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But we don’t know what the false positive rate is either? How many submissions were blocked that shouldn’t have been, it seems like you don’t have a way to even find that metric out unless somebody complained about it.

The problem is a lot of this is almost impossible to actually verify. After all if an article says a skyscraper has 70 stories even people working in the building may not be able to necessarily verify that.

I have worked in a building where the elevator only went to every other floor, and I must have been in that building for at least 3 months before I noticed because the ground floor obviously had access and the floor I worked on just happened to do have an elevator so it never occurred to me that there may be other floors not listed.

For something the size of a 63 (or whatever it actually was) story building it’s not really visually apparent from the outside either, you’d really have to put in the effort to count the windows. Plus often times the facade looks like more stories so even counting the windows doesn’t necessarily give you an accurate answer not that anyone would necessarily have the inclination to do so. So yeah, I’m not surprised that errors like that exist.

More to the point the bigger issue is can the AI actually prove that it is correct. In the article there was contradictory information in official sources so how does the AI know which one was the right one? Could somebody be employed to go check? Presumably even the building management don’t know the article is incorrect otherwise they would have been inclined to fix it.

I have a kid but he’s at the stage where the greatest level of entertainment can be derived by sticking things up his nose.

I won’t get him smart anything as a toy.

Anyone who works in IT wouldn’t want that, like most cyber security professionals everything in my house is either analogue (door locks, fire alarm) or not internet connected, I have a smart TV but it’s not connected to the internet and if I want to watch Netflix I just hook it up to the PS5 which basically is a media streaming service.

The first one I got was some Russian mansion with a bunch of kids wondering around. Yeah, I’d probably want to secure that.

It’s not that we think that everyone on a .ml instance is a bad person it’s just that if you don’t watch your back you end up talking to a bunch of people who think that mass murder and war crimes and acceptable as long as their friends are the ones doing it. And they are unfortunately also on .ml and to tar everyone with the same brush.

It’s why a lot of instances are defederating which sucks for you of course because none of it is your fault.

On Reddit you will get quarantined or shadow banned quickly with anything politically charged.

Just pick your instance and you can get that here. Unfortunate number of tankies running around on here.

Oh no. I’ll have to look at ads while I make use of their fantastic and totally useful product, oh yeah, never mind.

Autocomplete isn’t AI. It’s string recognition which predates AI by about 35 years.

T9 predictive texting definitely didn’t contain AI, but was absolutely a thing for a really long time.

My keyboard has both characters. ’ and ‘ but yeah I never use them.

I don’t think they actually look good, yeah, it just looks weird.

I don’t know.

Which it probably will have because it’s been trained on Reddit comments.

Someone’s told the last AI not to use capital letters because some someone somewhere thinks that makes it look more human. Forgetting of course that autocorrect would change most non-capitalized words into capitalised ones automatically — so it’s just suspicious.

I can’t switch to purely Linux because I need windows in order to be able to do my job. The fact I also play games on the computer is irrelevant.

I don’t understand what you’re not understanding.

I feel the same way about women who drink prosecco. Kill them all.

Because then they’ll block steam in Russia.

I’m not defending Valve here they need to have more values, but realistically this game was never going to be available for sale in Russia. No matter what they did.

Even all the design agencies use Macs, no one in the business world uses Linux. Except for servers obviously.

I really need to upgrade my setup, but I don’t really feel like selling one of my kidneys so I can afford 8 gigabytes of RAM (it’s not a good kidney so I’m being realistic).

Anyway my current system has windows 11 on it anyway so I might as well just keep using that but as soon as I have the option to leave I’m going to.

I need to keep windows 11 around for work but as soon as I can build a system that can hold to two whole operating systems at a time I’m going to go over to dual booting. Unless the steam machine turns out to be cheaper than anyone’s realistically expecting, in which case I might just go that route. The current RAM prices mean that’s probably unlikely.

Ah yes the classic purist arguement.

If the applications I want to use don’t support Linux then apparently that’s their problem. I wish I didn’t have to live in the real world, but unfortunately I can’t pay my mortgage in moral righteousness. If I can’t use the programs I need to use my job, because I’ve decided to switch to an operating system that they don’t support, I’m the one that’s going to suffer.

So no you can’t just ditch applications that don’t have Linux support.

In the real world you have to dual boot and that’s a pain in the arse because it means Microsoft are still going to be getting some money from me.

It took me ages today to work out how to map a drive letter because they’ve changed where the menu button is. You used to be able to do it from the taskbar at the top, but now it’s hidden in a right click menu in a different part of the file browser to where it used to be. I don’t understand the point of changes like that, by all means add more options but keep the old ones around for consistency.

We’ve been switching over to Windows 11 and it’s broken so many of our old applications.

We have stuff that’s like 40 years old and it just won’t tolerate Windows 11 so all those programs have to be run in a virtual environment. They were fine with Windows 10 so I’ve no idea what about Windows 11 they don’t like. I wouldn’t mind so much if there was an obvious advantage to Windows 11 but therr literally isn’t, there’s not a single feature in Windows 11 that would help us do business better.

But I think Windows 11 is on track to be the crap version, so Windows 12 will hopefully be better although given the current direction Microsoft moving that might not be the case, and they may have finally broken the crap then good cycle.