it was smaller than Lemmy is now when I first started using it.

so now we know whom to blame for its enshittification

yep, it wasn’t just a plain tiff.

double-negatives in the headline means a positive article.

In general, the report found that the AI summaries showed “a limited ability to analyze and summarize complex content requiring a deep understanding of context, subtle nuances, or implicit meaning.” Even worse, the Llama summaries often “generated text that was grammatically correct, but on occasion factually inaccurate,”

how is this being accepted? one would have to go through any output with a fine-toothed comb anyway to weed out ai hallucinations, as well as to preserve nuance and context.

it’s like the ai tells you that mona lisa has three eyes and a nose and her mouth is closed but her denim jacket is open. you’re going to report that in your story without ever looking at the painting?

in many ways, yes evidently. but there’s something additional at the end of this story which transcends those legends.

but thanks for the link. live and learn!

High Citadel was the first of his books that i read and i was hooked immediately. from the crash landing to the riverside standoff to the trek across the andes to the ultimate jet dogfight - it’s just one rollercoaster dip after another.

and the guerrilla tactics were something else altogether. especially the building of the crossbows and the trebuchet as well as the crash caused by the cable spool.

i’d still place Vivero Letter, Snow Tiger, and a couple of others above it but it’s miles ahead of Juggernaut, Wyatt’s Hurricane, and the weird one about some inheritance.

did they really think that a bank – a representative of an industry reknowned for excessively charging for services that should be free – would let them get away with it?

that’s like a lion returning every night to shit in the shikari’s shoes and hoping not to get shot.

i can’t recommend the novel “The Vivero Letter” by Desmond Bagley enough when it comes to the subject of lost mayan cities.

as with his other novels, the research that he showcases in his narrative is nothing short of impressive – especially considering that he was active at a time without the internet.

it’s definitely one of his better books.

wait till you hear about white and black boards.

employees of companies with whom you’ve registered that email id sell it for some quick cash on the side.

i can aver this confidently since i know someone from dominos pizza has leaked my email id. i have a convoluted gmail id which i use to register to all these services and – because it’s gmail – i can set up random dots and a custom phrase behind a + to register specific variants to specific companies (e.g., abcxyz123@gmail vs. ab.c.xyz123+dominos@gmail).

all the spam and pseudo-phishing email is sent only to the variant which i’ve registered to dominos and not to a different variant (e.g., a.bcxyz123+bankname@gmail) registered to any other company.

the leaked email id doesn’t contain a name and is too random for it to just be “guessed” by the spammers.

yiu do know that, every two seconds, it goes tiktok?

maybe that’s just the ai’s internal monologue leaking through?

isn’t that headline tautological?

or, alternatively, their lifetime offer has truly been honoured.

the ones i play most often are Forkyz and Simon Tatham’s Puzzles.

given his choice of weapon, i’m surprised he didn’t “stop!”.

you would have received more relevant responses if you had titled your post as, “there is absolutely no evidence that musk is against free speech. what are you folks on about, anyway?”

well, that and maybe because it does help us communicate with all the aurally challenged people around us.

… and most of the rest of us are in obtuse poverty.

even the strongest amongst us would quail

on hearing the specifics of every such tale.

one would be ever so inclined

to declare that the worst of mankind

lives today in that state of israel.