People Twitter
Everything ok?
xia 1 day ago • 100%
oof...
Awful Taste But Great Execution
All in!
xia 2 days ago • 100%
Does it subtly move under battery power?
Memesxia 3 days ago • 100%
🎵 If I could turn back time... 🎵
Lemmy Shitpost
pisspost
xia 4 days ago • 100%
This reminds me of my old phone. I downloaded a podcast on it that had a shock-opener and for some reason was always "the next thing" the sound/music player wanted to play. So many times, by accidental touch inputs or clicking the headphone button, or the like, my phone would randomly scream: "WHO DOESN'T LIKE TO PEE IN THE SINK!?!?!”
Programmer Humor
Domain Renewal
xia 4 days ago • 100%
Double-twist-back: it's not under a special TLD, so you can transfer it to another registrar.
Funny: Home of the Haha
Which one have you already tried?
xia 4 days ago • 100%
Fluxcapaciwich
xia 5 days ago • 100%
It might tell you to go a way that is unsafe, blocked, impassable, flooded, etc.
No Stupid Questions
As a non-techie, where/how can I find out if software is safe?
xia 6 days ago • 100%
Both practically and theoretically, it might be impossible. It basically comes down to trusting trust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ7lOus1FzQ
technology
Texas bitcoin mining operation holds electric grid ransom, is paid more than it earns mining to not run its hardware on high-load days
xia 6 days ago • 100%
"Give me money or give me your money!"
News
TSMC's $65 billion Arizona facility can now match Taiwan production yields according to early trials
xia 1 week ago • 100%
Officially unofficial.
the_dunk_tank
This man is over 50 years old and doing this unironically
xia 1 week ago • 100%
Of course, the ol' reverse polish punctuation!
the_dunk_tank
This man is over 50 years old and doing this unironically
xia 1 week ago • 100%
Hard to focus on anything but the prominantly missing period.
badposting
HEY NON BINARY PEOPLE
xia 1 week ago • 100%
Binary, one might say...
Technology
Why AI Can Push You to Make the Wrong Decision at Work
xia 1 week ago • 100%
To assume that a GPT is right is to assume everything on the internet is right, as from that it arose.
196xia 1 week ago • 100%
Looking sad that his space ship doesn't work.
Wikipediaxia 1 week ago • 100%
It's possible that I was just doing it entirely wrong, but I seem to recall (from when I tried it years ago) that I would still get interruptions (like phone calls, meetings, and slack messages) but then the timer would go off during those interruptions.
xia 1 week ago • 100%
Yo dawg, I heard you like interruptions...
Asklemmy
How could you best spent one million dollars, to materially help the world in a lasting way?
xia 1 week ago • 100%
To the victor goes the scholarship.
Asklemmy
How could you best spent one million dollars, to materially help the world in a lasting way?
xia 1 week ago • 100%
Then I suppose the question is reduced to how one should select the 5 people! :)
xia 1 week ago • 100%
I would suggest getting an ortholinear keyboard. When I first switched to a Kinesis advantage, the FIRST thing I noticed was how many terrible habits I had of hitting a key with the wrong finger (even twisting my hand about, if you can believe that). Having keys in line with actual finger geometry cured that mess up real quick!
Technology
FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported
xia 2 weeks ago • 100%
Perhaps more important is to have devices start or fall open... if the OEM has lost interest in it, let others support the device. Make ewaste valuable and avoidable.
No Stupid Questions
Can i safely turn the power on on this open outlet? if not, how do i solve this? (solved)
xia 2 weeks ago • 100%
I assume that is the intended purpose of the wago connector over the hot line.
Comic Strips
[Kevin Comics] Every. Job. Site.
xia 2 weeks ago • 90%
Even if AI never actually takes someone's job, it's clear that the hype surrounding it can displace workers, and it's use in screening candidates may prevent you from finding another.
Android
Fairphone launches a cheaper version of the Fairphone 5 with less memory and storage - Liliputing
xia 2 weeks ago • 87%
Another missed opportunity to bring back the headphone jack.
xia 2 weeks ago • 100%
I hate to make it even weirder, but getting... erm... "unborn"... is not quite the same as being killed. Methinks it would be more like a scifi movie where an alien force absorbs everyone on Earth.
xia 2 weeks ago • 100%
Technically true, proportionally.
hmmm
No Stupid Questions
Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence?
xia 2 weeks ago • 100%
I'm not talking about one-offs and the assessment noise floor, more like: "ChatGPT broke the Turing test" (as is claimed). It used to be something we tried to attain, and now we don't even bother trying to make GPT seem human... we actually train them to say otherwise lest people forget. We figuratively pole-vaulted over the turing test and are now on the other side of it, as if it was a point on a timeline instead of an academic procedure.
No Stupid Questions
Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence?
xia 2 weeks ago • 100%
The natural general hype is not new... I even see it in 1970's scifi. It's like once something pierced the long-thought-impossible turing test, decades of hype pressure suddenly and freely flowed.
There is also an unnatural hype (that with one breakthrough will come another) and that the next one might yield a technocratic singularity to the first-mover: money, market dominance, and control.
Which brings the tertiary effect (closer to your question)... companies are so quickly and blindly eating so many billions of dollars of first-mover costs that the corporate copium wants to believe there will be a return (or at least cost defrayal)... so you get a bunch of shitty AI products, and pressure towards them.
Fuck Cars
17% of the US's Infrastructure & Jobs Act goes to transit. 67% goes to conventional highway programs
xia 2 weeks ago • 100%
Are you saying that you DON'T walk that close to other pedestrians?
WalkScapexia 2 weeks ago • 100%
Have you considered a true pedometer? Way less bulk than a phone (and maybe even your watch).
Lemmy Shitpost
Ignore the haters!
xia 2 weeks ago • 100%
No, Neo. When you're ready... you wont need a lighter.
xia 2 weeks ago • 100%
Kind of weird that they say it's exact when even the representative image has fork/join points in the rings. Are we to believe that only one part of the tree aged for a few years now and then? Darn temporal anomalies growing on trees...
AI Generated Images
Excessive beanage
xia 2 weeks ago • 100%
Trying again with the @-mentions...
dalle3 prompt: A hand reaches out of a sea of refried beans, as a person has sunk into them like quicksand. Mostly as a reaction to these infinite-bean-lovers: * [@Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/Tylerdurdon) * [@robolemmy@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/robolemmy) Bonus shoutout to [@SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/SpaceNoodle) for help with the post title.
xia 3 weeks ago • 100%
Hmmm... The same dino grabbers that can't pick up a stuffed animal?
Star Trekxia 3 weeks ago • 100%
Year 24
xia 3 weeks ago • 100%
A twist on Oliver Twist with Churro twists.
xia 3 weeks ago • 100%
NGL... I kinda want to tell someone to reduce their beanage without any context, and walk away.
xia 3 weeks ago • 80%
Well, if they are neatly hung and countable, I have too many. If they are in a wash basin dissolved in acid (akin to refried beans), then maybe I have too much?
"Too many" kinda sounds right to my ear because beans is plural, but the second logically seems right because its served by volume and is not 'countable' as ordinary (non-destroyed) beans might be.
If so, does that mean people actually remember a persons name & face after only one encounter?! If not, why do we pretend they will be upset, and try to hide the fact that we forget an unfamiliar name?
I deal with a lot of VMs for varying purposes, and it seems frequent that my purpose for opening firefox is derailed by some kind of nag. For example, I frequently get the "you haven't used firefox in a while" in vms that I rarely use firefox and have to go disable the "meta refresh" option in the "about:config". Now, I've started seeing this one... it's not even one of the passive banners but a full-page stop-the-world w/ semi-transparent background and right-click prevention. Before I invest too much time trying to figure out how to disable these, or templating profile options en-masse, or the like... I thought I might ask... is there a way I can tell firefox that I only want it to only be a web-browser? i.e. an effective tool and not an attention sink or exciting video-game-like challenge of exploration and closing popups and suggestions while trying to remember why I launched it. Somewhat relatedly, there is some kind of irony with firefox prominently offering to copy a URL without tracking for other sites, but when it is their own ad (however benign it might seem) that they disable right-clicks and load up on the trackers. The above button links to: * https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-devices?utm_source=spotlight-default&utm_medium=firefox-desktop&utm_campaign=migration&utm_content=new-device-in-your-future&entrypoint=device-migration-spotlight-experiment-v2&utm_term=aboutwelcome-default-screen&as=u
write: fstab: no space left on device
dall-e v3 w/ minor post-generation mods. Prompt: A robotic solicitor knocks on a home's closed front door with his right fist knuckles. The robot is dressed in a suit which has a large corporate logo on it and holds a tablet in his left hand.
I know managers love that term, but I think I've come to hear it as an insult... Sorta like being called an unprofessional "jack of all trades" budget handyman that does everything mediocre...
without you ever knowing about it, as well as (perhaps) swapping in a cheaper-to-operate model some percentage of the time, perhaps as request loads peak, hoping you'll just roll the dice and try again.
This is my attempt to recreate an image from one of my friends who is an artist. After generating the image, I modified it in gimp to better capture the feel of the original artwork. dall-e 3 prompt: A pale human figure abstraction sits atop one of the floating islands hugging his knees facing right. The islands have round tops, crumbling dirt below, green grass on the top, and they float in a spacial void of black, blue, and purple. Some of the other floating islands are also flat-topped with grass, but some are just lifeless asteroids. There are no planets and no sun.
dall-e 3; prompt: "The Linux computer system that every nerd can only dream of owning."
dall-e v3. Prompt: 'Photorealistic. Walking off the edge of the world.'
dall-e 3; prompt: "Photorealistic. A futuristic alien stands before you holding a spear-like weapon in a non-threatening manner."
Workflow: I asked gpt-3.5 to describe in meticulous visual detail a single panel from "BLAME!" where Killy is firing his gravitational beam emitter (GBE) in only one paragraph. I think I used the phrase "as if to a blind person" because it kept wanting to give me a narrative. I then handed that paragraph to dall-e-3 and got this image.
dall-e 2; prompt: A homeless cyberpunk is scavanging parts from his pile of broken robots. A futuristic male police officer walks past him disinterested.
dall-e 3; prompt: Inside a parking garage where many of the slots have been converted into permanent dwellings, even alongside the vehicle ramps.
Prompt: Sisyphus pushing the world up a hill. The Earth looks photo realistic as it would be seen from space, and resting on the slope. The sky is pitch black with many stars and galaxies. The mountain slope is a constant incline.
