Blame Altman on that one, from the article:

Altman once called OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft “the best bromance in tech,”

I wouldn’t doubt that LLMs got some special input to deal with the specific examples of this paper, or similar enough.

Probably good to add a /s somewhere here.

I suspect people are down voting without checking the piece.

I know I would, but I saw it shared on Mastodon in a cheeky way first.

Made me think this was the good news community.

Same for the teenager part.

The Podcast (Dialogues instead of Monologues) is content for the older audience, though: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLet00UQnlQoUKqSB5-oFmrwpnnVc4C4A8

L. O. L.

Seriously though, reasonable discussion of its usefulness aside, how can’t people see that outrageous statements like that without any scientific or practical backing, clearly made to inspire devotion and/or fear, keeping the hype and the money and resources drain on, are the telltale of a tech hype?

We are discontinuing Workplace from Meta so we can focus on building AI and metaverse technologies that we believe will fundamentally reshape the way we work,

Lol, can’t make this shit up!

It this actually true? For real?!

Can’t wait to go back from my parental leave and not be the last one to hear about important announcements because they were posted on FB. F that.

Every 4-5 seconds? Yeah, logging.

You can either move the system dataset to your boot drive/pool or syslog to /var/log:

https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/coretutorials/systemconfiguration/settingthesystemdataset/

I’ve seem many users recommend a reboot after changing those settings.

Boy, are the example story and picture bad.

Trying to make real and good use of AI generative models are cracks in the magic.

On handling downloaded songs and offline playback, my personal (but informed) opinion is that there is:

• some licensing reasons for it to be more complicated than strictly necessary
• lack of interest of supporting an app feature that doesn’t drive numbers immediately up (sure, I agree that a better offline experience would improve the product and help user retention, but it isn’t easy/quick to measure its impact), and
• lack of ownership with many teams having to support a functionality (keep the app working offline) within all the various app features they own.

So, just as a dog with multiple owners, it goes neglected and starves.

I’d say that they’re “cooking the books” as in: making it look like they’re in better shape than they are by cutting costs, but causing irreparable damage to themselves that will manifest in the long run.

I’ve survived 3 layoffs at Spotify last year alone. Once I started working there It didn’t take long to be proud and feel happy about it. Now, although people still find it cool when I tell them and I still do the same job (no workload increase), I know it is just like any other greedy corpo and I feel compelled to care less and less.

https://c.im/@matdevdug/111828583287417134

“cheat”, “lie”, “cover up”… Assigning human behavior to Stochastic Parrots again, aren’t we Jimmy?

No fees when users choose to pay via Spotify (which had been the case and only option since the beginning, until User Choice Billing was implemented).

If users choose to pay with Google Play Billing, Google keeps 4%.

Even so, what I find hypocritical is that Spotify got this deal and seemingly agreed to keep it under wraps, without advocating for it to be extended to all other music streaming services in the platform.

Because… having a deal with the platform holder that gives it unfair advantage over the competition is exactly what they accuse Apple of doing with iOS.

Sauce: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969690/google-spotify-android-billing-commission-secret-deal

Interesting… I have an OG Shield, also in the Netherlands, but have seen no ads (that being said, companies A/B test and do gradual rollout of this kind of BS).

But I also kept my Android Home in the version without ads by disabling Play Store updates and instead manually going over all apps (except Home!) every month or so (or when I have an issue with any app I use).

I feel confident that I’ll be able to hack my way around this new form of ads.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

sigh

For me, the most important bit was the basis of the claim that YouTube would be breaching privacy, and this is it (completely missing from the “summary”):

“AdBlock detection scripts are spyware — there is no other way to describe them and as such it is not acceptable to deploy them without consent,” Hanff tells The Verge. “I consider any deployment of technology which can be used to spy on my devices is both unethical and illegal in most situations.”

Me washing $200 worth of groceries in 2023

I have the OG Shield Pro, with an additional remote, the most recebt one.

Besides changing the inner HDD for a SSD, it does all I need.

Sure, it doesn’t support the HDMI 2.1 that my TV does, but I don’t need that for what the Shield does for me (YouTube, Netflix and Plex playback).