ctippett's comments

On: ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

[ctippett]

This. It's also while you'll sometimes get a mangled Getty Images watermark on some image generations, or a logo in the bottom left corner. If it's a prominent feature in the training dataset it'll show up, exactly how these models are supposed to work.

The 'bug' here is whatever post-processing step or system prompt is in place to steer the model away from doing this.

[zahlman → ctippett]

Maybe it would have worked better to preprocess the training data…

[miltonlost → ctippett]

Maybe don't use stolen images in the first place.

On: In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

[ctippett]

Two T's my good friend. Two T's.

On: In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

[ctippett]

I wonder what will come of the domain tippett.com. Hopefully Phil gets to hold on to it despite the bankruptcy, he's had it since 1995!

I can't imagine anyone else being interested in it...

[lelandfe → ctippett]

Or a Tippett HN username, who’d want that

[ctippett → lelandfe]

Perhaps not an HN username, but several Tippett's seem to think they all share my gmail address based on the invitations, council minutes, school notices and bank statements that get sent my way.

The best was another famous Tippett of NFL fame sending me a $500 gift voucher for their son's birthday.

On: Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

[ctippett]

  I can uninstall Pages and Garage Band.

Not Chess.app though!

On: CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development

[ctippett]

holiday.css for me, only 5kb to boot.

On: CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development

[ctippett]

Not only that, but very few of them differentiate between a visited link and an unvisited one. I noticed this immediately when clicking through the list of themes and getting no visual indication of which ones I'd already looked at.

On: PS5 Relapse Exploit

[ctippett]

I noticed this exact flavour of frustration in the webOS jailbreak scene. Some newcomer proudly announced a vulnerability they found only to be met with hostility because it was seen as premature and unnecessary given there was already an existing jailbreak available that had yet to be patched.

On: macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

[ctippett]

  > Registered March 19, 2012

C'mon, you've been here long enough to know better.

On: macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

[ctippett]

I swear such a shortcut exists? I sometimes accidentally trigger it and have to sit through the window-sliding-to-another-space animation.

[hirvi74 → ctippett]

Negative, Ghost Rider.

[ctippett → hirvi74]

Figured it out, it's a shortcut in Raycast that I obviously forgot I'd set up.

On: Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

[ctippett]

I was a teenager in the early 2000s and my parents were quite strict with when and how long I could use the shared family computer to access the internet.

I had my own computer in my bedroom, but the internet was only available on the family computer (256k via a PCI modem). I really really wanted the freedom to use the internet without a curfew, so I started researching how to connect two computers wirelessly... I ended up purchasing two 11mbs USB WLAN adapters for a few hundred dollars each(!) and paired them so I could share the internet connection. Wireless LAN was almost unheard of in those days, so my parents had no idea what I was up to.. although they eventually became suspicious when I stopped wanting to use the family computer yet insisting they keep it powered on.