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Nobody chooses to be racist - you become one as a result of your genes

lol wut

Wild animals end up covered in ticks and sometimes even die from it

"Out-of-bounds read and write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 137.0.7151.68 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page,"

So, probably that means an attacker could take over your computer just by you visiting a website right?

Just like old web forums, how nostalgic

That may have been true before explosives technology was developed

But any actual developer knows that you don’t just deploy whatever Copilot comes up with, because - let’s be blunt - it’s going to be very bad code. It won’t be DRY, it will be bloated, it will implement things in nonsensical ways, it will hallucinate… You use it as a starting point, and then sculpt it into shape.

Yeah, but I don't know where you're getting the "never will" or "fundamentally cannot do" from. LLMs used to be only useful for coding if you ask for simple self-contained functions in the most popular languages, and now we're here; most requests with small scope, I'm getting a result that is better written than I could have done myself by spending way more time, it makes way fewer mistakes than before and can often correct them. That's with only using local models which became actually viable for me less than a year ago. So why won't it keep going?

From what I can tell there is not very much actually standing in the way of sensible holistic consideration of a larger problem or codebase here, just context size limits and being more likely to forget things in the context window the longer it is, which afaik are problems being actively worked on where there's no reason they would be guaranteed to remain unsolved. This also seems to be what is holding back agentic AI from being actually useful. If that stuff gets cracked, I think it's going to mean things will start changing even faster.

if it were me I'd be conflicted about whether to respond with just "k" or demanding a conversation about boundaries

A few years ago I remember people being amazed that prompts like "Markiplier drinking a glass of milk" could give them some blobs that looked vaguely like the thing asked for occasionally. Now there is near photorealistic video output. Same kind of deal with ability to write correct computer code and answer questions. Most of the concrete predictions/bets people made along the lines of "AI will never be able to do ______" have been lost.

What reason is there to think it's not taking off, aside from bias or dislike of what's happening? There are still flaws and limitations for what it can do, but I feel like you have to have your head in the sand to not acknowledge the crazy level of progress.

One solution to this has been, be a resident of a blue state and get on medicaid, though it's looking like that might not be viable going forward...

By temperature controlled I was thinking like, a root cellar, not negative 400 degrees

The officer said there had been a noise complaint about the medical center’s air conditioning units, and cannabis was possibly being cultivated inside, the complaint says.

He repeatedly surveilled the property in 2023 and reported the “distinct odor of live cannabis plant and not the odor of dried cannabis being smoked” — as well as tinted windows, security cameras and two people dressed similarly, according to the complaint.

The officer believed these were signs of a hidden marijuana growing operation, and efforts to expand it, the complaint says.

lol

Peanut butter may last 6–24 months unopened, or 2–3 months once opened. Natural peanut butters lack preservatives and may last several months unopened, or up to a month once opened.

Even if you have unlimited temperature controlled bugproof storage space this is a terrible idea

Maybe but iirc the joke started on 4chan, with the idea that everyone there was so used to traditional horrific shock images/videos that they don't bother them, but such a person might be uniquely vulnerable to being annoyed by a cheesy love song presented in the same way.

Maybe not as huge as it should be but

In 2021, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ordered the Met Police and NPCC to pay a total of £229,471 to Ms Wilson “by way of just satisfaction for the breaches of her human rights”

If successful employee owned businesses are formed and accumulate capital they should be able to perpetuate employee ownership

One issue is, that isn't necessarily the priority the employee owners will have. I followed some news of a successful coop business where I lived, that sold the business because it had become worth so much that the payout was life changing money for all of those people, so they voted to take the money and potentially retire sooner rather than keep going as a coop.

You may not have been anonymous to the people in your immediate community, but you were largely anonymous to the people outside of it, which is something that has been systematically dismantled in various ways through history. Even things as basic as last names are there to make you visible to outsiders.

From Seeing Like a State, p59:

The invention of permanent, inherited patronyms was, after the administrative simplification of nature (for example, the forest) and space (for example, land tenure), the last step in establishing the necessary preconditions of modern statecraft. In almost every case it was a state project, designed to allow officials to identify, unambiguously, the majority of its citizens. When successful, it went far to create a legible people. 38 Tax and tithe rolls, property rolls, conscription lists, censuses, and property deeds recognized in law were inconceivable without some means of fixing an individual’s identity and linking him or her to a kin group. Campaigns to assign permanent patronyms have typically taken place, as one might expect, in the context of a state’s exertions to put its fiscal system on a sounder and more lucrative footing.

IMO the felt anonymity of Reddit, that comes from the fact that hardly anyone cares to remember your username and you don't directly experience scrutiny, isn't that useful. What really matters is the potential for someone to look over everything you've written (and if they have administrator access, connect that to IP, email, browser fingerprint etc.), and use that information for their own purposes, regardless of their having any connection to or legitimate personal interest in you. In that respect, Lemmy isn't much better (it kind of can't be when the premise is publicly posting writing to the internet), but it isn't worse either.

It's really hard, I tried for a while and gave up. Way too many things to pay attention to and get right at once, while doing something dangerous.

This legislation makes the online environment for children worse, so it's a moot point; whether you think it's the government's place to take a proactive stance on this or not, it's still bad either way.

Don't properly nonstick pans mostly not use teflon anymore anyway?

Both of those words (community and comms) have common meanings that are adjacent but distinct in important ways from the Lemmy jargon meaning. That makes them confusing and awkward to use; what if you want to talk about the Lemmy community at large or some subset of it? You would have to go way out of your way to make sure all ambiguity is removed that you might be talking about a "community" as in the subreddit equivalent. Comms is not as bad in this way I guess.