It’s interesting. There’s a lot of talk about how chatgpt makes people lazy, but honestly I think Google killed the “read the manual” ethos.
Back in the day when you couldn’t just search for everything, you needed enough understanding of the manual to find anything in the index.
So a key part of figuring anything out was reading at least the start of the manual.
Now, fuck it, you just type into Google and try to guess enough context to understand what’s going on.
Hexbear is already flooded with beanis posts.
Looking forward to seeing beanis everywhere in the next version of Facebook’s LLM.
Garmin sends all your health data to the cloud and the app won’t work without an Internet connection.
On the plus side, they’re not part of the Google/Apple/Samsung data ecosystems, and I don’t think actually they do anything with the data, beyond computing statistics for you.
Depends how much you’re prepared to trust them I guess.
Depends.
You can argue that it’s basically art/political speech. You’ve done it to draw attention to flaws in the approach and to highlight how ineffectual the current system is, and that if you actually wanted to do make fake IDs you’d take a much less high-profile approach. As such, there’s no actual criminal intent required.
Don’t know if a judge would buy it though.
Ok, but one of the most important use cases is non-local access.
If I’m at home I can just go to the door.
Go on, drop a rocket on Zuck’s Bond villain hideout.
Let’s see what happens.
Everytime the supreme Court does something batshit that allows Trump more power, I wonder if this is what Godel was worried about.
It’s a pyramid scheme, and your place in the pyramid/heaven is defined by how many souls you save.
People that convert the most people, or who’s converts go on to convert the most people go to heaven.
To be fair Berlin is 100x better than the rest of Germany.
The Anti-Defamation League notes that though the symbol is popular with white supremacists, imagery resembling the black sun features in many cultures, and that such imagery should always be analyzed in the context in which it appears, as it may not necessarily be intended to serve as a symbol of white supremacy or racism.
i just googled it. Apparently they’re just really into star wars, and didn’t realize about the Nazi symbol until it was too late.
Commercial versions of these systems exist in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/06/shopper-facewatch-watchlist-39p-paracetamol-london
The Gdpr makes these things harder to do, but not automatically illegal.
Surely you have noticed that there is a lot of criticism of the GDPR and EU tech regulation.
Yeah, and some of it is even true.
So a random person on Reddit claimed there’s about 800 million possible uk mobile numbers, some people have multiple numbers so ballpark 80 million active phone numbers. This gives around a 1:10 chance of picking an active number at random. If there’s actual patterns in the numbers this could be even more likely.
What’s interesting is this won’t have been a realistic sounding number.
Company lines typically start 0300 or 0800 but mobiles are 07… Something.
So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.
Also, I want it to go to people outside my org that I email back, not random spammers and salespeople.
For some reason, the only option is to use people in my addressbook which doesn’t auto populate and I never use.
You know open-source doesn’t mean publicly available. It means the person, or in this case the US government, that brought the software should have free access to the source code to edit and distribute it as they like.
So yes, the military should use something functional equivalent to open source to prevent vender lock in and to allow for external audits. They probably shouldn’t give it to Russia or make it freely available online though.
If LLMs just copied stack overflow they’d respond to every question with “Closed as duplicate. Question already answered.”
Quentin. Lennon. Benedict. Pletemony.
Let’s be honest here. Basically no one that’s English is actually proud of their country in a non-racist way.
We have two flags. The union jack which is xenophobia lite, and the English flag for full-fat racism.
The US is pretty similar in that they have their US flag for the xenophobia lite and then the Confederate flag for the deep fried racism.
The Confederate flag is worse in that ultimately the Confederate was only ever about racism and slavery, and no sports teams use it so when ever you see it, it’s always about racism.
They put that in vice city as a set of missions.
Ubuntu is deployed all over the place for data science.
I’m fairly sure this is because data scientists got used to running it on their personal machines and can’t be bothered to learn another distro.
I’m amazed a reviewer read the code.