Aatube @kbin.melroy.org [He/Him, Nosist, Touch typist, Enthusiast, Superuser impostorist, keen-eyed humorist, endeavourOS shillist, kotlin useist, wonderful bastard, professinal pedant miser] Stuped person says stuped things, people boom
I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others' words. Weird, isn't it?
Formerly on kbin.social and dbzer0
oh okay, i see what you meant now. but:
- switch sold 125 million by march 2023
- ps4 and xbox one sold 117 + 58 million by september 2023
- wii u, which had amd gpu, also sold 13.5 million by its discontinuation
amd did win, it seems
More precisely, he's accepted a plea bargain that would guarantee immediate release; he still needs approval from a judge on the 26th before he's officially home free. He's currently heading for (or at) some US territory that's closer to China and Australia.
3GB, actually. That was on iPhone XR, which is basically the only budge iPhone Apple has made.
We already have that since iOS 15 if you have a phone that released after the iPhone X. It's time to become woke, sheeple.
One of the maintainers (and possibly the founder) of mbin, a fork of kbin, which is a fediverse platform that combines lemmy and microblog while lookin' gr8. The fork is actually maintained and has actual versions and changelogs while kbin has 3 other very great features and extremely sporadic maintainership (kbin.social, their flagship instance, is currently down as we speak.).
everybody asks about this lmao https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bionic-reader/
Well, you don't need to understand all of the context; I just spotted melroy in the wild, that's all.
No. In fact, I quoted the first-hand accounts of the people in charge of the broadcast.
Yes, there may have been less of a panic than as advertised, but it wasn't a gross (or intentional) distortion. The drama was also only broadcast once.
The offices of the city of Trenton, New Jersey, a location within the dramatization, had its communications paralyzed for 3 hours due to the calls made to ask the city well.
In 1938, Orson Welles adapted H.G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds" for the radio, apparently causing mass hysteria and a major part of the continental United States to believe that a martian invasion had occurred.
"A few policemen trickled in, then a few more. Soon, the room was full of policemen and a massive struggle was going on between the police, page boys, and CBS executives, who were trying to prevent the cops from busting in and stopping the show. It was a show to witness."[26]
During the sign-off theme, the phone began ringing. Houseman picked it up and the furious caller announced he was mayor of a Midwestern town, where mobs were in the streets. Houseman hung up quickly, "[f]or we were off the air now and the studio door had burst open."[4]: 404
How many deaths had we heard of? (Implying they knew of thousands.) What did we know of the fatal stampede in a Jersey hall? (Implying it was one of many.) What traffic deaths? (The ditches must be choked with corpses.) The suicides? (Haven't you heard about the one on Riverside Drive?)
This was a year after he adapted Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to be set in Nazi Germany.
Ubuntu App Center adds a UI for installing third-party deb files
Adds a first skeleton for the local deb package UI. As we're in the process of refactoring the entire app to follow a more standardized riverpod-based architecture, things in this PR might change a...
It's a merged pull request made by a member. Dunno which release it'd be in. This means people can double-click deb files to install again (with a warning). c.f. https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-24-04-disappointment/
cross-platform compatibility
somebody draw a semi-transparent pufferfish or a penguin belly-sliding down the left hill or a random red tie y'know
TIL that in 2014, a photographer tried to copyright a monkey's selfie and sue Wikipedia for it.
The EFF soon created a crossword, overlaid it on top of the monkey, and featured it on their website.
> > > August 2014 – Photographer David Slater sent a copyright takedown notice to the Wikimedia Commons over a photograph of a Celebes crested macaque taken on one of his cameras, which at the time was being operated by the macaque, resulting in a "monkey selfie". The Wikimedia Foundation dismissed the claims, asserting that the photograph, having been taken by a non-human animal, rather than Slater, is in the public domain per United States law.[277][278] Subsequently, a court in San Francisco ruled copyright protection could not be applied to the monkey and a University of Michigan law professor said "the original monkey selfie is in the public domain."[279] > >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey\_selfie\_copyright\_dispute :
> > > In September 2015, PETA filed a lawsuit against Slater and Blurb, requesting that the copyright be assigned to the macaque and that PETA be appointed to administer proceeds from the photos for the endangered species' benefit.[6] In dismissing PETA's case, a federal district court ruled that a monkey cannot own copyright under US law.[7] PETA appealed. > >
> > > In May 2018, Condé Nast Entertainment acquired the rights from Slater to make a documentary film related to the monkey selfie dispute. The project was being overseen by Dawn Ostroff and Jeremy Steckler.[55] > >
Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
The problem, which is likely due to inadequate data cleaning, could lead to hallucinations, poor performance, and misuse.
> > > Of the 100 results, only three of them are common enough to be used in everyday conversations; everything else consisted of words and expressions used specifically in the contexts of either gambling or pornography. The longest token, lasting 10.5 Chinese characters, literally means “\_free Japanese porn video to watch.” Oops. [Tokens are part of text ChatGPT combine to generate replies.] > >
> > > Users have also found that these tokens can be used to break the LLM, either getting it to spew out completely unrelated answers or, in rare cases, to generate answers that are not allowed under OpenAI’s safety standards. > >
> > > In his tests, which Geng chooses not to share with the public, he says he can see GPT-4o generating the answers line by line. But when it almost reaches the end, another safety mechanism kicks in, detects unsafe content, and blocks it from being shown to the user. > >
> > > “The robustness of visual input is worse than text input in multimodal models,” says Geng, whose research focus is on visual models. Filtering a text data set is relatively easy, but filtering visual elements will be even harder. “The same issue with these Chinese spam tokens could become bigger with visual tokens,” he says. > >
OpenAI seems obsessed with the movie Her
> > > The company says the voices in ChatGPT were from paid voice actors. A final five were selected from an initial pool of 400 and it's purely a coincidence the unnamed actress behind the Sky voice has a similar tone to Johansson. > >
> > > In "Her," Scarlett Johansson voices an advanced AI operating system named Samantha, who develops a romantic relationship with a lonely writer played by Joaquin Phoenix. With its ability to emotional responses, the parallels from GPT-4o were obvious. > >
> > > Voice is about to become more prominent for OpenAI as it begins to roll out a new GPT-4o model into ChatGPT. With it will come an entirely new conversational interface where users can talk in real-time to a natural-sounding and emotion-mimicking AI. > >
> > > Unlike other multimodal models, it will allow for real-time conversations and even an emotional and adaptable voice. > >
Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean?
c.f. surf music and spongebob's sound cues
Did our ancestors find God playing the electric guitar standing next to the ocean or something?
stupidestAdvertisingEver
Like, do they not worry about people just editing everything and inserting porn or something? I doubt that they were smart enough to use branch protection. To be fair, when you're sending a mass spam campaign, you already don't worry about your reputation anyway lol
(The attached images: part 1: @QuantEssential-io has invited you to collaborate on the QuantEssential-io/Quant-Interview-Prep-2024 repository part 2: GitHub 404 showing the entire organization has been banned)
From baby clothes to popcorn makers, borrowing items rather than buying them is a growing trend
The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.
TIL the American Conservapedia, among other atrocities, redirects Linux to GNU/Linux
I guess they have a quantum taste for GNU!
US intelligence believes Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed, Wall Street Journal reports
> > > Last month, Putin called Navalny's demise "sad" and said he had been ready to hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner exchange provided Navalny never return to Russia. Navalny's allies said such talks had been under way [...] Washington had not absolved the Russian leader of overall responsibility for Navalny's death however, given the opposition politician had been targeted by Russian authorities for years, jailed on charges the West said were politically motivated, and had been poisoned in 2020 with a nerve agent[, for which Russia also denies responsibility]. > >
> > > Reuters could not independently verify the Journal report, which cited sources as saying the finding had been "broadly accepted within the intelligence community and shared by several agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the State Department’s intelligence unit." > >