vitriolix

vitriolix, 5 hours ago to random

Microsoft's Copilot Recall is going to be so crammed full of porn

vitriolix, 1 day ago to ChatGPT

Chat GPT doesn't know how many R's are in "strawberry" and is very persistent and creative in its lies

#ChatGPT #ai #llm #strawberry

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vitriolix, 2 days ago to ai

I just heard Sal Kahn on KQED talking about Khan Academy's new AI feature. They have it mentoring and doing socratic method stuff with students.

It will guide you, to lead yourself, to find the answer that there are 2 r's in "strawberry"

#ai #llm

vitriolix, 2 days ago to programming

a clock that uses it's own source code as the clock face

https://aem1k.com/qlock/

#js #javascript #webdev

vitriolix, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago) to privacy

/me throws this into my watch queue

"Secrets in Your Data
Find out who’s using your data and what you can do about it."

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/secrets-in-your-data/

#privacy #data

vitriolix, 11 days ago to MountainBiking

awesome to see some scientific validation of what you hoped was true

NPR: "Like to bike? Your knees will thank you and you may live longer, too"

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/20/1251561467/biking-knee-pain-longevity-arthritis

#bike #biking #cycling #health

vitriolix, 14 days ago to random

Now we can all whip the llamas ass

"Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows.
"
https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code

#opensource #llama #winamp

vitriolix, 18 days ago to random

"GPT-4o" is a really confusing name for a thing that sort of seems like a version number

vitriolix, 21 days ago to random

Doing phone tech support for boomer family members is a really good test of ui/ux design

vitriolix, 27 days ago to Plants

Anyone know what plant this is? It's a real fighter, almost died and was all drooped over and has come back with a big show

#plantstodon #plants #flowers #photography #bloomscrolling

vitriolix, 1 month ago to iPad

Europe is adding iPadOS to the DMA

"Commission designates Apple's iPadOS under the Digital Markets Act"

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_2363

#dma #ipad #ipados #ios

vitriolix, 1 month ago to mastodon

i wish there was a way to save tag searches to the side bar (like lists) in #mastodon

vitriolix, 1 month ago to random

Amazed that they managed to not bend over to broadband providers interests here

"FCC Reinstates Net Neutrality In A Blow To Internet Service Providers"

https://deadline.com/2024/04/net-neutrality-approved-fcc-vote-1235893572/

#netneutrality #fcc

vitriolix, 1 month ago to music

A great overview of FM synthesis with lots of examples:

"How to use FM synthesis to design sounds you'll actually use in your music: "Shift your thinking from a subtractive mindset to an FM one and its potential for unique sound design will open up"

https://www.musicradar.com/how-to/fm-synthesis-sounds-actually-use

#music #musicproduction #synth #synthesis

vitriolix, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to photography

In a pile of yard junk in the corner under a tree, this little volunteer is trying

#photography #flowers #flowerphotography #gardening #bloomscrolling

vitriolix, 1 month ago to random

ukrainian innovations like this really are impressive considering how low cost, jerry rigged and yet effective they are

"Ukraine’s Newest Drones: Light Aircraft Converted into Large UAV’s With a 3,000+ KM Range!"

https://youtu.be/2ewuJmx5VRQ?si=uGmxqoShZXZqZY37

vitriolix, 2 months ago to random

basically, ai code imports non existent package, same hallucinated package occurs repeatedly to different queries. people use ai for their project and don't change that. bad actor creates malware package for npm etc with that name

"AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware"

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

vitriolix, 2 months ago to random

We started air dropping aid to Gaza. 35,000 meals I believe? That's a nice gesture but last I heard there were a million people at risk

vitriolix, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

bacon way past it's date. yay or nay?

#oldbacon #bacon #old

vitriolix, 3 months ago to random

@cheeaun I really like Phanpy, particularly how you split out boosts from regular toots. what is the reasoning behind hiding the action buttons under a ... menu? it's the one frustrating part of the workflow to me

vitriolix, 3 months ago to random

this is pretty egregious

"Some books, like Kuang’s “Babel” — which won the 2023 British Book Award for Fiction — appear to have been excluded simply for taking place in China. Zhao’s novel “Iron Widow” was flagged as being a “reimagining of the rise of the Chinese Empress Wu Zetian.”"

"Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China"
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/science-fiction-authors-excluded-hugo-awards-china-rcna139134

#hugoawards #censorship

vitriolix, 3 months ago to random

pretty amazing hardware / case engineering going on there

"Vision Pro Teardown: Behind the Complex and Creepy Tech"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVJPAYwY8Us

vitriolix, 3 months ago to random

I can't a stomach watching the full thing, post any other good excerpts if you find them:

https://youtu.be/5rKigbrcGNg?si=m1y74xngeJJ6C4f5

I'm sure Tucker held Putin's feet to the fire on the use of indiscriminate drone attacks on civilian areas

vitriolix, 3 months ago to firefox

Mozilla added scanning of data broker sites to its privacy protecting Mozilla Monitor

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing-mozilla-monitor-plus-a-new-tool-to-automatically-remove-your-personal-information-from-data-broker-sites/

#mozilla #firefox #data #privacy

vitriolix, 4 months ago to random

a few good servers to defederate from in the replies:

https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/111679346484777332