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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Given that they know exactly who you are, I wouldn't get too personal with anything but it is amazing for many otherwise time-consuming problems like programming. It's also quite good at explaining concepts in math and physics and and is capable of reviewing and critiquing student solutions. The development of this tool is not miraculous or anything - it uses the same basic foundation that all machine learning does - but it's a defining moment in terms of expanding capabilities of computer systems for regular users.

But yeah, I wouldn't treat it like a personal therapist, only because it's not really designed for that, even though it can do a credible job of interacting. The original chat bot Eliza, simulated a "non directional" therapist and it was kind of amazing how people could be drawn into intimate conversations even though it was nothing like ChatGPT in terms of sophistication - it just parroted back what you asked it in a way that made it sound empathetic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

screen shot of eliza conversation with "simulated therapist"

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

is your router's dns definitely pointed to the pihole and was the router rebooted after that was set?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not sure if this will help. It's a searchable list of communities sorted by newest created community. Refreshes daily. https://lemmyfind.quex.cc/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Interesting read. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

About time. Well done. More to follow, hopefully.

The BBC just set up their own Mastodon instance: https://social.bbc/@BBC_News_Labs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

what an amazing site - thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"The ATACMS is an all-weather, inertially-guided surface-to-surface missile first used in the 1990s that can intercept high-value targets up to 300 kilometers (186 miles) away."

from Wikipedia:

The MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) is a tactical ballistic missile manufactured by the US defense company Lockheed Martin.

In March 1986, Ling-Temco-Vought won the contract for the missile design. The system was assigned the MGM-140 designation. The first test launch came two years later, thanks to earlier experience of the company with previous programs.

The first use of the ATACMS in combat was during Operation Desert Storm in 1991

In 2007, the U.S. Army terminated the ATACMS program due to cost, ending the ability to replenish stocks. To sustain the remaining inventory, the ATACMS Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) was launched, which refurbishes or replaces propulsion and navigation systems, replaces cluster munition warheads with the unitary blast fragmentation warhead, and adds a proximity fuze option to obtain area effects. Deliveries were projected to start in 2018. The ATACMS SLEP is a bridging initiative to provide time to complete analysis and development of a successor capability to the aging ATACMS stockpile, which could be ready around 2022.

Business, evidently, is brisk:

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia announced Thursday it will boost its defense capabilities by spending more than AU$1 billion (U.S. $683 million) on new advanced missile and rocket systems, including American-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems

WASHINGTON ― The U.S. State Department has approved Poland to buy advanced rockets and rocket launchers worth $10 billion, marking the latest such order from Eastern European allies in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of HIMARS rocket systems to Estonia, missiles to Norway and torpedoes to South Korea in separate deals that could be worth more than $1.5 billion in all, the Pentagon said on Friday.

In a June 24 release, the U.S. Department of Defense announced a $562 million sale of the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) to Bahrain, Poland, and Romania. First fielded in 1986, the ATACMS surface-to-surface missile can deliver a 160-560 kg warhead at ranges up to 300 km. The contract is scheduled for completion in June 2022.

On October 21, the U.S. State Department approved the sale of 64 MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and 135 AGM-84H Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response (SLAM-ER) missiles to Taiwan. On October 26, the United States also approved the sale to Taiwan of up to 400 RGM-84L-4 Harpoon Block II missiles. The sales are valued at $436 million, $1 billion, and $2.37 billion respectively

Meanwhile...

More than 1,600 Australians pushed into homelessness each month as housing crisis deepens, report finds.

But of course, Australia, geographically distant, is increasingly central in the growing, multifaceted contest with China

And so, Australia's biggest consultancy firms were awarded contracts worth $3.7 billion from the Australian Defence Force during the past decade], analysis shows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Surprising - and this is only for LNG extraction and shipment. It doesn't count the combustion at point of use.

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

they don't get ad revenue from you, they get it from the firms they will be selling your data to. If you are commenting and you have a profile then whatever info they have or can guess about your demographic will be monetized.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's good to see Lemmy getting some love, athough I did get a chuckle at the "this whole fediverse concept is so hard to get your head around" stuff. They are so used to being fed what the algorithm delivers that they are lost without it. It's so touchingly Orwellian.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. After you log into your own instance, you don't need to remember any other url, so instance urls don't really matter - it's just an address for the instance.
  2. Less sought-after domain suffixes are significantly cheaper to register than .com and you can usually get what you want for a prefix (main reason)
  3. Lemmy instances are not dot coms by nature so they may as well be something else.
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very simple. They will use water from their cloud vaporware.

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