theneverfox
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- Comment on Just No 1 hour ago:
It will if you define it properly - you have to scope the interaction properly though - the models are fine tuned to be the expert in the interaction and assist the user, they won’t take the users word as truth unless you break the dynamic or present part of the input as if it came from someone else
- Comment on I have an announcement. 3 hours ago:
History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes. Global production has never been this specialized and interdependent
What does a company town look like with electronic access control and monitoring systems? What does a victory garden look like when the soil is polluted? What do you dress children in when plastic is the only common packaging?
This is unprecedented… No one knows how it’ll shake out. But historically, things got very bad
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 7 hours ago:
Steam runs natively and uses proton for game compatibility, similar idea to wine but it’s geared for games
It’s pretty good. Most games will run, sometimes with a little jiggling to get it to work, although performance isn’t quite as good (some games are particularly rough)
I’m technically dual booting, but I haven’t launched Windows in almost a year, and there’s only been a handful of games I passed on primarily because of support
- Comment on How does one snap their fingers? 14 hours ago:
Press your middle finger against your thumb. Pull the middle finger down, but barely stop it with your thumb. Play with that hand movement
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 2 days ago:
I mean…gyro support is such a niche thing. The PS3 controller introduced gyro support - what used it? There’s examples, but not many, because most games are made to be multi platform, and programming in gyro controls is a lot harder than most other controls
Nintendo is an exception because they have a lot of exclusives - gyro support is a lot more appealing to implement if all of the devices have it, plus they probably encouraged it
I wouldn’t worry about it too much, the incentive for exclusives to have it remains, this is a tool for porting to the switch and exploring new control schemes more than anything else
- Comment on Know the difference 3 days ago:
There’s so much to unpack in such a short statement
- Comment on Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 mod back online after D&D owners "mistakenly" send a copyright strike 4 days ago:
Yeah, I’ll never forget these fuckers hired the Pinkertons to threaten someone because they mistakenly shipped out prerelease cards
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer 4 days ago:
If I hadn’t just seen an announcement about gpt-5 that ended with “I guess I’m retiring” this probably would’ve got me
- Comment on Your Doctor's Screen Time Is Hobbling Health Care. 4 days ago:
Okay… But how much of that is realized?
Before, you told a doctor where to call to get your past records… Now, you tell your doctor where to request your past records. If your doctor works in the same healthcare system campus, they might get them automatically, past that it might happen behind the scenes if you get a referral
Backups are true… Except everyone has their own proprietary formats that require specific software to access the data, and if one of those companies go under, then what?
Access controls and tracking are true, but what’s digital can be hacked or leaked. Paper is far more secure - maybe they can phish one person’s records more easily without it, but the wrong IT person (who is multiple steps removed) can leak the whole database
I’m not saying paper is better - I’m saying electronic medical records are such a garbage fire in implementation that they bog down the healthcare part of healthcare. They eliminate jobs by automating processeses, but they end up getting rid of support staff in exchange for making the healthcare workers do more work
And I’m not saying it couldn’t be better - I’m saying that it’s just such a mess of proprietary software and regulation that it became one more layer of wealth extraction that bogs down actual healthcare
- Comment on Your Doctor's Screen Time Is Hobbling Health Care. 5 days ago:
Yeah, but like… Are they really? No two systems communicate, every hospital configures even the same systems to be essentially incompatible, and the system is built as if it’s all seamless
It’s so bad. Paper records in a secure central database would be an improvement - 20 years of this and bending over harder for insurance companies is the only change
- Comment on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design. And he didn’t even wear it to the venue. 6 days ago:
But the t-shirt wasn’t really the problem. Getting banned from the stadium wasn’t the problem - I don’t really care if one venue is banning people for whatever stupid and petty reason
They’re trawling through massive data sets they shouldn’t have and using facial recognition to pick people out through social media posts, job affiliation, and who knows what else.
They didn’t make the system, they’re clearly just users. That’s the problem here
- Comment on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design. And he didn’t even wear it to the venue. 6 days ago:
They imply the t shirt was the problem, and that it caused him to be flagged by the security system
I thought it was a t shirt with his face on it or something. But they went on social media, tracked him down, found a picture of his face, and banned him
- Comment on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design. And he didn’t even wear it to the venue. 6 days ago:
Oh no, I mean to say it’s much worse than what the headline said
- Comment on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design. And he didn’t even wear it to the venue. 6 days ago:
Bad headline. They saw he made a Tshirt they didn’t like, and banned him preemptively by finding him on social media
- Comment on [Discussion] What would it take to selfhost some of the backend that Tesla's connect to? 1 week ago:
That’s wasteful and dangerous
Harvest the beast for batteries and GPUs
- Comment on Idioms 2 weeks ago:
Loose lips shouldn’t throw stones
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 weeks ago:
Yup.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not even that… Kids do it IRL, because they hear it so much online
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s so invasive too… Hearing kids self censor for advertisers, like “unalive” or “pew pew” is deeply disturbing
Our language is being artificially pushed towards Corpo-speak
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 weeks ago:
This is a fact I try to bring up often… It’s a truly disturbing piece of information
Also, they’re struggling to survive without enough supplies, they’re being cut off from the Internet and power in part so they can’t get their message to the world, and they couldn’t kick out Hamas if they wanted to - they have no organization or individual power to actually do that
So it’s worth considering…who is this message for?
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 2 weeks ago:
But again, hacking is a tool when they want to go after something in particular - a single lemmy server is minuscule. Even the full scale of everyone on lemmy is a very small target… They might go after it if they have specific reason to, but they’re unlikely to do so when there’s plenty of work to be done on bigger platforms
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 2 weeks ago:
Be careful what you say - don’t call for violence, definitely don’t make threats of violence against specific figures, especially ones in office, and as a general rule don’t spread personally identifying information
Past that? Let’s say there’s a crackdown. They’re going after low hanging fruit to instill fear. By nature, the fediverse is hard to tie back to individuals… But if they’re looking for you individually, they can find you
I wouldn’t worry too much. Dissatisfaction is insanely high… They’re more likely to do a great firewall and kill the fediverse long before they bother looking into lemmy accounts
- Comment on Filing: DOGE broke Treasury policy with unencrypted email 2 weeks ago:
Anonymous released a video saying that musk has no idea what he’s doing and he’s crippling security, and that they will “strike when they’re weakest, so be ready”
That could mean a lot of things, but in my daydreams they get into the banking system and just really just fuck it all up. Just make a total mess of it
- Comment on Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns. 2 weeks ago:
Because now you don’t have to run wires from the existing network to the new WiFi, you just plop them both in the new location!
But then if you want the access points to act like one WiFi network so walking around doesn’t reset all your connections, all you have to do is run cables to the new WiFi access points from the original signal, unplug them from Star Link, then wire starlink into the main uplink as a fail over or something! Easy!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #4 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t realize I missed this. These days newsletters are so full of click bait they barely tell you anything, I just kinda figured the format sucked. But I liked this, this felt like the old Internet
It was weirdly calming to read through this… Maybe it was that it felt like you really weren’t trying to sell me anything, and so for a couple minutes I could let down my guard?
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 4 weeks ago:
I mean, they’re ruining their search anyways. It’s almost unusable at this point, it’s like asking for relevant ads and two year old Reddit posts
Is it censorship? Did they decide to just straight up sell SEO? Are websites locking down and blocking their crawlers to stop AI training crawlers?
I legitimately find Bing to be better at this point, but whatever they’re doing it’s maddening. Even better AI assisted web searches kinda suck because the data fed into them is more of the same
But solid chance they’re trying to boost Gemini, which has been a shockingly bad llm for a company that basically wrote the book on AI not too long ago
- Comment on Washington BANS Britain from sharing US intelligence with Ukraine 4 weeks ago:
Could run out of weapons in 2-3 months time
Man, seems like that’s going to push Ukraine and Europe to make some more aggressive moves if anything…
- Comment on It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning. 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure it’s probably just going to be pulling relevant data, which is a pretty good use case if it’s citing sources - military stuff tends to use absurd amounts of manpower to avoid mistakes, so I can’t imagine they’ll be trusting it anytime soon
- Comment on It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning. 4 weeks ago:
Probably because of Hollywood - for some reason they always seem to shake with their left hands, which always stands out to me
I’m not sure what the reason is, but I’m sure it’s related
- Comment on BlackBerry may have the perfect opportunity to produce a Canadian made cellphone to compet with Apple and other America brands. 4 weeks ago:
I think forking android could be viable if they put some weight behind it
The difference between this and fireOS is they’re almost guaranteed sales. No foreign government is going to stick with an American company if they have a comparable option from a reliable ally at this point… That’s got to be hundreds of millions of sales on that front alone
If they can make something good, polish it for a few years, and demonstrate they can lock it down that’s almost guaranteed sales. And if they use that opportunity to further improve for a couple generations, they could become a real contender
The only question is will they throw enough resources at it and will they stick with improving it without giving up too early