cley_faye
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- Comment on Microsoft PC Manager App 'Repairs' Your System by Making Bing the Search Default 2 days ago:
“Freeing up memory and eliminating unused apps and files” sounds like the kind of bullshit app we have on Android already. Why bring that to PC.
- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 3 days ago:
My music library is hosted on my server, automatically synced locally on fixed devices and played from local files most of the time. Streaming services combine the advantage of sometimes disappearing, altering, removing content with the other advantage of needing an active internet connection at all time. That’s neither a good thing nor an efficient thing when the alternative is cheap and works all the time from everywhere.
Of course, I know this is not the most common use case; most people usually don’t care about any of this (and usually complain when something break). But it exists.
- Comment on hot dog 1 week ago:
It’s also hotdog-spreading, I mean, look at that legs opening.
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 1 week ago:
Some people decided that they needed a buzzword for something that have absolutely nothing to do with the web, and they decided to use Web3.
Anything “web3” you can think of is a regular webservice, that have no technological difference with “web2” (whatever this was), and may or may not behind the scene communicate with some form of blockchain (which may or may not be a real one too).
That’s web3. And note that I didn’t even bother to go check what happens on the blockchain side, that is already so removed from the web it’s insulting people calls this web3.
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 1 week ago:
If the phone had is bootloader unlocked, sure. Otherwise, it won’t accept the commands. My mistake was on a Xiaomi Mi A2.
The people that designed this feature are not that oblivious.
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 1 week ago:
You can factory reset it, but not really. On first boot, the phone requires a network connection; you can’t skip setting up wifi if there is no cellular internet available. And it will ask you to authenticate the google account it expect before even starting the “real” setup process. As a matter of fact, once you authenticate with google, it does start again, ask again for wifi and will not have the account setup at all, as you would expect after a factory reset.
So, while you can “factory reset”, the phone still needs the previously registered google account to start. There’s probably some phone that gives more leniency, but I was not able to circumvent that using adb (the device being locked, and impossible to unlock without accessing the menu, impossible to access without starting in the first place…)
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 1 week ago:
With both whatever-apple-is-doing and Android’s whatever-it-is-called-that-prevent-factory-reset when you don’t have access to the account on the device, I don’t see how people still buy “shady” phones and tablets.
Last time I borrowed a relative’s phone to run an experiment, I had to contact them to “unlock” the phone after a factory reset before being able to do anything because I didn’t remove the account before. Unless people go out of their way to make their phone “stealable”, that is.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 week ago:
You’re missing the point of a safety feature. The car shouldn’t, by itself, close the lid if something’s in the way. It should allow the user to push it down, or disable it temporarily, to do so.
The point of a safety feature in any system is to prevent unexpected situation from having unexpected consequences, not to be a magic solution that accommodate for brainless people. In one direction, you can make the judgement call and force the thing down, in the other direction you lose a finger.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 week ago:
They sure did not know about the “not crushing human limbs” part.
- Comment on So excited for the Cybertruck 2 weeks ago:
The real one will actively try to crush harder if it fails to close, so yes.
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 2 weeks ago:
Yes, there is. And yes, it would be huge. I know a lot of people that are staying away from all this as long as the privacy issues are not resolved (there are other issues, but at this point, the cat is out of the bag).
But running large models locally requires a ton of resource. It may become a reality in the future, but in the meantime allowing more, smaller provider to provide a service (and a self-hosted option, for corporation/enthusiasts) is way better in term of resources usage. And it’s already a thing; what needs work now is improving UI and integrations.
In fact, very far from the “impressive” world of generated text and pictures, using LLM and integrations (or whatever it is called) to create a sort of documentation index that you can query with natural language is a very interesting tool that can be useful for a lot of people, both individual and in corporate environment. And some projects are already looking that way.
I’m not holding my breath for portable, good, customized large models (if only for the economics of energy consumption) but moving away from “everything goes to a third party service provider” is a great goal.
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 2 weeks ago:
In addition to being able to run the exact same thing on that phone you already have, too.
Their device does not have any specific hardware for their usage. Even if Google and Apple don’t bring any improvement to their own solution, soon enough someone is bound to just provide an “assistant AI app” with a subscription, proxying openai requests and using the touchscreen, camera, micro and speaker that are already there instead of making you buy a new set of those.
- Comment on This is not a stereogram. If you look at it a certain way it will not resolve into anything. 2 weeks ago:
Well, this is the first time I see one of these since I got laser’d, and it’s the first time I’m seeing it working. It’s nice.
- Comment on An actual screenshot from an ad I got while playing a mobile game 2 weeks ago:
No, nowadays they’re getting really good at it; this must be an old picture.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure these “engineers” were confused everytime they saw an elevator door not mercilessly crush people.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 2 weeks ago:
Your first mistake was thinking the company training their models care. They’re actively lobbying for the right to say “fuck copyright when it benefits us!”.
Your second mistake is assuming training LLM blindly put everything in. There’s human filters, then there’s automated filters, then there’s the LLM itself that blur things out. I can’t tell about the last one, but the first two will easily strip such easy noise, the same way search engines very quickly became immune to random keyword spam two decades ago.
Note that I didn’t even care to see if it was useful in any way to add these little extra blurb, legally speaking. I doubt it would help, though. Service ToS and other regulatory body have probably more weight than that.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 2 weeks ago:
This is not about the programming language nor the OS. It’s about masquerading a cheap butchered android phone as a brand new device. If it was some custom, optimized hardware to connect the main I/O (camera, touchscreen, buttons) to a piece of software that communicate with a remote server, it would justify the price. But as it is, it’s a borderline refurbished weak phone hardware sold for $200.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 2 weeks ago:
Having seen what this device does, they may not even have had to alter anything to the base AOSP image. Just set your app as the launcher and you’re good to go.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 2 weeks ago:
No, revealed to not be specific design at all. The device is actually a terrible phone with less feature than a phone, nothing more. The app would likely run as-is on any Android phone with 100% of the feature provided.
Paying $200 for a bottom of the line smartphone that can’t smartphone is a bit much.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 2 weeks ago:
It does not need much to upload data and play audio. They could probably have gone even lower.
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 2 weeks ago:
Asking chatgpt for information is like asking for accurate reports from bards and minstrels. Sure, sometimes it fits, but most of it is random stuff stitched together to sound good.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 3 weeks ago:
I would not do anything, claiming that I’m preventing myself from making the world a worst place.
Haha joking. I’ll start auditing open source project for free and improve the overall security of our whole infrastructure.
- Comment on What a life to leave your children 4 weeks ago:
More like “work, die”. Can’t consume much these days.
- Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 5 weeks ago:
I’ve read that headline a few times recently, and I’m wondering if they can’t replace floppy drive with sd-card based reader exposing the same interface. I know we did that a lot with floppy back when it was still a thing.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 1 month ago:
Exactly what people want: more ads.
- Comment on Elder scrolls 2 months ago:
I miss visible, usable scroll bars. Now they’re replaced with… nothing, because we want everything to be invisible while keeping a lot of empty space in modern designs, it seems.
- Comment on Oregon Passes 'Right to Repair' Law With Extra Cojones: Oregon’s “right to repair” bill, which now only needs the governor’s signature before it becomes law, has teeth not found in similar legislation 2 months ago:
I can’t wait to see the innovative and creative ways Apple will find to create new forms of nightmare for consumers following that.
- Comment on I believe it. 2 months ago:
We need more conspiracy about hidden cute things.
- Comment on thank you nurse meowsalot 2 months ago:
Aww look at that face. I would not stay mad for long.
- Comment on Dispose of them 2 months ago:
It skips the “measure” part, since the bowl itself is of fixed size. But as you said, anyone’s free to spend their time however they want.