No Masks!

Yeah, okay. With a pandemic on?

You gotta at least wear a surgical mask in public for your health, in minecraft.

Your doctor could probably write you a recommendation, prior to the protest, in case you have any legal issues.

The Internet was shit before LLMs

Like all tools, it is good for some things and not others.

“Make me an OS to replace Windows” is going to fail “Tell me the terminal command to rename a file” will succeed.

It’s up to the user to apply the tool in a way that it is useful. A person simply saying ‘My hammer is terrible at making screw holes’ doesn’t mean that the hammer is a bad tool, it tells you the user is an idiot.

If you watch other videos from trade shows they show incredibly limited movement and jerky balance.

Nowhere close to the same league as in the video.

The biggest tell is at 0:21.

You see the badge flying around as a physics object and then, when the animation stops the left side part of the necklace “resets” and slides up on the bots neck despite that being like a ball suddenly deciding to go from a rest to rolling up hill.

It looks like it went from being rendered as a physics object to slowing down enough that it returned to being a regular object attached to the model’s rigging .

Not the local cops

Anyone who can install windows can install Arch using something like EndeavourOS (which, for people who don’t know, is literally just Arch, using a graphical installer and some sane defaults for a desktop PC (Plasma, pipewire, Wayland, etc etc))

You don’t have to do the intimidating “boot from Arch live install medium and install everything manually” on your first run (or ever). I really only do that when I’m setting up a server. For a desktop, EndeavourOS takes a fraction of the time to get going.

They had a reason to suspect him, but that reason wasn’t obtained thru legal means, so they have to invent a plausible second reason and call it a parallel investigation if they want to keep any evidence gained since he was apprehended.

I think it is exactly this.

The ‘Anonymous tip’ thing is also used when they have absolutely no other way to get illegally obtained (think, Snowden) evidence to the police.

The story from the police is that a person saw the pictures on the news showing his chin and nose and somehow managed to recognize him and also decided to call the police. Alternatively, they have better video footage of his face and have access to McDonalds (and probably most corporation’s) video feeds to run live facial recognition then they called in a hit as ‘an anonymous tip’.

We already know that law enforcement/intelligence can compel companies to share live access to their stored data. Snowden’s leaks showed that they could access, for counter-terrorism purposes, any gmail account through a web interface. There’s no reason to think that video camera footage (which is an absolute goldmine for intelligence purposes) would be excluded from these sweeping domestic spying powers.

I daily drive Linux, gaming quite a bit and I have a 3080.

There are occasional annoyances, for example when I wake from suspend one of my monitors doesn’t activate until I change display settings (which I do now with a script bound to a hotkey, though a fix is in the pipe). Most of the time it doesn’t cause me any issues.

I’ve kept a Windows install on a partition as a backup in case I have real compatibility issues but I haven’t booted it in weeks (even then, it was to play an anti cheat game, nothing NVIDIA related).

I use Hyprland (on Arch, btw) so I’m technically using unsupported software but I have had no major issues.

On the plus side, I can run local AI easily and DLSS/DLAA, to me, produce higher quality results and with less overhead. Ray tracing is technically in the plus column but most of the time I’d rather just have higher FPS than the visual quality.

I don’t have HDR gaming just yet (my biggest complaint) because gamescope likes to crash, assuming it launches in the first place. However, a Wayland update is going to fix this imminently (next major release) so you can get HDR without gamescope.

Basically, there were trying times in the past but currently (assuming you’re using current versions of things and not some LTS release from a year ago) it’s largely a smooth experience.

that is a pretty clear red flag

This isn’t a red flag, this is a predictable psychological response:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim in the presence of other people.

TL;DR Anon is finally in the ‘telling kids to get off his lawn (nobody touches grass around here)’ part of its lifecycle

I’m not quite sure I’m following.

Are you saying that AI trained on the output of humans is unethical, unless those humans are programmers?

Or, as a professional programmer, you understand the limitations of AI in your field so you don’t feel threatened by it while simultaneously assuming, on behalf of another profession, that AI in “artistic” fields is somehow far more capable and an actual threat?

Terrible programmers don’t become professional programmers because they subscribe to Copilot. It provides a crutch to absolute beginners, allowing even the least skilled individual to create some low quality output. For professionals, AI allows for some aspects of existing tools to perform slightly better but cannot replace the knowledge, experience and practice of a human when it comes to applying those skills in novel and interesting ways.

Terrible artists don’t become professional artists because they subscribe to Midjourney. It provides a crutch to absolute beginners, allowing even the least skilled individual to create some low quality output. For professionals, AI allows for some aspects of existing tools to perform slightly better but cannot replace the knowledge, experience and practice of a human when it comes to applying those skills in novel and interesting ways.

The memecoin rugpull by the President of the United States is considered by many historians to be the start of the downfall of the US.

-AI David Attenborough

POV: It’s 2007 and you just signed up for Netflix, streaming is so simple and easy

The thing I miss most about the old Internet was not having to tag sarcasm, and also the chance that any random forum post could be a goatse.

Yeah, until I go outside and think my phone is dead