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rhodoon The 'AI slop' backlash kills Sora

the reason it died is they were lighting money on fire...

rhodoon GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?

Real humans misspell things, don’t be a dick

rhodoon London Underground is testing real-time AI surveillance tools to spot crime

> They also say the system generated alerts for “rough sleepers and beggars” at the station’s entrances and claim this allowed staff to “remotely monitor the situation and provide the necessary care and assistance.”

ah yes I love using technology to better deny the most vulnerable people a place to sleep.

rhodoon The destructive new logic that threatens globalisation

Agreed. It's very clear whose interests this article aims to protect.

rhodoon Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

Does anyone know how well it handles fullscreen applications like games? Would be nice to not tab out but switch to another workspace.

rhodoon Swedish Radio created fake pharmacy, reveals how Facebook stored sensitive data

The medications you're taking are a vastly different level of private than your income or where a flight goes. I think that's pretty obvious

rhodoon Drones are poised to reshape home design

Drones are roughly as loud as a gas powered leaf blower [1]. I bet the hype is going to die real quick when people realize how annoying the noise is. Or at least I hope. Drones are cool but imagining the high-pitched whine of a even a few of these at all times gives me a headache.

[1] https://theconversation.com/drones-to-deliver-incessant-buzz...

rhodoon 'Havana syndrome' likely caused by directed microwaves – US report

Here's the NAS report

https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/20420409-nas-asses...

rhodoon Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years

it wouldn't be too hard I don't think. It's a sealed tube so any attempts to get in could be detected with accelerometers or microphones.

rhodoon How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics

You definitely could

rhodoon I Miss the Old Internet

Not hating women == corporate shill. Nice.

rhodoon Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

what are you using to run this code-wise? I was thinking of making something similar.

rhodoon A 390FT rock will scrape past Earth closer than the Moon tomorrow

Any idea if this will be visible from the ground anywhere? I've been searching online to no avail.

rhodoon When Algorithms Think You Want to Die

It's the same exact thing where YouTube is promoting pedophilia. These systems are content agnostic and will give you what it thinks you will click on. If somehow people really really liked videos about the number 27, then if you click on one video it will start showing you more. It seems to me that it's a fundamental part of what these systems are. It's nigh impossible to say "do this but keep the bad stuff out" unless you have human moderation. I'm certainly not saying these companies aren't culpable. It just seems weird to talk about individual cases in abstraction like Instagram is going out of it's way to promote self harm.

rhodoon How Big Firms Keep Wages Low

>The suspicious use of noncompetes as a pure power play came to light when the fast food joint Jimmy Johns was discovered to have forced their sandwich makers to promise not to go to another fast food restaurant. It is not credible that they were taking JJ secrets to McDonalds. But the action froze JJ workers in searching for a better job. Surprisingly, the courts said it was legal, but JJ settled and stopped using them.

This is so fucked

rhodoon Show HN: A lightweight fullstack boilerplate based on VueJS and Node.js

>please don't change the password

lmfao what did you think was going to happen?