FAIL YOU

    Counterargument: 99% of non-hardware-issue-related "misbehaviour" of computers is actually PEBKAC.

    Your failure to use a computer =/= computer failing you

  • I might just be too high but I needed a solid minute to stop seeing the meat as bits of pink knitting

  • And yet the orange turdsack's name still appeared more times than the rest of the big names combined... quite telling, ain't it?

  • Except it isn't, because you have to access the data of that GPS receiver somehow.

    I'm so fed up with people having this misconception that GPS somehow on its own exfiltrates one's position. It doesn't. You're literally just using a pre-defined arrangement of satellites that broadcast their IDs to establish location. It's entirely local because GPS signal is only received by people.

    So no, just by having GPS, you can't be found by anyone. Not even governments or the CIA.

    Now, if that GPS receiver feeds into a smart system that is exposed to the internet... that is a different topic as there's tons of ways to have apps preinstalled and pre-approved that can read the GPS receiver data and send it off to a third party. It can even be built into the OS.

    However, permanently internet connected cars aren't that widespread even today - most actually tend to rely on the driver's phone and runs a very thin layer of smart stuff that simply enables the phone to use the car dashboard as a terminal.

  • I wish Prowlarr supported having a pool of generic indexers that are regularly speed tested and only the top X are used for actual queries (one random query an hour to check response time shouldn't hurt, and external searches can also provide for this statistic), either based on count/percentage or maximum response time.

    That would alleviate the long queries on a very dynamic approach.

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  • Damn you Hitler, not again!

  • The Bitch Okona, rather

  • Too little, too late.

  • As for which project to use... The issue with book management is that it's exponentially more complex than other media due to the number of dimensions a book can be on.

    Author metadata alone can be problematic - some books are published under different names in different countries, some books are co-authored but published under all variations of the possible combinations (author 1 or author 2 or both, and that's if there's only two authors).

    Language as a dimension usually means the same book is actually a different variant. This also applies for series info.

    Then there's the issue of metadata quality. Unlike with TV shows and movies, where either IMDb or TheTVDb etc. can be used because generally all of these potential sources are good quality... books don't really have a central database, because unlike with the aforementioned, language as a dimension does affect the release, and can't be easily treated as the same entity as different language publications will have different IDs... So if you have a database of US books, that won't apply to anywhere else in the world. Of course GoodReads and HardCover are trying to fix this but you're still running into issues like API usage limits etc.

    Overall, making a book download and management system akin to the rest of the Arr Suite is a major, major undertaking that requires major discussions not just within the project but also spanning external services to come to an agreement on which approach is best.

  • I actually have different problems with Chaptarr aside from it being vibe coded.

    Generally, I don't have an issue with vibe coding - as long as it's not the average person's Star Trek level depiction of asking the computer an overly simplified request which it then successfully extrapolates into a fully working solution. AI aided development isn't an issue really as long as the developer knows what they want to achieve and HOW to do it, and utilising AI to do the heavy lifting.

    No, my problem with Chaptarr is the general approach of the maintainer. It's a fork of Readarr (clearly visible from the logs), which was licenced under GPLv3, which in turn requires any forks (derivatives) to publish source code. Now, RLH has been providing Docker images only, claiming "the code is too messy to publish" whenever asked, meaning there's absolutely no oversight as to what is actually happening inside, what's been modified and so on.

    Furthermore he modified the metadata server format, without publishing it, then created two separate APIs for it, which you have to manually edit after install (and this is hidden in the FAQs on Discord), that metadata server is incredibly limited (because it's supposed to be for "testing only"), and there's no option to use your own either, as the API contract has changed.

    RLH is also pretty opaque about updates, sometimes you get a flurry of updates within a few hours, sometimes you're sitting around for weeks without any changes being pushed. He's also been pretty shady, randomly making the DockerHub images available to anyone then restricting it, and I've also heard about random bans of people on Discord who dared to question him (although this is only hearsay, I have not witnessed any bans myself, so take this with a pinch of salt).

    Overall the whole project is super shady and even if I presume the best intentions, the continued GPL licence violation with various quality issue excuses alone is enough for me to stay far away from it - even if I appreciate some of the QoL changes I've seen when I trialled it.

  • And then he morged all over the place!

    Cleaning up the morge conflicts took us a whole freaking week...

  • Making all advertising illegal would quickly collapse society.

    Why? Because for any given service, how would you even know it's available at all, let alone the people providing it?

    Our entire society as of now, and for the past few thousand years, has been so complex that people need to specialise and rely on each other for a lot of things. You rely on farmers, millers, bakers, butchers, etc. to provide your daily food. You rely on bus drivers, taxicabs, etc., for your transportation. On plumbers, sparkies, et cetera all for your home maintenance needs. Not to mention companies manufacturing and selling even more complex products you buy.

    Without advertisement, how would you know what restaurants are nearby? Or who can repair your broken sink? Who can come out and repair that in-wall conduit? who you can hire to build your new house? where you can go to get entertained? are we banning adverts for the local theatre's new plays? are we banning the local handyman from letting people know he provides said service?

    I agree that today's overkill advertisements are an issue, exacerbated by late stage capitalism that simultaneously wants to siphon your income both before and after you receive it, that having advertisements shoved down one's throat should stop... But do you really think that banning ALL advertising is the way to go?

    Unless you're proposing the absolutely moronic libertarian stance of everyone relying upon themselves only for survival and continued existence, you can't just ban all advertisements.

    What would work is an incredibly heavy handed set of regulations that ensure the big players play fair, that ads aren't using various psychological tricks to make you buy new shit you don't need, that ads aren't malicious and overwhelming, and so on. But even that is a scope of discussion that needs to take place over years, with a multitude of experts involved, not just one person willy nilly going "ads are bad mmmmkay so they're now banned".

  • Well at least if we were on the Stargate timeline, we'd have:

    • SG1
    • the literal city of Atlantis (seriously, like, when can I move in?)
    • if all else fails, plan C(4)
  • Has the accuracy of the snapshots actually changed based on this edit? After all, if it's factual information being presented...

    I do agree that it raises the issue of what other modifications there may be, and it IS childish, but so is going after a person who provides a good service and wants to remain anonymous while doing so.

    All I'm saying is that while I do not agree with the actions, I also am not saying I don't understand the reasoning behind.

  • Dunno if I would call it "behaving poorly".

    The blogger in question doxxed the owner/maintainer of Archive.today who in return doxxed the blogger. To me this sounds more like eye for an eye FAFO.

  • SNW is not yet post-replicator times.

    ENT had protein re-sequencers and TOS/SNW/DIS has some level of food processors, but not exactly replicators (DIS did mess up the canon a little bit though, for that one burrito scene...)

    Though arguably the same logic applies since it's the captain taking out precious time from his schedule to prepare a meal for up to 15-20 people at a time, something the ship's galley would be more suited for (after all the whole point of having a galley and kitchen is that the officers can focus on their work instead of chores).