RegalPotoo @ RegalPotoo @lemmy.world

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Ah yes, the realisation that everything dependable and solid in the world is just a monument to hubris, built on foundations of sand

Because you have to know the rules and conventions to be able to break them effectively - if you don't know that "theirself" is not grammatically correct, then your sentence reads as sincere rather than sarcastic

Agreed, this will probably kill them over the next few years unless they can really magic up something.

They probably don't get sued - their contracts will have indemnity clauses against exactly this kind of thing, so unless they seriously misrepresented what their product does, this probably isn't a contract breach.

If you are running crowdstrike, it's probably because you have some regulatory obligations and an auditor to appease - you aren't going to be able to just turn it off overnight, but I'm sure there are going to be some pretty awkward meetings when it comes to contract renewals in the next year, and I can't imagine them seeing much growth

Big chunk of New Zealands banks apparently run it, cos 3 of the big ones can't do credit card transactions right now

• Apple reversed log standing design policy to put a USB C charger in the iPhone because not selling iPhones in Europe was not a financially viable option.
• Apple won't launch their AI features in Europe because changing to comply with regulations is too hard

These features aren't that important then I guess?

Don't do this. This is going to trip alarms on any half decent IDS, and your net admins are busy enough without having to write up a report to go to the HR people deciding if they are going to fire you for breaking the computer use policy

https://www.servethehome.com/everything-homelab-node-goes-1u-rackmount-qotom-intel-review/ would probably be a better bet for a router

His politics are about what you'd imagine to look at him - senior MP in the centre-right National party, a "slash and burn the public sector and privatise everything cos free market something something" type - but yeah, he probably came out of that whole incident ahead from now he responded to it

I moved just about everything to Route53 for registration - I run my own DNS so I don't need to pay for that, and it's ~40% cheaper than Gandi for better service.

Now I just need to move my .nz domain (R53 supports .{co,net,org}.nz, but not .nz itself?) and the 2 .xyz domains that are "premium" for some reason so R53 won't touch

Tortoiseshell is a colouration, not a breed - you get long hair tortoiseshell cats, same way you get long hair tabbys.

Fun fact: due to the way the genetics works out, male tortoiseshell cats are incredibly rare - less than 1 in 100,000 iirc

Don't disagree with you, but yeah - good luck with that

As long as someone is willing and able to maintain it.

It's open source. All the work is either done by volunteers or by corporate sponsors. If it's worth it for you to keep a GPU from the 90s running on modern kernels and you can submit patches to keep up with API changes, then no reason to remove it. The problem isn't that the hardware is old, it's that people don't have the time to do the maintenance

opens task manager

sees a system uptime of 4 years

I'll lose my tabs!

Opposing legislation to restrict access to tobacco because of the risks of forming a black market while also opposing legalisation of cannabis is such an amazing satire of conservative politics

Well the alternative is a convicted rapist who wants to harvest your organs....

Not directly, but depending on the airspace you are violating you might end up meeting some people who have absolutely zero chill

Balloon cops

As they are more commonly known the FAA, and their enforcement arm - the USAF

For anything that is related to my backup scheme, it's printed out hard copy, put in an envelope in a fire safe in my house. I can tell you from experience there is nothing more stressful than "oh fuck I need my backups but the key to unlock the backups is in the backups fuck fuck fuck".

And for future reference, anyone thinking about breaking into my house to get access to my backups just DM me, I'm sure we can come to an arrangement that's less hassle for both of us

I don't think it's all grift - there are absolutely places where LLMs are the best tech out there, but it's probably not going to take everyone's jobs any time soon (at least not on merit - in sure there are plenty of places that'd accept a 50% drop in quality for a 90% drop in price)

I've seen a pretty compelling case study of a company using an LLM as a "tier zero" support tech - instead of getting a tier 1 tech to classify a case, decide if they had the tools to address the issue or if it needs to go to tier 2, work out if it was an instance of a known issue etc before they actually start working on the problem, give the LLM some examples and get it to do the triage so the humans can do the more complicated stuff. It does about as well as a human, for a fraction of the price.

Work paid for me to go to a "getting started with AI for businesses" seminar run by [redacted reputable organisation name] and holy crap the FOMO.

• The whole premise of the thing basically boiled down to "LLMs are a massive game changing technology that is going to make huge amounts of human tasks obsolete and if you don't get in on it now your competitors will and you'll be bankrupt in a decade" which... idk. Useful technology for sure, but this isn't the AI singularity. The vibe I got was all these people are old enough to see the fortunes won and lost when the internet exploded, and are terrified that this is going to be that all over again and that they'll end up left behind.
• People massively personify LLMs without thinking through the actual detail in how they work. Someone asked a question about how you can rely on information the LLM gives you, and the suggestion was to just ask it how confident it is which isn't really how LLMs work - they are fancy auto complete, it has no theory of mind or actual reasoning - it can't know if what it's saying is true or not, but because it is being presented as something you can converse with, it feels like there is some deeper cognition that you can interrogate