https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

JFC, as if this guy wasn’t already the poster child for cringe.

Some guys are lying assholes and horrible people, but so are some women.

and some guys anonymously posing as women online to undermine the competition.

It depends on what info you’re trying to find.

I was recently trying to figure out the name of a particular uncommon type of pipe fitting. I could describe what it looked like, but had no idea what it was called. I described it to chatgpt, which gave me a name, which I could then search for with a normal search engine to confirm that the name was correct. Sure enough, search results took me to plumbing supply companies selling it, with pictures that matched what I described.

But, asking it when a particular feature got added to a piece of software? There’s no additional information one would get from the answer to help them confirm that the answer is correct.

ETA: The above strategy has also failed me many times, though, where chatgpt gives me information that follow-up searches only confirmed that chatgpt hallucinated the answer. Just wanted to say that to reinforce that you have to assume it’s hallucinating until you get independent confirmation.

That’s absolutely not the point. I was criticizing the journalism, not technology. 🙄

without human help

…

responded to and learned from voice commands from the team

🤨🤔

I was going to calculate how much electricity this would consume and how expensive it would be, but the answer to that is plainly “too much to imagine”.

Purely hypothetically speaking, but, what if someone had their own private Dyson Sphere generating electricity? (Asking for a friend.)

Open settings, and search for"Gemini" from the search bar. That’s the only way I was able to get to anything Gemini related. I turned off it’s access to everything from there, then the last setting was to switch back to assistant which appears to have turned Gemini off, but who knows (hence disabling it’s access to everything anyway).

These instructions are awful. There’s no Gemini listed in my apps, and Settings > Apps doesn’t show it either. But if I search for “Gemini” in settings, THEN it shows up, but doesn’t have access to anything the article says to do.

However, from that screen, I was able to apparently turn off its access to everything, and switch back to assistant, which appears to have turned it off completely, but who knows if it’s still lurking in the background.

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The post title is not the same as the article title and doesn’t even make sense. That first comma changes the entire meaning of the sentence to nonsense. Then yanking out whole phrases just makes it worse.

The judge making this determination is an idiot.

The judge hasn’t ruled on the piracy question yet. The only thing that the judge has ruled on is, if you legally own a copy of a book, then you can use it for a variety of purposes, including training an AI.

“But they didn’t own the books!”

Right. That’s the part that’s still going to trial.

Right, and that’s the, “but faces trial over damages for millions of pirated works,” part that’s still up in the air.

How long before weird or dangerous incidents start to happen?

Well…

one gaggle of Tesla influencers was dropped off directly in an intersection

Obligatory Technology Connections video about dehumidifiers. Hint: You might be using it wrong.

When I lived right off the water

Except that one. That one was probably being used right. But, [ gestures to everyone else ] y’all might learn something from the video and save yourselves a ton of money in otherwise wasted energy.

That I can agree with. But I think it’s just inevitable growing pains. Free and open instances will, over time, shut down because they’re obviously unsustainable, so they won’t be sustained.

As they do, people will be left searching for instances to move to, and more and more, they’ll find that free instances just aren’t an available.

Let’s get rid of open registration instances

How?

Nobody is stopping any of your bullet points from happening. Those are all options today. Any one of those groups can spin up an instance and nobody is going to stop them. Some already have

But isn’t the idea of forcing someone to (not) run their own server however they want antithetical to the whole concept of the fediverse?

You can defederate your personal server from open registration servers if you want. But you can’t “get rid of open registration instances.” That’s just stupid.

That’s a decision for each server admin to decide for themselves. This particular admin has apparently decided that $5000/mo is worth it to them to run a server without ever asking people to pitch in, which I find absolutely bizarre, but whatever.

They can go a long way towards reducing that cost themselves by… asking their users to pitch in. Some people will pitch in, and reduce their out of pocket expenses. Others will leave, further reducing their out of pocket expenses.

If they haven’t done the bare minimum that they can do to help themselves, then this isn’t a problem for the broader fediverse community to solve.

And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.

Ok? What on earth would be the motivation to let these people keep spending your money instead of letting them go spend someone else’s?

ETA: Especially if their reason for leaving is that you had the audacity to ask them to pitch in for the cost of the resources that they’re using. Oh, the humanity.

He paid some Indian guys in fiver to hold up a sign that said something like “death to Jews” or something like that. He didn’t think they would actually do it

Doesn’t matter if he thought they would do it. Just coming up with the idea is enough to make it clear that he’s a tasteless piece of garbage, and that NOBODY should be parading him around as someone to emulate.

People make mistakes. Some people learn from their mistakes. Some people learn from other’s mistakes. Some mistakes are so egregious, reflecting such abysmally poor judgement, that they should never be lived down, even if for no other reason than to serve as a warning, so that others may learn.

That dip shit has made a lot of those mistakes. He shouldn’t be in the public eye anymore. He should be a productive member of society working as an assistant to the junior manager at an obscure toilet paper company.

and he of course he laughed when they sent back the video of them dancing and holding up the sign.

You left out the part where he then published it for all of his followers.

In between having the idea that no respectable human being should ever have, to the point that he clicked “Publish” to send the video out to everyone, he had soooooo many opportunities for self reflection and a realization that that was a really fucking bad idea. Yet, he did it anyway.