subignition

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[–] subignition@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

As divisive as it would be, I think that would be a good thing overall...

It reminds me of the literacy test to use Kingdom of Loathing's chat features.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it is really possible to reliably train oneself to lucid dream, that's probably as far as it should go... Beyond there lies madness

[–] subignition@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

If they were any more inbred, they'd be a sandwich.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

if they really cared about intellectual property rights, this would be OPT-IN.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 1 points 4 weeks ago

Was that supposed to speak to some part of my comment...?

It seems like a complete non sequitur to me.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I am WAY too unqualified to understand any of the technical stuff, so I'll be waiting to hear thoughts from experts on this one. It looks like if there are no major flaws in it this is a great thing for the platform overall.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I am a bit out of the loop in terms of RDBMS history, what do you mean by MySQL refugees?

[–] subignition@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

If functionality exists in the client app, there's nothing to be done to stop someone from bypassing checks.

Looking into it further this looks like it's an API between the backend of a service and Google though. That would be difficult to defeat, but you could probably spoof the identity of the requesting device with enough effort

[–] subignition@piefed.social 51 points 1 month ago (13 children)

It's not like dedicated people aren't going to be able to just patch out the calls to this API from the apps themselves...

This feels like yet another attempt at DRM that is doing more harm than help.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Damn, you're living in the future. I'm still stuck using three shells.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

Well today I learned, thanks for the correction.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They're pretty reasonable for consensus-based programming prompts as well like "Compare and contrast popular libraries for {use case} in {language}" or "I want to achieve {goal/feature} in {summary of project technologies}, what are some ways I could structure this?"

Of course you still shouldn't treat any of the output as factual without verifying it. But at least in the former case, I've found it more useful than traditional search engines to generate leads to look into, even if I discard some or all of the specific information it asserts

Edit: Which is largely due to traditional search engines getting worse and worse in recent years, sadly

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