dgerard

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

NEW MISSION: we must show Elon Musk "Naked Lunch" so his next car is a cyber cockroach typewriter

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

it's pretty publicly known

the VCs are gonna take one heckuva bath

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

this user has failed peer review and has been retracted

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

training your sperm to pass raven's progressive matrices

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

oh?? please do tell!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

momty python style giant sabot descends on Microsoft data centre

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

it's a little magical and not entirely reliable so i'm not a fan, but the switch is there

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i am hearing that ProQuest has been quietly contacting small publishers to see if it can ingest their published output for AI training.

ProQuest has an AI thing now, but it's denied it's training on hosted content ... yet.

if you are, or know, an author who's had a letter of this sort recently, mentioning ProQuest or no, i'd love to know and please tell your friends - email is [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

i have already had whiny shits demand that I (a) set dark mode default (b) remove the switch

default is currently set to whatever your browser thinks is the default and you can switch it otherwise

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yep, i'm in touch with college hill, she's aware of our esteemed site too

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

imma fuckin do it again

 

I'm in our daily standup and it's turned into exchanging fucked up sysadmin redundancy tales.

One place I worked lost a machine room. They'd fired people so fast that nobody remembered where the boxes were any more.

I knew, but they didn't ask me. Oh well!

The cycle of IT binge and purge is eternal. Post your tales here.

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