Festro

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by Festro 8d ago
I came into this post wondering what on earth an 'AI control key' could possibly be. I really did not expect to see a cheap Aliexpress macro keypad plastered with buzzwords. And yet somehow I'm not surprised.
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by Festro 9d ago
Did you write this post with AI because I could say the same about your choice to says ChatGPT "Emitted" something. Why not 'made', 'produced', 'created' etc? It looks like you thesaurused a less comm
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by Festro 28d ago
"Why AGI is impossible" is our premise. Let's remember that when looking at the argument in the post. Opening statement: "My point is that intelligence can be perceived in things that are not intelligent." - We alre
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by Festro 1mo ago
This is outdated info for the UK, may still apply to the EU. The blog appears to be from 2021, so this is not surprising. In the UK the ICO have updated the 'cookie law' to allow for non-consensual analytics tracking under the sta
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by Festro 1mo ago
Yes, https://adstransparency.google.com/ exists. What does your freemium site offer that's any different from that or what someone can vibecode?
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by Festro 2mo ago
Major red flags - avoid this service. "Accidentally" - nobody accidentally builds a 500 site private network. This is a lie. The "1M AI citations" figure comes from Bing Webmaster Tools, whose citation counting is loose
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by Festro 2mo ago
Google Ads at first for sure. Their search monopoly just means it's the best place for ads on a limited budget. Moving to Bing is worthwhile once you've started to see efficiency drop off on Google. LinkedIn is very expensive and
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by Festro 2mo ago
"paid search ads etc have resulted in lots of clicks but absolutely abhorrent conversions in our case, whereas conversions for the more organic channels like forums etc are excellent (maybe a targeting issue...)" Absolutely a targ
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by Festro 2mo ago
Run an AI audit on a website, compile tests run and actions derived into spreadsheet tabs, write a word doc report, use a template provided for styling. Skill used in Claude to ensure filename is shorter than 260 characters (Windows limitat
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by Festro 3mo ago
"At its core, it is a big pile of words that predicts the next word, using some maths the computers figured out." "An LLM predicts the next word based on all the words before it. That is the whole story. There is no idea sitt
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by Festro 3mo ago
Not sure the article matches its title all that well. Microsoft are not "admitting" 8GB is fine. They are pitching 8GB as viable to entry-level/budget consumers because of the RAM pricing bubble created by the AI boom. 8GB is
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by Festro 3mo ago
They're more likely to just be bad games, that's all. Not because of the AI but because of the mindset of a dev who cuts corners and does things without experience in that field. Yes, consumers will judge the book by its cover if
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by Festro 3mo ago
I can't speak to coding as it's not my area but certainly the pattern I've spotted is that it's best at grunt work. That's where the time savings kick in. Browsing sites, linking up data, spotting anomalies, writing
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by Festro 3mo ago
We're reaching a point currently where output quality is very much determined by input quality. Previously output quality was hampered fundamentally by model knowledge, hallucinations, and model quality. Now, we have better knowledge o
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by Festro 3mo ago
Is this satire?
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by Festro 3mo ago
Not too bad for AI. But why no actual product examples? I would expect to see real examples of slow workflows and boring static images being replaced by motion graphics. The ad looked like it was promoting a concept that had not been develo
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by Festro 3mo ago
What a clusterfuck of an article. Sentience =/= consciousness. Sentience is the ability to experience qualia, to feel, and to differentiate feelings. Consciousness is an awareness of experience, including that of qualia and the sentien
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by Festro 3mo ago
"I think the pendulum has started to swing the other way" "I have a tiny hope that we’re actually seeing the end of the walled gardens" ...until the pendulum swings back. There is no mechanism by which the current shift
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by Festro 4mo ago
Please provide an evidentiary basis for human consciousness. Please refrain from reductio ad absurdum. The building blocks of 3D graphics, cryptographic encryption, protein folding algorithms, and much more are not trivial, rather they are
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by Festro 4mo ago
So utterly bizarre that a tech CEO can take this approach. It seems plainly obvious that they've tasked their internal teams with a challenge to come up with an AI product they can sell. Probably during a hackathon or something. And th
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by Festro 4mo ago
Damn you got scammed out of 60 bucks, the end result looks awful. Check out https://www.youtube.com/@noisygroup JOEY on YouTube to see how it should be done. Their work still fails a lot of sense checks but it's orders
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by Festro 4mo ago
Not from the USA, but I used the site to keep an eye on US politics. 538, named for the combined number of senators, representatives, and electors in the US, was a political journalism site. It used polls and data to ground its articles and
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by Festro 4mo ago
Depends on the field of work. Typically for me (red/green) it just means I need to steer clear of creative work/QA of creative work because I appraise colours differently to many. Within technical work most of the interfaces I dea
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by Festro 6mo ago
Are they trying to sneakily use the stored project files as LLM training data?
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by Festro 6mo ago
I've got to say that it does seem like the approach to the gaming sessions appears poor. Any given activity like board gaming can be done purely transactionally or not. It's up to the people around the table to chat and discover t
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by Festro 6mo ago
I gave up on Spotify as I started to listen to more podcasts which had their own ads inside them let alone Spotify's. Now I'm paying for Youtube (never thought I'd be doing that) and using the new(ish) jump ahead feature to s
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by Festro 6mo ago
This is a long long log fuelled by your very obtuse way of talking to Gemini. It's matching your tone, and feeding your loaded questions with loaded answers to fit your narrative. I don't see any threats, I likely missed them in m
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by Festro 7mo ago
I know the guidelines tell us to flag spam and not respond but honestly - fuck off with this spamvertising crap.
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by Festro 7mo ago
I cannot wait for Oatly's next marketing campaign that lampoons this decision. This does nothing to stop the rise of dairy alternatives, nor should it. Nobody is going to stop asking for oat/soy/nut milk when putting in their
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by Festro 7mo ago
Hybrids were a good idea, past tense. Every year since the first commercial EVs launched they've become a weaker proposition. They're no longer a best of both worlds, good overall range, not as bad for the environment. They'r

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