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What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.

Overwatch the video game. TF2 felt better in every way - no I didn't play the original team fortress. I never felt good playing the overwatch, never cared about all the backstory considering it had no standing on the game whatsoever - I'm sure they'll add a campaign some day though. The mechanics felt so floaty and slidy, and I never felt like my hits registered at all. The community sucked even more because everyone was "one game off going pro" because they got a cool kill 10 rounds ago. Rocket league was less toxic and that's saying something. Oh and sooo repetitive. I hear the irony of comparing it to rocket league then saying that, don't worry.

I'll take the low blow and say Blizzard can get fucked as a company too, I'd be happy if they went bankrupt tomorrow. They're like the worst of the worst in the video game industry.

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Valve's iFixit partnership is a game changer

Imagine the alternative world where you had to back up your data, discard the device and buy an entirely new one because a simple piece of plastic broke.

Apple will tell you this practice allows them to build innovative and superior products while integrating hardware and software compatibility closer than ever.

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LibreOffice is pretty damn good

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On behalf of cyber and IT, just ask IT to install the thing, please. They can't really say no to a free app and bypassing restrictions ends badly for everyone. I had a user do that with video editing software... seriously, what could go wrong? Ransomware. Literally ransomware. Lucky for antivirus it stopped it but yeah, please work with IT.

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The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates

Studied AI at uni. I'm also a cyber security professional. AI can be hacked or tricked into exposing training data. Therefore your claim about it disposing of the training material is totally wrong.

Ask your search engine of choice what happened when Gippity was asked to print the word "book" indefinitely. Answer: it printed training material after printing the word book a couple hundred times.

Also my main tutor in uni was a neuroscientist. Dude straight up told us that the current AI was only capable of accurately modelling something as complex as a dragon fly. For larger organisms it is nowhere near an accurate recreation of a brain. There are complexities in our brain chemistry that simply aren't accounted for in a statistical inference model and definitely not in the current gpt models.

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So you have chosen... death

When I was in NZ, we were told that Vigo Mortenson was arrested for carrying a sword around with him in public. He was method acting and when arrested, announced he was Lord Arragorn and only he could wield the sword. It's illegal to have a weapon like that in public so they brought him in but I think Peter Jackson bailed him out and spoke to people.

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Anyone find this? I'm old so don't

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I went to school with someone who didnt like deadlines, so she would do the following:

  • fill a word document with nonsense
  • open word document in hex editor
  • corrupt file through some means she googled
  • submit the file to our submission system
  • wait for teacher to open the file, get 'corrupted' message

She'd do the work at her own pace in the mean time, and when she got asked for another copy because it was corrupted, shed hand it up. She graduated with me, and I dont know what she does now but I hope she's in infosec.

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Columbia Expels Protesters

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I'd say check the nazis too but theyre more of the education by "faith" types than education by actual education.

In all seriousness though, has a US university ever stripped a nazi or holocaust denyer of their degree? Surely that ideology is just as, if not more harmful?

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Perspective

Thought something was weird here. The contrast and colour is making it difficult. If you turn up shadows it changes the entire feeling, including where the obvious light source is. I wouldn't expect the dark side of the mattress unless there was a bright light directly above it.

Also the banister/handrail arm wouldn't be horizontal. Most importantly, congrats, you got me invested.