Sludgehammer

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's always amazing to realize that the grifters are just a cog in the griftosphere where they reside. Although the grifter Charley Kirk may be dead, all the other grifters attached him are trying to attach other gears to the grift machine so make paychecks keep coming in.

It's parasites all the way down.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

For a drug smuggling vessel that boat was sure just floating there. I mean I'd think if you were smuggling drugs you'd want to get to the delivery point as fast as possible rather than just sitting in place.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

"Google plans to appeal the $425 million verdict with a judge who will 'mysteriously' buy a mansion after the case"

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Molly White is a treasure.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's very rarely fatal, it's usually more of a "Barfing out everything you ate for the past week... as well as your shoes" sort of poisoning.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that there are black pigments darker than vantablack now.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Johnson said he has faith that the Trump administration is working on trade deals in the background.

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure that Trumps too busy building ball rooms and covering the White House with gilded tat to care about minutiae like trade deals.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The funny thing is that they're both such generic rightwing grifters that I can't keep those two separate in my head. When I first heard about Kirk getting capped my first thought was "Was this a anti-semetic attack?" quickly followed by "Wait, am I thinking of the right guy?" (spoiler alert, I wasn't)

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel personally attacked.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, throwing your lot in with the Trumps, that never backfires.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Nah, they'd be removing only the black graves. The white graves would be left to inspire future generations to heroically die in war.

 

So firstly sorry if this isn't a appropriate post for this community, but I had a shower thought a few days back.

LLM's have gotten sufficiently advanced that they can usually detect Markov (or randomly) generated text even when it's fed into the front end. As such, it seems likely that most "AI" companies either have or will have some sort of pre-screening pass to "clean" the raw data crawled from the internet. Heck, I'm sure they're filtering the data with a AI detection algorithm too.

However, there was this conspiracy parody site a while back called "Verified Facts". The sites down now and something that wanted to install a Firefox extension, so don't go there. Luckily there are many instances of pages still on archive.org to get an idea for what sort of stuff it generated. And I was thinking, this is some (mostly) grammatically correct, constantly on point drivel that would probably bypass both Markov and AI detectors.

So it seems like if you were going to make an "AI tar pit" you'd get much better results with one that tricks the AI into ingesting auto generated Madlib pages filled out with a list of randomly picked words.

 

Since there is no thread about this on Lemmy, I figured I may as well make one in case someone hadn't heard about it.

Anyway, a new app called Netpass has been released that allows Streetpass over the internet. The app is still kinda rough, a few games like Tomodachi Life have a minor bugs, but for the most part it works almost exactly like if you conventionally streetpassed someone.

 

So I was browsing SteamDB.info looking at the various games on sale when I noticed there were a bunch of games (usually from the publisher Hede, but there's quite a few others) listed as having a discount in the high nineties, yet still costing in the neighborhood of 30-50 dollars. Even odder when I go to the game's Steam, it's not listed as being on sale and costs the... "normal" price of $99.99.

I'm just wondering A) What the scam is here, B) How a SteamDB.info is getting $99.99 dollar game as costing 30-ish dollars when it's 97% off but at the same time it's apparently not actually on sale?

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