The biggest problem with “AI” is probably that it’s used as label for two completely different things:
1. Specialized neural networks trained to do highly specific tasks (e.g. cancer screening) which often work reasonably well as a tool to support human experts
2. Generative AI which thoroughly produces the most mid bullshit
It doesn’t help that neither are intelligent in any way, they’re both statistical pattern matching.
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With Firefox having AI added in the recent update. Here's how you can disable it.
- Open
about:configin your browser. - Accept the Warning it gives.
- Search
browser.mland blank all values and setfalsewhere necessary as shown in the screenshot, anything that requires a numerical string can be set as0.
Once you restart you should no longer see the Grey-ed out checkbox checked, and the AI chatbot disabled from ever functioning.
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THIS IS A HUGE ACHIEVEMENT:
The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.
Graph from Nat Bullard and data from Ember.
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TIL about Eternal September: How a 1993 AOL promotion led to year-round influxes of new users, a phenomenon that previously only occurred each September with new computer science students.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fcei6h/til_about_eternal_september_how_a_1993_aol/
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Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots
An alleged scammer has been arrested under suspicion that he used AI to create a wild number of fake bands — and fake streams to with them.Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)
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should've just laundered money with real, but bad music instead.
#sarcasm #NotLegalAdvice #NotFinancialAdvice
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
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NEW STORY // Join for The Urbanist's RapidRide G Line Opening Celebration
via @urbanistorg // 🔗 https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/09/08/join-for-the-urbanists-rapidride-g-line-opening-celebration/?feed_id=4055&_unique_id=66de1d2646196
Join for The Urbanist’s RapidRide G Line Opening Celebration - The Urbanist
# The Urbanist is hosting an opening day celebration for the RapidRide G Line, which commences service on Saturday from 5:00pm to 7:30pm at Stoup Capitol Hill.Urbanist Staff (The Urbanist)
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TIL that honeybees who consume a nectar that includes grayanotoxins can produce a special honey called "mad honey." Ingesting this honey causes violent drunkenness and disorientation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_honey
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fc7n8j/til_that_honeybees_who_consume_a_nectar_that/
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People are angry at Gen Z taking photos of airport trays. Here’s what’s really going on
No sooner have airports introduced new scanning machines so you don’t need to unpack your carry-on bags, than a trend emerges where you photograph all your loose items in your airport security tray.The “airport tray aesthetic” has taken off on TikTok, Instagram and Pinterest as people share artfully arranged shots of their sunglasses, shoes, toiletries and reading material inside the regulation polypropylene dishes.
Don’t expect crumpled plastic bags stuffed with toothpaste and Pepto-Bismol. This is aspirational travel, where your 35mm film camera nestles between your vintage loafers and your first-edition copy of “On the Road.”
#CNN #News #travel #GenZ #airport #airline #flight #aviation
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People are wildly clueless about their own financial situations. If I'm ever in an article highlighting financial challenges when my income is six figures, someone needs to smack me.
Seattle on one income? It takes ‘watching every single receipt’
Second jobs, five-figure debt, shoestring budgets: Single-income households confront unique challenges — and solutions — to getting by in the Seattle area.The Seattle Times
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@elliots Of course.
I'm noting that this article -- and many individuals like the one highlighted in the article -- conflate personal choices with system problems.
Yeah, obviously housing costs are way too high. But I have zero confidence this person making $142k doesn't end up with the same problem if housing costs were halved because they seem unable to make reasonable financial decisions to live within their means.
@elliots I highlight this because the people who need to be paying more taxes so we can subsidize childcare and housing, are the people like the first guy in this article.
We aren't getting a world class welfare state by only taxing the 1%. The upper middle class have to be the biggest contributors.
Anyone else really like major key conversions of songs that were originally in a minor key? :3 #music
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Me: I think America is at that point where you realize you are becoming just like your parents...
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Blame capitalism: It is a barrier to a renewable energy future.
https://climate.benjames.io/solar-off-grid/
#capitalism #neoliberalism #classwar #economics #bosses #workers #humanrights #environment #war
Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid.
The cost of solar panels is plummeting, and this will flood the power grid with cheap electricity. But that’s just Act 1. We won’t stop building solar at the limits of the grid - we’ll build a lot more.Ben James
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Evacuations ordered as wildfire burns in foothills of national forest east of LA
Wildfire east of LA threatens tens of thousands of homes and forces evacuations - SRN News
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Tens of thousands of homes and buildings were threatened Sunday by an out-of-control wildfire burning in the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles, amid a days-long heat wave that pushed temperatures into th…jgiesler (SRN News)
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meme captioned "I don't have two wolves inside me. I have these guys"
drawing of a person's head with a cutaway showing the brain space inside where six badgers frolic among large mushrooms.
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Artist captures B.C.'s clear cutting, climate change in Coquitlam photo show - Vancouver Is Awesome
Artist captures B.C.'s clear cutting, climate change in Coquitlam photo show
Vancouver photographer Garrett Andrew Chong's new exhibit, "Eroded Origins: Liminal Illusions Amidst Climate Transformation," opens tonight, Sept. 6, at Place des Arts.Janis Cleugh (Vancouver Is Awesome)
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"Popular restaurant in Midtown Toronto only wants delivery drivers in cars"
submitted by u/Franky_DD
https://redd.it/1fbmn0l
#fuckcars
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Dear People Who Give Amz Reviews
Please be aware that when you give a book a 1 star review, that book is send backward in the listings in Amazon search. This means the book someone has spend months (if not years) writing, will probably never sell another copy. That's right, you have condemned their book to purgatory. Being fair, if the book is a piece of garbage, then rightly so, give it 1 star.
But if your book comes damaged in shipping,
DO NOT GIVE THE BOOK 1 STAR!!
That's so unfair the author of the book. The author has no control over the shipping of their books.
Instead please contact Amazon themselves and request a replacement.
Why am I posting this? Because I got one of those today on one of my books ... there goes what little sales I have these days. Very frustrating.
Anyway, thanks for listening ...
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Fun fact: the Pacific/Mountain time zone boundary doesn't follow the state lines between Washington/Oregon and Idaho.
Northern Idaho is in Pacific time for convenience doing business with Spokane, while some of eastern Oregon is in Mountain time for proximity to Boise.
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I’ve heard the DesertX doesn’t really compromise, but I’ve not tried one myself.
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Are you sick and tired of websites, especially technical ones that have complicated commands or code snippets, preventing you from copy/paste? Here's a fix that website owners HATE!
Open Firefox (because you shouldn't be using anything else), and in the Awesomebar, type in "about:config" and press enter. Accept the warning. Search for the option "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" and set that sucker to FALSE.
Take back the web!
#Firefox #CopyPasteDisabled #TakeBackTheWeb
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TIL the word Germandering was created by combing the words Gerry and salamander
https://youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fblre8/til_the_word_germandering_was_created_by_combing/
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![Image description] two panel comic made with screenshots from the show Invincible
[Panel 1] Omni-man and Invincible look at the sky, where is superimposed a graphical representation of how a floating point number is stored in memory on digital systems: a sign, an exponent, and a mantissa.
[Panel 2] Omni-man looks at and speaks to Invincible, the subtitles reading "Look at what they need to mimic a fraction". The rest of the usual quote, "of our power" is blanked out.
Thanks @Siph](https://f.kawa-kun.com/photo/preview/640/1801762 "Image description] two panel comic made with screenshots from the show Invincible
[Panel 1] Omni-man and Invincible look at the sky, where is superimposed a graphical representation of how a floating point number is stored in memory on digital systems: a sign, an exponent, and a mantissa.
[Panel 2] Omni-man looks at and speaks to Invincible, the subtitles reading \"Look at what they need to mimic a fraction\". The rest of the usual quote, \"of our power\" is blanked out.
Thanks @Siph")
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https://www.fastcompany.com/91185144/the-worlds-largest-wind-powered-cargo-ship-just-made-its-first-delivery-across-the-atlantic
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TIL after visiting Pyongyang in 1971, Romanian dictator Ceaușescu got obsessed to North Korean ideology and implemented it to his country. He was executed in 1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea%E2%80%93Romania_relations
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fb7jia/til_after_visiting_pyongyang_in_1971_romanian/
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Now imagine if you're completely colourblind...
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