Similar to this: https://github.com/alibahmanyar/breaklist

Relatedly, there was a company was selling a cloud(🤡)-based product called "Little Printer" from 2012 to 2014; after their backend predictably shut down, some fans of it recreated it as https://tinyprinter.club/ and later https://nordprojects.co/projects/littleprinters/

somehow input my handwritten notes

I've heard the reMarkable e-ink tablet's cloud service has good-enough-to-be-usable handwriting recognition, but sadly I haven't heard of anything free/libre and/or offline that is.

Brendan Howell's The Screenless Office is "a system for working with media and networks without using a pixel-based display. It is an artistic operating system."

You can "read and navigate news, web sites and social media entirely with the use of various printers for output and a barcode scanner for input".

!eleven@lemmy.ml (because it's educational)

Those instructions will likely still work, but fwiw MotionEyeOS (a minimal Linux distro built on buildroot rather than Debian) appears to have ceased development in 2020.

The MotionEye web app that distro was built for is still being developed, however, as is Motion itself (which is packaged in Debian/Ubuntu/etc and is actually the only software you really need).

CSI camera modules can be a pain; it's easier to use a normal USB webcam and have more options for positioning it.

Also, you don't need to limit yourself to a Raspberry Pi; you can use any single-board computer - hackerboards.com has a database of them.

“Sorry, I got to return this video”

2004 is when the Blockbuster video rental chain was at its peak (cite), and VHS was still in wide use at the time having only been surpassed by DVD rentals a year earlier. Speed dial was also still a thing then, payphones still exist today, and, although complaints were filed against Bill Cosby much earlier the public wasn't widely aware of them until 2014.

How about "John Kerry is the candidate who can prevent a second Bush term" ?

Would that not be 113?

🤦 indeed 😳 thanks. (edited)

(if you were, you'd be 113 next year.)

this will become true in just a couple of years from now, assuming you represent age as a base-six number. (4*6+5 == 2027-1998)

"Given they were trained on our data, it makes sense that it should be public commons – that way we all benefit from the processing of our data"

I wonder how many people besides the author of this article are upset solely about the profit-from-copyright-infringement aspect of automated plagiarism and bullshit generation, and thus would be satisfied by the models being made more widely available.

The inherent plagiarism aspect of LLMs seems far more offensive to me than the copyright infringement, but both of those problems pale in comparison to the effects on humanity of masses of people relying on bullshit generators with outputs that are convincingly-plausible-yet-totally-wrong (and/or subtly wrong) far more often than anyone notices.

I liked the author's earlier very-unlikely-to-be-met-demand activism last year better:

I just sent @OpenAI a cease and desist demanding they delete their GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 models in their entirety and remove all of my personal data from their training data sets before re-training in order to prevent #ChatGPT telling people I am dead.

...which at least yielded the amusingly misleading headline OpenAI ordered to delete ChatGPT over false death claims (it's technically true - a court didn't order it, but a guy who goes by the name "That One Privacy Guy" while blogging on linkedin did).

many items listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions are often presented as advice

source.

In case anyone suspects, merely because the author is a blaster by trade, they might be too quick to suggest explosives as the solution to a problem, fyi they also co-authored Boulder buster : breaking rocks without explosives. (The rest of their work here is about using explosives, though.)

Hold it down

I looked at that, and thought "ha, that is a funny and obviously fake screenshot of a headline, created to ridicule photomatt for being petty in his fight with his company's biggest competitor".

Then, after closing this tab I did a double take and thought: maybe it's actually real?

And, it turns out, yeah, he really actually did that (after a court injunction required them to remove the checkbox which required users to pledge that they were "not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise"):

😂