Life is like a long running tv show. Some previous seasons were awesome. This one sucks but I have to stay around to find out what happens next.
Doesn’t matter how bad it currently is, the curiosity to see which twist it pulls next is stronger.
It took several weeks but I finally got my Reddit data export for my account. If it wasn't already obvious, the direct messages there are not encrypted in any meaningful way. One interesting variable I found was in the file named "statistics", there's a variable named "is_deleted" which is set to false. This makes me wonder if,...
These seems to be a big divide somewhere about Airbnb properties. Most of those I stayed in were like yours. Rental apartments for visitors wanting a nice place to themselves.
Looks like there are at least 2 more sides to it - frauds trying to cheat customers on stuff like cleaning fees and insane rules. And people renting out their spare room.
Internet is already full of bullshit SEO content. Sometimes written by humans, and quite often by bots. For years now. What’s coming is an arms race between different content generating AIs and search/answer AIs.
An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.
There are experiments with feeding LLMs output of other LLMs and the results are awful. Seems for now they can only generate sensible text if fed human output.
What are some of the things you say / think to yourself when going through a hard time or dealing with uncertainty to help yourself along?
I noticed that I tend to think something along the lines of...
It took a while but I finally got my Reddit data export (kbin.social)
It took several weeks but I finally got my Reddit data export for my account. If it wasn't already obvious, the direct messages there are not encrypted in any meaningful way. One interesting variable I found was in the file named "statistics", there's a variable named "is_deleted" which is set to false. This makes me wonder if,...
What is the craziest thing that's ever happened in your life?
Curious to know what people have encountered in their lives.
Hotel > AirBNB (lemmy.ml)
Youtube alternatives | Foss and privacy centered alternatives
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1057347...
How can people prevent the Dead Internet Theory from becoming our reality?
ELI5 Dead Internet Theory
You now have a 1 billion $ bounty on your head and every armed man on Earth is on to you. What do you do to survive as long as possible?
It is not the matter of what if you are found. It’s the matter of when.
Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time - The Atlantic (archive.is)
Tl,dr: Musk is irratic and has no plan, per a journalist who has covered him for five years.
Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (gizmodo.com)
An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.
What made you pick the Lemmy server you are on?
Does it actually matter?
Languages should skip straight to version 5 (social.fossware.space)