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@breadandcircuses

But why do desperate people keep voting for the same politicians who are making them desperate?

@ralf

That would be me! Long time no see!

We didn't have none of these new-fangled light-emitting doohickeys when I was young. If you wanted to see a picture on a screen back in my day, you'd point a 27-kilovolt death ray at your face, which came with a screen attached in front of it, and the death ray would light up the screen. This contraption somehow didn't kill us. Usually.

#CRT

My vague impression of how #PatrickStewart was convinced to return to acting in #StarTrekPicard is that it went something like this:

Studio: “Hey Patrick, wanna do #StarTrek again?”
Stewart: “No.”
Studio: “C'mooooon! We have this really cool script and everything!”
Stewart: “Okay.”

@hankg

Good. It's about time blatant lies in advertising were punished.

@carnage4life @goatsarah

Hello. We are the #Borg Cooperative.

Are you or someone you know struggling with feelings of loneliness, isolation, irrelevance, or imperfection?

Lower your anxieties, open your heart, and join the Cooperative. Together, we'll improve quality of life for all species, beginning with you!

Reluctance is futile. You *can* be assimilated. Call 1-800-WE-R-BORG or visit your nearest welcome cube today.

#StarTrek

@rephlex00

Yep. The human brain only requires about 100W of power.

And it's actually intelligent, with the ability to observe and reason, unlike LLMs.

@darwinwoodka

Human brains, you mean?

@rephlex00

@joeo10

Surveillance is one thing—if you're communicating in plaintext in 2024, you've got bigger problems than the US government—but rumor has it the spooks plan to conscript random people to install malware on their employers' equipment. *That* is terrifying, because you're completely screwed: either you go to prison for committing that crime, or you show the court the secret letter you got, and go to prison for disclosing your conscription.

@jeffowski

That's because, in the real world, it's not the heroes who are rebelling.

@jschwa1

Once “AI” ceases to be impressive, maybe then people will start making something actually useful out of it.

I'm reminded of the video game crash of 1983. Everybody and their brother was in a rush to make something, anything, as long as it could conceivably be called a video game, to cash in on the hype. The resulting tsunami of s--t caused a market crash, the grifters scattered, and only *then* did truly good video games start to emerge.

@paninid @hosford42 @russellmcormond @Uair

@Uair

Can't agree there. “AI” is tech, and it's clearly bad, in terms of usefulness (hallucinations), what had to happen to create it (large-scale plagiarism), and what it's intended to do (replace human workers, which will result in the death by starvation of the vast majority of humankind).

@hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence

@russellmcormond

I very *very* seriously doubt that. What we've seen so far is that “AI” mirrors and amplifies its creator's biases. If you want “AI” to eliminate supremacist world views, you're going to be disappointed.

Yes, the root cause of the problem is capitalism rather than “AI” itself, but since we live in a capitalist society and that's not going to change any time soon, it's best to do away with “AI” until then.

@Uair @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence

@Lana

It costs one hundred thousand dollars to drive this vehicle for one-point-four seconds.

@Sonikku

@baldur

The LLM prompt is the worst #programming language ever invented, because it has no guarantees whatsoever. Literally all behavior is undefined behavior.

@MichaelAltfield

Lemmy also doesn't allow banned users to delete their content. Not great.

@Polychrome

I take it you don't have remote shell access to this machine? That's unpleasant. It's pretty hard to be somebody's IT administrator when you don't have administrative access to the IT.

@Polychrome

I was wondering if something like this was going to happen at some point.

SMART attributes all have a normalized value, and a threshold beyond which the drive is declared to be failing. Drive makers have been ridiculously over-optimistic about setting these thresholds. For instance, if an HDD has *any* reallocated sectors, it's going to die soon, but it won't actually say it's dying until it's reallocated a ton of sectors and is basically already dead.

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@Polychrome

So, software that tries to predict drive failure will instead look at the *raw* values and make its own conclusions…which, as you can see, are highly vendor-dependent and therefore highly likely to be very wrong.

Anyway, this is a bug in whichever software is raising the false alert, presumably Gnome Disks. You should probably file a report, and include the output of `smartctl -x <device>`, so they can fix it.

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@glassicCzar

Tired: slide to unlock
Also tired: passcode to unlock
Wired: boop to unlock

@Houl @freeplay