The General Chatter/Off Topic Thread

I discover that I’m called Generation X in the USA, wow!

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Artificial Intelligence in Paint and Notepad.

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/06/new-ai-experiences-for-paint-and-notepad-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/

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Try quickly typing 1 + 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator. I bet you won’t get 6.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/782250/try_quickly_typing_1_2_3_into_the_ios_11/

That post is 7 years old, is that still the case??

Well, since iOS is now 18.1, no.

Some people still use iOS 11 and Windows XP.

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It was fixed in iOS 11.2

Fixes an issue in Calculator where typing numbers rapidly could lead to incorrect results

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Maybe this is of some general interest here. At least it has a entertaining delivery style:

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https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-03-21/why-artificial-intelligence-must-be-stopped-now/

The vanish part wasn’t a joke:

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an excellent video, I really like sample breakdowns like that~

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Me too and I thought the visuals were very clever.

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You get a email notification for 100+ edits on your favourite artist, are you…
  • Excited
  • Worried
  • Indifferent
  • Depends on the day I’ve had
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If I was subscribed to my favourite artists, I would be excited.

But I’m mostly subscribed to my collection, so I’m generally slightly worried but majority of edits are improvements. :wink:

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I looked at my own edits on one subscribed artist on one day - it doesn’t seem to be a very high number. I would be slightly worried about 100+ open edits, but I would still expect them to be harmless.

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so the other day I took the plunge and joined ol’ Bluesky… after years and years of being pretty unenthused about all social media platforms I am glad to say this place is pretty neat.

I’ve found a lot of creators, personalities and other internet friends on the platform already and am following them. My feed priotizies their posts over random junk, it doesn’t penalize people over silly things (like external links) and most importantly keeps a lot of the guff that is seemingly designed to do nothing but infuriate and pit us against each other out of the way.

It’s like the social media platforms of yore - circa 2010. I also like how if I do find a post that is about something I really don’t care about (say football) I can ask Bluesky to mute all posts about it.

Anyway, I’m now over there gibber-jabbing on about various things including MusicBrainz :stuck_out_tongue:

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Cool, BlueSky is the one. Teletext recovery sounds interesting!

https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/aliens-the-musical-ai-generated-images/

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When was the last time you saw a virus on your computer?

Because me 10 years ago.

Now you don’t download cracks for programs anymore, because almost everything is free.

Even adult sites are now safe.