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- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 1 day ago:
From Microsoft’s POV, it probally breaks the ToS.
- Comment on Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory 1 week ago:
Precision, nuance, and up to the moment contextual understanding are all missing from the “intelligence.”
- Comment on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web 1 week ago:
During setup, Atlas pushes very aggressively for you to turn on “memories” (where it tracks and stores everything you do and uses it to train an AI model about you)
I wonder, do memories really train a model about the user? Or are they just shoved in the context window strategically? Possibly selected by a small performant model in the background based on relevance to the current context window?
Training millions of mini models on people would be really interesting, and I don’t think I’ve noticed anything saying that is happening, yet. Even tho it seems like a logical idea.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I don’t consider the PDS stuff to be fully federated. It needs to be a full interoperable server like mastodon, or lemmy.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 week ago:
Yeah 😔
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Feels like Bluesky’s federation promise.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 week ago:
I always mourn the loss of native apps. There are always so many downsides. And they harm platform consistency, etc.
Don’t get me started on Discord not supporting the native spell check. The built in spell check is terrible.
- Comment on Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far 1 week ago:
It’s all gambling when playing with those numbers.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, that sucks.
- Comment on Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the details!
I wonder how often they clean stuff up like this. That crossed my mind earlier, I’m sure there is a bunch of “dormant” software that could be cleaned out or made optional in some way.
I’m sure the making it optional idea is easier said than done. Especially from a standpoint of discoverability and usability.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 weeks ago:
To avoid all the blocks you are getting?
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 weeks ago:
Yes 😔
- Comment on Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped 2 weeks ago:
It’s interesting that this supposedly goes back to Windows 3.1?
- Comment on Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like an inbuilt self inflicted back door on encryption to me!
Back doors are always bad!
- Comment on Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network 2 weeks ago:
It’s gonna be a bad time when a nation state presses a button to cripple our digital infrastructure.
It seems hopeless at this point. It’s all just hyper complicated and profitable security theater.
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 2 weeks ago:
Disney bought into a long history of Fox animated properties being lax in infringement enforcement online.
But this is a whole different level. That’s where I agree with you.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views 2 weeks ago:
How does one even do that in a conversation centered on such things? These are conversations with the bot. So it’s analogous.
Does it just refuse to interact? Does it just info dump and list all sides of the issue exhaustively?
I’m sure I’m working under a weird limited view, but it just does not seem possible to do this without things being awkward, or, without it being designed around its own agenda.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59] 2 weeks ago:
Oh no.
I remember bootlegs being common for certain genres at used DVD stores back in the 2000s. I pointed some out once, and the clerk was like “whatever man.”
- Comment on Pornhub should make its own VPN 2 weeks ago:
Why can’t they hack them now?
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 3 weeks ago:
Those last things you listed were all true of Flash too:
- Back forward buttons, working in a flash site?
- Scroll bars? Same thing.
- CPU usage? Same thing. (See: phone performance.)
- Crashes? It was the number one cause of crashes as reported by Apple when looking at their Safari crash logs. This was true of many plugins of that style from back in the day.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 weeks ago:
He was someone who was a fruititarian at various points in his life. He was also someone who didn’t shower at certain points in his life.
- Comment on Microsoft reportedly mulls ad-infested free Xbox Cloud Gaming plan — Game Pass Ultimate subscriber allegedly catches ad during game loading 3 weeks ago:
I hope they really shit the bed and make ads appear like Achievements periodically. Complete with the same notification sound.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
What do you expect, they started as a pirate platform.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Well, all we need is for the AI companies to jump from where they are now to AGI! It’ll be fine, I’m sure!
- Comment on Hey Google, meet Gemini: the new voice of your smart home 4 weeks ago:
Few will see that discussion because the thread is negative votes.
- Comment on Hey Google, meet Gemini: the new voice of your smart home 4 weeks ago:
It’s still really obnoxious that Lemmy downvotes stuff like this.
- Comment on if we all lived within close proximity of sock processing facilities we'd have fewer problems with socks 4 weeks ago:
I think there’s a gas leak in this thread.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 4 weeks ago:
That might be the one I was thinking of. It rings a bell.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 4 weeks ago:
I think Valve or others have proposed creating a standard for this for just this purpose.
- Comment on Donald Trump and Peter Thiel are using AI to supercharge the surveillance state 4 weeks ago:
Well, actually… the ladies in the milk were kinda having hallucinations too……