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NewtonMark

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Australia. Pug owner. Private pilot. Professional internet geek. Opinions vary.

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Not sure if you’ve noticed, fellas, but nobody needs to buy either of them.

mattcen ,
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@purserj @vampiress @NewtonMark I don't have a VR headset, but I recently bought the new* Myst remake, and I'd love to try that in VR sometime. It's about the only time I've been tempted.

*2021

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@mattcen @purserj @NewtonMark When the tech exists to have them high enough res & refresh to not make me nauseated, battery life enough that I don't need cables, AND not cost the price of a car, then I'll get another one maybe.

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It is impossible for a ChatGPT outage to be “major.”

Jplonie ,
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@vampiress @NewtonMark so you ask for something make believe

vampiress ,
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@Jplonie @NewtonMark When make-believe results are going to get you closer to the answer than a search engine shit has gone very wrong.

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So incredibly patronizing. Imagine believing that a year and a half of disruption could make everyone not have interpersonal skills.

It’s not the pandemic, Fortune. If they’re accurately conveying contempt, I figure their interpersonal skills are just fine.

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I can’t be the only one who thinks it’s risible to see a campaign from the people who make gambling legal to tell us all about the harms of gambling.

NewtonMark OP ,
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@vampiress @abstractcode That looks extremely well regulated, and certainly less socially harmful than what we have now.

vampiress ,
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@NewtonMark @abstractcode To be fair the bar is set pretty low there.

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Scarlett Johansson is annoyed at Sam Altman for stealing her voice. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

One day OpenAI will acknowledge that its entire business is built on misappropriation of intellectual property. Today is not that day.

Part of OpenAI's schtick is blurring the line: They handwave past copyright concerns over their training data, mounting a plausible but contestable claim of fair use. But then they pull shit like this.

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Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs.

They offer a thing they're calling an "opt-out."

The opt-out (a) is only available to companies who are slack customers, not end users, and (b) doesn't actually opt-out.

When a company account holder tries to opt-out, Slack says their data will still be used to train LLMs, but the results won't be shared with other companies.

LOL no. That's not an opt-out. The way to opt-out is to stop using Slack.

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

We offer customers a choice around these practices. If you want to exclude your Customer Data from helping to train Slack global models, you can opt out. If you opt out, Customer Data on your workspace will only be used to improve the experience on your own workspace and you will still enjoy all of the benefits of our globally trained Al/ML models without contributing to the underlying models.
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    NYPD Assistant Chief James McCarthy pepper sprayed himself in the face at point blank range in response to a New York protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. https://nypost.com/2024/05/12/us-news/top-nypd-cop-pepper-sprays-himself-breaking-up-anti-israel-protests/

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    @vampiress Some real “aiming the wrong end of the gun” vibes right there.

    vampiress ,
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    @NewtonMark Sending it to all my friends who've been pepper sprayed by cops right now.

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    “Quiet quitting” isn’t a real thing, it’s the product of an emotional disorder experienced by managers, where they have a vague unexplainable suspicion that their team members are terrible even when they’re producing superb work. Any company concerned about quiet quitting in their workforce can completely eliminate the phenomenon by clearing out their middle management ranks. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/2024/04/25/quiet-quitters-test-employers-even-more-than-staff-departures/

    jpm ,
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    @NewtonMark but WHY do my staff not do more work than is required of them?!

    Bern ,
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    @jpm @NewtonMark we got told we had to do "less with less".

    The only problem is our workload is tightly linked to regulatory requirements, so it became a question of "Sure, which conditions of our regulatory approvals would you like us to deliberately fail to comply with? Bearing in mind that 'wilful non-compliance' may attract criminal prosecution..."

    It turned out "less with less" meant "do the same workload, but fire 20% of the staff and farm the work out to external consultants at twice the hourly rate".

    And some C-level got a bonus for that. 😡

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    Every location where The Matrix was filmed in Sydney. https://gizmodo.com.au/2024/04/matrix-filming-locations-sydney/

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    I don’t think Apple stopped to wonder if anyone wanted or needed this before they launched it. https://gizmodo.com/apple-vision-pro-already-forgotten-about-1851426564

    vampiress ,
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    @NewtonMark It'll be quietly cancelled before it even releases in Australia.

    Can't say I'm upset about that.

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    @vampiress @NewtonMark Gonna miss out on the chance to dack losers wearing them in public, but that's about it.

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    If you want any more Z80 microprocessors, you have until the middle of June to submit your last orders. (Ping @foone)

    vampiress ,
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    @NewtonMark Reckon I’ll order a few thousand. You never know when you’ll need ‘em.

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    @vampiress @NewtonMark

    I will just 'pour one out' in memory of my beloved Zilog Z80 1.774 MHz powered TRS-80.

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    UK Govt review used to limit the provision of gender-affirming care included AI-generated images of fake non-binary children. https://www.404media.co/uk-gender-affirming-care-ai-generated-children/

    vampiress ,
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    @NewtonMark The only reason it took a while to notice is it's cropped before you can see their 18 fingers.

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    Shout out to the air traffic controller who did his best to help out the Jabiru pilot whose engine failed at 9500 near Dubbo this afternoon.

    Airplane ended up landing safely in a paddock (I’m sure all of us on the area freq exhaled a simultaneous sigh of relief when we heard the pilot check in from the ground)

    The controller knew enough about GA to be able to tutor the pilot through the iPad taps he’d need to use the ruler to measure his distance from Dubbo. Not something I expected to hear.

    Anyway: Good outcome, three cheers for everyone involved.

    vampiress ,
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    @NewtonMark That’s amazing.

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    Once again, someone in Australia's ATC organization didn't show up for work, and their roster is so stretched that the affected console will be unattended for the shift, so a block of airspace between Ballina and the Sydney Northern Beaches is under TIBA procedures.

    TIBA means ATC doesn't tell any airliners about traffic conflicts, and all controlled airspace reverts to uncontrolled. "Don't bother calling us, nobody's listening."

    TIBA is usually what you expect overflying war zones where there's no ATC capability. It's not what you expect from a technically advanced first-world country with a stable government.

    Flights will be cancelled due to this: Airlines will risk-assess and decide that mid-air collision risk from spending an hour following GPS airways in uncontrolled airspace in one of the world's busiest air corridors is too high, and they'll stay on the ground.

    Australia's semi-privatized ATC system is a failed experiment. Air Services is a broken organization that's incapable of doing its job. It needs to be nationalized.

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    Millionaire newsletter doesn’t think Boeing should start by getting rid of its millionaire executives.

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