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I remind you all to never support J. K. Rowling’s works. If you do, you actively fund the oppresion of trans people in the UK.
If you like the games or movies as I once did and want to experience them again, then simply buy them second hand or, better, pirate them.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder AppealEnglish
2·1 day agoYeah I heard of a case like this at least a year ago. I was wondering if we were reposting an old article, but no. That makes it worse, and explains the judge’s reaction.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder AppealEnglish
38·1 day ago“It’s little comfort to know that my stupidity is what brings us together this afternoon,” New Mexico attorney Stephen D. Aarons said in a hearing last month before five judges. He “assumed” ChatGPT would generate a “bulletproof summary of proceedings.” Instead, ChatGPT generated false testimony from “wholly fabricated witnesses,” according to an order of direct contempt from the New Mexico Supreme Court.
Aarons’ reasoning for trusting ChatGPT, he said in the August hearing, was that he’d heard of doctors using AI for medical research.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to policeEnglish
29·2 days agoYeah, I know someone frustrated with their local council who privately says “I’m going to 💥 the council” as a joke. That’s very different to sending a threatening letter to the council itself. Or harassing them.
The example here feels closer to the former than the latter.
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Technology@lemmy.world•DrivingBench: Can frontier LLM models drive a real car? We give them control of a Toyota Corolla’s steering, accelerator, and brakes, then evaluate them on a fixed cone course.English
101·6 days agoWhy the hell would you give a language model the wheel of a car?
They don’t even understand the concept of time and space. Some of them can parse an image, but typically only enough to pull text from it, and extremely slowly.
It’s like asking an overweight English teacher to play pro football.
We built visual recognition machine learning systems for this purpose.
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Political Memes@lemmy.world•A month before an election!? BlooMAGA, amirite???
1099·7 days agoObligatory Simpsons meme




I’ll take “we can’t govern”, please.
What’s the longest single word your can type with that keyboard? Best I can do is “yucky”.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Stop bringing your phone in the shower: How steam can ruin 'waterproof' phonesEnglish
51·9 days agoIt has varied. I used to keep them 1-2 years when they used to improve a lot year-to-year. The last 2 phones I’ve had 3 years each.
After I’m done with it, I hand my phone over to my brother, who runs it into the ground over the course of the next 3 or so years, until it’s almost unusably slow. My brother does the shower thing too, but less often. Maybe 30% of the time and less steamy.
It’s possible that there could be gradual, over time damage. Rust growing until it forms a short. But that’s not been my experience.
Ultimately, it’s up to you if you want to take the risk, but given how I treated mine, if you even did this half as often as I did, you’re probably fine.
I didn’t mention this above, but I sometimes also used the phone inside the shower. Clicking the next video or checking a message notification. Maybe 1 in 8 days.
I’ve also sometimes washed the crud off the phone under the sink, rather than my normal approach with isopropyl alcohol. The worst I’d get is a notification saying I couldn’t charge for a bit, or the speaker sounding funny for half an hour or so.
You might call me crazy, but I don’t like to baby my stuff. I paid for water resistance, I’m going to make use of it.
I’ve been told that caffeine is toxic to cats, doesn’t that make this somewhat dangerous?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Stop bringing your phone in the shower: How steam can ruin 'waterproof' phonesEnglish
481·10 days agoI’ve been doing this for around 10 years, have very hot, steamy showers and never had a problem 🤷
Started with the Samsung Galaxy S7, one of the earlier water resistant phones, and I’ve been doing it ever since, across maybe 5 phones, almost every day. You’ll be fine. If you are worried about drops, just use a decent case.
As for why, others have said, it’s to keep listening to my YouTube video essays and similar. Stuff that doesn’t need to be seen to be appreciated.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Disney stopped offering casting from their app in Germany and the Netherlands.English
9·10 days agoYeah I have seen it can be pretty hard to find non-English content on the high seas. I wonder if anyone has a good source for this stuff.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century
31·10 days agoHey, we’re only 1/4 through the 21st century so far. It’s too early to call it. The Grapes of Wrath reboot doesn’t come out until 2040!
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Political Memes@lemmy.world•The official US Department of EDUCATION Facebook page
683·12 days agoBest I can tell, the number is more in the 20s, and 0 in the Olympics.
https://lgbtprime.com/meet-29-trans-women-who-won-state-national-or-international-championships
Those that did win competitions, did not “steal” them from anyone. Shame on this news article and shame on the Department for
EducationMisinformation for spreading garbage like this.
It’s from Sousou no Frieren. The instigating plot of the show is that, as an elf, she perceives time differently. She can take time off for a few decades (a chill holiday) and find that everyone is old / has died.
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Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•Trump signs sweeping Russia sanctions bill, aiming to choke off funds for Moscow in Ukraine war
132·18 days agoWhat a betrayal! Putin is the one who got him elected!
I also use this one. It’s available on F-Droid here: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.best.deskclock
So like you do in Oblivion with Skooma?
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Technology@lemmy.world•World-first biological data center packs 16 mn living human neuronsEnglish
611·25 days agoLovely. Man-made horrors beyond our comprehension.














Yeah, isn’t the latter more standard?