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Monday, February 10

Daily News Stuff 10 February 2025

Gouda Nuff Edition

Top Story

Did Google fake the AI output in its Super Bowl ad? Yes. (The Verge)

Not only was it wrong, it was a verbatim copy of text that has appeared on the web since 2020, before Google Gemini existed.
But Google maintained that the website description was written by Gemini all along. In addition to showing Gemini "generate" the description in the commercial, Google Cloud apps president Jerry Dischler said on X that the Gouda stat was "not a hallucination," adding that "Gemini is grounded in the Web."
Well, if by "grounded in" you mean "a human copying and pasting directly from", then sure.

The original text claimed that Gouda accounts for 50 to 60 percent of cheese consumption worldwide, and is "one of" the most most popular varieties of cheese, which is comical.

Everyone knows that's Venezuelan beaver cheese.

Tech News

Brainfly is a high-performance Brainfuck JIT and AOT compiler built on top of C# type system. (GitHub)

Why it is, we don't know.
The Brave browser is getting a feature like the old Firefox Tampermonkey plugin, to let you automatically add scripts to web pages. (Bleeping Computer)

This lets you adjust the page layout of sites that fill the entire screen with a banner image, for example.
How close is Elon Musk to controlling a nuclear weapon? (The Verge)

They got their answer:
Launching a nuke requires physical access to the weapon itself. Missileers have to turn keys. A submarine crew must prep and fire a missile. A bomber crew must pull levers and hone in on targets. Short of Musk or his employees entering a silo, climbing onto a stealth bomber, or getting into a submarine, it’s not going to happen.
The entire article is pointing out that the premise is insane. But The Verge published it anyway, because so are they.

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1 Google and Big Gouda have gotten to Trump: he is proposing a 1000% tariff on Venezuelan Beaver Cheese.

Posted by: Joe Redfield at Tuesday, February 11 2025 04:29 AM (KOtXO)

2 akshully, Musk does have a way to deliver a nuclear weapon without people at a stealth bomber, an SSBN, or silo. One, he could obtain the capability without the assistance of the US federal government. Two, stealth bomber is not the only nuclear capable bomber in US inventory.

My sense of humor on this is a little bit too dark, and inappropriate.

Musk, Trump, Vance and perhaps even Sideshow Bob are saner and more fit to have involvement with US military aviation capabilities than Democrats like Biden or Swalwell. Both of whom made comments that are wildly inappropriate, and concerning. Swalwell the bit about 'nuking Oklahoma'. Biden the comments suggesting that air strikes might be an appropriate and effective tactic in a US civil war.

In theory, air strikes might be a powerful force multiplier in a US civil war, if we had not built the supply chains, infrastructure, and organizations the way we have. But we have built things that way, so the extra target discrimination that rifles allow might be pretty important.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Tuesday, February 11 2025 08:57 AM (rcPLc)

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