Beautiful. Looks like what I'd see when I would press on my closed eyeballs.
Within 30 seconds, it crashed my 2016 MacBook Pro (maybe overloaded the CPU + the failing battery? It's a feeble machine).
After the Mac's version of the BSD, Mac helpfully restored all of my windows (I have that setting turned off), and there it was again, happily Game Of Lifing in the background. Shut it down just as the fans were spinning up again.
This talk of deepfake porn takes me back to a classic HN comment from mabbo:
"As I see it, within a couple years this tech will be so widespread and ubiquitous that you can fully expect your asshole friends to grab a dozen photos of you from Facebook and then make a hyperrealistic pornographic image of you with a gorilla. Pandora's box is open, and you cannot put the technology back once it's out there."
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2. Open Bing Chat sidebar (top right corner); it auto-summarizes the article.
3: My prompt:
Using the that webpage summary, please write a letter reporting Alphabet for antitrust violation. Please include the following [this language is from the ftc.gov site]:
Q: What companies or organizations are engaging in conduct you believe violates the antitrust laws? A: Alphabet
Q: Why do you believe this conduct may have harmed competition in violation of the antitrust laws? A: [use the article]
Q:What is your role in the situation? A: I'm a user of the Firefox browser
Just got an email update from Google Cloud Trusted Tester Program, informing me that
> Generative AI support in Vertex AI is generally available
and
> Our Codey model is now in public preview, giving Vertex AI users access to powerful code completion, generation, and chat capabilities.
Trying it out requires signing up for Google Cloud. A 90-day $300 free credit trial is available, which happily does not auto-charge your credit card after the trial is over.
Curious if anyone out there has played around with Codey, and how it stacks up to GH Copilot etc.
Still very much in-flight, but progressing pretty quickly. Just tonight I decided I wanted to try using OCR to extract the text of the lyrics out of the frames of the video so that I can match up the clips with the lines eventually, and so far I've been through a series of iterations of different techniques with increasing accuracy. All of this has just been driven by asking ChatGPT and working through its suggestions, asking probing questions, and even using it to debug. It's just mind blowing. This is a project I wanted to years and years ago and just didn't know where to start, or the effort simply would have been more than I was willing to put in, but I actually think I'm going to succeed at it and I don't think it'll take me too long. It's making programming fun again.
So bad--it boggles my mind. We joke that their company moto is: "U-Haul: It's Always Somthing".
So many instances of showing up after reserving online, and the staff says, "Uh, we don't have that truck."
Most recently, my friends couldn't get their reserved truck (on their moving day) because their site (and backend) was down nationwide. They had the truck, but _because_ everything's digital now, they had no fallback ability to rent out the reserved truck.
Not only that, but their arbitrary safety rules get really annoying. "No you can't hook that onto the bumper hitch, even though its rated for 4500lbs. The rules say you need a receiver." The receiver is still rated for 4500lbs but that's okay.
But then they are happy to slap a receiver onto any passenger car that is not rated to tow at all and let you load up as much as you want into one of their box trailers.
Within 30 seconds, it crashed my 2016 MacBook Pro (maybe overloaded the CPU + the failing battery? It's a feeble machine).
After the Mac's version of the BSD, Mac helpfully restored all of my windows (I have that setting turned off), and there it was again, happily Game Of Lifing in the background. Shut it down just as the fans were spinning up again.