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magnetichuman

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  • What helps you sleep better?

  • I use a site called MyNoise which has a ton of white noise soundtracks. My favourite soundtrack for sleeping is called "rice fields" and consists of frogs, cicadas and water sounds. If I'm struggling to sleep I go "ok, froggy time" and put this on. Works 99% of the time.

  • On the manipulative linguistic patterns of LLMs

  • Whoa, you summoned him

  • How do you reduce score on AI detectors?

  • I does create friction for the person who has to enter it into the checker though

  • On the manipulative linguistic patterns of LLMs

  • Its really hard to train an AI to be factually accurate. What you end up training is an AI that does its best to appear to be factually accurate.Robert Miles has a great video here on the subject: https://youtu.be/w65p_IIp6JY

  • Hummus and peanut butter are close relatives

  • People who downvoted this: Was it the opinion on hummus or on peanut butter that you disagreed with? I must know!

  • Phillipson to ban trans women from female toilets

  • As well as the obviously horrible implications for trans people, the other predictable outcome of this is that cis women who don't look feminine/conforming enough will face shaming and violence from people who will see it as their right to enforce this ban.

  • No Screens Before Two: Inside The UK’s Tough New Guidance For Babies And Toddlers

  • "But not all screen use is equal."

    I think this is key. Curated, age-appropriate, educational content vs engagement-maximizing, algorithmically selected slop. Parents need to be in control of what kids watch, not tech companies.

  • How come there's BMW and BMX but no BMY or BMZ?

  • Bee-Militarized Zone

  • So reddit, AITA?

  • And the "womanly emotions" line is the nail in the coffin

  • The more details you add to an idea, the more sure you can be that nobody else has ever had the exact same idea

  • This is basically the basis of the patent system. Patent too generic? Add more details!

  • The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming

  • The Simpsons already did it

  • Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand

  • "My loyal advisor," said the king, "I must grant you a reward for your many years of good service. What is it that you desire?" And the advisor asked the king, "Sire, simply give me one grain of rice on the first square of the chessboard, two on the second square, four on the third square and so forth until all sixty-four squares are filled." "Such a small thing?" said the king. "It shall be done at once." And so the advisor was given all the rice in the kingdom.

  • How likely do you think game streaming as DRM is to become a thing?

  • Did you ever wonder why so many games have a seemingly unnecessary multiplayer/online component these days? If the server side code is an integral part of the game then it can be used as a form of DRM.

  • Elon Musk says let criminals out of prison and give them a robot stalker instead

  • In the Culture novels robots assigned to this task have super accelerated consciousness, beyond human cognitive capabilities and can basically harmlessly stop you with a force field if you do anything to attempt to harm another person. Can Elmo's bots do any of that? Not even close.

  • [OC] Mordheim Bretonnian warband done

  • Um, is that an Uzi at the back?

  • A gardener asks some nerds for their mobile so he can call his mum

  • I saw a description for Jojo Rabbit recently that was like "A lonely boy talks to his imaginary friend"

  • The original System Shock 2 will be delisted from Steam soon, then lumped in with the more expensive remaster

  • It's worth noting that at least for now, the original version of System Shock 2 is still for sale on GOG. There's no indication on the page that it's also set to be taken down imminently and it's part of GOG's preservation program.

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  • 'Apple said that under the DMA, “instead of competing by innovating, already successful companies are twisting the law to suit their own agendas"'

    The call is coming from inside the house.

  • How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)

  • Expect specialist "open" hardware capable of installing any software/OS to become increasingly expensive, while increasingly locked-down, mass-produced consumer hardware remains at current price. You only need to look at TVs for an example of this - try finding a recent non-smart TV at a reasonable price as the cheap models are all subsidised by the revenue from pushing ads into your face.

  • Stop Killing Games @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    magnetichuman @fedia.io

    Will the Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill currently going through UK Parliament have any bearing on customers retaining rights to play their purchased games?

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
    magnetichuman @fedia.io

    How do you eat a data centre?