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@cryptocom Why are you requiring people to put their SSN into a website that's not behind a login to get their tax forms? Why does your email say I can reject this and get a paper copy, but your support personal are refusing me that option? #security

Why do UI designers continually take something that's easy to use and then bury it behind something else. In Dophin 25.08.3, "Open Terminal Here" was a primary menu item. Now in 25.12.0, it's in a sub-menu. Why? Were you upset that your application was useful and efficient?

@rohanpaul_ai Assuming a 5 day work week... and 4 weeks a month... that's 50,000 lines of code a day. Assuming an 8 hours of straight coding a day, that's 6250 lines of code an hour, or 104 lines of code a minute, or 1.7 lines of code a second. Good luck with that.

wow. Microsoft wants to use AI to wipe out all C and C++ code by 2030 and replace everything with Rust. Their new “North Star” metric: 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn. “My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030. Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases. Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’ To accomplish this previously unimaginable task, we’ve built a powerful code processing infrastructure. Our algorithmic infrastructure creates a scalable graph over source code at scale. Our AI processing infrastructure then enables us to apply AI agents, guided by algorithms, to make code modifications at scale. The core of this infrastructure is already operating at scale on problems such as code understanding.” --- Source Linkedin post linkedin .com/posts/galenh_principal-software-engineer-coreai-microsoft-activity-7407863239289729024-WTzf/

@NamelessTechBro @GarandThumb1 There are ways to collect water from nature when you are out in the wilderness. This is a basic skill that everyone learns in SERE training. You can't, however collect a rifle and ammo from nature.

@GarandThumb1 If you cut the weight of the rifle in half, use something that was actually useful. It'd be about 8 lb and you could carry an extra gallon of water which you need everyday. Or you can go full retard with some kind of modern-day Minuteman picture like you did.

Effectively immediately we will be accelerating the making and posting of survival and evasion videos. 1-2 per month given events. Just finished filming our basic navigation video and plenty more to come

@esrtweet @StefanMolyneux Also, do the people that like to make fun of Aphantasia and Anendophasia not realize that hearing voices and seeing things in your head that aren't real could just as easily be called schizophrenia? Perhaps they aught to think more before trying to pass judgement on others.

Your tacit assumption is incorrect. I'm a quiet-mind - I was quite shocked a few years back to learn that inner monologue wasn't just a literary convention but something a lot of people have going all the time. If other quiet-minds are like me, we only have an inner voice when we're actually forming speech or writing something, and not always even then. I assure you that I do not exist in a blur. My stream of consciousness isn't just images and sensations and feelings, it includes things like logic diagrams and networks and geometric visualizations - a constant stream of concept representations that just don't usually happen to be verbalized. Um. I don't like to talk about how effectively I can think because it seems like bragging. But it's actually relevant here: I'm an A-list software engineer (my code is in your smartphone) and bestselling writer, and have a stratospheric IQ. Inability to think and reflect is not something I suffer from. After I discovered the existence of you inner-voice people, I took inventory among my bright friends. We seem to be roughly equally divided between inner-voicers and quiet-minds, and try as I might I couldn't discover any correlations with anything else interesting. So, don't assume that quiet-minds are stumbling around in a daze. It ain't so.

It is ESSENTIAL to remember that between a third and a half of people have NO inner monologue or dialogue. They don’t debate with themselves, they have no inner conversations – they exist in a blur of images and sensations and feelings. And they are all around you…

Can't fix a script that uses an API... But you think you can build an AI OS?

@KyleKneisl Hutchens was arrested when he visited Vegas, so monitoring POIs visiting Vegas isnt new. While there are a lot of skiddies at defcon, there's are skilled people that go as well. IDK what its like now though, as I haven't been to Defcon since 2005.

This sounds like a perfect way to cover Intel services being able to access/compromise hardware/systems of specific high interest individuals, and they simply masked it by convincing the hotel to implement a "hotel wide policy".

@eevblog This sounds like a perfect way to cover Intel services being able to access/compromise hardware/systems of specific high interest individuals, and they simply masked it by convincing the hotel to implement a "hotel wide policy".

A friend of mine got booted out of the Hilton Hotel at DEF CON after room searches and here is his story and what they were looking for: So during Def Con 32, the Hilton Hotel did raids on the rooms of people it thought were hackers. Here is a post of someone's experience and the photos of what the guards were given: "Before I explain what happened, let me clarify that this was my personal own experience and I'm not talking on behalf of the other people affected by this incident. There's this hotel that's engaging in random room inspections specifically to Def Con 32 attendees. They're targeting attendees on the grounds of "making sure [we] are not a threat or have devices that can compromise their network security". In a very aggressive way, they demanded us to open our rooms to go through all of our stuff. We asked them give us time to confirm what they were asking was legit and legal, and they got mad and demanded to open the door or else they were going to call the police and charge us with trespassing. Things escalated very quickly and armed security guards came with the intention of breaking the door to get us out. Since they wouldn't reason, I decided to just open the door. They aggressively asked for our IDs, started reading some policy out loud, and then escorted us out of the property without a care in the world. On our way down the hall there were many more security personnel knocking on doors and getting people out, just like a drug raid. I'm still nervous by this unnecessary and I bet unlawful situation, but I know nothing about laws and how things work in Vegas for visitors. The only thing I can recommend is to STAY AWAY from the Las Vegas Hilton at Resorts World. They are discriminating against Cybersecurity professionals and attendees to the Def Con convention. I can't do anything else, but to tell you my experience, so you don't go through similar situations. If you know how to help in any way, legally, awareness, etc, please do. Cybersecurity professionals must stick together to make things right for the good of everyone. DISCRIMINATION cannot be tolerated." Other people had their badges confiscated by security, and were hassled and threatened for even walking through the hotel.

@DennysDiner The @DennysDiner rewards program is pointless, you email a coupon but when I try to use it, it says its voided. Also your $5 off $25 coupon fails if the total bill AFTER the coupon is applied less than $25, so really you have to order $30 worth of food to get the $5 off.

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hahahahaha Amazon has baked an LLM into their product pages. #ai

Key point to always remember about LLMs... it's Statistics Not Intelligence. Sometimes those statistics can accurately represent reality, other times they do not. Link: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

It's the one of the key points of the subscription model. By making a new payment after they change the contract terms == you've accepted the new terms. The subscription model is a legal loophole allowing them to update the contract whenever they want.

@iamteale @autonomous_ny @setuprepairllc Ah, yes... AI art of a battlestation. You cant fool me with that monitor on the left that's on both a desk stand and a monitor arm, as well as some of the center monitors being trapezoidal.

@autonomous_ny @setuprepairllc im currently working on building this out, so probably not much

Be honest. What stops you from working like this?

@autonomous_ny What stops me from doing that... the fact that I'm still waiting on replacement parts I ordered from you in November of 2023.

@lauriewired HPE MC990x, HPE Superdome, or something else? Not many systems out there that scale to 32 sockets.

You play doom with a CPU. I play doom with CPU usage. we are not the same

RIP the privacy of your own thoughts. Just wait till authoritarian governments get a hold of this and mandate brain scans to ensure Citizens are being good little slaves. Goebbels would have loved this. #dystopian

So I signed into a machine I haven't in a while... hmmm... I wonder if #Fedora 39 is available...

@_josh_meyer_ You all made tons of posts in December to get people to buy a 1 year license, only to shut the company down a month later? Talk about a rug pull, I hope you've lawyered up and I really hope for your sake that you weren't selling licenses when you knew you were going to shut down.

Coqui is shutting down. It's sad news to start the new year, but I want to take a minute to recognize everything we accomplished and thank the great people who made it possible. First things first: the Team I'm honored to have worked with such brilliant, dedicated, and inspiring individuals. We were a small team, but we left our scratch on the earth's crust. Our accomplishments stand on their own, but when you remember we were just a rag-tag team with limited compute... now that's special. Big tech had orders of magnitude more compute, data, and researchers, but we gave them a run for their money. We didn't just replicate the state-of-the-art... we created it! That wouldn't have been possible without this exact team. We were spread across five continents, native languages, and backgrounds... and we built something great. I'm sure that we built great tech because of that mix of perspectives. I will deeply miss our team, but I'm also excited to see what they do next. Whoever gets them on-board will be a lucky duck :) What we accomplished Way back in 2016, it all began as the Machine Learning Group at Mozilla. First was DeepSpeech, then Common Voice and TTS. Crazy how far the field has come since then. We spun out as Coqui in 2021 in order to add rocket fuel to our mission. One of our biggest accomplishments at Coqui was XTTS. The state-of-the-art took a huge leap forward when we openly released model weights for XTTS v1... and v2 was even better! I'm thrilled to see where AI is heading, and proud that we could make some of that progress available to everyone. Here's a tiny snapshot of what we accomplished at Coqui: ✅ 2021: Coqui STT v1.0 release. Coqui Model Zoo goes live. SC-GlowTTS released. ✅ 2022: YourTTS goes viral. Tons of open-source releases. Building the team. ✅ 2023: Coqui Studio webapp and API go live. First customers. XTTS open release. I can confidently say that we pushed the state-of-the-art for generative speech technology... before it was called "generative" :) Thank you It took a village to make Coqui possible, and I want to thank everyone who gave us a shot. The real rockstars are the team, as I said above. Thank you! A huge thanks to the community. You have always been our core. From the Mozilla days on IRC to the current Discord server. The community has contributed, supported, and made building in the open a joy. Thank you all! Thank you to our investors. Coqui simply wouldn't have been possible without you. You believed in us before anyone else; you took a chance on us. More than just an investment, your thoughtful insights and discussions made Coqui a better company and a better product. I'm extremely grateful for your support. Thank you! Thank you to our customers. Everything we built was for you, and I hope we managed to give you something you loved. Especially thank you for your feedback: both the good and the bad. We did our best to hear you and build you something better everyday. Thank you! Lastly, thank you to our partners over the years. It's a long list of great folks I've been lucky enough to collaborate with. We worked on open science, open code, and open models. From joint research to hackathons, it was a blast! To the great folks at HuggingFace, Mozilla, Masakhane, Harvard, Indiana University, Google, MLCommons, Landing AI, NVIDIA, Intel, and Makerere University... thank you! Forgive me if I've left anyone out. What's next I can't yet say what comes next... but generative AI in 2024 is going to be bigger than ever. Generative voice will only get better, faster, cheaper, and easier to fine-tune... open-source will be a huge part of that. Speaking of open-source... Coqui TTS is on Github. Do something awesome with it! Thank you all 💚 github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

Consistent character isn't difficult if you have enough compute at your disposal. 1) Generate 1000s images by mixing existing high quality LORAs. 2) Pick out 100 that are good. 3) Train a new LORA on those. 4) For each "post" generate 100s of images and pick the best to use. 5) Refine your LORA as you create more.

Producing such imagery is easy (see below), but producing her images in different locations means either 1. smb cracked the consistent character problem in text-to-image 2. they are generating at scale, and manually selecting most similar ones. Obviously 1 is more impressive than 2 ;-)

This is a Spanish model. Her name is Aitana. She is 25. She makes $11,000 every month advertising in her Instagram account. But Aitana is not real. She is 100% AI generated. 2024 will be wild.