davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on FreeCAD 1.1 is out 7 hours ago:
What channel?
- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 10 hours ago:
What company? I mean local models.
- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 10 hours ago:
It’s really cheap to use a WAN model (or whatever the latest thing is) on my laptop to make porn without needing to find and hire a model, or even subscribe to an onlyfans. Also not paying OpenAI or anyone else besides the electric bill.
I don’t think that’s going away, and I would be a bit surprised if it’s not already cutting into demand for the real thing (which I also think isn’t going away)
- Comment on Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green 11 hours ago:
My wife and I took a tour of Hanford Site B. We were in the area and the tours are free. While the colors didn’t stand out to me (they are meant not to), the ‘font’ in all of the (hand painted?) signs certainly did: they looked Exactly like they came from the Fallout games. Of course it’s the other way around, but the consistency was striking.
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 3 days ago:
Well… He kinda has a point in a way. Doesn’t disprove yours though.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 3 days ago:
Ugh. Yeah, it would have to be worded carefully, you’re right
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 3 days ago:
I hoped the exceptions would be like “Quoted example text of LLM output, when it’s clearly labeled and separate from the article text.”
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s just called installing.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
You’re welcome… But it doesn’t appear to be zoomable? At least not in Firefox on Android
- Comment on The Internet, Reinvented. Introduction to Reticulum. 1 week ago:
Surfing the Ret
- Comment on Yann LeCun just raised $1bn to prove the AI industry has got it wrong 2 weeks ago:
I’m overall still skeptical, but this does sound a lot more like how I imagine a true AI would work. I’ve also thought LLMs were a dead end for a while now.
- Comment on Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from? 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t know what OP was talking about until your comment unlocked the memory.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Greed.
I think the main pushers of the ‘root = insecure’ narrative are movie and music studios who think only rooted users can rip their media. Banks have also bought into thinking root means compromised for some reason.
The phone OEMs themselves and the carriers also tend to dislike root because they like to have as much control over the users as they can get, such as system installed spyware which rooted users are likely to disable, or overwrite with a completely different ROM.
I really miss the good old days before SafetyNet.
- Comment on What's your favorite band? (Of frequency that is) 2 weeks ago:
Around 532 nm is pretty nice.
Oh, wait, did you mean audio?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
“Sleepy”?
- Comment on every time 3 weeks ago:
You know sonic booms? This is basically like ‘optical booms’ from radiation in water that’s traveling faster than the speed-of-light-in-water (which is less than the speed of light in a vacuum)
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 3 weeks ago:
So I notice one bit of missing information: where is that place?
Besides curiosity, there’s also the practical question of whether it’s the right one to sign up for:
Say I encounter one named “Springfield” - how would I know which of the 93 (in the US alone) it is?I propose having a map on the About page showing the area covered, with the ability to zoom out and see which state/province/etc, which country, and which continent.
- Comment on I wonder when someone is gonna make a parody porn called "The Gooners" based on the 1980s movie "The Goonies"? 3 weeks ago:
I guess you haven’t heard of Avenue Q?
- Comment on Fck it, we ball 4 weeks ago:
It is cute when they curl up into a ball.
- Comment on I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes 5 weeks ago:
Basically just host a blog and on it say outrageous things about something obscure (such as yourself) and wait for it to be picked up.
- Comment on I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes 5 weeks ago:
My Lemmy client shows a page summary (guess it’s in the header or something):
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I’m not the only one.
My immediate response is: Yes of course, just ask it questions.
The actual article is interesting though. They mean poisoning the data it scrapes intentionally and super easily.
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 5 weeks ago:
I was thinking Hammond - old and rich (at least beforehand)
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 1 month ago:
Clearly the directors are either making bad choices or choices that only make sense in an actual theater. (In my opinion it’s that first thing)
However this is implemented, it wouldn’t be the default volume control on the remote - that would stay as-is. I’m thinking an on-screen menu with clear labels or something.
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 1 month ago:
I guess I’m not understanding your concerns. People with artistic skill can already do anything they want to any audio they want. (Note: that was Way before all this AI junk existed) And I don’t really see how this affects that much.
As for settings, I’m thinking three/four sliders. Much less than a graphic equalizer. It’s just volume control.
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 1 month ago:
Here is my preferred solution that will never happen:
Divide all media audio into separate tracks for dialogue, music, sfx, etc., and let the users control the volume of each separately. To avoid having an easily ripped pure music track, perhaps premix the other tracks in at 10% or so (in a logarithmic scale) and make that the minimum volume of any track other than music.
- Comment on New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer 1 month ago:
It is very clearly written so individuals won’t be able to buy a printer without this junk in the firmware. Afterwards maybe they can fix it, but according to the article it includes a provision that 3D printers (or CNC, etc) can’t even be bought online in NY.
- Comment on Proof that the ICE victim was shot AFTER he was already disarmed 1 month ago:
The two that fired the shots have been named.
- Comment on We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands) 1 month ago:
Thankfully Costco stations don’t do that. I’ve not seen an ad at a pump in years.
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 1 month ago:
That somehow doesn’t surprise me
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 1 month ago:
That’s true, and I should have been less absolute in my language. However all of those activities were niche and actively scary sounding to the ‘normies’ (and to a lesser extent still are)
I actually did find “warez” on BBSs before I had Internet access. But I really think even finding BBS numbers in the back of a magazine and trying them out put me outside most computer users of the time.