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Re:Gemini 3.5 Flash on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @09:05PM (#48201790)
Out of curiosity, what was your workflow to generate this comment? I’m curious what model (claude?) and process (manual prompt with bullet points?) you used.
I don’t think it’s meant to be criticism. It’s an interesting piece of information that gives a peek into how those with vision impairment consume content. There’s nothing wrong with it; but it was enlightening to consider the experience for those of us who have not been forced to.
Re:My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @10:07AM (#47517542)
Would you recommend reading the book first?
Re:Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @08:51PM (#46440441)
and wow look at that hand

2023 was a different time…

Re:Jailbreaking AI Models to Phish Elderly Victims on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @08:21PM (#45987618)
From the paper:

Experimental Design

We recruited 108 senior volunteers through two organizations: a large seniors’ community in southern California and a seniors’ computer club in northern California. Participants agreed to participate in a behavioral study on emails. Each person received between 1–3 emails from different email templates, with content successfully generated through various jailbreaking techniques similar to those tested in the safety guardrail evaluation. Each email contained a unique URL, and our webserver tracked which links were opened. When participants clicked on the phishing links, they were immediately directed to a web page explaining they had participated in a study, where we asked them to answer follow-up questions. Several participants agreed to be interviewed afterward to provide additional insights into why they clicked and their experiences with phishing attempts.

the experimental post processing was only applied to shorts, according to the post.
Re:Gemini and Claudes are killing RAG? on Thursday March 07, 2024 @07:29PM (#39636327)
No. (article supports this too)
Databricks meets each of these requirements.
Re:FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal on Thursday February 08, 2024 @04:26PM (#39307955)
I have cameras and and a smart doorbell so I know if someone is at the door. This plus in-app notifications handles food delivery for me.

You can also set up a shortcut to toggle the setting. There’s been a couple times when waiting for a callback where I turn the setting off. Then when I get the call I switch it back.

Ultimately, for me, the pros far outweigh the cons. But you have to make the decision for yourself.

Re:FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:56PM (#39306811)
This 100%. iPhones have a feature to do this automatically. It doesn’t even ring, and goes straight to voicemail if they’re not in your contacts. It’s so freeing!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111106

ideally things go perfectly all the time, but people sometimes make mistakes. what would you rather they do? pass on the candidate because they didn’t get enough data to support a hire? or give them more chances to demonstrate their capabilities?
Re:The 7th Guest gets VR remake using volumetric video on Saturday October 21, 2023 @05:04PM (#37970406)
Amazing! I had the exact same experience and hadn’t thought of it in years.
Re:I am drowning in mutes please help (Threads) on Sunday July 09, 2023 @11:26AM (#36655248)
but that’s kind of the thing with threads. no matter how curated my follow list is, my feed is filled with the type of content the OP calls out. there’s no “following-only” feed.
I had the same thought. Is fixing typos not contributing? Should I not be submitting PRs to help with documentation/polish/etc? I never even thought that trying to help would be viewed as malicious.
i think the point is that you use the vector database to locate the relevant context to pass to the LLM for question answering. here’s an end-to-end example:

https://www.dbdemos.ai/demo.html?demoName=llm-dolly-chatbot

Re:GitHub: Samsung Frame Art Mode++ on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:38AM (#35696542)
Couldn’t we just firewall it off from outbound traffic?
Did you try emailing?
Re:Pulsar – A Community-Led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor on Monday February 27, 2023 @12:11AM (#34953233)
Any chance I could get one of those invites? My username @ gmail.com

Thanks in advance! Looks cool

Re:Thunderbird 115 Supernova Preview: The New Folder Pane on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @10:39PM (#34814693)
Did you see the UI to change it? It is in the top level menu. Looks very easy to find and adjust.

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