Posts by Vincent van Gopher 79 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Mar 2023
A Linux customer of mine* I recently bought a laptop from https://laptopwithlinux.com - tons of options for what version of Linux, etc.
Clevo and TongFang (who they?) laptops available.
I have no connection to these guys apart from setting up the laptop.
* They're almost all Linux users now, just a couple of farmers who have to use Windows programs for their farming operations, and one uses Linux for everything else and hates having to use . . .
'. . . or unwitting Americans . . ' Dear, dear Mike Pillow (nee Lindell). He absolutely believes that the 2020 election was stolen but doesn't (can't) show his proof. It's far more likely that the 2016 election was the one with actual interference. Trump the arch projectionist pretty much confirms it by his projection.
I did see her say that some of the QAnon conspiracy things she'd see on the internet were wrong - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-internet-quote/
So even she had to admit a some of the things she'd read and ran with were batshit. Absolutely no excuse for it if she had any sort of intelligence - which she obviously doesn't.
I've upvoted you Pascal, tho is Marge the Bounty Hunter really adept at bullshit? Perhaps the down votes are from people that don't think she's adept at bullshitting. She is definitely batshit crazy with her conspiracy theories and may walk back some of the madder ones when she realizes they are totally crazy.
RawTherapee perhaps? https://www.rawtherapee.com/
DarkTable was something I looked at for a friend a while back. I'm not so into photography that I need something more than the GIMP :)
With the resources Adobe has it's unlikely that anyone can write something as good/complete as Lightroom, but you pays your money and take your choice.
"We move fast and try innovative new ideas regularly – and sometimes they just don't work out the way we intended," . . . and break things, maybe like our current civilisation?
AI needs to be caged, not roaming loose.
Do dumb people know they're dumb? AI hasn't a clue if it's dumb or not and dumb people might think AI has all the answers when instead it's just being dumber than a dumb human.
Icon - will it all go bang? 'It' being anything you like :-)
EricM - 'Which again shows that LLM's are not about rational understanding or facts, but about statistical relationships between words.'
Therefore - there is no real Intelligence. 'AI' maybe useful in some areas but are more likely just dangerous bullshit generators.
Icon - what 'AI' may do for our current civilisation.
The opening from a famous British sit-com, change some words to make it fit better - 'arrest' to whatever happens to a company. 'Imprisonment' to 'a fine', 'term' also to 'fine'. 'Prison for five years' to '10% of global profits' - or whatever is the maximum fine available.
"You are an habitual criminal, who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard, and presumably accepts imprisonment in the same casual manner. We therefore feel constrained to commit you to the maximum term allowed for these offences; you will go to prison for five years."
I remember that animated dog in Win98 (or was it XP?), I also remember saying to people that if MS had spent more time on getting search to work properly instead of that crappy dog things would be a lot better. That dog might have been there to distract us from the POS that searching in Windows was. 20+ years and search on Windows is still crap - not that know or care these days.
I pretty much gave up using Windows after XP, played with Vista and 7 but by that time I was using Linux* nearly all the time.
*Slackware in 1996, Mandrake, Red Hat/Fedora), SUSE with the last good KDE (3.5.??), then Mint from around v7 (Gloria) to now - Mint 21.2 (Victoria). Just noticed the upgrade to 21.3 Virginia is now available.
Rudy, or anyone else with the files from 'the laptop from hell' could have put them somewhere and pointed us to them but they have nothing, just 'a lot of theories', no real evidence. If there was we would know about it. The 'internet' (Facebook, or was it Twitter?) hid the Hunter laptop references for 24 hours - and still Trump lost. He would have lost in 2016 if it hadn't been for his election interference re. 'crooked' Hilary's email problem. If you turn Trump's words around 180 degrees that's a more accurate view. A good proportion of politicians are not so good (for whatever reason), but Trump is not a politician, he's just a snake oil salesman BSer. I wonder if he's able to hypnotise people, there has to be some reason his supporters can't see through the BS he spouts.
I love that footage of Trump and Epstein at some club or other checking out the talent. In my mind there's no doubt Trump is coked up or something.
Did you forget the /sarc tag?
This is the internet - very little can be hidden now. If you were serious you would have put links to these court cases and discovery you mention. But you probably can't and that's why you posted as an anonymous coward.
The Trump Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ydDn69nZEE
Mitchell has been at Mozilla for a long, long time. She knows a lot about the Mozilla company and Firefox, Knowledge is power, and power gets rewarded.
I think a lot of CEOs, etc. are overpaid but that's how things go, there are plenty of people out there not worth the salary they get but I would say Mitchell isn't one of them.
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