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I’m getting tonnes of them. They always say they’re from Rogers, for me. They’ve called about 20 times.

I’m hoping they call sometime when I’m otherwise free so I can waste as much of their time as possible. It’s fun to bait them, and it saves them from potentially scanning someone else in that time.

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Err… That’s definitively AI.

AI is just any computer algorithm that does a task that would be aimed to require human intelligence.

Identifying text in an image is a non-trivial task, so OCR is a type of AI algorithm.

That said, I assume “AI phones” are probably not using the term AI in the general sense; presumably they just mean that it uses MM-LLMs somehow.

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Exactly my thought on reading the article.

In the US, even regulatory capture follows partisan divisions… Insanity.

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I just looked it up and I already own it from the Itch.io Bundle for Ukraine. I should play it sometime! Also on sale on GOG rn at a historical low price DRM-free.

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I think that’s fine, tbh. Not as many customers will pay $80+ for a subscription. Then companies that sell games with more ethical business models will be more competitive, too.

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It seems like the Archive.org .zip dump’s “size” is just 12580366816. I assume that’s bytes, which is only 12½ GB. That seems way too small to include all the romhacks, doesn’t it? I thought a lot created assets and HD textures and such. But that also seems like way too much to just be website data, and most hacks are tiny files.

Does anyone know what’s in that data dump? I’m tempted to download everything, even though I’d only ever use a miniscule percentage of it.

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The cynic in me is wondering if this is just Google trying to get around the movement to stop children from being given addiction machines* before they’re ready for them. (*Smart phones with infinite-content-stream “social-media” apps)

There’s a push to ban smart phones for students below age 16 at schools (and educating parents to try to get them to just give their children dumb phones until age 16 outside of school hours, too.)

But maybe that’s just me being cynical. This movement only started gaining steam after The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt was published earlier this year, afaik, and Google is hardly an agile company anymore…

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That’s ridiculous. The net property value lost from losing close access to the beach is worth way more than the money the city got, on the margin, from the sale. It doesn’t even make economic sense, let alone the equity issues.

What a joke.

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If you look at the actual seat-by-seat projections, current polls give a near mathematical certainty of a CCP majority.

Trudeau needs to take a page from Biden’s book and step down in time for there to be a leadership race. I don’t think it’s fair (he’s done fine as Prime Minister, imho) but he’s unelectable. A PP-led majority government could do a lot of damage.

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They aren’t suggesting dropping the “British”, rather they are asking about changing the name to something more representative of the Indigenous Peoples of BC who have been keepers of the land since time immemorial.

Not sure how that would work, though, as there are so many Nations and languages in the province.

Like, “Powell River School District” is now “qathet School District”. They didn’t just drop “Powell” to call it “River”, lol.

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