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Stuped person says stuped things, people boom

I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others' words. Weird, isn't it?

Formerly on kbin.social and dbzer0

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data sorting is my passion ( kbin.melroy.org )

TIL that in 2014, a photographer tried to copyright a monkey's selfie and sue Wikipedia for it. ( en.wikipedia.org )

The EFF soon created a crossword, overlaid it on top of the monkey, and featured it on their website....

KDE's Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released After Six Year Hiatus - Now Ported To Qt5 ( www.phoronix.com )

Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.

GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites ( www.technologyreview.com )

Of the 100 results, only three of them are common enough to be used in everyday conversations; everything else consisted of words and expressions used specifically in the contexts of either gambling or pornography. The longest token, lasting 10.5 Chinese characters, literally means “_free Japanese porn video to watch.” Oops....

OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson ( www.tomsguide.com )

The company says the voices in ChatGPT were from paid voice actors. A final five were selected from an initial pool of 400 and it's purely a coincidence the unnamed actress behind the Sky voice has a similar tone to Johansson....

Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean?

c.f. surf music and spongebob's sound cues...

stupidestAdvertisingEver ( kbin.melroy.org )

Like, do they not worry about people just editing everything and inserting porn or something? I doubt that they were smart enough to use branch protection. To be fair, when you're sending a mass spam campaign, you already don't worry about your reputation anyway lol...

How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money ( www.theguardian.com )

The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.

TIL the American Conservapedia, among other atrocities, redirects Linux to GNU/Linux ( www.conservapedia.com )

I guess they have a quantum taste for GNU!

you know what ( kbin.melroy.org )

you know what ( kbin.melroy.org )

RFK Jr. Swears He Wasn’t Thirsty for Fitness Influencer on TikTok ( gizmodo.com )

The reply happened in Sept. 2022 on Tyler Idol’s account, which she now has pinned to her page, and was unearthed by some right-wing dork on X Wednesday. The reply is now deleted, but according to saved recordings, it simply stated “Wow” and was accompanied by two smiling faces with hearts emoji. As for how you can tell it...

First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says ( news.sky.com )

The aircraft flew up to speeds of 1,200mph. DARPA did not reveal which aircraft won the dogfight.

Game studio owner suddenly lays everyone off and blames a Kotaku report that hasn't been published ( www.pcgamer.com )

In the memo, Possibility Space owner Jeff Strain, who previously co-founded ArenaNet and Undead Labs, tells the studio's staff that he was recently contacted by Kotaku reporter Ethan Gach with questions about the closure of Crop Circle Games, another studio he owned with wife Annie Delisi Strain under their company Prytania...

TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 ( www.ign.com )

Then, responding to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money", Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit. I make games for a living. If I didn't want to earn money from them I wouldn't charge money for them.”...