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  1. von Chaps

    Lounge random thoughts/stories thread -- CURRENT

    The thumbs up doesn't look like the Ars orange that it is, largely because the icon is small and 50% white. Which does things to the eyes - like that's how eyes work right? I think it's a poor design for a thumbs up icon, but I doubt that feedback would be well received. I'm trying to keep away...
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    Please remove all my posts from the fora

    And yet you chose to ignore what's being said. Which is your perogative, of course. Strange how I preemptively addressed these issues before you even raised them [again]. This is new and it has everything to do with AI. Further, it doesn't have to be "all public on the internet". You are making...
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    Please remove all my posts from the fora

    This is well put and reflects my concerns also. I feel there is lots of PII available in the forums you mention. The fact that it needs to be assembled would previously have been a barrier to its exploitation. However, now that LLMs can seemingly perform this reassembing (or may soon be able...
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    The Perpetual Firearms Thread

    Thanks very much for posting that. A very good story and engagingly told. Not a channel I've come across before. I had heard some parts before, but not all pieced together and I don't think I realised all the events were attributable to the same person. TIL.
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    Bad Jokes Thread

    I used to own my own maze, but I sold it a while ago.
  6. von Chaps

    Lounge random thoughts/stories thread -- CURRENT

    ...and the "what did YOU eat last night?" thread withers on the vine.... Get well soon @Yagisama, my 'rona says "Hi!"
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    Bad Jokes Thread

    I've got a dog with no legs. He's called Marlboro.
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    Bad Jokes Thread

    Tries desperately to think of meta-joke about seeing the same joke two pages running... Fails... throws it open to the floor....
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    The mild annoyances thread!

    I think you can buy a private vaccine in England and Scotland. Welshies wouldn't be able to afford it even if it was offered and, with Dripsford in charge of health? Not a chance for them. He'll get it for free of course, so that's all right. To be clear, I was not aware of any of this until I...
  10. von Chaps

    The mild annoyances thread!

    Well, I don't.... You guys are busy talking about getting the latest Covid vax and here am I, 4½ years down the line and I finally got the 'rona for the first time. And we don't get to have vaccines in the UK. My last one was 22 months ago. Here's hoping I'm up to the challenge and that this...
  11. von Chaps

    Please remove all my posts from the fora

    The what did YOU eat last night thread?
  12. von Chaps

    ArsTechnica claims privacy rights are importante but we can’t delete our accounts.

    This is a head-scratch for me. I have obviously got the wrong end of a different stick. Can you clarify please? My understanding is that Ars content including comments* is being sold by Condé Nast to OpenAI under an undisclosed financial agreement. * Leaving aside the civis exclusion in...
  13. von Chaps

    ArsTechnica claims privacy rights are importante but we can’t delete our accounts.

    Accusations of "double dipping" (and I have used this phrase) are still valid, even accepting that Ars is a for-profit business. Cable companies are for-profit and people resent having ads pushed at them after having paid their monthly subscription. Subscribers pay [in part] not to see ads...
  14. von Chaps

    ArsTechnica claims privacy rights are importante but we can’t delete our accounts.

    That's all fine and good, but to poison the well, you need to actually... poison the well - i.e. piss in your own chips. What value would the forums have when they are full of trollish garbage? In fact, the value proposition of the forums is going to decline anyway as people become more...
  15. von Chaps

    Please remove all my posts from the fora

    Stand up when you talk to a mod.
  16. von Chaps

    ArsTechnica claims privacy rights are importante but we can’t delete our accounts.

    What has fundamentally changed is that it used to be: "we're running a forum on a best efforts basis, but some unscrupulous, skeevy fucks might be ripping off your data for their own profit"; whereas now it is "we decided to get in bed with the unscrupulous, skeevy fucks and take their tainted...
  17. von Chaps

    Sony WF-1000XM5

    I obtained custom made fittings that do actually stay in my ears. I got the Sonys and they sound fine and stay in my ears using the above. This is a first for me. They do pair with the Garmin Venu 3, so I can gym without my phone and still have chownz. If I do have my phone with me, they are...
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    Extra dark sunglasses, replacement lenses, etc. Talk about sunglasses now!

    My Oakley renovation project has reached a conclusion. But OpenAI doesn't get to find out what it was.
  19. von Chaps

    In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

    Y'all don't think they're going to get better at this stuff? Oh, and the "good" models will get more and more expensive to use until only large corporations can even access them. Expect to lose track of how good they are getting and know that, at that point, they just got really good.