[-] EldritchFeminity 3 points 7 hours ago

Not quite what you're looking for, but I never can resist an opportunity to post these:

[-] EldritchFeminity 4 points 9 hours ago

So long as they aren't the ones getting turned into the new fountain on the campus, they couldn't care less.

[-] EldritchFeminity 3 points 1 day ago

One thing about this is that it seems to labor under the assumption of a symmetrical (or near symmetrical) fight, and that is exactly the last thing that a resistance group should be doing.

The most effective strategy for a resistance group is to be as expensive a problem to deal with and as difficult to get rid of as possible. Defend the community for sure, but the real fight is against the logistics of an armed force. The more time and money they have to waste, the better. Certain kinds of paint are impossible to get off of glass, like the glass used in bulletproof windshields that would need to be completely replaced, or the kinds of clear plastic used in things like riot shields and visors. At the extreme end, there's options like paying these fascists thugs a "visit" in the dead of night. All these human traffickers have homes to go back to at night, and if enough face repercussions, it will quickly become difficult to find people willing to stick their neck out and possibly become yet another new fountain.

All this to say, I don't think anybody who actually knows what they're doing or intends to do something thinks that they're going to help form a standing army and fight the US government. Sporadic and random acts of self defense or defense of the community? Sure. Suicide by cop? I would be surprised if people weren't thinking about that eventuality. But Rambo is not gonna happen and any violence will definitely happen alongside the peaceful protests that we've been seeing for months now, and not instead of them (at least, not until things get very very bad).

[-] EldritchFeminity 6 points 1 day ago

Reagan is the major turning point in basically every graph of the past century. Once money really started to enter politics and "trickle down economics" became a thing, this was going to happen sooner or later.

[-] EldritchFeminity 9 points 1 day ago

Posts bait like a bot, username checks out like a bot. Just report, block, and move on. They don't even deserve the minimal effort of a response.

[-] EldritchFeminity 2 points 2 days ago

Probably a lack of data in the training set. It reminds me of the early versions of facial recognition software which had trouble telling not just black people apart, but also women of all ages and white men below a certain age. It was because these early versions had only been trained on photos of employees at the company, and they were mostly older white men.

[-] EldritchFeminity 6 points 6 days ago

Yes, yes they do. Or, more accurately, they didn't know that in the first place. These people are often just running on what are essentially old wives' tales of things to be afraid of because it will hurt their masculinity or something.

[-] EldritchFeminity 8 points 6 days ago

Meanwhile, War Thunder players be leaking classified documents on vehicles to prove that it isn't modeled correctly in-game.

[-] EldritchFeminity 144 points 7 months ago
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Reuters, citing two anonymous sources, reported Friday that senior career officials at the Office of Personnel Management, the governing agency for the federal workforce, have had their access to department data revoked. They lost access to the Enterprise Human Resources Integration database, which includes the dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades, and length of service of government workers.

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Elon Musk’s minions—from trusted sidekicks to random college students and former Musk company interns—have taken over the General Services Administration, a critical government agency that manages federal offices and technology. Already, the team is attempting to use White House security credentials to gain unusual access to GSA tech, deploying a suite of new AI software, and recreating the office in X’s image, according to leaked documents obtained by WIRED.

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Reuters, citing two anonymous sources, reported Friday that senior career officials at the Office of Personnel Management, the governing agency for the federal workforce, have had their access to department data revoked. They lost access to the Enterprise Human Resources Integration database, which includes the dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades, and length of service of government workers.

[-] EldritchFeminity 146 points 1 year ago

The argument that these models learn in a way that's similar to how humans do is absolutely false, and the idea that they discard their training data and produce new content is demonstrably incorrect. These models can and do regurgitate their training data, including copyrighted characters.

And these things don't learn styles, techniques, or concepts. They effectively learn statistical averages and patterns and collage them together. I've gotten to the point where I can guess what model of image generator was used based on the same repeated mistakes that they make every time. Take a look at any generated image, and you won't be able to identify where a light source is because the shadows come from all different directions. These things don't understand the concept of a shadow or lighting, they just know that statistically lighter pixels are followed by darker pixels of the same hue and that some places have collections of lighter pixels. I recently heard about an ai that scientists had trained to identify pictures of wolves that was working with incredible accuracy. When they went in to figure out how it was identifying wolves from dogs like huskies so well, they found that it wasn't even looking at the wolves at all. 100% of the images of wolves in its training data had snowy backgrounds, so it was simply searching for concentrations of white pixels (and therefore snow) in the image to determine whether or not a picture was of wolves or not.

[-] EldritchFeminity 189 points 2 years ago

I saw some context for this, and the short of it is that headline writers want you to hate click on articles.

What the article is actually about is that there's tons of solar panels now but not enough infrastructure to effectively limit/store/use the power at peak production, and the extra energy in the grid can cause damage. Damage to the extent of people being without power for months.

California had a tax incentive program for solar panels, but not batteries, and because batteries are expensive, they're in a situation now where so many people put panels on their houses but no batteries to store excess power that they can't store the power when it surpasses demand, so the state is literally paying companies to run their industrial stoves and stuff just to burn off the excess power to keep the grid from being destroyed.

[-] EldritchFeminity 142 points 2 years ago

Are Millennials hating on Gen Z? I always thought our attitude was more like this:

Also, love how this skips Gen X. Always the forgotten generation.

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