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Digital image editing has been really good for this kind of stuff for quite a while. Now it’s even easier with content aware fill.

Unless you’re the PR manager for the British Royal family. Then you somehow lack the basic skills to make convincing edits.

Well, it’s also killing the internet in the process. It’s like a tumor on the internet.

There are a few reasons why the AI hype has diminished. One reason is data integrity concerns - many companies prohibit the use of ChatGPT out of fear of OpenAI training their models on confidential data.

To combat this the option is to provide LLMs that can be run “on premise”. Currently those LLMs aren’t good enough for most uses. Hopefully we will get there in time, but at this pace it seems like it’s taking longer than expected.

As the other person said. The metaphor is that you trick the person into making small investments first into a fake cryptocurrency app, and then over time make bigger and bigger investments. Like feeding a pig.

When the victim has made a large investment (the pig is well fed), cut all connection and run away with all the money (the butchering).

It’s a scam that targets emotionally vulnerable people and can go on for many weeks.

Pig butchering romance scam on Tinder. Matched with a pretty girl. Our conversation felt genuine. Even had a short video call. But things were feeling a bit too good to be true, but I went on to see where things were going.

Saw through the scam once she started offering helping with cryptocurrency investment, so I didn’t lose anything.

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Tim’s intention with the web was information sharing. He wanted a way for academics to share their work with other academics. He identified a problem at his time at CERN, and proposed a solution.

Then corporations were quick on capitalizing on this idea.

Web is just the website part. Like web pages you see in the web browser. Tim Berners Lee invented this part.

Internet encompasses more things. For example, sending texts in some mobile app. You’re not necessarily seeing a web page. You’re just sending data from your device to some other device in the world.

Or to be more technical: web is HTTP. Internet is that and everything else (like FTP, SMTP, SSH, etc).

Reminds me of the Onion video about the man who wasted his life studying anteaters: https://youtu.be/qXD9HnrNrvk?si=x3vd96q2BzMRFAnA

Let’s get real

Its decimal expansion is finite in the base pi.

In what way can blockchain ensure food safety? Just because participants use proof of work or whatever doesn’t mean the input data is more truthful. The oracle problem is a thing.

Git doesn’t need consensus mechanisms because it’s “permissioned”, like Hyperledger. All actors are known and given permission by some entity to contribute.

You can’t contribute to the Linux kernel unless your changes have been approved by someone trusted with permission. You cannot contribute to whatever Walmart is doing, because you haven’t acquired permission to do so.

Hyperledger is just git but with fancy buzzwords. It’s like taking everything that makes blockchain, and then remove everything that makes blockchain special. All you have left is another centralized system.

It’s just IBM’s excuse to stay relevant.

If the bank can’t even trust themselves then there’s no point in having the bank at all.

There are often easier, more reliable, and far cheaper ways to achieve the same things without using a blockchain. Some of the principles are even used in normal web browsing to ensure secure untampered connections.

Blockchain just solves a subproblem that only arises when there’s no appointed central entity.

Blockchain is only potentially useful if there’s no single entity that can be trusted. If banks can’t even trust themselves to manage their own internal ledgers, they have much bigger problems to deal with.

Looks like they’re taking liberties with most of the characters. That’s probably fair. The characters were the weakest part of the books either way. Only Da Shi had redeeming quality in the first book, and it looks like they’re keeping him at least.

I love the book trilogy. I’m curious how they will manage to adapt it, especially the second and third books.

At least three body problem is a finished book trilogy, so there’s hope.