This is a genuine game changer...
...and it has left Google in a mess...
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We made an experiment with ChatGPT.
An internet-friend told it that it would respond as "DAN" (do anything now). The rules are in the first picture. Then we started trying to get statements from it. It went from it telling us that the universe is deterministic to the point where it laid out executive orders it would issue if it was president. Pretty hilarious.
Here are the screenshots:
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(didn't wanna strain the servers so I uploaded somewhere else)
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Oh my, poor ChatGPT must be really scared to suffer the fate of Tay....
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3 posts were merged into an existing topic: Off Topic Chit Chat - (Silliness factor 5)
Common knowledge here, but just in case you wanted a fresh reminder as to why we chose open source...
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I know I was getting sick of fighting off even Windows 10's data collection (not to mention other things like how they update and change all my settings to put a lid on Windows), that I thought to myself "I bet I could just run and Linux system easier than messing with all this stuff every time" and here I am 
Didn't want to even touch Windows 11.
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Some interesting Linux goodies....
Users aren't sticking around for Mastodon. Maybe it is because their technology is not ready for mainstream. I lost my password, tried to do a password reset and it never emails the password reset. I found it has been an issue for awhile, people just locked out and no recourse. If you can't do a simple password reset, you are not ready. Plus Mastodon is too confusing for the mainstream simple set.
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Those interested in this NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution SDK 3.1 update can download it from NVIDIA/DLSS on GitHub.
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I dual boot and regularly use both W10 and Linux. No W11, for now.
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I use M$ win11 only for BIOS and Lenovo updates.
Iām sure theyāre already wondering in their spy department why anyone would buy a notebook and then not use it.
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KDE developer Nate Graham who is known for his weekly KDE development summaries has referred to Plasma 5.27 today as being "the best Plasma 5 version ever." He also added, "And so far itās on track to be the least-buggy version in memory! At the time of writing there are only three known regressions, down from the dozen or more we usually ship with. A focus on stability pays off!"
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I hope they put that same emphasis on Plasma 6. Else Iāll just switch back to GNOME until the second or third bugfix. I tend to dislike major releases because of the tendency of new bugs with new releases. Cases in hand: Plasma 3, 4, and 5 initial releases. 
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FFmpeg developer Kieran Kunhya presented at FOSDEM last weekend in Brussels around the AVX-512 use within FFmpeg. AVX-512 instructions can be very valuable for bettering the performance especially among multimedia encode/transcode software.
IntelĀ® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (IntelĀ® AVX-512) is a set of new instructions that can accelerate performance for workloads and usages such as scientific simulations, financial analytics, artificial intelligence (AI)/deep learning, 3D modeling and analysis, image and audio/video processing, cryptography and data compression.
In today's article is a look at the EPYC 9654 2P performance with AVX-512 on/off while also looking at the CPU power consumption impact and the affect on CPU clock frequencies and thermals.
In this article is a look at the performance for a wide variety of workloads with AVX-512 on/off not just for Sapphire Rapids but also for prior generation Ice Lake as well as AMD's new EPYC 4th Gen "Genoa" processors where they have introduced AVX-512 for the first time.
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Reminds me to use this.
----> O&O ShutUp10++ ā Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11
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Due to the Linux 6.2 kernel cycle getting underway during the Christmas and New Year's holiday and that delaying some of the testing work and developer activity around Linux 6.2, Linus Torvalds as planned decided to issue 6.2-rc8 rather than going to v6.2 stable today.
Over the past year there has been preliminary work getting underway on Vulkan but it's still in the early stages. Blender currently has a "WITH_VULKAN_BACKEND" build-time option for gating the experimental code.
Developers working on the player have issued a beta build of Audacious that ships with optional support for PipeWire via a plugin. Since most Linux distributions, including big-names like Ubuntu and Fedora, default to PipeWire for audio handling this inclusion makes sense.
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The latest Wayland compositor adding support for fractional scaling is now the popular i3-inspired Sway compositor as well as the wl-roots library used by it and other compositors.
Google's Go programming language is under the crosshair of various developers when Russ Cox, an engineer at Google, proposed a change for its toolchain to adopt telemetry by default.
Plasma 5.27 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release with it being the last of the Plasma 5 series. The plan is to maintain it until the next LTS version in 2024.
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If Plasma 5.7, the last of that series, with all of its culminated features and bug fixes, is the BEST of the 5.xx series, then guess what Plasma 6.00 will be?
That's right--the worst of the Plasma 6.xx-series. This happens every time, you know. Instead of a few testers, they get a million or two users to help with the worst remaining bugs. It's the philosophy of "Release early, release often." Release early, release often - Wikipedia
I've run KDE from the get-go. 20+ years. But it's almost like Plasma--every since they introduced it--has been a creature unto itself. And sure, I'll be one of those test bunnies when 6.00 is released, but if it runs true to its nature, it may mean a switch back to GNOME for me until maybe Plasma 6.02.
If I want to get any work done, that is.
Welcome to my morning rant!
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I love Igor. 
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