... yes, that's the complaint. The prompt engineering they did made it spew neo-Nazi vitriol. They either did not adequately test it beforehand and didn't know what would happen, or they did test and knew the outcome—either way, it's bad.
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Where would one get these MP3 files? Not everything is on Bandcamp and torrenting everything feels like a part time job, but maybe I just have too much music I like.
I still remember spending days inside during summers as a kid, downloading, cataloging and tagging MP3 files while others were probably experiencing life haha.
But I do long for the days where I could just press 'play' and I would hear music, without waiting for Spotify's Electron crap to finish loading its 'optimistic UI', declining 10 cookie popups and agreeing to upload the soul of my unborn kids to Daniel Ek's private cloud.
The big digital music stores are DRM-free these days (iTunes and Amazon both are). There's also Qobuz if you want to avoid the tech giants (though most of your money ends up going to record labels, so does it really matter?).
shadowfacts commented on The 12-bit rainbow palette iamkate.com/data/12-bit-r... · Posted by u/rguiscard
Why is 12 bits 4 characters? Shouldn't it be 3 hexadecimal digits (as shown on the website), since each digit is 4 bits?
Four characters counting the pound sign.
While I appreciate the story, I am honestly confused by The Verge's editorial choices in running a series of articles like this one. I understand it's been 50 years after the end of the American War in Vietnam, but what does it remotely have to do with tech?
Why are they publishing this story/these stories? How is it on-brand? Again don't get me wrong. It's great that someone's doing it but... It just feels... wrong from an editorial product management perspective.
The Verge has been publishing non-tech related stories for ages. Technology still seems to be their main focus, but this isn't new.
They did not have "every right to remove him." As the article you linked says, Abrego Garcia was specifically granted a withholding of removal order.
> There’s no set definition for what a chair is.
Sure there is: a chair is anything upon which I can comfortably sit without breaking it.
A beanbag is a chair? Perhaps a chair should be something on which one can comfortably sit without breaking that has a back and four legs. I suppose then a horse would be a chair.
shadowfacts commented on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies thelibre.news/foss-infras... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
> According to Drew, LLM crawlers don't respect robots.txt requirements and include expensive endpoints like git blame, every page of every git log, and every commit in your repository. They do so using random User-Agents from tens of thousands of IP addresses, each one making no more than one HTTP request, trying to blend in with user traffic.
How do they know that these are LLM crawlers and not anything else?
In my case, no small fraction of the traffic was from OpenAI and Anthropic. There were also other user agents that literally said "AI".
shadowfacts commented on I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen getlago.com/blog/office-s... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien
He straight-up ate someone else's salad?
"But the distribution is bimodal here because the massive upside is countered by a massive downside: You need to evade detection. Will you hide in the bathroom? Pretend you ordered the same thing? Eat it at your desk? Either way, you need to be prepared."
Pro health tip: Don't eat where you perform waste removal functions.
> He straight-up ate someone else's salad?
... no, it's clearly a joke.
shadowfacts commented on Apple squandered the Holy Grail xeiaso.net/blog/2025/squa... · Posted by u/caust1c
It's a bit funny his favourite "Apple Intelligence feature" is something that wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't even invoke the actual model at all under the hood.
Parsing text for variables when it sees an equals sign and running basic calculations on them? I feel that could have been a novel feature 30 years ago.
Soulver has indeed been doing this without large language models (so far as I know) for many years: https://soulver.app/
The Supreme Court is not the ultimate decider of what the layman's document means. It was wrong when it decided, for instance, Plessy v. Ferguson. The law that the Court upheld patently violated the Fourteenth Amendment and was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court was simply wrong.