Guilherme

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[–] Guilherme@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Starlink is ruining law enforcement here in South America already. Drug cartels and people on illegal activities acting in Amazon rainforest are getting increasingly creative at turning their starlink devices on, then off, then on again at different points. Also, such devices switch hands rather quickly - and international borders sometimes - in order to avoid tracking.

[–] Guilherme@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I (almost) never use a t-shirt to clean my glasses, but once tried the internal lining of my jacket since it looks like a coarser version of the cloth that came with my glasses. The result wasn't the same but it was still good.

[–] Guilherme@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Watched a documentary about Goya on an educational TV channel years ago. The documentary tells, among lots of things, how he got progressively tired, sick of playing the role of the boot licker who would paiting anything those brainless and entitled nobles, politicians and rich merchants would want. No matter how whimsical, futile the subject. Exactly the way they wished, no matter if every brush stroke was a lie. Never putting anything shady on negative on them. Until he told his wife he was about to snap and needed to "vent the poison". He stopped accepting painting orders, locked himself at home and began to frantically, obsessively paint the "black paintings", one right after another, non-stop.

[–] Guilherme@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

If the spaghetti doesn't work he has the boiling water to throw before fleeing.

[–] Guilherme@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

So they were created about the same time as dinosaurs and flowers? Evolution was feeling really creative at that part of Cretaceous.

[–] Guilherme@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

That would be really cool. Problem is, conversation can get really wild because bots have a tendency to engage in folie-a-deux when interacting with each other. YouTube has videos posted by people who just put two chatbots talking to each other - with kafkian results. Maybe they could, given recent improvements of AIs, program them make one-time replies to each other, say, 10% of times?

[–] Guilherme@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Worked with both marketing and tech dudes many years ago, and two things I learned were (1) marketing guys overestimate new/fad tools so badly and (2) they (in conjunction with management) can be mercylessly demanding over TI guys.

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