I think they meant you’d have to design a combination of hardware that’s all compatible with Linux - that is, that has Linux driver support.

It’s worth reading the whole article, because it makes pretty clear that it was Israeli forces that did this, that they initially struck the ambulances and then proceeded to execute the people in them, and that there were other slaughters of civilians involved in the same action.

You guys are wearing trousers? I find it slows down the whole process of throwing feces at my enemies.

Buddhists would say that if you look closely, you find no distinction between yourself and everyone else. We are made of each other. Empathy and compassion are our nature because nothing happens to just me or just you. It’s one shared life, and we suffer when we fail to recognize this.

Classing anyone as inhuman is dangerous. A widespread inability to see the most barbaric Nazis as regular human beings like ourselves is one of the reasons Nazism has been able to sneak back up on us. It’s important to recognize that the potential for empathy, and the potential for empathy to wither away, are both human potentials. As humans we have the capacity for great compassion or great cruelty. It won’t help us if we say, “Oh, that cruelty is not us. We’re humans; they’re not.”

“No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense,” Cloudflare explains. “Any visitor that does is very likely to be a bot, so this gives us a brand-new tool to identify and fingerprint bad bots.”

It sounds like there may be a plan to block known bots once they have used this tool to identify them. Over time this would reduce the amount of AI slop they need to generate for the AI trap, since bots already fingerprinted would not be served it. Since AI generators are expensive to run, it would be in Cloudflare’s interests to do this. So while your concern is well placed, in this particular case there may be a surge of energy and water usage at first that tails off once more bots are fingerprinted.

Some of these LLMs introduce very subtle statistical patterns into their output so it can be recognized as such. So it is possible in principle (not sure how computationally feasible when crawling) to avoid ingesting whatever has these patterns. But there will also be plenty of AI content that is not deliberately marked in this way, which would be harder to filter out.

Are you talking about Teams in Teams for Home or Teams for Work and School, and is it Teams or New Teams you mean?

Obsidian is a fancy markdown editor with metadata, sync, indexing, data querying and views and a lively ecosystem of plugins. It has everything except being open source.

Same for ZDNet.

You want me to list every US tech company that provides an online service? That’s absurd. Am I supposed to be proving that there are more than three companies in the USA that do this?

Not all online services are streaming media services. There are lots of other US services to get away from.

That’s unfair. It’s Windows NT with code piled on top. Also, Linux Mint may be an easier transition for Windows users.

Its running Windows. Once the corporations have taken their cut, there are 5.1 calculations left for the user.

We need an open-source printer project. But apparently it’s very difficult to do.

I’m using a Brother laser with third-party cartridges, and everything still works after the recent firmware update. So I’m inclined to believe them.

Apart from the privacy issues, I guess the challenge would be how you preserve the signature through ordinary editing. You could embed the unedited, signed photo into the edited one, but you’d need new formats and it would make the files huge. Or maybe you could deposit the original to some public and unalterable storage using something like a blockchain, but it would bring large storage and processing requirements. Or you could have the editing software apply a digital signature to track the provenance of an edit, but then anyone could make a signed edit and it wouldn’t prove anything about the veracity of the photo’s content.

In small things. Probably not very feasible for hobby projects unless you can get it soldered on when the PCB is built.

So, models may only be trained on sufficiently bigoted data sets?

allying with Russia

Russia is as untrustworthy as Trump. Alliance with Russia promises nothing good.