The problem is that most people don't want multiple text apps, they just want one. I had gotten a number of people using signal, and it was secure when we talked, but when signal dropped SMS, almost every one of them stopped using it, so then none of their conversations were secure.
There's for sure the "offness," but there are also things like the lack of veins in the cat's ear, which we'd see with the like coming through like that. But I agree, they're getting very good.
I got divorced in my 20s and moved from a house into an apartment. I had this long sofa bed, and my buddies and I tried for like half an hour to get it into the apartment, which was off of a hall and then had a short entry hall itself. The couch was too long to stand up on the without hitting the ceiling.
Finally decided it just wasn't going to work. I thought it might be worth trying to disassemble some of the internal structure and cutting some upholstery seems, then reassembling and sewing, so I turned it upside down. Long story shorter, the arms were separate units, not sewn on, just bolted on, and without them it was short enough to go through the door on end. Wish I had realized earlier.
This thread makes me so sad about the future. Here we have a bunch of folks who are absolutely convinced that a real image is AI generated, some even after being shown that it predates AI image generators. But we live in a time when there are a giant number of real images online, the only AI generated images are very recent, and most of those have things like extra fingers. What's it going to be like in twenty years, when image generators are so much better and there are so many more generated images? Having a photo of something will prove nothing.
I always try to explain to people that the key is the last two letters: language model. An LLM is a model of what a conversation should look like. Ask it a question and it's intended to give you a response that looks like the right kind of thing. So if you ask it for a mathematical proof, it will give you one, but unless the thing you're asking has the same proof written the same way in lots of places online, what it gives you won't be correct, and probably won't actually make sense mathematically, but it will look like the right kind of thing.
So likewise, if you ask it for relationship advice, it's going to give you something that looks legit, but you're an idiot if you get your relationship advice from an LLM.
The "tepid" reaction is because there's zero surprise here. A giant swath of the maga base is made up of white supremacists, and I don't think there's even debate about that. Lots of people voted for Trump specifically because he said he'd do mass deportations, get rid of LGBTQ protections, etc. We've literally been screaming that people were voting for a bunch of Nazis. So now, on inauguration day, someone gets up and does a Nazi salute - what do you want us to say?
And as for "now what," the best we can do is fight where we can and make sure the mid terms are different, though after this last election my hopes are low. People knew what they were voting for, and he didn't win by cheating. It's gross, but that's where we are.
It's a great series, but was one of the things that spurred me to get a digital library card; I was spending so much money on books. That's worked out great.
I didn't think so? When I say Iris, I mean the colored ring. When I say pupil, I mean the hole. When I say asshole, I mean the ring, not the hole. I can't remember ever wanting to refer to the actual hole. Maybe "gape?"
The phrase "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" comes from this. If someone gives you a horse, you shouldn't look into its mouth to see how old it is because, hey, free horse.
Oh, certainly. In case it's helpful, here's a post I made last spring with notes from a year of reading - it's pretty much all SF and fantasy. Many of the books mentioned in this thread are there. I've been reading about the same amount since, and will probably do another post on the anniversary of that one.
Yep, just the default messaging app on their phone.