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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Nice xkcd reference

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Research suggest LLM chatbots may be effective against conspiracy theories (arstechnica.com)

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The article mentions more research is needed to confirm if the effect is long-lasting, but personally I'm happy someone may have found a good, practical usecase for LLMs.

Hair in movies is magic in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Also in videogames. The only time I've seen it could be justified happened in Detroit: Become Human. There, the character doing it is an android, so she probably got data from the internet to cut her hair properly, or was preconfigured with that knowledge.

Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would argue that the new paint could help alleviate the issue, since it would incentivise people to decrease use of the AC. My concern then would be how polluting is the production of the new paint compared to the current version.

Darkness reigns over Wikipedia as official dark mode comes to pass in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

"One who knows nothing can understand nothing"

–Riku who is Ansem who is not Ansem who is Xehanort

Darkness reigns over Wikipedia as official dark mode comes to pass in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Logitech CEO Wants to Sell You a Subscription-Based 'Forever Mouse' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Reminder that getting a subscription service means moving away from something you buy occasionally to something you pay forever

YouTube's server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Or my ugly mug when the sun is up

YouTube's server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

From the beginning of the article:

...in a bid to get users to switch to YouTube Premium

Which is still ludicrous of them, considering how much you pay for how little it offers

Pacifier Puppy [Bichon Frise] in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

So cute! Here's mine:

Her name is Luna

The answer to your Google search may depend on where you live in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Agreed, I realized this happened when I was a kid, so I started searching mostly in English for doing school work, the exception being assignments related to history and other regional/national subjects.