Like Beer, AI is the cause, and the solution of all our problems. – Homer Simpson

–some-- free users. unless I have to upgrade - free for a month and then $19.99 a month after that. nope.

We are not talking Daylight Savings Time are we? It would be great if we would just stick to one time and not change from savings to not savings. Japan, I think, split the difference, they went 1/2 hour and stayed there.

A minister whose job is to promote AI and also promote Privacy - seems like a built-in conflict of interests.

It did add some superlatives, almost as though it had an ego.

Tell me more. Why?

However, in the art arena AI is frustrating when you need a very specific image and not just a ‘a tree a dog a bird and a farmhouse’ AI art is getting better with text in the image but still makes some mistakes there. AI does poorly when you try to use it as a search engine : “What movie had a ball shaped robot” might bring back any answer. Warning though - AI is getting better at hands and spurious limbs.

What is AI good for - Images that are suitable for screen backgrounds, Creative text work - I had chatgpt work with me on a procedure to un-mothball a starship, it suggested details I did not think of. I had chatgpt also read and suggest re-wording and correction on text for documentation. I fed it a chapter at a time and proofread the output carefully to mitigate hallucination.

Here is the text above after a chatgpt re-write:

AI excels at creating stunning screen backgrounds and tackling creative text work. For example, I worked with ChatGPT to craft a procedure for un-mothballing a starship, and it offered valuable details I hadn’t considered. It’s also a fantastic tool for refining documentation—I had it review and reword chapters, carefully proofreading to ensure accuracy. The results were efficient, insightful, and elevated the final product.

A Bard, an advanced story teller, One who draws pictures of things that never were (people with 3 arms for example), Lore from Star Trek. Don’t give it power to do anything on its own, always monitor it.

It will also endanger those who’s life does not line up with accepted norms.

My ASUS Vivobook has a slider that blocks the camera physically. It is bright red so I can easily see it is closed.

I use a small band-aid - no gummy glue on the lens!

Sure, it couldn’t hurt - The phone is restarted.

Thanks all - It seems there are many ways to do this, or perhaps just write the document in markdown and print it that way. I mean I guess I could always install and lear TeX (again) too.

Reminder - Libra Office also works in Windows. So does Open Office.

It’s good for making up stories and making suggestions. I worked with chatGPT on how to power up a mothballed Galaxy Class starship. We created the procedure to bring the ship from inert and vacuumed to ready for warp flight.

Money is easy, many currencies have the “Eurion constellation” which can be recognized by the copier. It will be much harder to recognise a 3d printed part to detect something that can be made into a gun.

Paywall.

I took MapMyDrive on a longer drive. It seems to have an issue where the app just shuts off at random times. I don’t think it is a ‘free version’ feature, and I am not sure that it is not my OS shutting it down after it is no longer on screen. Ti will be ok for trips where I am not driver and navigator at the same time (driving alone) as passenger/navigator I can re start it before to much ground is lost.

How does Nextcloud help you see a map? Or, is it only a way to get the data to your computer? If it is only the way to get the track into your computer, what turns it into a map? OpenTracks creates tracks in the phone eh?

Oh Opentracks cost $ in the playstore. oops. It’s not much tho.

Well the map is the whole point. I tried out MapMyDrive today so now the only question is can I screenshot the map it gives and get that to my computer.

I am not sure what that is, but I would like as a final product a map showing the route taken. I can’t wait for the next opportunity to drive a distance to see what “MapMyDrive” provides.

I am currently auditioning “MapMyDrive”

Do not forget the library of Alexandria.

Spying for thee but not for me. Be seeing you.

Because they don’t want to lose a method of tracking us wherever we show our faces. I think masks will be a fashion in the future, and they are just so comfortable.

But I would not have disabled my ad blocker in other circumstances, but YouTube is forcing me to disable it against my better judgment to be able to use the site.

If YouTube takes files from 3rd parties and simply displays them, then viruses are possible. This is more true of ads placed via ad-broker on other websites. To get ad revenue a webmaster provides a space where the ad is inserted. The ad is provided by a 3rd party who pays the ad broker for placement. Neither the webmaster nor the ad broker have any visibility into the content of the ad, which could even contain code (ads which move or present UI elements have code to make those things work)

If a YouTube ad installs a virus on my system, can I sue YouTube?

So Chinese chip makers sell more and more of the sub-parity chips, what incentive do they really have to improve?

At least when you did get an answer it might be correct, not a hallucination.

Perhaps it should be a company policy that any demand to pay by phone/text/video conf must be authenticated by the office worker hanging up and calling the appropriate company officer on a non-published phone number. The workers immediate supervisor should also be involved in anything out of the ordinary. With a well known policy that calling the company officer will never result in any trouble for the office worker.

Do you want a Butlerian Jihad? Cuz this is how you get a Butlerian Jihad!

The Klingons of Star Trek also have a saying: If you do not wish a thing heard, do not say it.

I thought ex post facto laws were forbidden.

While I have an old Gmail account I do not use it. My main email account is with (not much better) Microsoft. I also have an account with Proton Mail, which will eventually be my only account.

The people who don’t run ad-blockers are many, and stupid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabot_(shoe)

Making AI companies pay royalties would cause them to charge for any use of their AI image generators, putting such technology beyond the reach of people who could not justify paying. The rest of us will miss out on the interesting images they might have created.

oh, silly me, I was only thinking about the surveillance of the store’s patrons. Yes being constantly on camera can go two ways - either it will slowly drive you insane, or you forget the cameras are there and those who monitor could mischaracterized what they see.

I would also play many if I found games I liked, Space Engineers and Timberborn are on my Christmas list.