Most anti-ai tech isn’t captcha anymore. Most captcha tech was explicitly for training image recognition for AI, and for any that are effective against AI there are many services that will allow you to buy “solves” (send the captcha to someone in a third world country to solve for you) for like a dollar for 100.

Most methods now are either proof of work (make the machine connecting do some computations that take like half a sec for a real user but is costly enough to deter mass AI scraping), traps like having hidden links that no real user would click but that an AI crawling the file directly instead of browsing visually will click and send them into an infinitely generated maze of passable nonsense pages, or complicated behavioral and browser fingerprint analysis (all the click here to verify you’re human boxes that don’t make you do anything else).

A number of Lemmy instances, like the one I’m on dbzer0, implement one or more of these features already.

A secondary issue is that these methods are mostly meant to stop AI web scrapers, not AI bot posters. Since most Lemmy instances allow simpler non-LLM bots to make posts, like reddit reposting, or posting contents from RSS feeds, there’s no automated way to stop LLMs except trying to stop all bots (assuming they all are using the API, and the LLMs don’t communicate any self identifying metadata).

Isn’t this the same place that gave us the diarrhea lettuce?

I’ve recently switched to writing my notes in markdown in a code editor, since I already have one open most of the time. vsCode for work (I do a lot of PowerShell), vsCodium at home, although I’m sure there’s better options.

My one gripe with Notepad++ is that I haven’t found any easy way to do dark mode with it. You can make the window “chrome” dark mode, and you can make general text background black and text white, but then that screws up the language specific and file diff themes/coloring.

There’s probably a collection of importable settings for that somewhere online though.

I’ve left all these bodies in the sun

Oh my god yes. Why the hell do I have to open the notification shade to see the number, especially when it gets low?

It shouldn’t be that hard to say, automatically show the number under a certain percentage. If it’s 10% I have around an hour left of medium usage. If it’s under 5% I have anywhere from 30 minutes to 5.

Just show me the number motherfucker, at least when it’s important!

You’re right, but I think you underestimate the intersection of what’s theoretically possible and desperation.

We’ll probably see multiple different things. Some of the equipment will be repurposed for other cloud GPU workloads. We’ll probably see some companies try to make adapters and drivers to get the server hardware compatible with consumer desktops (there’s someone who did a writeup, either on hacker news or hack a day who got older server RAM working on a desktop with an adapter and Linux tomfoolery). Buy up the stuff being sold at a loss, strap their adapter on it, and sell for profit.

But on a low level, all this shit is turing complete. There will be performance losses and considerable overhead, but in theory translation layers and emulation should be able to be written to effectively convert GPU compute to whatever other format is needed.

If it’s taking a total loss vs squeezing the last squirts of profit out, I think there’s going to be attempts to squeeze.

Yeah, I think that’s the running theory of the corporate backup plan if/when AI falls through and they need to find a use for all the data center resources.

~~I’m pretty sure there is directX 9 to directX 10-12 translation layer thing like DXVK, which can be loaded first to bring the direct x version up to one compatible with DXVK.

Just blanking on the name unfortunately.~~

EDIT: Nevermind, DXVK says it handles DX8-12. I was thinking of something that converted below DX8 up into one of the DXVK ones, sorry.

Not really. The cords are all the same inside, the colors are just for convenient matching of the ends.

If both ports are the same color, and wire has the same color on both ends, you’re fine. You can send yellow through a red cable. I’ve definitely had a few times where all I had were a couple of loose cable pairs and it works fine.

You could a little with the later component cables where there were separate ones for the different colors, but the “original” composite cables (yellow, red, and white) only had one video cable and the other two were left and right sound. You could get odd patterns in the static with the sound plugged into the video port, but that was about it. Before that was the single coaxial cable that carried video and sound together, so there wasn’t easily available messing with that without damaging the cable or doing magnetic or RF shenanigans against an unshielded cable.

That said, if you get into messing with some of the old hardware in different ways, you can get some real wild effects from those old analog media standards/hardware/cables.

There’s small communities online doing stuff with it. Search for analog glitch art, analog data moshing, and circuit bending (although that last one is more abusing where digital circuits and hardware are susceptible to analog style weirdness due to basic physics of how electric signals work “analogly” between components).

If you saw anyone else hanging around a garden or forest you might say they’re gardening, foraging, vibing, touching grass, or waiting until their mortal body is reclaimed by nature. But when it’s a gnome they have to be plotting?

If you treat them like you would any other magical creature, spent some time to get to know them, you’d see just how wrong you were. Spend a little less time pondering your orb and little more time out in the real world.

Besides, if you examine the statistics, you’d see that skinwalkers are the real problem. Despite making up only… But I can tell you aren’t ready to be red potioned on that yet.

Yeah, if it’s the same price why the hell would you not stay in a hotel instead of “pretend this random house is a hotel, but now with the added magic of no regulation”

I just want to know what happened to plans 1-8

I was gonna say that a chunk of that sounds like you’re pregnant. Point is, it’s not normal and you should see a doctor.

Good job putting to words one of the core issues I’ve had with using LLM chat for work. Stop trying to design an entire fucking system or solution and just answer the damn question I actually asked, by using natural language to search documentation and existing implementations.

I would tell it to only answer exactly what I asked, but sometimes I do get value from it “exploring” on occasion. It’s just so much damn worse with it than my newest junior co-worker who is known on our team for getting hours deep into tangential rabbit holes before coming up for air and asking seemingly nonsequiteur questions.

Doesn’t help the conversation that some LLM chat systems call minor customization of the prompt making an agent.

Under duress I use CoPilot Chat at work. No, the basic sad customization I did along the lines of “don’t be sycophantic, always cite sources, use these specific official documentation sites as sources before searching outside of them and clearly call out when you search outside them” that customization isn’t making a damn agent, it’s adjusting the prompt and saving those changes you disingenuous marketing fucks!

It’s pretty weird over on lemmy.sdf and I try to just take qrstuv (EDIT: this was wesker, not qrstuv. Wesker also gets up to some trolling) as some odd performance art. Funhole, Linux Surrealism, and bun alert are great, but most every other community is run by qrstuv, and they can be oddly tyrannical outside of Funhole. Their entire account is practically digital performance art. EDIT: Wesker tends to be a little bit more “normal” rather than too weird to die all the time, but there’s still a ton of lighthearted in-joking and trolling going on.

I’m pretty sure that community was originally created by qrstuv to bait someone who was being shit in the Funhole community into complaining about the legitimate moderation actions taken against them, then see how long it took them to realize they were being responded to by the very person who banned them.

My take would be that, yes, it is absurd to call correcting terminology victim blaming, and that’s the “joke”.

EDIT: I’d actually check the mod log to see if any action was taken against you besides a trolling comment. Would be willing to bet there isn’t actually.

Also, the joke of going: “Item A: blah, Item 2: blah” should be pointed out.

It’s not a legitimate mod abuse community, it’s effectively a -jerk style comm for shitposting around the theme.

Dating just about forever

Huh? Are you calling yourself brainrotted or something? I mirrored the language you used yourself.

Point is that there are instances set up in ways to have less of the shit you’re complaining about, but instead you’re using an instance that isn’t… and complaining about it.

Part of the user base issue is the same with most “alternative social media”. A not-insignificant amount of the users will be here because their behavior got them banned from or wasn’t tolerated in other spaces.