jamesravey

There have already been studies showing that this gradual swing to the right no longer holds for millennials.

The original premise that psychopathy affects a proportion of any population is true though.

I dunno, I mean are the train company allowed to take my money and then go “sorry we fell out with the fuel company so we’re just gonna keep your money and not take you to your destination. Soz babe x”

Seems like the lawyer thinks that AI models deliberately jumble the Disney logo rather than specific text/artifact/logo generation just being a weakness of these types of models. (He’s wrong, he’s attributing intent to something janky/buggy)

No one is suggesting that open source is inherently less secure

Unfortunately, I’ve met a number of people who genuinely do believe this! The same demographic who don’t know how copy and paste works or take photos of stuff on their monitor instead of print-screening and tend to end up running large corporations even though they’re completely out of touch.

There is also a lot of “security by obscurity” in the corporate/fintech world - “it’s open source so everyone can see the code which makes it less secure”. The inverse is often true thanks to Linus’s Law.

Came for this joke

I think I watched the same one. I think the three seashells will revolutionise the bathroom experience.

This is as transparent as hell. It reminds me of a TV show where a bunch of idiots plot to murder someone so they decide that if they all pull the trigger together, none of them are “technically” the murderer. Of course, that just meant they were all culpable.

It’s only a few layers of abstraction above “we didn’t ban these books, we flipped a coin to decide whether to ban them and fate chose tails…”

Pathetic.

As Larry Tesler once said “AI is whatever hasn’t been done yet.”

Wow the enshittification is at full throttle across silicon valley! Guess those investors gotta get those returns now that interest rates are spiking!

I spent a lot of time setting up firefly-iii, a really neat and feature-rich finance manager. It’s a really great piece of software by a very responsive and friendly dev but after about 6 weeks I still couldn’t get used to it and ended up going back to paying for YNAB.

I swear by memos now though - highly recommended. It’s like having a private twitter stream where you can send thoughts, notes and files that you want to store/refer back to.