ThePowerOfGeek

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says people need to find success in traditional factory jobs again: ‘Every successful person doesn’t need to have a PhD’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, the factory jobs that are dissipating due to automation? Cool cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Quentin Tarantino?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing I’m aware of is him publicly slating a could of actors. He was very critical of Paul Dano from There Will Be Blood (which is a bit weird because that movie has been out for a long time). He also publicly slated Matthew Lillard, who seems like a genuinely nice guy and has a lot of fans. I think those (especially the criticism of Lillard) pissed a lot of people off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I had the same thoughts as you about this conspiracy theory being overly complicated and unnecessary. Like you say, just hide it off-site in a top security location and bury the costs in a massive and ultra-vague top secret R&D budget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone who didn’t want to or can’t watch the video, she posits the administration is using private donor money to build a massive data center under the Whitehouse, with the surface level ball room being a cover story for this. She argued this data center might be used to centralize and collate huge amounts of data outside of Congressional oversight, so the executive branch can use it for monitoring or profiteering or some other purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Setting up Jellyfin as a local media server is very simple. Setting it up with easy access for remote friends and family is a hassle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Perplexity the first AI unicorn to fail?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Strong agree on the lack of punctuation.

  Medium has become a bit of a cesspool for low-effort hot takes. Sometimes the articles make a great point but are not very well written (as is the case with this one). But more often than not they are a single, unfounded, absurd rage-bait argument that’s been spun out into an article with the help of AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warnings rise for U.S. as severe flu strain causes outbreaks in Canada, U.K.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure it’s already here. That’s usually how these things work. Based on sewage samples, COVID-19 got here back in September 2019 - several months before any officials wanted to admit.

  There’s currently a really nasty cold racing through schools on the West Coast. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyway to clean this sink?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t recommend this. It wrecks the enamel and causes a lot of tiny pock marks that just accumulate more grime later on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Well it works for unit testing, so just extend that out to all testing! Problem solved!” -Senior Management, probably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin: why is the line two different colors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s watched vs buffered?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of the comments here seem to be missing some key points from this article:

  • The writer made her own likeness available to everyone on purpose. She did this knowing what would happen, but it was part of the exercise of seeing how weird it would get. So the points that she was stupid for doing, or that she was outraged by this, this are missing the point. Was she stupid? Maybe, but she made a conscious sacrifice on her likeliness. Was she outraged? Clearly not.
  • It’s short-sighted to say “yeah this will happen, so don’t put your is image out there”. There are lots of people (especially women and girls) who have gone out of the way to avoid having their image/likeness out there for these it similar reasons. But they have still ended up the victim of humiliation and trauma from photoshopped images or deep fakes made against them.
  • This second point was a big part of what the author was trying to point out. It’s both a warning to others about being careful of protecting your identity, and an alarm sounding that there are some really weird and creepy fetishes out there that people can get their likelinesses pulled into, even when you actively try to avoid that.
  • It also highlights the lack of safeguards on this kind of issue. Consent, age, level of fame… none of that matters in this issue. And in most cases the companies behind these tools don’t do shit to address these concerns.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Citizens United strikes again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t trust some of the numbers in this article.

  Microsoft Teams: 100% CPU usage on 32GB machines

  I’m literally sitting here right now on a Teams call (I’ve already contributed what I needed to), looking at my CPU usage, which is staying in the 4.6% to 7.3% CPU range.

  Is that still too high? Probably. Have I seen it hit 100% CPU usage? Yes, rarely (but that’s usually a sign of a deeper issue).

  Maybe the author is going with worst case scenario. But in that case he should probably qualify the examples more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its all bots, isn't it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No u

  Beep boop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Companies Are Regretting Laying off Humans for AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ✅ Fucked around ◻️ Found out

  Congratulations corporate world. Here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Trump’s H-1B crackdown means for Big Tech workers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of self-promotion quotes in there from companies involved in the H1B visa industry. But one broad trend among them: this will empower developing and non-Western developed nations at the expense of the American tech industry - especially the tech industry outside the big 5 or 6 giants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok’s Algorithm to Be Secured by Oracle in Trump-Backed Deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the same reason IBM still exists. Massive multinational / government contracts keep them alive and healthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok’s Algorithm to Be Secured by Oracle in Trump-Backed Deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oracle will be handling TikTok’s algorithm? Okay, so TikTok’s back-end workflow/decisioning engine will rapidly bloat up and will need to be completely replaced every two years. Got it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s are still some consumer TVs out there that allow you to use the green without an Internet connection. Although they are kinda rare these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sony Bravia. Because I just did this last year. My old TV was also a Bravia, and it lasted about 15 years. One big selling feature for me was that you can set it up as either a smart TV, or a ‘basic’ TV that doesn’t require an Internet connection and doesn’t pester you for one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amen. I’ve tried the vibe coding thing but it’s frustrating because a) too often the AI output has some profound problems and it gets annoying ‘babysitting’ it; and b) I usually prefer the challenge of figuring out syntax and implementation issues myself.

  If something is taking too long I’ll ask the LLM. But I feel like if I do this too much my skill set will atrophy and I’ll lose my sharpness. So it’s a balancing act.

  But this brings up another wider question: where is the line between “occasionally getting AI help” and “vibe coding”? Surely it’s subjective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost like he’s full of shit and he’s nothing but a snake oil salesman, eh.

  They’ve been talking about replacing software developers with automated/AI systems for a quarter of a century. Probably longer then that, in fact.

  We’re definitely closer to that than ever. But there’s still a huge step between some rando vibe coding a one page web app and developers augmenting their work with AI, and someone building a complex, business rule heavy, heavy load, scalable real world system. The chronic under-appreciation of engineering and design experience continues unabated.

  Anthropic, Open AI, etc? They will continue to hype their own products with outrageous claims. Because that’s what gets them more VC money. Grifters gonna grift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Give it about a month and I’m sure there will be (…unfortunately).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone who’s not aware, there are some pretty cool open source Minecraft options. Like Luanti (which is more like a playground for all sorts of FOSS Minecraft variants).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s crazy. They are trying to cater to older users, probably because they feel they can get more money from them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It should at the very least get a new, better CEO. And also calm down with their focus on getting older users and encouraging user dating services. They have a solid user base with younger users, and should be focused on them and their protection.

  But yeah, just shutting down might be the best option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Of Warcraft Turtle WoW Servers Hit With Blizzard Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been going after private server farms for years, so this is nothing new really. For example, Blizzard forced Nostralrius (sp?) servers to shut down about 10 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I second this. There’s a little bit of a learning curve on some of the functionality, but it’s not bad at all. And most of the functionality is very easy to find. I moved over to Libre Office several years ago and it’s been great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comfortable is a table made out of comforts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or it’s being able to enjoy comfort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  BTW a lot of it seems to be just inefficient coding as Deepseek has shown.

  Kind of? Inefficient coding is definitely a part of it. But a large part is also just the iterative nature of how these algorithms operate. We might be able to improve that via code optimization a little bit. But without radically changing how these engines operates it won’t make a big difference.

  The scope of the data being used and trained on is probably a bigger issue. Which is why there’s been a push by some to move from LLMs to SLMs. We don’t need the model to be cluttered with information on geology, ancient history, cooking, software development, sports trivia, etc if it’s only going to be used for looking up stuff on music and musicians.

  But either way, there’s a big ‘diminishing returns’ factor to this right now that isn’t being appreciated. Typical human nature: give me that tiny boost in performance regardless of the cost, because I don’t have to deal with. It’s the same short-sighted shit that got us into this looming environmental crisis.