They shut down their personal instance, so the specific inbox it is trying to reach hasn’t existed for a year and a half.

It sounds like a link can be a file path and clicking the link just opens the file. If that’s the case, this is effectively the same risk as filesystem shortcuts.

Yep. Lovely reading font.

I love Linux Biolinum for reading. It’s a ‘humanist sans-sarif,’ which means it designs letters like a serif font but with less little bits stuck on.

XDC Vs. Arm Ant! Only one will surviiiiiive!

It also owns Twitter because Musk spent $33 billion in AI investment cash to buy Twitter from himself to pay off his debt.

Now he is using space investment money to pay off the AI investors.

As far as I can tell, the frog incident was not real-world. It was a police department vetting a system by doing fake test stops. They did one with Princess And The Frog playing in the back seat and the transcription system interleaved the traffic stop and film dialogue, then took that at face value for the summary.

System still sucks, but at least they were testing before blindly relying on it.

CD Projekt has shareholders. Shareholders expect revenue growth with less to no expense growth.

GOG wants to grow expenses (developing patches for niche games) with little potential for revenue. Shareholders don’t tend to like doing things for goodness sake, while private owners can do whatever they like.

This makes a port possible. You need to replace the graphics and system API calls to make a port to another platform and you need to pull in the assets.

It bothers me. There are too many things that are either not standards-complient or support different parts of the USB feature set that compatibility is a wildcard.

I carry a large backup battery when I travel for work. It can keep my laptop going under load all day, allowing me to not care at all about proximity to outlets when working. It also allows me to painlessly recharge phones by just handing it to someone.

Last week, I was running something from someone else’s laptop (enterprise HP, like mine, but different model). It got low, so I pulled out my battery. Plug it in… No power. I could see the voltage fluctuations of it negotiating, but nothing after that.

It was actually the system Cloudflare uses to catch and block bots that went haywire.

They had a fake database you could query that would pull content from a bunch of different shard databases. They updated the config so that systems querying it could see the shards in addition to the main dummy DB. The tool that pulled data out of it assumed that it could only see the dummy, however, so it just asked for everything when it pulled a report to pass to the filtering system.

The filtering system assumed the report it received would be properly formed and crashed if it got one that was malformed.

Another annoying one is that the address bar obfuscates the folder path if you start at Documents, Photos, etc. If I want to get to my user folder without a shortcut, it makes sense to hop to Documents and go up a level, but up a level from Documents is the useless Home directory.

Accountants tally the numbers and hand you the totals. Twisting them is unethical and can lead to them losing their licenses.

Analysts manipulate the numbers to push a message. No ethics allowed.

Signed, an analyst raised by an accountant. Interacting with other analysts is infuriating.

Dice are more random, too random for believable results. The nice thing with an LLM is that it knows the real-world probability of every answer to a question, or can make a realistic inference of what that probability will be.

It won’t give actual feedback about your thing, but it will give feedback that appears real.

My understanding is that rightsholders didn’t take it seriously, so content was cheap to license in the early days of Netflix streaming. That’s no longer the case.

I’ve done it before on something else. It does need to be bit-perfect, but ROM’s are one of the easier things to find bit-perfect matches for.

All we know is a disclaimer on each photo that AI tech was used. These could be real photos on blank backgrounds with the background generated and composited later. They could be photos of the garments on mannequins with the whole person being generated. They could be face replacements so that future models can’t get famous and demand more money.

No matter what, these still took a lot of editing to get to print. They still needed at least one photo of the garments.

Roblox is not a game engine. It’s a child labor farm. Stay well away.

There are a lot of simple tutorials for Godot. It’s not hard to get into.

Yes. Nothing is truly incompressible. The speed of sound can be viewed as a measure of how much a material can squish on the atomic level before the next atoms move.

They are blind, not obtuse. Norton ≠ Notion.