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Day: 16 October 2024

  • Happy International Pronouns Day! ๐Ÿฅณ

    I use he/him pronouns.

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    • posted 16 October, 2024
  • And while we're talking about AI.

    It took a disproportionate about of time to find the right (tiny) link, but eventually I managed to opt-out of my content being used to train Facebook's AI. They don't make it easy, do they?

    Full image of Screenshot of a Facebook message, including the text "we will honour your objection... we won't use your public information from Facebook... for future development and improvement of generative AI models"
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    Screenshot of a Facebook message, including the text "we will honour your objection... we won't use your public information from Facebook... for future development and improvement of generative AI models"

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    • posted 16 October, 2024
  • People walk in front of a Google logo.

    Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres

    As Google invest in next-generation nuclear generation to provide electricity to their energy-hungry AI datacentres, so they can keep providing shit answers to everyday questions, I'm optimistic that maybe after the LLM fad fizzles out we'll be left with new power technologies that can benefit all of humankind.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (620 words)

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  • You know that you REALLY needed that coffee when you:

    1. get out a mug,
    2. turn on the coffee machine,
    3. load the dishwasher while you wait for the coffee machine to warm up,
    4. can't find your mug any more, oh shit it's in the dishwasher ๐Ÿคฆ

    Full image of A red mug being filled by a coffee machine.
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    A red mug being filled by a coffee machine.

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    • posted 16 October, 2024

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