A lot of it boils down to the idea behind what a translation actually means.

One school of thought is that you do word for word translations. So you get very strange sentence structures and direct translations of idioms. Think the idea of (apologies to the French, it has been over a decade since I tried to write or speak any of it) “Il est drole” being translated to “He is to be funny” rather than “He is funny”.

The other school of thought is that you care about the meaning of the text and not the word for word translation. So that involves a LOT of updating/adapting idioms but also names. Among the weeb crowd, people lose their god damned minds any time a character has their name changed. But you get into a mess where “Hikari” is not meant to be an “exotic” name and is really being used closer to “Fred”.

I remember way back in high school we specifically read a version of Beowulf to demonstrate this. It involved the “original” Old English, a direct translation that is somehow even harder to parse, and then a version written in modern english.

And that is the basic idea. It doesn’t matter if Basic is English, Chinese, Russian, or (most likely) a hybrid of them all: What matters is that the reader/viewer understands what is going on and can appreciate the references.

Another example that usually comes up is how the movie A Knight’s Tale is one of the most “historically accurate” adaptations ever. Because yes, we have crowds of peasants singing Queen songs and Nike swishes on armor. But… that is a lot closer to what tournaments and jousting were than people playing equally inaccurate classical music. And I’ve made similar arguments for the god awful Romeo+Juliet where Luigi and Leo wield “sword 9mm” pistols.

It doesn’t actually make sense given the setting.

The Belters were subjugated, but not isolated. This is shown with a lot of the “security forces” largely being Earth/Mars based but also just general trade. Much like with the very large physiological differences (mostly in the books and season 1 of the show), ~100 years (since the Epstein Drive was invented 129 years before the protomolecule) just isn’t really enough for that kind of divergence.

The “oriental fetishism” of Firefly/Serenity is a lot more likely with mostly being a hybrid of different languages based on who the original colonists were… and that was a much larger period of time with even more isolation which is just funny.

Also, this ignores regular communication and media sharing between The Belt and The Inner Planets. Like, there have been some interesting studies that point out how pervasive “california english” is becoming because of “hollywood” (which films everything in Toronto). So even the Belters who more or less live in a mine their entire life would likely still watch documentaries from Oliver Queen’s baby mama and whoever Mars’s equivalent of Kim Kardashian is.

This is a pretty meh article but a different one I was reading also mentioned what sounds like a new government (security plan?) will be put in place. Which will inevitably be pro-israel.

So… the remnant of Gaza will likely be purely on paper.

While I generally agree (and that applies to almost all “an LLM can’t do that” discussions):

Head counts are not going to remain the same. Well, it might in writing, but there is a reason the WGA went on strike.

If you can apply effective filters/transforms to a base texture, you can now do the same work that would have taken you weeks in a day or two. If you aren’t “wasting time” writing unit tests or making utility functions, you no longer need junior developers to punt the Charlie Work to. And so forth.

In some fields? Being able to do more with less means you do a LOT more.

But, generally speaking, that means you need fewer people and you pay fewer people.

This is one of many many reasons that we need to have been exploring UBI decades ago. Because we are increasingly going to see a decrease in employment as technology is more and more able to “get the job done”. And unlike with farm work and factory work… there isn’t really anything on the horizon for all the “creative” workers to do.

Just because the OP’s blurb really ignores almost the entire story in favor of some weird dog whistling:

Information about the engagements was still being processed, Ryder said. "We cannot say for certain what these missiles and drones were targeting but they were launched from Yemen heading north along the Red Sea potentially to targets in Israel.

So (allegedly?) Iranian backed terrorists in Yemen likely fired missiles toward Israel. US destroyer intercepted.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I know this is mostly posturing at this point but:

“AI” has been in big budget games for decades. Hell, the big deal with Oblivion was that they had magic technology to procedurally place trees according to various heuristics. And I think that also added a resource management system to NPCs so that we could DB Apple them?

Same with coding and art and sound and so forth.

• All that cool magic wand and fancy ass filter shit in photoshop? Those are increasingly “AI” tools that will analyze the image and extrapolate what should or should not be “behind” something and so forth.
• Coding? if you AREN’T using a tool to generate stubs and even tests at this point then you are wasting your own time.
• Audio? Again, the same “AI” filters already exist. Same with tools to detect pauses or to split up dialogue and so forth.

The reality is just using it effectively. Oblivion was boring as hell because the entire overworld was empty and lifeless. Same with BOTW. Whereas Ubi, for all their actual gameplay flaws, are spectacular at adding POIs and “events” in strategic locations so that you find something while you are hiking across a forest to get to an objective.

Same with art and even CGI. You aren’t going to get a good outcome if you ask dall-e to make your art for you. But you are going to get good results if you start with a solid base and then procedurally add rust or spatter to it. You aren’t going to get a good result if you have your actors on a studio lit stage talking to nothing (Hi Prequel Trilogy). You are if you add lighting relative to the scene (The Volume) and use placeholders they can act off of.

And… same with writing. Ask ChatGPT to write your screenplay? It is going to be bad. Use the proper prompts to get the “voice” of a character right or to generate some background dialogue that you won’t even correctly hear because the mics are focused on Meg Ryan faking an orgasm? Suddenly you have a better “product” than everyone else who just tells extras to wing it or putty around. Same with having a Black Scottish Chick sound like she isn’t written by some white dude.

Do you have a link to the EU requiring consent to detect ad blocking?

Most of what I can find is from the late 2010s but specifically says that consent is not required for adblock detection. https://adguard.com/en/blog/eu-defines-its-stance-on-ad-blockers.html

https://iabeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/20160516-IABEU_Guidance_AdBlockerDetection.pdf

But also: I assume consent can be obtained with a mandatory TOS update.

The answer is pretty obvious, but I have seen a lot of folk on lemmy (and elsewhere) who think this is a good solution. Might be worth coming down on it:

Copy full text of article into an LLM and ask it to rewrite that article “to be more understandable”. There is the bot that automatically does that for every article (and mostly just increases the misinformation and what not…), but I have seen more than a few people suggest doing that for the text portion of a post.

Looked at that. Seems like it would have worked back back when ?single=1 didn’t break all images. But since the guides are broken up into multiple pages, the automated scraping tends to lose its mind because it will try to get the entire site. Rather than a subset of pages.

Thanks though

It isn’t good, but it also isn’t necessarily “bad”,

The entire region is getting destabilized. So if anyone can leave, they should. It is when we start evacuating the embassies that things are REALLY bad.

Like, to put it in context: I used to work a job where I was required to inform the US government when I went on international travel. I still remember having to explain to one of my interns that the downright terrifying message about being on high alert when going to the UK was the “official” way of saying “Trump is going to be in country and people will probably politely protest. Don’t join them”

A few years back, CBS sold CNET (CNET, Gamespot, GameFAQs, Giant Bomb, and probably one or two others) to Red Ventures who then sold basically everything but CNET proper to Fandom. If people aren’t aware of what Fandom is, just go to basically any video game wiki and see how many pop ups you need to close just to see some misinformation.

Anywho, Fandom have a decent record of killing every property they buy in the interest of monetization. And they can do that because they buy EVERYTHING. And as of a few days ago, one of the long standing admins at GameFAQs announced they were stepping down. Which… suggests Fandom realized they own GameFAQs and are likely about to start gutting it to add as many ads and autoplay twitch pages as possible.

This predates the pandemic.

I have been on both sides of things. I have had to deal with the literally hundreds of applicants that are completely fake CVs or so underqualified that I would be better off grabbing a random kid at a high school job fair.

And the reality is that if I have had to sift through hundreds of bullshit CVs, I am not going to be giving anyone “a chance”. Unless you specifically meet every single requirement AND look amazing on paper, you are in the bin because I already wasted hours of my life doing due diligence on the assholes.

I hate everything about workaday. I hate that it incorrectly parses my CV in new and exciting ways every time AND means I need a new account for every company, if not every opening. But I also understand what happens if you ACTUALLY make it as simple as filling out a template once.

And while the article is complete bullshit (gotta love the mysterious loophole of OPT as though it is some secret…), I do agree with the outcome. If you are a “skilled” worker going into a comparatively niche field, favor the openings that aren’t using workaday. My best interviews have been from using the automated linkedin application system that basically just sends an email. Hell, that is where my current job is from. But that is also because these were jobs in specific subsets of fields and not entry level positions or openings at Google.

If you’re applying, you probably want the job

In the sense that you would like a paycheck? Sure

In the sense that you are remotely qualified for the position or meet any of the requirements? Not necessarily. And I don’t mean “This entry level position needs twenty years of experience”. I mean “Understands that python is a language”

And a lot of those obnoxious timeouts and headaches are related to minimizing the “just apply for everything” impact on an applicant pool.

Neither? Wildlands has some REALLY shitty depictions of South America and Breakpoint is that modern day ubi-Clancy of “Are they ironically spewing right wing propaganda or?”. And Ubi in general is a company with rampant employee abuse of a sexual nature.

That said: Wildlands is the much better game. Breakpoint “feels” better, but it is clear it was designed to be a co-op live game from the start with most of the missions not designed for AI. Whereas Wildlands was very much set up to just have three problematic bearded dudes lean out of a jeep and unload on anything you drive past.

Information to people who don’t know how to parse it is dangerous and ever increasingly dangerous.

But… it is also clear that people are going to spew lies regardless. Again, “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams”.

And, as it stands? I very much prefer that I know a few people and orgs I trust to analyze available data. And they also document that analysis. Which is a lot better than hoping CNN paid someone competent to write a piece for Anderson Cooper to read out on air.

Like, reddit doxxing multiple victims over the years comes up every time. And… that is a definite concern. But that also gets into knowing how to vet your sources. Because I don’t care what some rando on a message board says about “that sounded like a JDAM to me” or “hamas doesn’t have explosives that big”. I care about what people who used to be CIA analysts and have a solid track record AND who understand what information you don’t publish online have to say.

I obviously don’t have a deep insight into FDev’s finances. But they have pretty openly said that Elite is a foundation of the company.

And yet, they have done everything they can to kill that. Cutting back on social media spending to more or less make every single Influencer say the game is dying. Turn updates into a trickle of “You know that thing that was added two years ago? They finally added enemy NPCs around it”. And even actively screw over the people who were dumb enough to buy the ten year pass by not even providing steam keys for the pre-ordered expansion (currently on two of ten or so?) to let people take advantage of Valve’s CDN.

It is genuinely baffling. Other devs are, if anything, focusing too much on keeping the bread and butter live game “live”. Whereas FDev seem to have decided that they can do whatever to E:D and the money will keep flowing… which might be true but…

Also, should be obvious but: Lapsed E:D fan who bought the lifetime pass like an idiot.

Just to elaborate on the community streams more. Most live games have their community managers (sometimes devs) do a weekly or monthly stream where they play the game, talk about what is coming, interact with the playerbase, etc. They are almost all puff pieces, but whatever. FDev reduced the frequency of those (I forget if by half or straight to quarterly) which was IMMEDIATELY fuel for “Frontier is sunsetting Elite”. And it isn’t like they fired the community managers. They just… do less streams.

Honestly? This is actually a “smart” move… given the current husk that twitter is.

The Man Who Used An Emerald Mine To Finance His Hairplugs has made it pretty clear that the goal is to make twitter an Everything site and that people should trust them as an online bank. And the users have made it clear that you can have a frontpage that is nothing but animal abuse, misinformation, and musk posts (kind of redundant but…) and people will still stick around because a celebrity posted a meme.

So get people to pay “less than nothing” to get their payment info into the system to pre-seed future efforts and “offerings”. More or less the same with every instagram account becoming a threads account.

I don’t think this will make more money than the ad revenue back when twitter was a functional site (and that was already not enough) but… companies don’t want to pump ad money into a site that will post their brand next to a neo-nazi talking about how the latest school shooting was a false flag operation.

Blaming Hamas makes sense if all you know is “We don’t think we did this and the org we are at war with are blaming us”. And I am not certain, but I want to say most of what you listed after that was less an Israeli Government statement and more The Internet (we even have shades of “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” in “hamas can’t make an explosion that big”)

But also? We are about 24 hours out from this. All news is breaking news. The Internet, much like The 24 Hour News Cycle, have made it incredibly easy to see every update as they exist (and, because of misinformation campaigns,non-stop FUD). But it is important to take a breath and wait for things to settle. Keep yourself informed, but avoid leaping to conclusions until there is time for third parties to vet information. And understand that, even now, we are still missing a lot of info.

And also learn how to vet your sources. because we are responding to a post that has decided the obvious answer to evidence indicating it was (probably) not the IDF is “Well, it was obviously a false flag by the IDF”. Which… gets back to crisis actor and “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” territory.

“rule of law” is literally the status quo. You are saying it boils down to how much you value the right to protest and seek change versus the protection of those in power.

Also: Politicians are controlled by “special interest groups”. Such as oil executives who are well known to use lobbyists and bribes to continue destroying the world. Protests like this are about getting others to become and stay aware of that in the hopes of either pressuring politicians to do their fucking jobs or to get concessions from oil companies to “save face”.

If you keep all protests in a designated location so that you aren’t inconvenienced: you accomplish nothing. Well, other than protecting the people killing the planet.

You are not enlightened. You are actively siding with the oil execs and praising the boys in blue for stopping people from complaining. Decide if you are okay with that or not.