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Oh, yikes, I should've checked those links before posting it here. That's certainly not a good look for them.

There was a github repo but I have not checked it.

edit I see, thats an unaffiliated site that latched onto that, my bad, here's the GH that I should've linked: https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA

I ran across this a few days ago: https://zluda.org/

Is Apple still doing the extended return window for items receiving around the holiday? I know sometimes they allow items received near the end of November to be returned in January, so in theory if you time your early order right you can use it, test it, and even have some time to play with it before you return it.

I hadn't heard of crystal somehow, I work with ruby a lot so that might be fun to play around with.

There are probably different reasons for different people. I can definitely see the angle that trying to specifically pretend to not be AI when contributing to open source could be seen as a bad thing due to the open source supply chain attacks, some AI-driven, that we've been having, not to mention the AI-slop PR spam.

But, I also get Anthropic's side that when they're contributing they don't want their internals leaked. If it had been left at that, that's fine, but having it pretend like it's not AI at all rubs me a little bit the wrong way. Why try to hide it?

It also says don't announce that you are AI in any way including asking it to not say "Co-authored by Claude". I read the file myself.

I'm still inclined to think people might be overreacting to that bit since it seems to be for anthropic-only to prevent leaking internal info.

But I did read the prompt and it did say hide the fact that you are AI.

Oh, me too. I started out as tech support for a dial up ISP in the 90s. It was rough. I am always polite to customer service. I just feel like it wasn't the lady that was attacked so much as it was the fax machine, the policy, the institution. She had some frustration, but it sounds like he was even polite to her, Didn't yell, didn't call her names or anything. He just opted for malicious compliance.

You have me thinking about old customer service war stories now, I wanted to share one of the more ridiculous ones. A tornado came through the small town and knocked out the utility lines. Being a dial-up ISP our infrastructure was a bit messed up for a few days. Once it was all squared away we had an angry customer call and yell at us about how we were offline for a few days and how unprofessional it was to not let him know that we were going offline. That he wasn't so much mad we were offline but we should have told him so he could have planned around it. He was yelling so much. I finally just said "sir, next time we schedule a tornado I will be sure to let you know." and he accepted the answer and thanked me. People are so odd.

They attacked a fax machine, I don't think it has feelings. The woman will get over her frustration at seeing it print for two hours.

I am reminded of this, I feel like its kind of a similar phenomenon: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1m803ba/th...

My main concern is, how long is it before you can't print a replacement part for something you bought because it looks too similar to an OEM part and the manufacturer doesn't think you should be able to do that so they throw a little money to the right politician.

The new TOS also says it tracks: immigration status, political affiliation, whether you identify as non-binary or transgender, religion, activist content you consume, etc.

Ah, the good old days. I remember dialing up local BBSes with QMODEM.

AT&C1&D2S36=7DT*70,,,5551212

I am embarrassed that I didn't think to do this. Thank you :)

Mine will turn my LG on, control the volume, do all of that, it just won't ever turn it off. The AppleTV will turn itself off, but the TV itself will revert back to its screen saver display complaining about No Input.

Oh, that explains why it looked so odd when I enabled HDR on my Studio.

This tech is at least a decade old.

Yes, this is so scary! I know I'm just hopping in here with anecdotes but this happened to my friend's mother as well. She was seemingly getting dementia, her health got really bad, she was tired all the time, couldn't figure out what it was for a while. Eventually they figured out UTI, treated it, and all the mental stuff went away as well.

You shouldn't just automatically trust it, but it allows you to examine what its doing and make your own informed decision about whether or not you can trust it. If you discover your data is being collected in an open source project you can, at the least, make an informed decision and give consent to it.

And while everyone won't be able to understand what they're looking at, the community as a whole would benefit from people looking at it an announcing/discussing problematic things they see in the code base.

If an open source project is syphoning data, someone's going to see it and talk about it.

If a closed project is doing it, it's harder / more complicated for that act to be discovered.

The same thing happened to me recently! I had the walk indicator lit, crossing in a cross walk, someone comes speeding up to me and stopped and yelled at me to "get my ass out of the road." Someone else drove up on the sidewalk and almost hit me -- they were on their phone when it happened. People are nuts.

The open source community can be wild sometimes. Back when I was still maintainer and lead dev for Gaim (not Pidgin), I would occasionally get downright hateful people e-mailing me for not implementing whatever feature they thought needed to be implemented, or not getting it implemented quickly enough. One guy managed to get ahold of my cell phone number somehow and called me at 4am to discuss "his ideas" with me for the project. I ended up having to change my number.

Thankfully 95% of the people I interacted with in the community were great and were great, but that other 5% was rough.

Oh, cool, I used to run something very similar called steamwatch.com, back before they allowed you to have watch lists. It would monitor prices, let you know about sales, and I would occasionally run game give away raffles for free with whatever ad revenue I collected. It only ever made maybe $100 over its entire run. This would've been over 10 years ago though so I doubt mine and yours ever coexisted.

Not to mention, with a car you get to decide your own schedule. If I want to take the train where I am, I have to be there at 4:30am or... well, that's it. That's the only time.

If you don't mind hotkeys, I eventually discovered that cmd+up arrow will take you to the parent folder.

I remember being maybe 13 years old or so and asking my parents for Turbo Pascal for Christmas haha. I think it was Turbo Pascal 3? I eventually upgraded to the nicer one with the windowed system. Good times!

This is one of those things where op needs to do something similar to what I think midjourney is doing and do prompt optimization.

They need to do some research into what additional prompt cues they can add for the user automatically to bring the user's prompt quality up.

They can append these to the prompt behind the scenes or provide a second text input of the additional prompt data to allow the user to modify that separately from their initial prompt input.

It might even help the user better understand how styling works with prompts.

You're going to get sued in the US if you try to market this thing and require voice input. This is potentially a huge accessibility issue.

You've essentially eliminated (most) people who are deaf and people with speech issues from being able to use your product.

It's a neat idea and the design looks like it could be nice but I can't really get past the first page because I cannot use it (no mic attached to this device and I wouldn't want to grant you permission to it anyway.)

Did you click the create button? It takes you to a page where it specifically mentions stable diffusion and allows you to create your own "vr image" with a prompt.

Oh, nice re: the analytics backend. Good thinking! This project has prompted me to dust off some code I was working on a couple years ago, I'm excited to play around with it.

This is really cool! Thank you for making/posting this. I played around with it for about half an hour to 45 minutes or so. I did manage to break it two or three times but I can't reproduce it reliably yet. I'll provide a proper bug report if I can figure out the exact conditions, but mostly if you go off road and get to the top of a big enough hill and then accelerate down the hill as quickly as you can and crash into a barrier you can sometimes flip yourself over it. When you do, you are no longer tethered to the ground and, instead, kind of hover above it and the road. Sometimes you can slip through the ground and the water, and all other barriers become passable.

https://i.imgur.com/YDyJa5g.png

(edit: It might be related to hitting slightly awkward terrain?)

(edit 2: Got it on video, though my commentary didn't get recorded for some reason) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7U-qS7P2tI

I had a Macbook pro gpu go bad a couple years outside the warranty of the laptop. They replaced the entire thing for me and also noticed a little dent in the case and swapped that out too, I essentially got a new (old) machine handed to me with my hard drive swapped to it.

They didn't charge me anything for that either.

I realize this is just anecdotal, though.