My debt is well-controlled and planned for, so while I could pay it off and save myself some interest, and assuming I can’t just put it in savings or invest it, it’d probably be best spent catching up on non essentials.

Full spare set of tires for the car. Wardrobe stock-up. Extra fancy Christmas presents for friends and family, Some new appliances, or furniture, or computer hardware, maybe pick out a vacation spot and book a hotel stay I’d pre-pay for.

I mean, as a branding exercise, every form of sophisticated automation is getting the “AI” label.

The article is specifically talking about generative AI. I think we need to find new terminology to describe the kind of automation that was colloquially referred to as AI before chatgpt et al. came into existence.

The important distinction, I think, is that these things are still purpose-built and (mostly) explainable. When you have a bunch of nails, you design a hammer. An “AI bot” QA tester the way Booty describes in the article isn’t going to be an advanced algorithm that carries out specific tests. That exists already and has for years. He’s asking for something that will figure out specific tests that are worth doing when given a vague or nonexistent test plan, most likely. You need a human, or an actual AGI, for something on that level, not generative AI.

And explicitly with generative AI, as pertains to Square Enix’s initiative in the article, there are the typical huge risks of verifiability and hallucination. However unpleasant you may think a QA worker’s job is now, I guarantee you it will be even more unpleasant when the job consists of fact-checking AI bug reports all day instead of actually doing the testing.

There’s plenty of room for sophisticated automation without any need to involve AI.

Thanks for the AI slop.

Probably need to tweak the settings on whatever display you’re using, or potentially consider investing in a more-modern type of panel depending on what you have now.

Hi, I am that nerd, it’s Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open taskmgr, actually.

…I hope to be able to develop a similar level of nerd when I switch to Linux soon

It could probably either have to have a meat shield or have to take one turn to aim before firing but not both

If a hacker can get into the device remotely it can be an entry point to your home network.

The sniper.

• It moves like a king.
• It replaces one of the pawns on the board.
• If in any direction it has no more than one allied piece directly in front of it (cover), then at least (two? three?) unoccupied spaces between that ally and an enemy piece, it can take aim at an enemy piece.
• The next turn, if those conditions are still true, it can fire, capturing the target piece.
• An enemy piece adjacent to the target piece that could move into the line of fire can be sacrificed to take the bullet instead, though.

I’m sure with an eight-month lead time until the data brokers are required to respond to these requests, It won’t be a shit show at all…

I hope it’s better than nothing.

The much bigger concern is that the pathway used to send the remote kill command could very easily be utilized by nefarious actors.

More like slaughtering a perfectly healthy horse when all it needs is new horseshoes.

Yep, that’s the brainwashing!

Experts in web technologies, but evidently not in graphic design.

It’s always the ones you most suspect.

Incidentally, kingdom hearts could now have Darth Vader in it

Your autoplay settings are your own responsibility, lmao

yeah, unfortunately expecting them to understand what fascism means in any sort of complex way is giving them too much credit

In addition to what another poster said about getting an off-site backup hard drive, I would recommend looking into setting up a raid array for data redundancy with your online storage. You don’t want one hard drive failure to make all of your data inaccessible.

Right up until it starts happening to them.