Hard_Space

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by Hard_Space 7d ago
You could be right but that is not what I read on what seemed to be a reasonable authority site the day of the outage. Lost the link, of course.
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by Hard_Space 8d ago
>What jurisdiction? EU? Flights starting out from the EU and going anywhere (EU or beyond). Flights coming into the EU from anywhere. If the plane at any point is set to land in the EU, it's covered.
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by Hard_Space 8d ago
I have had lifetime pass about ten years.
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by Hard_Space 8d ago
Just had to cancel my 10-year passport renewal appointment for tomorrow morning, since it's in London and I'm in the EU. Man, this was a *miserable* way to spend a day. The flight kept getting bumped, heading for certain cancellat
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by Hard_Space 9d ago
I would be interested to hear from anyone who set it and can still access Plex over their LAN in a network outage. I have set this multiple times according to docs, and it worked only once ever, thereafter apparently resetting to online log
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by Hard_Space 22d ago
I sat in on a number of tedious C2PA meetings about three years ago. It was clear that no-one wanted to hear the hard truths, and one was certainly not rewarded for introducing them. I'm guessing there were a lot of consultancies to ma
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by Hard_Space 1mo ago
Switched to FastMail two years ago. Mostly, it's a pretty boring service, which is exactly why I'm willing to pay for it!
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by Hard_Space 1mo ago
This is exactly what I did this year, moving photo backup to Syncthing and using Immich. So far it has been a very rewarding trip, even if the home server it runs on is not the fastest.
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by Hard_Space 1mo ago
I am guessing there is some kind of political incentive to create stealth inflation (though it's literally 'deflation'), which is largely unrecorded, vs. traditional inflation, which is a vote-loser.
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by Hard_Space 2mo ago
Sometimes AI's contributions may be diffuse, and more akin to the suffusion of a tea-bag, or even a drop of tincture, than the addition of an extra cookie on the plate. In such cases there is usually no distinct section that you can wa
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Transitioning to the Verification Economy(unite.ai)
1 points by Hard_Space 2mo ago|0 comments
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by Hard_Space 2mo ago
Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678144
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by Hard_Space 2mo ago
I understand the anger. But I wish I were better able to resist fixing the world with code in this way, as I really am supposed to be working.
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by Hard_Space 2mo ago
Yes, LLMs certainly learned these tropes somewhere. I'm just surprised that different models and different pre-processing methods arrived at the same dominant cliches.
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by Hard_Space 2mo ago
I don't know - the 'great enshittification' of Substack seems an inevitable event, for which reason I have stayed away from using it as a platform, except for a few experiments. It was initially populated by refugees from Med
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by Hard_Space 2mo ago
Yes, it was polluted with multiple 'Not just [x] but [y]' examples - the most obvious tell of AI-generated text, among other aggravating examples. It was hard to read, but I was interested enough in the subject to slog through it.
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by Hard_Space 2mo ago
Agreed. I always hated the 'two part', 'payoff'-based drama of titles like these, even before the LLM era. If it was lazy before (it was), it now comes off as 'one-click' lazy. Sadly, The Guardian has become in
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by Hard_Space 3mo ago
This is interesting. Until autumn of 2024, when the company was subsumed into a better-heeled AI-VFX concern, I worked for probably the best-known and earliest all-AI VFX house, whose ethics department was headed by a philosopher, though th
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by Hard_Space 3mo ago
Reminds me of 1990s multi-CD Mac games.
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by Hard_Space 3mo ago
This is a chronic LLM style, particularly the multipart dramatic flourishes and the Haiku paragraphs. But at this stage, there's a good chance that LLM re-diffusion of this style is feeding back into human culture. God save us.
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by Hard_Space 3mo ago
Well, neither am I - I am talking about my own peer group, non-tech types just fine with computers.
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by Hard_Space 3mo ago
> 60 year people can't user your fancy site because then don't have an internal model of how a computer works. I think this is a bit outdated. I'll be 60 in a month, and have been practicing and writing about machine learn
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by Hard_Space 4mo ago
But these figures measure exposure, not integration. Ach, it's probably a mostly human-generated piece, but any time I see the 'Not [x] but [y]' formulation, I tune out.
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by Hard_Space 4mo ago
Nothing to see here. The title suggests some hidden trick or tech wizardry, but the two people referenced were just...well, dumb: using Gmail in the first case, and retaining his icon of his own real face for an avatar in the second.
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by Hard_Space 4mo ago
I used to see AI generated images with lots of unintelligible writing or misspelled words in slides, but the speaker left them in anyway. “Good enough” is not customer obsession. This enforced adoption of immature GenAI reminds me of Milo
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by Hard_Space 4mo ago
I need Photoshop for an almost vanishingly small subset of all the things it is capable of, and this holds true for nearly all 'full-fledged' software that I use. So what may not be surfacing, in the absence of vibe-coded Photosho
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by Hard_Space 4mo ago
Sorry for the dumb question, but why is there an archive.today link for this? Is BBC news now paywalled in some regions or under some conditions? I'm guessing that the Beeb can handle the traffic, and that the site is not hugged to dea
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by Hard_Space 5mo ago
In the UK in the 1980s (and with more difficulty in the 90s) I would phone the theater and ask when the film actually starts, even though it was almost always 20 minutes after the advertised programme time. Now there are no humans to ask, a
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by Hard_Space 5mo ago
I use subdomains on an OVH VPS, since I want to access the services outside the network, so I can use freshrss.mydomain.com. But anything that can rationalize port number sprawl is welcome.
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by Hard_Space 5mo ago
Not so for this port, which, besides not remembering sessions, crashed very early, and made me return to BBEdit.

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