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- Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 1 day ago:
I used Waymo half a dozen times or so when traveling to San Francisco this year.
The experience was actually quite good. The cars arrive within a minute or two, they’re clean and high-end (for what amounts to a taxi), and you can set up the atmosphere according to your mood. The driving was smooth and uneventful.
Unless they raise the prices significantly, I would continue to choose Waymo over human drivers.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 1 week ago:
This is something travel agent websites do too.
If you’re logged out, they’ll show you a price that’s really attractive. But if you log in with an account that’s got some history, they’ll suddenly say that price is no longer available now you need to pay the higher price.
Agoda.com I’m looking at you
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 1 week ago:
I’m not against ads in principle. The advertisers are paying the bill for stuff I consume. Great.
For that effort, they get a chance at my wallet. And to be honest, making me aware of a business or product is indeed a way to get me interested in what they sell. I do prefer the ads to be relevant instead of always useless.
That being said, it’s currently preferable to use a blocker and let the people who don’t know how to use blockers subsidize my ad-free ways.
- Comment on There's 'overwhelming evidence' tariffs have raised consumer prices, says Bank of America 1 week ago:
Exactly. There’s no demand when the price increases so much.
- Comment on There's 'overwhelming evidence' tariffs have raised consumer prices, says Bank of America 1 week ago:
Yes we can. That side of the business is growing.
I think a lot of other e-commerce businesses have also shifted away from the US market as well. So US buyers have fewer choices now.
I’ve searched quite a lot and cannot find factories in the US for the kind of goods we sell. I’m sure we could pay somebody considerably more who would do it but then we would have no customers.
- Comment on There's 'overwhelming evidence' tariffs have raised consumer prices, says Bank of America 1 week ago:
I own an e-commerce business. We make and ship goods directly from China.
Our margins are tight, basically we cannot sell in the USA for a lower price. Our suppliers can give a tiny bit of margin back to us, but same story for them too.
So we have 2 options:
A. Stop selling in the US B. Add a tariff charge, so that if people still want to buy, they can.
We chose option B, direct passthrough of the tariff cost. About 60% still pay, and we lost the rest of our customers.
I don’t know where else they shop, because our competition did the same, but I assume they decided not to buy anything given the higher cost.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 1 week ago:
AI companies believe the market will give the best rewards for a winner-take-all strategy.
They believe now is the time to accumulate customers.
Their future financing rounds very likely depend on being able to show growth.
Entrepreneurs, CEOs, investors all know it’s not everything it’s cracked up to be (yet). They hope another few billion in cash will get it there. And hope you don’t notice until they already won the market.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 2 weeks ago:
Thank you
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 2 weeks ago:
I was ready gawk at what ads on my fridge would look like, and then this. I don’t know what I expected.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 2 weeks ago:
I was at the Canton Fair last week which is a trade show in China where manufacturers display some of their latest technology.
There was a robotics display all where they are showing off how lots of factories, kitchens, another labor-based jobs can be automated with technology.
a robot that can operate a deep fryer in a restaurant
This doesn’t really have a lot to do with AI or LLMs, but the field of robotics is advancing fast and a lot of basic work that humans had to do in the past won’t be needed as much in the future.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 2 weeks ago:
If your argument attacks my credibility, that’s fine, you don’t know me. We can find cases where developers use the technology and cases where they refuse.
Do you have anything substantive to add to the discussion about whether AI LLMs are anything more than just a tool that allows workers to further abstract, advancing all of the professions it can touch towards any of: better / faster / cheaper / easier?
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 2 weeks ago:
From the article:
“The thing about that farmer,” Altman said, is not only that they wouldn’t believe you, but “they very likely would look at what you do and I do and say, ‘that’s not real work.'”
I think he pretty much agrees with you.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 2 weeks ago:
I think your strategy makes sense for all workers. Being aware of your role in the final solution is more important than the steps needed to get there, and tools merely change the process, often improving it in some way.
A guy with a hammer cant automatically build a house without skills, but it sure helps those who have them. A guy with a nail gun can build a house faster and perhaps with less skill, and few argue that it’s not a worthy improvement.
Some types of photographers may no longer need to operate a camera, but instead transition into someone who can knowledgeably ask for the results from an AI that properly captures the mood and tone required for the end result.
We’re changing how it’s done, but not necessarily what is done.
- Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start Withwww.yahoo.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 158 comments
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 3 weeks ago:
We’re about to go through about 10 years of vibe coded garbage aren’t we.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Do you remember the era of popups before popup blockers? You’d land on malicious site and have autoplay porn sounds 37 windows deep and just have to long press the power button to get away from the shame. Twas rough then, still rough now.
Unless we’re talking about the days when lynx could render the whole site. Those were days when we didn’t have too many problems like this.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 4 weeks ago:
This is a case of stupid laws that still don’t understand the internet.
If an http GET request initiated from country A traverses routers and wires around the globe to grab some data from a server in country B, then we have to accept that the owners of the server are not “operating in country A” and in fact the user in country A is responsible for import.
If some laws in country A have a problem with this, then they should unplug their internet wires at the border, or at least learn how to use them and/or govern their citizens.
All that is tongue in cheek to say they can fuck right off.
- Comment on Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents 4 weeks ago:
That was Donnys way to scratch Elon’s back for helping with the campaign. After the back stabbing and subsequent fall out, I’m sure Elon took all his people out.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 4 weeks ago:
The answer to the question comes from understanding the marketplace.
Microsoft’s vision in the '90s was a computer on every desk and in every home.
In the late '90s and early 2000s, devices like TiVo came on the scene and disrupted the living room. Microsoft started experimenting with Media Center which was a PC that would sit between your cable box and your TV.
Also remember that Microsoft has been in gaming forever. You certainly heard of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Microsoft’s acquisition of various game studios in the '90s cemented their presence in the space.
Anyways, at the time it was theorized that some company would eventually control media flowing into the household through the TV screen and Microsoft absolutely wanted that.
The media center only found limited success, and was kind of a kludgy solution. The first versions of Xbox attempted to overcome some of this by having some media capabilities. The peak of that effort was the first version of Xbox One which actually had an HDMI input and the ability to control your cable box. Had that reached widespread use, Microsoft would have had lots of data about what TV channels everybody was watching and who was watching (remember the first version of Xbox One rolled out with a camera that could recognize who’s watching) and for how long.
Unfortunately for them, that tech was too little too late and streaming services like Netflix were already catching on. Now you can see in later versions of Xbox Microsoft has pulled back and developed game pass which is a steam-like subscription service, and hasn’t really tried to be a TV media player to the same degree anymore.
When a company gets huge, like Microsoft, they can’t really waste time chasing business efforts that might only have revenue potential in the low billions. It just doesn’t move the needle. The problem is that innovating brand new ideas that will eventually become multi-billion dollar businesses is phenomenally challenging. And people who can do that don’t work for companies like Microsoft.
So the entrepreneurs who can potentially dream up multibillion dollar disruptive business ideas go do them on their own and then companies like Microsoft snap them up as soon as they’re able to (if the founders allow it), allowing dominant players to remain dominant without needing to innovate.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 4 weeks ago:
Beholden to the AAPL ticker.
- Comment on Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux? 5 weeks ago:
I tried to make Fusion 360 run under wine and just couldn’t get it reliably working.
There were problems logging in, problems with resolution, issues with fonts and DLL errors. It just wasn’t stable enough to rely on.
- Comment on Microsoft announces 50% price hike for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 5 weeks ago:
The only reason I’m paying for any kind of Xbox subscription is to keep a few older COD online unlocks available. I wonder if I could use my pihole to intercept that and replay something back to the Xbox so I can still use them
- Comment on Another update that no one asked for 5 weeks ago:
Eek, I’m moving towards nextcloud (and away from Google fast as possible). Is there a better all-in-one groupware + files + collab + office apps suite out there?
It does appear that nextcloud’s devs are eyeballs deep in php tech debt, so their pace of development and integration has slowed.
It’s so big that none of their FOSS components are going to be #1 on their own.
Recently upgraded the version and had to allow untested app versions (which had just disappeared) because they hadn’t been updated yet. That’s a weird problem and yeah, I don’t really want to be beta tester everytime I try and open a document.
They also don’t really have a nice docker compose based deployment yet.
But I couldn’t be happier to be leaving google in the dust, so there’s that.
- Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) 5 weeks ago:
Your’s is an interesting edge case but maybe the best solution is keeping a folder full of pics on an external drive and plugging it in only when you need it?
- Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) 5 weeks ago:
There’s a really nice Google Take-Out parser for immich that will preserve all your meta data during import. It was kind of a dream to use, it worked so smoothly.
In my case, I moved about 100k photos and videos, and I’m still periodically finding old flash drives and SD cards laying around that were never imported, so im using the migration to catch up on decades of photo archival. So far, all good.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 month ago:
Looking forward to joining you guys in the upcoming rebellion.
- Comment on What if we were *just a lil evil*? 1 month ago:
That on prem solution cost minimum $50k USD.
I was in IT at the time and we’d been using a Microsoft index server solution to search our data at the time.
IDK, I think google was never focused on anything particular except profit.
- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 1 month ago:
So do advertisers still have to pay for impressions or clicks if the viewer isn’t logged in?
Something tells me Google’s just going to pocket the difference now.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 month ago:
I’ve been self-hosting since the '90s. I used to have an NT 3.51 server in my house. I had a dial in BBS that worked because of an extensive collection of .bat files that would echo AT commands to my COM ports to reset the modems between calls. I remember when we had to compile the slackware kernel from source to get peripherals to work.
But in this last year I took the time to seriously learn docker/podman, and now I’m never going back to running stuff directly on the host OS.
I love it because I can deploy instantly… Oftentimes in a single command line. Docker compose allows for quickly nuking and rebuilding, oftentimes saving your entire config to one or two files.
And if you need to slap in a traefik, or a postgres, or some other service into your group of containers, now it can be done in seconds completely abstracted from any kind of local dependencies. Even more useful, if you need to move them from one VPS to another, or upgrade/downgrade core hardware, it’s now a process that takes minutes. Absolutely beautiful.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 1 month ago:
15 years is too long, it doesn’t match the state of the industry or technological progress.
If anything this slows down innovation which leads me to suspect the 15 year idea was though of by someone who dislikes any technical changes.
