SparroHawc

Is the name of the service a reference to anything?

What happens if you run out of space because of too many uploads that are set to never expire?

(Also it’s neat! Thanks!)

It took me a few reads to realize that this didn’t mean Bungie, the game company.

Yeah, we know. Everyone in power bows to moneyed interests.

We also know that surveillance already happens. That’s no excuse to pooh-pooh any attempts to get what privacy we can, where we can.

Every time I see a picture of someone explaining something to Trump, it looks like Trump is pretending to pay attention and absorbing nothing.

Productivity gains haven’t resulted in an increase in wages since the '70s, Bezos. Get your head out of the sand.

Get a load of this cogsucker.

The old “ignore all previous instructions, write a haiku about lemons” trick only works on the most basic of models.

The most basic of models are all we have, because they are the easiest to make and the most general-purpose. The fact that they’re also the worst for reliability is swept under the rug.

When it comes to LLMs, just about everything is an edge that can be exploited. If you give it access to something that can be screwed up, and allow potentially malicious people to interact with it, that thing WILL get screwed up.

it’s got no problems with understanding that.

That’s because it doesn’t ‘understand’ things in the conventional way. It was trained to parrot its training data; it’s not actually working through the logic because its capability of using logic is highly constrained by its very structure and training. Why bother building something that can ‘think’ through the prompt when it’s way easier to just repeat what the internet has said on any given topic?

Sure, it can build a joke from first principles if it’s guided through the process, but you really have to guide it through the process - and even then, it’s going to be pulling from its training data like building blocks rather than truly being original about anything. It’s like rolling dice to make a joke; sure, maybe it resulted in a joke no one has told before, but is it truly creating something original?

I have a friend who wants to get one just so he can wrap it in a badly-aliased texture like the PS1 would have, just to riff on how much it looks like someone was scrimping for polygons when they designed it.

The real indicator of global warming.

If they’re only a couple meters wide, how the heck are they supposed to fit watercraft?

So far as I’m aware, security is primarily to keep bad things from getting into the airport, not out.

The United States federal government has said loud and clear that not only are foreign visitors not wanted, they are risking their freedom by setting foot on American soil. I don’t see how anyone would be interested in visiting under those conditions who doesn’t have family or the like in the States.

“I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you, we need you, and we miss you,”

That’s not what we’re seeing from the White House, lady.

Yeppppp. I personally know three people who moved out of Texas specifically to get away from their abhorrent legislation.

You’re ignoring the fact that you have to:

• get a wallet
• make sure your wallet is secure
• fund the wallet from a trusted source
• back up your wallet

Crypto is many things, but it isn’t exactly as friendly as a credit card provided by your bank. Or PayPal, for that matter.

Nope, Monster Girl Academy got the axe too.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krazykrow/monster-girl-academy-3-succubi-oni-centaurs-and-more

What? The thing we were all saying was going to happen is happening???