Ragnell

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[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Not just that it's a crapshoot, if you are taking other medications some meds are not possible because of potential drug interactions.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

I mean, I understand you need to make money but if you choose to use the name of an ancient Greek Goddess as your trade name, you can't get exclusivity. You just can't.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You should not be allowed to do DMCA searches on words that are over two thousand years old.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Still doing the Final Draft on Alan Wake 2 but might switch back to a replay of Spider-Man 2.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

All 3 of the current series. Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Spider-Man 2. The first one was released in 2019, I think.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They would have to call cubes back from where they are pushing territory on the other side of their territory.

The Borg were not just fighting one species when they came to get the Federation, they were expanding outwards on all sides. So they committed the lowest level of resources they believed were necessary, and because the Queen was an arrogant fool, that was just one cube.

For First Contact, you can argue that having been thus far unable to assimilate the Federation they are unaware of the speed of human advancement. In the Star Trek Universe it has been implied that humans are EXCEPTIONALLY inventive especially when faced with a problem, and that the Federation is even FASTER than humanity alone because of the additional viewpoints added to human inventiveness. Basically, the Human Problem of Fantasy Games where the humans are an average, all-around boring species while Elves and Dwarves and others all have specialties? That's not applicable to Star Trek Universe, where humans are especially well-suited to be engineers, and highly valued for their social abilities which foster teamwork. The presence of humans in the Federation is one of the ingredients that makes the Federation uniquely effective at technological advancement. Not only is the Federation large and powerful, it advances more quickly than the species that the Borg have assimilated, and has advanced to a level that the Borg never allow other species to advance to, AND it advances the way the Borg do by peacefully trading and adding technologies when it admits new member species.

The Queen never dealt with a society like the Federation before, and she didn't expect them to advance very far beyond their capabilities at Wolf 359. She figured her cube was better, and that should be good enough and if by some weirdness it wasn't she would destroy the Federation by going back in time and destroying its weirdest, least predictable species: humanity.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not if Wolf 359 motivated Starfleet to vastly improve their weaponry on their ships specifically to engage the Borg.

For example, if frequency changes on the phasers and shields weren't standard prior to Wolf 359 but were after, then a single Federation ship has a much better chance against the Borg because they can adjust to the Borg adaptations. That's without an increase in actual damage capability, which was almost certainly on the menu for any ships built after Wolf 359.

Voyager was the first of her class, and she launched shortly before the Sovereign class and the Defiant class which were ships designed SPECIFICALLY to take out Borg. Voyager was designed and built while they were building their escorts and tanks to hold up against the Borg, so it would have had a number of defense advances that had been leading up to that level. And nearly every species Voyager encountered considered it a tank and a warship rather than a science ship, and most were in awe of the level of firepower it held. (They'd have probably turned tail and run if they saw the Enterprise E.)

The Federation, like they did between Discovery and TOS because of their war with the Klingons, tanked up their ships and loaded them with new firepower after getting their asses kicked and getting reminded that exploration can be a dangerous endeavor.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Wish I could offer more than my upvote and my boost for this.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Upvote the Klingon Kitty? Upvote the Klingon Kitty!

 

The US military is appealing to the public to help find an advanced F-35 fighter jet that has gone missing over South Carolina.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Capes in SPAAAACE

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Garak being really good at buying cheap leftover fabrics and using them up just explains all the clothes on DS9.

[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Or the novelty of AI-created art will wear off and we'll go on with our lives.

 

A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.

"In March, the copyright office affirmed that most works generated by AI aren’t copyrightable but clarified that AI-assisted materials qualify for protection in certain instances. An application for a work created with the help of AI can support a copyright claim if a human “selected or arranged” it in a “sufficiently creative way that the resulting work constitutes an original work of authorship,” it said."

Thaler was appealing this, and his appeal was denied.

 

Here's another perspective on Prosecraft being taken offline. It goes into the actual use case of the program, and it is indicative about what AI makers are getting wrong about making art.

 

Researchers Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender call on businesses not to succumb to this artificial “intelligence” hype.

 

"The chatbot gave wildly different answers to the same math problem, with one version of ChatGPT even refusing to show how it came to its conclusion."

It's getting worse. And because it's a black box model they don't know why. The computer science professor here likens it to how human students make mistakes... but human students make mistakes because they don't have perfect recall, mishear things being told to them, are tired and/or not paying attention... A bunch of reason that basically relate to having a human body that needs food, rest and water. A thing a computer does not have.

The only reason ChatGPT should be getting math wrong is that it's getting inputs that are wrong, but without view into it they can't figure out where it's getting it wrong and who told it the wrong info.

 

This comic goes over the political history of technology in the workforce, showing that even automation to reduce manual labor was introduced as class warfare against the laborers, and that sabotage, protests and legal action were needed to preserve worker's rights.

 

I've been saying for a while we need a wiki and I finally stumbled across one. But is it a good resource? Anybody use this site?

https://joinfediverse.wiki/Main_Page

 

Dan McQuillan, author of 'Resisting AI' looks at how the publication of his book has helped move the AI discussion away from ‘is it good or bad?’ to the more radical and worrying aspects of the technology as it is being implemented, in terms of augmenting society’s existing disparities.

 

I used to blog on blogger and livejournal before using Twitter destroyed my discipline and I find myself writing longer comments and mastodon posts right now. I'm thinking about a WriteFreely account. Does anyone know a good instance to start with?

 

As social media breaks into splinters and conditions deteriorate in general, I want to ask once again for your support. A lot of what I detail in this article has already taken place in academia, which was at the forefront of this new, exploitative push, and having left the halls of higher education to provide analysis and work to find solutions, I rely on DISPATCHES FROM A COLLAPSING STATE,

 
 

I'm researching network monitoring software. We looked into LogicMonitor, Paessler, and Solarwinds. My company is reluctant to trust Solarwinds again, LogicMonitor is EXTREMELY expensive and Paessler just ghosted us.

Does anyone know who else is doing network monitoring? My boss would prefer a cloud-based solution because he'd like to cut out all the server upkeep but at this point I can't seem to get my hands on an on-prem setup.

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