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Does anybody have any idea what this post is about?

He’s going to do a lot less damage at Meta. Other than the quest I don’t think they actually make any hardware. What’s he going to do?

And of course trafficking adults for the purposes of sexual exploitation is fine

This article is so stupid rmdir isn’t some magical military grade file eraser. It literally just flags the disc space as available, that’s it. Claiming these files are unrecoverable is like claiming that you have snapped someone out of existence, when you just delete them from your contacts.

The user in question was using AI to delete files, it probably took them longer to ask the AI to do it than it would have done for them to have just gone into the final browser and deleted them themselves, so they probably don’t know how to use data recovery software, that’s all.

I also find it intriguing that rather than using the AI’s advice and stop using the drive so they don’t overwrite data they decided that the best course of action would be to make a YouTube video about it. Which is probably a massive file and is probably overwritten previously recoverable data.

What a pillock.

If it isn’t, it never will be.

Linux has everything going for it in '26, people pissed with Microsoft, Apple still not doing anything in the space, no one cares about CoD any more, and Valve have their computer coming out.

I think the arguement is that the cameras are only there because people are running red lights. Don’t you want to catch people who habitually run red lights, and therefore represent a danger to the public? If you’re not the sort of person who runs the red lights then the cameras are irrelevant to you.

I’m a little confused, do you want people running red lights in the name of “personal liberty, yeehaw” because that seems like a bad idea.

What absolute moron would obey that order?

I could see how maybe you could believe there was justification for the initial strike but there can be no justification for killing people who are now defenceless. Although why not just board the vessel and take everyone into custody, why instantly resort to deadly force, did they have information that the people on the boat were heavily armed or otherwise able to threaten a US naval vessel?

Just got a dishwasher and it doesn’t even have an app. How can that be?

Why not do cars need internet access in order to start?

I understand having auxiliary services the network connected but surely the failure mode should just be an error on the screen but otherwise the car should still function. It’s not like operating without internet access is dangerous or anything.

Also, why don’t we just do that, cut Russias internet access, it seems like it would cause utter chaos.

I’ve never even heard of Zig before today and it’s right out of the gate with drama, cat fights, and public spats. Got to love the programming world.

Your first mistake was buying a Dell machine.

Because it doesn’t have that kind of access to the file system. It can pull and push files from the system but that’s it. It has to interact with the file system via an API, it’s not got direct access.

Given the tendency of these systems to randomly implode (as demonstrated) I’m unconvinced they’re going to be a long-term threat.

Any company that desires to replace its employees with an AI is really just giving them an unpaid vacation. Not even a particularly long one if history is any judge.

What’s this version control stuff? I don’t need that, I have an AI.

- An actual quote from Deap-Hyena492

It’s not that we think that everyone on a .ml instance is a bad person it’s just that if you don’t watch your back you end up talking to a bunch of people who think that mass murder and war crimes and acceptable as long as their friends are the ones doing it. And they are unfortunately also on .ml and to tar everyone with the same brush.

It’s why a lot of instances are defederating which sucks for you of course because none of it is your fault.

On Reddit you will get quarantined or shadow banned quickly with anything politically charged.

Just pick your instance and you can get that here. Unfortunate number of tankies running around on here.

i have been day banned on a no-ai place for mentioning npc ai before.

I can see why they might have done that. When people say AI they mean neural nets and large language models, not a bunch of if else scripts. NPC AI often cheats because it knows everything about the world it’s in, it doesn’t act like an bunch of individuals experiencing that world from a singular viewpoint. So you can go really simple with its coding, far below the level but most people would consider to be artificial intelligence by current definitions.

That’s why often times it does stupid things like been unable to see the player simply because the player is crouched down, even though they are demonstrably visible. The script basically just checks if the player is crouched in grass, and if they are to ignore them. It knows where the player is, but it’s code is telling it to do nothing about that.

So you’re prepared to learn up to 100 languages? Because if so that covers most of them that you’d want.

Depends on what they do. If they make toilet cubicles, then it’s actually a good thing.