LOL *NSFW* *The new Demote thread*

Like her or not, she's got a lot of influence with the voting public in America. I doubt her opinion can sway the election but each time she's encoraged people to vote, the turnout and voter registration numbers have soared: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/08/taylor-swift-2024-presidential-election

There will be a lot of right-wing shitbrains, and their devout acolytes on this side of the pond, desperate to make her into a new political bogeyman.

 

Yup, she can influence the election simply by encouraging people to vote. The right wingers would prefer the vast majority of the public to stay apathetic and effectively disenfranchised.

 

Labour perhaps, needs to get somebody like Adele onside.

 

Erm....

 

I think the best standard bearer for Labour right now is the Tory party itself

 

Youtube at some point has introduced a 'Themes of Suicide and Self Harm,' warning onto videos which quite literally will not allow videos tagged with it to play. Not only that, but if you click on the 'I understand and wish to proceed,' button on the warning it skips to another video. Not only not only that, click back onto the flagged video and it redirects to to some bizarre self help/Suicide Prevention page.

I just want to listen to some CKY. Look, I'm a 90s child, I know the album's called Camp Kill Yourself, I survived the Grunge and Emo eras, I'll be fine.

 

https://x.com/SGriffin_Lab/status/1755339391851983063?s=20

 

Cue the new announcement from Corsair:

The X85 Replicator mouse, with flash storage.... and RGB.

 

Lol, were Air Canada trying to suggest their chatbot has passed the Turing test?

Separate legal entity responsible for it's own actions my ass.

 

Srsly tho, is this really that big a problem that it required scads of compute power and electrical power to train an AI model? Are there really that many file types?

I could understand the rationale if it’s examining the contents of the file to infer what it is, rather than just looking at file extensions, but again: is that really such a big problem? It might be a problem that Google (or any other company that stores an incomprehensibly vast amount of data) needs to deal with, but I can’t imagine that this is a big problem for the average user - or even an expert user, for that matter…

Running a pre-trained inference model vs a lookup based on data that’s very likely held in memory. One of these requires third party tools, libraries, binaries, etc, and one of these requires… er… just the OS, actually…

EDIT: I don’t know BSD, so for all I know “file” might well be examining the file contents as well as looking at the extension/name.

 

Every day is a school day.

To be honest I don’t think I can ever recall the need to use it. 99% of the time I can tell what a file is and what it does based purely on its name, file extension, or directory tree. I also know where the important/system-critical directories in Linux and Windows are, so if there’s a file in one of those that I can’t identify then I know well enough to leave it the hell alone!

 

Found a little poem on TwittX:

“Braverman is bonkers & Priti is a prat,
Gove is off his head & Boris is a tw*t,
Moggsy's out of touch & Rishi is so weak,
Dowden is a weirdo & Shappsy is a freak,
It's time for them to go, so everybody shout,
Bugger off, leave us be, pack your bags...TORIES OUT!”