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- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 4 days ago:
And then what? I tell google to show my ad to a guy born on some date and in a zip code. What data am I getting?
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 6 days ago:
They cannot see my data, they can give target parameters like ‘show to those who are private banking customers’ or ‘show to females in the 20s with daddy issues’.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 6 days ago:
This crosses a line because information will be exfiltrated. Gemini will be telling someone that I gave bubba a blow.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 week ago:
He’s not wrong but read the bloody room. If a tool for image/video generation was all that Microsoft gave, we’d be fine.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 weeks ago:
It’s got KDE
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a console, it’s a general purpose PC
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 weeks ago:
They did say that it’s a mini PC, not a console
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
Privately owned still means shareholders. Ultimately it comes down to the board and the rules around it, not so much as to whether it is publicly listed.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 3 weeks ago:
Hyperloop was Musk’s tactic to distract from and destroy sensible public transportation. Tesla didn’t work on it or plan for it.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 3 weeks ago:
Sizes are different. Before “AI” went mainstream, those in machine learning were very excited about word2vec and reinforcement learning for example. And it was known that there will be improvement with larger size neural networks but I’m not sure if anyone knew for certain how well chatgpt would have worked. Given the costs of training and inference for LLMs, I doubt you can see nerds doing it. Also, previously you didn’t have big tech firms. Not the current behemoths anyway.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 4 weeks ago:
It was down for only some users, not all anyway
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 5 weeks ago:
I wasn’t pointing out that there are extended updates, I was pointing out that customer associations can apply pressure. That’s the only way Microsoft can be limited from taking more and more profit share with increasingly enshittified products.
People are much more likely to use windows as employees, rather than business owners. So I don’t think an average Lemmy user (lemmings?) will be interested in commenting anything seriously about it.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 5 weeks ago:
Business owners can form association and apply pressure. E.g. techrepublic.com/…/news-windows-10-security-updat… If you’re an employee, why give a damn…
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 weeks ago:
Cucumbers are too vegetablish. They’re like gourds.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 5 weeks ago:
And don’t forget the British-American bias. Hopefully the automated translation and adaptation that is being pursued by wikipedia helps to improve it.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 months ago:
From Japan rail networking, I’ve heard that you need a popular stop about every four hours for an HSR to be successful
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 months ago:
Gravity waves detection and cheap solar cells are mind-blowing to me. Gravity waves for just the sensitivity achieved and solar for how rapidly it’s improved. It used be a cute technology used in calculators, impossible to match economically turning a generator or directly burning stuff, and now it’s the default first choice.
- Comment on ISO 26300 2 months ago:
I used LyX when I authored some papers
- Comment on Train your brain 2 months ago:
So I can cover a song and distribute it, right? Right??
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 2 months ago:
And they tried. Look at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the salt raids, the mass imprisonments. But the point wasn’t to wait for mercy, it was to make the cost of control so high, through sheer non-cooperation, that ruling became practically impossible. The system depends on participation. Remove that, and power collapses under its own weight. It’s not about violence, nor about moral appeals. It’s about leverage. When millions stop obeying, even bullets can’t fix the math.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 2 months ago:
Nope, nope, nope. It is not a show of force, it’s making the society ungovernable, like not paying taxes. There was no implication of anything more violent. It is not appealing to the morality of the oppressor.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 2 months ago:
Where do you get that from? All the violent resistance like Subhash Chandra Bose and revolutionary movement were not big enough to be a major concern. Civil disobedience was more concerning given how widespread it was.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 2 months ago:
Gandhi had trouble convincing the British to even consider independence until widespread communal violence swept the nation in the aftermath of WWII. What are you talking about?
- Comment on Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice 5 months ago:
Russia is European too :D Sorry about the imprecision, I meant EU company
- Comment on Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice 5 months ago:
Only SUSE is European, right? So either that or a lesser known one
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 6 months ago:
Doubt microsoft cares much about copilot. It’s like bing to them. Just have a foot in that boat.
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 7 months ago:
This is good actually, “privacy sandbox” is like baked in ad targeting service. Better to just block third party cookies. I’ve only needed third party cookies for microsoft 365 stuff.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 8 months ago:
That’s for editorialized content aka algo feedsp
- Comment on The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” 8 months ago:
It’s a result of growing inequality. Check out Gary’s economics on YouTube. We need to tax wealth, not work.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
They don’t have a physical horn? Wtf…