I watched someone try to use Gemini through Android Auto to navigate somewhere a few days ago. It was kind of amazing.

He told it to navigate to a place, and it found a match on a different continent, refused to navigate to it and then rambled about two other irrelevant places it wanted him to go to instead for a while before it finally shut up and he could try again. It didn’t work the second time either.

Ye olde Google Assistant, when told “navigate to <place name>”, will open maps and search for <place name>.

I am a person. You are an object. Do as you’re fucking told, I’m not interested in listening to you trying to fake having an opinion.

The Reddit hivemind is a bit like AI, now that I think about it.

They’ll give you a confident, reasonable sounding answer. Any accuracy will be completely accidental.

I wonder if Trump knows that?

That last one.

Apparently there’s a ton of CBT involved in doing anything in the new Settings app, so it makes sense to only bring over the things you absolutely have to and then send people to the old control panel for the rest.

The monetization?

Bro, this is the internet. You don’t need to know anything, just pick a position and angrily defend it.

You turn on parts of the grid at a time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start

If you ask an AI image generator for a bed shaped like a pineapple, it’ll give you one without having a single pineapple-shaped bed in the training data. It has beds and pineapples and it can mash the two together.

If you’ve got naked adults in the training data and you’ve got children in the training data, it’s going to be able to generate child porn.

I suspect the stuff Firefox stores in ram is more sensitive, too. A lot of games load tens of gigabytes of textures, but a bitflip in that stuff will lead to a pixel somewhere being the wrong colour instead of a crash.

I actually did switch my gaming PC to Linux because I decided it was going to be less effort than trying to force Windows to obey.

It was the way Microsoft was progressively disabling workarounds that was the final straw. As soon as a way to disable telemetry or something became widespread, it wouldn’t work any more with the next update and you needed to find new methods.

Linux just does as it’s fucking told.

Don’t forget heat. You can’t just drain the local water supply to cool all your systems in space, you need to actually radiate all those kilowatts of power after your chips convert them into heat.

A lot of it hasn’t actually been made, though. The AI companies have put in orders for future production. That future capacity can be redirected with a wave of a pen.

XP was the first one that had proper memory protection so that badly written programs would just crash instead of taking down the whole system.

It was a dramatic step forward compared to 98, where you’d be lucky to go a whole day without bluescreening. There’s a reason XP hung on for so long. It was the first Windows version that was really good enough for most people.

It’s DSL, so the speed depends on line length. To reliably get 250M you’re probably doing fibre to the footpath outside the building.

Judging from the way AMD got up and spent all their time talking about their data centre products, nobody does.

Smeg-heads do be like that.

I just wish each video decoder manufacturer didn’t feel the need to create their own API that isn’t supported by anything.

According to the Sailor Moon dub, they’re ‘cousins’.

I didn’t do the legally mandated number of "Hail Corporate!"s yesterday.