siliconpotato

i saw an image for a 4 way power extension for sale that look like it was made by MC Escher the other day. it would be simpler to just take a photo of the actual product rather than hallucinating an impossible thing.

gen AI is being used instead of real picture products on aliexpress and amazon. you aren't even getting what's advertised. same for things that advertise scenes that do not match up to reality. some countries have laws against false advertising, with good reason.

Fake surprise - it's obvious that would happen, he did it deliberately for clicks and engagement.

every one of them still reeks of AI. especially the trend of icons next to the activities (tombola etc). its just a reskin but they all look AI, just not that triggering minimum effort AI look that is everywhere.

This reads like fetish fiction. Maybe it is.

Not if the slop marketing subsequently gives me indigestion

I wonder if they worry about the provenance of their meat. Might be delicious but you might be eating horse.

And none of the quotes from that Pickering guy actually made any sense

This. They are buying a brick in the xkcd #2347 diagram

Also they bought the company which develops the open source slurm scheduler which is the primary and defacto standard HPC scheduler on the market. Bit of a concern to say the least

baseball cap and sunglasses will do just fine.

They have a store selling caps, t-shirts and keyboards. That's one way to donate while getting cool stuff

Joseph smith claims to have had a new revelation and the book of Mormon is "another gospel". It's fan fiction for Americans and claims that the church became corrupted and are restoring the true church with their non biblical ideas. As such, their ideas are sufficiently divergent from biblical doctrine they are considered not part of the Christian church.

"i haven't noticed my soul shrivelling to the size of a pea"

In my dreams, this is the moment Mozilla brings a search engine out of stealth mode, and says "sorry for looking like idiots for twenty years, we were secretly working on building a great search engine that doesn't suck or do AI"

There's a certain writing style, very short paragraphs, fair amount of repetition that just feels like you've read this post before. And you have, just on different topics but it's always the same feel.

But also lots of negatives to start the sentence, usually with a reinforcement e.g.

your password didn't help. your 2fa didn't help. you were never asked to authenticate. you were asked to authorize. completely different mechanism

Find it surprising that there are people still under the delusion that they have an audience of humans on twitter worth speaking to

it was all engagement bait to auction off some NFT nonsense.

People in glass houses..The same argument can be levelled at the troublesome activities engaged in by the USA.

> The bottleneck in the AI era is not production. It is discernment.

there's quite a few variants on the "its not X its Y" in this article that make me wonder how much of this waffle was written by a human

> I have nothing against Greggs.

I do. This man is benefitting from your custom: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39443585

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65794363 The author John Green who was top of a recent list said that the Bible was number 6 on the list. As other comments have pointed out, a "ban" is where a library has chosen not to stock a book for reasons including response to a complaint. If school library serves children up to the age of 13, then certain explicit fiction is not appropriate and would be expected to be removed.

Maybe they were carrying out exodus 20:4...

It's ironic that netanyahu says that Christians are thriving in Israel and more than any other middle Eastern country. Only 2% of Israel identifies as Christian, whereas Lebanon has 37%, which Israel is bombing

However I'm inclined to ignore anyone who pushes their argument as "I'm doing X and you should too". Tell the good and bad things but don't tell me what to do

I replaced the battery in mine. Unlike big tech, I believe in repairing old devices. Something Amazon have not considered is how many of these old devices are used as companion devices for other high end kindle owners. I have a scribe and old paperwhite and use them interchangably, with cloud sync of reading position etc, which won't be possible after 20 may.

this looks like a recipe for eye strain and poor posture. waiting for the follow up post in a month.

They didn't say high speed rail projects that get cancelled and downgraded after doing all the hard bits

1) nobody's landing on the moon this time

2) the article was an awful piece of hype, that felt like it was sponsored by the Whitehouse.

3) it's hard to see beyond the US imperialism that hangs heavy over space missions. Trump said "the US is winning in space" and he summed up the intent here

4) I might be a nerd but I really don't get the excitement from my fellow nerds. I wonder if they are simply taken in by the hype machine

what if you need 300 web pages open?

ugh. i came to see why this site failed completely to work as expected. turns out that a human has barely been anywhere near it and thinks that delivering non-working slop is fine. what a waste of my time and printer paper.