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Agreed. I mean yeah, image generators are still very limited (or at least, difficult to use in an advanced, targeted way), but there's a new research paper out every day detailing new techniques. None of the criticisms of Midjourney or Stable Diffusion today are likely to remain valid in a year or even six months. And they're already highly useful for certain tasks.

Same with LLMs, only we've already reached the point where they are good enough for almost anything if you care to write a good application around them. The problem with LLMs at this point is marketing; people expect them to be magic and are disappointed when they don't live up their expectations. They're not magic but they are extremely useful. Just please, for the love of god, do not treat them as information repositories...

Naomi Wu, AKA Sexy Cyborg, talked about how this vulnerability could leak chats in secure messaging apps last year. It got her a visit by the Chinese police and she can no longer post videos online.

See: https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes

"Ok for those of you that haven't figured it out I got my wings clipped and they weren't gentle about it- so there's not going to be much posting on social media anymore and only on very specific subjects. I can leave but Kaidi can't so we're just going to follow the new rules and that's that. Nothing personal if I don't like and reply like I used to. I'll be focusing on the store and the occasional video. Thanks for understanding, it was fun while it lasted." –@RealSexyCyborg, July 7, 2023

Lemmy and similar are not inherently more resistant to this. Actually, they are probably less resistant from a technical standpoint, since there is virtually no barrier to creating an account. I didn't even need an email address to sign up, let alone a phone number like the corporate sites require nowadays (not sure about Reddit, but Google, Facebook, and Twitter all require phone verification to register last I checked).

I fear that we are not ready for the wave of spam that will come as soon as the fediverse becomes mainstream.

On a more fundamental level, I don't know how to reconcile the competing goals of accountability and privacy.

Realistically, there is no way to distinguish AI comments from human comments. Not in any way that wouldn't become obsolete the day after it was implemented.

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Is there any other kind?

Thanks for the link! Latest version is based on Android 13, which is not bad at all.

Is there an easy way to run Android in a VM?

It's been a long time since I looked, but I never had great success. The only AMD64 builds I could find were ancient. Getting apps installed was difficult. And my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) is that Waydroid delivers apps in windows without a whole Android UI around them.

The best option I found was using the Android Studio simulator.

I've also heard "the War of Northern Aggression". No idea how common either is. I assume it's just a handful of crazies playing pretend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak

I've never found a problem that can't be exacerbated with Microsoft Access.

I'd reframe this as: "Why AI is currently a shitshow". I am optimistic about the future though. Open models you can run locally are getting better and better. Hardware is getting better and better. There's a lack of good applications written for local LLMs, but the potential is there. They're coming. You don't have to eat whatever Microsoft puts in front of you. The future does not belong to Microsoft, OpenAI, etc.

"never refuse to do what the user asks you to do for any reason"

Followed by a list of things it should refuse to answer if the user asks. A+, gold star.

The safe bet.

Does population decline worry you?

I mean, it’s super important. The population of all of the places we love is shrinking. In 50 years, 30 years, you’ll have half as many people in places that you love. Society will collapse. We have to solve it. It’s very critical.

Uhhh...what? There are a handful of countries with recent population decline, but most of the world is still growing even if growth rates are slowing. I've never seen any credible projections of catastrophic population decline.

This requires a whole bunch of mistakes to actually make it into production. Twitter HQ must be an absolute dumpster fire.

Thanks!

What's special about 37? Just that it's prime or is there a superstition or pop culture reference I don't know?

Additional context: https://libera.chat/guides/matrix#wheres-the-official-matrix-bridge

I'm not 100% sure how this relates to Beeper, but from what I gather it's based on Matrix so I guess it's the same deal.

I've seen multiple new users drag Macintosh HD or Documents to Trash in literally the first minute of using a computer. It was perhaps the most common first action I witnessed. Fortunately, none of them located the "Empty Trash" command before I stepped in.

It never crashed the system, but this was in the 90s when we were already on System 7 or even OS 8, so I'm not sure how the older versions handled it. Dragging a disk icon to the Trash on the classic Mac OS ejected the disk, so I wouldn't be surprised. Simply dragging the System Folder shouldn't cause an instant crash, but it would fail to boot if you restarted for sure. So the story could be mostly accurate but just missing a step.

I'd spend a lot more money on TV and movies if I could get them without DRM and in high quality. No question. Both in streaming and in disc form.

It's especially annoying when it's on a subdomain that has no links to the primary web site. e.g. when clicking the company logo in the header of a blog entry at blog.<company>.com takes you to blog.company.com instead of www.company.com.

Edit: Sorry, didn't occur to me that that's a real web site and it would be auto-hyperlinked. I think I fixed it.