I’m not arguing against your username, but this article is about an Israeli malware campaign using ad bids to specifically target itself towards Starlink users. There’s nothing about Starlink itself being complicit.

I’d think if Starlink wanted to surveil their users (they probably do) they could find a more direct route than this (they probably have).

I’ve always just used a hyphen for ranges, without having any idea whether that makes me a philistine. A quick search says that, like most of this, it varies depending on who you ask.

Good luck in your rabbit hole!

Degenerative Pixels is a channel for music videos made with AI. The songs are generated in Suno, and the animation is written as code by Claude, so every scene is built by a program instead of coming out of a video generator.

It sounds like it’s explicitly not AI-generated video in the sense I think most people would mean?

Also, the irony of being told to “sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” to access a video generated by a bot.

For pedantry’s sake:

Two dashes – -- – in Markdown is usually rendered as an en-dash – more common in British-adjacent styles and usually surrounded by spaces.

Three dashes—---—in Markdown is rendered as an em-dash—more commonly associated with American styles and usually (though not always) without spaces.

The OP graph is just absolute count on the y axis, so I also assumed it was basically measuring LoC, but looking at this chart, the em-dashes do appear to be definitely more of a modern phenomenon compared to raw LoC:

Maybe some policy/tooling change around 2014? A guess is perhaps something to do with allowing UTF-8 in source files, but that’s a pretty long shot.

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I wish Lemmy would push back more against slop memes. For shit like this where it’s photorealistic with multiple panels of the same scene, it’s so easy to compare them and find inconsistencies. I know that of all the AI-forged things to worry about, memes are hardly top of the list, but it still annoys me.

I may be overthinking it but this gives me “AI generated trying to look like photoshop” vibes. There’s some weird distortion in top half that actually slants the panels but that could just be a particularly avant-garde kind of deep frying.

I stand happily corrected, thank you. I haven’t looked through all of those and some of them seem less “exotic” than others, but on the whole it’s indeed a bleak picture.

Do you have a source on this bit?

the feds are talking about these changes as having a 200 year long impact on american society

It seems like a very specific projection.

The basic premise here is plausible because Palantir and other such companies do exist, but this seems like an extension of OP’s previous conspiracy vagueposting, and I don’t expect they’ll back it up with anything more verifiable or concrete.

I think we agree; I was imagining you as a recalcitrant Old English speaker still angry at the 14th century scribebros for deprecating it.

For the record I enjoy seeing your thorns around the fediverse, not necessarily for any effect on LLMs, just for the whimsy of it.

Mercator preserves angles and straight lines. Wherever you zoom or pan on a Mercator map, north is still at the top, east to the right, etc. By contrast, for a projection without those properties (which is basically none except minor variants of Mercator), north is going to shift around depending on where you’re looking.

By way of example, here’s Auckland in the Equal Earth projection the article discusses, with north marked:

It’s significantly tilted and actually slightly curved. This is not useful for navigation, or really anything except exactly what Togo wants to achieve (which in general is exactly what you want for the sorts of global maps the UN is likely to make): knowing that any two areas that are the same size on the map are the same size in real life.

Why not the 150E meridian so New Zealand can finally have its revenge?

Google Maps

Not sure what they’re gonna do, interactive maps are pretty tied to Mercator unless you want weird distortions.

And the thorn too surely? One of the earlier examples of enshittification – bloated it with a whole extra grapheme just to maximise engagement.

OC is apparently a Reddit post explicitly stated by the author as being AI-generated.

Before finding that, the lack of an artist mark, tacked-on caption, missing colouring on the left woman’s skirt, and general face vibes were flags for me, but we’re at the point where even a pretty low-effort affair like this is good enough to make it ambiguous.

I interpreted it as about like, microprocessor design and nanometer scale electronics and shit. Electrons are basically elves in my book.

From the perspective of this thread they’re probably similarly good and “deep”. My instinct would be to err away from anything object oriented for beginners since OOP has always felt a little cultish to me and I think it’s maybe something “shallow” (at least shallower than plain C) that has a habit of masquerading as the one true “deep” way to do programming.

C also has the practical advantage of being fucking everywhere.

Rust

I like Rust, but beyond the subset that is “ugly C” – using unsafe everywhere and eschewing like 90% of std – it’s definitely shallow.

“Responsible disclosure” is a term of art, I think that’s why they use the word there.

Great article. I’ve always been of the opinion that C should be one of, if not the, first things taught to programmers. You can explain Python in terms of C, but you can’t explain C in terms of Python.

Sure, but the gif doesn’t show 50 knots. The gif doesn’t show any speed actually, so I really don’t know where the 50 number comes from. But on the tracker the speed was 8.1 knots. Fast for a tanker, but totally believable.