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I hate it but there really isn’t much in the way of an alternative. Which is why they’re dominant, they’re the only game in town

So I work in the IT department of a pretty large company. One of the things that we do on a regular basis is staged updates, so we’ll get a small number of computers and we’ll update the software on them to the latest version or whatever. Then we leave it for about a week, and if the world doesn’t end we update the software onto the next group and then the next and then the next until everything is upgraded. We don’t just slap it onto production infrastructure and then go to the pub.

But apparently our standards are slightly higher than that of an international organisation who’s whole purpose is cyber security.

Won’t they make more money if they don’t piss everyone off.

Why? Who’s asking for this stuff, is there somebody out there who is really pleased with this news or is Microsoft really just that out of touch.

I don’t want to have to start wearing rainbow knee-length socks, but Microsoft are pushing me towards it.

So you’re doing the classic thing of putting the burden of responsibility for your ridiculous claim on to somebody else to disprove. A classic sign of somebody not arguing in good faith.

How can I prove that Wikipedia only lists facts since any evidence that I present, you will immediately disregard as untrue because of your preconceived bias.

I want you to link to any article, on any subject matter on Wikipedia (in English so we can actually read it, I know that trick) that proves your claim of bias. I genuinely don’t believe you will be able to because if you could provide this evidence, you would have linked to it in your original comment.

Your holy scripture arguement doesn’t work because Wikipedia isn’t a fixed source of stated reality, it’s a constantly changing constantly updated website. We know the Bible isn’t objective reality because we’ve had it for a very long time and have been able to test it against known historical accounts, and they don’t match up. Wikipedia on the other hand is updated millions of times a day. Even if an article had some bias, by the end of the first day that bias would have been corrected by someone who didn’t like the bias. But you’re stating that there is a deep rooted institutional bias. I’d like you to indicate it please.

Are you trying to suggest that I would be better to just deny the cookies? I don’t know what you’re trying to say by linking to that article.

Device fingerprinting as a technique it’s pretty easy to defeat. There are plenty of privacy focused browsers that will also include device fingerprinting protection. In fact pretty much any browser that doesn’t store cookies will also do this device fingerprinting protection as well.

What’s does the bat say?

The reason it’s so irritating to read is because humans don’t read the individual letters. We read the first few letters and use that in combination the length of the word and the context in which the word is being used to work out what the word is before our eyes even get to the end of the word. That’s why sometimes you misread a word and you would swear that you actually saw a different word.

Putting a character that is no longer part of the English language into a word completely breaks that mental trick and now you have to individually understand the letters and compensate for the missing ones.

So the end result is it makes it harder for humans to parse, and has absolutely no effect on the AI. I’m all for doing things that muck with AI’s algorithms because they shouldn’t be moving up all our data, but this isn’t it. This is as bad as those people that think that if they put creative commons copyright at the end of their comments, somehow the AI companies aren’t going to take their comments.

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Tuvalu

I’m pretty sure Groks logo actually is a black hole. I’ve got no idea what that’s got to do with AI but that does seem to be what it is.

I don’t know what co-pilots logo is supposed to be it just seems to be some coloured shapes

We’ve had this discussion with them, it doesn’t work, but they don’t want to know, so instead they’re just going to annoy everyone for no reason.

AI ingest huge amounts of data and then vectorise it, to the point at which it’s no longer even a language.

So they literally see no difference between “Mercury is the first planet in the solar system” and “Mercury obedo lobo mukwongo i kin jami ma ki lwongo ni solar system ma ineno man pe ineno”. That’s why AI companies keep going on about multimodality, text and video and images are all the same to an AI, they’re just different ways of representing the same concepts.

So putting a thorn on everything won’t be effective if it is used consistently, as the AI will just treat it as a different language, and vectorise it away into weird AI math language where the thorn no longer exists.

I suspect that if anything is going to become big enough to warrant its own community it would probably be steamOS rather than any of the hardware, after all in a few months the hardware will be out and there won’t be as much to talk about.

But the OS is going to be getting updates I would assume, so there’s always going to be new topics

You could just build it as two hemispheres and then have a slit in the middle align to the orbital plane. You could have a few corridors every now and then as they wouldn’t really block out much light.

Although that wouldn’t really be a problem since in order to get enough material to actually build it you would need to dismantle most of the planets in the system including Earth. Which does rather present a difficulty and I suspect would be a major political blocker.

O’Neill cylinders are the only real reliable megastructure that would actually function.

Though it would need to be way bigger than the ship depicted in The Expanse or the gyroscopic forces would be too strong for anybody to be able to operate.

It doesn’t even look like anything, it’s just a random rectangles.

Well it says the earth is a sphere so I guess I get where you’re coming from. The problem is you haven’t actually provided any evidence to your claim that it’s some kind of evil liberal bias.

Presumably the insights are just that he was a human and not a space alien.

What are they looking for exactly?

It just lists facts. You go on there and try putting on a political opinion that isn’t actually facts based you’ll be shut down within seconds.

Just use a browser that doesn’t save cookies. Then accept all.

No it’s not largely because of Google mocking around with it.

Just install Linux stop trying to make Android desktop a thing. It’s not going to be a thing and no one really wants it to be a thing anyway. Move on.