This is true of other dynamic languages. For example, Python will also allow you to add arbitrary properties to objects without complaining.

As others have mentioned, you need to read MDN, and more specifically, understand the browser APIs and DOM structure. When you have an HTMLElement, you should know that you need to set style properties on .style, and you should know that .style is a CSSStyleProperties object which uses camelCased version of the CSS property names, and each property takes a certain type of value, like the various value types for the width property, which include length values, percentage values and keyword values.

One of the main skills of being a frontend developer is learning this object model. It doesn’t make sense to complain about it, because that is the job.

Trial and error is not an efficient way to learn. You should at the very least experiment in the browser with the dev tools open. Have a hypothesis for how something should work (like changing a particular property), try making the change and observe the effect on the webpage and in the dev tool inspector, and if your hypothesis is wrong, understand why and update your mental model. The goal is to avoid using trial and error eventually and build an understanding instead.

Widevine is the defacto standard proprietary technology for DRM-locked content. It’s used by all the major streaming services like Netflix and Disney+. Without it, publishers would not make their content available to those platforms for fear of rampant piracy, especially for high quality and 4K content. I guess Widevine requires some sort of vetted relationship with any browser that wants to use their tech.

I took it to mean that newer AI browsers were taking mind-share, if not market-share. I think you’re right that they’re minuscule in terms of actual user numbers, perhaps because there are many of them now.

They posted a series of other AI-related blogs in July, August, and October:

• https://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-documentation-enters-a-new-era-with-ai-first-strategy/
• https://www.rsyslog.com/clarifying-ai-first-what-it-really-means-for-rsyslog/
• https://www.rsyslog.com/shipping-better-docs-with-ai-restructuring-module-parameters-for-clarity-and-consistency/
• https://www.rsyslog.com/introducing-the-rsyslog-commit-ai-assistant/
• https://www.rsyslog.com/new-rsyslog-ai-assistant-powered-by-digitalocean-gradient/

Here’s the article. It’s an excellent read: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

Sounds like Geoffrey Hinton got in Bernie’s ear and did a good job convincing him of the fears. Hinton is a good guy, but he’s drunk too much of his own kool-aid. I think the bubble will pop at some point, but I’d prefer the fear-mongering over the hype, because the AI companies and governments do need more scrutiny.

Already happened with Discord. 70,000 government IDs leaked. https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

Excellent read, thanks for sharing.

It was a reasonable assumption, but the distribution didn’t pan out that way.

It is 49% of the population. I did the math: https://lemmy.ca/post/56198025/20385158

I did the math and it’s 49.37% of the population, based on the 2024 census data, or 49.94% if you exclude Puerto Rico and D.C. I suppose mostly due to Texas and Florida being in the list, but also Ohio, Georgia and North Carolina with over 10M people each.

There ought to be a legal fund for these deepfake lawsuits so we can sue every one of these scummy companies out of existence. I’d donate to it.

I’d like the bubble to be true so that we can move past this nonsense phase, and it may well be true, but I could also see it being extended for years potentially, since there’s so much money being pumped into it, and governments are also buying into the hype.

You and I are not at odds, friend. I think you’re assuming I want to ban the technology out right. It’s possible to call out the issues with something without being wholly against it. I’m sure you would want to prevent these deaths as well.

A friendly human spell checked me and probably used less than a peanut worth of energy.

Whoops. Fixed, thanks.

I didn’t intentionally limit myself to north america, but it’s possible my searches are implicitly limited to north america. It could also be that the average north american has had more access to ChatGPT than the rest of the world, or that suicides are hard to link to ChatGPT, or they go unreported or unlitigated in other parts of the world

Went ahead and registered the domain anyway. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks, I agree most normies wouldn’t use the term LLM, but I did want to be specific. If I were to use the aideathcount domain, I’d want to collect a broader list of news articles first, but that may be difficult to search for.

Pesky word-wrapping got me on narrow screens. Thanks for the QA. :)