Awkwardly Enabled

[dogpuppy]

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[spockvarietyhour]

Google Chrome Secretly Downloads Huge Local AI Models

Google Chrome automatically installs local neural network components on user systems via default configurations. The browser downloads a 4GB

Procedures for disabling it

[ex0skeletal-undead]

A video for disabling on Windows which made it very easy:

[gacougnol]

Yang Yankang (b. 1954, Anshun, Guizhou Province)

The Reflection of Soul series

[semioticapocalypse]

Yang Yankang. Buddism in Tibet. 2009

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[cosmonautroger]

DeSoto Rising Robot, 1955

[alcrego]

machina

[twixnmix]

Keith Haring photographed by Joe McNally in his Pop Shop at 292 Lafayette Street in Soho, 1986.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Cecily Brown (British, b. 1969, London, England, based NYC, NY, USA) - Nature Walk with Paranoia, 2024, Paintings: Oil on Linen

[fluffygif]

Flappy

[ourheatisgospel]

[formlines]

Small Orca or Killer Whale Panel

Trevor Hunt

[lisamarie-vee]

[nobrashfestivity]

Gustave Courbet , Marine Les Equilleurs 

[nobrashfestivity]

Karl Blossfeldt, Botanical Photographs, Late 1920′s

Etherton Gallery

[3rd-world-elite]

[arinewman7]

Art Nouveau Brooch

Henri-Auguste Solié

gold, opal and diamond, c. 1900

[mudwerks]

Finally, Artemis delivers some exceptional, high-quality photos of the Moon

The Moon, the Earth, and the Sun; oh what fun!