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@ithoughtisawa2@infosec.exchange An old desktop is a great place to start but if you're buying, don't rule out old servers. They're much better at thermal management very important if you're gonna stuff a few drives into it. They're surprisingly power efficient. And many of them are whisper quiet with the right config. I'm running an old Dell T430 and all I hear is the hard drives. It's pulling about 70w with 6 hard drives in it (plus an SSD). No GPU though. @brahms@chaos.social @mttaggart@infosec.exchange

@JeniParsons@mstdn.social You may be on to something. My trans kid is always very hungry.

@sb@metroholografix.ca Any important elections coming up?

@404mediaco@mastodon.social There's a three panel meme in there.

1. Those guys... what now?
2. Wait. Restore funding?
3. F those guys.

(No AI was used in composing this post.)

@nev The site redirects to OpenSecrets' Palantir page now. It's possible he meant well.

@DanadasGrau @Sonikku @grrlscientist @benroyce Why? That was a contribution/bribe.

@Darkphoenix@universeodon.com @theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social "That's not _illegal_. That's just something _they_ do to take more of _my_ money."

@ai6yr Wait... It might threaten logging?

@nev AI is so seductive. As long as I use it for things I know nothing about (and don't bother to fact check) the answers are always so well written and informative. I remember back when Bing Chat would give references. When Bing was "hallucinating" the references would invariably either be AI generated pages or pages that didn't match what Bing asserted, sometimes both. And when Google's AI summary was still spreading disinfo about Bixonimania while its search results were calling it fake.

@adam_harvey The AIs are being told to keep certain things secret but they're not smart enough to keep their mouths shut.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Does that "wrong" alt text look anything like: It's not as big a loss as it looks, because now I have have leftover supplies, which will help me talk myself into doing this all over again with a new project!

@Sage7225 @DP0 @arstechnica Now that's what I call hardcore!

@angusm Now that you mention it, it sounds like the kind of stuff SpaceX is building.

@kayb @adam_harvey I won't pay for ChatGPT 4 but supposedly that's what Bing Copilot is using. The results are certainly different... If you're curious, here's the reference it gives: https://hatchjs.com/what-are-the-last-4-digits-of-pi/ It looks like it was also written by an AI. The best part is the answer on that page doesn't agree with Bing's answer.

@collectifission@greennuclear.online @helioselene@h4.io @FluentInFinance@mastodon.social Maybe also counting gas and insurance?

@zenkat@sfba.social @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Remember too that this is also true of paid platforms.

@b9AcE@todon.eu It's not a calculator. You can do that stuff yourself in your head. It's designed to help with more complex problems you can't do yourself (or check the answers to) N.B. This is sarcasm. I also hear something like it from proponents all the time.