kazerniel
@kazerniel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 12 hours ago:
Obsidian is sadly not FOSS, but aside of that, it’s amazing (and entirely user-supported, not relying on VC profit-seeking).
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 6 days ago:
only want to spend like £200 on a business laptop they have to work on, because, well it is only work innit
Sorry I’m confused, what UK workplace requires people to use a laptop but expects them to buy it with their own cash? O.o
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 6 days ago:
Thank you, I was already familiar with massgrave.dev, but didn’t realise they offered this patch! Very handy!
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 6 days ago:
Aero was the prettiest UI, I held onto Win7 because of it until EOL 😢
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 6 days ago:
Idk my Win98 crashed almost every day. It only stopped when I switched to WinXP.
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s the case, anyone can still make art. Though it’s true, it’s even harder to make a living from art now than it already was.
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 1 week ago:
Fucking finally. Maybe the hype wave has crested 🤞
- Comment on Rogue.site is a new worker-owned, reader-funded gaming site 2 weeks ago:
I hope it works out for them!
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 4 weeks ago:
The editor community rejected the idea so overwhelmingly, that Wikipedia paused the planned experiment in June, hopefully for good.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 4 weeks ago:
Same in Hungarian, machine translation still often gives hilariously bad results. It’s especially prone to mixing up formal and informal ‘you’ within the same paragraph, something which humans never do. At least it’s easy to tell when a website is one of those ‘auto-translated to 30 languages’ content mill.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 4 weeks ago:
- Optimise for maximum happiness and freedom and minimum suffering on a societal level, while making sure that a certain threshold of freedom-from-suffering is met for every single individual. (So that happiness for the majority is not reached via the suffering of minorities.) Obviously there can be arguments about where we draw the lines for the specifics of these.
- Quite a few ways have been developed to measure happiness, wellbeing, flourishing, quality of life, whatever nuance you want to pick.
- We have ample proof that it’s a system that fundamentally undermines societal happiness by incentivising the accumulation of wealth at the expense of the wellbeing of people and ecosystems. It’s decades overdue to radically change the way the world’s economy works. (Which is of course not something those with the most power want, so unlikely to happen any time soon.)
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 4 weeks ago:
It matters a lot though what kind of goal the system incentivises. Imagine if it was people’s happiness and freedom instead of quarterly profits.
- Comment on Help. 5 weeks ago:
Even if it’s not actively a scam, there are some bizarre life stories out there. E.g. my mom’s (Central European) friend in her 60s who had a long-distance relationship with a married Turkish guy until recently. They met (and banged) each other a grand total of once, but they were sharing morning tea on video call for years before and after that - they had no common language, only used Google Translate to talk??? And she gathered up her meagre savings to to Turkey every year on the off-chance that she runs into him in a millions-population city??? (No they didn’t arrange meetings. The guy didn’t really seem to want to meet her anymore, probably related to being married lol.)
And somehow this “relationship” went on for like a decade before she finally broke up with him.
- Comment on Help. 5 weeks ago:
The bizarre thing is, some of them do understand how LLMs work. There was that article about a married woman with an LLM boyfriend. She’s very active on Reddit (edit: or at least was until a month ago), and based on her comments I saw back when the article was published, she seems to know perfectly well that it’s all just a statistical model of smoke and mirrors, and yet continues with the extreme emotional (and financial) investment 🤷
- Comment on Help. 5 weeks ago:
holy shit, that movie is 12 years old 👴
- Comment on Help. 5 weeks ago:
This is not significantly different than the therapy model, but the user can fail to see through manipulation compared to “friends/people who don’t actually GAF” about maintaining a strong relationship with you.
That’s why therapists have ethical guidelines and supervision. (Also they are typically people who are driven to help, not exploit the vulnerable.) None of these are really present with those glorified autocompletes.
- Comment on Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows 5 weeks ago:
driving trains sounds interesting, I pick that :D
- Comment on Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows 1 month ago:
Wait, if I’m not a software developer, then I must be a furry artist 🫣 The things I learn about myself on the internet… xd
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 month ago:
If you’re interested in this topic, I simply must plug the Adam Something YT channel :) He makes funny but also serious videos about urban and transport planning, and whatever new “trains but worse” transport idea techbros came up with this month.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 month ago:
ha so I’m a double vegan
- Comment on Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’ 1 month ago:
for me it says that a mod removed it
- Comment on Water Snek 1 month ago:
thanks for finding the source, pretty interesting!
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 1 month ago:
I’m impressed there’s a gif for this 🤣
- Comment on Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks 1 month ago:
Ecosia and Qwant are working on a European search index.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 2 months ago:
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 months ago:
Yea, the organisation was also founded in the 90s, so Microsoft was the default for everything.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 months ago:
5000 employees, 10b valuation. We use Google docs. We’re not “China Telecom” big, but I doubt anyone would call us small. I think most young companies are happy on google docs.
And on the flip-side my dozen-employee workplace runs on Microsoft Outlook/OneDrive/Teams 🙃
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 months ago:
According to StatCounter tablets never breached 7% market share, and even that was in 2014. This change seems to be mostly about people using their phones for everything.
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 2 months ago:
FB itself for a community group, and Messenger for my family group chat 🤷
The group now has a presence on Discord, but there are still 26 times as many members on FB. In Hungary many people still use FB as their main social network. At most they also use Instagram, but that obviously doesn’t work for closed discussion groups.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 2 months ago:
Ah sorry I misunderstood your comment then, I thought there was another one besides that.
