Lots of great comment threads under it too, pure

You can a few free chats with the new model so I uploaded the Paris pic I posted yesterday

It easily recognized it, so I thought I'd keep the conversation on Paris.

I asked the old model, no joy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171125

NEW: 🇺🇸 X/Twitter will become a full-service financial services app as it now has money transfer licenses in 25 U.S. states

Coming Soon:
- Wallet/Account
- Payments to any user
- Interest on funds
- Shopping
- Subscriptions
- Tipping pic.twitter.com/eZia6PPKli

— Radar🚨 (@RadarHits) April 29, 2024

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/style/what-your-face-says-about-how-you-ll-vote-in-the-election/ar-AA1nW6PF

https://awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/2024-65164-001.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/google-lays-hundreds-core-employees-moves-positions-india-mexico-rcna150297

I'm incredibly proud to announce that I've accepted an offer for my dream at @OpenAI

Along with my new colleagues Nick Land and Richard Sutton I'll be helping to usher in a new era in the history of the universe. I'm so excited!

I'll be serving as the new head of… pic.twitter.com/9sgYcvXY26

— Roko (@RokoMijic) May 15, 2024

AIs are now capable of hypnotizing humans

Why this matters: soon, AGIs may be able to mind control us

This isn’t sci-fi, this already happens!

EXAMPLE #1: Did you know chicken brains have an “off button“? We hypnotize them… because we’re smarter!

And it’s not just chickens… https://t.co/YzWYEP8kbz pic.twitter.com/HEx8nls101

— AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ (@AISafetyMemes) April 20, 2024

2 fecal authentication.

Blind discusses! https://www.teamblind.com/post/Google-CFO-confirms-large-scale-layoffs-today-Apr-17-ed7EJgSG

T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T will pay a combined $10.2 million in a settlement with US states that alleged the carriers falsely advertised wireless plans as "unlimited" and phones as "free." The deal was announced yesterday by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

"A multistate investigation found that the companies made false claims in advertisements in New York and across the nation, including misrepresentations about 'unlimited' data plans that were in fact limited and had reduced quality and speed after a certain limit was reached by the user," the announcement said.

T-Mobile and Verizon agreed to pay $4.1 million each while AT&T agreed to pay a little over $2 million. The settlement includes AT&T subsidiary Cricket Wireless and Verizon subsidiary TracFone.

The settlement involves 49 of the 50 US states (Florida did not participate) and the District of Columbia. The states' investigation found that the three major carriers "made several misleading claims in their advertising, including misrepresenting 'unlimited' data plans that were actually limited, offering 'free' phones that came at a cost, and making false promises about switching to different wireless carrier plans.

Wew lad That's over $200k per state! It can even be used to cover lawyers fees and discovery costs in a case that took 9 years in court. Yuge government win here, folks!

The three carriers agreed that all advertisements to consumers must be "truthful, accurate and non-misleading." They also agreed to the following changes, the NY attorney general's office said:

• "Unlimited" mobile data plans can only be marketed if there are no limits on the quantity of data allowed during a billing cycle.

• Offers to pay for consumers to switch to a different wireless carrier must clearly disclose how much a consumer will be paid, how consumers will be paid, when consumers can expect payment, and any additional requirements consumers have to meet to get paid.

• Offers of "free" wireless devices or services must clearly state everything a consumer must do to receive the "free" devices or services.

• Offers to lease wireless devices must clearly state that the consumer will be entering into a lease agreement.

• All "savings" claims must have a reasonable basis. If a wireless carrier claims that consumers will save using its services compared to another wireless carrier, the claim must be based on similar goods or services or differences must be clearly explained to the consumer.

I bet that will learn them!

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1cdqd3m/lessons_learned_after_3_years_of_fulltime_rust/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1cdqdsi/lessons_learned_after_3_years_of_fulltime_rust/?sort=controversial

Article is too long to copy & paste, so here's the link https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/.

!codecels

All core systems are now on https://t.co/bOUOek5Cvy pic.twitter.com/cwWu3h2vzr

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 17, 2024

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/100248578

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205714

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1cgjaqg/systemd_wants_to_expand_to_include_a_sudo/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1cgle7c/lennart_poettering_reveals_run0_alternative_to/?sort=controversial

https://lemmy.world/post/14855646?scrollToComments=true

https://lemmy.world/post/14855645

Microsoft just open-sourced DOS 4 https://t.co/iOeLUVfVok (as well a release of beta binaries, disk images, and PDFs from @rozzie's archives!) (but who did the PR?!) pic.twitter.com/g3VyOCsT40

— Scott Hanselman 🌮 (@shanselman) April 25, 2024

After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI.  The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I’m confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial under the leadership of @sama, @gdb, @miramurati and now, under the…

— Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) May 14, 2024

^ Yeah this thing

Truely unsurprising.

{Its basically just a VNC connection to an android VM with Playwright automation scripts for the 5 services it does. Oh and that VM connection is also how you put in your logins to those services, probably scraping your password}

I am probably not the first person to notice this but I don't think I've seen anyone else talk about it in these terms before.

As we all know, the internet sucks compared to 10 years ago. Specifically, search engines and easily accessible information sources are much less useful than they were in the past. As many have pointed out (and as I like to bring up whenever relevant) a lot of the blame lies with SEOshit, and another sizeable chunk of the blame lies with the groomercordification of communities.

In case you've missed all of my own and others' rants on the topic, what I mean by groomercordification is the currentyear+9 tendency of online communities to use groomercord instead of a forum or subreddit or wiki for everything from community organization (meh) to information archiving (very, very bad).

To use an example most of you incels should be able to relate to, take vidya gayme mods. A decade ago, developers of a mod would use either a legacy self-hosted forum, self-hosted wiki (usually in combination with a forum), or a dedicated subreddit to share general information with each other and with their users. Information such as installation instructions, community feature requests, compatibility details, current status of codecel efforts, details of codecel efforts (I believe the codecels call this "documentation"), et cetera.

In CY+9, it is increasingly common for vidya mods to have no web presence other than a splash page referring you to their groomercord. Want installation instructions? Refer to groomercord. Want to request a feature? Refer to groomercord. Want extremely basic FAQ-tier tech support? Refer to groomercord. Want to know some details about the code in order to diagnose compatibility problems with other mods? Refer to groomercord. Want to ask other users an extremely basic question about the mod? Refer to groomercord.

This phenomenon has taken over all kinds of communities, but modding is an example where I've personally observed it multiple times over. A lot of the types of information I listed above are going to be frequently requested by users. In the old times, we had these things called "installation instructions" and "FAQs" on static web pages. The best thing about these static web pages was that they could be retrieved on demand, at any time, with no action required by anybody but the requestor, by entering keywords into a search engine. Similarly, we had these things called "forums" where you could check whether somebody had already asked the question you're about to ask by searching for it before asking.

Finally, my novel (to me) point: why are we backsliding to a state where basic information is gated behind a login wall and mandatory interaction with other people?

One more sidestep: chatbots.

Chatbots are an innovative way for companies to outsource their tech support to a computer/not have to pay for call centers. They're pretty good for 90% of tech support problems, since 90% of tech support problems can be solved by walking the tech-illiterate customer through the process of turning their device off and back on again. Having a robot do this instead of a person saves a looooot of money. More recently chatbots have taken on a new meaning as the most common frontend for AIs, probably because they're easy to interface with even if you're tech illiterate. Can you see where I'm going with this?

The groomercordification of everything, and especially of things that should not be groomercordified (anything that would traditionally be on a wiki), is just another result of the normie takeover of the internet. A loooooot of people (apparently the vast majority) strongly prefer to consume technical information in a conversation style versus reading a document, so the state of things has drifted towards enforced conversation-style information consumption. This has had horrible consequences for the general availability of information that should logically be retrievable on demand from a static source.

Yes, this is rather galaxybrained and obvious in hindsight.

Name: Hamish Paul Wilson

Website: https://icculus.org/~hamish/

Gender: Male

Born: May 13, 1994 (age 29)

Birthplace: Edmonton, Alberta

Residence: Rural Alberta, Canada

Citizenship: Canada, New Zealand

Profession: Farm Labourer

Notable Works: Blood Wiki, Tome of Blood, and Bloodite Interviews

Religion: Atheist

Ideology: Marxist

Found his address:

52322 Highway 759, Parkland County, Alberta T0E 2H0

Website is plain text: https://icculus.org/~hamish/

He graduated from high school in 2013, and what free time is not taken up by his gaming is often consumed by his other pursuits including free software development, writing, politics, and farming, with sheep, cattle, and chickens under his care.

NEEEEET. Also a creepy fanfiction writer. Admin of several niche fandoms including a game nobody cares about from 1997 that is a horror ripoff of Doom and Duke Nukem 3D.