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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Wait, is it supposed to be winter?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Advertising copy is likely overrepresented in the general corpus of texts from the Internet that most LLMs are trained on. Plus, it isn't a genre where truth matters all that much. It's intentionally vague and cliché-riddled even when humans are writing it. So it's something that I'd expect LLMs to be pretty good at creating.

"Garbage in, garbage out" is just fine if garbage was your desired output to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This seems to happen most often with newish stuff whose original source was a dollar store or similar really low-end retailer. But, yeah, while you may stumble across the occasional 20th century item being sold for less than it's worth, there are many better places to buy cheap used stuff. Caveat emptor.

(You'd think they'd at least have the brains to remove or black out the old price tags.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Charge any company in posession of a shipping container believed to contain stolen vehicles with posession of stolen property or something to that effect if they don't immediately set it aside to be checked by law enforcement, and tighten up the paperwork required for shipping used vehicles generally. Make the corporations perform due diligence, and it will suddenly be a lot harder to get stolen vehicles out of the country. If that means each shipping company has to hire someone to stand there and check VINs against a list while some other company is loading cars into containers, so be it.

In the meanwhile, buy compact cars rather than SUVs or pickups, because they seem to be less-desirable theft targets.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

For gaming, you should be using the most current version of nvidia's proprietary drivers that supports your GPU, unless that GPU is really old. Have a look at this page: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/

If your GPU isn't listed there, use the most recent driver you can find.

If your GPU is on the 470.xx supported list, try 470.223.02, as that seems to be the last in the series.

If your GPU is on the 390.xx supported list, try 390.157.

If your GPU is on one of the other lists, it's a really old chipset and you should be using the Nouveau driver that's built into the kernel.

If you're using the nvidia proprietary drivers on a system that also has Nouveau installed, make sure you've blacklisted Nouveau so that you're loading the correct driver.

Dual-graphics laptops are a bit of a bear to work with under Linux generally. Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

At what point does a child become autonomous enough to make their own decisions about their values?

Middle school-ish. It might make sense to tie it to the age of criminal responsibility (that is, the age at which you're assumed to have enough understanding of right and wrong to be charged with a crime in your own right), which, in Canada, is 12.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Likely from duplicated license plates"—well, a duplicate might be sufficient for this, but it's far from necessary. I know someone who was sent a 407 bill some years ago for a set of plates that had been lying in a shed for 20 years, not renewed or attached to a vehicle in that timeframe. That one was likely a misread, as a duplicate of a plate that old would have risked drawing attention. Most people just don't keep 'em that long.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There soon may be fewer Musk worshippers. Which is not in itself a bad thing, but not even Musk worshippers deserve to die the way that some of those monkeys did.

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

Not sure if I'd call her "the worst", necessarily, but Miaka from Fushigi Yūgi always annoyed the heck out of me. She's pretty much a canon Mary Sue.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Good. This is the sort of thing tax money is supposed to be for: ensuring that workers who render services to the public on behalf of the government collect a living wage for their efforts. (Things it isn't supposed to be for include paying lawyers to appeal perfectly reasonable court rulings, providing tax refunds to people who don't really need them, and paying down a deficit that no one really cares much about.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

To set the record straight, since you apparently have no idea of the history: systemd isn't the original Linux init system, and wasn't foisted on the Linux community because it was technically superior for most people's use cases. It still isn't the only viable Linux init system, but it pulled a Microsoftian embrace-extend-extinguish on udev, which makes it more difficult to switch away. Its current popularity is still not based on technical merits. Instead, it's political, because most people don't care about what init they're using and most distro-makers take the path of least resistance.

It's true that you're not required to use all of the individual executables that comprise systemd, but most distros will require you to install them. So they're still present as unwanted clutter, and bugs could still pose a security risk if an attacker can run the executables. (This doesn't mean that OpenRC or runit would necessarily be any more secure—every non-trivial piece of software has bugs, and some percentage of those are going to be security-relevant. You're not required to care about small amounts of on-disk clutter, either, but some people choose to make their system partitions small and micromanage the contents even if they're not working on embedded.)

Compiling your own copy of systemd without the clutter, judging from the contents of the systemd ebuild, requires setting more than 30 compiler options. And then installing the result manually without trashing your system. Not trivial, in other words.

If systemd works for you, then by all means use it, but accept that other people may choose to install something different on their own machines for what you consider to be bad reasons, or no reason at all, and arguing about it just annoys them without providing any benefit to you.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Fake celebrity porn has existed since before photography, in the form of drawings and impersonators. At this point, if you're even somewhat young and good-looking (and sometimes even if you're not), the fake porn should be expected as part of the price you pay for fame. It isn't as though the sort of person who gets off on this cares whether the pictures are real or not—they just need them to be close enough that they can fool themselves.

Is it right? No, but it's the way the world is, because humans suck.

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