For those not interested in a 20-min interview of JD Vance… tldw summary?

But expert musicians often experience a “ceiling effect,” in which their skill level plateaus after extensive training.

“Oops, I typed this message to the vice president and forgot to click send! Anyway now we can’t have unions.”

My perception is that people are tacitly accepting it. When directly questioned about the pros and cons of AI tools, they will admit on principle that it’s generally not a good idea to rely on them. But then they use them anyway, seemingly without a second thought.

It’s like calling cars into question in an area that’s built around cars. People will admit that cars kinda suck and that a car-dependent society isn’t great, but they won’t do anything to change it.

Savor these headlines now. We probably won’t see any more like them for a long time.

Some of the companies involved that are mentioned in the article:

• Service providers (Comcast, Charter, Cox)
• Entertainment (Disney, AMC, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery
• Those connected to advertising (Google, Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Vizio, the NFL)
• Home security (ADT)

As another comment said, I also dropped everything and read the article. So yeah I guess that’d mean Streisand effect is coming into play.

Regarding the topic at hand: I don’t care what these companies say at this point. The fact is that in the past, I have used their services, clicked the “free” button, did some things, and then ended up having to pay them money.

Until the day comes that I get a letter in the mail from the government saying, “Here’s how much you paid in taxes, if you’re cool with that then please disregard”, I will not be satisfied.

“What’s a viable business model for all these idiot robots we keep building?”

I hate to post because I have loved and trusted Wikipedia for years, but the fact that there are folks out there who equally trust what AI tools generate just baffles me.

Screen capture while the video is running, like the VCR days of yore

Gosh. Thinking about all the time I wasted on the damn bus today made this sting more than usual.

What if this was just a scheme to get everyone free monitoring

Just because there’s been an influx of important political news relating to the former president (court decisions, trial delays, etc.) does not mean we need a bunch of “Trump says” articles again.

That’s why programmers have all those monitors. They’re each hooked up to a different computer.

Hey at least I know it gets the job done

I appreciate this thread’s nuanced discussion of how file deletion works from a technical standpoint depending on storage medium. But as a user, when I delete something, it should go away forever. I don’t care how.

Gboard swiping is okay, but I agree, there are still some annoyances. Random mid-sentence capitalization is a big one for me.

And no matter how hard I try, no matter what the settings are, no matter how slowly and deliberately I motion, it will absolutely never output the word “fuck” when swiping. It will say “fucking”, it will even say “fuckin”, but it will never say “fuck”.

Gucci. Duck. Tick. Duck. Rick. Dick. Gigi. FICO. Guck.

This was barely funny back in 2009, now it’s just embarrassing. WTF even is “guck”.

The rubber and glue rule. It almost kinda rhymes.

Seriously tho wtf are they doing

Now taking wagers for how long it’ll be before one of them shows up in the media saying that Biden actually didn’t win, but the “Deep State” railroaded them into this court settlement.

I copied the list straight from the article, so excuse the awkward phrasing. But yes, the implication is that you could totally use “password1” on some websites.