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@carnage4life@mas.to Well, one is protected by copyright while the other isn't, but that difference works against him, not for him
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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+chuckyaPseudonymous account I use to post about my nerdy interests, which include, but are not limited to: digital privacy/security, gaming, video game console hacking, FOSS, anime, and sci-fi/fantasy. I post short thoughts here and longer thoughts to my blog at https://gunther.link.
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One of the major reasons people use AI is that they don't actually want to do things, they want to have done things.
If you have AI write a novel, you don't want to write a novel, you want to have written a novel. If you have AI write code, you don't want to write code, you want to have written code. If you have AI create a picture, you don't want to make art, you want to have made art.
So apparently if you search for "Pikachu" on DuckDuckGo, this is the logo that appears on the top of the page during that search.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mariyadelano/115548761092296218
I've been thinking about this because it comes up so the time at work. Management is pushing everyone to incorporate AI into their workflow and often the ways people do so could be accomplished more effectively, more cheaply, and more reliably with "traditional" automation methods.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116290921980047975
The government surveiling it's citizens? No, no, no, that would illegal. What they're doing is allowing the data broker industry to surveil the citizens with no legal guardrails and then buying that data from them using taxpayer money. It's very different.
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social People are bad with dealing with others' behavior that causes them negative emotions. "Boundaries" are often used to mean that you can't do anything that makes me feel bad. But real relationships between people mean sometimes making the other person feel bad. It comes with the territory.
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I've already noticed multiple FOSS projects I follow having faster release cycles and patching security flaws. Some have openly attributed this to genAI, others not, but it's almost certainly the catalyst.
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I know there are a lot of purists out there who don't want genAI touching their FOSS, but the vast majority of FOSS projects don't have the resources to match proprietary competitors unless they're relying on the upstream open source code from big companies like Google. I'd much prefer thriving, community-driven FOSS that uses genAI than stagnant, underesourced FOSS or FOSS that is dependent on the goodwill of Google but refuses to use the tech.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116291344660860359
Really feels like Nintendo is trying to kill physical games without technically killing physical games
Fun fact: peanuts are neither peas nor nuts.
Ya, that's right, look it up.
Why yes, I would be interested in playing Ducky Ducky Literature Club, thank you
Just beat Whitney in Polished Crystal. Hey Miltank is just as grueling as I remember, but it didn't really pose a problem, just took forever to beat between the healing moves and the hyper potion. Bugsy was actually much harder. Probably because I chose Chikorita as my starter.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116561863823915138
This strategy of firing half of the employees so the other half can chew through expensive AI tokens for no purpose other than to rise in the internal AI-usage leaderboards seems really good. I'm sure it won't have any downsides long-term.
I'm at the point in my life where the bottleneck of what video games I have time to play is time, not money. I have so many games in the backlog that I got on sale for a great value, but I just don't have the free time to play them all.