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milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto Technology@lemmy.world•Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is NotEnglish3·8 days agoUnless you’re moving across partitions it will change the filesystem metadata to move the path, but not actually do anything to the data. Sorry, you failed, it’s jail for you.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto Technology@lemmy.world•Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is NotEnglish2·8 days agoRight. Where’s the punishment for Meta who admitted to pirating books?
But you’re not focusing on the mirror; you’re focusing on the reflection ‘behind’ it.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto Just Post@lemmy.world•Parents were polled "When I think about my child's experience growing up, I wish _____ had never been invented."1·8 days agoRadio killed the bicycle star
milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto Just Post@lemmy.world•Parents were polled "When I think about my child's experience growing up, I wish _____ had never been invented."2·8 days agoThat’s a bit like, “guns don’t kill people.” Human nature is the problem, but certain technology makes it so much worse.
Last time this was posted, the some answers said it’s actually likely a nest (funnel web spider or something?) and the “dead spider” shed skin.
So the metaphor for capitalism is… The Rich carry on eating the produce of the Poor, while the socialists look on and think the system is dying? Haha! Checkmate Poors!
No longer apex. I can kill a Great White… With plastic rubbish!
milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto TechTakes@awful.systems•Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrageEnglish46·14 days agoThe “generative AI” mention in the grant is badly worded corporate buzzspeak, and doesn’t accurately reflect anything that will be used here - disregard any association to what you normally expect from those words
That sounds particularly suspect, coming with no answer as to what it does mean.
Colonel Linux and his army of daemons!
I had no idea this was a thing. Thank you!
It’s the canonical choice
milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto CartographyAnarchy@sh.itjust.works•Did you know that all the countries that start with 'O' form a straight line?2·18 days agoI see Ostralia and Saudi Orabia
The real problem these days is with intensive almond farming. Almond tastes better from free range almonds, with space to graze in peace and calm between the bushes.
Have you heard of “bitter almonds”? Turns up in mystery novels. It’s what you get from caged almonds raised on steroids.
Cabbages are actually tree trunks
Raspberries are actually tubers
Wheat is actually a berry
And oranges are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings
Also acorns are the progenitors of oranges.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL there's a dollar store equivalent in the UK called "Poundland"English15·19 days agoIn related news, Americans wear thongs on their feet.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeto Technology@lemmy.world•Atom-Thin Tech Replaces Silicon in the World’s First 2D ComputerEnglish3·19 days agoThat’s very cool, but does anyone else think the title image is AI generated? Neither image nor caption seem to sit right, nor fit together.
Is the ‘caption’ actually (derived from) a prompt?
I recommend grating cheese over your fries before warming them up!
Reminds me of this:
https://xkcd.com/1685