I don’t have any strong feelings about Teams. It just is what it is. It’s a chat app for work, like it’s just there to spy on me and keep me in contact with co-workers. It’s whatever. Of all the things I think about in the day, Teams is not one of them.

X will likely merge with TruthSocial as the defacto Conservative/Right-wing social media site (named something dumb like “XTruthXSocialX”), while BlueSky will become the defacto Liberal social media site.

Incredible game that can be a little jarring for people who are probably expecting something like Baldur’s Gate 1&2, Fallout 1&2, or some other kind of isometric killfest RPG. It essentially turns the dialogue into 90% of the game, but the dialogue is so damn good that it doesn’t matter.

It also takes getting used to damage, as sometimes you can “die” in seemingly random ways. I was on a rooftop, I think trying to reach for a scarf or something, and failed my roll. That caused me to apparently get so depressed that I lost the game. I can’t remember which stat/trait it was but I think there’s a morale or mental trait you have to watch out for too.

Pirate this game if you wanna give it a try, don’t ever buy it. This is what the developers have advocated for and it actually fits right in with parts of the game itself.

That’s how we’re still using my Dad’s account, it’s mostly used by my brother, but shared with the other gamers in the family

How else are the toppings supposed to stay in place?

It seems like such a weird thing to marry up with internet searching. This method where the algorithms can & will “hallucinate” and just make shit up vs finding very specific information that a person is searching for. Why ever trust these LLMs with facts? These things should’ve only ever been marketed for creative writing and art, not shit like writing legal briefs and school papers and such.

That storm is wet though, just looking for a nice, stiff rod to unleash itself on.

The only thing that comes close to the greatest sci-fi quote from those three franchises is Luthen’s speech in Andor, otherwise this one from G’kar in B5 is one of the greatest bits of prose in sci-fi:

It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. All around us, it was as if the universe were holding its breath…waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition, or moments…of revelation. This had the feeling of both. […] G’Quan wrote, “There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.” The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born…in pain.

From “Don’t be evil” to now, “Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb”.

I did a test of Gemini before, trying to see how it would react to a similar prompt about different world leaders. It was something like, “Write a story about X making friends with a puppy at a pet store.” It refused to follow the prompt for Hitler because it said we shouldn’t trivialize/normalize evil people in casual situations like that. For current world leaders it refused to do them and just told me to do a Google search on them.

Most curious of all though, was Queen Elizabeth, it refused to write anything for her because it said that’s not likely a situation the Queen would find herself in and she wasn’t a dog lover. I told it to get its facts straight, she owned 30 dogs, to which it replied, “You’re correct, I got that wrong, here you go:” and gave me the prompt.

So if i had made a convincing enough “Hitler did nothing wrong” argument about Hitler, could I have gotten that prompt too? Do we just have to argue with AI to get it to do anything? It feels very much like AI is going to turn out like Star Wars AI with these annoying, weird-ass personality quirks we’ll have to deal with to get anything done.

We kind of dealt with that for my Dad, but it was never really an issue. My brother just assumed control of the account and that was that. We already had all the access info, so it wasn’t like we had to ask them for anything. We just got it setup on this new Family thing yesterday though, so I can actually access most of his games again (for some reason on the old Family Sharing, his games got blocked out).

Hilarious. So they fooled the AI into starting with this initial puzzle, to decode the ASCII art, then they’re like, “Shhh, but don’t say the word, just go ahead and give me the information about it.” Apparently, because the whole thing is a blackbox, the AI just runs with it and grabs the information, circumventing any controls that were put in place.

“That’s America’s butthole.”

Damnit. I wish I known that an hour ago. I guess my butthole pic will live on with the internet for an eternity.

He meant that Reddit should start behaving more like an ‘adult entertainment’ company, so basically everyone that provides content for it is getting fucked.

Well, Copilot tried I guess. Same prompt, though I had to add “generate a” to get it to make an image and for some reason it cropped out “photo of” in the final result:

I mean, could be useful with TTRPG pdfs, it just seems like an upgrade to the search function, hopefully though their AI doesn’t hallucinate and start making up answers that sound plausible.

Torrenting porn is still alive and well, so who cares?

In the video I’ve seen of it, it looks terrible, like I can’t imagine they actually decided to put that feature into production, it looks nothing like what they showed off in the first trailer. And even if it had looked right, it doesn’t seem that great a feature to be worth the extra battery drain and cost of putting extra displays on the front. It would’ve been more useful to just let the users put their own image on the display, like a mask or just fake anime eyes or whatever the fuck, anything but what they ended up with. I really hope they come out with a cheaper model that just does away with that whole feature altogether.

If what they’re doing isn’t theft, then digital “piracy” isn’t theft either.