Oh no it’s more US politics.

So as part of the ongoing administrative coup; federal employees have been receiving stupid emails from what everyone assumes is Elon Musk (since it’s the exact same playbook as the twitter firings). But they apparently royally flubbed up NOAA’s email security in the process so the employees are getting constant spam through an unsecured broadcast address.

Sure is weird how all the people distrustful of ideologies have an ideology.

you can’t invent new pieces during the game

Yeah. That’s what my (chess) captain keeps telling me.

Well I can’t translate it but if you search for it… holy smokes are search engines amusingly bad at indexing federated content.

That random other Lemmy instance is actually doing the right thing here since it includes the right link rel canonical, so I guess Google just hasn’t caught up yet or something. I have no idea why Google chopped off the last byte of the IP address.

(Reposting from the last thread)

Days since last open source issue tracker pollution by annoying nerds: zero

My investigation tracked to you [Outlier.ai] as the source of problems - where your instructional videos are tricking people into creating those issues to - apparently train your AI.

I couldn’t locate these particular instructional videos, but from what I can gather outlier.ai farms out various “tasks” to internet gig workers as part of some sort of AI training scheme.

Bonus terribleness: one of the tasks a few months back was apparently to wear a head mounted camera “device” to record ones every waking moment

P.S. sorry for the linkedin link behind the mastodon link, but shared suffering and all that. I had to read “Uber for AI code data” so now you do too.

Days since last open source issue tracker pollution by annoying nerds: zero

My investigation tracked to you [Outlier.ai] as the source of problems - where your instructional videos are tricking people into creating those issues to - apparently train your AI.

I couldn’t locate these particular instructional videos, but from what I can gather outlier.ai farms out various “tasks” to internet gig workers as part of some sort of AI training scheme.

Bonus terribleness: one of the tasks a few months back was apparently to wear a head mounted camera “device” to record ones every waking moment.

Nights into Dreams. I’d have dreams about that game as a kid.

Yeah production of consumer writeable CDs / DVDs / BDs has basically stopped already. The end is in sight.

Also I’m not sure how much of a problem this is for newer CD drives, but older ones tend to give out sooner or later.

My Sega Saturn*'s drive still works, but I also installed a Satiator** drive emulator in case that changes.

* ^{My username is serious business after all}

** ^{Had to go with this option since it’s the only non-destructive one}

leaked

I mean is it really leaking if you can get access to the dataset without signing anything agreeing to not leak it? When I last checked you could just like look at the questions after checking a box acknowledging that they can see your email address but that’s it.

I’m the weirdo who installs blu-ray drives in all my computers. I’m also the weirdo who has multiple computers. There are currently three or four (I’ve lost count) blu-ray drives in my house.

It’s great being able to buy and own movies without dealing with the horrors of streaming. Unfortunately discs are becoming less and less popular commercially, so a lot of stuff nowadays is streaming only.

Also my car can play MP3 CDs so of course I need to be able to create those from a computer ^{disregard the fact that my car also supports USB which I neglect since it’s less retro.}