Have you tried yout.com? Take the URL of any vid, and just delete the ‘ube’ from it. It only allows a few DLs per day but it works.

Sure he’s not a vampire? (Yes I feel bad now)

I guess so? The ones I’m used to have whole corn kernels too

Dammit I’m hungry now :p

Would this be the same s ‘corn fritters’ in Canada?

Ah, hashcash. Wish that had taken off, it was a good idea …

I feel this – we had a junior dev on our project who started using AI for coding, without management approval BTW (it was a small company and we didn’t yet have a policy specifically for it. Alas.)

I got the fun task, months later, of going through an entire component that I’m almost certain was ‘vibe coded’ – it “worked” the first time the main APIs were called, but leaked and crashed on subsequent calls. It used double- and even triple-pointers to data structures, which the API vendor’s documentation upon some casual reading indicated could all be declared statically and re-used (this was an embedded system); needless arguments; mallocs and frees everywhere for no good reason (again due to all of the un-needed dynamic storage involving said double/triple pointers to stuff). It was a horrible mess.

It should have never gotten through code review, but the senior devs were themselves overloaded with work (another, separate problem) …

I took two days and cleaned it all up, much simpler, no mem leaks, and could actually be, you know, used more than once.

Fucking mess, and LLMs (don’t call it “AI”) just allow those who are lazy and/or inexperienced to skate through short-term tasks, leaving huge technical debt for those that have to clean up after.

If you’re doing job interviews, ensure the interviewee is not connected to LLMs in any way and make them do the code themselves. No exceptions. Consider blocking LLMs from your corp network as well and ban locally-installed things like Ollama.

Yes, and they used the name first, not google. Arseholes.

No, no – I think the author’s project supports the gemini hypertext protocol, not google’s “AI” monstrosity.

Once again, a rich megacorp chose a name ignoring the fact it was already taken.

if jobs had living wages

But but billionaires would be slightly less obscenely rich then, oh no!

They shouldn’t cluster so closely together, it’s a risk. Not that I’m suggesting anything.

Thank you.

If you’ve ensured your home network’s firewall is sane first, there’s no big issue.

If you dual-boot to Windows occasionally to run that one stupid program that can’t run under Linux, and you aren’t downloading stuff willy-nilly from the wild internet, and you haven’t previously installed all sorts of dodgy call-home programs, you can still be safe running while you’re in Windows. Hell, I have a Windows 7 box that runs just fine from my home network to the internet, thankyouverymuch. I even download stuff from there gasp, but I check the files first! Imagine that.

Most people aren’t knowledgeable enough to maintain proper security however so I guess I should just stop commenting on posts like this, as I always get flak from people stating it’s impossible to run an OS more than 2 weeks old on the Internet without being instantly hacked :p.

But still… as others say, I totally agree – move to Linux if you can.

Just block W11 updates entirely.

https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-8/

It’s mostly bullshit that one absolutely needs the latest Windows updates; if you use uBlock Origin in your browser and don’t download/run random .EXE/.MSI shit from the internet you’ll be fine. Keep Windows Defender up to date once a month just in case as well.

But really the best option is to switch to Linux.

Big Bang Theory, and all ‘reality’ shows.

AI for pattern recognition (statistical stuff) IMHO is fine, it’s different than expecting original thought, reasoning or understanding, which the new ‘AI’ does not do, despite the constant hype.

Palantir, which the US gov is now (let’s not kid ourselves, has been for some time illegally) contracting, probably already has your face either from street cams, security cams in various company buildings, or from social media at this point, so letting you ‘opt out’ is probably just theatre to avoid angering people at airports.

Good god, it’s Microsoft Songsmith all over again.

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

Data analytics firm doesn’t like … data on itself being analyzed. huh.

Add a removable battery, make sure it has a headphone jack and can be fully unlocked/rooted and I’ll buy 3 right bloody now.

Document it well enough to run real Linux and I’ll shout about it from the street like a crazy person for free advertising.

Would a honeypot community help, where anyone visiting a post there gets blocked or tarpitted?