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sanitation@lemmy.today to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 8 days ago

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  • bingus@lemmy.zip
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    I suppose they weren’t worth a 1000 words after all

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
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    This reminds me of IPoAC

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

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      No no IPoAC is far more viable

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    It reminds me of this rfc for speeding up packet exchange https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9564/

  • Jolteon@lemmy.zip
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    It’s basically just tricking the AI model to be your cloud storage provider.

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    I’d be game for that. I hate the fact that photos of me exist in this world.

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    Trying to find it funny, but in 2026 it’s way too close to the bone and just makes me sad.

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      Had Sam Altman personally vocalized this article in full sincerity, I would not have been surprised.

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      Yeah. I first thought it’s about jpeg, then i read ai and i wasnt sure if its worrying stupidity reporting or bad satire. Edit: i thought '92 i mean

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      Yeah, like how they are destroying rare books.

      I mean, you don’t get that back just by asking the content theft machine.

    • Maeve @lemmygrad.ml
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      It’s what Apple and MS basically do by uploading all your images to iCloud and showing the name in your images folder.

      Edit to ask: is this what the human brain does when retrieving a memory?

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    Amateur. I can compress entire seasons of a TV series to a few bytes. All I have to do is type its title in Netflix and then BAM, gigabytes of video come out.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Sure, but Netflix has a lot of cache misses for my favorite shows. I found a random website that has compressed matches for thousands more shows and movies than Netflix

      • 3abas@lemmy.world
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        I pirate my shit.

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          TTJ.jpg

    • bampop@lemmy.world
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      Back in the day we had this neat trick to do 100% compression on photos. Just print them out on pieces of paper, for completely byte-free storage!

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    Lmfao “tears of joy”

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      Precisely! We human people all know that tears definitely do not express joy.

      Correct?

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    I’ve read that the Trump administration is hiring him to archive all of the Epstein files using that format.

    • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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      Compressing the Epstein files is easy: “Donald Trump raped children.” What’s my Weissman score?

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    This is so sad, Chat GPT generate me an email responding to this article

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    On a similar note, I saw a story a bit back of someone saving input tokens by feeding the bot an image of a wall of text rather than the text itself and having it read the image via OCR.

    Satire and reality are too hard too distinguish these days.

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      I see this one all the time on LinkedIn, the management rubes love it

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      Saves input tokens and uses more output because of OCR, and output is priced way higher.

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        It’s an accounting trick. It uses a different budget…

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        Also if you’re doing anything multi-prompt, that output is re-used as (luckily cached) input tokens for the next prompt anyway lol

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      I mean, back in my days (👴) people sent a photo pasted into a word document, so things haven’t change that much…

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        They still do

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      this is the default compaction method in omp now. afaik it’s exploiting the pricing structure of the big providers more than anything

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    Lossless -> lossy -> mindless.

    • dellish@lemmy.world
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      -> mindy?

      • hancock@retrolemmy.com
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        mindly?

      • kamen@lemmy.world
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        Probably not very.

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    Could have just stored those in PiFS https://github.com/philipl/pifs

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      That’s nice, albeit I want to point out for anyone wondering that this is only conjectured and not guaranteed:

      One of the properties that π is conjectured to have is that it is normal, which is to say that its digits are all distributed evenly, with the implication that it is a disjunctive sequence, meaning that all possible finite sequences of digits will be present somewhere in it.

      There is no guarantee for any specific sequence to appear in π, but for short chunks chances are better (it’s not really a probability, but it’s simpler to say and I can’t explain in details anyway). That’s because (from wiki):

      It is widely believed that the (computable) numbers √2, π, and e are normal, but a proof remains elusive.

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      It’s pronounced “Piff Es” for anyone wondering

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        Idk if it’s irony, but the real pronounce is probably /paɪ ɛf-ɛs/ (english)
        or /'pi fs/ in every other language that reads letters as they are written normally

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          I think it’s akin to ‘GIF is pronounced ziph’

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        Nice datpiff.com

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